# No Anne Coulter Pit thread yet?... Chris Matthews, 6/26 **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 27, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646 "2007-06-27T15:37:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/41 "2007-06-27T19:03:36Z")
Well, those liberals are always on about free speech, but not when it comes to the brilliant and incisive opinions of conservatives! ---
**Author:** ![Kokopilau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Kokopilau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kokopilau)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/42 "2007-06-27T19:07:07Z")
EDIT: D’oh! I shoulda read one post above the one I was replying to. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/43 "2007-06-27T19:11:54Z")
[QUOTE=Hentor the Barbarian] This still is completely incomprehensible garbage. [/QUOTE] I’m certain it is, to you. Unlike Coulter, I also address myself to those with double-digit IQs, so I don’t wonder you find my posts hard going. > [@Hentor](#): > > Or do you buy them because you see people being outraged when she speaks, so you don’t care what is actually in the books themselves, but you spend your money on them because of how glorious you feel when you see people outraged at outrageous remarks? I don’t buy the books. But I borrowed two of them from the library, based primarily on the fact that she seems to drive the Loony Left absolutely bat shit. (Or, I should say, _more_ bat shit.) She has the occasional nugget, but she seems to be doing exactly what I have explained at some length (sorry about the multi-syllabic words) - simply writing to annoy. So she seems to have relatively little to recommend her besides the fact that she drives the knee-jerkers into frenzy. And that is too easy to do to be especially interesting, most of the time. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/44 "2007-06-27T19:19:29Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] Might as well poke him in the eye and make a few bucks off the howling. [/QUOTE] Behold, the model Christian. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/45 "2007-06-27T19:20:44Z")
“How is it that thou can’st see the mote in thy brother’s eye, but not the pencil I jabbeth into yours?” ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/46 "2007-06-27T19:23:15Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] “How is it that thou can’st see the mote in thy brother’s eye, but not the pencil I jabbeth into yours?” [/QUOTE] Jabbeth the slut? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/47 "2007-06-27T19:27:32Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Coulter makes money by attracting attention with her outrageous behavior. **Hentor** is helping her by giving her the attention she needs in order to sell her books and columns. By now, though, it’s got to the point where I think Coulter is actually a net positive for liberals. Her viciousness is starting to disgust not only liberals but moderates and conservatives as well. And some of that disgust slops over from Coulter herself to the causes and politicians she’s championing, while her victims get popular sympathy. I don’t know whether Edwards will actually wind up with a spike in the polls from this incident, but I know that if I were a conservative candidate who cared at all about appealing to moderate or swing voters, I sure as hell wouldn’t want Coulter endorsing me. So while I’m sure we would all prefer that Coulter would transform herself from a pottymouthed rabid pitbull into a sane and courteous conservative pundit, since that’s never going to happen, we might as well enjoy the silver lining. The attention she gets may make her richer, but I doubt it does any good any more to conservatives in general in the public perception. As a consequence, I guess we all should be grateful to **Shodan** for altruistically helping prime the outrage-and-disgust pump. 😉 The more he enthuses about Coulter’s gratuitous and inflammatory attacks on liberals and the more attention he helps attract to them, the more he damages the anti-liberal cause. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/48 "2007-06-27T19:33:41Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu] By now, though, it’s got to the point where I think Coulter is actually a net positive for liberals. Her viciousness is starting to disgust not only liberals but moderates and conservatives as well. And some of that disgust slops over from Coulter herself to the causes and politicians she’s championing, while her victims get popular sympathy. [/QUOTE] Well, maybe, but come on - Edwards with his dead son and dying wife doesn’t need attacks from Coulter for the sympathy vote. > [@](#): > > As a consequence, I guess we all should be grateful to **Shodan** for altruistically helping prime the outrage-and-disgust pump. 😉 I don’t remember starting this thread, but at my age… Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/49 "2007-06-27T19:43:51Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] …I don’t remember starting this thread, but at my age… [/QUOTE] You really shouldn’t be whacking-off to an equine. But hey! I’m a _liberal_, so feel free to go for seconds. If you still can that is. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/50 "2007-06-27T19:46:14Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Jabbeth the slut? [/QUOTE] I brought charges, but the jury took her out for drinks, and bought her a pony. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/51 "2007-06-27T19:47:37Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Edwards with his dead son and dying wife doesn’t need attacks from Coulter for the sympathy vote. Quite true. You would think that if she had a brain in her head she would realize that, wouldn’t you? “Note to self: terminal cancer victim mourning dead firstborn son and married to opposition political candidate is unwise choice for subject of vicious personal attack.” Looks pretty blindingly obvious, but never seems to have crossed whatever Coulter’s using for a mind. > [@Shodan](#): > > I don’t remember starting this thread, but at my age… No, you didn’t start the thread, but we appreciate your generosity in turning it into an actual attention-attracting argument instead of a boring unanimous Coulter-bashing. 😉 [Edit: In fact, we even made it to the second page!] ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/52 "2007-06-27T20:02:14Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Behold, the model Christian. [/QUOTE] I fail to see how this has any relevance to anything else in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/53 "2007-06-27T20:06:44Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Ashtar] I fail to see how this has any relevance to anything else in this thread. [/QUOTE] It’s in the bible: Jabbeth _not_ the slut \*nor \* her ass. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/54 "2007-06-27T20:19:19Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Ashtar] I fail to see how this has any relevance to anything else in this thread. [/QUOTE] Remember, kids, one is only a Christian when acting appropriately! Makes being a good one easy by default. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/55 "2007-06-27T20:26:14Z")
So what you’re saying, **Shodan** , is that Coulter’s commentary is so disgusting and shocking that liberals can’t stomach it but conservatives eat it up with glee? She’s not thoughtful and incisive because the liberals will still disagree (meddlesome fools) and it doesn’t make any middle-of-the-road people pay more attention to the conservative agenda, so she’s vile and nasty and plays to the worst parts of humanity to make a quick buck and get people on her side? Funny. We’re saying the same thing. You just think that’s _good_, apparently. ETA: I could be misinterpreting, **Shodan**. I’m not certain if you’re actually defending her or not and I don’t want to accuse you of that unreasonably 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/56 "2007-06-27T20:31:39Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] Well, maybe, but come on - Edwards with his dead son and dying wife doesn’t need attacks from Coulter for the sympathy vote. [/QUOTE] A politician can always use more. It didn’t seem possible to get more pity/sympathy for Edwards, but Coulter managed to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/57 "2007-06-27T20:38:57Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu] By now, though, it’s got to the point where I think Coulter is actually a net positive for liberals. Her viciousness is starting to disgust not only liberals but moderates and conservatives as well. And some of that disgust slops over from Coulter herself to the causes and politicians she’s championing, while her victims get popular sympathy. [/QUOTE] I wish I could agree with you, **Kimstu** , but I can’t. If she disgusts the conservatives, then why does she still get speaking engagements at colleges? And why does she get standing ovations at these speeches? And what is she doing on TV? And why are her books on the bestseller list? _Someone’s_ listening. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/58 "2007-06-27T21:33:58Z")
[QUOTE=Little Plastic Ninja] So what you’re saying, **Shodan** , is that Coulter’s commentary is so disgusting and shocking that liberals can’t stomach it but conservatives eat it up with glee? She’s not thoughtful and incisive because the liberals will still disagree (meddlesome fools) and it doesn’t make any middle-of-the-road people pay more attention to the conservative agenda, so she’s vile and nasty and plays to the worst parts of humanity to make a quick buck and get people on her side? Funny. We’re saying the same thing. You just think that’s _good_, apparently. [/quote] You’re making the usual mistake, which is to insert “all” into posts where it doesn’t appear. > [@](#): > > ETA: I could be misinterpreting, **Shodan**. I’m not certain if you’re actually defending her or not and I don’t want to accuse you of that unreasonably 🙂 I appreciate that. You may be the only person in this thread who doesn’t assume calling someone an anorectic skank is a ringing defense. > [@Kimstu](#): > > You would think that if she had a brain in her head she would realize that, wouldn’t you? “Note to self: terminal cancer victim mourning dead firstborn son and married to opposition political candidate is unwise choice for subject of vicious personal attack.” Go back and reread what I have said about Coulter’s motives, if you like. Attention = good, as far as she is concerned. It sells books. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/59 "2007-06-27T22:04:39Z")
The only difference between Anne Coulter and Bill Maher is that one of them has a penis. I’m not sayin’ which one, though. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646/60 "2007-06-27T22:22:12Z")
I think [this](http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/edwards-camp-again-turns-to-cash-cow-coulter-2007-06-27.html) may help to illustrate your point, **Shodan** , so that even **Hector** can’t quibble with it. (Notice how the blurb mentions Coulter’s wisecrack about wishing Edwards dead but leaves out completely Coulter’s comments about Maher’s wisecrack regarding Cheney’s death that immediately preceded it. Media bias at work, folks!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-anne-coulter-pit-thread-yet-chris-matthews-6-26/409646.md?page=4)