Soccer is the smallpox blanket of socialism, sez Ann Coulter. Parody?

I typically hate Coulter as much as everyone else, but I have to admit some of that was pretty funny.
" If Michael Jackson had treated his chronic insomnia with a tape of Argentina vs. Brazil instead of Propofol, he’d still be alive, although bored."
" The number of New York Times articles claiming soccer is “catching on” is exceeded only by the ones pretending women’s basketball is fascinating."

The only thing she left out was
"If you heard a massive ‘scritch-scrith’ sound last Sunday that was the collective sound of millions of Americans scratching their heads thinking “A tie? There’s ties in soccer? WTF?”

Reminds me of a John Tierney column from two World Cups ago.

Maybe she just meant soccer players. That one guy who goes around biting dudes on the other team is definitely a vector for infectious diseases.

She is definitely not trying to be funny. She is definitely trying to be rich.

Hence she overdoes the outrage to sell her products to the easily outragable.

And now the New Yorker’s getting in on the act…

I was thinking more like Ed Anger.

Maybe you just don’t understand curling.

No, that’s cricket. I mean, there isn’t enough growth during a three-hour baseball game to appease most grass aficionados. Sure, sometimes you’re lucky and the game will go into extra innings, but even that won’t satisfy the true devotee.

But a five-day cricket test match? Woohoo, that is some major grass-growing action right there, I tell you what!

Curling is the act of bending the elbow, thus raising the hand toward the mouth and enabling a drink of beer to be consumed.

Exactly right. We slide stones down a sheet of ice to help build up our arm muscles for when they’re needed.

I’m surprised she actually said something positive about hockey – you’d think she’d criticize it, because you know, Canada=socialism.

She probably thinks it’s American cause that nice Gretsky boy played it.
I know he’s Canadian.

That was actually articulate, intelligent, amusing and accurate. Ann Coulter would have had to hire a ghost writer to write that, and then forget to proof-read it…

Ann Coulter is still alive? :wink:

I miss Weekly World News. :frowning: