NBC and Coulter

[Dr. Ron]

It is interesting that this medium called the internet gives the intelligent and uninformed an equal platform for debate.

Coulter may be all the things described about her. She may have all the tact of a she elephant....but she has taken the time and guts to write, isn't afraid to have her opinions tested in the court of public opinion, and have made a living stating what she believes to be true.


I too believe in UNITY......Now ....all of you line up behind me and let's play "Simon Says" ....and I am Simon!!!!

[DeWayneTN]

I too believe in UNITY......Now ....all of you line up behind me and let's play "Simon Says" ....and I am Simon!!!!

That's great!

[dolfan]

My issue with Ann Coulter is not her style. I like her combativeness, actually. She IS smart. My problem with her is not so much about her substance, although I probably could sit here and find disagreement with her on several things, I have no basic large scale ax to grind with her about them.

Here is my problem with Ann Coulter:

"We need somebody to put rat poison in Justice Stevens's créme brulée.''


You don't joke about that. Ever. Period. She didn't apologize for it. In fact, she's used the same jab at others. She has this thing about "jokingly" hoping for the execution or assassination of officials, reporters, whoever. If she wants to hope someone dies, and do it publicly, that's fine. She's the one that has to deal with those emotions and frustration of people she hates actually staying vertical. I don't care how she feels one way or the other. Where I draw the line is "joking" about assassination of any official. And, if it was an innocent but dumb line, it'd counter both her high intelligence, deliberate tone, and the fact that she's never apologized for her remarks. Liberal commentators and stars have made similar jokes about President Bush --- and they're dead wrong and I don't like them, either.

[one love]

Honestly she gets on my nerves!!!! I think she can be funny and occasionally entertaining but most of the time she is aggravating, hateful and goes to far. It may be jokes but it is more divisive and I think some of her tactics make us look bad not better.

Where I draw the line is "joking" about assassination of any official. And, if it was an innocent but dumb line, it'd counter both her high intelligence, deliberate tone, and the fact that she's never apologized for her remarks. Liberal commentators and stars have made similar jokes about President Bush --- and they're dead wrong and I don't like them, either.

I agree!!!!!! She seems like a huge spoiled brat that is used to getting her way all the time.
Dolfan your post is a prime example of what I am referring to....she is plain annoying and a nuisance IMHO

[Dr. Ron]

dolfan.....you know it is her "over the top" method of getting her point across. You know she does not advocate assination/murder....that would be too much like a liberal.....in terms of character....

I have one of her books. She is very intelligent, has some "panache" and is the "liberal " dream of women if she would just get off that conservative thing and see the light.

[dolfan]

You can never, ever use assassination of a public official as a rhetorical device or joke to make a point.

If it was just her being "over the top" one time, I could even dismiss it as just that. But, she has done it before and after the Stevens "rat poison" remark.

She entitled a 2006 column critical of Lincoln Chaffee (a funny article, by the way), "They Shot The Wrong Lincoln".

She wrote a book about Clinton's presidency and said that among people who weren't too stupid to know that he was guilty in the Lewinsky affair, "there would be debates only about whether to impeach or assassinate."

Here's the thing: Ann Coulter is sharp as a razor. She's too sharp for most, but that doesn't bother me. So's Rush, but I like him. What bothers me is that she crosses this particular line, without apology and habitually. (She even uses it regarding newspaper and TV reporters, but that's not so big a deal to me as I regard their expressions as so much gum on the bottom of my shoe anyway. The day after used car salesmen jokes become inherently indecent, it will be improper to make jokes about newspaper and TV reporters.) So, I don't buy into anything else she says. As long as that is one of her weapons, I'm not influenced by the woman.

[Mike Vande]

She's the epitome of what's wrong with this country's political discussion. And that partisans who have been raised in Sunday School think she's a veritable spokeswoman for grace and truth is evidence enough of how cancerous that kind of rhetoric is. It's on the left and right, it isn't constructive, it's divisive, and, well, it's as American as apple pie, since at least the Jefferson vs. Adams election in 1800.

You forgot to add "...and Vande likes her."

[Full Quiver]

Here is my problem with Ann Coulter:

"We need somebody to put rat poison in Justice Stevens's créme brulée.''


You don't joke about that. Ever. Period. She didn't apologize for it. In fact, she's used the same jab at others. She has this thing about "jokingly" hoping for the execution or assassination of officials, reporters, whoever. If she wants to hope someone dies, and do it publicly, that's fine. She's the one that has to deal with those emotions and frustration of people she hates actually staying vertical. I don't care how she feels one way or the other. Where I draw the line is "joking" about assassination of any official. And, if it was an innocent but dumb line, it'd counter both her high intelligence, deliberate tone, and the fact that she's never apologized for her remarks. Liberal commentators and stars have made similar jokes about President Bush --- and they're dead wrong and I don't like them, either.
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AMEN Dolfan!

If the same "joke" were made about a president she would have been arrested within minutes. Now that would be funny.

[Dr. Ron]

Just heard her on Phil Valentine.....totally different lady when she is on there with him. Interesting....

dolfan, I actually was not defending her tactlessness......that is pretty rotten to say the least, but since it is a part of continuing dialogue in her rants, I think you might see the metaphor in it. I doubt seriously that she would want anyone to die......cept maybe......Clinton, Obama, Pelosi, Reed, everyone at MSNBC, ...........see what I mean....

Is it good journalism? Good grief, I don't know, but she doesn't tout the liberal line all the time....

If she irrates .........negate.

[DeWayneTN]

Just watched Coulter on O'Reilly this morning. She was meaner to him than Lauer. She told him he was humorless, obnoxious chauvinist and he agreed so she said "and honest!" She also got into an argument over who sells more books - that was an interesting clash of egos. She isn't someone I'd like to be friends with and sit down for dinner but I still find her to be an entertaining kick in the pants.