Ann Coulter's outrageous comments on 9/11 widows

[Onkel Neal]

My opinion. She's pretty flaky.

[Enigma]

Ill say the same thing about this alien looking peice of garbage that I did about Malkin. they say what they say so people will talk, as that generates book sales. Nothing but a hack, a shock jock, and worthless to anyones cause.

I hope she trips over her big gangly limbs and falls off the face of the earth.

[scandium]

Originally Posted by August

Not quite. Coulter is an independant political commentator who makes her living defending and promoting the conservative political viewpoint, via, radio appearances, speaking tours and through selling books. Neither her nor Michelle Malkin are paid by the US government or work directly for the Republican party.

If you say so August. This latest salvo was a little low though, even for Coulter. She's starting to remind me more and more of that Phelps guy and his "troops = fags" nonsense. Phelps says he does it for God, you say Coulter does it for the GOP. To me they are both idiots with no sense of shame or common decency.

[August]

Originally Posted by scandium

If you say so August. This latest salvo was a little low though, even for Coulter. She's starting to remind me more and more of that Phelps guy and his "troops = fags" nonsense. Phelps says he does it for God, you say Coulter does it for the GOP. To me they are both idiots with no sense of shame or common decency.

Well i agree except to say that Coulter does not represent the GOP any more than Michael Moore represents the Democrats, although I must say that in Moores case, the Dems have given a him lot more official recognition by seating him in the Presidential box right next to Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter at their last national convention, which, imo was a pretty dumb thing to do when trying to influence the mainstream voter.

Both however are of the "shock jock" persuasion who have made rabble rousing the media career field it has become in recent years. I think both parties would prefer they didn't exist but if one sides gonna do it...

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by jumpy

Can somebody tell me who Ann Coulter actually is? I have heard the name and have seen some stuff about yankee politics that she seemed to have some sort of voice in, but I'm not so well up on american internal politics; I gather she's some kind of skinny, blond solicitor type?
UK politics being what it is, none of our lot seem to have any conviction about much of anything tbh. Whereas my observations of american poiticians (shallow and not overly informed it may be) seem to show a bunch of really quite disturbing people, both in their ideals and moral duplicity... perhaps that's only the bad ones I hear about? Whichever, on first impressions there's now way in hell I'd like to have them running my country- better the devil you know and all that. The division between Conservative and Labour seems tame compared to Republican and Democrat- would that be a fair thing to say?

You have Cindy Sheehan on the kook left and Ann Coulter representing kook right.

Both of these kooks are first against the wall when I come into power.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by scandium

I agree with your observations on American politics and they about sum up my own feelings. Perhaps the divisions aren't quite so deep as they appear to us outsiders though.

In my opinion, poltical divisions here are very deep. It takes something on the scale of large amounts of people dying, or full scale world war for those divisions to be put aside.

[August]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

You have Cindy Sheehan on the kook left and Ann Coulter representing kook right.

Both of these kooks are first against the wall when I come into power.

If you come to power with an attitude like that then the kooks were right!

[Ishmael]

What I like to do to people like Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and others of their ilk is to send them recruiting information and put them on the US Army and Marine Corps mailing lists. I am always amazed that the vast majority of these war-mongers like the aforementioned, never served in the military. However, they are more than happy to spill your blood or mine for the great "Cause". They remind me of a term coined by the late, great Bill Mauldin, creator of Willie & Joe, Garritroopers.
Garritroopers,as described by Mauldin were to far forward to wear ties and to far back to get shot. But then, Bill also said another thing that I find very trenchant:
:"The quickest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry."

[Sea Demon]

You don't need to have served in the military to be able to voice your opinion regarding it's usage. As a matter of fact, most people in the USA never have served in the military in any capacity. If you pay the taxes and vote, your opinion matters.

And yes, I did serve. And I do pay taxes.

[sonar732]

You have to admit that watching Hannity & Colmes is funny though. Colmes attacks the conversitive base, while Hannity attacks the liberal base. I'm a 'moderate conservative'. In no way do I support the far right of the base of the Ann Coulter's & Pat Robertson's, but I despise the liberal left who sit there and complain about how the right does things, then turn around and support, defend, and fund the Michael Moore's & Cindy Sheehan's.

[Wildcat]

I happen to agree with the woman's comments. Not as a blanket statement against all 9/11 widows, but there certainly are women out there who are doing nothing but making money on the image of their grief.

I read in the newspaper yesterday the 4 women's response to Coulter's comments. They were laced with lots of big dramatic words, obviously these women don't give a damn what happened to their husbands, they're just dramaticizing the issue so they can gain more money and publicity. It's sickening. They're basically media whores.

[Ishmael]

For the edification of this board here is a link to a review of Ms. Coulter's book by Mrs. Betty Bowers(America's Favorite Christian).

http://bettybowers.com/coulter.html

I think you may find it enlightening.

[Subnuts]

This woman scares me. I've seen spare ribs with more meat on their bones. She's a damn corpsicle!

I think we should lock her in a sealed containment vessel with Michael Moore. If we could channel the energy of their ranting, we could power the world!

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by Subnuts

I've seen spare ribs with more meat on their bones.

Please do not cross-post.

[Onkel Neal]

Speaking of whackos, this should be on Pay-per-View!

Carlin, Coulter in 'Tonight' smackdown?

Comedian, author to share couch on Leno show

Wednesday, June 14, 2006; Posted: 12:57 p.m. EDT (16:57 GMT)


LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- "Tonight" host Jay Leno might want to consider wearing referee stripes on Wednesday's show when Ann Coulter and George Carlin are his guests.
Coulter, the acid-tongued conservative with a new book out, and Carlin, the quick-witted, antiestablishment comedian who's in the voice cast for the new animated film "Cars," were booked at separate times for the NBC late-nighter, a spokeswoman said Monday.
But the duo's meeting could produce serious fireworks for "Tonight," which usually limits its political fodder to Leno's bipartisan monologue jokes.
Coulter, author of "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," has drawn fire for attacking the four New Jersey widows who pushed for an independent commission to investigate the September 11 World Trade Center attacks in which their husbands died.
In her book, Coulter accuses the women of "reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much."
An appearance by Coulter on another NBC series, "Today," led to a prickly exchange with host Matt Lauer over her comments on the widows.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/0....ap/index.html

George: http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/book...lin/index.html