Ann Coulter's final solution the Occupy problem: Shoot them

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werepossum

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You keep analyzing Coulter. I'm more concerned about her viewers. Spidey seems like the prototypical Coulter fan. It's kind of scary that there are enough Spidey's to make her rich.
I'm also one of her fans, although not to the extent of taking her seriously. Sometimes she makes an excellent point, but generally it's just biting sarcasm and wittily phrased attacks on liberals and liberal institutions - not really meant to be taken seriously.

Are you also concerned that Bill Maher has so many fans? Or Michael Moore? Or Reverend "White folks' greed runs a world in need" Wright? All are rich. In the end we all prefer black humor that strikes a cord in us; only really good comedians make us laugh at ourselves, and only really talented writers show us truths we'd rather not believe. The rest - the Coulters, Mahers, Moores and Wrights of the world - achieve success by pandering to our prejudices a bit more cleverly than the crowd. And some - the Limbaughs and Murdocks of the world - by recognizing a significant gap in the market of ideas.
 

UberNeuman

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I'm also one of her fans, although not to the extent of taking her seriously. Sometimes she makes an excellent point, but generally it's just biting sarcasm and wittily phrased attacks on liberals and liberal institutions - not really meant to be taken seriously.

Are you also concerned that Bill Maher has so many fans? Or Michael Moore? Or Reverend "White folks' greed runs a world in need" Wright? All are rich. In the end we all prefer black humor that strikes a cord in us; only really good comedians make us laugh at ourselves, and only really talented writers show us truths we'd rather not believe. The rest - the Coulters, Mahers, Moores and Wrights of the world - achieve success by pandering to our prejudices a bit more cleverly than the crowd. And some - the Limbaughs and Murdocks of the world - by recognizing a significant gap in the market of ideas.

What would one of those points be?
 

woolfe9999

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I'm also one of her fans, although not to the extent of taking her seriously. Sometimes she makes an excellent point, but generally it's just biting sarcasm and wittily phrased attacks on liberals and liberal institutions - not really meant to be taken seriously.

Are you also concerned that Bill Maher has so many fans? Or Michael Moore? Or Reverend "White folks' greed runs a world in need" Wright? All are rich. In the end we all prefer black humor that strikes a cord in us; only really good comedians make us laugh at ourselves, and only really talented writers show us truths we'd rather not believe. The rest - the Coulters, Mahers, Moores and Wrights of the world - achieve success by pandering to our prejudices a bit more cleverly than the crowd. And some - the Limbaughs and Murdocks of the world - by recognizing a significant gap in the market of ideas.

None of those people are making murder jokes. They're just biased commentators. Yes, I'm concerned about all fans of politically biased commentators. It's the sociopaths, however, that concern me most.

- wolf
 

werepossum

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What would one of those points be?
How about this?
And now we have Ginger White stepping forward to claim that she had a 13-year affair with Cain. Cain admits he was friends with White, but he categorically, adamantly denies having an affair with her.

White has the whole combo-platter of questionable accuser attributes: She's another financially troubled, twice-divorced, unemployed single mother, who has claimed sexual harassment in the past, declared bankruptcy once, was accused of stalking and had a libel judgment entered against her just this year. So far in 2011, she's had nine liens put on her property.

But we're supposed to ignore all of that because she's the third woman of questionable character to make an implausible allegation. Liberals say there's a pattern, but the only pattern is of their making far-fetched accusations of a sexual nature against Cain.

White's proof that she had a 13-year affair is that she has two of Cain's books signed by him -- one with the incriminating inscription, "Friends are forever! Everything else is a bonus," and the other, "Miss G, you have already made a 'big difference!' Stay focused as you pursue your next destination." (I know -- filthy!)

If that's proof of an affair, I've had thousands of them without even realizing it.

Also, White produced evidence that Cain had texted or called her cell phone 61 times during four non-consecutive months -- but did not reveal what those texts said. ("Would you please return my lawn mower?")

Again, if that's proof of an affair, I'm having hundreds of them at this very moment.

This is the sort of evidence you get with an actual sexual predator: Bill Clinton's accusers had gifts, taped phone conversations with him and a semen-stained dress.

Gennifer Flowers produced taped telephone calls with Clinton totaling thousands of words between them, with him counseling her on how to deny their affair: "If they ever hit you with it, just say no, and go on. There's nothing they can do ... But when they -- if somebody contacts you, I need to know ... All you got to do is deny it."

Paula Jones had multiple same-day witnesses -- including the state troopers who worked for Clinton and had already told the press about a "Paula" they brought to Clinton's hotel room. And that was for a single incident.

Monica Lewinsky had lots of gifts from Clinton, including a hat pin, two brooches, a marble bear figurine, a T-shirt from Martha's Vineyard and Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," all of which she mysteriously placed with Clinton's secretary, Betty Currie, during the investigation, as well as a semen-stained dress, which Monica kept.

Ginger White claims she had a 13-year affair with Cain -- and all she has are two books with inscriptions that could have been written to an auto mechanic who waited in line at a Cain book signing. Even her business partner during the alleged affair says White never mentioned Cain's name.
She makes a good point that for all the claims of affairs and abuse against Cain, none of them have yet produced anything resembling a reasonable standard of proof that they even MIGHT be telling the truth. Clinton's accusers (you know, back when adultery and even rape allegations were one's "private life") had substantial evidence to show they MIGHT be telling the truth.
 

werepossum

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None of those people are making murder jokes. They're just biased commentators. Yes, I'm concerned about all fans of politically biased commentators. It's the sociopaths, however, that concern me most.

- wolf
That's certainly a fair point. She should not be joking about shooting people.
 

UberNeuman

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How about this?

She makes a good point that for all the claims of affairs and abuse against Cain, none of them have yet produced anything resembling a reasonable standard of proof that they even MIGHT be telling the truth. Clinton's accusers (you know, back when adultery and even rape allegations were one's "private life") had substantial evidence to show they MIGHT be telling the truth.

Really, sir? Is that is it? Care to share some more of those good points she's shared...

\surprised you didn't hit the most obvious...
 

werepossum

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Really, sir? Is that is it? Care to share some more of those good points she's shared...

\surprised you didn't hit the most obvious...
I wouldn't actually know where to find her back columns, and they aren't the kind of things one commits to memory.
 

monovillage

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She's a hatemonger, but reading this thread you can see where the real hate and violence hang out.
 

MagickMan

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Read the articles. She says that the reason she's not worried about OWS is because shooting protestors was so successful at Kent State. Her whole point is that OWS is a mob, and that you deal with mobs by shooting them.

and she's a professional shock jock. So? She's been a nut for years, what does this change?
 

micrometers

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IMO she has a rather mannish face

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that's why she's hot.
 

dmcowen674

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Ann Coulter's final solution the Occupy problem: Shoot them

I almost can't believe this is real. Not only are the rightwingers no longer standing up for the right to defend yourself against the government using your 2nd amendment rights, they're even in favor of the National Guard killing protesters. What kind of parallel world do we live in?


http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-06-07/entertainment/30034613_1_mob-democrats-kent-state

http://mediamatters.org/mobile/blog/201111260001

"So at the moment anyway, I mean I don't know what's going to happen in New York today, but at the moment I'm not really worried of a movement like SDS which really swept a lot of the college campuses taking over. Of course if it does, just remember the lesson from my book: it just took a few shootings at Kent State to shut that down for good."


"There was the shooting at Kent State and gosh, I know, liberals don't like it and you look on Nexis and oh, the whole country was embarrassed. We'll I'm not embarrassed. That's what you do with a mob."

That's fine.

Just expect them to shoot back.

This is how Revolutions start.

It needs to start and people like her better watch their large adams apple.
 

Fayd

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That's the thing about Coulter - she is EXACTLY the same as her polar opposites like Jon Stewart. The big difference is that she openly trumpets her far right views, whereas Stewart hides behind being a comedian. She (I think) honestly is far right and uses over the top rhetoric to advance her views. Stewart (I think) honestly is far left and uses over the top rhetoric to advance his views - only, when called on it, he falls back on the excuse that it's just comedy, not politics. I prefer someone like Chris Rock or Bill Maher who is far left and admits it.

except i don't think stewart is particularly far left. if i had to guess at his place on the political spectrum, it'd be the realm of center left. and to be fair, he does make quite a lot of fun of democrats as well.

coulter's a wacko, and does more harm than good to the republican party or conservatives in general by doing what she does.

she is essentially mass producing straw men for left-leaning pundits and comedians to tear down.
 

werepossum

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except i don't think stewart is particularly far left. if i had to guess at his place on the political spectrum, it'd be the realm of center left. and to be fair, he does make quite a lot of fun of democrats as well.

coulter's a wacko, and does more harm than good to the republican party or conservatives in general by doing what she does.

she is essentially mass producing straw men for left-leaning pundits and comedians to tear down.
I'm guessing that you're on the left as well - we as a rule tend to judge taking our own position as centrist. Though I wouldn't argue that Stewart is necessarily as far left as Coulter is right. Stewart though (from what I've seen of him, I don't find him that amusing) makes fun of Democrats most often when they are not acting sufficiently liberal.
 

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IMO she has a rather mannish face

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Not to mention that adams apple.

Hearing her talk makes me throw up in my mouth. She's either just trolling or incredibly stupid and anti american. It really is hard to tell... same on the board here..

People say things so outrageous that you assume they're trolling. Then you watch them post and you realize they're just hopelessly brainwashed.
 

cybrsage

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Is her statement anything like calling half the country "the enemy" while also being President of the US?
 

werepossum

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Not to mention that adams apple.

Hearing her talk makes me throw up in my mouth. She's either just trolling or incredibly stupid and anti american. It really is hard to tell... same on the board here..

People say things so outrageous that you assume they're trolling. Then you watch them post and you realize they're just hopelessly brainwashed.
Just so we're all clear, those people chanting and repeating everything in unison are NOT brainwashed, right?

Just like the people who think America is a pretty good if not the best country are obviously anti-America, whereas the people who think America is a pretty bad if not the worst country and needs to be immediately transformed to be more like other countries are obviously pro-America.

And I didn't even know it was opposite day.

There's hardly a politician in office who can't be accurately accused of the same.
Which is our own fault.