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I've gotten this through enough sources so that it looks like it really is true. We will not be hearing Ann Coulter's voice anywhere (live, anyway) for at least a few weeks).
There are many things I could write about this, but, believe me, many bloggers with darker souls than mine are already weighing in.
quote: Ann Coulter, always polite and respectfulIt's too easy to make a pun about one of the biggest mouths in the conservative movement being silenced. So I'll leave the clever quips about Ann Coulter's broken jaw to the pop blogs. But I do have to admit to some schadenfreude upon hearing that the woman who just can't keep her mouth shut will have to quite literally do so for several weeks, as her jaw is to be wired shut.
Reports have been sketchy as to the reason behind the broken jaw. I'm sure there have been visions of a fist fight with Rosie O'Donnell or just any liberal pundit taking a crack shot at that long face but it seems that it was only a nasty fall that Coulter took about a month back.
Y'all can hunt down the blog partying on your own. Or commence with the predictable comments here. Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Lisa: Is this going to interfere with Obama naming her to a cabinet position?
Not at all. As a matter of fact I understand it is a requirement for the offer. It has to STAY wired shut his whole first term. Posts: 15082 | Registered: Jul 2001
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Normally I might be aghast at the lack shown here of the usual sympathy and understanding that Hatrack shows... but Ann Coulter is bar-none one of the meanest seeming people I've ever seen on TV or heard on radio. I don't wish anyone such an injury, but this one doesn't make me feel too bad.
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I have all her books. One is signed. She's not nearly as good on camera as she is in her writing. She is not for the uninitiated, that's for sure. But go on, keep hating her and thinking of her as something less than human and not deserving of any kind of sympathy.
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You know, Resh, Coulter has said things like she wished McVeigh had blown up the NY Times building instead of the Murrah Federal Building, with the editors and reporters inside.
Does it indicate I'm uninitiated if I find that far more hateful than any of the jokes posted on this thread?
Coulter is really a special case, and it's hard to see how one could take her side in calling for tact.
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quote:Originally posted by Reshpeckobiggle: I have all her books. One is signed. She's not nearly as good on camera as she is in her writing. She is not for the uninitiated, that's for sure. But go on, keep hating her and thinking of her as something less than human and not deserving of any kind of sympathy.
I don't hate her. I think she's ridiculous! And I think that her profit model prays on idiots who like to buy into presupposition and generalized demonization of entire ideological groups.
Like you, Resh!
But I don't hate you either! I'm sympathetic to your shortcomings in the logic department! Plus, whenever you try to argue politics or science, you actively help my cause by representing yours.
please keep buying Ann Coulter books.Posts: 15421 | Registered: Aug 2005
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ermm. I'd advocate the pirating of Ann Coulter books, but I'd like her not to make money.
She could always fall into a teaching career at charm school though... now that's an idea for a movie.
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If Ms. Coulter can't insult the widows of the 9/11 tragedy and demonize large portions of the country for failing to live up to her levels of hypocrisy and lack of compassion, I can't say I'll weep bitter tears.
As for Coulter "not being for the uninitiated", I must confess that the only inititation that springs to mind involves a lot of dark, hooded garments and blood sacrifices.
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quote:Originally posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick: Sam, you really threw the TOS out the window with that comment. Please edit it.
He's called me an idiot before and nobody made a fuss... including me. And he did it more directly, like "you are an idiot."
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quote:Originally posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick: Sam, you really threw the TOS out the window with that comment. Please edit it.
If I'm not allowed to call someone an idiot on this forum, then neither is Resh.
And if Resh is not allowed to call someone an idiot on this forum, he's been banned about thirty times over.
And if Resh is allowed to call people names and rant and rail on them with as many insults as he has, and I don't get to call him an utter fool for being an Ann Coulter acolyte, then I'm not part of this website. ^_^
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What's ridiculous about this is that you can omit "Like you, Resh!" from my post and suddenly it's magically TOS-friendly even though it is beyond doubt that I am asserting this condition in relation to Reshpekobiggle and that it is doubtlessly a direct insult to him. Enforcements of 'passive agression' technicality, and all that. merely an opportunity to test double standards and schizophrenic irregularity in the application of TOS judgments.
Because beyond a doubt there is no enforcement of cordiality here, no enforcement saying that I can't imply or eruditely code-word the notion that Resh is dense and impressionable and has vaporized his credibility and ethos over years of bumbling, inept argumentation that has rightfully frustrated the entire community. I'm allowed to impugn people's intelligence here but only so long as I doll it up with 'legal' wording.
Very well, if I'm not allowed to, I won't say that Resh is an idiot. He'll say it for me. Resh once stated that he is pretty sure that he's either speaking unvarnished truths, or he's an idiot and an ass. I am willing to helpfully conclude one of these is indeed true, given his repeated clashings with factual, patient, diligent, and eminently respectful refutations against his patent incorrigibility on any one of a number of subjects, from moral, to political, to scientific. I think I might daresay I know which it is.Posts: 15421 | Registered: Aug 2005
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I'm not taking sides, and I'm not gonna argue with you Sam. You have my opinion, feel free to act as you see fit. Good night.
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Sam is an idiot. Ok, thread is even, no one gets yelled at by a moderator (I hope.)
But nice of you to link to one of my more magnificent posts -from a year and a half ago, no less. It's funny, because everything I said in that post is still true! I have yet to see anyone do anything more than completely dodge the main thrust of the argument I was making there, and I don't just mean here on Hatrack. Maybe my argumentation is just too "bumbling and inept" for anyone to provide an accurate and appropriate response.
P.S. I believe I've made the point before about how it appears that Sam has neatly saved and categorized all of my posts. I'd look for it, but I'm pretty sure Sam could find it a lot faster. Could you do me a favor Sam and look in your archives for that post? It's probably tabbed under "Personal Attacks." If you don't see it there, check your "How Could He Have Known?" file.
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quote:I believe I've made the point before about how it appears that Sam has neatly saved and categorized all of my posts.
Nope, broheim. I'm just smart enough to know how to use the forum's search function. Try it out. Search for your username using the word 'nazi'
Wow, look at that! Everyone should see that post.
quote:I have yet to see anyone do anything more than completely dodge the main thrust of the argument I was making there
One of the things that I have noticed about you is that you have the relative luxury of assuming that your points have not been adequately addressed because you are simply incapable of understanding the refutations people make against you. It's been noted about you, and you may even figure it out someday: you're in over your head. You see people criticizing you for begging the question, or for specious reasoning, but you really can't yet understand what that means. For the most part, they are just words on the screen to you, words of belittlement, but you cannot parse them, you cannot apply them. You can look them up, read their surface definitions and take away a surface understanding of what the charge is, but you can't apply that sort of skeptical rationalism to your thought processes. This is criticism you literally lack the means to respond to positively and it's due to this fundamental incuriousness that you are already well-known for. Until the day you can catch yourself up to the point where you can incorporate this 'logic' stuff, you won't stop buying into justifications that are inherently fallacious. You don't have the philosophical or the personal maturity yet.
Normally, who cares? But here you have used this to form ultimately intractable positions based on 'truthiness' and shallow axiom, and you think you are way better at arguing than you really are, so you make these epic, careening failures through thread after thread simply unable to understand people's refutations. Naturally, you conclude you simply haven't been refuted.
Exhibit A: you preening over your 'accomplishments' in that thread.
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Sure. I'll share my Cheetos if you share your root beer. *passes bag to Scott and enjoys the show*
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Ann Coulter is clearly a far-left provocateur. She exists to make conservatives look like idiots. She's a living, breathing, jaw-currently-wired-shut strawman.
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quote:Originally posted by Lisa: Ann Coulter is clearly a far-left provocateur. She exists to make conservatives look like idiots. She's a living, breathing, jaw-currently-wired-shut strawman.
I will admit that I have thought the same thing about certain members of the site, including Lisa, at times.
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quote:Originally posted by Lisa: Is "Bite me" a violation of the TOS? Or would it have to be "Bite me, Rabbit"?
See, that is exactly the kind of witty, intelligent and logical response that causes me to hold you in such high regard.
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quote:Originally posted by Lisa: Ann Coulter is clearly a far-left provocateur. She exists to make conservatives look like idiots. She's a living, breathing, jaw-currently-wired-shut strawman.
I agree that she is useful, in a way, to the Left. However, I think she is actually a product of the mainstream media, separate from any political motivation. She is provocative and vile in order to garner attention and therefore revenue.
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The mere mention of the unspeakable horror that is the Doodlebops should be against the TOS! Great line though!
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The greatest obstacle to my reading her books is I can't tell if she's trying to be satirical or serious. If she's being satirical, she's terrible at it; if she's serious, it scares the crap out of me.
I think what scifibum said is more correct, she exists only to provoke knee-jerk reactions out of liberals and conservatives. Her articles are often QFT on the Salt Lake Tribune's forum and one of the reasons I don't post there anymore. Once the Coulter quotes start being posted, any chance of logical discussion goes down the proverbial tubes.
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I need some editing help. In the sentence "ScottR is a dunderhead whose idiocy is matched only by his repulsive stench", does "dunderhead" need to be hyphenated?
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Of course you know how to use the search function, Sam. Only, I think it's the search function found in the Windows Start Menu, allowing you to search your hard drive. Probably your specially dedicated back-up drive as well, the one with "I Hate Reshpeckobiggle" etched into one side (and I imagine a Hello Kitty sticker on the other.)
quote:Originally posted by Epictetus: The greatest obstacle to my reading her books is I can't tell if she's trying to be satirical or serious. If she's being satirical, she's terrible at it; if she's serious, it scares the crap out of me.
Her books are actually a clever mix. She doesn't care if her haters are too dense to be able to tell when she switches from satire to serious, or recognizes how serious she is sometimes being with her satire. Like when she makes jokes about abortion. Oh, hahah, that was funny! But it's kind of a laugh because you can't always be crying.
But she's not terrible at satire. She's only terrible if you are a self-important and smug liberal with no sense of humor. Or a prudish conservative. Normal liberals find her disgusting but respect her ability as a writer. It may help you to know that one of her favorite authors is Dave Barry.
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why does her respect as a writer come into play? She's disgusting, one should not be support a disgusting writer when she writes disgusting hate speech.
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Resh, I think we all understand that she is good at what she does. We just don't think being a good hatemongerer is worthy of our respect.
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quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: Normally I might be aghast at the lack shown here of the usual sympathy and understanding that Hatrack shows... but Ann Coulter is bar-none one of the meanest seeming people I've ever seen on TV or heard on radio. I don't wish anyone such an injury, but this one doesn't make me feel too bad.
This is EXACTLY how I feel. I wouldn't wish it on her....not because she doesn't deserve it, but because I try not to wish anything bad on other people.
But if it HAS to happen to someone...
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