Comments on: An Open Letter from Conservative Bloggers to GPAC Organizers on Ann Coulter

By: RHackett

RHackett — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:10:05 +0000

What was pathetic was how the Bush administration hid behind Petraeus. The purpose of the military is to be an instrument of policy. It is civilians who determine policy by constitutional mandate. This administration sent the good general to pimp its policy since it knows few but the hard core are willing to accept it any longer.

The general was a good soldier who did the orders of his commander of chief. I feel sorry for him that he allowed himself to be used in this manner. His reputation will be forever stained as a result.

By: Dan Chmielewski

Dan Chmielewski — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:14:11 +0000

No, I saw that show; it wasn’t his implication at all, but it was the reaciton from the right wing afterwards.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:12:41 +0000

IT wasn’t Mahers exact words, but it certainly was his implication, which he and everyone else on the show and in the live audience enjoyed very much.

Semantic games. HE meant it even if his words weren’t precisely that.

I’ve wondered about ole’ bill myself. And Gore seems obvious to me.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:10:41 +0000

and btw, if hillary clinton can call General David Petraeus a liar, and Tom Lantos can say that even before PEtraeus has said a single word (is there such a thing as calling someone a future liar?), then Coulter calling Edwards a faggot is small potatoes, especially since she had an actual contextual reason for using that word and there is NO REASON for the liberal insult to Petraeus.

You guys need to lighten up and prioritize. Ann COulter is not a threat to American security or conservative ideals. She’s just an indelicate female. Not married too.. but that’s just a coincidence.

By: Dan Chmielewski

Dan Chmielewski — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:02:47 +0000

That’s not what Bill Mahr said. And she caled Bill Clinton a latent homosexual and Al Gore a “total fag.” She does have a nice Madam’s Apple though

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:02:37 +0000

my antispam word this time was GOP Stinks–

and sadly (as I’m in it), it does these days….

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:58:48 +0000

She’s provocative alright, but much of the time I find that people are misapprehending her, usually due to either a lack of information about what she’s mocking or a lack of sense of humor.

The faggot bit was a send-up of the fact that some actor on a medical show was actually sent to rehab as a result of his getting in a shouting match with a gay fellow cast member and calling him a faggot. Ann said “I’d say something about John Edwards but it turns out you have to go to rehab if you use the word faggot”.

multiple levels of mockery, none of which involve her selecting the word ‘faggot’ out of the blue and casually tossing it at JE with no underlying reason. That is something high school boys and drunks do, not 40 year old women with good incomes and black cocktail dresses. Faggot is a juvenile word, chosen by an actor in his 20’s to insult another actor with whom he was arguing. She used the word to make a point about liberals, not to try to make America believe Edwards is a homosexual. The word was contextually related, not chosen at random as the media then went on to represent for weeks.

Just like the bit about wishing Edwards would die in a terrorist attack– it was a jab at Bill Maher’s cruel remarks over Dick Cheney. She rightly wanted to know if it was okay to wish that on Democrats, since liberal TV people were now openly wishing it on Republicans. TV people claimed for weeks that she actually wished Edwards would die in a terrorist attack! Do you people have any humor or insight left?

You guys need to open your eyes. Liberals would absolutely crush us if they get the opportunity. They’ve declared war. The conversation is out there, and Ann Coulter is one of the people bringing this to our attention. You can wave a flag of civilisation and politeness all you want, but that will just get you in the gulag when it’s all said and done.

I wish I was kidding even a little.

By: EliseS

EliseS — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:45:08 +0000

Looks matter, yes. My life-long Democratic mother-in-law had doubts about Kerry because he “looked like one of the trees from the Wizard of Oz”…sigh.

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:03:51 +0000

“Lets all agree that Edwards does look like a sissy boy â€“ itâ€™s a fact. The slag for describing him â€“ the â€œFâ€ word will get you a trip to â€œrehabilitationâ€ thatâ€™s the joke.”

Fact or opinion, what does what someone looks like have to do with politics?