McG, That's an old trick: Turn the question around to challenge the accuser that he never lied or cheated on his wife. That doesn't sell very well anymore. Get used to it. c.i.
The beat goes on.
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain.
History has turned the page, uh huh
La de da de de, la de da de da.
The beat goes on.
These guys are getting desperate. I love it! It's like eating chocolate after chocolate, reading their posts, AND IT DOESN'T MAKE YOU FAT!
PDiddie wrote:What a maroon....
I can just hear ol' Bugs saying this, too . . .
I used to work for Southern Illinios University, the sports teams for which were known, until 1954, as the Maroons . . . now they're known as the Salukis . . . i've always wondered about, and had my little fantasy about the U making the change . . .
Athletic Director arrives in the office the University President . . .
"What the hell is this about, Hank, you say we need to change the football team's name ? ! ? ! ? Why, whatever for?"
"Well, Sir, i have a piece of film here from Warner Bros. that i think you should see . . ."
"...Ann Coulter has once again revealed herself as one of the most destructive forces in American politics, repeatedly making outrageously irrational arguments and demonstrably false claims. Treason is the culmination of a dismaying trend toward factually misleading and inflammatory books from pundits such as Michael Moore, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage (Salon Premium subscription or viewing of ad required for Savage column). These authors may delight partisans and make their publishers rich, but their work impoverishes our political discourse."
http://spinsanity.org/columns/20030630.html
But it may ultimately enrich the Left. It seems really clear to me that the reason these Con-artists read and talk the way they do is because, having no defense, they resort to mindless aggression. (The same fashion has hit A2K like a dense cloud of heavy particulate, dense being the key word.)
It's the reason liberals really should take heart. The Con use of thin, dirty arguments and invective means they (and their party) are scraping the bottom of their barrel.
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Read Tartarin's link there....it will give you a good taste of Coulter. The style may be familiar from a couple of posters here.
Tartarin
Good link. Thanks.
Well, 'scuse me for departing for a moment from the high road, but....
That Coulter is one of the nastiest bitches ever to cloak herself in the auspices of journalism. And I agree that in the long run, bottom-feeding wretches like her will end up benefiting the left, as her paper-thinly supported verbal vomit causes those guilty by association to suffer by comparison to actual reasoned discourse. I just dread having to suffer the stringy haired, anorexic foulmouthed bag of filth for as long as the process will take.
quickly aiming seltzer bottle at sceen
I think Snood may secretly have a crush on ms. Coulter.
Damn, you're right, Snood. BUT.... There has always been Coulter-type crap out there. The problem is, why is there such a large audience for this kind of stuff? Who unlocked their cages? Hmmm?
From Jonathan Schell, The Nation, 7/14. Unfortunately, not on line. Scanned in.
I believe there is such an endemic muddle-headedness in America -- a place in which the standards of discourse are so low (quite apart from Coulter) -- that words have lost both exact and contextual meanings. One is able to say just about anything and then later claim, Well, I didn't really mean that, I meant...
Plausible deniability as the gift of ramshackle American education and a crumbling national ethic.
The right has become blown up and full of self pride and self importance and feels it can now parade itself openly...the American people who worship Bush, Coulter, Fox news, bigotry, war and murder in the name of expansion have been quieted by reasonableness in media and leadership for many years up until the present administration but are now feeling empowered and particularly arrogant....it will only get worse but will not last long in the grand scheme of things......
Tartarin
I'd meant to tell you, but never gotten around to it, that your Haig quote is simply priceless.
Johannesburg - Africa is greeting the first trip to the continent by US President George W Bush with a dose of scepticism, with analysts wary of American intentions and questioning the benefits of such a visit.
Bush's week-long tour begins on Monday in the west African nation of Senegal, then proceeds to South Africa, Botswana, Uganda and Nigeria.
The White House says the visit is designed to highlight Bush's recent promise of $15bn toward Aids programmes and to showcase African economic and political success stories.
But African analysts believe Bush is primarily looking to shore up the anti-terrorism effort on the continent, to push the US trade agenda and to pave over strong African criticism of the war in Iraq.
The visit is clearly about US self-interest and less about what matters to Africa, says Guy Mahone, a professor at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
If people can't see what motivates this president and his henchmen by now, I would have to conclude that they have been blinded by $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. c.i.
"...He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions..."
Kind of reminds you of Our King George's "undistinguished destruction," don't it!
I consider John Diiulio's take on this White House to be the most accurate...'everything is about politics', meaning PR, image, and votes. As convincing as Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld might be in their manical insanity, I think it close to a certainty that Iraq wouldn't have happened without Carl Rove's blessing.
The black vote, traditionally going to Democrats, is one of the Rove/Republican targets.
The following link leads to a very interesting piece on the Justice Department's Glen Fine (Clinton appointee) and his recent report critical of the handling of terror suspects. The careful reader will pay particular note to the talking points assessment out of the House Republican staffers (second paragraph on page two). This is a perfect example of the way these guys use language and insinuation as tools to frighten and bully.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/05/national/05INSP.html?pagewanted=2
Howard Dean was angry. Ropy veins popped out of his neck, blood rushed to his cheeks, and his eyes, normally blue-gray, flashed black, all dilated pupils.
"The only hope Democrats have to beat this president," he said, his left fist punching the air, "is to behave like Democrats and stand up for what we believe!"
"YEAH!" the crowd cheered, standing and applauding.
"Can we afford tax cuts," Dean continued, reddening to his gray temples, "when we have the largest deficit in the history of the country?"
"NO!" the crowd shouted back.
Dean was addressing a California Teachers Association convention in Los Angeles.
But the former governor of Vermont could have been in Iowa or New Hampshire or Wisconsin. Although he first gained notice for opposing the war in Iraq, these days Dean likes to hammer the "radical right-wing wacko" Bush administration on nearly every issue. President Bush is all wrong, he says: wrong on the economy, wrong on the environment, wrong on health care and affirmative action and peace and justice for all.
One thing we know about this president without question; he knows how to outspend the democrats. c.i.
