Ann Coulter Attacks 9/11 Widows

Anne Coulter was listed at #1 in the New York Times Book Section last Sunday.

Since the left wing thinks that the only people who know how to read in this country are the radical professors and the superannuated hippies who were revolting( still are) in the last sixties, it is a surprise to them that so many people are buying Coulter's book.

The left will be surprised again in November when, instead of the smashing victory they have predicted, they will again be put into second place.

but does he avoid talking about religion? he's a liberal, and Ms. Coulter says liberalism's a church:



http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15363

I understand Antonin Scalia, as well as Maria Shriver, contribute anecdotes in the book. (Ann's never jested about rat poison in Judge Scalia's creme brulee, and while Shriver's family is dubious, shouldn't she get the benefit of a doubt for being the spouse of a GOP governor?) Could they both have been duped by Russert, the lying, cruel, unjust, hypocrite?

Yes, it is quite amazing how many poorly educated people there are that will buy books they are incapable of reading. Perhaps if everyone had a good 8th grade education such as I had Mz could would have sold less than 9 copies of her book. On the other hand, Mr Possum offers excellent evidence that americans are very poorly educated and will continue to to buy Coulters books. I am sure Mr Possum as purchased, at full retail, the lastest Could crap totally redeemed of polemics.

Dyslexia thinks that the Canon refers to the guns used by Napoleon!

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=77284&highlight=

I have never read any of her books,so I plead ignorance of her writing style.

But I have a question...Do the people on here that hate her think she has the right to write whatever she writes?

And if not,why not?

actually The Dys thinks that Mr Possum has more fartbubbles than is typical of most beaneaters in the north american and is most likely lesbian.

I've never read any of her books either, but I'd have to live under a stone to plead ignorance of her and her "style".

Yeah, she has the perfect right to say almost anything.... and keep on moving that "almost" closer to the line of crying "fire" in a crowded theater, if she wants.

And I have the right to say she's a sad, shrill, destructive critter.

Mysterman----She would be burned at the stake by the left wing if they could do it. She reveals too many of thier flaws.

You will not hear or read of any such conservative cries to censor Mr. Al Franken despite the fact that he writes against conservatives incessantly and is on the radio doing the same thing.

Franken is absolutely innocuous despite the fact that he tries to be, oh so relevant. Coulter has hit the left wing in the jugular and they are chokeing.

i haven't read her books, either, but i'll get one from the libray by & by. still, glad you asked. i personally love all the memorable quotes she provides, such as this one:



http://www.alligator.org/pt2/051021coulter.php

yitwail's comment is out of context. I will enlarge that context.

I am not sure that all of the left wing on this site know who Justice Lewis Powell was.. Judge Powell was a Supreme Court Judge who was quite liberal. In Anne Coulter's book--Slander" P. 153, she quotes Judge Powell.

quote

"When defending pornographers, lawbreakers or traitors, one of the left's favorite cliches is from Justice Powell's opinion in Gertz v, Welch--"UNDER THE FIRST AMENDMENT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FALSE IDEA. HOWEVER PERNICIOUS AN IDEA MIGHT SEEM, WE DEPEND ON ITS CORRECTION ...ON THE COMPETITION OF OTHER IDEAS"


In other words, the left is constanly braying that all ideas are welcome to the debate UNTIL THEY BECOME, AS THE LEFT WING WOULD PUT IT, A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY.



Quit the whining and rebut Coulter's ideas!!!!!!!!

i provided a link to the article containing the quote. that's where a person can find the context to her comment.



what "ideas?" how do you rebut this: "And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy."

should we hold a seance and ask those dead husbands? do we subpoena Playboy to find out if they contacted the "Jersey Girls" about doing a photo spread?

and how do you conclude from Justice Powell's opinion that he & other liberals want to suppress debate? "Correction" (of a pernicious idea) through "the competition of other ideas" sounds like debate to me.

Four Female Columnists Tackle Coulter At Convention
Four Female Columnists Tackle Coulter, Other Issues, At Convention
By Dave Astor
E & P
Published: July 01, 2006
BOSTON

Four female opinion writers were discussing their craft during a National Society of Newspaper Columnists conference (NSNC) session here Friday when the inevitable question was raised by an audience member: What about Ann Coulter?

"She knows how to market a book," Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi said of the writer who has parlayed anti-liberal insults (including jokes about killing people) into best-selling authordom.

"Ann Coulter is not a columnist. She's an entertainer," added Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley.

"The cheapest way to write is to name-call," said New York Times editorial writer Maura Casey, also noting that some of Coulter's commentary is "beyond uncivilized. It's just mean."

"If the stereotype of women columnists is that they can't 'slice and dice,' Ann Coulter gives the lie to that," added another panelist, Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial page editor/columnist Cynthia Tucker, in a statement Tucker said she was making in a "devil's advocate" way. Tucker is a Pulitzer Prize finalist who, like Coulter, is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.

Part of the NSNC panel discussion focused on why there aren't more female Op-Ed columnists, and the stereotype Tucker referred to was one of the alleged reasons raised. There's also the fact that some male editors and readers don't want to see strong commentary from women. "Some people like opinionated women, but an awful lot of people don't," Tucker said.

As editorial page editor of the Journal-Constitution, Tucker tries to publish a variety of female and African-American voices (including conservatives). But that doesn't mean women and black writers always have to focus on so-called women and black issues; panelists said these writers have the right to comment on anything white-male columnists do.

Riley, for instance, periodically writes about her daughter -- and says an occasional personal column helps build a rapport with readers that might make them more receptive to a column on, say, the Iraq War. "It's vital for readers to get a sense of who you are," said Riley. And personal columns often generate the most mail.

The panelists also discussed the hate mail they receive. "If it says 'hey stupid' in the subject line, I don't read the rest," said Vennochi. "I know it's not going to get any better!"

Riley said she's working on a book about hate mail that various columnists have received.

The four panelists also discussed how they got into opinion writing.

Riley was working as a deputy managing editor at The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky., in the mid-1990s when the single mother became dismayed at how little time she was able to spend with her daughter. So she asked if she could do a column. "I got my column by being a better mom," she recalled.

Casey said she tried to get into the opinion side of newspapers right out of college, and managed to become editorial page editor of a Massachusetts paper in the 1980s at age 25.

Tucker wasn't thinking of the opinion page as a career choice when she saw, while growing up, that it was full of white men. She worked as a staff reporter and then an Africa-based freelance foreign correspondent before finding herself without a job when returning to the United States. Then she got the offer to join the editorial section of what is now the Journal-Constitution.

Vennochi covered politics before having a child, and then returned to work on the Globe business pages. A column spot opened up on those pages, and Vennochi began a feature about the intersection of business and politics. She moved to the Op-Ed page in the late 1990s.

The panelists were introduced by self-syndicated columnist Terry Marotta, one of the co-chairs of the NSNC conference.

Coulter Affirms Prevous Statement About Bombing 'NYT' Office
Coulter Affirms Prevous Statement About Bombing 'NYT' Office
By E&P Staff
Published: June 30, 2006 10:30 PM ET

In a letter to E&P earlier this week, Lee Salem, the new president of Universal Syndicate, responded to a critical column about his client, Ann Coulter, by E&P's Dave Astor. Salem suggested that Coulter was a brilliant satirist who does not mean it when she periodically wishes violence or even death on liberals and other "traitors."

The next day, in a New York weekly, Coulter refuted the notion that she is only joking, and on Thursday night the subject came up again when she appeared on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes."

Allan Colmes mentioned Salem's claim, and asked her if she wanted to take back an earlier statement that Timothy McVeigh should have bombed The New York Times office, especially if the reporters were inside.

"No, I think the Timothy McVeigh line was merely prescient after The New York Times has leapt beyond -- beyond nonsense straight into treason, last week," Coulter replied.

"This is great humor," Colmes replied, sarcastically. "This belongs on Saturday Night Live. It belongs on The Daily Show. "

More than 100 newspapers carry Coulter's column.

Coulter also said that her recent statement, "that fragging is why we invented John Murtha--that is a good one."

Yes, BumbleBee Boogie- and those women are not green with envy that Coulter's book is number one on the Non Fiction list for the New York Times. They are, of course, entitled to thier own opinions but just who are they? I have never heard of them.

I read Anne Coulter's book.It is filled with ideas. I will present a few for yitwail to rebut!!!

Try this, Yitwail--

Coulter's next chapter, "The Liberal Priesthood: Spare the Rod, Spoil the Teacher," focuses on the partisanship, compensation, and incompetence level of American teachers. A crucial statistic in these pages concerns the "correlation [that exists] between poor student achievement and time spent in U.S. public schools." In this regard, comments by Thomas Sowell and Al Shanker stand out. Sowell notes that college students with low SAT and ACT scores are more likely to major in education and that "teachers who have the lowest scores are the most likely to remain in the profession." From a different perspective, the late President of the American Federation of Teachers stated, with refreshing bluntness, "When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children." The words of John Dewey, a founder of America's public education system, also fit nicely into Coulter's state-of-the-classroom address: "You can't make Socialists out of individualists -- children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent." Coulter responds, "You also can't make socialists out of people who can read, which is probably why Democrats think the public schools have nearly achieved Aristotelian perfection.



If you can't find any ideas in that, Yitwail, you are hopeless.

Probably the stupidest statement I've read for a variety of reasons, but the foremost is the "idea" that Democrats think the public schools are nearly perfect. Sez who? Democrats are for solid public education, but are not much inclined to foist programs, unfunded and otherwise, like No Child Left Behind upon the States. (The height of irony for conservatives is that the big, bad Federal Government THAT THEY CONTROL is telling the math teacher in East Jesus, Oklahoma what will be taught in the classroom. Way to go, hands-off conservatives!!) Ann doesn't really care for the facts here, she's just pissing more charcoal lighter on the fire.

People who can read don't necessarily become socialists, but they sure as heck don't continue to follow dog-like the rantings of the right.

Joe(an idea ought to contain some thought and some truth)Nation

aside to Joe Nation, her statement includes the weasel word "nearly."

so, bernard, the only idea contained therein, by Ms. AC, is this:



so, according to her idea, at least 99% of the people of socialist Sweden aren't socialists, since Sweden has a 99% literacy rate.

http://www.answers.com/topic/sweden

incidentally, Al Shanker's statement--



--is deplorable. but it certainly doesn't follow that public school teachers all share that sentiment. i spent one year in a teaching credential program, and never encountered that quote. one thing we did learn about is teacher burnout. a high percentage of new school teachers quit after 3 or 4 years. i'll try & find out an exact percentage if you insist, but it belies the notion you might have gotten from AC that teaching is a cushy, union job. and as to Sowell's characterization of teachers having low SAT scores, i graduated magna cum laude, and i was in the same cohort with a woman who graduated with a 4.0 GPA, and in california you first get a degree, then take education classes in the 5th year, so our GPAs were accumulated in regular university courses.

Guys, please stop feeding the troll. He is absolutley LOVING this attention.

You're right.

Joe(mybad)Nation

JO, i'll go along with your request, as long as i'm not addressed by name.