Ann Coulter Attacks 9/11 Widows

I guess that's another entry on your Master List of Everything Good is Liberal, Everything Bad is Conservative.

No wonder I didn't know who Natalie Maines is. I just don't listen to country pop.

However, there is a real difference between saying Coulter is uniformed and Maines is fat. It's a difference that no one on the right can understand and it has to do with that classic of debating: the personal attack. To say Maines is fat is irrelevant and a genuine apples and oranges sort of comparison and a personal attack. To say Coulter is uninformed is not a personal attack.

Dookiestix -- That is quite a picture of Coulter. Obviously, that one didn't feature her usual soft focus lens, tons of makeup and low level lighting. Her press secretary must be upset it got through!

No wonder I didn't know who Natalie Maines is. I just don't listen to country pop.

However, there is a real difference between saying Coulter is uniformed and Maines is fat. It's a difference that no one on the right can understand and it has to do with that classic of debating: the personal attack. To say Maines is fat is irrelevant and a genuine apples and oranges sort of comparison and a personal attack. To say Coulter is uninformed is not a personal attack.

plainoldme wrote:

No wonder I didn't know who Natalie Maines is. I just don't listen to country pop.

However, there is a real difference between saying Coulter is uniformed and Maines is fat. It's a difference that no one on the right can understand and it has to do with that classic of debating: the personal attack. To say Maines is fat is irrelevant and a genuine apples and oranges sort of comparison and a personal attack. To say Coulter is uninformed is not a personal attack.

Only the 'right' doesn't understand? So, what would you call this, then?

plainoldme (in personal attack-mode) wrote:

Dookiestix -- That is quite a picture of Coulter. Obviously, that one didn't feature her usual soft focus lens, tons of makeup and low level lighting. Her press secretary must be upset it got through!

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2185024#2185024

parados wrote:

Coulter is uninformed.

Maines is fat.


I don't know about anyone else but I see a big difference in those "insults." Coulter claims to be informed. Maines doesn't claim she is thin. One disagrees with a person and how they view themselves, the other outright attacks on a basis that wasn't brought up before.

Well the matter of Maine's fat was brought up before, on another thread. Some leftists too offense at the suggestion (not mine) that she was the "fat one" (of the Dixie Chicks) -- and even offense at the suggestion (mine) that she was "formerly fat."

But let me see if you agree there are other differences and similarities you didn't mention. Some posters on this thread have asserted that Coulter is not funny. Yet I think she's extremely funny. There really isn't any way to quantify this, because humor may be in the ear of the beholder. But Maines we could sit down on a scale and weigh, and do a BMI test, and determine if she is obese or merely "big boned." And yet there are those who would say "fat" is in the eye of the beholder.

So, I think the answer is clear: You are entitled to your opinions (just ask Dookiestix) about the relative level of humor employed by Coulter, and I am entitled to my opinion about the relative level of fat of Michael Moore and Natalie Maines.

Well Tico, I can see you aren't married (or ever dated perhaps). Otherwise you would know the difference between telling a woman she is fat vs telling her she isn't funny.

Blatham, stop being so sarcastically facetious -- some on these pages don't get it.

Parados and Dookie -- We three have demonstrated the difference between constructive criticism and insult. ....

...and I still wonder where that cigar has been.

Parados and Dookie -- We three have demonstrated the difference between constructive criticism and insult. I have to laugh at a contributor here -- new to me by this thread -- who seems to have it in for me and simply exhibits a total lack of discernment, intelligence and sophistication.

Parados and Dookie -- We three have demonstrated the difference between constructive criticism and insult. ....

A rather obnoxious contributor thinks that Coulter should not be in the same ranks as people like Letterman and Leno and Ferguson. The problem is that Coulter is, as I said above, an exhibitionist. She is also an entertainer and, in no way, a pundit.