By the way, why did you leave out this part?: In the area of obscenity and profanity, frameone holds sway. His  word count in O & P, outnumbers all posters whatever their ideology, on the whole blog. Perhaps because you can’t deny that, no matter who said it, either?

Finally, you know why I’m not a “racist”, you half wit? It’s because the Arabs, and all the other occupants of the Middle East, are not a race. At worst, I’m guilty of using an ethnic slur. You’d think somebody approaching their Ph. D (even if it is in moviegoing) would know that.

But Coulter’s “raghead” comment now “proves” beyond a shadow of a doubt that all conservatives are bigots?

Give me a break.

I can picture you now shuffling around your living room muttering to yourself about the “towelheads” and the coming Islamic Caliphate in the full creative flower of your racist imagination. Pathetic.

This from a guy who just admitted that he has no problem using racial epithets on a regular basis to epxress himself. Fantastic, Frank.

According to the litany of radio-gabblers and cablenewsers who bemoan the lack of ‘moderate Muslim leaders’ to condemn the nutjobs, but (curiously) never actually invite those leaders onto their shows.

How come William Donohue or Kate O’Beirne arent asked to apologise for boy-buggering priests every time they appear on TV?

As for Coulter? She’s a troll. I have no idea if she believes the crap she spouts, but she fulfills an important purpose — that is, vocalising the ‘behind-closed-doors’ racism of Frank_D and others too cowardly to say what they really feel.

“……writing on a bathroom stall”

But it has it’s theraputic value. It get’s those demons out and excorcises
the toxins that arise from watching world events and feeling somewhat
helpless and manipulated. Love the Aristotelian synchronisim.

Do a quick count on any thread, and and it is obvious that self – proclaimed intellectually superior leftist name – calling outnumbers conservatives’ name calling by a wide margin. [So much for the argument that intellectual superiority equals maturity].

In the area of obscenity and profanity, frameone holds sway. His “word count” in O & P, outnumbers all posters whatever their ideology, on the whole blog.

The real tragedy in all this is that media do have biases: I confim my prejudices at my news sites; you confirm yours. There’s no “objective” news source that everybody will believe and the reasonably intelligent middle-of-the-road fence sitters get so damned cynical they stay out of fight.

Twenty-four centuries ago, Aristotle wrote: “The people at the extremes push the intermediate man each over to the other, and the brave man is called rash by the coward, cowardly by the rash.”

P.S. I was suckered by Oliver again. He throws the fake grenade, the lefties throw it the righties, and the conservatives try to throw it back.
For a while. Then I realize it’s from Mattel — it’s swell!

Again, give it a rest. She was speaking at CPAC!!!!! CPAC and its organizers decided that she speaks for conservatives, that’s why she was there!!!

Frank forgets and uses his inside voice outside and surprise, surprise, Frank turns out to be a racist pig.

Yet I fully appreciate the fact that we owe nearly all of the Renaissance to Islamic scholars, and therefore most of our civilization. And I realize that the Cradle of Civilization, as we call it, was the cradle of their civilization.
But, soon after Islam was founded, it adopted a scheme of conversion by force. It has been theorized by Darcy Ribiero in “The Civilizational Process” that this was because of their technological superiority to the people they chose to convert. This is supported by the fact that they were stopped in the east in Vienna, and in the west in southern Spain (but not in Sicily, for example).

While this seemed to be the end of violence as a tool in conversion, violence is apparently not anathema in Islam. This would explain the great hesitancy on the part of mainstream Muslims to criticize the violence of their brethren. However, it doesn’t give Ann Coulter, or anyone else, the right to call Muslims “ragheads” or “towelheads” (don’t rat me out to al Qaeda) in public.

In her defense, she is too quick to “play the crowd,” and when she gets on a roll, she can get down and dirty. She might even think she is saying the things other people dare not. Maybe she actually is, maybe she isn’t.

I didn’t know it was sour grapes to point out that if the GOP were to repudiate the bigotry at its core, it would lose presidential elections. It’ll be interesting come 2008 if Republicans decide they hate hispanics (Tancredo) or not. If it means not winning a national election for some time when the Democrats repudiate racism, so be it. The power’s not worth the moral decay.

Yes, yes please only use racist epithets in private, otherwise everyone will find out that we’re really racists. Too late, Frank.

“Unlike Coulter, whose influence is limited largely to opinion pieces and speaking engagements, including CPAC, the most important conservative event on the right wing calendar attended by the Vice President of the United States and where Coulter is touted as a featured speaker alongside Speaker Dennis Hastert, Senator George Allen, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, Senator Mitch McConnell, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Ken Mehlman, Wayne LaPierre, Bob Novak, Grover Norquist, Congressman Mike Pence – and many more! …”

Do you mean those kind of speaking engagements? Once again when an extremist in the Republican party says something patently racist she only represents the fringes — even though she said it the premiere event for the mainstream conservative movemenr. But when a lunatic Muslim says something outrageous he’s speaking for all of Islam. Jay, can you find me one statement that Coulter has made where she recognizes or acknowledges the existence of mainstream, moderate Islam? She doesn’t believe it exists. They’re all terrorist “ragheads” to her.