Ann Coulter falls for April Fool’s story about Obama and NASCAR. The leaders of the right.
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“I don’t need an editor”-Ann
The criticism shouldn’t be that she fell for a real-looking article that was an April Fool’s joke. (Who hasn’t, at one time or another?) It should be that she thinks “public schools force students to follow Muslim rituals, recite Islamic prayers and plan ‘jihads’”.
Going “Ha, ha! Fooled you! You’re an idiot!” when there are actual valid criticisms to make is at the same level of, oh, complaining about giving someone an iPod. Thought “we” are supposed to be better than “them”.
Why would Media Matters take the time to report on this non-story?
My suspicion is that in an hour or two Media Matters announce this story as a day-after April Fools joke and declare all bloggers who linked to it as if it was a real news story as Punk’d.
Why would Media Matters take the time to report on this non-story?
How many times do we have to tell you?
We like to point and laugh.
Why would Media Matters take the time to report on this non-story?
Why do you care that that did?
Just another odd thing about our culture.
A sport like soccer which you only need a ball and two spots to kick it toward is considered some kind of elitist blue-state european affectation.
But watching millionaires race multimillion-dollar machines plastered with corporate logos hundreds of times around a mile-long track? Burning hundreds of gallons of gasoline and small mountain of rubber? Well, that’s just an ol-fashioned pasttime enjoyed by red-blooded “real” americans in the heartland of America. Now here’s Toby Keith to sing his new hit about running over some ay-rabs in his new Ford Truck.
We like to point and laugh. Duros
I know you guys do, Duros. I just didn’t think MM was set up for that purpose.
Well, MM has to do something while it waits for the next infusion of money from the George Soros Destroy America Fund.
Dennis, this is the reason why we generally assume that anything said by Republicans is the product of dishonesty or stupidity. After you wasted your life as a Bush supporter, why should we think you or any other Republican partisans say anything that should be taken seriously?
This story is another reminder how the right-wign noise machine is full of trash and ignoramuses. Everytime we hear you mouth off about something, we know it’s the product of the same right-wign stupidity we see above. You, like ann, are fed a bunch of dishonest talking points from people who don’t know any better and lack any judgment, and you repeat them mindlessly. It’s nice to have reminders of what ignorant pieces of trash you are, just like when you were screeching against Gore and Kerry and Obama during the respective campaigns, in support of the right-wing trash that you wasted your life sucking up to.
This story is just another symptom demonstrating the stupdity that you, Dennis, and your right-wign friends and relatives have put on display every day of your life in service to the Republican sickness that you’ve dedicated yourself to.
But you’re not bitter or anything, right, Tyro?
Tyro: Everytime we hear you mouth off about something, we know it’s the product of the same right-wign stupidity we see above. You, like ann, are fed a bunch of dishonest talking points from people who don’t know any better
And yet, the right-wingnuts held power for the past eight years and made off very well while doing so. The folks feeding the others a bunch of talking points have done quite well for themselves so amidst their stupidity there is a certain amount of success. “Laughing all the way to the bank” comes to mind.
Personally I’m becoming more disappointed in the left’s tendency to lord the recent power shift over the right and sink to their level when doing so. I don’t think there should be any hesitation or pulling of punches when they demonstrate their hypocrisy, narrow mindedness, pettyness or even stupidity. I just wish folks didn’t get similarly petty (and a bit hypocritical) when doing so. It makes it harder to tell the two sides apart when the level of their discourse is the same.
I just didn’t think MM was set up for that purpose.
Um:
Seems like pointing out that a conservative columnist wrote about an April Fool’s Day joke as fact pretty much falls into the category of “correcting conservative misinformation.”
But thanks for your concern, Dennis.
Dennis,
Ms. Coulter still writes an opinion column published in many newspapers across the country. She regularly appears on television as a spokesperson for conservative causes.
That she makes so little effort to verify the things she reports is noteworthy and telling.
It makes it harder to tell the two sides apart when the level of their discourse is the same.
I agree. We have the ball. Let’s score some friggin’ points already.
Or are we gonna play it like Pee Wee soccer and not keep score so no one gets their feelings hurt?
Seems like pointing out that a conservative columnist wrote about an April Fool’s Day joke as fact pretty much falls into the category of “correcting conservative misinformation. fafaroo
I guess you’re right, it does, fafaroo. Technically speaking.
The Media Matters columnist evidently thought it was important enough to correct one minor sentence of Ann Coulter’s entire column and then highlight it with the caption “April Fools: Ann Coulter falls for fake Obama Nascar story”.
So important, as a matter of fact, that he (E.H.H.) decided to make his whole story about that one sentence, a sentence having a very small part in the overall thesis of her argument.
So I stand corrected; that is what Media Matters does.
a sentence having a very small part in the overall thesis of her argument.
Which is what? NYC public schools are all federally funded Madrassas and breeding grounds for terr’ists?
She can piss up a rope. Standing up.
She’s a joke. Not one single word she says or write should be treated as anything other than wild-eyed opinion without verification.
…a sentence having a very small part in the overall thesis of her argument …”
And yet exemplary of Coulter’s approach to “facts” overall.
Don’t matter if it’s made up, false or an April Fools prank, if it fits Coulter’s world view, she’ll run with it as true.
Cue, yet again, WHAT ABOUT THAT PLAYBOY ARTICLE!!!!!!
I guess you’re right, it does, fafaroo. Technically speaking.
And, Dennis, you’re right, too. Media Matters should have pointed out that the rest of the article was utter crap as well.
Thanks, again, for your concern.
And Dennis, where’s your daily report on the DOW average?
I just wish folks didn’t get similarly petty (and a bit hypocritical) when doing so.
It’s not hypocritical to honestly call someone a dishonest talking-points junkie who regurgitates BS all day long. Dennis-the-dipshit et al. spew their crap because they don’t know any better and imagine themselves to acquire social rewards for doing so. Reminding them that they’re dishonest immoral pieces of trash who carried water for the evils of the Bush administration while being too cowardly to speak out against it is showing them to be the weak, lying hypocrites that they are and reminding them that their talking points have no place here among civilized society.
If they want to discuss and argue their conservative point of view, they need to throw the talking points aside and finally repudiate the evil spokesmen, politicians, and policies they advocate. There’s no room for repeating their disgusting Rushisms as though that represents some “valid” level of discourse. They’re disgusting bullies who’ve bullied their way around for a long time ,and they’ll continue that deviant behavior until they finnally receive enough pain to cause them to stop. These are people who, know doubt, harrass their friends and families with their right-wing harangues because people are too timid to call them out for their BS. They need to stop, now.
And Dennis, where’s your daily report on the DOW average? fafaroo
Thank FASB, fafaroo.
But please, try not to jinx the market again like you guys did last time if you don’t mind.
That column had a huge number of comments- over 1000, but I did page searches for “April Fool” on the first and last 15 pages of comments, and found…one…only one that actually acknowledged that the Car and Driver article was a prank.
Tyro: It’s not hypocritical to honestly call someone a dishonest talking-points junkie who regurgitates BS all day long.
Right. But pointing out “That’s BS” isn’t the same as “Ha, neener-neener. You got fooled.”
And when the left objects to the right complaining about minor things like the gifts Obama has given out, to then make the complaint that someone on the right fell for an April Fool’s joke weakens the left’s argument that it is the right that is bitching about minutia.
But please, try not to jinx the market again like you guys did last time if you don’t mind.
So if it drops again we can expect: “Some liberal on a blog thread caused the market to drop today because he made me feel bad.”
That’d be about as reasonable as your previous “analysis.”
Well, MM has to do something while it waits for the next infusion of money from the George Soros Destroy America Fund.
Well, we also drop babies from the roof.
And Dennis, pointing out the misdeeds and misstatements and falsehoods of conservative media figures and conservative misinformation regurgitated as news is kind of the point of Media Matters.
Ow: Well, we also drop babies from the roof.
I KNEW it! This is what things look like at Media Matters HQ, right?
to then make the complaint that someone on the right fell for an April Fool’s joke weakens the left’s argument that it is the right that is bitching about minutia.
Who’s complaining? I LOL’ed.