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I’m eternally pessimistic but it looks like the line is being drawn in the sand.
At least three major companies want their ads pulled from Ann Coulter’s Web site, following customer complaints about the right-wing commentator referring to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as a "faggot."
>> She speaks for them: “Coulter: The Conservative Movement Will Stick By Me”
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Gee golly … if only I hadn’t had that hot lesbian affair with Ann, this never would have happened … Sorry everyone~
Yes, finally. In the war of words versus reality, reality looks like it is gaining an edge.
If someone acts to support Coulter’s comments (continuing to buy her books, invite her to speak, applaud her comments, etc.) saying they disapprove is deception.
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Coulter’s comments were perfect for her plan… get even more publicity. Selfishly, she was not concerned about the effects on CPAC and the Republicans. Is she cracking up? Her appearance on the Half-Hour News Show on Fox would suggest so.
http://libertas01.wordpress.com/2007/03/06/mccain-wise-to-dodge-coulters-cpac-circus/
We give Coulter too much credit. The woman is actually mentally incompetent.
About a week ago, she was on “Hannity” discussing global warming with Daryl Hannah. I can’t seem to find the video, but Ann kept mentioning that those who support cutting back on energy consumption therefore support using “candles” as their only source of light.
Not only did she bring up the idea of candlelight, but she kept on bringing it up, point after point, for literally 20 minutes. Hannah eventually had to say, “Um, you’re the only one talking about candles, Ann.”
The video I’m sure is more persuasive than my commenting, but it solidified my belief that Ann Coulter is actually mentally unstable.
Yeah, she may make money by saying crazy things on TV, but just because she’s making money doesn’t make her smart.
This is a tempest in a teapot…
One side of me wants to ignore this whole thing. Why should I care how the freedom-isn’t-free, Adam-and -Eve-not-Adam-and-Steve crowd react to one of their own?
On the other hand, I’m glad to see gay rights advancing in this country to the level that cynical advertisers and GOP leaders have to pretend they care about gay rights.
Slowly but surely.
Boo, I don’t think it can be called a lesbian affair if one of the parties is a man.
Looks like the nutjob radical right-wingers are going to have their work cut out dressing the lines to keep those VRWC Conservative Armies marchin’ in lockstep.
It used to be so easy: intimidate them, keep them stupid, and keep feeding them their daily two minutes of red-meat hate, and they were yours!
Now, never mind the moderates, even the regular right-wingers are making a break for the exits…
Too damn bad. We NEED the Ann Coulters around to keep those contributions to Progressives coming in!
LOL
fd10801 | Mar 6, 2007 8:45:02 AM
“This is a tempest in a teapot…”
Frank DiSalle is back!
Heya Frank. Thought you said something to me on the lines of how O-dub.com and my own blog are beneath you and how you’d be kicking your habit of commenting on them. Glad to see you’re as honest as we all presumed you to be. Welcome back into the fold, Frank. In honor of your grand return, I’ll do you the dignity of going a full three posts without suggesting it would be in your best intrest to consume phallus. My little way of saying “welcome back.”
Everything about you is little, Rex.
Once again one of the ‘grownups’ has given a good demonstration of wingnut brilliance. Almost as puerile as Rush’s belly-shaking on YouTube when he ridiculed Michael J Fox on his radio show, throwing a tight Missouri senatorial race to the Dems. Thanks!
“Coulter: The Conservative Movement Will Stick By Me”
She is correct. However, I think the long-term effect could be a shrinking of the conservative movement. Those who are more socially liberal / fiscally conservative might move away from the party. Maybe no to the Democratic Party, because for some reason they fear the fiscal responsibility of people like Bill Clinton.
Oh, this is so good. From Frank’s link;
I can’t…stop laughing.
It just keeps getting funnier!
Duros: Glad to see you appreciate the humor in Tyrrell’s obvious joke. Good for you!
Then there’s this;
Hmmmm… questions swirl.
Oh, that was a joke? Are you sure?
Kind of a conundrum, here. See, if it was meant to be a joke, it wasn’t that funny.
But if he was serious…hilarious!
Shit, I think I just cracked the code of conservative humor!
Pie for me!
Hello, Frank. Shut up.
Yes, Duros. You don’t understand it because the joke was on you and other liberals. Liberals think that they decide the truth and worth of everything, so if they don’t find something to be funny, well,then, it’s just not funny.
Humor does not mean, “It makes liberals laugh.”
Is Frank sounding just a teeeensie bit unhinged to anyone else?
Ahhh, yes….Dreamboat Annie does tend to potty mouth every so often. Trust me, it’s calculated.
As for John Edwards, while I seriously doubt he is queer, I do see him as a slimey lawyer with an RFK obsession. He is sooo doomed!
Am I guilty of hate speech as well? Thought so….
Humor on the right is too often either baseless slurs against people (Edwards, Clinton, Gore as “Fags” per Ann) and that alone isnt actually comedy. Your notion, Frank, seems to be that its not just funny in spite of not making liberals laugh, but in spite of it not actually being funny. Wheres the joke in Coulter calling Edwards a Faggot? Where’s the joke in Limbaugh calling Chelsea Clinton (14 at the time) the White House Dog? Where’s the joke in Tyrrell’s painfully obvious attempts to soften the reality of the situation through unfunny redefinitions of the word?
Here’s a “good” example of what passes for Conservative humor. The entire bit is just them talking about how wonderful things are now that Limbaugh and Coulter are in the white house. What exactly is the joke? Ignoring that this is a direct ripoff from that bit Gore did on SNL pretending he was elected in 2000, what exactly is the joke?
“Hey look at us! Things are great now that we’re in charge.”
“Yeah, they sure are. Good thing we dont have to explain how any of this could have been achieved by either of us, given that we’re as reviled and politically ignorant as Bush was.”
“Very true, and yet somehow we’ve done in 100 days what he couldn’t do in 6 years with a complient congress behind him. Not that that means he sucks, just that we’re much better people than he is. After all, we’re on Radio! and TeeVee!”
“Megadittoes! Lets invade Canada!”
Again, the Gore bit did alot of the same kind of jokes, but a key difference was he bothered to explain how it happened, for instance his single handed building of the Hurricane-Stopping Machine, and thats where the funny is. Otherwise it would just have been public ego masturbation the same way it is here for Limbaugh and Coulter.
Side note, when they did this before, they ended saying “the adults are back in charge.” This was before Coulter just went and called Edwards a Faggot, although this latest bit is from after.
The only possible explanation for this as humor is that its actually meant to show how unfunny these people really are. How their idea of comedy (”He’s a Fag!”) isnt actually funny to anyone not inclined to hate in the same way they are (”Fags are Evil! Get the Rope! Or at the very least lets deny them civil rights!”). The only comedy to be spotted is in the disbelief of the person who asks “This is what you people find funny?”
Of course thats only my opinion, and I would appreciate if pre-emminent scholar Frank would enlighten us as to how “Chelsea is ugly” is actually funny in any other way. I expect I’ll be waiting a while for him to pull an answer out of his ass though, given the kind of excavatory equipment necessary.
Seriously, Frank. Even if this guy Tyrell was serious, where is the funny in calling Edwards a bundle of sticks?
If by funny you mean “making absolutely no sense whatsoever”, then yeah, funny.
Something isn’t funny because “Libruls says so.” Funny is something that should transcend ideology.
Don’t be so myopic.
myopic,my tuchus!
Liberals don’t find conservatives funny,when nearly all comedians are liberals. Obviously, conservatives can laugh at liberal comedians. So, who’s being myopic?
A perfect example is Dennis Miller. He was an extraordinarily popular comedian, until he supported Pres. Bush’s war on terror. Now, is he just misguided or mistaken? No. Liberals now say he’s not funny. So who’s myopic?
One of my TV preoccupations is to watch Bill Maher’s show open to see how long it takes him to crudely insult the President. He hasn’t made it past 5 minutes. Is that funny?
And Rex, I never said “Chelsea is ugly” is funny. So I don’t feel compelled to explain to you why someone else might think it is.
Perhaps you might want to check with the commenter who said this:
Dennis Miller’s still generally funny, certainly at standup. The times he isnt funny is when he’s basically trying to prove a political point anymore. He was on Hannity (and colmes) a while ago misrepresenting the immigration debate as an issue of “just sign the guestbook as you come in” as though thats the only barrier to entry.
I think PJ ORourke is a better example though. He’s a republican with a sense of humor thats actually fairly entertaining, even when I disagree with him, because he’s more interested in comedy than conversion, and more in poking fun at ideas than insulting people outright, like the above named “conservative comedians” are. We’ve done it to death before on this board, and yes there is such a thing as conservative comedy that is actually funny. Coulter calling Edwards a Faggot isnt comedy, and the laughing, applauding audience is not indication of a well delivered joke as much as it is basking in shared homophobia.