OK, I have to go to New York

[gridlore]

and kill Ann Coulter. Really. Because if I do it before fimbrethil and a horde of others get a hold of her, it will be an act of mercy.

Seriously, after everything this moron has said about the city and people of New York, how is it she is still able to live there? I can't imagine her jumping on the 6 Train at 103rd without being beaten senseless by outraged New Yorkers, and would immigrant-phobic Ann even dare to ride in a taxi? I think NYC should engage in a mass shunning. She doesn't get served in stores or at restaurants. Doors get slammed in her face. No deliveries to her home or office. Nothing illegal, just New Yorkers telling this upstart import that she's not welcome, and can go back to whatever foul pit spawned her anytime now.

That is, unless I kill her first.

Comments

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

There are some words I rarely use.
I called her a fucking cunt at least five times during that interview.
What really annoyed me, was that pretentious ass accent of hers. Gah.

[todkaninchen.livejournal.com]

Don't mean to be Devil's Advocate, but...

...I'm not sure why the anger.

She seems to be saying that politics should be argued on merits and not hyper-emotionality by people that you don't risk vilification if you argue against...

...which is an oddly self fulfilling prophecy because you're offering just such vilification for her questioning, albeit in an inflammatory manner, the motivations and qualifications of these women as political speakers.

I'm not a fan of Ann Coulter and haven't heard anything from her (beyond that clip) in over two and a half years, but I think dissent against an inherently emotional method of persuasion in a process that demands rationalism isn't a bad thing.

Her motivations may or may not be kosher, but I'm not sure animosity is warranted.

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

Ann Coulter is the kind of person who would poke a pit bull unceasingly and then complain when it bit her. Her style (usually) is to say things that deliberately provoke strong emotion in others, so for her to then attempt to look as though she is "taking the moral high ground" and call for argument absent emotion is the lowest form of attack ad hominem. Very like the pre-teen holding his finger half an inch away from his sibling and repeatedly saying, "I'm not touching you."

[todkaninchen.livejournal.com]

The problem is--I think--both sides reacting emotionally based on percieved slights to their own belief systems and ideals without looking at the long picture or taking into account the realities of living in a social construct where power is shared with people that don't think the same way.

Without the pressures/controls/unified set of ideals conferred by a shared, central religion and paired authority, there is no practical way to make a majority share a belief system.

(Not that I think that's a good idea.)

People need to learn to deal with the difficulty and create some form of method to interact and lose the antagonism.

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

Where did you get that icon? I must have one in that style!

Uh oh, a Boondocks reference

[deathbytamarind.livejournal.com]

She's the white, thin, female version of Uncle Ruckus: An overweight black man with a grotesque appearance who idolizes white culture. Ruckus is self-hating, dissassociating himself from his African-American heritage as best he can, and instead championing whatever small traces of Native American and Irish ancestry he may have. His greatest wish is that black people were still enslaved, because he believes that they were better off that way. He claims to have a mythical disease called "re-vitiligo" ("the reverse of what Michael Jackson has," he always retorts). Ironically, he is the darkest-skinned character on the show. His character is a hyperbolic parody of the self-hating black man, and is named after Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus character.

Re: Uh oh, a Boondocks reference

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

That may seem an over the top parady right now, but rest assured that Fox News is hard at work searching for such a commentator, even as we speak!

[lizw.livejournal.com]

Enjoying? What a sick thing to say.

[fimbrethil.livejournal.com]

Agreed. She has no clue what she is talking about.

[fimbrethil.livejournal.com]

Kill her? Nah, I'm not interested. I think it's more appropriate to ignore her. I know little about her but reading the transcript I'd have to say she's an attention seeker who finds the most inflammatory thing to say so that people will give her the spotlight.

What I dislike here is that she lumps all the widows into one group. Yes, some widows use their status as a 9/11 for political reasons but not all. And why focus on just the widows? Why not attack the children and widowers too? Surely, there are widowers and offspring that have used their status politically? I am very quiet about being a 9/11 widow for the most part. I don't parade around saying it to people and I don't use it for leverage. But I don't think everyone deals with grief and loss the same way either. I don't think she truly udnerstands what any of us are going through. IMO, I bet some of the widows have channelled their energies into political ventures because if they sit still, the pain will make them crazy.

The best thing to do with people who have such a narrowminded view as that is to not feed their egos. She is right to say it's a national tragedy but she forgets that it is a very personal one too. And actually, the nation itself chose to give us a spotlight when they created a fund to help us and then decided that a memorial on a grand scale was necessary. People needed to put a face to the tragedy and so many of us found ourselves thrust into the spotlight. Who is she to say how we use that?

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

How does she live in New York? Dude, she doesn't take public transit. I'll guarantee you that she has a car service waiting at all times for anytime she wants to go anywhere. That way, she doesn't have to deal with regular people, which seems to be the goal of upper-crust Republicans like her.

I will quite happily...

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

...spot for you.

Beware...

[hartt-tommel.livejournal.com]

...she's got "man-hands..." ;-p

-Tom
('Sides she doesn't know that Thomas Jefferson was our third President)

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Okay, so she's a smart (note I don't use the term "wise") rich blonde republican with no sense of what it means to be anything except a rich blonde republican.

She's smart enough to use the media as her soapbox. She's rich enough to get the media's attention. She's blonde enough to look good on the tube. And she's republican enough to believe that the Shrub is a good thing.

Well, except for that last bit, and abusing the privilege, she doesn't deserve to be killed. I would rather stick her in a room with the survivors & families of 9/11 and let her answer their questions. That could be good television.

Not that I would watch that performance either.