They're all Ann Coulter

Unless you've been hiding in a spider hole or an otherwise undisclosed location, you've been treated to a nice display by our friend Ann Coulter. Coulter, who published her latest bird-cage liner "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" Tuesday, has set her sights on, among others, the widows of those who died in the September 11 attacks.

"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzies," Coulter writes. "I have never seen people enjoying their husbands' death so much." While criticism of Coulter came fast and furious from the likes of the widows themselves and Keith Olbermann, there's been a noticeable silence coming from the right.

The overwhelming right-wing response has come in the form of rising to the defense of Coulter. And, by doing so, agreeing with the pundit and taking what she said several steps further into the gutter. Try as some Republicans might to halfheartedly distance themselves from Coulter, her cancer has completely overtaken their party. They're all Ann Coulter.

Think about what Coulter and her defenders are really saying. First, that if you're in some way attached to a tragedy like September 11 or the war in Iraq, it's fine that you speak your mind - if, and only if, we agree with what you say. Second, that if what you say dissents from our views, not only do you not have the right to say it, but it's unfair for you to say it because for us to personally attack you makes us look like assholes. Well, if it looks like an asshole, sounds like and asshole and smells like an asshole, it's probably an asshole. And assholes they are.

What Coulter and her Republican friends seem unable to do is disagree with someone simply on the merits of their arguments.* Instead, they feel it necessary to call these widows "broads", "witches" and "harpies" and say things like, "I have never seen people enjoying their husbands' death so much." Then, when pressed on the sheer audacity of such statements, they bemoan the fact that they can't make personal attacks on the victims of tragedy - while they're making personal attacks on the victims of tragedy.

When Republican partisans aren't defending Coulter's remarks by agreeing with them and needlessly piling on, they're excusing them as the absolute eventuality of a brilliant marketer and author trying to sell books. Let's for one moment play a thought game and assume that Coulter wasn't selling a book at the moment. Given her proven track record of ridiculously vile statements, do they really expect us to believe that Coulter would otherwise not be saying these things if she weren't selling a book? I can tolerate quite a bit of bullshit, but that assertion shatters my bullshit detector.

What's more, those defending Coulter do so primarily not by distancing themselves or the Republican Party from the things she says, but by seeking out "balance". Every time public outrage over Coulter being Coulter reaches a peak, the Bill O'Reillys of the world tell us that there are far worse examples to be found on the "far left". Then, he places Coulter's remarks against those by, say, Ward Churchill or, as ABC did, Harry Belafonte. Subsequent liberal guests are forced into a trap by which Churchill or others like him are artificially given the same status as Coulter. But that couldn't be further from the truth.

Tell me, in what alternate universe is Churchill given the same prominence within the Democratic Party as Coulter is within the Republican Party? Belafonte, too. But that's how it works. Someone like me says something outrageous and, all of a sudden, I speak for the entire party. And I know, because it happened to me. I criticized Joe Lieberman last year for sharing a hug and a kiss with the president following his State of the Union address. Hardly outrageous, but that's beside the point.

No sooner had I written about Lieberman than Michelle Malkin, herself no stranger to Coulter Territory, cited my critique as as evidence Democrats were "livid about the public display of bipartisan affection between the two men." One thing: Malkin only cited me. No one else. Never mind that countless others felt the same way I did. I was the voice of the entire Democratic Party. So where's my check, Democratic National Committee? But seriously, folks, this is what they do.

Distancing themselves from Coulter won't cut it, either. The Republican Party is Ann Coulter's party. It's the party of O'Reilly calling the victims of Hurricane Katrina "drug-addicted" and "thugs". It's the party of Glenn Beck calling them "scumbags" and talking about "choking the life out" of Michael Moore. It's the party of Bill Bennett talking about how "you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down". It's the party of Pat Robertson calling for Hugo Chavez's assassination. Want some more? Fine.

It's the party of Michael Reagan saying Howard Dean should be "hung for treason". It's the party of Brit Hume saying his first thought upon learning about the London terror attacks was, "Hmmm, time to buy". It's the party of John Gibson wishing those attacks on France. It's the party of Neal Boortz calling Rep. Cynthia McKinney a "ghetto slut". Get the picture?

Republicans, if you want to challenge my party to a tit-for-tat battle of outrageous statements, go right ahead. To paraphrase your president, bring it on. Because I know the final outcome before we even begin. Why? Because there's a little bit of Ann Coulter in every Republican. Because every conservative that defends her or even looks the other way while she spews her garbage is forgiving her for poisoning the debate. For lowering the bar. For appealing to the lowest-common denominator. And for that, they're all Ann Coulter.

* For a great expansion upon this point, read Amanda Marcotte's story at Pandagon.

Comments

[khughes1963]

Ann Coulter is a pretty sorry person. I don't like physical violence or the ad hominem attacks that she has personified, but when I thought about her graceless slamming of the 9-11 widows, the first thing I thought was that if I were in her presence, I would have to restrain myself from wanting to slap her silly.

[t]

nice straw man you set up, but can you lying democratic wackos EVER tell the truth about ANYTHING??. Ann is making the point that these women exploit their husband's death, just like that bitch cindy sheehan exploits her son's death....and couldn't get him a tombstone for the longest time.

What she says is absolutely true, these women exploit their husbands death to advance their political agenda. And then you libs have the gall to say they shouldn't be criticized because they lost someone. talk about sick and twisted. using someone else's death to advance your politcs...I can see why that WHORE sheehan's husband divorced her WRINKLY ASS!!!

truth hurts, Ann said it,and thats why you're so upset, notice the other comment wanting to do Ann violence....its just what you wacko pieces of shit are!!!

LOOOOOSSSSSEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRR

HAHAHAAHHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHA

[Joseph]

"Ann is making the point that these women exploit their husband's death, just like that bitch cindy sheehan exploits her son's death"

So I see we're dealing with another "compassionate conservative"

"talk about sick and twisted. using someone else's death to advance your politcs"

If you look that thought up, the first entry you'll find is under "Bush, George W."

I knew this was going to happen. You, like Ann Coulter and the rest of the Coulter Republicans, are simply unable to argue with people on the merits of their points. Instead, you personally insult them despite the fact you say you can't personally insult them. You've got nothing, and your childish, incoherent rant only proves that point.

[Robyn]

Khughes-
How dare you! How dare you insinuate exploitaion of death! Furthermore, to slander mothers and wives, secondary victims of this insanity, as bitches, sick and twisted??? Mothers, who raise children in soulful intelligence, to lose them in these baneful, insane times, you have the audactity, the gall to belittle and malign them?
I have spent more than 20 years raising children..as have these women. To lose them in this hallucintion of democracy would be godless and profane. Read something, learn something, become civilized, acquaint yourself with some accuracy for once. At the very least, get some empathy!

[Robyn]

OOOPPS! Meant JOSEPH!

[Robyn]

oh dammit, I meant T, so sorry still busy raising 3 kids...........

[Joseph]

If I may use Robyn for an example, here's what the Republicans are doing in a nutshell: How dare Robyn talk about motherhood when she herself has three children? She's using those children to exploit the fact that she has, in fact, had them. So when I, and I don't have children, criticize her philosophy of motherhood, why am I the bad guy? Why, I want to discuss motherhood with someone else, not Robyn. Someone who, like me, doesn't have children. But until then, and despite the fact I can't say she's a bad mother, I think she's a bad mother.

[j]

T,

You sure have a jumpstart on a future diagnosis with an Antisocial Personality Disorder.

Oh wait, you're probably already there.

[t]

unable to argue the merits huh, have to call names huh???

yeah, the liberals call bush a liar a nazi a terrorist a murderer, you name it. Even worse, people like Durbin and kerry call our troops nazis, and accuse them of committing atrocities!!

so who is calling names hmmm???? hahahahahahahahahahhahahahah

whatever you wacko libs accuse others of is what you're doing!!

The issue is freedom of speech is fine for you libs, but you can't handle it when someone like Ann TELLS THE TRUTH. We're not supposed to criticize these widows or sheehan because they're 'victims' what BS!! they USE the death of their loved ones to promote their lying liberal agenda.

But thats fine with you libs, because all that matters is POWER, and getting it back, and its obvious that you libs will do ANYTHING to get POWER. But its not working.....you LOST in CA-50.

[t]

on this very site, under 'why do we listen'

Ann Coulter is sheer evil and should be expunged from society. Someday there will be an exorcist who will try to take out what is there. Pandora's box held nothing compared to that awful she-devil.

EXPUNGED...sounds like a FINAL SOLUTION...

and check out the names you libs call michelle malkin

http://www.michellemalkin.com/archives/001417.htm

http://www.michellemalkin.com/archives/005008.htm

do a google search for 'malkin whore' or 'malkin cunt'

here's a sample:

'Someone ought to sew your cunt up with barbed wire. Not that it gets any use, you facist, hate spewing, disgraceful piece of shit.'

from a good LIBERAL who CARES about people of color......

yeah

[Dobby]

Maybe when little "t" finally snaps out of his delusion, he can cite for us someone who is (1)associated with the Democratic Party and (2) on the same level as Coulter (i.e., on television weekly) who says those things about Malkin.

[Hawk]

Thx, "For lowering the bar", this was my first response, every time it gets lowered further and "acceptable" discourse.

She's a HATE WHORE and that's all!

Who is expoiting 9/11 for $$ gain?

Widows, or assholes?

[merlallen@gmail.com]

Coulter RepubliCAN'T'S! Because they really can't do anything right.
Even win a war against a third world country that was crippled by sanctions and two wars going over the last twenty years.
Now, can we please ignore her and the rest of the backwash?

[W.D.Russell]

Sure I understand that the high priestess of hate has a right to her own opinion, and to write bokks if so desired. But I don't recall that all of the major networks gave Ward Churchill whole segments of their show to further spout off his ideas.

[Coultergeist]

talk about sick and twisted. using someone else's death to advance your politcs...I can see why that WHORE sheehan's husband divorced her WRINKLY ASS!!!
Posted by: khughes1963 | 06/08/2006 at 09:57 PM

Yeah khughes - it's almost as bad as Bush, Cheney, et al using the deaths of amost 3,000 people to advance their political agenda. The nerve of these women. Aren't you one of the asstards who claim "9/11 changed everything". Do you think it didn't change anything for the people who lost someone in the attack. It should happen to you.

[Coultergeist]

Sorry - posted by T

[Leonid]

Not being from America or living there leaves me in the position of neutral in this debate of political side taking.

I hear the liberals and what they have to say, and I hear the conservatives and what they say.

I listen closely.

I am convinced that if I had to chose one or the other to be a friend of mine, it most surely would not be the conservative one.

There seems to be something fundamentally flawed in the current group thinking of the conservatives. A detatchment say from clear, honest thought. I watch this with much frustration because it seems because of that disconnect from clear honest thinking, many people are needlessly being killed.

From a point of view outside of the U.S. it looks very frightening. I does look like what's called fascism. The world has had a number of these administrations come along and hopefully history will repeat itself in a good way and the dictators will be stopped cold without too many innocent bystanders being killed.

[t]

Alec Baldwin's call to violence against Henry Hyde and his family on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien"? "I'm thinking to myself if we were in other countries, we would all, right now, all of us together ... would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death! Wait! ... Shut up! No shut up! I'm not finished. We would stone Henry Hyde to death, and we would go to their homes and we'd kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families

Democrat Alan Hevesi, New York State Controller, said that Senator Chuck Schumer would be a bullet into President Bush's head if he could get away with it.

Representative William Clay of Missouri, recalling George W. Bush's talk of outreach to black Americans, said that picking Ashcroft resembled "the way that Ku Klux Klan members worked to improve race relations: They, too, reached out to blacks with nooses and burning crosses." Steve Benson, a syndicated editorial cartoonist, depicted Ashcroft wearing white robes and enthusiastically brandishing a noose as Bush restrains him: "Easy, John -- I said your confirmation should be a cinch -- a *cinch*."

The chairman of the NAACP reached for a more contemporary smear. Twice Julian Bond declared that Bush had dredged Ashcroft "from the Taliban wing of American politics." That was ugly enough in July, when the Taliban were merely the fanatics who tortured dissidents, crushed human rights, and repressed women so savagely that thousands died from lack of medical care. By December, when Bond repeated his libel, the Taliban were at war with the United States, actively trying to kill Americans. Yet Bond still saw nothing wrong with his revolting comparison. And neither did America's liberal elite.

Chris Matthews, when he likened Republicans quoting John F. Kennedy on tax cuts to "the Nazi Party quoting Kennedy saying, 'Ich bin ein Berliner'?"

Al Sharpton, who said during the post-election ballot fight in Florida that conservatives wanted to "do the same thing to us" that "Hitler in his wickedness and evil" did to the Jews.

Jesse Jackson said that the more conservative Supreme court was, "paving the way back toward slavery."

Left wing movie director Spike Lee did not like the fact that Charleton Heston (NRA President) opposed gun control. So Spike Lee told the New York Post, "Someone should shoot him with a 44 bulldog."

Former Vice President Al Gore referred to GOP activists as "brown shirts."

The St. Petersburg, Fla., Democratic Club took out an ad calling for the death of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "Then there's Rumsfeld who said of Iraq, `We have our good days and our bad days,' " the ad read. "We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall and say, `This is one of our bad days,' and pull the trigger." Fantasies of murder likewise animated British pundit Charlie Brooker, who ended his Oct. 24 column in the Guardian with a plea for Bush's death: "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. -- where are you now that we need you?" Brooker later assured readers that he "deplores violence of any kind" and had meant his call for an assassin only as "an ironic joke."

you wackos drip with hatred and bile toward anyone who dares disagree!!

[t]

the extra-chromosome right wing,” a medical way of saying those opposite him on the political spectrum suffered the brain impairment called Downs Syndrome. Gore’s speech ridiculed and insulted every differently-abled person in America, especially the mentally challenged.

George Bush is our Bull Connor. And if that doesn’t get to you, nothing will be able to get to you. It’s time for us to be able to say that we’re sick and tired, we’re fired up and we’re not going to take it anymore
charles rangell

thank you for putting me on the front of democratic underground.

I stand by my comments. Sheehan is a whore who is using her son's death to advance her hate-filled liberal politics. The 'jersey girls' are using their husband's deaths to advance their hate-filled liberal politics.

the liberal media (CBSNBCABCNYTIMESWASHPOST ETC) treats them like queens that are above any criticism, so when Ann tell THE TRUTH you libs go unhinged because your strategy of using 'victims' to advance your political agenda, is exposed.

[t]

I thought you HOLIER THAN THOU LIBS would all be OUTRAGED at this LIBERAL HATE SPEECH!!!!!

yeah, right!! hahahahahahhahahhah

to you libs hate speech is speech that impedes socialism. Shutting up, 're-educating' even killing political opponents has a long and proud tradition on the left, from Hitler (yes he was a socialist) to Stalin, to Mao, to Chavez. You libs can't deal with an intellectual debate so you have to resort to VIOLENCE. Ann Coulter has had pies thrown at her, and other conservatives have had blood thrown on them, because they dare to dispute the tyrannical psychotic left.

In canada you can't quote the BIBLE (what liberals HATE the most) about homosexuality, no its a 'hate crime'....Kennedy is trying to do the same here.

The 'hush rush' 'fairness doctrine' that the liberals want to revive is to silence speech they cannot counter and do not agree with.

I know you 'liberals' (ie nazis) :) all too well!!!!!

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

[t]

oh yeah, now that I've answered your 'question' how about answering mine???

what widows of 9/11 or the soldier's widows ran ads for the bush campaign? Which of them use their husband's death as a platform to speak out on political issues???

hmmmmmmmmmmmm???????????

[Ann (Man Hands) Coulter...Blah Blah Blah]

Everyone is doing exactly what mANN Coulter wants you to do, we are all talking about her new book thats jam packed with even more bullshit then the previous travesties...

Freepers need aNN Coulter, we have Al Franken, Michael Moore, Noam Chompsky and Lewis Black. So, the NeoCons have an outspoken transey on their side who was once a Civil Lawyer, once I say.

Ann is angery, why? look at her, if I was her I would be angery too. No chest and No talent, poor bitch...kinda feel sorry for her actually.
Her books of ignorance are doing nothing for the repukes, it is actually making them look even worse then they already look. She is a porpaganda machine, nothing more, not one thing she has written should be taken seriously. If you look to Ann Coulter for any political advise, your looking in the wrong direction.

Ann is milking the repukes for all they are worth, all who buy her books are just paying their whore. Once she has made all the money she can off you suckers, she will just disappear.

Bill Maher let her have it on his show, tore the bitch down he did. It was great....The only time she seems to be "brillant" is when she is in a room of her own kind. Any other time she gets her ass handed to her, EVERYTIME.

I think its a much more effect tactic to ignore her and let her fade away. We need to stay focused on the REAL ISSUES and she is not one of them.

mANN is not only a propaganda machine for the NeoMorons, but also a distraction. We have to stop letting this stupid shit detour us..STAY FOCUSED on the target(s)!

ANN COULTER is not relavent to ANYTHING..She is just a Repiglican mouth-piece. Not only does she seem to speak for the repukes, but she also calls herself a Xtian. If I was a true Xtian, I would excommunicate her..She is the COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF WHAT XTIANITY is suppost to be about. Hate propaganda IS NOT one of Jesus's teachings. Ann, does however show the true colors of the MegaChurches and 99% of her party..

Keep it up mANN, your leaving shit stains all over your party and I love it...stupid whore.

[Joseph]

T, I'm not trying to stop you from saying what you're saying. Nor will I try to stop people from thinking you're actually a parody after reading it.

Everything you write is skewed with Rush-like abandon. Coulter had pies thrown at her. Well, Paul Mirecki was physically assaulted for his views about Christian fundamentalism. I'd go on, but why bother ... You didn't come her to debate, you came her to make baseless attacks and name call. If this were a conservative blog and you lobbed the grenades you're lobbing here, you'd already be banned, supposing you could even comment there to begin with.

Which gets me to my next point. Read the comment policy. Return with more of the same and I'll ban you. But I won't right now, though you've clearly crossed the line. I want to see what you say next. Come back with relevant points that are free of insults and ad hominem attacks. Come back with critiques of the merits of the arguments. Come back with assertions backed up by the truth. We're all interested in what you've got to say. Try saying it without being an Ann Coulter Republican.

[Jeremy King]

Coulter makes godless people everywhere look like blessed angels. Thank you, Ann.

[t]

I see there are no denunciations of democratic hate speech.

nor is there any example of any widows on the right that exploit their husband's deaths like your 'heros'

go ahead and ban me, I made my point!!!!