I HATE ANN COULTER!!!!

Discuss.

No really. Please don't. Her whole existence, like that of Fox News and 43*'s malapropisms, is likely designed just to make intelligent left people mad. Then wingnuts can turn around and point at the shrill (yeah, i know), angry (superior?) left response and use it as another form of Other to play to their base.

But all the liberal womyn are jealous of her because she looks like a supermodel! Well, that's what she has said, anyway. It's kind of funny how far a little self-regard will get you...

If she isn't careful about continually saying shoddy things about how slavery wasn't so bad/Muslims should be wiped out/linking the Central Park raists to behvious of black men, I think she just may get gangbanged by a gaggle of hatahs herself somewhere, the first "journalist" to do so. Serious.

Ann: [Cops] shoot the wrong people more than civilians do, interestingly. But I'm not saying, "Get a gun and don't know how to use it." [cabbies] oughta be trained.

Jon: For what, like a week?

Chris: Drive and shoot at the same time?

[ Laughter ]

[ Applause ]

Ann: No, train the same way cops are trained.

Chris: I'm going to rob you, and he's gonna pull over and shoot me? No! What are you talking about? Are you on the pipe? What is wrong with you?

[ Laughter ]

Bill: How likely is it she's on the pipe? Really.

Chris: She's pretty skinny.

I liked the Salon.com review of her book (a NY Times Bestseller! but she hates the NY Times so this doesnt matter!), even though I don't know whether Charles Taylor is Classic or Dud.

not that thoroughness implies correctness. but i haven't read the book, so i have no idea what she's using to back up her arguments.

interesting how quickly her looks were mentioned in this thread. she's clearly taken advantage of her appearance and its selling value, as her pic is prominently on not only the cover but also the spine of the book.

http://www.hermes-press.com/coulter2.jpg

and though i've said it before, i'll say it again ... her credibility in the legal world is zilch. i love how these wingnuts think that they can style themselves "constitutional scholars," even though they've never published law review articles, worked on constitutional law treatises, teach constitutional law at an accredited law school, etc. (all the traditional ways of being a "constitutional scholar," not pimping the right-wing rubber chicken circuit). the real crime is that the media is allowing this nasty freak to get away with her schtick.

nb: she was one of the "elves" who was digging for dirt and surreptitiously helping Kenneth Starr. yet another reason to hate this rancid cunt.

Someone on the net (no link, sorry) took upon himself the pointless task of checking up on the footnotes and, lo and behold, most of the sources were taken out of context, distorted, or simply did not support what she was saying. This person quit doing this after the first chapter.

(If memory serves correct, that's a "no", but my memory is about as reliable as Ms. Coulter's fact-checker.)

And he was shot in Weehawken, NJ by Aaron Burr!

Yes! The winner of the annual Obscure Peanut Butter Commercial Reference Award is once again Dan Perry!

(But he did have a mouthful of peanut butter, right? RIGHT!?! BOO-YAH!)

Nah, that was Chris Rock's comment about Laura Ingraham (another blonde conservative pundit -- but a much better looking one, for whatever that's worth.)

I worry about Ann Coulter. I think she's really very unhealthy.

Ann is getting really old now, the new McCarthyism-wuz-right! shtick embarrassing for even her usual fanbase to unquestioningly support, but hey - the more obnoxious she becomes, the more entertaining it is for the rest of the sane world. I think she's going to resort to wearing a string bikini in a Fox interview someday, while again regurgitating her views re: how women should never have gotten the right of suffrage

I love how she's outright said BECAUSE FOREIGNERS. She gives zero fucks.

Also, wat: "I note that we don't have to be endlessly told how exciting football is."

DOes she live on planet no-media?

The only parts of that article that really annoyed me were where she displayed complete ignorance of the sports she was talking about (not only soccer, but the real amurcan sports she claims to love). Everything else was just pro forma coulter.

i love the completely random segue from ranting about soccer to ranting about the metric system

Vincent Vega: "You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?"
Ann Coulter: "No, but if it has anything to do with the metric system, go fuck yourself."

But metric system is bad bcs furriners, dousee.

http://i.imgur.com/bpNxl5C.jpg

Chinese-style brainwashing notwithstanding, soccerball measures things in yards exclusively

This thing about you aren't American if your great-grandparents sounds supremely batshit, is there any way to get numbers on that? Like it seems like it would actually be pretty rare to find someone whose family is 100% American tracing back 100+ years. I'm trying to find some data on this but not sure how to search...

I don't know how old YOUR great-grandparents were, but I had great-grandparents alive in the 1980s.

not sure it's an assertion that warrants that much statistical scrutiny

FWIW I think the average black family has been in America for longer than the average white family

Coulter to her Syndicate: "I told you I could get a bunch of people to read a stupid article if I just recycled a bunch of 'lol, soccer' jokes. They'll click on anything. The dumber it sounds, the more they want to read it, so they can share their opinions about how dumb it is. Fucking magic. Pay me."

Hope he doesn't mind, but this was my friend's response:

"Hey you reactionary ghoul- my great grandfather was born in the US and was a pillar of his community and a member of the KKK, and I'm watching all I can of the World Cup. But I suspect that what I like about that fact is exactly what you hate about it. God forbid Americans would participate in a shared global experience that they don't dominate, control, subvert or police with arms. And, of course, immigrants have had no impact on American culture, where our food, sports, music and art all sprang forth from the soil."

But I suspect that what I like about that fact is exactly what you hate about it.

was gonna say, p sure all her observations that are actually about the sport itself were creaky canards 20 years ago and I daresay were around when MLS blew up in the 70s

Excuse me, but I think that was the NASL.

A country in which football/soccer isn't by far the biggest sport seems like such a bizarre parallel universe to me.

Coulter isn't even a grade A troll -- that was some hack shit. It's amazing she's as famous as she is.

parallel universe

Would make an interesting thread of its own, providing ilx knew enough about such countries to identify and compare them. e.g. Isn't cricket bigger than football in India? Isn't hockey the biggest sport in Canada?

she's useless and i'm pretty confident she will end up sad destitute and alone so i'm going to go out and have fun today

Hockey is the biggest anything in Canada.

Man I'm late on the party to this but I wonder what she'd say if she knew about the German-Americans, Colombian-Americans, Icelandic-Americans, and Mexican-Americans on our World Cup team, let alone our madman new ager German coach.

also aerosmith is as OTM as love in an elevator means going down

@DennisThePerrin
The only people keeping Ann Coulter relevant are American liberals. She's writing for YOU, kids, and you seem to love it.

No argument there.

She bombed hard on the Rob Lowe roast. I almost felt bad for her (but not really).

“The unacceptable threats of violence that have led to the ‘hecklers’ veto’ of Ann Coulter’s speech at Berkeley are inconsistent with free speech principles that protect us all from government overreach. Hateful speech has consequences, particularly for people of color, LGBTQ people, immigrants, and others who have been historically marginalized. But if the government gets to decide which speech counts as hate speech, the powers that be may later feel free to censor any speech they don’t like.

“For the future of our democracy, we must protect bigoted speech from government censorship. On college campuses, that means that the best way to combat hateful speech is through counter-speech, vigorous and creative protest, and debate, not threats of violence or censorship.”

https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-statement-ann-coulter-speech

I have a feeling she--just like Milo before her--had no intention of actually speaking at Berkeley. Book the gig...agitators gonna agitate...cancel the date and Oh Hai! loads of free publicity giving me the illusion of a upper hand.

^^
Most likely scenario. Still, I have to wonder why Berkley is even booking her (or Milo) in the first place?

Is it UC-Berkeley booking her or is it some shitstirring student group booking her?

http://www.snopes.com/2017/04/21/berkeley-coulter-speech-lawsuit/

apparently they offered a venue that could accommodate better security, but she turned it down because

UC Berkeley had imposed “new, more burdensome conditions” on her constitutional rights.

Is it UC-Berkeley booking her or is it some shitstirring student group booking her?

it's the latter

ie this guy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/04/27/i-invited-ann-coulter-to-speak-at-uc-berkeley-heres-why/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.9bf8c1d1bb45

who just seems more naive than shit-stirring but the results are the same

we need to alleviate polarization by inviting dumb, incendiary, polarizing idiots to speak

jfc there are a million people you can invite to encourage dialogue and respectful conversation. coulter is not one of them

what an ass

yeah like invite ross douthat or something you feeb

disrespectful conversation not permissible, check

did you read what the guy said?

jfc there are a million people you can invite to encourage dialogue and respectful conversation. coulter is not one of them

exactly. this is what you get when either side engaged in this ostensible "debate" engages in bad faith. The college Republicans aren't interested in dialogue, they're interested in inflammatory, attention-getting stunts. (The inverse of this on the left can, and I'm sure does, exist as well)

(fwiw I agree w the ACLU's position on this in terms of the university's actions)

i mean, freshman year you get an article in the washington post. the opportunities are there for those with the least shame.

Speak of the devil: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/04/26/milos-appearance-at-berkeley-led-to-riots-he-vows-to-return-this-fall-for-a-week-long-free-speech-event/?utm_term=.e0fbc6a9fb92

trying to think of some comparable right-wing public college the left can go cause problems at

Bob Jones University? Oral Roberts University? Liberty University?

Trump University? Oh wait...

trying to think of some comparable right-wing public college the left can go cause problems at

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there isn't one, because free speech isn't actually a value of the right

Well, yeah.