Conservatives You Like

you know, i really don't understand people who think coulter is entertaining in the slightest.

She's entertaining in the classic adversary intellectual sense. She knows the exact thing to say to cause her political opponents to anger, and she's usually witty about it on top of that. (Her improvised reply to Joy Behar on Larry King Live last week was great television)

In that sense she's in the Tucholsky and Mencken (perhaps German?) tradition of being, if being nothing else, a great hater. To say you don't like her or her opinions, or that you think she's hateful, is to miss the point entirely.

i think shes ugly

I agree w/stevie, that she is not entertaining, and it is bcz I do not enjoy the sort of humor that is 'riling people up for the lulz' from anyone of any stripe.

Tempted to start a "who is ILX's Ann Coulter" thread but that would just be a bad bad bad idea

You wld have to ban yourself.

Ann Coulter was entertaining in a "is this person for real?" sense, but it's pretty damn tired these days. Meghan McCain has always been pretty annoying and I don't understand why people really give a damn about what she has to say post-campaign. I guess she's become the voice of the young, modern, "moderate" republican or something, but... fucking gag.

Cunga on the shortlist xxp

"They, too, tend to be fashionably liberal with social issues but when it comes to their money and the right to be a boring, rich snob they hide behind right-wing rhetoric and will FIGHT for it."

this seems otm

There's a continuum. "Bitchslap you with [his or her] brain" at one end, mindless chopbusting at the other. Coulter is clever, but I have never, ever, seen her definitively son anyone. She is either insufficiently ruthless (unlikely) or insufficiently bright.

coulter's dull as fuck, deathly predictable, and if i actually believed that she believed half the shit that she spouts then i would wish her ill (and maybe whether she believes it or not doesn't matter). if you are entertained by coulter then you have huge buttons that are easy to push, mang.

i don't really think she is clever, tbh. opportunist and quick to talk, but she talks bullshit. i do love to watch her get riled and lose the plot though.

full disclosure: i await her eventual and inevitable downfall with a hunger i reserve for rush, glenn beck and hannity

I wish everyone wld say Rush Limbaugh or Limbaugh bcz I keep getting distressed at all these ill-wishes of a perfectly harmless Canadian band.

if i cut geddy lee, does he bleed like an ordinary guy?

Well, Coulter is a bit like Bill Maher. Maher can be funny sometimes but even when he's not he still plays the role of "100%-willing-to-offend" villain tremendously. Some people don't tolerate that type, quite understandably, but they can be fun to watch in small doses. At least that's what I think.

http://gone-hollywood.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/meghan-mccain.jpg

most of the film was rather pointless and knee-jerky, but one of my favorite Bill Maher moments is in Religilous. He hits up one of those de-homo-ification camps, run by wouldn't you know it a "formerly gay" dude. Bill kind of starts flirting with the guy, and the guy gets totally flustered and blushy.

yeah gay people who don't want to be gay any more are so funny

sorry OT, but the post above had me thinking about the relative worth of Bill Maher

yeah gay people who don't want to be gay any more are so funny

When I see them trying to walk macho, I point at them and laugh.

Ted Nugent.

he might annoy me even more than ann coulter, but i haven't actively chosen to watch much ann coulter so

x-post true, or when they start talking

bill maher that is

yeah gay people who don't want to be gay any more are so funny

yeah you know it was actually pretty fucking funny

guess i'll have to take your word for it!

Mel Gibson

Not really him or his politics or his alcoholic anti-Jew rants. Just his badass performances as Mad Max.

yeah you know it was actually pretty fucking funny

whoa ^^^ sounds snide & wasn't my intention : /

more like it probably doesn't read funny, but i certainly chuckled at the time

is mcwhorter really conservative? does that rest mostly on his not liking hip-hop and his belittling coolio on TV?

"Coolio, why haven't you made another 'Fantastic Voyage'? Did your nuts die?"

"Seriously, Coolio, you encourage people to murder...amazing songs such as 'Pastime Paradise."'

In that sense she's in the Tucholsky and Mencken (perhaps German?) tradition of being, if being nothing else, a great hater.

comparing mencken to coulter is like comparing a fresh breakfast of buttered toast, sausage, eggs and orange juice to, like, week-old cereal sludge with flies buzzing around it.

Not comparing quality as much as the genre.

I do not enjoy the sort of humor that is 'riling people up for the lulz' from anyone of any stripe.

I would be a total hypocrite if I even tried to claim this.

i know he had his faults (mccarthy sympathizer being one) but parts of Barry G's wikipedia entry make him sound like a total bro.

^^ 4 genuine lols for me in the "political views" section

I used to enjoy reading Ross Douthat until his move to the NYT, wherein he seems to have ingested whatever Bill Kristol drinks.

Ramesh Ponnoru is pretty good.

My own opinion is this, I am very liberal but I like to watch Fox a lot. I'd feel bored and contrarian if I had to watch "liberal" viewpoints on tv all the time. I find most of the people on it entertaining and / or personable. The talk radio people less so. If any conservatives drive me nuts, they are politicians.

i think a good majority of the far right media's audience is liberals who enjoy being outraged or having their worst suspicions confirmed. at best it's a symbiotic relationship.

ugh, replace "majority" with "portion"--of course it's not the majority of the audience.

reihan salam!

http://agenda.nationalreview.com/

ugh, replace "majority" with "portion"--of course it's not the majority of the audience.

― ryan, Wednesday, August 5, 2009 5:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'd put it at about 1 percent.

It's not so much that liberals sit and listen to Rush, but his pronouncements and their perceived effects on his audience definitely feed into liberal discourse. And vice versa--it's like they feed off the extremism of their opposite because it reinforces their beliefs.

Robert Guillaime-tv's beloved Benson.

Like I said, talk radio is different, I listen to it, Michael Savage, I know you all hate him but at least he has a personality and is easy to listen to. Same with Medved. Some of the others are less about personality and substance and more about reacting and callers etc. But the tv shows are different, they cover actual news, Fox does crime news stories that I don't see on CNN. So you're getting a perspective you don't agree with, but at least there is some news attached to it. Frankly I find CNN monotonous in comparison.

Kelefa Sanneh interviewed Savage for The New Yorker last week (members only, alas).

oh fuckin hell robert guillaume are you sure? when were you going to tell Stephanie?

"So I began a Boycott List, nobody on my list will ever get my money again. I hope that you will join me in boycotting these Propagandists. WHY CAN'T THEY JUST DO THEIR JOB AND ENTERTAIN US. Don't they realize no one cares what they have to say."

my how intellectual of you...

Michael Savage, I know you all hate him but at least he has a personality and is easy to listen to

No, he's extremely difficult to listen to. I'd rather sit through 3 hours of Limbaugh on his highest soapbox.

Savage is all "calm voice, calm voice, RAGE RAGE RAGE about unrelated item"

Eazy-E

Watch the video on the right:

http://www.conservativetours.com/index.html