Fitz!!!

Gore!!!

Ann-be-gone!!!

Um adams apple!

Yep. The right blogs reacted to her statement either with glee or silence. I wonder, will Tim Russert ask his republican guests about her statements? Or will he just ignore them, and let the repubs silently acquiesce to her world view?

You know, I wrote to Wapoo today and Babington skirted my question re her republican-ess rather deftly.

>>>>>>>>>>>

New Hampshire: Thank you for taking my question, Mr. Babington.

I am not a fan of many of the political pundits that are frequent guests on television news shows because of their extreme partisanship on both sides. Ann Coulter’s appearance on The Today Show yesterday morning was the reason I did not tune in. But shortly after it was aired, the transcript and video clip was available on the web. I watched it in stunned disbelief. How in the world can any news outlet give her a platform from which to launch such hatred laden vitriol? She later appeared on Fox and MSNBC. Where is it written that the media provide her with a platform from which to launch her book and outrageous hate speak? This woman does nothing to educate America, she only seeks to create wounds that were never even there. How does her characterization of the 9/11 widows and her assertion that Democrats are godless serve the Republican party?

Charles Babington: I didn’t see Coulter’s appearance. Some “pundits” (on the left and the right) are really entertainers more than analysts (and I certainly wouldn’t lump them with “journalists” or “reporters.”). You either find their rap entertaining or you don’t. They are trying to stir up controversy, book sales and buzz. Many of the cable “news” shows, especially at night, clearly try to have sharply partisan people to initiate a political food fight. There is no pretense at nonpartisanship.

Her Pro Domme act always suggested to me that her fans were closeted masochists.

yesterday I tried to read Coulter’s first chapter (because it was a free link…uh Thanks Taylor…). I couldn’t work my way through it. She’s totally incoherent. Like Rich Lowry with a hangover.

The only base it can appeal to is the extreme racist/religious/supremacist faction of the Republican party. But she’s so desparate that I doubt she can even reach many of those.

She may as well just chant “Liberals athiests death blowjobs” over and over.

Actually, it looks like Kenneth Blackwell is challenging Ann Coulter for the title.

I like that.

“Ann Coulter Is the Republican Party.”

Screw “triangulation” (and vigorously so) – now there’s the way to get the middle.

Hang that freak around their necks like an albatross.

OT: Bradblog says the Busby/ Bilbray race results may be in doubt!

Well, guess what? Poll workers in San Diego County had much more than just “a few seconds of physical access to the machines” when they stored the voting machines at their house on the night prior to yesterday’s election!

You read that correctly. The most vulnerable voting machines ever created and used in an American election were given to random, volunteer poll workers in San Diego to keep in their houses overnight to do with as they please. The systems were “guarded” by little more than a thin strip of plastic “tamper tape” over some, but not all, of the machines dozens of vulnerable physical access points.

A spokesperson this morning from the San Diego Registrar of Voters office confirmed to The BRAD BLOG that “Yes, the machines were sent home with poll workers the night before the election.”

(all emphasis mine)

For the last word on election fraud, it’s got to be Bradblog. He has worked tirelessly on this issue, and broke the Clint Curtis scandal. Go read and weep.

RE #4:

Charles Babington personifys the corporate media attitude: there is no truth. There is no moral responsibility. There is no public ethic. If the hate sell, put it out there. “You either find their rap entertaining or you don’t.”

Totally amoral.

I can only imagine how our corporate media would treat the Third Reich.” You either find the anti-Jewish laws entertaining or you don’t.:

Bankrupt. Utterly bankrupt.

Ann…..why the long face?

She has to pop her mouth off when she feels the cold hand of irrelevancy. Anything for attention. She is proof that, whether factual or not, the GOP base will believe anything that spews off the Fox News airwaves.

She’ll be able to make all the insane comments she wants and fabricate her falsehoods from her cell where hopefully she’ll be sleeping because of voter fraud.

Sam: I love Ann Coulter. A little brash at times but always witty and thought provoking.

These are the failures of our education system. Does Ann have what are called – by most normal people – “thoughts”?

The woman is deranged and in need of serious medical attention. That she has to stoop so very low to whore her book with such shameless blame-the-victim trash, inflicting pain on those who have suffered quite enough, is plenty of evidence that she has clearly gone off the deep end for good. Code Blue. She deserves a public censuring by anyone with any decency. Who can possibly defend such a twisted argument drenched in such vitriol? A sad day for the human race. The press should be hounding Republicans for a response to her statements and her tactics.

Wait a minute…. I thought WE were the ones supposed to be unhinged.Maybe Cat Killer should do one of his 2000 mile away diagnosis on her. Is there some upper level functioning going on there?The broad is fucking crazy.Scary crazy.The definition of a predatory female.

Lobstergirl 11

Ann…why the long face?

Imagine the Ann Coulter / Ken Mehlman love child.
wait, don’t, for so many reasons.

Coulter is not just full of incendiary hate. She is plainly dumb as a rock, extremely uncomfortable outside the safe walls of Fox, and absolutely senseless under the mildest scrutiny. She was extremely defensive and fearful with Lauer.

(on his website email form seconds ago)
_____

Senator Ensign,

Do you disavow this week’s egregiously crude disparaging remarks about the 9/11 widows made by “conservative pundit” author Ann Coulter on the NBC Today Show.

If you do not respond I will take it that you support her extreme and vulgar views, and will spread that to every available media outlet accordingly.

Here’s a funny mAnn Coulter read. If you are offended by foul language and potty mouth, it may not be for you. It’s a little old but still funny:

Check it out here

Here is a picture that is true both for gore and hilary!

Hey Taylor! Annie is a cultural experience that few can avoid commenting on. That’s her whole gift. She’s a political exhibitionist.

Put em ON Annie- Put em ON!

The final numbers for the Busby/Bilbray race are out:

Bilbray 60,319 votes 49.33%

Busby 55,587 votes 45.46%

Busby got inside of four points- thanks mostly to two whackos on the ballot who took five percent away from Bilbray–Without them it would have been 45.5 to 54.5–Bilbray by nine points.

There is a fifteen point gooper advantage in registration- so Busby knocked off about six points of the presumed Bilbray total. Not bad- but there is no prize for second place or “pretty damned close”.

Busby was also selected to run again against Bilbray in November. Hope she decides to drop out. Time for someone else to take a shot. Busby’s had three now- that’s enough losing.

As sick as I am of coultergeist’s sadistic views and disgusting dialogue, she has once again made the headlines. This is her modus operandi. I’m not suggesting we not weed out mcarthy loving screechers like ann but she is laughing all the way to the bank, again.

The guy at the end of Ctg–’Democrats make me ashamed to be an American. Republicans make me ashamed to be a human being.’

[apologies if not exact quote. am offsite.]

Taylor, I posted the comments below to your post at taylormarsh.com, titled “The 9/11 Widows Bite Back”, and thought they were worth repeating here.

I missed Kathy Griffin because I clicked over to C-Span or something in disgust after watching only a bit of Coulter’s vitriolic, cruel screed.

I decided the only silver lining was exposing the type of people that typify the conservative Republican belief system nowadays.

I couldn’t personally watch the entire interview without becoming literally ill at the prospect that this hate speech is becoming all to common in the MSM.

I E-Mailed the Today Show telling them I didn’t appreciate them moving from Couric to Coulter, and that Imus had the hate crazies covered over there.

I did think Matt made an earnest, if not wholly ineffective attempt to challenge her, but then backed down when her adams apple started twitching viciously, eyes bugging, spitting and sputtering – Matt’s thinking, “oh no, she’s offended and I’m supposed to promote her latest book!” – and so he backed off.

Good for the Ladies! They clearly took the high road rather than crawling into Coulter’s conservative sewer.

Their impassioned focus on the real lessons of 9/11 and efforts to speak truth to power, against all efforts of the Bush Administration to thwart them I might add, have brought us virtually all of the meager progress we’ve made on security matters since the largest attack on innocent Americans in our nations history.

All of the victim’s survivors deserve not only our greatest empathy and respect, but our thanks as a nation for demonstrating so eloquently what true patriotism is all about. I’m in awe.

Indeed deranged, and should be made the poster child for the G.O.P…

especially if the “Ann Coulter is a Man” meme gets more traction their fervently homo/tranny-phobic base will be in for some very challenging cognitive dissonance.

http://www.rawilson.com/jokes.shtml

I’d like to ask her- Are your parents proud of you? Does your Mother even like you?

Who are her parents anyway? Where did she come from? What happened to her as a child? Perhaps if we offered her a little compassion, it might teach her how to offer it to others. Maybe she never had an ounce of kindness offered to her by her parents? Dont’t go down Coulter’s road- show her a better one.

Ann is a product of the “wingnut welfare” system — in Jane Hamsher’s immortal description. My career tracked roughly the same time period as hers in the conservative movement. (Two years ago I was essentialy purged because I did not drink the KoolAid on Bush and the war.) Clearly she is a talent, but on a high-functioning insane person-level (Washington is filled with this type). She is a regular on the right-wing speaking circuit. She is paid a great deal of money by these non-profit organizations to entertain the “base,” the financial supporters and to indoctrinate the young. She is emblematic of everything that has gone wrong with the conservative movement. The Right loves her, they subsidize her, and they have made her rich. But by advancing Coulter, the Right has also coarsened our political debates and given rise to a mass psychosis that is fed through the media. She needs to be handled directly — I salute Taylor for not be afraid to take her on…

Why is calling the President a liar acceptable speech, but telling the truth about those who oppose him is not.

What these guys fall to understand is that those who call Bush a liar back up that statement with the facts. Without the facts they are just as shrill and irrelevant as Coulter.

Coulter, when saying these widows enjoyed their husbands’ deaths is espousing an opinion not a fact or the truth. She cannot know what is in people’s hearts.
As someone more erudite than I said, she is entitled to own opinion, but not her own facts.

That’s the trouble with these bozos that Colbert has skewered so accurately. They believe their truthiness is just as valid as truth or facts. It isn’t and that makes them angry.

Just because Iraqis were supposed to greet Americans as liberators as they were promised, makes them lump the Iraqis in with everyone they believe should die.

Just because the media told them Bush would protect them better than anyone, makes them lump anyone who dares to question his performance, with those who are the “other”.

The ones who aren’t “with us”.

And they deserve to die, as Ann has so pithily said time and again.

That people find her opinions odious is a fact.

Whoa! NBC Nightly News is going to cover REPUBLICAN Ann Coulter in the next 30 minutes…

Emphasis mine.

Would Ann have an abortion if Osama bin Laden raped her?

We already know that Kenneth Blackwell would force Ann to give birth to Osama bin Laden’s rape-fetus even if she were dying on the delivery table. Yes that’s right, Kenneth Blackwell does not believe in any exceptions to abortion.

Would Kenneth Blackwell then adopt little Ann Bin Laden Junior?

Enquiring minds want to know.

If you want to insult Ann, hit it where it hurts the most: Coulter’s balls.

I don’t mean to insult transgenders transvestites hermaphrodies. Just this one.

Via the FReepers, Drudge has mAnn’s response to Hillary front-paged:

‘BEFORE CRITICIZING OTHERS FOR BEING ‘MEAN’ TO WOMEN, PERHAPS HILLARY SHOULD TALK TO HER HUSBAND WHO WAS ACCUSED OF RAPE BY JUANITA BROADDRICK AND WAS GROPING KATHLEEN WILLEY AT THE VERY MOMENT WILLEY’S HUSBAND WAS COMMITTING SUICIDE.’

Sorry about the caps. Apparently, she said this on Hannity’s show this morning.

angie @ 4

Babington may have ducked the question, but in today’s WaPo chat with the “Reliable Sources” duo, they took a similar question:

Alameda, Calif.: Is Ann Coulter dumping on 9/11 widows in her little black dress – all before breakfast, with children in the room – really the image that Republicans want one of their leading pundits to present as the face of the party?

(Or maybe this question should be posed to Robin for fashion critique: What does a fashionable Republican spokesperson wear when trashing widows before breakfast on national TV?)

Roxanne Roberts: I caught part of her interview with Matt on the “Today” show. I know being provocative is part of her act, but I think she went so over the edge this time that even diehard conservatives will distance themselves.

Ann Coulter: provocatively over the edge. That about sums it up, all right.

Maybe your question should have gone to the political gossip columnists . . .

Ann doesn’t believe her own shit. She is just a “base-head”, addicted to the crack cocaine of the republican party.

Cancer Cures @ 31

You may not mean to, any more than everyone who tells the jokes that skewer a particular group means to, but trust me on this, you do.

From what I have seen, there is no evidence that Ann Coulter is actually a transsexual, so treating her as the butt of a joke that says she is one is simply insulting to transgenders, transvestites and hermaphrodites.

I don’t know why people don’t get that and it has to be pointed out again and again.

Isn’t it enough that she is simply a thoroughly unpleasant person who spews shit for money?

Ah Ann Coulter, gas-bag of my dreams. I actually like it when she goes off. Because I know at least half the people in this country are rational. And these thinking Americans are not going to be swayed by Ann’s antics. And perhaps, just enough of the other half (the non-rational 1/2) will be persuaded that Coulter’s ravings are sanctioned by the Republican Party, and are so extreme they will thereby be revolted, to the point of voting intelligently for the Democrats, this fall and in 2008. I live in perhaps the redest of red states and consequently run into ‘Ann types’ frequently. And I have come to the realization (the hard empirical way) that I would accomplish more, and be far more self-productive if I just locked myself in a dark closet, rather than trying to reason with the Coulters of this world. I ignore them. Ann is the queen of trolls. When Ann rears her ugly hate filled “brain” all she really does is to reinforce those who already share her beyond belief, beliefs. Coulter is a lost cause. And so is her cause. Whatever that is.

bionic @ 35

Amen.

There are a thousand ways to go after Ann – a couple of hundred of which involve humor – without dumping on whole groups of other people.

R-Dub #21:

Not bad- but there is no prize for second place or “pretty damned close”.

Thank you!!!

We now return you to your regularly-scheduled Coultergeist bashing. Special thanks to GE for giving her air time on Today and Situation to set out her views without opportunity for anyone to answer.

Nice post, Taylor.

I agree that she is who they are today in many ways. But I think the Republican Party, theocractic – homophobic – authoritarian and anti democratic as it is…is more like a cross between Coulter and conservatism’s number one benefactor over the last 25 years, Sun Myung Moon. Since they changed so dramatically in the late 70s and 80s…they now mirror his agenda.

That is why he funded people like Falwell, LaHaye, Viguerie and spent billions financing their propaganda outlet, Moon’s Washington Times – which btw he boasts about using to “influence America.”

Without Moon the Republicans don’t control the government. Think about that, it’s a fact.

Of course, I am appalled. But not surprised; crikey, just a few months ago she was advocating murder/poisoning of USSC Justices. What’s attacking the motives of a few grieving widows?

When I was little, I loved pro wrestling. Even got caught up in the narratives of Sgt. Slaughter vs. The Iron Sheik. etc. Then I turned 12.

Ann Coulter is just pro wrestling in a black dress. Sad part is, many 40 year olds still think WWE is real.

Then you’ve got your “moderate Republicans” who know that Ann’s bullshit is over the line and try to equate her comments with a random lady in a “Buck Fush” t-shirt.

To their credit, CBS radio news led off one of its reports today with a comment about the 9/11 widows’ response to Ann Coulter’s slander. They actually relayed what the widows said in answer to Coulter first, then paraphrased Coulter’s slandering remarks.

It can now be revealed. Ann The-Screech-Woman Coulter is the offspring of a steamy and furtive menage a trois comprised of Rick Santorum, Rush Limbaugh, and Lynne Cheney.

Reports are that Rush had a difficult pregnancy, but that Ann was successfully delivered via a forceps and anal episiotomy procedure after a 24 hour pic-line IV infusion cocktail consisting of equal parts Dran-O, Clorox, and Metamucil failed to induce labor.

Such explains Rush’s subsequent chronic Jones for the Oxy.

See a tongue-in-cheek visual depicting “The New War On Terror: Afgh-Ann-A-Skank”…here:

http://www.thoughttheater.com

Bobby G – I think it’s OK to laugh at that….heh heh

I believe the only people who would listen to Ann are the KKK, or other bigot groups. But I also agree with you guys on the fact that a lot of the repugs agree with the poison she puts out. However on writing a book, if I were her I would not call myself an author but it looks like all the hate groups are keeping her above water, oh yeah, and Fox News, it would seem that any moderate who would hear her speak would shun conservatives, but this latest remark is one of the worst I’ve heard in a long time, for her remark about the widows of 9/11 she has to be a little off-balance intellectually.

When will Russert ask his Republican politician guests whether they agree with Coulter’s sentiments regarding the 9/11 widows?

After all, he asked Obama what he thought of Harry Belafonte’s comments?

Is there any difference? It seems to me the situations are quite analagous.

In fact, Coulter is a much more prominent face of her party than Belafonte is of his.

I’m thinking Russert should pose the question to McCain.

So, Mr. Russert, I’m waiting.

OT, it looks like C-SPAN might be covering the YearlyKos Plame panel! I really hope this turns out to be true. Here is a diary at dKos talking about the possible C-SPAN schedule:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/7/12335/21157

I agree Coulter is the visible face of the right and embodies their “values” but Moon is their molder, their savior, and should be who the nation sees when they see a Republican or a conservative.

Some of the right wing chumps bought into Moon’s “anti-communism” charade. When in fact, he believes democracy is a failed system also. He said decades ago, “American style” democracy is no model for the world, and that was before he set out to subvert it.

Dark Side of Rev. Moon: Buying the Right

Moon also made clear that his longer-range goal was the destruction of the U.S. Constitution and America’s democratic form of government. “History will make the position of Reverend Moon clear, and his enemies, the American population and government will bow down to him,” Moon said, speaking of himself in the third person. “That is Father’s tactic, the natural subjugation of the American government and population.”

Without Moon’s billions (mostly conned from the widows in Japan) and fronts, the Republicans do not control our government. The Republicans have become everything he set out to make them.

That is a sad but very true fact.

I think this info on Arlen/Cheney is updated:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2….._0607.html

Seems Dick went behing Arlen’s back in lobbying SJC members on NSA/telecom hearings, etc.

But the other day he was saying the WH was inviting legislation on reporter’s being prosecuted. IMHO, that would be counterproductive. Bush signing statement, and no judicial review. Plenery exec = possession is 9/10 of the law.
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…”In a terse and highly unusual letter to Vice President Cheney, Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) today rejected the Bush administration’s insistence that a secret wire tapping program being conducted on U.S. civilians by the National Security Agency is legal, complaining that efforts by the White House to stonewall Congressional inquiries into the program “denigrates the constitutional authority and responsibility of the Congress and specifically the Judiciary Committee to conduct oversight on constitutional issues,” ROLL CALL reports Wednesday.
#

Specter’s anger peaked Tuesday after he learned that Cheney had been lobbying Republican members of the committee to “oppose any Judiciary Committee hearing, even a closed one” that involved telephone companies that have cooperated with the NSA. “I was surprised, to the say the least, that you sought to influence, really determine, the action of the Committee without calling me first, or at least calling me at some point,” Specter wrote in the letter, adding that “this was especially perplexing since we both attended the Republicans Senators caucus lunch yesterday and I walked directly in front of you on at least two occasions en route from the buffet to my table.”…

I think Ann Coulter is trans-species –

The product of a space alien DNA experiment that went terribly, terribly wrong — space alien maggots fertilized with DNA from Josef Goebbels.

This was the second and last failed experiment — Rush Limbaugh was created by the same space alien maggots bred with Hermann Goering DNA.

coulter performs a valuable service as she keeps her fans from torturing small animals for at least a few moments a day…

wxyz @ 48

That’s a great idea, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

I just heard Dobbs say that they would have Coulter on at some later date to explain herself. I didn’t hear him say he would have any prominent Republicans on to defend her remarks. Seems like it will just be another storm like the swiftboating of Kerry. Plenty of false concern masking the spreading of the story.

“She’s launched a blistering attack on 911 widows and other outrageous statements. We’ll find out why.” That’s a quote from Dobbs promise of the show tomorrow.

Uh Lou. No you won’t. You’ll just be giving her air time to spew more shit.

Right. On.

I went to write a post on my blog with nothing but stmple statements like:

She’s a Republican.

She voted for George Bush.

She thinks of herself as “patriotic.”

She says of the widows of the Americans killed by terrorists on 9/11: “I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ death so much.”

Are you Ann Coulter?

Ah, something like that. But Blogger’s down and I couldn’t do it. Thanks for this. This needs to be hammered home all over the blogosphere NOW. This is a moment for us.

Specter coming up on cnn and le loup garou!

Coulter’s job is to be so extreme O’Reilley’s crap appears sane by comparison, and hence, acceptable.

Repugs have crowd control down to the same science Goebbels did.

How I would counter:

Match and justapose a Coulter rant with Repug thoughts on the same subject.

Example:

Coulter – Fags should die!/Bush – pertinent marriage amendment quote.

Coulter – Druggies should die!/ Limbaugh’s mug shot.

Just so folks make the link between their leaders and the hatemongers.

Repugs at heart are 3rd grade bullies. And the only solution is to bloody their noses on the schoolyard where everybody sees it.

I have no cable…will predict Arlen will seem very stern. Let’s see what if anything the committee does. Like witnessess actually sworn in (even if in closed session)

So…what’s the current fantasy?

this person speaks for frightened white folks, who happen to include many democrats — i know lots of so-called democrats who think blacks get favorable treatment in court, who look upon latinos as endangering america’s culture [what culture are they thinking about?], who think palestinians are to blame for what the nazis did & who think we should attack iran now that we’ve down so well in iraq, provided other folks’ kids serve as cannon fodder [preferably black & latino kids]

ROFL! PATRICK thinks Coulter is SOPHISTICATED? Too funny. Is he 8 years old?

…done so well in iran…

I laughed out loud in surprise at John Robert’s response to Joe Biden on AC360 last night when Biden was dicussing the lack of accountability in the BushCo administration.

BIDEN: But somebody has to — think about this. You can’t answer this question, I know, but has there ever been an administration you can think of where no one — no one has been accountable for anything? Anything?

ROBERTS: Well, they’ve held several people accountable for certain things, Larry Lindsey they held accountable for saying that the war was going to be costly. General Shinseki they held accountable for saying it was going to take more troops.

BIDEN: And that was a truth. I guess you get held accountable when you move from the catechism, when you move from the script.

I know the truth in these statements are sad and pathetic, but Robert’s response seemed so not MSM. You know, truthful.

I put ann coulter’s name into the internet anagram maker (http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/) and there were some good ones.

My favorite, however, is:

UNCLEAN ROT

Redundant, I know, but still apropos!

Well, I am holding my breath because the Judiciary is the last place we can place our hope…

He did speak out against the FMA… after fighting with Russ.

Specter say’s NSA spying a “flat violation of FISA.”

Well.

Tapper on ABC’s Nightly News did the “fair and balanced” bit after showing Cootie at a book signing spewing her venom to applause from her groupies. Tapper–”Lookie here, folks, the Democrats do it, too.”–as he showed someone (surely a Democrat) saying something that couldn’t compare with the Coulter hate. That pretty well left the W—h B—h off the hook. Ahh, the media, they are obsessed with letting the Republicans off no matter what devilment they are up to.

Peter Daou weighs in:

On Coulter, Slime-Traffickers, & the Media’s Craving for Blog Buzz ~ “This race to the bottom by the establishment media leaves the progressive netroots in a quandary: if the only thing these so-called ‘journalists’ want is to create an uproar, how do we respond? Some bloggers advocate ignoring slime-traffickers like Coulter and Glenn Beck, others attack them for the scum they peddle. My preferred tactic is to excoriate the media outlet that gives them a forum – it may play into their need for attention, but I think it’s imperative for us to create a public record of these media transgressions, if only for historians to understand how America sunk so far so fast.”

DexDexter @ 62

I hardly think “running them out of town” is holding them responsible as much as kicking them out of your club.

As a hometown boy I really wanted Roberts to be smart and incisive on CNN. I wanted to be able to brag (cause I never really watched him on CBS).

I am sorry to say he simply sounds like a real dimbulb, a tool if you will. He shoulda stuck to breathlessly hyping videos on Much Music.

Cheney went to rethugs on the committee yesterday (Hatch) and did not speak with Arlen the chairman.

There is no question that the statute has been violated, but there is a question whether Article 2 trumps it.

Blacks get preferential treatment in courts?!
Should mention that to the rediculously high proportion of black males 18-35 currently either behind bars or somehow involved in the Crim/Just system.

defacto ethnic cleansing or a sort.

oh, and that brown horde invading the american way of life from the south…IIRC, didn’t older maps of North America show states like Texas, Arizona, NEW Mexico, Colorado and California aligned within the Mexican boundary?

Specter is saying Article II trumps FISA, bullshit!

Snarlin’ Arlen, the Saturday Night Massa Cur – per Cujo359’s observation, the kind of dog who growls then chases those who flee, but cowers when confronted.

MS Right? Isn’t MS a feminist construct? No, surely she is a MISS or a MISTRESS, but never, never a MS……

off topic

So see the GOP try to run. But they can’t hide from their base. They need them. It’s the only way they can win in November.

sorry

how MANY TIMES have I said WE can’t win with electronic voting machines.

it’s not gonna happen

I heard on randi rhodes today brad blog is telling us the debolt machinese were taken home last night and that’s why we lost

n addition, Diebold’s Touch-Screen Voting Machines Have Built-In Wireless Infrared Data Transfer Ports

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002458.htm

ya know what?

we are not gonna win no matter HOW many people vote for oversite, we have GOT to get RID of electronic voting

that’s the only movement that matters right now

Bionic at 68

(I hardly think “running them out of town” is holding them responsible as much as kicking them out of your club.)

Good point.

Anybody watch NewsHOur? It seems that Little League will be hurt if the Estate Tax is not repealed. So now we know that Paris Hilton spends her spare change watching Little League. Parents be scared.

diogenes says:
June 7th, 2006 at 4:04 pm

Coulter’s job is to be so extreme O’Reilley’s crap appears sane by comparison, and hence, acceptable.

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Diogenes- I agree with that comment, tho I didn’t think of it before. Great point. I know this tactic from prev. times, but on the other side- I would give a specific example, but the intent just wouldn’t compare with that of Coulter.

This is a tough call (covering AC) because imo the right makes this mistake all the time – the wingnuts go after some nasty-mouthed rapper and the next thing ya know his album is #1. I certainly don’t want that to happen to AC’s book.

However, as a middle-aged caucasian/married for 16 years/father/teacher/ethical/fiscally moderate socially liberal human being I get plenty tired of being stereotyped by the worst of the left side of the spectrum. (Though really, at the moment, I can’t think of anyone outrageous enough to actually qualify as a smear. Ohhh no, Tim Robbins, Al Gore, Howard Dean, Jane Fonda…no please not Jane! *g*) Anyways, I’m not making my point very well…

Somehow the NeoRighties have succeeded in branding anyone and everyone on the left as extreme/unAmerican/cowardly/indecisive/blahblahblah. We need to tie Lil Annie Adams Apple around the necks of the entire GOP. We need to be aggressive and win the battle of words, the battle for the hearts and minds, and the battle for the soul of this country. Everytime she speaks (or is even talked about) it needs to be preceeded with the word “Republican” – we need to ask each and every Republican whether of not they agree with her nasty insensitive racist homophobic vitriol. Never back down, never let up.

Little Morphin’ Annie

So, if Arlen’s resigned to just acquiescing in the power grab w/o any review at all? Not even like the Supreme Court, or even FISA (who I would guess might dissent from Specter’s opiniion).

hey, raw story has a pretty good story going;

Senator slams Cheney for lobbying Congress on wiretaps

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Published: Wednesday June 7, 2006

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In a terse and highly unusual letter to Vice President Cheney, Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) today rejected the Bush administration’s insistence that a secret wire tapping program being conducted on U.S. civilians by the National Security Agency is legal, complaining that efforts by the White House to stonewall Congressional inquiries into the program “denigrates the constitutional authority and responsibility of the Congress and specifically the Judiciary Committee to conduct oversight on constitutional issues,” ROLL CALL reports Wednesday.

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Specter’s anger peaked Tuesday after he learned that Cheney had been lobbying Republican members of the committee to “oppose any Judiciary Committee hearing, even a closed one” that involved telephone companies that have cooperated with the NSA. “I was surprised, to the say the least, that you sought to influence, really determine, the action of the Committee without calling me first, or at least calling me at some point,” Specter wrote in the letter, adding that “this was especially perplexing since we both attended the Republicans Senators caucus lunch yesterday and I walked directly in front of you on at least two occasions en route from the buffet to my table.”

Specter has authored legislation to require the NSA program be brought under the jurisdiction of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which would require wire taps be signed off on by a judge prior to being initiated.

Specter warned Cheney that this stonewalling must end and that “if an accommodation cannot be reached … The Judiciary Committee will consider confronting the issue with subpoenas and enforcement of that compulsory process if it appears that a majority vote will be forthcoming.”

DEVELOPING….

Specter: I won’t back down, grrrr, well maybe, well ok, well I love everybody and I’ll be looking for the VP on the Situation Room.

blah, blah, blah. whimpering like a semi wounded cur into that good night.

punaise– Cujo’s description remains true.

Been looking all over for this one I saw. It’s by Steve Soto at The left Coaster. Cracked my ass up.His take on Anne.

Satan’s Chambermaid Emerges Again

Lobstergirl @ 30

You rock! Thanks from all of us in Ohio.

There are only two ways to use electronic devises for voting:

1) For scanning paper ballots as they are placed in boxes by the voter.

2) As a third check on the citizen’s vote after the vote itself and exit polling.

In any event, it is ludicrous that the software isn’t entirely owned by “The People” and administered through some independent creation of the judiciary, and/or legislative branchs.

The machines would be produced like any other commodity per our specs by private industry, who shouldn’t even know how to operate them.

We’ll never untangle the tentacles of monied control of our country until the vote can be counted on as accurate.

Specter always folds in the end

he’s ultimately willing to eck-Specter-ate all over the constition.

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams ran the most telling bit of the Matt Lauer-Ann Coulter interview, and it was not pretty for Ms. Coulter. The Jersey Women’s response was also excerpted. I think Williams implied, pretty much, “Have you no shame at last?”

Let’s help Ms. Coulter sell some books. I am quite serious about this. Let every citizen know how one self-described Republican views the world.

Ms. Coulter thinks the widows are happy to be widows. Only a monster could think this way. This woman is, and I choose my term carefully, a psychopath, incapable of understanding ordinary human emotion, or any sort of empathy. Which, come to think of it, is not all that unusual among the more extreme conservative Republicans.

She may be whacko but she has the megaphone and her new book is at #9 with BN. Question remains, who are these people and are they breeding?

Oh and just one more thing. How is it possible that Specter et al still maintain that the preznit acted in GOOD FAITH when he breaks the law? I mean if I speed on a highway or ignore a stoplight and cause a serious accident and an officer of the peace stops me, can I just say– but I was acting in good faith?

Goopers are having themselves quite a week- whipping right through their agenda like a hot knife through butter.

Token measure on Gay Marriage- DONE

Now we move onto the dreaded “death tax”- the tax that no one EVER complains about while paying it. Goopers want to do away with it. Permanent removal is estimated to const a trillion or so over the following ten years. Doesn’t even PHASE the goopers- what’s a trillion dollars here or there- it’s the indignity shown to dead people that matters.

Next we move on to the flag burning amendment!

Democracy has become a joke- the government has become a very CRUEL joke- and the people? The PEOPLE?

They’re nuts!

Dex 62

A few “leading” dems like Biden (and Leahy on NPR this am) are whining like WATB’s about the secretive administration that rejects any oversight and that’s ALL they do is piss and moan about it. Why don’t they grow some balls and impeach these rat bahstads? It’s really getting ridiculous.

He’s held his ground away from the Grassy Knoll for over 40 years, though. Must be thet ‘Magic Bullet’. hmmm…maybe THAT’S what they use to keep him in the fold. Amazing that that IS actually the one thing he has EVER stood up for and stook to it. lordy…two coups in one lifetime…

About the picture at the top–brings to mind a quote from the late Richard Pryor:

“I’ve seen better looking faces on a iodine bottle.”

Regarding her screed on The Today Show–brings to mind a quote from the late Rodney Daingerfield:

“The last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.”

Ann Coulter is the loose nuke of the republican party.

Plano at 91

Ditto.

ooh. poor John Recess Appointment Bolton– ticked off that the UN spoke the truth about Rush and Fox called them for what they are– naysayers and underminers of the UN.

boo-effing-hoo.

Just wish he included Stormin’ Normin’ Coleman amongst the propagandists.

I am very pleased to hear that Ann Coulter is a smoker. What’s her brand? Perhaps I can send her a carton.

It’s still not enough to be AGAINST the awful things the Republican Party and its accolytes do.

Democrats and progressives must be able to articulate a positive program — beyond Harry Reid’s hopeful ‘we can do better’ (which is a good start).

That happened with Tester’s campaign in Minnesota; but not with Busby in So. Calif.

Here is a list of th Ary-Ann Coulter/Hutu Power roadshow schedule.

From KOS.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..85342/8519

-GSD

She smokes Raleigh’s. Word has it she’s saving the coupons to by an oxygen tent.

“I am very pleased to hear that Ann Coulter is a smoker. What’s her brand? Perhaps I can send her a carton.”

Poles

Hey, all, I had appointments to keep, but wanted to chime in, even if it is a little late.

Ann Coulter is now holding court with Sean Hannity out here, where he’s invited everyone to a book store to help her sell books. He’s also giving her a whole lot of free radio time, because they love the way she revs up the base. I tuned in on the drive between biz stuff and it was hack radio of the highest order.

I have a pole, but I wouldn’t touch her with it if it were ten feet long.

By the way, it’s streaming online:

http://www.kxnt.com/

It is amazing that a woman with views that full of hatred is the darling of the so called Christian right…..talk about the Apocalypse.

-GSD

I was out of the house for the last thread. If Gore decides to run in ‘08, I will change my 30-year-status as non-affiliated to Democrat so I could work for him and vote in the primary. The way this country has been whirlpooling down the toilet, we don’t need a cautious and centrist president but one with brilliant ideas–another FDR but in his or her own way. (her=Boxer, not someone else)

The retort from the wives was consise and proper but it took to long and it didn’t work. One of them should get her in public and make a physical point. If it was my spouse, I would go after that bitch.

travy 53 – *g* I think that’s about the response she rates.

BlankK – all of the whistleblower/journalist situation is a mess. An absolute MESS. And the President’s CIC and “inherent” powers do not trump the rest of the Constitution and without that – they don’t trump valid law – which GWB is,after all, sworn to uphold. Spectre knows better. But it gives him his excuse territory.

If I ever get started on how Spectre in particular and this Congress in general have abandoned the First Amendment and the Rule of Law, and whistleblowers and journalists as a part of that, it will be a foam mouthed rant. *s*

Arlen should “fix it” by subpeonaing all the journalists in question and giving them immunity and then not asking them one damn thing other than to read their articles into the record.

I sincerely doubt the single-line screeder wrote her own book.

Updating my earlier thread comment that Coulter is the Baron von Raschke of politics, baiting the rubes like all the other staged players of pro wrestling that Republican politics has become, I now liken her instead to Mad Dog Vachon.

Or, to find another metaphor, she is the skunk fart at the perfume counter of life.

And I’m still not buying any books from Crown or Random House.

I’ve heard that Keith is going to talk about Coulter tonight on Countdown.

Ann Coulter — The Republican Windup Doll. They wind her up and she spews shit from her mouth.

That’s the image I would like everyone to take away from this latest incidence with her. Tell your friends and put the image in everyone’s mind.

Personally, the thought of coming within breathing distance of her makes me throw up a little in my mouth. I think it would be absolutely repulsive. Shit stinks.

Kristen Breitweiser would clean her clock before she flipped her hair the first time.

And I note that ABC joined others in giving air play to this harridan on their nightly news. And to the best of my knowledge they did not report at all on the testimony of the 9-11 commission chairs today that we are no more secure and if there is a grade lower than F this administration would have earned it.

ceo and all – Ann will be on The Hannity Show tonight. Also, Hannity said today that he has invited the Jersey widows to debate Coulter, who has accepted the challenge. I don’t know what will come of that one, but it would be interesting.

Prairie Sunshine @ 112

According to the media moguls, fake cat fights are so much more sexy than the real stuff like reporting the news.

Jeannie Most just did a goodie on Anne on CNN — even showed Anne being pie’d by students (in Indiana!) calling themselves Al-Pieda …

Ann Coulter and God/Godless Liberals.

The right has removed from public discourse anything to do with “the enlightenment”. Now every politician invokes god at the drop of a hat. How can anyone have a serious discussion about anything when god trumps all?

What if pols said they believed in magic or fairies? They would be laughed out of a job and taken to the cukoo house. But, its the same anology! The invisible cloud being and republican jesus say:

We have to pay big bucks for health care.
We don’t need no stinkin’ mass transit.
Rich people don’t need to pay any taxes.
We should kill in god’s name.
All fetuses must be born regardless of circumstances.
All people should populate the earth as much as possible so as to use up resources as quickly as possible.
Poor people must remain poor, but the church can give em a little hand out after the church gets a big handout from the government.
Its OK for the presnit to do what ever Dick Cheney says, including spying on Americans.
The Geneva Conventions are quaint.
John Bolton must destroy the corrupt UN.
French people suck.
Old people and kids who are poor should suffer and die.
The rich shall inherit the earth AND pass thru the eye of a needle.

Ok, I am willing to concede that Coulter is possibly insane, pathologically Republican, or both. However, I tend to believe that her act is all marketing. After all, her main purpose is to sell her stuff so any publicity is good publicity.

I think that if she takes a breath to get some oxygen to her brain, that itty bitty black dress of hers will explode.

she is a ‘familiar’ for hate

Mary -

As usual, great insight. Your suggestion is perfect. I’d like it to be sworn, of course. Just for the record.

random mini rap for AC:

Reduce a Medusa to a Loose Accusa
Coulter the Molter, bolt ‘er in the basement
The base, meant to lap it up,
To slobber, to smolder…
A burden we must not shoulder

OT: Specter is such a joke that I don’t know how anyone can take him seriously anymore. Why does the media even bother reporting on him?

Companion reading: Jane Smiley’s take on She at Huffington Post. She is the face of Republicans and that face is hate.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..22463.html

Must reading.

GSD:

Don’t kid yourself. The Xtian right was born of the segregationist movement. Nothing more. The whole movement was built on keepin’ a bootheel on the nigras.

I’m perfectly willing to swear for the record. ;)

…and “I have nothing to say. And you may quote me.”

test

==I’m in Vegas gang, and working on the 6:00 pm PT post. Thought I’d give everyone the heads up. :) CHS

hiya Christy!

Hey gang — made it to Vegas. Taylor and Pach — fantastic posts today. :)

Pach, I agree,At one time I was hoping against hope that all of that shit would die out as the old bastards keeled over. What a rube I was. Coulter is a perfect example of how they keep that shit alive. Indoctrinate the young early and often.Pound THE MESSAGE in ,over and over. No wonder they are frightened, they are an endangered species.

Hey, Pach. Welcome to Vegas, Christy. I look forward to meeting you both in person!

Olbermann just said, about Ann Coulter, “.. and I will talk about her. It is ‘her’, right?”

Heya Christy. See you tomorrow. If I forget anything, will you take me shopping?

I am already in Vegas too Christy. Been wondering when folks would show up! Are you here too Ms. Marsh?

OT. Is there any reason why FDL and C&L post videos linked to YouTube as opposed to Grouper?

OOoooooooooo! To everyone in Vegas, cheers to all the work and fun you will have. Details, details!

Apparently it’s not just Judiciary hearings that are biting the dust.

From Rawstory as well:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2….._0607.html

President Bush has cancelled a classified briefing on the situation in Iraq,. . .

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Urban Pirate re: BBC world news – it does give a different viewpoint. Last night they had a very detailed report on the rendition flights issue and while the media here is fluffing on the report filed today, I notice that if and when they cut to their European based reporters, those guys seem to think that the Parliments in some of the European countries implicated are not going to take “it’s a state secret” for their answer. At least, not before more of a fight.

Ann Coulter is an example of the Jerry Springer effect. Each time she writes, or in her case scrawls anything no doubt using her own feces, she needs to be more extreme to distinguish her new work from her previous efforts. She survives on notoriety. To have one of her pieces be described as just more of the same would be the death of her career. It wouldn’t be notorious. It would be however hate filled stale and dull.

So why Jerry Springer? Because it isn’t just the man cheating on his wife. It’s not him cheating on her with another man. It’s cheating on her with another man who is a dwarf. That is the Springer effect and it is descriptive of the descending arc of Coulter’s career.

Dinners on me tonight CHS, if your up to it…Ms. Marsh?

Yes sir, oilfieldguy, I bounce back & forth between L.A. and Las Vegas, but I live in Las Vegas now.

My daughter lives here, I married her off yesterday, so I have been here since Saturday. Let me know if you ladies are interested in dinner–if you don’t have other plans.

David Schuster on KO re: yesterday’s election:

“The Democrats are making some progress on the ‘culture of corruption theme’, but they need to run stronger candidates. That gaffe Saturday night really hurt her.”

Afternoon. I’m pretty late to this discussion, but I’ll add this: I’m very disappointed in the Democratic leadership on this Coulter issue. It’s a HUGE opening in the R team lines…and the D team is silent.

Let’s play a game. The “Pretend” game. Let’s pretend that Ann Coulter is a long-time….Democrat! That’s right. Over the past 5-6 years she’s written many books excoriating the republicans. She calls them cowards, closet gays, bouhgt of by the arabs, and on and on. try to twist every vile thing Coulter has said/written, and turn it into similar vile “bash the republicans” talk. With me so far?

Now then, pretend further that on 06/06/06, this LIBERAL Ann Coulter releases a book. She goes on national TV and calls the 9-11 widows a bunch of whores, etc etc etc. What happens?

Well buddies, I’ll bet you my doughnuts to your dollars that a damn TSUNAMI of Republican outrage blisters the airwaves. Rover has a field day. R teamers in the House and Senate take the podium and shout indignation. They appear in the halls and on the steps of Congress for interviews. They bloviate LIKE THERE’S NO TOMORROW on “that bitch Coulter…typical Democrat…how DARE she!!!!”

Lots of Americans sitting at home nod their heads in agreement. Those damn democrats, they lament. What a bunch of godless jerks.End of Pretend Game.

So, where’s OUR team??? There is a HUGE opening in the enemy lines. Our leadership needs to attack. Instead…they seem to enjoy sitting on their ass. And they wonder why they keep getting their ass handed to them in elections?
Ghostman

Heh, With everyone running off to Vegas,it looks like us lunatics are left to running the asylum.*g*

Ghostman, they have a taste not for the jugular, but for the capillaries. It’s a problem. We’re trying to fix that. That’s what all this movement building is about, and what Ykos is about.

Oilfieldguy– congrats to you– it must be very special that all things converged perfectly for you and yours. I have to admit, I am sooooo jealous of all y’all. Be sure to check in frequently for those of us that are there in spirit.

Welcome Christy- sorry I didn’t see your message right away- slacking off working on the grant proposal. And, I’m not going to make it. Alas.

But please, everyone who is there please go out of your way to meet Matt O., and make sure he’s taken care of. He’s my “tribute” for yKos. Even though he is young in years, he is an incredibly fine writer and researcher. I’ve taught a lot of undergrads his age over the years, and not seen the like of him. He has a great future, and kudos for FDL for discovering him.

I’ve wondered that very thing myself Ghostman. Reps are navel gazing and whining about the mighty right wing wurlitzer–and not a peep out of them on these many outrages. They should be sounding like a hellfire and brimstone pentecostal preacher, but they act more like Eeyore.

At the old time state fairs they used to have a special tent featuring prodigies and monstrosities such as aborted two-headed calves in formaldehyde. Television continues that tradition: Coulter is just an upgraded version of that two-headed calf.

Has anybody commented on the grotesque dissonance of her sitting there with her black micro-dress hiked up to her thighs, flipping her hair, bellowing that THOSE WOMEN are greedy, exhibitionistic, and opportunistic.

This was pure projection; she was utterly oblivious to the irony.

Mary @ 107 –

I’m with you on holding in a good rant on the First Amendment, Rule of Law, and Congressional abdication of oversight . . . but one of these days, it’s gonna come out.

I just hope you and looseheadprop are around, so we can do it in harmony. ;)

I’ve always thought that to engage Ann Coulter on her terms is to give her what she wants – another opportunity to spew hate.

I’ve often wondered how she would react if, instead of taking the usual tack with her, people went right to the heart of what I think is so obviously wrong with her: she is a deeply unhappy person with probably a totally empty life.

“It’s probably impossible for someone like yourself, who’s never had a husband or – am I right? – even a long-term committed relationship with anyone – to even begin to understand what it is like to lose a husband.”

“Gosh, Ann, that’s a lot of anger toward women who all had something you’ve never had – any thought that that might be the real reason for your anger?”

“Hey, Ann, we thought we’d ask Bill Frist – he’s so good at those long-distance, armchair diagnoses outside of his medical specialty – if he thinks you’d be more well-disposed to so many people you direct anger at if you only had something many of those people have – fulfilling and positive relationships, as well as children.”

“Hey, c’mon Ann – you can tell us the truth – you’re really just in it for the money, aren’t you? I mean, you’re going to need a lot of it when you’re old, ’cause the only people you’re going to have to take care of you are people you’ll have to pay to do it…and I suspect that might come with a steep price tag, given your aversion to people of so many different groups.”

I mean, the possibilities are endless.

I’d also like to see someone throw a bucket of water on her – I’m pretty sure she’d melt.

I think that the culture of corruption theme was a big nothing in CA50. Back to the drawing board. Having a soccer mom stand up and threaten to clean up Washington is pretty pathetic politics.

Mazeltov, oilfieldguy. I look forward to meeting you during YearlyKos. I’ll be covering it.

capillaries–jugular–Sometimes on these blogs I feel like the Indian sending up smoke signals and after spotting the mushroom cloud from a nuclear test and saying, “Damn, I wish I’d said that.”

At every White House press briefing, an intrepid member of the Fourth Estate should quote a passage from Ms. Coulter’s book and ask Tony Snow whether the president agrees with it. It should be done every day.

Ghostman – It’s not enough, but it’s a start… Clinton goes after Coulter.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..1_widows_4

Pach at 133 — you know I’m pretty much up for shopping at all times. And I may need to go myself. (any excuse…LOL)

Now THAT would be a catfight. The ‘angry’ Hillary against the ‘crazy’ Coulter.

oilfieldguy at 139 — are you at the Riv? We’ve been up since 4 am ET and are getting ready to take a nap for a bit. But I’d definitely be up for a later dinner or some coffee or drink or something. Why don’t you e-mail me and we’ll work out details. Am trying to get in touch with Siun as well and see if she’s free later…

Ghostman,

After thinking about it it’s highly unlikely MSM would use someones party affiliation to describe them unless they were an elected official or an officer etc. of the party

RH- BTW, Matt O. is staying at the Riviera. (see my comment #147)

144, Pach: then you and the gang get out your K-Bar…and I mean that in a good way. Good luck out there.

154, jurismark: agreed. However, EVERY member of the Democratic delegation to Congress ought to take the podium and ask those same questions aloud. Makes for good messages!

Ghostman

Yeah, I’m at the Riveiera. I’m registered under my given name, Kelly Andrews. I’ll email my cell number in case I’m out of the room.

KO: “If you were Ann Coulter’s attorney at an insanity hearing…where would you start?“

Wuups– typo Riviera.

By the way Taylor, you rawk.

159, Cozumel…I agree, and disagree…how do you like them apples!

My own point is….don’t “rely” on MSM to carry the ball. Everytime a Democratic leader goes on TV, he/she refers to Ann as “leading Republican representative, Ann Coulter, etc etc”.

Use the MSM to get your own message out.
Ghostman

KO: “Imagine what a bitch she is when I’d rather be talking about…Catherine McPhee.”

Ummm, I thought CHS email was on this site somewhere, can’t find it and don’t have it.

KO: “Earlier I alluded to trying to defend her at an insanity hearing. But that was insufficient. Imagine trying to defend her on Judgment Day. When you can’t even find her soul.”

You know what a PIG she is… says KO who served up her scrawny, misogynistic, flea bitten and hate ridden butt on a platter.

Buenos Noches all in Vegas and Buena Suerte!

Hi Oldfield guy- ejoy Vegas. reddhedd at aol dot com but surely she must be registered as “Mrs. Smith?”

Oilfieldguy — it’s ReddHedd at AOL dot com. Ooops — should have put it in the comment. (I’m a little tired…)

Oilfield,

Reddheddataoldotcom

Oilfieldguy

ReddHedd AT aol DOT com

(RH notes: I changed the e-mail addy so the spam bots don’t get it and send me even more crap…helloooo, don’t need viagra…I’m a girl…)

LOL thanks VG, you are coming out here too, right?

ooh I heard pig and you heard bitch, al- Scooter. Must be the blood rushing thru me ears.

either way, an insult to both species.

Does this revulsion from the right at Tran Coulter’s hatred of the 9/11 widows mean that we can soon expect to bury the “Sister Souljah Moment” phrase and replace it with a new one?

You think any GOP politicians are going to have an “Ann Coulter Moment” soon?

Just hopin’

OT (whew!) to Mary, if you’re still around:

After your brief remarks downstairs (a flight or two — B&E this morning) re Gen. Hagee’s dance with “standards,” I pondered a little more about that term. Quite an interesting word-choice on his part was “standards,” don’t you think? “The standards of the United States Marine Corps.”

Somehow I bet you’ve read both Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles” and the short story she later reworked it into, “A Jury of Her Peers.” And you’ll recall that, among other things, Glaspell’s play/story really brings into focus how “standards” differ from “rules,” and how a female culture will likely govern itself by objective standards (”in this situation, what makes sense?”), while a male culture is apt to order itself by subjective rules (”in this situation, what is the law?”).

Anyhow, I spent some time today noticing and appreciating the Marine Corps commandant’s retreat from talk of rules — of the law of war — of the Geneva Convention — into talk of what may well be, for him, a new concept: standards.

I’m interested in your — and anybody else’s — reflections on this usage in that Marine’s caramelized speech.

oilfieldguy- alas no- see my comment at 147 (or thereabouts).

angie, you’re prolly right, maybe I just heard what I wanted to hear. And you’re absolutely right on your assessment. Apologies to our porcine and female canine friends everywhere!

EXCEPT!!! Itried e-mailing you the screen shot the other day and got a very confused Jane on the reply. I have no clue what happened there.

Geneva ConventionS

Nein Judges #178:

The best way to ensure that happens is to keep the pressure on. Let’s hope they’re under about 10,000 fathoms’ worth this summer.

Bustednuckles- I got a kick back email that I sent to RH also a day or so ago. aol email got hit by spam so RH’s inbox was full. Maybe that was the problem?

Could be VG. All I know is that I was sputtering and stammering trying to explain to Jane what it was all about.

VG & BN: Didn’t I read that aol.mail was having serious problems a day or two ago?

OK, FDLnon-Vegas types – we can do this. We can pull through this week if we stay together. Hey, we’ll only be missing the politico-historical tide-turning of the century, the Woodstock of the blogoshpere.

Oh sure, someday I’ll tell my grandkids “Well, I could have attended that Plame panel you read about in your school books, but things were pretty crazy at work, and it was the end of the school year for your mom/dad, and ….”. Then I’ll just get that vacant look and trail off, muttering to myself.

just kidding. sorta. have a great time at YKos, you lucky firedogs.

new thread – new city

Happiness would be opening the fridge and finding a picture of Ann Coulter on the milk carton.

Whatever happened to the old “drink in face” response to crassness on this level?

With here record of vitriol, Ary-Ann Coulter should travel with her own lifejacket.

-GSD

I’ve never watched a Coulter performance before this latest outburst. But the idea of seeing her hung over (or was it still a little drunk?) in cocktail dress at a 7 AM news interview was too much to resist. My reaction after seeing her was that she does it because of money. It’s her job. That is how she makes money. Looked like show business to me, at least as much as conviction. So I can’t get very outraged over her views or the way she expresses them anymore, since I wonder how sincere they are. I can vigorously point out that it is outrageous that this kind of junk sells to any significant segment of the US public. Or that the corporate media is so corrupt that is would showcase her without serious examination of what she is saying or how she says it. But that is money too, I suppose. I am not sure whether Lauer was trying to seriously challenge her or whether his approach was showbusiness too. Maybe he wanted, or was instructed to, work up a public affairs segment in the spirit of Jerry Springer.
My view is that the big media tolerates this kind thing to curry favor with GOP sugar daddies in Congress and WH, and to make a quick buck. It ain’t news anymore. It is a combination of disguised campaign contribution/slush funding, public opinion social engineering and cheap showmanship. One thing it is not is news or serious analysis. There needs to be a session about corporate media ethics at a blogger ethics panel soon. Will there be one at YearlyKos?

Thanks a LOT, punaise, yessir!

LJ/Aquaria – the milk would have turned sour

Busted, at 5:53, I appreciate your willingness to help, but my understanding is that spammers run automated routines that scan blogs for the format email addresses.

What I’ve seen people do to defeat this automation (so Christy’s inbox doesn’t get overwhelmed) is to rewrite the address like this
“ReddHedd at aol dot com”
My understanding is that this makes it harder for the machines to identify the text as a workin email address.

If this is accurate, perhaps someone could delete Christy’s actual address at 5:53.

Ary-Ann, the weiblicher Fuhrer of the Repub-Aryan nation speaks for her subjects. They agree with all she says and they support her. MSNBC question of the day – Ann Coulter on 9/11 Widows – Did she go too far? 19% of her loyal followers say she did not. Apparently they are crazy too, or maybe just evil, or (my personal favorite), both.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080261/#survey

wesgpc at 193 — I’m on a blogger ethics panel on Saturday. (At least, we’ve decided to call it that…)

Pun-Boy:

To match the curdling she does to people’s blood.

JC- I raised this point also when Jennifer Nix posted her email. However, Coz commented that his email addy has been online for business for quite a while, and that he had not had any problems with spambots. His business partner says same. So, may be an Urban Legend.

CH Smith, #198: Hope you find time to discuss corporate media ethics too. Interesting if you could lay out a consensus blogger ethics statement, or guidelines and then, at appropriate later date, Compare and Contrast performance of the two camps.
Hope there are pics posted at FDL of everyone. You and Jane are still the Absolutely Fabulous girls in my mind, since I mistook a picture of them for you two once when I first started reading your blog.

I held my nose and watched her with Hannity just now. Poor Ann. She’s fed up with not being able to “respond” to Democrats and she feels like now she has broken that taboo. Wow. So what we’ve seen befoe this was the muzzled Ann?

By the way, her drooling fans may buy her books, but they don’t actually read them.

Heh. I had a fantasy this morning that we were being introduced to AC at a party. The conversation went like this:

Host: this is Ann Coulter.
ME: Pleased to meet you…
AC: Hello
ME: (bursting out laughing)
AC: Tell me what’s funny
ME: Oh, it’s nothing. YOu just reminded me of something I forgot to do when I was in the bathroom…

Christy
Glad to hear you arrived safe and sound.

I am jealous up here in the Great White North.

I will be following everything assiduously.

Scarborough just had Mike Pappantonio and some oleaginous “Republican strategist” on, with the RS defending Coulter as the vanguard of some new movement against political correctness. Please. Pappantonio got up in the guy’s face and told him that both he and Coldsore represent the party of hatred and division. Scarborough had to referee; it’s a good thing the two weren’t in the same studio or I think Pappantonio might have put a fist in the smug motherfucker’s face.

One thing that hasn’t been enough discussed in the context of Coulter’s viciousness is that the WTC widows’ whole purpose is not just to cause the nation to remember their men and all the other victims. At least as much as that has been their work to force the government to have a real investigation of the events of 9/11.

If there is a graciously organized design to the Universe, Coulter and her supporters are as far from it as possible. They have chosen oblivion, let them stay there.

My parents are republicans, My dad is watching from heaven but my mom is still Here telling me I am a commie pinko liberal and a traitor to their ideals and that is what I would like to say something about. The republican party that my mom grew up with bears absolutely no resemblance to the present repugs. I don’t know that they are full blown fascists but they are very close. Ann Coulter epitomizes, as you say, what these people are about, and what they are has no benefit for humanity, they are frightening in their meanspirited attacks on anything that benefits anybody but themselves. I would say that their irresponsible words and actions are actually traitorous and of no use here in our country, and I am not seething with anger as I write, I just calmly and with reason and forethought think they have no business occupying positions of trust, and responsibility for the welfare of anybody because they do not care a whit, and to add insult to injury they want to foist there totally skewed version of religion on the rest of us and if we are not diligent in fighting them they will destroy us and this country, if they haven’t already. I have thought for awhile now that the democrats entrenched in D.C. who are unresponsive to our wishes should be replaced as soon as possible, but not with millionaires, how can someone like that have any understanding of the majority of us. You guys are excited about Ned Lamont, and he is a better man than Joe, but goddamit he is too wealthy, I don’t hate people with money I just think that the people would be better served by someone who walks our walk, and there are ways to raise money to accomplish this, and there are ways to overhaul how campaigning is run, but it won’t happen until we get rid of the ineffective people now holding elective office. I know I am a little OT sorry, it just leaked out of me.

Don’t say Republican, just say Ann Coulter. Why does Ann Coulter want such-and-such, do whatever, think so-and-so etc.

it is extremely, EXTREMELY important – can’t be emphasized enough – that America really, really see what it is be a republican – to see the vermin at the core of the party using the name republican to infest, sicken, and poison America, turning it into the a reflection of the ugly cancerous beings they are.

Today’s cult of republicanism, the whacked out despicable manipulative religious right fundamentalist; the power mad, overwhelmingly greedy, callous, egomaniac, megalomaniac anti-American constitution-destroying conservatives%u2026this is what it means today to be a republican.

Yes, the sick, demented blood-sucking maggot Ann Coulter is the republican poster child along with Bimbaugh, Hannity, and O’Leilly. Americans need to know this more than anything if they want their country back.
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spaghetti happens says:
June 7th, 2006 at 6:54 pm

Scarborough just had Mike Pappantonio and some oleaginous Republican strategist

Oleaginous is a great word-I got the visual

When I see Coulter what I see is a TV personality, nothing more. The man has a routine where he dresses in drag and then says all these outrageous comments. Coulter has taken Dame Edna, turned her into an asshole, and guess what? It sells. It’s hard to blame the guy, he’s just making big bucks for being controversial, like O’Riley.

The bait-and-switch of trANNy Coulter is that people can sit and stare at her boobs and “beauty”, without having to listen to what she is saying.

There’s no need for deep analysis with this transgendered demon, because there doesn’t have to be. Stare at her boobs (unless you are gay and always looking for her Adam’s apple) — subconsciously absorb what she is saying — disregard facts and all rational thought. And suddenly, out of nowhere, you have her evil stuck inside your mind, without even knowing how it got there.

Coulter is important because she’s cover for the assholes slightly to the left of her. She makes Bush seem positively moderate; she gets memes out into the airspace that can’t be said by anybody that has to run for re-election (cf. Swift Boating) — the right wing has succeeded in moving the entire spectrum of political debate to the right. Coulter can easily get on the air w/ her (as Orcinus wd say) eliminationist fantasies partly, I think, because the media really do think of politics as a game, as a reality show — she’s the equivalent of Simon what’shisname on American Idol as far as they’re concerned — a real bitch and a real hoot. Therefore Lauer’s bullshit final comment.

There’s one TV scene I want to see so badly I can taste it:

Ann Coulter & Randi Rhodes, live on CNN. Any topic. 30 minutes. (Make sure a tarp is in place to catch the blood.)

Who is Ann Coulter? Did she pop fully formed from Rush’s rectum? Seriously, what is her background? Who are her parents? What do former classmates think of her? Has she always been this way?

Mom and dad, wake up and see today’s Republican Party. It’s Ann Coulter. It’s enough to make a moderate Republican vote Democratic.

I’m doing more than voting Democratic, I’m donating time & money to candidates that are more rational then “my party” seems capable of these days. Although I’m registered Republican, and have been my whole life, the utter nonsense since the Neocons took over has turned me into a Libertarian Democrat (the name for which I just learned today). I don’t agree with all the progressive platforms, but the idea of a net-roots accountable, reality-based politics that isn’t run be some corporate juggernaut is worth it to me.

It seems a lot more reasonable to ask people to pay a modest sum for health insurance that they don’t agree with than demand that they pay twenty times as much (and counting) for a war of aggression that they don’t agree with, just so it can be used as a front for corporate welfare.

And how people who came unhinged at Dean’s heat of the moment war cry can put up with Ann Coulter’s carefully crafted hate-mots is beyond me.

–MarkusQ

whenever i see that ann is spouting off the saying that comes into my mind is the old children’s taunt, “i know you are, but what am i?” because the truth of it is, ann is always accusing “liberals” of crimes that the far-right has cornered the market on already. ann never let a day go by without bashing bill clinton over something, but now even questioning the administrations actions is tantamount to treason. and her latest bit of projection is that democrats think they are infallable huh? wasn’t it george bush who couldn’t think of a single mistake he’d made in office. yeah ann, to use another appropriate phrase, i’m rubber and you’re glue.

e.c.

e.c. @ 9:48 pm (#217) – Yes, that’s an apt observation. More than that, I’ve often thought that if they ever illustrate the expression “pot calling the kettle black”, Ann’s portrait will be one of the pictures.

Sadly, Taylor’s right, too. There are countless folks out there who think that Ann Coulter is witty, funny, even a genius. As far as I can see, she is none of those things. Whether these folks lack hearts or minds I’m not sure, it could be either or both, I suppose. They certainly are pitiful excuses for human beings, in any case.

RE: Coultergeist love child with Ken M? I thought marriage was between a man and a woman…er,uh,,lovechild…. that would be without marriage…wait,wait EXTRA-marital sex? Oh, darn…lol

Keep an eye on Scoobie Davis. He conned Coulter into being interviewed by him once and his commentary on her is always spot on.

Godless Ann Coulter

http://godlessanncoulter.blogspot.com/

I saw Ann Coulter on the Hannity *blech* show. I hate the way they imply, mythologize the 9/11 victims as though they were all lily white. I remember reading the obituaries — probably like a lot of people in the tri-state area– and the victims were of many different backgrounds, ethnicities nationalities or whatever. One of the most heartbreaking was the obituary of a delivery man originally from Taiwan who was probably still wearing the jacket he wore to this country many years ago– and although he was retirement age and his children wanted to support him, he wanted to keep working to contribute to his Buddhist temple.
If the rethugs are going to try and fetishize the victims in an anti-immigrant atmosphere, I think it’s downright wrong and hypocritical and a disservice to those who died, especially when you look at the beating heart of NYC.

I wonder if she grew up hating her neighbors in CT. When she talks of “godless liberals” I wonder if she is lumping quiet Catholics, Congregationalists and Episcopalians and all the other denominations and religions and philosophies into that category. Talking of religion is considered bad manners in CT, since it is private. Therefore people aren’t exactly pounding the pulpit like Falwel. But that is a good principle as far as I am concerned. Even if secularism = atheism, who is she to judge. She’s all brass and I doubt she ever took anything to heart other than the pats on the back she got from fellow right-wingers.

Thank goodness there is someone out there tackling the menace of widows and grieving mothers.

Two-half stars and #1?

Coulter has a BIG, deep. dark, secret:

In actuality, she hardly sells any books–The overwhelming majority of her “sales” consist of mass-buys by rightwing sites, which GIVE AWAY her books along with yearly memberships, sometimes 2 books at a time.

When do you see Michael Moore’s, or
Al Franken’s books just given away via promotional offers?

NEVER.
Because regular customers actually BUY their books.

The pitiful fact is, even Coulter’s
most devoted “fans” don’t actually pay money for her books.

It is the book-publishing equivalent of:

“…And if you join our music CD club TODAY, you get a free double CD of Milli Vanilli’s greatest hits–That’s, FREE, folks!”

Coulter is strictly a manufactured phenomenon, fed & nurtured by the circular, self-reinforcing moneybag$
behind rightwing publishing, nothing more.

If anyone skilled at investigation pursues this, they will find this to be incontrovertibly true.

It is her Achilles heel (along with her obvious mental instability).

Let’s get the truth about Coulter out there—–

She is a fake! A total sham!!

Put down of the decade from Mr Olbermann….

Appearing in Playboy and getting divorced ….neither of those being scenarios Ann Coulter is ever going to have to deal with in her life.

The Republican Party uses people like Ann Coulter to publicly state the most outrageous concepts held by the fascists in our nation. The Democratic Party makes the mistake of having some of it own members make controversial statements, and this sets them up for attacks by the msm and the Republican Party.

Statements such as, “Pull out of Iraq now,” “War crimes trials should begin,” “Promote alien marriage,” and “Pinochet and Cheney are twin brothers of different mothers,” should be made by media people. These extreme statements advance whacked out ideas that no one believes, but it give the appearance that anything the democratic representatives pale by comparison.

Since the vast majority of concepts put forward by the Republican Party are destructive to democracy, American ideals and the intent of the Constitution, one might assume that it is the enemy within.

We know this cannot be true because the enemy within would torture Americans – guilty and innocent alike. They would kill Americans – guilty and innocent alike. They would steal from those with great need to give to those who have more than enough. They would start wars against nations that represent no threat. They would argue from a paranoid state that pre-emptive war is a necessity. They would ridicule emotional and spiritual health, because they advance self-reliance and are more difficult to manipulate. They would advance cynicism throughout the society to coarsen the discourse and dehumanize one’s fellow man. They would allow marketers to manipulate their children, and would take special delight in conning adults. The middle class would be losing ground to the wealthy as the poor lose everything. They would claim to be conservatives, but would be something else entirely. “%u2026something evil, this way comes.”

Ann Coulter. Ann Coultur? Ann Coldtur?

Hmmmm, Ann Coldturd.

Yep, that sounds about right.

That wacko is the G.O.P., during intergration in the 60’s all if not most Dems left for the Republican party, and still voice their hatred to anyone one of color, see through their hate righties, come to the Dems for a free country again. Guess who’s gunna win in 06?, all the Diebold, machine rigging , election stealing, Christian coalition, endtimes, sick, sick souls. Save this land, someone please.

Ann Coulter is the Republican Base as much as the ignorant, overweight, disgusting, Left wing liberal Micheal Moore is the Democrat Base. Fact is stupid people say stupid things, and there is an audience for all of it. That is why both Ann Coulter, and Micheal Moore will write more books or make more movies than people like me. I think both the Liberals and Conservatives have their fair number of idiots, so take it easy with trying to judge an entire political party by their extreme idiot members, that knife can cut both ways.

Ann Coulter is herself Godless, heartless, crass, without any moral fiber and obviously unhappy. She is not as bright as ahe is ugly.

Matt Lauer crawled up in a ball after his ass whooping by Ann Coulter? Are they kidding?

If anything, Matt proved that she has no ability to speak under pressure and that she doesn’t have a cohesive thought of her own that’s not pre-massaged by publicists and editors. If she doesn’t have a script or a teleprompter, she can’t speak. It was so blatantly obvious that all she prepped for on Today was a plug of her book. And when Matt took her to task, she couldn’t respond.

For the record, I am neither liberal nor conservative. What I am is an American who is put off by her ignorance and ashamed to realize that so many people actually buy into her garbage politicizing.