It seems that the Lady Anne has trouble keeping her Crying Game-sized wrists from filching other people’s stuff when they’re hammering away at the keyboard:
John Barrie, the creator of a leading plagiarism-recognition system, claimed he found at least three instances of what he calls "textbook plagiarism" in the leggy blond pundit’s "Godless: the Church of Liberalism" after he ran the book’s text through the company’s digital iThenticate program.
He also says he discovered verbatim lifts in Coulter’s weekly column, which is syndicated to more than 100 newspapers, including the Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Sun-Sentinel and Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
I know she’s been trying to get down the Virgin Ben’s pants for a while, but I bet you’re thinking what I’m thinking…wrong Ben. It’s box turtle time!
I think God, Darwin and the rest of us are all happy about that wingnut abstinence thing right about now, eh?
Update: In the comments, Skippy says it ain’t the first time. And The Rude One has been all over this….er, the plagiarism, that is.
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Single!
Again! Whaa Hoo!
Wait, I’ve seen that before but it was out in the middle of a cornfield.
I was having a beautiful day and you go and print this photograph of the chief bitch of regressive dismantling the constitution. There went my high and my lunch.
Some would say that this brings Ann down to little Ben’s level — I say that it elevates her.
Reclaimed from the sewers, by petty theft. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving Spawn of Satan.
Christy? you there?
I think the first question I have is whether Coulter sat for the bar and is licensed…
From the ABA’s Center for Professional Responsibility:
Ahem.
Plagiarism is a violation of intellectual property rights, isn’t it?
The Rude one has been all over Anne’s filching.
http://www.rudepundit.blogspot.com/
Fitz!
It’s not theft or even plagiarism, it’s free market laissez-faire economics applied to literature.
Thanks Jane.
Coulter looks like a poster-child for a life-threatening eating disorder, anorexia, and silicone breast implants, just like Anna Benson.
Is it just me, or is this picture creepy? Every time I see it I think of that Seinfeld episode with the “man hands”.
* s h u d d e r *
Also makes me think of an X-files episode, but I’ll be damned if I can recall which one.
I’ve long suspected Coulter was inspired by certain texts from Germany of the 30s and early 40s … couple that plagiarism detector program with Babelfish translations and I might be proven right!
No shit, is that a real photo?
Hey…has anyone ever seen a picture of Ann Coulter as a little girl? I’m really starting to wonder here.
EPU’d – A liar, plagiarist, fraudulent voter, and really subhumanly unattractive. Yeah, I think her shrill 15 minutes are clocked out.
That picture at the NYPost of Anne in her basement or whatever is just mui horrorific. She really looks creepy.
Just caught up with The Understanderer’s statement on the NYT’s transgression. Gee, he looks like a pissed little schoolboy. Why the fake indignation?
Would you let this woman babysit your children? I really hate to say it but she looks like she should be on one of those statewide sex offender web sites.
Now I know where I’ve seen those hands before.
http://www.dinosauria.com/gall…..raptor.jpg
Jane! Bravo for catching the wrist clue in both ‘Crying Game’ and Anne’s facade!
Though I had no delusions I was the only human out there to get that signal early in the film (and still, it did NOT take away from the shock factor later on), or with regard to Anne’s equivocal anatomy, it’s a treat to finally run across a wrist-watcher!
I was just going to drop off some fresh baked nutmeg muffins at the Cheney’s over in Maryland. Anyone want to add to the basket?
lll 17 — I spotted those wrists in 5 seconds.
she looks like she should be on one of those statewide sex offender web sites
At the rate she’s going, that’ll prolly be the next news.
as the saying goes, when you steal from one person, it’s plagiarism, when you steal from a lot of people, it’s research.
the gawker reports she was plagiarizing as far back as 97.
as to her supposed attractiveness, remember, she’s a sex symbol to the same people that find condi rice attractive.
First there are kisses, then there are sighs ,and then before you know where you are …down low alibis
;>)
Bustedknuckles at 6:11 – only you might know!
What a CREEPY pic…..but fitting for mAnnie! YUCK
darkblack 22 — oh lord that’s a dinner launcher.
Can that woman tie her shoes without bending over? Just asking.
Ann Coulter. The genuine article. A real femi-nazi. She’s such a naughty little piece of “Verk”. So much hate, shoe-horned in such a skinny little body.
we are veering into “trannie bashing”(verbal) territory here now. If Ann really is transgendered, it’s her life. The problem then is the hypocrisy and of her gay-baiting. She runs with and supports the crowd that loathes and abominates transsexuals …
there’s nothing wrong with being a trannie but there’s a world of wrong for being a hypocrite !
dark – so real. How do you do it?
Oh Jane this is rich!
Which reminds me – wasn’t Coulter in some deep doo doo not too long ago about voting irregularly – what a twisted sister – anybody got an update on that violation of election law?
Don’t cha just hate it when such an embarrassing and dreadful notable shares the same name – am gonna start calling myself Annie.
If I may be so immodest Bartcop posted a picture moi on the weekend wearing a ladies version of his recent black T-shirt
Worst President Ever! Wore it on the driving range this afternoon in Pebble Beach. mwahahah!
Bustedknuckles 6:04pm — Wolcott’s absolutely right, no respectable progressive should ever allow themselves to be in the same room with this unholy succubus.
It was mentioned some time in the last week that we need a progressive bookings firm — and this preternatural entity explifies the need. Progressive authors, journalists and other folks should be assured protections from this predator; a progressive booking firm would have a different agenda in place and a different methodology for screening venues.
*ilson 27 — yes it is the hipocrisy of it, she’s made a bundle off of gay-baiting, thanks for setting the context.
I was at a BBQ yesterday with someone who used to work with her brother and knew the brother well.
So, I asked about her adam’s apple. I have no shame. Said brother buddy swears up and down that Anne was girl 25 years ago when he first heard about her from her brother.
I don’t know how old she is, but even if she’s 45, at at least the age of 20 she was a she.
The brother buddy was really suprised that I thought she might be transgender.
skippy, now I’m not the least bit interested in dinner.
has trouble keeping her Crying Game-sized wrists
ha, ha, ha, ha – I pee myself
so she’s a nazi and a plagiarist. she could be a freakin baby rapist and do you think they’d stop embracing her? hell the freak no. we are beyond every notion of civilized value with these fucking PSYCHO FREAKS.
darkblack is the digital political picasso.
It was so enjoyable to get home and read the Fubar thread. As usual thanks to everyone for the laffs, thoughtfulness, edification. Love me them sunday book salons.
Check this picture against the picture in the Post. Definitely store-bought boobs in the latter (later) photo.
I’m not so much into what people look like on the outside; the ugliness that is on the inside of Ann Coulter completely negates whatever physical beauty she might be considered to have. And, as others have said from time to time, it won’t be long before the hatred inside her affects her appearance.
While I don’t, as a rule, wish harm to befall people, I think there would be a delicious irony in Coulter being found to have committed multiple acts of plagiarism. Were she to be shunned by all sides – right and left – and left standing all alone, I think that might be some justice for the hurt and the harm she has done over the years.
As a life form, I prefer to think of her as one of the aberrations, one of God’s bigger mistakes, which He, in His infinite wisdom, will eventually correct for in some particularly righteous way. (hope God forgives me for the snark…*g*)
Rayne said:
Also makes me think of an X-files episode, but I’ll be damned if I can recall which one.
The episode with the six-fingered kids?
katecontinued close italics pls.
Jane,
Just to make sure credit is put where credit is due, it’s not just me that’s been writing about Coulter’s plagiarism. Ron Brynaert of Raw Story has been on this with me since July 2005.
ok, hello, some naughty ital tag non-closer
OMG, darkblack, you are utterly amazing!!!
Hi, friends, how’s everyone. I see I have cleverly finished my charting just in time to miss Book Thread as usual. Thanks to our guest poster, Mark, for joining us and for great comments which I promise to read in the morning.
There was a great vignette on This American Life today about a man who was the token nerd in his high school; he played the cello, was thin and small and geeky– total bully target. He spoke about how there was this one guy in school who targeted him and beat him up in a swimming pool, joined by his friends and that he was known to be able to press 500 pounds. This bully was Mr. Popular and the narrator was the Poor Geek. The worst thing, of course, was the day the Bully hip-checked the Geek and sent his cello flying, causing costly damage for which he never paid. The geek survived and lived to become a successful journalist, eventually forgetting about the Bully…… until one day he was listening to the news and it all came flooding back. Retribution, satisfaction, release! His childhood bully had finally received his just reward, because he was none other than…..Jack Abramoff.
I had to pull off the road I was laughing so hard.
lhp 6:24pm — which brings us to the other hypocrisy, that against independent-minded women who are not subjugated to men. If this wretch is a “real woman” in the right-wing parallel universe, how is it she is not married and with child? Why is she “free” to mouth off about other women in the same situation?
Hypocrite. Must be the name of this particular resident of Hades.
AnnIE H 29 — I posted this way early this morning at what would have been your middle-of-the-night, but here’s a bit from the Palm Beach Post’s gossip column today:
Jesu Cristo – her wrists are bigger than my feet!
One…singular sensation, every little hair he plucks
Once…He stood for urination, but now that unit is tucked
One smile and they all forget that you plagiarize
That Adam’s apple sure is an unusual size
Ooh! A! Whore for your attention
Do I really have to mention
‘She’…Is…Scum!
;>)
Why are some Republican women so damn proud of their breasts? Coulter’s Post pose reminds me of Katherine Harris.
op99 I am so sorry – katecontinued doesn’t know how to close them, especially after the fact.
(As an “Anne” myself, could we please stop spelling Coulter’s “Ann” with the “e”? Thank you and carry on…)
Did Anne Coulter have a movie career? I seem to remember her from the Wizard of Oz. Wasn’t she the broomstick?
Wolcott’s post title says it all:
“Pair of Tweezers Caught Plagiarizing”
Hi Rude!
That’s ok, kc, it just makes one feel so…irrelevant when one’s pearls of wisdom are all italicized. ;)
zenn – too perfect.
but you know what? there is no shame anywhere anymore in this 100% corrupt political/media culture. with the relentless institutionalized disinfo that americans now swim in, abramoff could run for president next month and win.
Jane,
You have mail!
Waiting for Fitz-O — oh man, I just thought of one but it wasn’t about the hands…
1X13 GenderBender
Heh.
lotus,
“Miami lawyer has told Anderson’s office that she has applied to strike her Seabreeze Avenue address from records.”
(edited by CHS — they may play that game, but I’m not comfortable playing it. Sorry, but I’m editing this out.)
what is it about the song “One” that lends itself to fascism-bashing parody perfection…dunno, but love it
“abramoff could run for president next month and win.”
Not as a convicted felon, alas for him (plus, ain’t no money in it).
Leggy blonde! As Satan’s daughter she has hooves, hairy legs, a tail, a long snake-like tongue, and under the blonde wig, pointed ears.
I’ve lost my faith in Fitz, btw. The horrorshow is just too far gone.
Rayne–
I don’t get it.
I’m cultcha-impaired, I guess.
zen
lotus 59 – laws? hahahahahaha. you silly. :)
*ilson, 27: I agree that fundamentally Coulter’s gender identity is her business. On the other hand, her hatefulness and irrational ravings, her manifest contempt for any notion of fair play, leaves her open to personal invective. One would say fair is fair.
Anybody who calls for sending a member of the Supreme Court to the gas chamber is guilty of such a great obscenity, that making fun of her anatomy is mild by comparison, and in a relative sense, compassionate.
In principle you are right, in practice, she deserves what she gets. My own belief is that any kind of attention she gets, whether it is adoring praise or hate in kind, she just laps up and laughs all the way to the bank.
The best way to treat people like Coulter is to ignore them.
ummm … as a convicted felon Abramoff could run for President* in some states … Indiana didnt outlaw felons holding public office until about 30 years ago (after it was discovered a radical Black legislator had a rather serious ‘youthful indiscretion’)
* or is this a Constitutional disqualification?
katecont’d, to close, you do the same thing you did to open them, with these “”, but you put a / in front of the i.
same with bold “b”
and underline
and strikethrough, but that one never works for me.
But *ilson is the only one who knows how to make your text turn colors. Sorry, can’t help you there, and he won’t tell.
I’m glad I went to church today or I would be saying something really nasty like “not even with Rush Limbaugh’s wanker”.
What is the title to (m)Ann’s new book?
Codless?
Rayne — the voting in the wrong precinct felony charge is what will likely get her in trouble with the state bar in which she is licensed (I believe she went to Cornell undergrad, and not sure about her law school creds…but she could be licensed pretty much anywhere if she has actually passed a bar exam and practiced at some point. It wouldn’t have to be FL.) In any case, felony charges anywhere are pretty much guaranteed to raise eyebrows with a state bar ethics committee. Felony charges plus plagiarism — definitely raises some eyebrows, but that’s especially true if it was done knowingly, which they’d only find out if she is sued civilly and discloses such on the record during a deposition or testimony.
Hi OFG – postin’?
The Israeli government is doing mischief again. They’re randomly extinguishing human life and exhibiting their total disregard for humanity and international law. Of course, we Americans cannot point fingers at Israel. ‘Cause we’re doing the same thing in Iraq. When will the carnage stop? Is this a great country, or what. We’re supposed to be the greatest champions of human rights in civilized history. The United States of Hypocrisy. It’s all so disgusting.
When historians like Doris Kearns Goodwin and Pierce Ambrose were caught up in plagiarism it was all the talk and practically ruined careers. It shows how disreputable the gutter slime pop authors like Coulter are that their transgressions are not treated with the same level of outrage.
Coulter’s books are little different from the tabloids crowding the space at supermarket checkout lanes, except she uses more words and fewer badly-photoshopped pictures. If not for the conservative welfare institutional buys sending crates of her books to garbage scows, I doubt she’d even exist as anyone of note.
Oh, *ilson, zen’s tutorial reminds me — yesterday when I was going on about Key limes, I saw your note to go look at the comment where I’d done so. But the thang still looked black to me. Waaaah.
Ya gotta admit she’s kinda sexy, in a weird sort of way.
One of my fantasies: a three-way with me, Ann Coulter and Danielle Pletka.
Anne @ 50
Are you my mother? That’s exactly what she, as another Anne would say.
Made me laugh right out loud, as just this week she was sharing the observation with an Ann that the two names are not the same. Ann agreed.
almost any standard html tag will work in here except for ‘tables’ … of course, lists of html tags can be found easily
notice anything different about this? (Mac users need not apply)
meta,
It’s in the hopper. Jane prolly has a jillion emails to wade through.
I meant Stephen Ambrose, gah!
lhp @ 33 – you have no shame! And now, of course, he will be thinking about it all the time and asking other people – hey, did you ever think AC might be DC?
I am just now catching up with big chunks of thread and I have to say – Jane I hope you follow through at some point with your post 162 from the Bored thread. From that thread throught the day today — all kinds of good GOTV, focus groups, women in the Dem Party, healthcare, candidates, candidatespeak etc. items brought up.
I very much liked TRex’s commercial concenpt from the latenight thread, but Dems need to start selling NOW that they do have a policy for those things. Lots of the comments could become posts themselves, or linked, or expanded. There was a lot of interesting perspective. lhp’s story about the Rep. effort to groom women candidates – there’s an eyeopener.
Lots of things I never thought of for GOTV -the absentee ballots concepts has a lot of appeal IMO. Heck, *I* would rather do absentee myself and I don’t have kids.
Good stuff. I hope some of it can be preserved and massaged in days to come.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Meanwhile back at the farm.
UN thinks you ought not “disappear”” people to torture and kill them. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200…..ances_dc_1
US says, well sure you can, as long as you were acting in “obedience to superior orders.” Has anyone told the mob that this is a valid defense? HOw about state and Congressional moneyscaming staffers and ex-s? Of course, I guess if you are the top human on the orders chain, as long as God or Satan speaks to you directly you are still covered. It’s really all a jurisdictional dispute between good and evil.
Same time, different place.
EU thinks there should be a global ban on torture. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200….._torture_1
Bush sidesteps and says we use “legal” means – not torture. He mentions that under the Doctrine of Yoo and Eye (for an), torture isn’t torture if Yoo have a “national security” interest. EU – whose members form the originating source of our common and civil law – different take. The EU also said it condemned any attempt by states or public officials to legalize or acquiesce in such treatment “under any circumstances, including on grounds of national security.”
Foreign press lately seems to be saying that the European population is not nearly as willing as the Americans to let the torture issue go unaddressed. They seem to think it’s a crime when Osama does it AND it’s a crime when Bush does it.
Our DOJ is baffled at the concept. If they ever see the flow chart – the bafflement might turn to alarm.
Just heard it over the scanner that an arrest warrant has been issued for Ann Coulter. She’s wanted for stealing Rush’s viagra.
C’mon, who has more of a right to anything written by anybody than Ann? Just ask her?
And those dumbass Floridians who don’t know how to vote? What morons! They should just vote anywhere like Ann does.
Key Lime Pie?
will this work?
orangejump 64 says my thinking. But OTOH, no also. I’m at a loss. How to answer institutionalized entertainment insanity. Do we validate it with a shred of attention, which is what it counts on and begs for?
The more i think about it, the more ignominious it feels for a jane hamsher to even notice the existence of an ann coulter. It’s like einstein stooping to debate phrenology.
Your Rudeness,
Welcome to the Lake !
Sharkbabe – Darkblack as Picasso – did you see his Jane as Madonna Masterpiece ? – had me thinking Titian in it’s seamless perfection
damn, nope! Oooh, *ilson, I’m working on it!
Great pic: but the hands look like feet.
Hugh at 6:52 p.m.
Is it too soon to start singing, “Ding dong the witch is dead” yet?
Uh? Yuck
Mary 80 — would you like to cull it all together into a post?
People who hate themselves often project that hate onto others, and believe themselves to be deserving of the hate that is returned to them.
She’s a bitter, self-hating shell, who could use serious psychological help; it’s my guess that she will burst into flames before ever getting that help.
In the meantime, the media outlets who give her a platform need to know that an appearance by Coulter means the channel/station gets changed, or turned off altogether. The book stores who carry her books need to know you will no longer patronize them. You get the idea.
My guess is that she has not yet found the one truly heinous thing she could do or say that would forever stigmatize her the way she believes she should be, so she will get worse before she goes away.
looseheadprop 89 – I see your yuck and raise you a bleeeerghh…..
Pierce Ambrose = Stephen Ambrose
Sharkbabe, just because it isn’t in the news, doesn’t mean Fitz isn’t fighting
assholeTed Wells tooth and nail.Does Libby Get Rove’s Testimony?
by emptywheel
“Jeff, who is much more diligent watching Pacer than I, noted a Judge Walton ruling that probably answers a question I’ve asked about before. Does Libby get the Rove testimony?…”
zennurse : with my Moderator’s Super X-Ray Eyes, I looked inside your comment and saw no html tags whatsoever buried in there … it is possible WordPress is stripping out some ‘unauthorized’ html tags.
It’s really all a jurisdictional dispute between good and evil.
By gollies, I think Mary’s found The Key to All Mythologies.
how about this?
Then why can you do it, *ilson? I’m trying again, and apologize to others who are frustrated with my practice, but this is how we help each other at fdl.
:-(
Final OT link (for awhile at least)-
Prof linked this earlier with a lot of other things, but IMO but everyone should read this article.
http://www.latimes.com/news/na…..-headlines
It provide a quick insight into how hard so many in the military fought against the President’s decisions to break the laws of war and of Congress and this nation. They mention Mora, but one thing they don’t mention is he “papered his dissent” which is a tough thing to do when the President and Sec Def are aligned against you. He didn’t just grouse in meetings – he wrote formal opinion memos for the record.
JAG officers left and right were complaining (they don’t mention that a group went to the NY bar to complain and get advice). Some officers WITHDREW FROM THE PROSECUTION TEAM because of the lack of regularity of the proceedings.
Read back to some of the GITMO hearings coverage and you will see JAG officers being threatened with making the choice of violating ethics opinions from their state bars or being put in the brig by the military unless they followed the BushFeld Irregulars rules.
It would be very kewl to see Swift get a Profiles in Courage award next time through, and Mora be invited as a special guest for the presentation.
no tags visible inside that comment either, zennurse
rude p!
darkblack!
and btw you know who is sexy? helen the freakin thomas.
you know who’s totally not? dachau ann put you in the gas chamber coulter.
I’ve heard people postulate that her whole act is a complete fabrication. She’s no more heinous than your average wingnut, but average doesn’t sell. She has to continue to kick up the outrageousness to continue her marketing.
Her only core conviction is $$$. And she’s made plenty of it with her particular brand of sludge.
it might be coz I have *Moderator Powers* which grants me ease of smiting evildoers and the ability to make flashy colors — it does not include wit, wisdom or humility …
Yiii, *ilson 82, thass some assault on the ol’ eyebones!
But yes, at 201 on yesterday’s Pull Up a Chair, you shall find Key lime pie, Palm Beach Post Grouper, and Pisco Sours too.
cbl 84 – darkblack needs a page, I know there’s all kinds of greatness I’ve missed. s/he’s a tease with the mystery and excellence
EPU’d, posted here, comment did not appear:
Google Ann Coulter plagiarism and you will get about 98,000 hits, and they aren’t all recent. Apparently she has a history with this.
whats funny, Lotus, is that there is a list of only 216 colornames authorized for use in HTML : one of which is “GreenYellow” — it seemed apropos for the Key Lime reference …
Jane 90 – ROFL. You be wicked. *whiner – why doen’t someone —* *Jane – here,go right ahead*
It will take me awhile, but I would try to pull some of them together. There is just so much good stuff over those 3-4 threads so many things they made my head spin a bit. Some are, IMO, almost stand alones so the posters would have to be ok with that. I can try to pull some, email you or Christy to see what you think and if commenters are ok with their stuff going up – try to revisit some of the posts and topics over the next few days.
That has to be it, *ilson my dear, because it works on my practice page just fine. Do you have XRay vision as well?
I call no fair, somebody call Jamie, I want purple text!!!!!
(I’m kidding, I am perfectly capable of living within the limitations of being a mere Hamsher minion.) (And I love all moderators) (more on this later)
Shucks, folks…without FDL, there are scant reasons for my meager contributions to exist.
Thank you all
:)
we fillet no minions here …
I wish I could find a citation, but I remenber seeing something quite a while back, perhaps from a friend of Rush Limbaugh’s, that Rush’s schtick is just that, a meal ticket for him, and he thinks his listeners are idiots. (That’s one thing I agree with him on.) I would supect the same of Coulter, were it not for the fact that she was one of the “elves” behind the scenes on the Whitewater investigation. Thus, I conclude she is, indeed, a true believer.
Mary, great summaries. Did you read the dissents? If you do a long post, add something snarky about Alito’s dissent.
evidently Limbaugh and Coulter live by that cynical old maxim : “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
op99,
The principle players of destructive movements rarely believe what they’re selling, they just use it to mobilize mobs to overthrow the status quo. Although often times the leader/figurehead is insane enough to be a true believer. It’s been like that throughout history.
Further on what MAry said at 78
Re: The republicans grooming women (and minority) candidates:
This was not just a cynical marketing strategy. It grows out of and is an extension of Newt Ginrich’s GOPAC assault on the house.
If you don’t know the GOPAC story it is something like this”
Nest was a nobody junior congressman. He went ot the leadership of the GOP and said that big businesshas a reason to and should be supporting the GOP. There a a great many Cong. districts where there are weak Dem incumbent who get re elected year after year b/c they never have a serious challenger. Give me the GOP seal of approval to go raise money, recruit candidates and try to take back the House.
He drafted two documents. one waas the “contract with America” the other was a “business plan”. Bugets, target markets, cash flows. A document that businessmen would feel comfortable with.
He went out and started raisng money from guys in big business. He then went out and recruited candidates who had no natural base in their district, no fundraising abilty f their own, and little or no campaign experience.They had to agree to put themselves in his ahnds and just do exactly as they were told.
Many of these guys were SOOO flattered to have been asked. Mnay were ambitious for overnight sucess.
He found their donors for them, he picked their campaign consultants and groomed them and gave them their talking points, maybe even whole speeches. And he kept tabs on whether they stuck to the script.
They won. They won a lot of seats and Newt went around crowing about how it was a victory for the principles described in the “contract for America”, that was a lie. It was a victory for all that campaign money and for catching the Dems napping.
Suddenly, this nobody junior member of the House had all these newbies who knew they could not get re elected on their own b/c they still had no fundraising base or natural constituency nor campaign apparatus of their own. So, they were completely dependant on Newt if they wanted to get re elected in 2 years, and he reminded them of it almost everyday.
So, he had the votes to become Speaker of the house. He had the votes to shut down the government and he had the votes to punish anyone of EITHER party that dared get in his way.
The lockstep discipline of the republicans is a direct outgrowth of the GOPAC phenomena.
If hate-spewing is just a meal ticket and a form of entertainment, I guess I just don’t understand people.
Danielle Pletka
“….Pletka is a member of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI).
Pletka supports the process of “rendition,” by which terror suspects are taken by U.S. authorities and transferred to another country for interrogation and often torture. When asked about the policy, she told the BBC, “I’m not a big fan of torture….”
I don’t want to forget to link to this article by nir Rosen. It’s a tough read, but so important. Sadly, it is much as I had suspected.
The Occupation of Iraqi Hearts and Minds
Aside from being a primate version of the Komodo dragon (whose modus operandi ofttimes relies upon a hideous brew of mouth bacteria to slowly and horribly kill large prey, which they bite and then stalk for many days until the infections overwhelm the victim), the Annster seems to present the appearance of Marfan’s syndrome. How tall is she? Of course, I am no Bill Frist (who wouldn’t have been my cardiologist for more than 5 minutes), so I tread lightly here. That said, Marfan’s would not explain the on-board flotation devices, but it would account for the long-limbiness, excessive slenderness, and basketball player’s hands. It’s a disorder that often comes with serious heart abnormalities and increased risk of aneurisms, IIRC.
A pitiful creature, but highly toxic.
Mary, I am just overjoyed you are willing to take Jane up on her offer. IMO what you write will be closely read by Democratic candidates all over. I am confident a lot of what you post at FDL will make it into speeches from Dem canidates and their debates.
The shameful irony is that if Bitch Coulter loses her various media gigs it will be due to plagiarism, rather than her behavior as a rabid, frothing fascist. She should have been barred from the public sphere a long time ago.
“on-board flotation devices” — beautiful, Hypatia!
*ilson, 114:”Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
H. L. Mencken
Evening.
1. I don’t understand the reference to wrists and the movie. But I’ve not seen the movie. As to Ann, I’ve never really thought she was a “he”. But as to her looks, I find them as bad as her thoughts. I’ve always said she looks like a praying mantis. (that’s an insect)
2. Yet I remain mystified as to how everything about her personal life remains so quiet. Usually when you become a public persona, your private times get opened up too. I find it odd that at least ONE guy, who had some sort of one-night stand with her hasn’t opened his mouth…if for no other reason than to make a buck. Just seems strange.
Ghostman
puppethead 114, I have long believed that the Republican party is strictly in the service of the corporatocracy, but that would only get them about 8% of the vote, so they have to throw in all the racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, and “social conservatism” to get to 50.1%
Ghostman,
I wasn’t sure at first either, but *ilson’s caution about the feelings of the transgendered solidified it for me.
Lot of evidence, wrists, Adam’s apple, that Coulter is genetically male.
…”as a convicted felon Abramoff could…”
ilson 66
I’m only using your comment, ilson, to use for a point in the question I’m about to ask.
Jane and Christy,
I’ve been long wondering and so meaning to ask one or both of you this question. Why do people say ‘convicted felon’? It seems to me that one is either a felon or, if not convicted, than just one who has been accused of having committed a felony. Until they are convicted they are no kind of felon at all. If and after they are convicted why wouldn’t just the word felon alone, without the word ‘convicted’ wholly describe their new title. To say ‘convicted’ felon seems unnecessary. Could you please explain what, if anything, I’m missing?
Thank you for any input you might give.
Ghostman, don’t female praying mantises eat thier male partners after mating? Maybe that’s what any former partner is afraid of?
Two or three years ago, Franken’s “Lying Liars…” shined a light on Coulter’s plagiarism in her “Slander…” book. The woman does have a way with endnotes, you know. ;)
zennurse, they’re not afraid, they’re digested!
Mary, you know I support you in this endeavor. I dig what you write — you are the most Ut.
And, I hope you will repeat how huge right I was….
xox
Imm
Could she have marfan’s syndrome?
op99 125,
Absolutely. It’s less about ideology than it is about profit. A lot of understanding of what the goal of the large transnational corporations are can be found by watching Max Headroom. A lot of things in that series have become very real.
I don’t recall the thread by name, but in the one, several weeks ago, that Teddy SF left in protest to all the “trannie”-bashing, someone did link to a site with some guy’s real or imagined report on a one-night-stand with AC.
Mary, are you still here?
I saw something in an article at Huffington Post that seemed to undermine, or at least severely limit, the Hamdan decision. It was on the question of jurisdiction, which the government claimed the Supreme Court did not have due to a clause in the Detainee treatment act:
“Justice Scalia focused on the jurisdictional issue, arguing that Congress had stripped the court of jurisdiction to proceed with this case, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, No. 05-184, when it passed the Detainee Treatment Act last December and provided that “no court, justice, or judge” had jurisdiction to hear habeas corpus petitions filed by detainees at Guantnamo Bay.
The question was whether that withdrawal of jurisdiction applied to pending cases. The majority held that it did not.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..24099.html
That language suggests to me that the court only found it had jurisdiction over “pending cases” (of which I understand there are very few)and not over all disputes involving prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. It also suggests that the “no jurisdiction” argument might prevail in future cases, allowing the government in those cases to get away with doing to others what it tried to do to Hamdan.
Please tell me this is not the case.
kitt,
It’s sort of an exclamation point. Anytime you have the opportunity to use the word convict when describing Republican buddies/donors, you must absolutely never pass it up.
128, ZN: HA! I hadn’t thought of that. That’s funny.
Ghostman
If she gets nailed for plagiarism, does her publisher have liability? Do they have to foot her legal bills?
That kind of nasty PR could really bring her down.
(Although I noticed being a gambling addict doesn’t preclude one from continuing one’s career as TV bloviator).
i believe christy was asking about annthrax’s law creds…according to media matters, she got a law degree from the u of michigan, tho, to my knowledge (not that i follow her career or anything) she has neither practiced anywhere nor has an actual license to do so.
and, on a metablog level, may i point out how karma can work. my post above is the first time i haven’t actually blogwhored here at fdl, and jane was gracious enough to link to my blog in her update on the main page. thanks, jane!
i hope i’ve learned my lesson…
op99, I would agree and add that in the 80’s and 90’s GOP “branded” itself as the party of “individual responsibility,” accountability, above all, no “nation building.”
As the K Street project, Iraq, wingnut welfare, and the deficits…. confirm, they are none of these. Without the traditional media, however, it is a challenge to dislodge that “brand” in the voters’ consciousness.
Ann Coulter needs to eat, and maybe get some of that cosmetic surgery she seems to have had on her bustal region for her wrists and hands, which, along with that Adam’s apple, do raise some serious questions about the legitimacy of her vagina.
Like she nees more legitimacy questions.
I have a conservative friend that always teases me that I would “do” Ann if given the chance.
No way, no how.
I posted this before, can’t the speech coming from coulter be construed as hate speech somewhere, she is calling for the killing of people because they belong to a group. Isn’t there a state that’s guidlines are ameniable to bringing a suit aginst her for that. She’s been asked and never admitted that it’s only just a joke.
a felon was originally just somebody that did something wicked (evildoer) — if it were punished by law, then that evildoer (felon) would be a convicted felon …
Gostman at 125
I didn’t see the movie either. But as for the wrist thing: I once worked an a task force with a state trooper who was in the final stages of gener reassignment. She had had the breast implants for a couple years and had been taking the hormones for a long time, and had grown out her hair and nails and had a great deal of laser work on body hair, etc.
But there were some things that you just can’t feminize. The hands are a huge giveaway (as they are of age, no amount of tummy tucking, lyposuction and face lifts will stop your hands from getting sunspotted and crepey as you age).
Also the Adams apple never goes away. And although the hips sometimes round a bit from taking the hormones, not enough. The newly assigned female also tends to maintiaon the male ability to build muscle and to have noticable muscle definition.
To my eye. The adam’s Apple and the hands are the real telltales. And yeserday’s conversation notwithstanding, I don’t get what is up with both her hands and her neck.
Somebody mentioned Marfans? before. What is that?
Marfan’s Syndrome is pretty much the only thing that can really explain those wrists, plus her height, elongated physique, etc. And I’m pretty sure it’s a male-only kind of a thing. However, fwiw, that TIME piece did have a picture of her as a little girl, so I’m thinking she’s most likely a very angry hermaphrodite. Or her parents were truly weird, no surprise in rightwing circles, huh.
*ilson46201 #144: so by that definition Oliver North is a felon.
Interesting, innit? That a “best-selling author” could be such a shitbag that hardly anyone even cares if it’s a serial plagarist. I’m so proud of my species.
Skippy, you don’t have to blogwhore here, we all know where you are, right in our bookmarks, you superstar kanagaroo, you!
op99, you’re absolutely right, that went right past me. Did you pick that one up, Ghostman?
Ghostman,
“I find it odd that at least ONE guy, who had some sort of one-night stand with her hasn’t opened his mouth”
She used to date Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina. You probably won’t find anything on the Internet about it (personal sitings about town, etc probably). I heard this by way of a hard core Boston Red Sox site called ‘Sons of Sam Horn’ a couple of years ago where they refer to Mike as ‘The Bigot’. Wonder why? ; )
http://www.sonsofsamhorn.com/
and George W Bush too !
Skippy 7:30 p.m.
Wikipedia:
“After law school, Coulter clerked for Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and was an attorney in the Department of Justice Honors Program for outstanding law school graduates. After a short time in private practice in New York City, Coulter worked for the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, where she handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan. She later became a litigator with the Center For Individual Rights in Washington, a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual rights with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights, and the free exercise of religion.”
I believe I read somewhere else that she was admitted to the New York bar, which would be consistent with working as an attorney in New York City (above). I have never heard that she had been admitted in Florida, however.
link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter
neurophius
This might make you feel better, from Anonymous Liberal.
“Scalia dissented primarily on the grounds that the Detainee Treatment Act stripped the Court of jurisdiction to hear the case. Only Thomas raised the issue of the president’s inherent authority (in a footnote), and he merely noted that it was unnecessary to address that question.
In other words, I doubt that anyone on the Court, except perhaps Thomas, has any real qualms with the basic Youngstown framework. And for that reason, I find it hard to believe that any future Court would bother to disturb the core holding of Hamdan.”
Helmet tip to emptywheel.
of course, that original meaning (circa 13th century) of felon is considered archaic today… but George W Bush is still an evildoer !
As I reported on the last thread, the last FLA Bar directory I received was Sept 2000, and she wasn’t in that one.
Someon might ask Bill Maher. It’s the only explanation as why he counts her as such a close friend of his.
New thread!
zennurse, ghostie and I no longer interact, it pisses Jane off, lol.
neurophius,
Jurisdiction is a complete red herring, the Supreme Court, as a constitutional entity, pretty much gets to decide its own jurisdiction as long as there is a case and controvery (I won’t get into the details of that). There have been many attempts throughout history to strip the Court of jurisdiction. perhaps most notably the Congress tried to strip/limit the Federal Courts’ juridiction in habeas corpus sucessive petitions (don’t ask) and the Suprme Court ruled, well, maybe the court can’t hear the case under that specific procedural statute, but there is always the Court’s inherent writ of habbeas corpus (and special writ) jurisdiction. Also, long ago (I think the case was called Keyes or Keynes) the Supreme Cout held Congress cannot limit the jurisdictions of lower federal courts once created. Of course, as I said at the top, the Supreme Cout is a constitutional critter, and since Marbury v. Madison, they have always exercise jurisdiction to expand their powers. Rhenquist, particularly, understood the wisdom of that and I suspect Roberts does as well. In fact, I am certain Scalia also gets it, but was just throwing crap against the majority because he was pissed. Scalia rarely shows any deference to Congress; this would be the most odd time to begin.
Mary
Can’t wait for your post. I was gonna call it a guest post, but your not a guest. You’re a resident
back to Abramoff running for President even as a convicted felon: Indiana’s no-felons law is superseded by federal law for federal offices — this spring a convicted felon ran for Congress here since he couldnt run for a state or local office !
I heard something about Ann dating an Arab guy concurrently with bashing them in her columns. Didn’t she also used to date a Guccione? Bob? Bob’s son? nephew? Something.
op99 says:
July 2nd, 2006 at 6:31 pm
Why are some Republican women so damn proud of their breasts? Coulter’s Post pose reminds me of Katherine Harris.
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Because they pay so much for them.
Frank Probst, BWAHAHAHA.
Are those gills under her arms, or some kind of corrugated joint arrangement? (horrible, I can’t believe I’m saying that, but then she’s begging for backlash…)
Anyway, I have to think the hands are photochopped. I mean, the palm looks kind of rigid and at the same elongated to the point where any normal activity would be difficult. How does she drive, by curling her fingers alone around the wheel?
Hypatia 7:16pm — OMG. You’re right, she could be Marfan’s. My sister-in-law has it, don’t know why I didn’t think of it. Bet she also has problems with other symptoms/characteristics, like stretchmarks from any weight gain and chest cavity deformation. Hence the excessive thinness (fear of stretchmarks) and the probable breast augmentation (masks the chest).
This could be the root of her entire pathology, projection. She espouses the “ultimate solution” for many of us who do not meet her twisted standard of humanity, because she believes subconsciously she is of like standard.
Ugh. It fits almost too well.
LHP 6:24 — can you find out if her brother also has similar features? This is overwhelmingly hereditary and very rarely a random mutation if she’s Marfan’s; none of my sister-in-law’s kids escaped it.
Does anyone have a good photo of The Adam’s Apple?
p.s. thanks for the reply, Christy.
It always seems like any chance we have to nip these characters comes on the heels of self-immolation (i.e., the voting problem). We’re left to roast marshmallows over the dying embers of their flame-out.
Just once I’d like to strike the match and start the bonfire, after all the damage these creatures have done.
Immanentize,
Thanks. I hope you are correct. The way Huffington reported it, they seemed to suggest that the majority relied on the “prior cases” status to avoid the Detainee Treatment Act attack on its jurisdiction.
The latest Tom Tomorrow is up at salon.com. You have to sit through a Honda commercial for it, but it’s worth the wait.
Maybe Ann was one of those who had a micro weenie and was reassigned to be a girl…(like Jamie Lee Curtis). Any one who was amgiguous gender as a baby was assigned a female role…despite having the chromsomes for a male. She probably has to take hormones even if he/she is a “female”. Ann Coulter is nutcase and must harbor a lot of rage for her state…unfortunately she seems to blame liberals for her plight, rather than Mother Nature. Or maybe she is a trannie????
Look, I hate Ann Coulter with a passion. She’s dishonest, full of bile, blah blah blah. She sucks.
But… could we stop it with the “she’s a man!” thing?
Jeebus, I know us transwomen are an uber-minority in this world, but dammit, I hate it when my favorite blogs feel the need to stoop to such playground tactics. It’s not clever. And it makes you sound as fucking silly and stupid as her.
Just call her a bitch. Don’t call her a man. Or someone who used to be a man.
Just call her a bitch.
Because that’s what she is.
Sigh.
Rayne
What IS marfans?
It is unwise to diagnose someone on such thin information. Marfan’s is autosomal dominant and in about 80% of cases familial. You would expect 50% of those in the affected lineage to have it, i.e. they either inherit the chromosome containing the defective gene or not.
Betty at 173
No one is trying to diss trangender individuals. It’s that Coulture goes aroung vilifying Dems for being too tolerant of people who don’t fit a narrow code of behavior.
The thing is, she doesn’t follow that code herself. It’s the hypocrasy.
I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh in the car, it’s like having a wiretp into the GOP and Rush is funny. Anyway, he used to rant and rave about drug addicts and want them to get the death penalty.
Now it turns out he is a drug addict.
It’s the hypocrisy
alibe 172
“CAIS “urban legends”
Whether called CAIS or testicular feminization, this condition intrigues the imagination when people first learn of it. Inevitably, when CAIS is discussed or taught, someone will mention that they have heard from a reliable source that insert name of voluptuous female movie star or celebrity has AIS, as if offering some titillating scandal or memorable illustration. Lack of corroborative evidence never stops a good rumor. Experience learns that the names change with the decades, but not the story.”
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Androgen insensitivity syndrome
But what is Marfan’s?
So far, I have gleaned that it is hereditary, and gives you stretch marks?
Hell I have a ton of stretch marks, but I am not tall, have dainty little wrists, and am really NOT tall. And I certainly don’t have a visible adams apple
Goddamnit Jane, if I had wanted to see that freak show I would have gone to rotten.com
lhp 8:10 pm — as others have implied, Marfan’s or Marfan Syndrome is a genetic disorder. More at National Marfan Foundation.
Hugh — none of us could firmly diagnose without a specimen and I seriously doubt any of us would want to get that close to this nasty creature. Assuming it is Marfan, we could triangulate a possible source of some of the hostility she produces and respond more effectively if we have planned accordingly. In no way does this alleviate her karmic burden; she is quite capable of making choices (even were she be Marfan’d) and therefore fully responsible for her actions.
Betty Crow — “Bitch” is too fine a word for Coulter’s actions, regardless of gender.
Neuphronius @135:
Hamdan says that the jurisdiction-stripping provisions of the Detainee Treatment Act do not apply to cases pending on the date it was enacted, which is practically all the detainee cases. To put it another way, “eat this Lindsey Graham, you lying sack of garbage”.
looseheadprop @ 176:
That’s great. So call her a hypocrite, not a tranny. Because if you call her a tranny, you’ve just diluted your argument that she’s actually a hypocrite.
Trust me, my life is already full of hypocritical trannies. I don’t need Ann Coulter added to that list.
:D
That’s “No cigar Lindsey.”
Tread lightly, posters. You know who you are, singular or plural.
We’ve already lost a moderator this week because of terse posts.
There’s no need for ad hominem commentary or anything approaching it amongst each other. We are up against a common enemy that will use any opportunity to gain the upper hand.
And in the case of Coulter, we can all agree that hypocrisy is a key trait we can all focus on. It’s the trait Coulter and Limbaugh and the rest of the VRWC share. Hypocrites.
lotus 44 – thanks so much! Was up and out all day and missing everything – just can’t quit this lively thread – and gonna catch up asap. So much to do, so little time.
Anne 49 – thanks – that’s a great relief to know the she/he devil is Ann – what the hell – I am a bit too long in the tooth to revert to my childhood Annie.
lotus 59 – Is Abramoff still holed up in Florida spilling his beans ?
Sorry Jane for being so OT – am having one of those weekends when I worry I’ll never get caught up with all the great posts and comments and news at the lake.
i’ve deleted about 10 disparaging remarks about ann coulter. why can’t she just go find a sport or job that long armed manhanded women can play or do. something where speaking and writing are not encouraged. maybe rowing without paddles, tennis without a racquet, or unplugging sewers or birthing calves. just don’t talk missy.
Hi Jane–
CTKeith and I were so glad to meet you, (and Kobe, Katie, and Lucy), today.
Thanks for trekking ‘cross the country to Connecticut to cover our Lamont/Lieberman battle.
I hope we make history!
Edward aka DeanFan84
aka TrueBlueCT
Marfan’s Syndrome is a genetic problem manifested physically by tall, thin, long-limbed, long necked people, but the real problem comes in the fact that Marfan’s sufferer’s often have a weak aorta, usually with aneuryistic tendencies, which often blow, with no previous symptoms.
Google Flo Hyman, arguably the world’s best volleyball player at the time of her death from Marfan’s/aortic aneuryism.
I don’t think Ann is a man. I think she’s a very, very bad person, who is going to have some trouble on Judgement Day, if there is such a thing.
But it is fun to tease her about it, and nobody can argue that Ann isn’t fair game for it, given what she says about us traitors.
phony baloney Republicans.