I'm going to go into territory that someone of a progressive mindset is not supposed to go, I'm going to state for the public record that I find myself feeling sorry for Ann Coulter. Some of you may be reading my confession and saying to yourself; Oh no she d-i-d-n-'-t. Oh, yes I did. The answer to why I feel this way is easy; I think she is irrelevant. In cruder terms, she's blown her wad. She's been marginalized to such a degree that even the most adamant conservatives do not like her for good reason. (Much like most Democrats would prefer Governor Blogojevich step down and...well, do something with his dead animal coiffure.)
Coulter preaches to the choir as she insults them. Talking trash about 9/11 widows, supporting disenfranchisement of women, even telling Barbara Walters, a woman of Jewish heritage, that she was reading Coulter's newest book as if she was reading 'Mein Kampf' (this after an uproar about Coulter arose when she said that "Jews needed to be perfected.") In case you did not see the recent clip of her on the morning program, 'The View' she also babbled on how she had read 'Mein Kampf'. I bet she has.
I know I may be guilty of stereotyping a little here, but most conservative women that I know tend to be very family oriented. Coulter, who is not married nor has children, same as me, yet she comes across as very different from myself. As, say, if she had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow and followed her wherever she went...Coulter would beat it to death and wear the bloody hide as a winter cap. As for myself, I would feed the lamb and hope the neighbors wouldn't notice. Perhaps that is why I am more sympathetic to women, actually to men as well, who find themselves single parents.
Coulter has professing, while she publicizes her latest book, that single mothers are responsible, statistically, for the majority of murderers and rapists. Although there is data that indicates many prisoners do tend to come from single parents homes, the statistics also show a correlation with feminization of poverty. Unlike a man in a similar situation, Coulter has gotten away with saying things that most men, if they did think as such, would never say in the current American political climate. (For instance, she is the only woman I know of who argues, even if it is in jest, that the country would be better off if women could not vote.) The truth is she has ridden that gravy train of being the attractive, thin, longhaired blonde with brains for quite some time, and like all of us former blonde bombshells, time, unlike traffic, does not stop for us.
What makes her so angry? It can't be a vast liberal conspiracy because such an animal does not exist although this unicorn of a creature is central to what Coulter often screams about it. If there were a vast liberal conspiracy, would Bush Jr. have spent the last eight years as president? If there were a vast liberal conspiracy, would Coulter have been on the cover of 'Time', given a seat at the table with the ladies of 'The View' or even still saddled with a book deal? If you know anyone with a major progressive leaning, is the first thing that comes to mind about them is just how organized they are? If I may now stereotype my fellow progressives - we believe in the fundamental rights of all people and we have very messy desks. In other words, I can barely conspire to get from point A to B, let alone plan a vast conspiracy.
Coulter is a smart woman, she knows that there is not a conspiracy, albeit an organized one, but she has sold a few books touting the otherness of people who declare themselves liberal, and by promoting such idealism she feels it excuses her for wishing them ill. If her arguments amuse some, they leave a bitter taste in the mouths of others. In fact, she seems more of a lightning rod for those who oppose her points than see appears to be a leader of the right. In many ways, she is squeezed from multiple sides. She is too smart and too mean to really appeal to the Fox News crowd, and too unbalanced to be in the company of more levelheaded respectable conservatives types. Come on, in 2004 she wrote in reference to the Democratic Convention, "Here at the Spawn of Satan convention in Boston..." she then describes the lovelies she believes populated the party, "corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, scandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie chick pie wagons." Now that is a funny comment. If she had left out the "Spawn of Satan" stuff, it would have been perfection (I don't find the "Spawn of Satan" as insulting, as too heavy handed and obvious humor wise). The problem for Coulter is that she is describing 75% of American women despite their political leanings - and as far as political leanings go, as studies have shown, conservatives tend to be less educated than their liberal brethren; thus, the genius of the quote above goes above many of their fast-food-fed, clown caked make up, polyester, saggy breasts, house coat wearing, receding hair line, sweet honest smelling, past their prime, pregnant while barefoot, Republican beauties' heads. (BTW, there are some very kind and beautiful women who are Republicans so don't take the above personally.)
Some of her antics compare to Madonna dabbling with political propaganda at her concerts. She can do whatever she wants but as far as any cognitive dissonance, she isn't winning any adherents to her beliefs. Casting aspersions of Sarah Palin from arena-sized video screens only fueled Palin supporters more than it fired up Obama fans. Ditto Ann Coulter, who in the mid-90's, instead of using her wit sparingly when debating a Vietnam vet on land mines said this explosive comment, "No wonder you guys lost." She then tried to excuse the remark by noting she did not know Robert Muller was disabled because he was on satellite, which only showed him from the waist up... implying by omission that able-bodied Vietnam veterans took her off the cuff observation as a loving endearment.
So Ann, why so angry? I heard some speculate that Coulter's anger may be based on childhood issues. That may be the case, but I think childhood gets a bum rap when it comes to blame for all adult pains. Some people had perfectly healthy childhoods, it was in adulthood where things went to sh*t. On paper, Coulter's childhood looks normal, which isn't to say that everything was as it seemed, but who knows. The fact that she always seems to come out swinging indicates something is fueling her fire and as stated earlier, it can't all be based on a supposed left-winged conspiracy. Looking at her anger from another angle, I suppose one should ask what does she want. So called free economic markets the world over? All radio stations be 24/7 loudmouth conservative talk? Women barred from voting? How about land mines in the backyards of all single mothers whose parental efforts create the next generation's murderers and rapists? I don't think the Ann Coulters of the world want the world to be shaped in the image they sermonize because they would be out of a job.
Part of the reason I feel for Coulter is that I'm starting to understand her despite my reservations about doing so. Much like Madonna, to continue to remain in the public eye she has to constantly give us a reason to be there. For an entertainer such as Madonna its how she recreates herself. For Coulter that is more difficult because her fame isn't based upon what she is wearing, who her current lover is, or what her art says about her. It isn't enough to use her intelligence, or even her looks to create meaningful discourse. As I stated, what good would it be for her to persuade people to accomplish like-minded goals? To stay relevant she has to be louder and more obnoxious than the next guy every time she has something to shrill. Did you see that YouTube clip of her debating Bill O'Reilly on who sells more books? Seriously, I thought they were both going to whip out their penises in order to start measuring. When I saw the clip of her berating Barbara Walters, I couldn't help but think that she was burning yet another bridge. There was a brief moment she had the upper hand over Walters, but we all know once that episode was over who welded more strength.
Sure, Coulter makes good television just as carnival food makes good eating until an hour later when the grease and lack of nutrients makes you sick. She doesn't offer solutions just aggressive insults that don't stand up when she is around others of equal wit. (Whoopi Goldberg you have a fan!) At least the males of her tribe are smart enough to dictate their tirades on their own shows. Coulter on the other hand doesn't have a show nor does it appear she will have one in the future (gee, do you think Walters might have some media connections?).
You just know that Ann Coulter is a huge fan of Ayn Rand and fancies herself as a female John Galt. Good for her, but, and it has been a few years since I read 'Atlas Shrugged' so my interpretation of it might be fuzzy, wasn't the point of John Galt was that he was good at something and was tired of mediocrity? Coulter may have been born with the potential to be a Galt like figure, but her work is more about insults (look at her book titles for proof) than substance, rather than substance peppered with wit.
In the end, I feel for Coulter for reasons I feel sorry for anyone I sense is in pain. This doesn't mean I would want to be her friend, but she comes across as someone who doesn't have many friends, especially women. You know, the type of woman who always states she always gets along better with men than women. Now as her Adam's apple becomes more prominent (oh yeah, like I'm the first one to comment about that) and she is losing the sex appeal that she probably took for granted, she might now start seeing that her inflammatory comments aren't getting the applause they once did. Like many people full of anger, she is her worst enemy.
Westerfield © 2009
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Comments: 59
I can say no more.
She truly screwed up trying to lampoon Barbara Walters. She doesn't have to chops for that.
And Whoopi's closing shot was beautiful - "Oh, I see, you can dish it out but you can't take it."
By the way, my daughter and I decided that she's never had the bottom surgery and never had an orgasm.
Sharon, Whoopi was perfection. She treated Coulter with respect until Coulter demonstrated she didn’t deserve it and then she just shut her down.
On a serious note, I do wonder if she has some major issues that need medication.
Ron, nah, it’s just a way to kill time until Resurrection Sunday.
Atlantis, I compared her with Madonna, but actually she is more like Courtney Love (to Coulter’s credit, she is a bit more together than Love, but give her time). She rambles as if she has to get all of her insults out within the three minute window she has been allotted. I couldn’t believe she dissed Walters like that knowing full well all of her connections.
Mari, thank you. I enjoyed writing this. Not surprisingly, it almost wrote itself.
Mariana, no, you are excused from leaving a comment.
If you think of her antics from a strictly business perspective, it all makes sense.
I doubt if she even believes the fecal matter that she spreads.
I'll wait till Sunday...
Bring out your dead!
Bring out your dead!
[clang] Bring out your dead!
[clang] Bring out your dead!
[clang] Bring out your dead!
[clang] Bring out your dead!
She has indeed, shot her WAD (you might want to correct your typo above) and like the little boy who cried wolf will soon be totally without an audience.
You are being very kind to call this festering pustule attractive. I wouldn't screw the bitch with Bill O'Really's stubby little prick.
(Since Mugg is pointing our typos too, it's Mein Kampf")
But the NEW approach does not divide cultures along lines of belief, using fear to coalesce a political base. The new approach recognizes the inherent need to get its citizenry basically walking in the same direction in order to fix the vast mess laid at our feet.
So I am in awe of Lisa, once again, for finding the conciliatory path. Coulter was merely a symbolic voice, as Bert says, making a living (and a very rich one at that). But the Rove methods revive very easily..... just watch, and Coulter or someone like her will gladly step into the role as shill.
I have no sympathy for this woman. She knows what she does, likes what she does, obviously feels no shame for what she does, and prostituting your dignity for money and popularity is not smart.
Ann Coulter is poison and is a prime example of the 'snarkiness' that has taken over this country. I've never read any of her books and never intend to pick one up. Perhaps her public comments and the titles are intended to be procovative and serve as 'bait' for her readership, but I think she has gone way too far on too many occasions and driven away more than she attracts. Hopefully the half-life of her media profile is nearing its end.
Republican Party Officials and Elected Republicans can only say so much. . .
So they have found and cultivated
Ann Coulter
Sean Hannity
Rush Limbaugh (Who now sounds almost reasonable compared to Hannity/Coulter.
Several Others
They can say whatever they want, they are not official.
They spew all the hatred needed to induce the good Christian Conservatives to vote for the Republican candidates
They spew all the hatred needed to get working people to vote against their own
financial well being.
Oscar Wilde
Said:
"The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than the intellect"
Keeping their ill recruited voters stirred is Ann Coulter's job.
Coulter and Hannity are very photogenic and provide glamor and star power,
I see it as the beautiful side of evil, that seems extravagently over stated, but
it is not so different from the "Morning in America" campaign of Regan.
and the constant homespun impression promoted by the Republican Party.
Coulter is suppose to grab the smart witty financially upward bound younger conservatives.
This is all brilliant marketing, No written work, No product will be sold without hitting some emotional chord.
Hatred now and historically has been a very successful tool in politics.
I agree with Sandy, I don't think Ann is a woman.
Nice thoughtful work Lisa.
Great piece! I did see the "The View" clip. One media analyst made a good point about it. Coulter doesn't have her own show so she can only generate buzz on secondary headlines. The only way to do that is to constantly one-up yourself in each media appearance. I believe that if, when she started, there was more money to be made in liberal grandstanding, she'd be slightly left of Keith Olbermann today. You're so right, though, Lisa, she seems to have a deep well of anger from which she pulls.
John, she is and isn’t like Rush. Rush can say anything he likes because he has a show that he makes gobs of money on, plus book deals, and so forth. Ann, who I assume isn’t necessarily poor, only has her book deals. I think that she has been able to succeed thus far because of her looks more than her wit. She is an angry woman who when appearing on more mainstream programming always comes across badly.
D. B., she may very well have views on topics that are either the same as mine or she could convince me, but once again the purpose of her message isn’t about the message she declares, but how she declares it.
Mugg, I’m guessing you aren’t a fan of hers. Hey, I did see your comment and thank you, I adjusted the article. Who wants a wade when they are missing a wad?
Aniko, f*ck, Mein Kampf. I’ll correct it. Damn it. I guess I was typing it in its original German. Thank you for pointing that out so I can change it. On your other point, I don’t know really how she feels about Ayn Rand. She just comes across as someone who would buy into the John Galt thing in an economic sense. As such then she would be a total cafeteria Rand fan (my mom describes Catholics who use birth control as cafeteria Catholics). As far as perfecting, Aniko, I think you are just perfect as you are.
Bart, thank you and I agree that someone will fill her shoes once she has finally burned all of her bridges for basic cable shows and her book sells start to slump as her breasts start to sag. That is why people like you, and me, and many others have to stay focus and point out that the emperors are not wearing any clothing.
Stephanie, how amusing. It is comments based on beliefs like that that have given us the genius that was the presidency of George Bush Jr..
Sandy, I disagree. Smart people lie all the time. I don’t think the art of lying requires someone scoring below a certain number on an IQ test. Integrity, now that is a different matter. Although I am not positive, I imagine the data she is looking at to base her assault on single mothers is also the data that indicates how crime levels drop in states that have so-called liberal abortion rights. I would wager that she doesn’t include that bit of info into her book.
On another note, as I develop as a writer I find myself asking what do my characters want instead of thinking them as smart or dull. I wasn’t just using the ‘What does she want’ question as a rhetorical device. I was seriously asking, what does she want. I suppose if Fox News offered her a talk show she wouldn’t turn them down, but I don’t see that happening because she has pissed off too many people, it would end up a talk show with only her talking. Her one distinct characteristic is that she is angry. What purpose does that serve for her? I looked at your article and followed your link and what struck me, besides the man’s humorous remarks, was how she was willing to use her eulogy of her father to try and stick it to the liberals. I could go in a million different directions with that observation.
As far as her being a man, I have to admit that when writing this piece I have given some serious thought about her being born a hermaphrodite. That she is misogynist there is little doubt, but to hate what you are has to be based on something does it not? Usually something you are secretive about. Much like the numerous men who come out in the media as homophobic and then are later arrested for trying to solicit sex in airport bathrooms.
Debbie thank you. I must admit that I have limited knowledge of Coulter, but when I saw her on the view I thought she would make a delicious essay topic.
Linda, I agree with what you said. I would like to add that I think the 24/7 news cycle with competing networks have a lot to do with the negative public discourse in the country. People tend to ignore the sane thinking soft spoken political pundit in favor of the one who is screaming aspersions as they set their hair afire. I might just be human nature, thus we must restrain our natures and give the calmer pundit an ear.
Cena, you know what probably gripes those that you named in your comment – Comedy Central. Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert have been the poison apple that has slain these under the bridge trolls. I have heard ‘The Daily Show’ described as the fifth estate, and I believe it.
I would have liked to see the SNL bits
and I might enjoy Stewart & Colbert,
. . . .
but life minus tv is quite peaceful.
It's an act, and she'll keep doing it until it stops being lucrative and she becomes, albeit unwillingly, just another name in a Trivial Pursuit question. In the meantime, I think we can hasten her/his departure by just ignoring her/him and by filling the 'remainder' bin with her/his titles.
Hillary dodging sniper fire-??. Coulter is laughing all the way to the bank while making you liberals angry. I love it.
I think she needs to be ignored much more than she is. Shut off the oxygen of publicity, that is the best approach with terrorists such as Ann.
The problem is that they get much more publicity and have
more power when they concentrated on a network directed
at the public that dramatizes and worships what they do with
no debate and the power to humiliate without consequences.
Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck, are the same thing,
Republican constructs making political advertisements under
the rubrick of free speech while not allowing free debate
should be seen for the crime it is an illegal.
The reason we need the fairness doctrine back. It will
not allow anyone on either side to fake like they know what
they are talking about or have blind followers like Hitler.
A Jewish Atheist? LOL! That definitely has to go down in the "most ridiculous comments" hall of fame.
What she did Worked!!!!!! Look at how much everyone is talking and writing about her.
She is more famous now then she was before The View!!!
I don't agree with those of you who said smart people lie all the time. I don't think lying is smart, for any reason.
It's the old adage. "If you can't dazzle em' with brilliance. Baffle em' with bullsh*t.
Okay Dame Ruth, you have my curiosity, are you an answer to a Trivial Pursuit question? Even at you most wittiest and vindictive, I don’t see you saying or wishing those that are the political opposite of you much ill, let alone getting very personal about it. I think you have more self control over your cleverness and although you may be angry by much in society, I don’t read that your anger necessarily dictates your life. At least that is my opinion; maybe I’m just viewing you through rose colored glasses.
Micky, so you think it is true that Vietnam was lost because of the soldiers and not because of bad foreign policy and a misreading that it was a Civil War versus another domino falling to the communists? You believe that all Americans should question more than half the population’s right to vote based on genitalia? You believe that Barbara Walters read Ann Coulter’s book like it was ‘Mein Kampf’ because wanted to denigrate the work instead of a more reasonable analysis that that just may be the way Walters reads? Huh, good to know.
As far as laughing herself to the bank; which bank by chance is she laughing herself to? One of those fine institutions that needed a tax payer supported bail out?
Lu, that is true, but I wanted to say my view on her and now I’m at peace on the matter.
Chris, I think she is being shut down. Many media outlets no longer entertain her as a guest.
Bruce, I agree with the fairness doctrine. I tend to think that the Mickeys of the world are pretty powerless individuals in their day to day lives thus they look up to people they understand, people who will express their anger and do so in a way that makes sense to Mickeys. They follow the Rushes and the Anns because through the Rushes and the Anns they feel strong.
Jeff, or should I call you ‘Mr. Too Dim To Get The Obvious Reference’? Aniko was referring to Ayn Rand being a CULTURAL JEW. Mr. Too Dim to Get The Obvious Reference, allow me to gently explain a bit of American history to you. I don’t know if I can put this in words that you would understand but my golly I’m going to try. For a long time in Europe, particularly in the eastern part people of the Jewish faith lived separately from Christians. I’ll let you do the leg work as to why. At some point many of these people lived amongst other Jewish people (a lot of the emigrated to American Northern East Coast cities in the 1800’s to early 1900’s) but they did not practice Judaism. Thus in a city like New York (get your map out) there were neighborhoods where Irish people, Italian people, and Jewish people lived. Is this making sense to you? If not, break out an American history book.
Yeah, I am guilty of being condescending to you, but you are guilty of being rude to Aniko and since I value her input in my threads I had to call you out. In other words, your LOL BS didn’t inspire me to LOL at your “ridiculous comments hall of fame” but to give you one of my patented * sighs *.
Karen, I’m glad to hear it.
Joe, it wasn’t until Sandy’s article, I think you can find it above at ‘Related Topics’ that I was like woe, this woman is using an article about her father’s eulogy to score jabs at liberals. I found her words distasteful and sad. My God woman, your father just died, let it go for a day. To me she is someone who inspires pity from afar. In the words of the Rabbi in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ (I changed them for my benefit) “May God Bless And Coulter and keep her far, far away from me.”
Janet, she is famous for being mean. Where is that going to get her? Everyone may talk about her for a brief period of time but no one wants her around them. She is the political pundit equivalent of a zoo oddity.
Sandy, actually if she is a man then I think that is great, it’s her misogynist ways that are upsetting. Deep down don’t you think a lot of these men are attracted to her because of that maleness about her?
I’m not trying to assign any moral definition to the word ‘smart’. I think we often get caught up with mixed feelings for words that are usually viewed positively but are applicable to people we don’t like. Such as Bill Maher getting into trouble for calling the 9/11 hijackers ‘brave’. By the definition of the word, they were. They were willing to sacrifice their lives for a purpose they believed in. Of course, for we Americans they were horrible monsters. I take the interpretation that because they were brave that made them scarier. One more example, take Karl Rove (no, seriously take him) he has been described as “Bush’s Brain” who has masterminded many of Bush’s failed * sigh * policies. Somehow he got a man who can’t string a sentence together without stumbling elected president. I have to respect that he is smart, at the same time realizing that he has done this nation great harm.
D.B., I think that is true too. Coulter does seem to have limited topics in which to scream about. Yet, when she is on she can be witty.
Joe, well eventually the lies are going to come back and hunt them like ghosts.
Her book states that rapist and prostitutes are raised by single mothers. Why yes they are, Ann. So was the next president of the United States, did she mention that? No. She sites statistics - what stastics? Where are they, where did they come from? How many children in the US are raised by single mothers? I threw an old friend out of my house today for not being able to think of one man he knew that raised his kids from birth to 18 but had been ranting about single mothers for an hour.
I told him he was too stupid to be alive and if he hadn't figured out the real social constructs by 56 and was running his mouth about things he didn't now anything about, to me, a single mother of three - to hit the road. I want friends not more kids to raise for christ's sake.
How do these people manage to feed themselves on a daily basis? Can they truly be that stupid?
Jeff - do you hear me? Quick, don't think (ha that should be easy) name one guy you know who raised his kids, by himself, from birth to 18. Come on I'm waiting.
"Jewish atheist", by the way, is a fairly common slur used by the extreme right in Europe (in addition to Jewish commie and Jewish liberal). And of course a number of American intellectuals have self-identified as "Jewish atheists", which makes Jeff's comment on Jan 17, 2009, @c6:05pm EST somewhat self-referential, I think...
I don't believe gender, marital status, orientation, or income levels have a thing to do with good parenting. Good people make good parents, regardless of gender and marital status and some 'happily married' male/female couples do a terrible job at parenting, and some gay and lesbians are great parents and some aren't, some have nots are great parents and some haves are not, and vice versa.
No you should call me the guy who thinks that calling somebody a "Jewish Atheist" is funny. I Knew what she meant but that makes me a Christian atheist. I understand that you want to defend your friends but you shouldn't have to resort to an insulting, anal retentive nag to get your point across. I could accuse you of being too dim to understand the term "oxymoron" and assume that you were just too dim to get my point but do I really have to?
""""Jeff - do you hear me? Quick, don't think (ha that should be easy) name one guy you know who raised his kids, by himself, from birth to 18. Come on I'm waiting. """"
That would be easy. Me. Want proof? Want to put money on it or would you rather just assume that I am not telling the truth? Your call.
Yes but Ayn Rand was from Russia and although her family was from Jewish decent, they were non-practising Jews who lived outside the Jewish neighborhoods of Russia before they immigrated when she was 12.
Either way Aniko has definitely posted a comment that deserves mention in the hall of ridiculous comment. Spin it all you want. Jewish Atheist? LOL!
Ha ha ha.. Either way it does it really matter? Wether it be a room full of females or room full of males it is still a room full of *ssholes. ;O.
Please excuse my anal retentiveness but facts are facts. Am I being too... anal..?
Sandy... you are losing that liberal luster. If you keep speaking the truth like that people are going to think you're... you're... well you're off your rocker....
Like to stay and chat but I have to finish knitting my tin-foil hat and get the Kool-Aid (Zarex actually) ready for Tuesdays festivities...
BTW Did anyone bring out their dead this week? Is resurrection Sunday something that just happens? Do you get an email or something?
That "Jewish" is an ethnicity may not be obvious to [some] [non-Jewish] Americans, Jeff, what with the greater diversity and the melting pot and all, but in Eastern and Central Europe, people simply look at you and decide if you're Jewish or not. They all think they're awfully good at this, too. Your name plays a part, of course, and your being successful does too. (When someone gets a promotion I think I should have gotten, or they're being all smart on TV when I have never been asked for an interview--hey, they must be Jewish even if they don't look like it.) What plays very little part in this identification is religious observance, since most people do very little of that anyway.
You are, I assume, projecting the Christian idea of "faith" onto Judaism. It would be perhaps a better approach to ask Jewish people what they think on the matter, since it's their rules that define who is a Jew, not other people's. Just sayin'
Oh, and before I forget: LOL, or something. Because that overrides any fact of history or rational argument, right?
I do know mothers who do great jobs, ones who do horrible jobs, just like the normal people that they are.
I honestly don't know any men that have done this and it's not that I lead a sheltered life. Actually I do know one, Joe Biden.
That's it.
I don't feel sorry for Ann Coulter. She is one of those icky creatures the Republican party needed to get in check early on and they didn't. We are going to see such a difference in the coming years as people turn off the ranting, raving, faux-Christian haters and start pitching in to make a difference.
speaking of physicality: i can't wait til she gets fat. it'll do my heart good.
Sharon, so you kicked him to the curb! Good for you. Yeah, the reverse is true too. A lot of mature capable people were raised in single parent homes. Many times they are more mature than their peers because they have had to deal with less parent child interaction due only having one. Many of them have had to help siblings and all of that. Further, there are some two parent homes that might as well be one parent homes. What do the statistics say about those?
Aniko, now you just taught me something. I didn’t know that ‘Jewish Atheist’ was a slur. I’m glad you brought up the death camps issue, because there were people who were executed because of their Jewish heritage and it made no difference if they were practicing Christians.
Sandy, no it fits.
Mr. Too Dim to Get the Obvious Reference, I feel fits you better than The Guy Who Thinks Calling Someone A Jewish Atheist is Funny. Aniko explains about Jewish Heritage much more precisely than I can above and below. Here’s an oxymoron for you, what do you call a guy who enters an article thread and then is insulting to someone and then returns in an anal retentive way to lamely defend himself? Answer: A guy who is too dim to get the obvious reference.
As far as Ayn Rand being of Russian Jewish decent, once again Aniko explained it, but I’m going to reiterate some points. The prejudice against Jews has been built up for two millenniums. Even though there might be less out and out prejudice people still refer to someone as being Jewish, or half Jewish, and so forth. Even Kathy Lee Gifford refers to her Jewish heritage as Jewish, and I think she has been quite outspoken as someone who considers herself Christian.
D.B., you refer to facts, but what facts are those? You offer no facts as substance to your argument.
As far as tin foil hat, I D.B., I’m getting the feeling that you don’t need an inauguration for an excuse to wear one. As far as Resurrection Sunday it takes place every Sunday, hopefully, and you can republish old articles that you want to show again. You should also write some commentary about why you want to republish it and/or what you thought about the reaction it got the first time and so forth.
Aniko, great comment.
Sharon Sugarmama, I know there are men out there who are single parents. In my immediate friend circle there aren’t any, but I have met them in passing. Still, the majority of single parents are women.
MJ, the single mothers thing is the Republican party reaching for straws. I have many Republican friends who are fed up with the direction the Republican party has turned and want to be forces within the party for change. They are also the first to say that Ann Coulter and her hatred makes their efforts harder.
Joe, raising children is hard. I think people do the best they can with what they have. That’s why birth control and abortion are important for the liberties of all of us. Speaking an oxymoron, many people who shouldn’t be parents are and many who should be aren’t.
Just asking.
"D.B., you refer to facts, but what facts are those? You offer no facts as substance to your argument. "
I quoted the question I had as it was a topic that Coulter felt the need to fill my mailbox with over the past year and gender seemed to be a prevalent theme that was carried out throughout the comments. The person you asked referred to "the truth". Not really something that comes to mind when she speaks especially on this topic. Sorry I excluded the hermaphrodites but even a room full of them would contain a room full of *ssholes.
but once again the purpose of her message isn’t about the message she declares, but how she declares it.
Apparently. 87% of the population formulates their belief structure according to other peoples ideas only 13% formulate their beliefs on logic and evaluation.
"As far as tin foil hat, I D.B., I’m getting the feeling that you don’t need an inauguration for an excuse to wear one."
No. The Pope, Obama, Coulter on the airwaves is a good reason too, you may want to get one for yourself or she will convince you. To conspire is to act in harmony towards a common goal. A theory is an unproved assumption or a hypothesis assumed for the sake of argument or investigation. She's definitely not an investigator and when one actually investigates much of what she says, her basis for reasoning (if you can even call it reason) lacks any available body of facts or information that is true or even remotely valid. She's like a Cheney/Rumsfeld puppet who forgot the act was over and wasn't prepared for the next show.
If Sandy was offended again not my intention, Sorry. I agree with much of what she had to say and having read many of her comments thought she had a sense of humor. Was quite taken by the Power of Love.
Forgive my reference to Monty Python's "Bring out your dead". Just a word association to "Resurrection". I thoroughly enjoyed it last week and it was the first time I had the opportunity to read some of what others had referred to.
Sorry again, thought you had a sense of humor.