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Originally Posted By Dirk_D_from_Oregon Ann Coulters remarks regarding the 9/11 widows was right on the mark. They set themselves up for this type of criticism when they attacked the President and used the death of their husbands to gain a platform. By using the tragedy in this way show them to be classless.
Originally Posted By barboy I now have read Culter's Godless:The Church of Liberalism. She made some important fresh points. (I'll bet that I am the only adult male in the US who is turned way off by her looks). But a much better book is Savage's Political Zoo---that one is a winner!
Originally Posted By Eric Paddon Exactly, Dirk. And here's the other point that's lost in the shuffle. The likes of Al Franken, Michael Moore have been granted a respectability by the media elite no matter what kind of remarks those gents say. That means when Franken appears on Today or David Letterman, he's going to get kid-glove treatment and the hosts will yuck it up no matter what Franken says (just like Conan O'Brien yucked it up when Alec Baldwin blared that Henry Hyde should be stoned to death for charing the Impeachment Committee against Bill Clinton). If that kind of conduct is to be legitimized by the media elite, and to be lumped in the category of "satire" then they have no business denying the right of conservatives to indulge in a bit of satirical jabs themselves. Which is what they are by default trying to do in regards their treatment of Ann Coulter. If the marketplace is supposed to tolerate the presence of Al Franken getting free passes on the Today Show and media puffery for his radio program that can't draw a decent rating in any market and regard him as a satirist, then the marketplace can more than tolerate the presence of an Ann Coulter, who unlike Franken, uses a gift of satire to point out an underlying truth (and that incidentally is exactly the argument the Left used to defend the profanity and vulgarity of Lenny Bruce's nightclub acts in the 1960s. It's interesting how standards change with them when the subject of the satirical jab ends up being a sacred cow of the Left).
Originally Posted By Eric Paddon Here's where a couple of legislators from my own state have demonstrated that the First Amendment is indeed ultimately at risk if certain Coulter critics were to have their way. In this press release, they call for retailers in my state to ban sales of her book. <a href="http://www.assemblydems.com/press/0606/PRQuigleyStenderOnCoulter.htm" target="_blank">http://www.assemblydems.com/pr ess/0606/PRQuigleyStenderOnCoulter.htm</a> Now conversely, have you ever heard *anyone* in the ranks of mainstream conservatism (let alone elected officials) call for a ban on the printing and distribution of the works of Franken, Moore etc.?
Originally Posted By barboy After watching Culter appear on tv today I am very impressed with her composure, spontaneous rebuttals and tenacity. My problem with her is that she needs to make her points without bashing Bill Clinton.
Originally Posted By EdisYoda BTW, I was being sarcastic about Franken, referring to his days on Saturday Night Live.
Originally Posted By DAR If both went away I sure wouldn't miss them. But I will say this about the 9/11 widows or Nicholas Berg's father or Cindy Sheehan. I fully understand that they did not want to be thrown into this position. Nobody in the right mind would. But once you say something in the political arena and that's all this really is, the notion that people can't challenge what you say seems ludicrous.
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