Originally Posted By gadzuux From K2M's link - >> There is another problem with moral equivalence between Coulter and Maher. Such a comparison brings conservatives down to the liberal level. It says that conservatives are incapable of maintaining higher standards. << Now there's a backhanded comment if ever there was one.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka Yeah, there were a few digs in that piece. I think there will always be articles that say negative things about the other side but it's time to raise the bar instead of appealing to the lowest of the low.
Originally Posted By jonvn Really, what has happened is that the extremists in this country have co-opted the word conservative. People who really are conservative are now called liberals by these people who are completely off the deep end, and people who are liberal are really few and far between. We don't have people on the left like this. Some try to paint Michael Moore as this, but he's really not. He's more of a populist middle of the road type than a left wing extremist like Coulter is a right wing extremist reactionary. Hillary Clinton, again, is not all that liberal. She is actually rather conservative in many of her viewoints. There simply is no one like Abbie Hoffman around anymore. He'd be more like the left's version of Anne Coulter. The way the debate has been allowed to be frame by the extremists in this country is sad, and is causing us to become more disassociated from our government and the world.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>what has happened is that the extremists in this country have co-opted the word conservative. People who really are conservative are now called liberals by these people who are completely off the deep end<< I absolutely agree with you. This is the product, largely, of shrill talk radio that has made political debate into the WWF for the most part.
Originally Posted By DAR <<This is the product, largely, of shrill talk radio that has made political debate into the WWF for the most part.>> That would be the WWE, WWF is World Wildlife Fund. You're speaking to a former wrestling nerd.
Originally Posted By jonvn Anyway, the thing is I'm not that liberal. And that's what I get called on here. It's like this, if you are standing at the north pole, any direction you face is south. That's how it is with the reactionaries. Anyone not deep end crazy like they are get sneered at for being some sort of mush headed liberal, when in fact nearly everyone is not as extreme as they are. But they keep selling their books, and that's all that matters to them. These sorts of people are not new. We've long had them. Father Coughlin, who used his radio program in the 30s to extol his right wing nonsense. We just have more outlets now, and more of them.
Originally Posted By DAR World Wrestling Entertainment. There were rights issues over the name. And the WWF(World Wildlife Foundation won) Since then the World Wrestling Federation has been known as World Wrestling Entertainment. In a related story I haven't had a steady girlfriend in nearly two years.
Originally Posted By JohnS1 "World Wrestling Entertainment. There were rights issues over the name. And the WWF(World Wildlife Foundation won)" And won by a snout, I might add.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Oh ... I had to turn her off fast. Another time. All I can say about her: Full of hatred
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/05/coulter.ads/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITI CS/03/05/coulter.ads/index.html</a> Major advertisers, some unaware they were featured, have requested their ads be pulled from her site. True to a coward's form, Coulter failed to respond to CNN's request for comment.
Originally Posted By DAR I just read an interview with her over on Hannity and Colmes. She really has no clue.
Originally Posted By jonvn But she's rich. She doesn't need a clue. She probably lives a lifestyle we can't even begin to know about.
