If Ann Coulter's a Christian, I'll be damned

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06160/696887-153.stm

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In "Godless," a book that proves there is often truth in advertising as far as titles are concerned, Ms. Coulter proves her love for humanity by questioning the motives of the widows who successfully lobbied for the creation of the 9/11 Commission.

When she's through with her shoddy hit-piece that includes speculation about whether the widows' husbands were planning to divorce them before al-Qaida spared them a visit to divorce court, you can't help but feel you're in the presence of something supernaturally despicable.

No one slings mud imported straight from the Stygian depths quite like Ms. Coulter, a McCarthyite-smear artist who loves generating revulsion across the political spectrum every time she has a book to flog.

Her exaggerations, hackery, lies and bad faith are dutifully pointed out by critics every time she hits the book circuit, but the insincerity of her Christian profession is rarely commented upon. This has always bothered me.

[BOSSHOG]

1. The republican party spokesman

ann coulter is a classic 21st century "christian conservative." She spews forth hate louder and more hysterically then others but she is an outstanding spokesperson for the republican party and today's "christian conservative" movement.

[AndyA]

2. Has anyone here actually read this book?

I thumbed through it at the book store, and virtually everything I read sickened me. This woman, in addition to being a nut job (thank you, Kathy Griffin!) is a bigot, insulting, and demeaning.

I just stood there, shaking my head. When I put it down, (HARD!) I said out loud, "what garbage." A woman nearby smiled and winked at me, and I responded that I couldn't believe anyone would take that woman seriously, and it would serve her and her publisher right if they lost a ton of money on the book.

A man standing nearby just said, "Ann Coulter?" while shaking his head from side to side and rolling his eyes.

Just wondering if anyone has actually been able to stomach reading the whole thing.

[yurbud]

3. save the money and just read her columns

[AndyA]

6. Oh, I would never, ever consider BUYING anything of hers.

I would not put myself in a position to financially support the whore. I can't stomach committing to reading anything she writes, she's just too disgusting for me.

I was just wondering if anyone with a stronger stomach for this kind of tripe has actually started reading the book, and if so what they thought of it so far.

[yurbud]

4. Don't all good Christians look like dominatrix who just beat her gimp?

[yurbud]

5. found a good pic of her gimp:

[RethugAssKicker]

7. Typical RW Christian to me !

[zonmoy]

12. you are right

typical follower of the evil god they follow.

[tll]

8. Tony Norman (the columnist) is on a roll...

He had a fabulous column in yesterday or the day before about leadership, ethics, and the "dimestore patriotism" running rampant in this country. He was hoping Americans had had their fill of it but alas, today's PG had a LTTE about the column that was chock full of it -- you know, Norman's "Marxist tripe" and Norman is calling our country "bad" and our military "bad."

"Marxist?" The fuck did that come from? That, among other things...

Can't wait to see what this column brings in the LTTEs ... wish these dimestore patriots would learn to read for comprehension. I'm going to write a nice thank you to Norman for having the balls to say this stuff.

[RamboLiberal]

10. Yep - He's on a Roll - Glad he's back from long sabbatical

He was at a university. Here's part of column you referenced.

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What Mr. Bush refuses to give voice to is what everyone suspects but are waiting for a true leader to say: Enlisting in the military doesn't make a person a "hero." Putting on a uniform doesn't exempt a soldier from observing the obligations that tether all of us to the same moral order.

We shouldn't allow this president to insult the dignity of the men and women in the military by lowering the bar for what constitutes a hero. Heroism has to be earned.

This country may finally have had its fill of dime store patriotism. There aren't as many flags flying on front porches and lawns anymore. The Dixie Chicks have been rehabilitated and people are finally asking tough questions about the war, albeit three years down the road.

Even as the Pentagon schemes to remove a ban on "humiliating and degrading treatment" of prisoners from the revamped guide to soldier conduct, our troops understand that true service to the country stems from adhering to values that make the brutalization of the enemy impossible.

It isn't the enlisted men and women in the U.S. military who need a primer in ethics. It is the civilian leadership in Congress and the Pentagon who desperately need "core values" training. Ultimately, the failure in Iraq reflects the moral confusion of an inept president and his merry band of civilian and military enablers.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06157/696049-153.stm

[bloom]

9. She is a sad commentary

on any Christians who DON'T have a problem with her.


I know of a couple of fundamentalists - who think you are supposed to think that everything she says is "funny" - sort of like Rush Limbaugh.

yeah, right. :eyes:

[Danmel]

11. At least she's not Jewish

Whenever anyone does something really bad I always hope they're not Jewish. At least she's not Jewish~ now if we could get rid of Abramoff and Perle and Bud Selig!