Does the world need vicious beast things like Ann Coulter?

[TennesseeWalker]

I feel like making the arguement that we needed people like Annthrax to galvanize the left and turn it back into a movement again. The internet sure seems to be bringing the left together again as well.

We've let the right go so far in their Dittohead frenzy that they've actually dragged up people so outrageous that they shocked people in the Center and Center left into the arms of the people they profess to hate.

Michael Savage is nothing but a buffoon, and everybody knows it. Ann is the chick from "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". The PNAC group is straight out of a bad Bond movie. This is a ridiculous way to run a world.....nothing seems real anymore, and all the answers to complex questions are SIMPLE. I'm sorry, but things don't work properly when you try to pretend that major problems don't exist.

It's like Bush said, "I feel like I'm watching a bad movie". I feel that way too, only Bush is the star.

At least those assholes finally pissed off enough people to make folks talk to each other about the opposing point of view.

[Catshrink]

1. No, don't need her. She needs to go away.

That's what she said on C-Span... "The Democratic Party" needs to go away." Then we'd be left with moderate republicans and conservative republicans.

The bitch has no concept of democratic process or truth or logic. What the heck does Bill Maher see in her anyway?

[short bus president]

2. for a second there

I misread your title as "does the world need to viciously beat things like Ann Coulter?"

I was prepared to respond enthusiastically.

[TennesseeWalker]

5. LOL

Sounds good to me...

[Yaoi_Huntress_Earth]

3. Sometimes I Wonder

If what is inside the hearts of our leaders is reflected in the people. When people actually look up to hatemogers and bullies, you have to wonder. BTW, if Savage and Coulter were around in the 60's, 80's, or 70's do you think they would've been as popular as they are now?
Love,
Yaoi Huntress Earth

[punpirate]

6. Well, if one looks at history...

... they've been there all along--Father Coughlin in the `30s, Joe McCarthy in the `40s and `50s, Joe Pine and Norman Lincoln Rockwell in the late `50s and early `60s, David Duke in the `70s and `80s.

But, the likes of Savage and Coulter and Gasbagh would have been relegated to the margins, then, instead of finding publishers and broadcasters today. If you're suggesting that there's been a fundamental shift in opinion in the country, maybe yes, maybe no. The truth is that these people are getting more exposure today simply because someone's making money from their outrageousness. On edit, I should clarify the previous by saying that it may have been that in times past, the market was there for hate speech, but none of the major publishers and networks saw it as a market worth developing, or declined to do so--which is clearly not the case now.

Let's not forget that Jesse Helms was a two-bit race-baiting broadcaster in NC in 1961, but with a big enough audience to get him into Congress.

Cheers.

[TennesseeWalker]

7. No, I don't think so.

Folks of that era had been through hard times, either as adults or as children. People don't remember what it was like when things were bad, the old folks who remember are dying out, and people don't read enough history to know what the old folks did to get them to live so well.

So, history repeats itself. We're getting ready to go back to pre-Hoover days, complete with Robber Barons like JP Morgan, Tammany Hall, corruption, war, and big profits for the rich.

So, maybe those who know some history will be provoked by Ann Thrax to action.

[Semi_subversive]

4. Just suffered thru her

on Bill Maher. What a waste of oxygen she is. And I've seen shorter necks on a giraffe!

[lfairban]

8. My wife told me that . . .

. . . conservatives are trying to get Ann to shut up, because she makes them look like idiots. Maybe her presence isn't such a bad thing after all.

[Booberdawg]

9. True

They don't like her because she's too honest about what they really feel.

[TennesseeWalker]

10. Yeah! THAT's what I was trying to say!

:)

[dani]

14. She does represent the ugliness of the right

in a very overt manner. I've always thought Coulter's craziness (and rightwingers like her) was going to backfire on them and be detrimental to the conservative movement in the long run.

I was also starting to think Ann Coulter's popularity was going to start fading soon, but it looks like I was wrong about that.

[ibegurpard]

11. vicious beast thing...LOL

I like that name...I like to call her the bitch-pig-from-hell.

[liberalmuse]

12. She's just a freak show distraction...

good for a few laughs. The Repubs like her because she says what they want to say, only they can't because their insanity and hatred hidden behind the smoke screen of 'moral values' would finally be outed to mainstream America. I kind of feel sorry for this poison-tongued dipsh*t. She really is a joke.

[Fridays Child]

13. Kinda depends on how much meat tenderizer Adolph can make.

She looks so gristley that I'm not sure she's worth barbecuing.