Thinking Right

By Lynn

June 12, 2006 08:10 AM | Link to this

She called them what they were. Cheap hussies that got rich because their husbands got incenerated! Get over it already!

By Lola

June 12, 2006 08:18 AM | Link to this

Ann is not afraid to say things like they are, and she’s not PC, which in the leftist world is an unforgivable characteristic. Now that she’s exposed the left’s tactics of using “victims” to speak as unopposable experts on things, maybe more people will see it for what it is. GO ANN!!!

By Sam

June 12, 2006 08:20 AM | Link to this

Thanks for the straw man, Wooten. Those 9/11 widows are just one of many groups who are voicing their displeasure at the situation in Iraq. Typical right-wing blowhardism — don’t like the message, attack the messenger. And it’s pathetic how far backwards you’ll bend to hew to this strategy — the criticism of this group is their supposed inoculation from criticism. Tell me again how that works?

By Lauren

June 12, 2006 08:21 AM | Link to this

Ann Coulter proves time and time again that the Republican party is a party of big mouthed bullies. In her opinion NOTHING gives you the right to speak out against the President or any Republican leadership. Not losing your son in Iraq or your spouse in 9/11. She makes sure that if you criticize the President that you will pay and you will pay in the worst way. She will call you every name in the book! She is a terrible person but I like for her to talk and talk as loud as possible. Everytime she speaks she confirms to me what that party is all about. She even says she wants to supress the “free” speech of those who disagree with her! She is very dangerous. It’s nice to know you back her up, Mr. Wooten. But then, I figured you would. And Republican authored books go to the bestseller list because Republican groups and think tanks buy them by the thousands and give them away at events. It’s not because the public is buying them on their own. This party is on its way out of power because they are so hate-filled, bullying and bigoted and because they have made such a mess of this country and the war in Iraq. The only people who don’t think so are the 30% who drank the kool-ade and love them no matter what.

By

June 12, 2006 08:22 AM | Link to this

I am glad to see what lies at the heart of so many “christians”. Apparently hate not love is the message that Christ wants sent out.

By George P. Burdell

June 12, 2006 08:23 AM | Link to this

I am as conservative as it comes, and I have never, ever gotten what the big deal is about her. She never says anything thoughtful or insightful. I am not really sure why those on the right or left even pay her attention. Ignore her and let’s pray she fades into oblivion.

By Kevin

June 12, 2006 08:23 AM | Link to this

Cheap hussies? Very sensitive of you considering they lost their husbands in a terror attack.. and good for them for speaking out against Bush.. they did what they thought was right (and I think by now it’s pretty obvious they were correct)

By Larry

June 12, 2006 08:24 AM | Link to this

I’ve been telling people the same thing about the Columbine parents too. Fame is a powerful drug Thanks Jim.

By Rival

June 12, 2006 08:25 AM | Link to this

Nice deflection, Jim.

This has nothing to do with “victimhood.” The point in publicly rebuking her is to combat the “opinion-as-journalism” that Coulter, Malkin, Rush and others (including those on the Left, but let’s face it: they don’t get nearly the air-time that the Righties get) utilize to get press (and sell books!).

Words have meaning, and if you viciously attack a group who have the ultimate sypathy of an entire nation for what they went through, you’re going to get called for it. What, did Coulter not have enough time to make fun of any 9/11 orphans? I can’t wait to hear her opinion on all those “crybaby” cancer patients…

Funny that one of Coulter’s earlier books was entitled “Slander.”

By robert

June 12, 2006 08:25 AM | Link to this

Wow you writers are out of touch . And once again its freedom of speach unless the left does not agree. Hang her ? For what? sedition to your cause. Im not even going to start on the what about list like your beloved Micheal Moore even though hes been sued for slander countless times.

By One of the Majority's Voices of Dissent

June 12, 2006 08:26 AM | Link to this

Anne Coulter’s work is undeniably in bad taste and makes the right look as disgraceful as some critics argue it is, but it is satire. It’s sarcasm, yes, in poor taste, but not to be taken literally. Unfortunately, Jim Wooten doesn’t qualify for that disclaimer. He actually believes the offensive refuse he prints. To call it devoid of sensitivity and written in an intellectual vacuum would be far too kind. Thanks, Jim, for showing your true colors yet again.

By Mark

June 12, 2006 08:26 AM | Link to this

She is not that bad. It is okay for the liberals to skewer the conservatives but let a conservative say something that may offend the liberals or their causes and it is wrong. I say “RIGHT ON, ANN!!”. The liberals need to get over it and start to figure out how to unite the country and not bash Freedom of Speech.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 08:29 AM | Link to this

I guess Ms. Sheehan and the widows are incapable of speaking their own minds. Silly britches.

Lynn, honey, you must be a pawn or a tool for Mr. Wooten. So get back to the kitchen, dearie, and leave the war talk to us menfolk.

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 08:30 AM | Link to this

Ann’s last couple of books were marvelously well written, with an abundance of footnotes to support her factual contentions. I’ve read only the first chapter of the new book - teaser was posted online - but this looks like another powerful indictment of the left.

As to the kerfuffle on the harpies, the left is proving the point Ann is making - that the left is unwilling to debate any argument on substance, but merely submits unassailable “victim” to make emotional pleas. We will not see Hillary and Ann on the same stage in the next couple of years. Too bad - that would be fun to watch - the “smartest woman in the world” debating substance with Ann.

By One of the Majority's Voices of Dissent

June 12, 2006 08:31 AM | Link to this

Classy post there, Lynn- bad mouth the 9/11 widows. And conservatives try to claim that liberals are unAmerican. Lynn here is the new poster child for abhorrent conservative ideology.

By Ken

June 12, 2006 08:31 AM | Link to this

Aside from the fact that I would never vote for the party that the KKK supports..(Democrats in the past, Republicans now); Ann Coulter shows why hate groups support Bush.

By Rival

June 12, 2006 08:31 AM | Link to this

Robert,

Please realize: no one on the “Left” has advocated hanging Ann Coulter.

That was Jim Wooten’s title to this blog post, an over-the-top rhetorical trick to suggest that the legitimate rebuking Ann is getting is somehow unfair and severe.

By Chris

June 12, 2006 08:34 AM | Link to this

Since when is it “Christian” to bad mouth people with such vitriol? As I drive around my conservative neighborhood, I often see the “What would Jesus do?” bumper stickers. Would Jesus have used the words Ann Coulter uses? I don’t think so. And that’s why the Republicans will lose the House, and perhaps the Senate, in this November’s election. They spew hate … and it is quite obvious.

By Marc M

June 12, 2006 08:35 AM | Link to this

Oh, brother. (eyes rolled up into the back of my head) So Ann Coulter calls a spade a spade. BFD. I admire her for having the guts to speak the truth. The whining “victims” are sacred cows that are being skewered and the misguided “do-gooders” don’t like it one bit.

When were we ever guaranteed that everything in our lives would be perfect?

GET OVER IT!

By N-GA

June 12, 2006 08:35 AM | Link to this

Jim, I find it interesting that you don’t feel that a mother whose child has died in a war should not have more strongly reported views that people who have not experienced such a tragedy. I suggest that those who have never served on active duty, or have not had someone very close to them killed or wounded in war should be very careful when expressing their opinion about sending other people’s sons and daughters off to fight and die for a suspect cause.

You express your views regularly in the AJC, and often you have little or no direct experience on the subject. You have your bully pulpit and Cindy Sheehan has hers. So does Ann Coulter, but I suspect that the vast majority of Americans feel that while she is free to express her opinion, she should do it in a more respectful way.

By Topher

June 12, 2006 08:36 AM | Link to this

The 9/11 widows in question have been been outspoken about wanting a new investigation, because the Kean Commission was an obvious cover-up. Not suprising that they’re a target from supporters of the war on terror, and our civil liberties.

By Independent

June 12, 2006 08:36 AM | Link to this

As far as I’m concerned, she ranks right up there with Jessie Jackson and Cynthia McKinney. Sensible folks don’t pay attention to those two, so why would they pay any attention to Ann.

By robert

June 12, 2006 08:37 AM | Link to this

Rival . I guess you dont read or watch much news. And you dont actually believe Jims a conservative do you ?

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 08:39 AM | Link to this

Jim, you have hit a hot nerve here. I’ll bet you get 500 posts today.

By Tyler Durdin

June 12, 2006 08:40 AM | Link to this

There was probably another way for Coulter to make her point, but it’s very obvious that these widows have used their spouses’ tragic deaths as a tool to advance their political ideals. What I can’t understand is how at the same time they criticize the administration for not doing enough before 9/11, they are critical of the President’s efforts to prevent another attack. Iraq was a safe-haven for terrorist activity (additional reports coming out just today will add further evidence to this fact) and Saddam Hussein was a clearly a gathering threat (The UN wholeheartedly agreed). The moment those planes flew into the towers, his fate was essentially sealed. I am thankful that Bush has the stamina to see this through to the end. People often ask, “but isn’t this too high a price to pay?” And I remind them that the US losses in WWII were over 200,000 brave men and women. The total Russian losses in the same war were over 20 million. Yet, there seems to be little debate about whether or not those sacrifices had to be made to protect the world from tyranny and oppression. Somebody needs to tell the 9/11 widows that the purpose of attacks were not to murder their husbands. It was to kill as many AMERICANS as possible. We are all in this together.

By One person's opinion

June 12, 2006 08:42 AM | Link to this

Wait… it sounds like your upset because it’s too hard to “swift boat” these critics. The 9/11 widows and Cindy Sheehan are difficult to “swift boat” because they haven’t done anything you can scream about, except have Americans hear their stories. Is the problem that we are paying attention to them and you’re vitrolic hyperboyle won’t make us stop listening to good sense?

By

June 12, 2006 08:43 AM | Link to this

Those who denounce Coulter’s “hate speech” have no problem turning around and accusing Bush of personally directing war crimes, domestic spying and racial discrimination of Katrina victims.

The stench of hypocrisy is blanketing the Left these days.

Hey, Jay Bookman, are you listening?

By Miranda

June 12, 2006 08:44 AM | Link to this

I think Ann’s so snide because she’s hungry. If the camera didn’t add 10 pounds (which apparently only gets added to her head)a graphics artist would have to draw her into the frame. I mean really, those pies didn’t get thrown at her out of malice, those people were just trying to feed her for goodness sakes!

By N-GA

June 12, 2006 08:46 AM | Link to this

Mark,

You posted: “The liberals need to get over it and start to figure out how to unite the country and not bash Freedom of Speech.”

I respond that cons like you need to educate yourselves more. Liberals are not attacking Ann Coulter’s freedom of speech. She certainly has that right. They are simply using their own right of free speech to criticize Ms. Coulter and her published remarks. Liberals, unlike many cons, don’t advocate book-burning.

By Mark

June 12, 2006 08:46 AM | Link to this

Those who denounce Coulter’s “hate speech” have no problem turning around and accusing Bush of personally directing war crimes, domestic spying and racial discrimination of Katrina victims.

The stench of hypocrisy is blanketing the Left these days.

Hey, Jay Bookman, are you listening?

By wounded in iraq

June 12, 2006 08:51 AM | Link to this

HMMMMM!!!!! total federal payout for a 9/11 victim killed was 1.25 million (on average) total federal payout for a soldier killed in Iraq, 12K (on average). correct me if i am wrong, but something just don’t feel right about that one, yeah yeah yeah, i know we “volunteered” knowing the risks and all, but 12k v.s. 1.2 mill? i don’t care how you try to justify the disparity it just isn’t right. Go Anne!!!!

By clyde

June 12, 2006 08:52 AM | Link to this

If those that cry the loudest would actually read what she writes and think about what she says before making instant judgements, their opinions might be more worthwhile. Instant judgement, like instant analysis, is just that. By the way, the reason people on the left can’t stand her is she says what much of America thinks, and is part of a national media discourse that, until the advent of Fox News and the internet, was buried by the NY Times, Atlanta Journal, LA Times and their fellow travelers. Amazing how a second opinion gets things riled up, isn’t it?

By shrdiv

June 12, 2006 08:53 AM | Link to this

Wooten and Ann Coulter are great examples of an extremist Republican Party that continues to encourage Americans to hate and be divisive against each other. Last time I checked this behavior was exactly what the Bible teaches against.

They continue to display the qualities that are the worst of humanity.

The 9/11 widows, like many victims of horrible crimes, work to ensure that the same does not happen to other Americans. Cindy Sheehan continues to do the same. And she has never been a pawn and was active in the anti-war movement WAY BEFORE she took her stand in Crawford against Bush.

Wooten would have you believe that all is better and superior with the Republican party leadership. But we are not part of the media elite like Wooten is and we Americans know what it has been like to live in this country and try to raise our families in George W. Bush’s America these past 6 years:

It has been hell. Republicans can’t govern. We invaded the WRONG country. Our deficit is the highest in history, yet the GOP continues to cut taxes and leave more irresponsible debt for our children. An American city (New Orleans) drowned on Bush’s watch - and those people and others in Mississipi and Alabama STILL haven’t gotten the kind of help we owe them since they paid their taxes.

Go shovel that crap elsewhere, Wooten. It is not selling. Just look at Bush’s approval ratings!

By time for the truth

June 12, 2006 08:56 AM | Link to this

Ann Coulter is undoubtedly fast becoming Supreme Court Justice material. These petty and small minded hateful attacks on her by lefty pinkos are simply driven by envy and fear of her astute, sardonic observations about their own party of hate - Kennedy, Schumer, Dingy Harry Reid, and the feminazis Pelosi, Shrillary, et al.

Coulter’s books are meticulously researched, her lampooning of the liberal left is always excellent entertainment. Her trenchant rhetoric is never anything like as toxic or poisonous or off the mark factually as the humourless vituperative, venomous commie lovin’ neanderthals infesting the failing Soros slush fund joke that is Dead Air America. The average far left blogs - like Huffington.com are filled daily with Goebbels’s like baiting of Bush and Cheney et al.

The intellectual dishonesty of the left is essentially moral fascism - its OK if we sneer at you conservatives using outrageous smears etc but the second a conservative hands it back - the preverbial hypocritical liberal stuck pig squeals into view.

Coulter simply pointed out an undeniable, despicable fact - the pinkos now have sunk to the amoral depths of frequently trotting out lefty victims that hide behind personal tragedy whilst parroting Bush hate or anti-GOP propaganda - thereby supposedly innoculating them from any legitimate, obvious critique of their pinko tactic.

BEEN FOUND OUT NOW - AINT YA!! BIG anti-liberal SMIRK

Legitimate criticism and fair speech is one thing but the crazed Bush hater Sheehan and these odious millionaire self styled media whores, The Jersey Girls, who campaigned for the thankfully defeated (home movie camera in a war zone - for my first political campaign toting) band aid warrior-hero Kerry - among others - are perfectly fair game once they make their lefty views (repeatedly) public!!

By Tyler Durdin

June 12, 2006 08:58 AM | Link to this

Ah, yes. If only John Kerry were president, things in New Orleans would have been so much different. You really show your ignorance when you make statements like that. This coming from the same person who says Republicans are “divisive.”

By Sam

June 12, 2006 08:58 AM | Link to this

wounded in iraq, thank you for your service and here’s to your recovery. But in this case you’re comparing apples and oranges. Nobody sat down and decided that one group is 100x more valuable than the other.

By RW-(the original)

June 12, 2006 08:59 AM | Link to this

The fact remains that there really is one person that trashed the memory of ALL the the 9/11 victims by calling them “little Eichmann’s”, while Ann Coulter goes after the FOUR widows that have become media darlings and are called, by the antique media, for their opinion on everything under the sun. No matter the question, the answer from the Jersey girls is always “Bush sucks” and they pretend to speak for all victims. Cindy Sheehan is different, she answers every question “George sucks”.

So where can I find all the outrage from the left over the words of Ward Churchill?

By One of the Majority's Voices of Dissent

June 12, 2006 08:59 AM | Link to this

It’s ironic that every time Bush or any other Republican is on television they have to repeat the 9-11 chant (usually pronounced “nan-levin”). Remember nan-levin. Nan-levin this and nan-levin that. So what do conservatives say about the people who actually had family members killed on “nan-levin”? They criticize them in disrespectful, nasty terminology. Now that’s unAmerican. Bush and company don’t need to bring up 9-11 in campaign speeches or for policy justification since they had no personal loss in the attack, and all they do is ignore the wishes and beliefs of the victims, and instead drag them through the mud.

By N-GA

June 12, 2006 08:59 AM | Link to this

Wounded in Iraq,

Government payments to victims of terror are a product of this administration. The Oklahoma City bombing victims and their families didn’t get anything beyond standard benefits and insurance. It was this administration that supplemented insurance payouts to allow thousands of families to get million dollar plus payments. It is this administration that believes that money will sooth any hurt, solve any problem.

Look at military recruiting…rather than re-instituting the draft (political suicide), this administration is paying huge enlistment bonuses, paying larger bonuses for those who re-up, and reducing the standards of enlistment. Ann Coulter isn’t criticizing all the 9/11 families that got a million dollars, only those that she hates.

By

June 12, 2006 09:00 AM | Link to this

I think Ann calls them the way she sees them. The LEFT thinks they should have the corner on the market. Until someone starts calling their hand and then all they can do is whimper and talk about how mean everyone is that does not go along with their point of view. Just look at Hillary, her face has changed so much I bet her husband does not even recognize her.

By Bob

June 12, 2006 09:01 AM | Link to this

Hypocracy…that is what is at the bottom of this. These people hate it when people like Ann Coulter calls their bluff! She is right. And it isn’t about liberal versus conservative. It is about what is right versus what has become abusive opportunism by those who take advantage of misfortune. A misfortunate situation doesn’t make someone an political activist with expertise in anything but grief. Don’t carry it into the political realm!

By Van

June 12, 2006 09:01 AM | Link to this

shrdiv,

The only time I ever hear about “HATE” it is from some leftie that thinks they are being picked on.

The Jersey Girls have made a ton of money shilling for the atni-america crowd.

It took someone like Ann Coulter to shake off this mantle of PC and call it like it is.

Outside of the 4 women Ann named, which other 9/11 widows have capitalized on 9/11 to get rich?

By RobC

June 12, 2006 09:04 AM | Link to this

The Left’s exploitation of the 9-11 widows and Cindy Sheehan are classic examples of the logical fallacy known as “appeal to pity.” Their attacks against Ann are another logical fallacy known as the “ad hominem” argument: Ann’s book exposes the hypocrisy and lies of the Left, and they attack her since they can’t refute the truth of her claims.

By A.L.

June 12, 2006 09:07 AM | Link to this

It’s really amazing: many of the libs who have responded to Mr. Wooten’s blog over the past week have taken a great deal of delight in sterotyping conseratives as ignorant, racist, homophobic, etc.

And then, these same libs get their panties in a wad when someone like Ms. Coulter gives them a dose of their own medicine.

Speaking of underwear: is Fave still wearing MEN’S drawers on his head … with the MEN still in them?

By N-GA

June 12, 2006 09:10 AM | Link to this

Jim W.,

BTW…Cindy Sheehan does not profess to be an expert in war, as you seem to suggest in your analogy. I do think she qualifies as an expert in losing a son in war. And she has every right to express herself, just like you would defend to the death the right of pro-life demonstrators to express themselves wherever they choose to protest. I suspect she would object to being called a “pawn”, much as you would object to being described as a “paid Republican shill”.

By chris broe

June 12, 2006 09:13 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten, you forgot to report that Ann Coulter chased a liberal up a tree in New Jersey over the weekend. (The ranger’s not going to like this, Yogi)

By

June 12, 2006 09:14 AM | Link to this

We have become a nation that spawns a new cottage industry with every crime. John Walsh, the Simpson and Goldman families, Columbine etc. You migth quibble with her choice of words but families taking advantage of a crisis for a new career, money, or publicity is just plain wrong

By getalife

June 12, 2006 09:17 AM | Link to this

The thing you call ann is an entertainer like Rush who will say anything to get paid. This is a publicity stunt to pimp her book and it is working.

The sad part is people take them seriously and is a strong indicator of their mind set.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 09:18 AM | Link to this

“hypocrisy”

It’s just one of the many words you bottomfeeders routinely spell incorrectly. Not only can’t you spell it, but you obviously have no idea what it means. So here are some examples:

Put yellow ribbons on your SUVs about supporting the troops - but lie about and ridicule a dead soldier’s mother.

Invoke 9/11 at every opportunity, yet call victims’ widows ghouls and cheap hussies.

Cheerlead and thump your chest for war - from behind your computer screen instead of an M-16.

“hypocrisy”

By N-GA

June 12, 2006 09:20 AM | Link to this

I am genuinely perplexed. As far as I know, these widows got the same [equivalent] payout as all the other victim’s spouses. These widows are not using their status to get more money. They are simply using their tragic loss to express their views on this administration’s handling of terrorism. And for doing this they are vilified.

Ann Coulter has lost nothing, yet she gets the big bucks for being the “vilifier”. What a country!! What hypocrisy.

By time for the truth

June 12, 2006 09:21 AM | Link to this

to the lefty Kerry lovin? moron!!

New Orleans would have happened exactly the same way!! The levees were weakened years ago by corrupt DemoNcrat politcos in the state/city who diverted funds elsewhere! Also recent satellite photos have shown that NO is sinking much faster than thought, hence the levees in the more vulnerable areas failed first and NOTHING could have stopped that!!

And the race baitin’ useless Ray ‘School Bus’ Nagin could have DUH!!! moved the school buses out with people in them and stopped hiding in fear on the upper reaches of a downton hotel and actually done something to make a difference. It was actually state DemoNcrats who refused the National Guard before the storm and turned back FEMA buses/supplies. But according to the drive by media its ALL Bush’s fault, even the levees which were built years ago - that’s Bush’s fault too!!

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 09:23 AM | Link to this

Here’s a conversation with Ann Coulter:

Ann: “Liberals are terrible people because they don’t agree with me.”

Anyone: “Why is that, Ann? What makes you the better person so that, by definition, people not like you are bad?”

Ann: “Liberals are terrible people because they don’t agree with me!”

Anyone: “But, Ann, come now, please elaborate. Because a statement like that doesn’t make any sense. It’s not self-evident, you know.”

Ann: “LIBERALS ARE TERRIBLE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY DON’T AGREE WITH ME!”

Anyone: “Ann….calm down…I just want you to explain, with out shouting, how you came to your conclusion.”

Ann: “LIBERALS ARE TERRIBLE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY DON’T AGREE WITH ME, AND YOU’RE AN IDIOT AND STINKY, TOO!”

Here’s a conversation with my 5-year old son:

Son: “Mom, do you renember when I was watching Wolverine and he was fighting that bad guy, the one that looks like Lion? And the bad guy wanted to KILL Wolverine but Wolverine just SMASHED him? And the Wolverine turned into Logan and got on his motorcycle and then he had to fight Magneto? But Magneto BEAT Wolverine because of all the metal? And then Cyclops came and BLASTED him? But that’s dangerous because it’s bad. Why is that dangerous, Mom?”

Me: “I’m not sure. What’s dangerous?”

Son: “Mom, it’s dangerous because it’s bad.”

Me: “Wait, I thought you wanted me to explain why it’s dangerous. What is it that’s dangerous?”

Son: “You don’t understand! It’s dangerous because it’s bad!”

Me: “Okay, I understand that, but WHAT is dangerous? Slow down and think about it.”

Son: “NO! IT’S DANGEROUS BECAUSE IT’S BAD! AND YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND!”

Me: “Son, calm down. Stop shouting. I don’t understand better when you yell. I’m only two feet away from you. I can hear you just fine. But I still don’t know what you’re talking about. Something is dangerous because it’s bad. What is dangerous?”

Son: “Mom…it’s dangerous BECAUSE IT’S BAD! YOU JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT A SUPERHERO LIKE ME!”

If you’re like me you just shrug and wonder at the minds of children.

By wildant

June 12, 2006 09:23 AM | Link to this

Do we think that Ms. Sheehan does not believe what she is saying? Yes, the way in which she came about her forum was unfortunate, but now at least she can say what she feels about the war and others listen and talk about it on TV. She isn’t confined to responding to blog comments.

By edge770

June 12, 2006 09:25 AM | Link to this

Ann is right 99 percent of the time and she brings the 9/11 widows to where they belong. There’s a lot of resentment for example in public safety because these so called 9/11 widows have forgotten where they come from, not helping public safety employees in trouble and sticking it out if for the thugs of New York Schumer and H. Clinton..

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 09:26 AM | Link to this

@ A.L.

There is plenty of evidence that southrons are indeed ignorant, racist homophobes. Sexist, too, as we see in today’s posts.

There is plenty of scholarly research that backs up these findings. Coulter just talks out of her arse.

By GOP

June 12, 2006 09:27 AM | Link to this

I PERSONALLY LOVE HER, SHE TELLS IT LIKE IT IS. SHE IS NOT AFRAID TO SAY WHAT IS ON HER MIND, THERE SHOULD BE A LOT MORE WOMEN LIKE HER OUT THERE. RIGHT ON ANN, SEAN, NEAL AND MIKE SAVAGE YOU GO GUYS………..

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 09:28 AM | Link to this

Here’s a conversation with Jennifer:

Jennifer: Ann Coulter is wrong because I say so.

Me: But Jennifer, have you read the books or followed up with the footnotes.

Jennifer: ANN COULTER IS WRONG BECAUSE I SAY SO….

By B.

June 12, 2006 09:33 AM | Link to this

This is very much like the little boy who went around the grocery store tripping old ladies. A man stopped him, and told him not to be a jerk. His mother called the cops, because a man had called her son a jerk - and it’s wrong to call little boys jerks.

Only a mother could focus on her son being called a jerk, while ignoring the fact that he tripped a bunch of old ladies. And only a complete ideologue could see the backlash against Ann Coulter as a liberal conspiracy.

If her point were that the 9/11 victims’ families have too much pull on things like the WTC memorial, I would have agreed with her. And if she said that being a victim does not provide complete moral authority over the war, I would somewhat agree (though I would question why Wooten thinks that Cindy Sheehan was a pawn, but that Swift Boat Veterans had a message that needed to be heard…)

But that’s not what she said. Coulter said that the widows of 9/ll victims were “witches” who were “happy” that their husbands died. Why witches? What does being a witch (or a b*h, as she probably meant) have to do with politics? It is a purely personal insult - an attack not on the women’s views, but on the women. It’s “these women who hold a view opposite of mine are ugly, green, and fly broomsticks.”

Regardless of what you think of Hillary Clinton, that statement is “vicious” (and more than a little dumb). Regardless of what sort of loaded terminology the word “sensitivity” has for you, that statement is “beyond insensitive.” It was mean. It was malicious. And if it represents the way that Republicans feel - if they truly believe that no slander, no viciousness is too extreme to be used against their “opponents” (even if their opponents are ordinary Americans speaking their mind after suffering great tragedy), then Republicans are “a cabal of bloviators, bully boys and blowhards.” I don’t see any grand “liberal” conspiracy in saying so.

By Lynda

June 12, 2006 09:35 AM | Link to this

Geez! Much of this is just flat out mean. You should be ashamed.

By Rival

June 12, 2006 09:35 AM | Link to this

I guess you dont read or watch much news. And you dont actually believe Jims a conservative do you ?

Robert,

I’m blind, so, no, I don’t “read” or “watch” news. And I never called Jim a conservative.

There’s a difference between “Republican” and “conservative”. Not much of the latter around anymore.

By Duncan

June 12, 2006 09:38 AM | Link to this

Ann Coulter is an opportunist…most of what comes out of her mouth might as well come out the other end. She incites emotions from the left and the right and that sells books, gets her speaking engatements, and makes her rich.

I mean come on…does anybody really believe she is religious?

If Jim Wooten really wanted to be taken serious he’d get just as nasty as her instead of his usual smarmy off-the-cuff mish mash of opinions.

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 09:38 AM | Link to this

jbmlaw,

where did I say I thought she was wrong? I didn’t. I didn’t give my opinion on the validity of her point. I only said she was loud and nonsensical, which she is, footnotes aside.

You don’t really think she wrote any of her books, did you? People like her don’t write. They have ghostwriters. And it’s easy as pie to reference your point, all day long.

I’d like to see her opinion in a peer-reviewed political journal. If she made peer review even ONE TIME, I’d give her spiel the time of day.

By chris broe

June 12, 2006 09:38 AM | Link to this

Watching any Ann Coulter interview spotlights the Republican Majority’s Accomplishments in the same way that Katie Courik’s live colonoscopy did.

By Dancan

June 12, 2006 09:39 AM | Link to this

That should be engagements…

By die hard hawks fan

June 12, 2006 09:39 AM | Link to this

MAKE THAT MONEY ANN!

THEY CAN HATE CUZ THEY AINT MAKING THAT MONEY!!

I HEARD SHE GOT A BIG OLE ADVANCE!!!

By MK

June 12, 2006 09:46 AM | Link to this

This Ann Coulter woman wants publicity at any cost, when on TV you’d think she is ready for a model photo shoot, hair just so, legs lovingly exposed , hard steely look, she is ready like a dragon with her inflammatory regurgitation of viciousness and intolerance , Hitler would have loved this woman. I dont hate her for expressing her views, but I cant helped being repulsed for a complete lack of rspect and sensitivity towards her suffering countrywomen. In spite of her remarks I dont believe these Jersey women are happy their husbands died, no more that Cindy Sheehan is glad her son died in Iraq, c’mon

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 09:48 AM | Link to this

Wolverine is Logan (1).

Ann Coulter is very hungry (2).

Perhaps our problem would be solved if Ann ate Wolverine for breakfast. She already has the same claws so we know that she can consume adamantium.

Footnotes:

(1) Jennifer. Wootan Blog: “Hang ‘er high, that darn Ann Coulter”. June 12, 2006 09:23 AM.

(2) Miranda. Wootan Blog: “Hang ‘er high, that darn Ann Coulter”. June 12, 2006 08:44 AM

By

June 12, 2006 09:49 AM | Link to this

Part of what Coulter aims for is shock value to garner attention, cloak herself in some kind of credentials, and make money. That’s true of most every political commentator, self appointed or not. It doesn’t seem that the debate or criticism is so much about her ideology or views as it is her meanspiritedness, absence of humanity and capability of fair play. It is doubtful that very many outside the capitol’s journalistic beltway really care what she thinks or says or buy her books. But no matter where one stands on an issue, people personally touched by national tragedies or actions should be allowed to act on their view without personal attacks, without evidence. And all the rest of us, whether conservative or liberal, have just as much right to public and private opinions without gratuitous personal attacks. If someone like Coulter, who is outside the personal pain and who only speaks but doesn’t act, gets such attention where is the validity of her criticism? I guess it helps sell her book and line her pocketbook, much more lucratively than the money and power Sheehan or the widows got. She gives conservatives a bad name and I am ashamed of her.

By Rob

June 12, 2006 09:49 AM | Link to this

I find it hilarious that a spokeperson for the gay-bashing right is a closeted TRANNY!!! I have news for you people there is not a person in this world who is born with female parts who has an adam’s apple. And “she” has a huge one! Ann Coulter? More like Man Coulter! And what’s better, right wing men find he/she attractive! Funniest thing ever!!

By Second coming of Anna

June 12, 2006 09:50 AM | Link to this

Jim Wooten, thank you for finally clarifying for me what I had been struggling with for years. I couldn’t understand why I, someone who has an MBA from a world renowned university - has been in management for a decade - is a proud Catholic - and happily married, white heterosexual father of two - just couldn’t join the Republican Party. Well, it became apparant to me today that unless you have the following temperament “if it didn’t happen to me, it’s not that big of a deal. If they don’t look like me or talk like me, I don’t care what happens to them. If someone disagrees with me, they are not only unpatriotic they are also subhuman and worthy of ridicule.” What happened to the party of Lincoln. I know black Americans are thankful that Lincoln and other Republicans of the age didn’t feel the way Republicans do now. Jim this article cheapens you - while I have enjoyed and been challenged by your Op-ed pieces before, this one sickens me; yet shows me clearly why I am not a Republican.

By Joe Wilson

June 12, 2006 09:52 AM | Link to this

To be famous in this country, all you have to do is bash others in public media. Easy money.

By steve

June 12, 2006 09:53 AM | Link to this

I believe maybe Ann was a little too harsh by suggesting that maybe their husbands were thinking about divorce. However, the along with “Cindy” don’t have a free pass to call our President a liar, murderer, bastard, etc. Once they became the pawns of the far left nuts their shield of invincibility comes off. The far left has given them a platform from which to regurgitate the vile that festers in the stomachs of the Michael Moores and Al Franken of this world and they are fair game. It’s a shame this vocal minority gets all the press, but thats to be expected when they’re preaching to the choir (media). And one more thing..I live in America, so why should I have to press 1 for English ??

By concerned citizen

June 12, 2006 09:53 AM | Link to this

That’s fine Wooten. You can question the motives or expertise of someone who’s been relieved of their loved ones forever. But that cuts both ways. Let’s question Ann Coulter’s motives and qualifications to make the statements that she does. What has she done or experienced that makes her an authority on anything (other than hate mongoring)? I imagine that the early days of Hitler were very similar to Coulter’s rhetoric, appealing to the worst in people, trying to encourage people to hate people who are not like themselves (i.e. white and rich). I find Coulter and her kind very disgusting and ironic. These are the people who question the patroitism of anyone who would voice a dissenting opinion about the actions of the President or Congress. This is ironic because these same people hate the Constitution and the rights it guarantees. They obviously hate freedom of speech, ripping anyone who uses it to say something differing from them. They doubly hate freedom of the press, citing the “liberal media” constantly as the enemy. I guess it never occurred to these people that they look like idiots in the media because the truth paints them that way, like Bush has no one to blame but himself for his poll numbers. These people hate freedom of religion, because they think everyone should be a Christian, citing some misguided information that the United States was somehow founded to be a Christian nation. The facts are that while most of the founding fathers were men of faith, they were first and foremost Enlightenment thinkers, seeking to create a government that was secular but respectful of all religions. They can point to all the imagery in the buildings in D.C. all they want, but its the words written in the Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc. that are what matters. About the only right these people support to the death is the right to bear arms. Go figure. I support Ann Coulter’s right to free speech, so she can make herself look like a fool all she wants. But I don’t have to suffer people defending her fire-breathing hate, like you Wooten.

By Joe Wilson

June 12, 2006 09:54 AM | Link to this

Ann is a man. See how easy it is? LOL.

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 09:56 AM | Link to this

No, Ann is not a man. That’s just childish. She’s waaaaaaay too thin to be a man. And that kind of thinness is only something women care about (1).

(1) Miranda. Wootan Blog: “Hang ‘er high, that darn Ann Coulter”. June 12, 2006 08:44 AM.

By Rob

June 12, 2006 09:57 AM | Link to this

If the GOP were to try to make love to Ann Coulter they would have their own personal Crying Game. She’s a tripod!!

By TS

June 12, 2006 09:58 AM | Link to this

Freedom of speech is what this is all about. Ann Coulter has the right to say what she wants…the widows of 9/11 have the right to say what they want…we have the right to listen to what we want. If Ann Coulter says something that most people disagree with then they can stop buying her books. I don’t agree with what she said…but she has the right to say it. I don’t fear the terrorists as much as I fear the time when people no longer question things and blindly go along. KEEP FREEDOM OF SPEECH ALIVE! Question Authority!!!

By Mark

June 12, 2006 09:59 AM | Link to this

You Rethugs/cancervatives are so ridiculous. The 30 percent of you still buying Bush’s/Coulter’s nonsense apparently don’t have a brain of your own to think with so you let these two morons dictate your thinking for you. That’s the good thing about being a lib, we have open minds to all ideas until something is so stupid that it deserves the backlash the skinny woman is getting right now. You ask why Conservative talk radio is popular and Air America is not. Because liberals don’t need to be preached to by some big mouth idiot (Rush, Hannity, Boortz, Bill O). We think for ourselves.

By chris broe

June 12, 2006 09:59 AM | Link to this

Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and Tom Delay are the icons of the Right’s Lunatic Fringe. Democrats are counting on those three to keep talking till November.

Bush’s timeline for US troops withdrawal: “When a self governing Iraq can sustain and defend itself”.

I wonder how long that is in Dogtag Years.

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 09:59 AM | Link to this

Dear Jennifer, I am certain you are a good and decent person, and you are surely profoundly insulted by Ann’s harsh language. But, do you really believe Ann did not write her book? She marshals her arguments as any well-trained attorney would, and she works from a solid foundation of fact.

While she uses language that rings loudly, the foundation for what she says is sound. (At least it was in the two prior books - I cannot yet affirm for this book.)

To your inquiry, it is technically true that you did not affirm that there was any lack of truth in anything Ann said. Would you confirm that you believe what she wrote is true, but merely insensitive, or is your argument merely a red herring?

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 10:00 AM | Link to this

@ Steve

It is wrong to call Bush a liar, a murderer, and a bastard.

His parents were married before he was born.

By chris broe

June 12, 2006 10:02 AM | Link to this

How are Zarqawi and Ann Coulter alike? Zarqawi eluded US troops for 3 years. Ann Coulter has eluded the cream pie for 3 years.

By Sam

June 12, 2006 10:02 AM | Link to this

My father is a PoliSci professor, my wife is a music teacher. If I had been killed in WTC on 9/11, my father’s observations on my death would be more important (to the rest of the world)than my wife’s.

I don’t know that any of the Jersey Girls have any qualifications to be homeland security, foreign affairs, military strategy experts, other than their victim-hood.

By ec

June 12, 2006 10:05 AM | Link to this

send Ann to Iraq and lets hope she gets shot!

By Neil

June 12, 2006 10:05 AM | Link to this

Jim - Are you serious? Ann Coulter might have a good idea or two, but her comments lower the level of public discourse tremendously. For you to defend her comments speaks volumes.

By James

June 12, 2006 10:09 AM | Link to this

My friends who live in NY say this story is absolutely true; some of these people (and let’s all admit that they are mostly widows) have received several million dollars in life insurance from their spouses’ employers, more money from the city and state governments, still more from “relief funds,” free college education for their kids, etc.

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 10:10 AM | Link to this

Neil, I think you just proved Jim’s (and Ann’s) point. As you acknowledge, Ann has a few good ideas. Instead of addressing (dare I say “attacking”) her ideas, you lament her language. Do you agree with her point, or not? If not, why not? This is your chance to elevate the discussion.

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 10:10 AM | Link to this

jbmlaw,

don’t bother with pandering to any sense of dignity. I don’t care what you think of me, really.

No, Ann did not write this book. Books take a long time to write, especially any books that require researching facts. I know this from experience. Just writing a scientific research paper cand take 6 months, easily. Writing fiction takes longer, if you also have a dayjob. Ann has a dayjob. She has lackeys that run around finding facts that support her agenda and then a ghostwriter who puts it together. She gives the nod and it goes to publishing. This is not an insult to her. This is done ALL the time.

However, she NEVER gives the limitations to her points. Only in peer review are people forced to admit the limitations of their hypotheses and indicate the consequences and suggest how to adjust for them.

As a rule, I read stuff like hers for entertainment only. And I really think that’s all it is.

As for the validity of what she says? In regards to the 911 widows. Are they using their husband’s deaths to further their political agenda? Sure they are. Everyone has a cause. Some people’s causes are brought about by personal tragedy, such as having a gay son beaten and tied to a fence, having a child who shoots up a school or having a child who was shot at school, or having your husband die in a terrorist attack.

But the people who’s causes were created by personal tragedy are given spotlight to speak. And you can be sure they don’t want this to happen to anyone else. Just because they think the way to stop it from happening again is not the way you think does not invalidate their opinion. They’re just lucky that they have that spotlight.

I ask, where are the 911 widows who disagree with these 911 widows? Out of >2000 victims of 911 surely there is a contingent who disagree with these women? Where are they? Why are they silent?

That silence makes these women’s voices so much louder.

By getalife

June 12, 2006 10:11 AM | Link to this

Instead of bashing these women, they should be rewarded. They actually accomplished something many have failed at.

Actually getting the government to do something for the security of this country.

By Lauren

June 12, 2006 10:12 AM | Link to this

I am a proud liberal and I absolutely do not waht to limit Ann Coulter’s free speech. But she does want to limit mine. She said so in an October 2005 speech in Florida. Republicans only support free speech when someone they like is talking. Otherwise, it’s crucify anyone who disagrees with them. I know why the right loves her, she says what they are usually afraid to say in polite society. She gives a voice to their usually closeted bigotry, prejudice and hatred. They can’t get enough of that. As far as talk radio goes, Mark is right. Lefties don’t listen to it because we don’t need some blowhard up there making us feel better about our views by confirming and affirming them. We think for ourselves and we don’t need to held by our hands and patted on the head and told we are right. I have listened from time to time to a few minutes here and there of Rush and Boortz. I don’t know how you guys listen to them every day. They are totally predictable! They say the same darn thing everyday. You must like repetitiveness but I don’t.

By concerned citizen

June 12, 2006 10:14 AM | Link to this

You know what else is ironic? Ann Coulter lambastes these ladies who lost their husbands on 9/11. And yet she takes up the mantle of victim herself (as a U.S. citizen) of terrorist attacks by her support for the Bush administration and their so-called war on terrorism. As Americans, we were all attacked, our way of life, by these fanatics. But not one of us who did not lose a family member or friend on that day, or the subsequent military activities, can claim the right to a louder voice than those who did. America is a vehicle on the road of life that has veered off the highway to the right because we’ve only got one hand on the wheel. We can hear the thumpity thump of those warning bumps letting us know it’s time to put our left hand back on the wheel, to get us back in the center of the road before it’s too late.

By CDog

June 12, 2006 10:14 AM | Link to this

Let’s be honest for moment. The real issue for liberals is what Ann Coulter says and believes, not how she says it. Liberals are going to tail against her no matter how she says it, so she might as well have a little caustic fun with it. Could any liberal give an example of a pro-life, pro-Iraq war, anti-darwinism, pro-abstinence, anti-homosexuality, pro-public acknowledgement of God commentator who says things the way you would like them said?

BTW, try actually reading the Bible before you presume to be an expert on it. Jesus said in Revelation 3:19, “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.”

By arman

June 12, 2006 10:15 AM | Link to this

Oh c’mon. What a non-issue. Ann Colter is such a POS. Her latest book is called “Godless”. However, the church that she alleges to attend in Manhatten has never heard of her. I find that kind of funny. In addition, why does she wear coctail dresses to interviews at 7am (with Matt Lauer the other day)?

As for the 9-11 widows. Give me a break. How many times have Republicans and commentators like Sean Hannity invoked 9-11 in order to justify the administrations actions in Iraq etc. If someone challenges someone like Hannity about the war, he instantly accuses you of endangering the troops, then, in a last ditch effort to make you look unpatriotic, he says “do you not remember the 3000 people who were murdered in the WTC only 5 years ago? You are living in a pre-9/11 mindset…”. So, politicians and commentators can use it for their gain, but those who lost loved ones cannot speak of it at all, even when their interest is improving national security?

And Ann said they were above reproach etc, but she had no problem attacking and criticizing them. Do you not see the contradiction? She is a bumbling idiot, who plays on the emotions of ignorant extremist.

By Sam

June 12, 2006 10:16 AM | Link to this

All this talk about Coulter’s meticulous research etc doesn’t mean much — if you begin with your conclusion, you can always find sources to shoehorn into the rhetoric. Coulter relies on stringently enforced selection bias to make her points, then makes them in such an odious fashion that, in a rational universe, she would never have gained such traction.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 10:18 AM | Link to this

@ James

Sounds like you are a little jealous. Would you have your spouse or a parent killed for $2M? How about a $1M? $500K? How about a big party weekend at Tunica?

Trash.

By Nikster

June 12, 2006 10:18 AM | Link to this

I think what Anne said was correct. You have a group of ” 911 widows” who got rich off their husbands’ tragic deaths. Now that they have lots of other people’s money, they decide they are experts on 911 & we better listen to them or else. Cynthia McKinney loves them. Not everyone who lost a family member got rich off them.Seems some people thought they deserved more than others & the sad part is they got it. Don’t condemn Anne because she said things that needed to be said & no one else had the gut or courage to say it. She understood the fallout & outrage she’d get.

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 10:20 AM | Link to this

uh…nikster…what’s the link to cynthia mckinney? just a random slam on democrats?

By Stewart

June 12, 2006 10:21 AM | Link to this

Though I do not find Ann’s tone very effective, she does make valid points. The extreme left seeks out victims of tragedies to be spokepersons and then berates those that challenge these views because it is politically incorrect to do so. The Jersey Girls and Cindy Sheehan have taken an equally virile tone towards the President. Going much further than saying his policies are screwed up etc. They chose to make it personal. Listen to Al Franken, Michael Moore and other liberal political commenters. They are just as offensive as Ann Coulter. Doesn’t make it right, but we are all hypocrites when we attack the opposing tactics when in reality they are all working out of the same political play book! When we can all sit back and realize that the Republicans are not Nazis and all Democrats are not Socialists, this country will be much better off.

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 10:23 AM | Link to this

Sam, normally if there is a logic flaw or factual error, there is no shortage of people willing to set the record straight (i.e., Swift Boat vets or CBS come to mind.) I think I have heard of no such critique of Coulter’s thesis in the last couple of books. Does anyone yet dispute that John and Robert Kennedy were friends and supporters of Joseph McCarthy? Or even the fundamental question, that McCarthy was right about communist infiltration of the State Department and the Department of the Army? Ann writes tough, but her arguments withstand all comers.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 10:25 AM | Link to this

@ Nikster

Maybe Ann and the widows have something in common - the widows get rich off their husbands tragic death, and Ann gets rich off yours and others tragic stupidity.

By Joe

June 12, 2006 10:25 AM | Link to this

I can’t think of a time, Jim, where I’ve seen the widow of someone killed in a car wreck (I was taught in driving school, by the way, that it’s not an “accident,” that little PC term you use) became an “instant authority on freeway design and construction…”

Perhaps you could provide an example of this?

And, by the way, sorry to hear about your victimhood in the course of having to hear the opinions of those people whom you disagree with. You poor thing.

By Lauren

June 12, 2006 10:26 AM | Link to this

CDog if you are trying to use Revelations for a literal quote then you don’t know much about the Bible. Revelations is written in highly coded, lyrical and symbolic language and cannot and should not be taken literally. It is done so only by the uneducated and ignorant.

By Stewart

June 12, 2006 10:27 AM | Link to this

Lauren,

I would be willing to bet that you get your news and entertainment from CNN and network news. Don’t they also speak the same thing every day. People like to listen to those that share their same opinions.

By N-GA

June 12, 2006 10:30 AM | Link to this

Well CDog, You said “be honest”. so here it is.

You have no earthly idea what the “real” liberal issue with Ann Coulter is, so don’t presume to tell us. If the problem was simply Ann Coulter’s fascist views, then why is there not a daily outcry over her ridiculous rants?

No, she is taking heat in the news now because she made some outrageous statements in her book, then repeated them on network television.

To repeat what I and others have said repeatedly, Ann Coulter can say whatever she wants [Freedom of Speech]. We can criticize how she says it for the same reason [Freedom of Speech].

BTW…any one of us can quote the bible without claiming to be expert on it. The hypocrisy lies with those who selectively use the bible to further their own sinful actions…like killing in God’s name, corruption, theft, lying (or twisting the truth to fit their needs), etc. I think it is better to ask WWJD? What would he think of Ann Coulter’s remarks? And what would he think of those who defend what she said (not her right to say it)?

By rustylynn

June 12, 2006 10:30 AM | Link to this

I have enjoyed all of Ann Coulter’s books. They hilarious!……Hilarious because she exposes liberal hypocrisy so well.

Funny how Luckovich and other liberals call her names like Hitler and portray her as an Alien….. because they can’t dispute what she says! That small group of 9/11 widows DID campaign for Kerry! …despite Randi Rhodes and others saying they didn’t.

She’s dead on about liberals fronting Cindy Shehan or rolling out that tub of crap Max Cleland…. because we appear MEAN when we disagree with them.

Here’s something to think about regarding Cindy Shehan… Doesn’t everyone know that the overwhelming majority of parents who lost sons in Iraq support our efforts over there? Why should we treat her special when she has placed herself front and center of people with wacked-out world views?

I’ll take you calling me a Nazi as an answer.

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 10:30 AM | Link to this

Jim,

I don’t understand your point to Lauren. It sounds like an attack but I can’t figure about what. She made a point about the absurdity of quoting the Bible and you implicated her news gathering….

I can’t tell if you’re insulting her or agreeing with her. I know some really smart people get off on insulting others without the others understanding it, but that’s only good for personal enjoyment not for making a point.

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 10:31 AM | Link to this

Sorry, I mean’t STEWART, not Jim.

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 10:35 AM | Link to this

Jim Wooten, I just LOVE the name of this blog. It’s so smarmy and smug!

First, “Thinking Right”. What a gorgeous play on words. Right and in conservative and Republican and Right because, well, you must be actually right. Fabulous.

Second, “Common Sense Conservative”. Beautiful! The implication is that being conservative is just common sense and therefore Right (or right)!

I have never seen such gorgeous smugness in my entire life. Just reading the name of your blog makes me want to fight! I am just compelled by the simple name of your blog to come over here and mix it up!

Congratulations…a good fight is always very entertaining. So, far, I am having a great time.

By Steve

June 12, 2006 10:38 AM | Link to this

Wait, people actually think that Ann Coulter is real? I always thought that her whole schtick was a performance art. I didn’t think she actually meant that wacked out garbage she writes. Are you telling me people actually believe her act? Next you’ll be telling me she’s NOT a post-op transexual.

By Mark (the other one)

June 12, 2006 10:40 AM | Link to this

Michael Moore and Ann Coulter are one in the same. They both use extensive hyperbole to make a point, valid or not. And they both use extensive hyperbole to sell books and movies.

Why are you so concerned about one of them and not the other?

By dave

June 12, 2006 10:40 AM | Link to this

I have no problem with her comments about the wives of victims getting rich. However, I do have a problem when the victims’ families in Oklahoma get nothing. It makes you wonder if the politicians value the electorate in New York more than the voters in Oklahoma. The answer to that question is an obvious yes. Both were victims of terrorism; yet, the New Yorkers were showered with public and private money from across this nation. Where was the compassion for Oklahoma?

get nothing.

By ChrisD

June 12, 2006 10:42 AM | Link to this

Not an Ann fan, but she made an excellent point. The Left trots out in public people who have experienced great loss. The idea is that they can speak the far left agenda and anyone who challenges them is cruel and hateful. Bill O’Reilly experienced it with Sheehan, and now Ann’s experiencing it with 9/11. That said, Ann said far more than she should have.

By Billy

June 12, 2006 10:42 AM | Link to this

Rustylynn, you don’t appear mean when you disagree with them. You appear mean when you refer to one of them as a “tub of crap”. I have no problem with the strategy of putting Sheehan or the 9/11 widows out in front. The right doesn’t argue issues anymore. It just attacks the messenger. Because when you discredit the messenger, you don’t have to address his or her message. Putting a sympathetic figure out front can hopefully cause that tactic to backfire.

Finally the left is getting a little savvy to the public image game. The right just can’t stand its own tactics being used against it.

By h

June 12, 2006 10:44 AM | Link to this

Coulter is fully responsible for what Coulter wrote and what she wrote is reprehensible. There’s no reason to examine the claimed “nation of victims.” Nothing about that claimed state of the US excuses what she wrote.

If, as claimed, the widows’ opinions are given more respect than those opinions deserve that is in no way their fault or doing and in no way makes them glad their husbands died.

It’s about as reprehensible to excuse Coulter’s words by re-expressing her point without using her vicious words. She is criticized for her viciousness, not her opinion. Her opinion may be regarded as wrong as well but the reason she receives heavy criticism is her extreme nastiness.

But, Jim, just answer this: would you gladly be linked with Ann Coulter? If she spoke in Atlanta would you gladly introduce her and say you support what she says and how she says it?

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 10:44 AM | Link to this

Jennifer, you affirm,

“I ask, where are the 911 widows who disagree with these 911 widows? Out of >2000 victims of 911 surely there is a contingent who disagree with these women? Where are they? Why are they silent?”

Perhaps you are suggesting that some significant portion of the thousands of other widows assent to representation by the harpies. We should not confuse dignity with ratification. The universe of the harpies’ supporters among those widows may not exceed the population of the harpies; silence should not be taken as “confirmation.”

By Pravin

June 12, 2006 10:46 AM | Link to this

If Michael Moore made THE SAME EXACT COMMENT, Jim Wooten would have been all over his cae bashing him as an example of the leftist crazies. Let’s be honest here. And for Ann Coulter’s supporters to talk about free speech is rich considering they demonize anyone with even mild criticism of the troops or even those who praise the troops but bash the politicians who sent them to iraq.

By Braves66

June 12, 2006 10:47 AM | Link to this

So let me get this straight. Ann Coulter insults the widows of 9/11 because they disagree with the war, then spouts off about how you can’t talk badly about the 9/11 widows.

This is in line with the “Liberal” media that never reported the last days of Tom DeLay or the indictment of Karl Rove.

Ann, eat a sandwich & what’s with that Adams apple?

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 10:47 AM | Link to this

@ Rustylynn

Thanks for your out of the blue personal attack on a Purple Heart recipient.

Don’t worry, you’re way too stupid to be a Nazi.

You’re just pretty dumb, and kinda trashy. That brain of yours is just a tub of crap.

Proof that Georgia is not spending enough on special education.

By Pravin

June 12, 2006 10:47 AM | Link to this

If Michael Moore made THE SAME EXACT COMMENT, Jim Wooten would have been all over his cae bashing him as an example of the leftist crazies. Let’s be honest here. And for Ann Coulter’s supporters to talk about free speech is rich considering they demonize anyone with even mild criticism of the troops or even those who praise the troops but bash the politicians who sent them to iraq.

Also didnt the right wingers milk the NY tragedy for all it was worth in the reelection campaign?

By hewhoasks

June 12, 2006 10:48 AM | Link to this

(Otherwise known as “h”, above.)

In one way you are right, Jim. Your Headline for this column “Hang ‘er high, that darn Ann Coulter” does serve to illustrate the knee-jerk reaction of many on the left to her. Far better would be to ignore her - just as you’d ignore someone with Tourette syndrome.

By rustylynn

June 12, 2006 10:48 AM | Link to this

billy….funny….I like your reply bro!

By ChrisD

June 12, 2006 10:48 AM | Link to this

Billy, any specific examples of the right attacking the messenger? And I’m not referring to radio hosts like Hannity and Limbaugh, or crazy preachers like Robertson, since they don’t matter. I’m talking about politicians and people with the money to influence. I bet you can’t provide any.

By getalife

June 12, 2006 10:52 AM | Link to this

The Jersey girls were questioned by Cynthia McKinney during the 9/11 hearings. Of course, the White House was not cooperating as usual and the smear attacks were their policy.

These victims helped accomplished something many so called politicians have failed to do.

Getting government to actually implement some security for this country. The government policies cause victims of violence but they would sell out our security to Arab countries. It is insane that people buy into this garbage.

By ChrisD

June 12, 2006 10:52 AM | Link to this

Pravin, the typical clueless lefty. He refers to 9/11, the greatest terrorist attack on our country ever, as the “NY tragedy”.

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 10:53 AM | Link to this

jbmlaw,

I didn’t say that. But where are the voices of dissent? Ann does not qualify.

By Billy

June 12, 2006 10:55 AM | Link to this

Next you’ll be telling me she’s NOT a post-op transexual.

Nope. Pre-op.

By Van

June 12, 2006 10:57 AM | Link to this

dave,

Personally, I do not think the government owed anyone anything, for either Oklahoma City or 9/11.

Both were terrorist attacks, both targeted innocent people.

With your loginc, we should compensate every survivor for all attacks going back to WWI.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 10:58 AM | Link to this

@ Chris D

Why don’t the people you mention matter? Talk radio is where most trash gets their news and ideas, there and Faux News.

By Tommy

June 12, 2006 10:59 AM | Link to this

Ann is a messy c*nt….and so are all of the other women who agree with her…yes, you…

By STW

June 12, 2006 11:02 AM | Link to this

I have never “labeled” myself as conservative or liberal. My opinion on certain issues would most assuredly be considered “conservative”, and my opinion on other issues would be considered “liberal”. I’m from a family of patriots; their is a combined total of 65 years of military service in my family starting with my grandfather who served in WWII. I once asked a loud mouthed “conservative” co-worker what has he ever done for this country other than pay his taxes and complain about every group of people that did not look like him. Conservatives tend to believe that spewing hateful rhetoric makes them “PATRIOTIC”. There are retired Military Generals who do believe that this war was handled correctly, these men dedicated their lives to the service of their country….are they communist “Pinkos”? Of course not. Conservatives must try to understand that every one in the nation will not share their opinion, and it does not make that individual any less patriotic. Lastly, to all of you so called conservatives, if you never served in he U.S. military, if you did not have a loved one die in the 9-11 attacks, if you never did one thing for this country other than pay your taxes and complain about every thing and every body that do not look and think like you…I have a suggestion….shut the F* up.

By PoliticalMan

June 12, 2006 11:04 AM | Link to this

Actually the existence of the raw-meat eaters and the screamers like Limbaugh and Coulter says way more about the right than any lefty could. Wooten seems to be a wannebe. Good join the crowd. But, jeez, don’t they have a constant headache with all the gravel knocking around between the ears?

By Jack

June 12, 2006 11:04 AM | Link to this

Amazing how crazed libs give a pass on the Ward Churchill’s, Randi Rhodes, etc for extreme, irrational remarks. Coulter makes a great case for her statement and I suspect most probably would agree when taken in context.

Beyond her Witches facts…her book does a great job of exposing many liberal hypocrisies. That is what the media does not want to focus on.

Her book is doing a fine job, strong sales, of irritating libs, exposing their wackiness and bringing the loons into light.

By Billy

June 12, 2006 11:04 AM | Link to this

Billy, any specific examples of the right attacking the messenger? And I’m not referring to radio hosts like Hannity and Limbaugh, or crazy preachers like Robertson, since they don’t matter. I’m talking about politicians and people with the money to influence. I bet you can’t provide any.

Well, there was that time the guy who never fought in a war criticized the guy who lost three limbs in one as weak on national security because he didn’t want to get into a protracted engagement with a country that had not attacked us. You know, portraying him as a coward who was afraid to fight for our country? Who was that? Hmm…What was his name? Anyone remember?

You’re right, though. Apart from that, I have a hard time cominbg up with any examples off the top of my head. Because the right lets the loons like Hannity, Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Robertson, Falwell, Coulter, Bill Kristol, John Gibson, et al, make the huge stink. That way they can just sit back, eat their brought-to-you-by-Abramoff lunch, and not do the dirty work themselves.

By Woodie

June 12, 2006 11:06 AM | Link to this

Not sure I understand your point here Mr Wooten. Cindy Shehan actually has something to say. A message if you will. Ann Coulter is pretty obviously trying to make herself famous by saying stupid things to get attention. There is little point behind her message. Coulter’s political illusions are so ridiculous as to be laughable. But she will probably sell lots of books. So her rouse is working for her.

By Reginald Bohannon

June 12, 2006 11:06 AM | Link to this

I have what I consider a case worse than Cindy Sheehan or the Jersey Girls. What about the NAACP using James Byrd’s daughter for commercials against Bush because he did not support hate crime laws in Texas? She said something to the effect that, “George Bush not supporting the hate crime bill was like killing my father all over again.” James Byrd was dragged to death in Texas. All three individuals who were charged for the crime were found guilty - two got the death penalty and the other received life in prison. What more punishment could a hate crime law administer?

By Charles

June 12, 2006 11:08 AM | Link to this

Ann Coulter is right. Blunt, without tact; but she is correct in her assertions about the Jersey widows and Wooten is right about Cindy Sheehan.

By Ben

June 12, 2006 11:09 AM | Link to this

Ann Coulter, like Bill O’Reilly, gives conservatives a bad name, but in this case she does have a point. Like a broken clock, these women may be right twice a day, but that doesn’t make them experts or authorities whose opinion should be followed.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 11:10 AM | Link to this

@ Chris D

Well, the terrorists did hit NYC and DC, not a trailer park in North Georgia, son.

Most Cons hate NYC (too librul) and DC (all that gummint) - unless it serves your political purposes.

Do you really think Al Qaeda is going to attack your trailer park?

By maggie

June 12, 2006 11:10 AM | Link to this

I think it is interesting that Ann Coulter and those like her continue to insist that anyone speaking against the Bush administration are being used by groups in opposition. I was taught to consider the source. Of course Ann and the others would not be able to recognize independent, analytical, intelligent commentary on the state of our country because they are not capable of anything other than following the party line. Quite scary.

By Billy

June 12, 2006 11:12 AM | Link to this

Amazing how crazed libs give a pass on the Ward Churchill’s, Randi Rhodes, etc for extreme, irrational remarks.

I’ll agree with your comment the moment one of them releases a book called Republicans: Child Rapists.

By sheep

June 12, 2006 11:15 AM | Link to this

Can you people not think for yourselves? You have to listen to hatemongers? Do a little reading, see what happenned and make up your own minds. Use your own brain people.

Baaa.

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 11:15 AM | Link to this

Max magnified the wants of the “public sector” unions over the needs of the public when the Congress gave birth to the Department of Homeland Security bureaucracy. Saxby called him on it. The left said he was attacking the messenger, but it was the message that sank Max.

The left has no messages, only messengers. Thus, whenever the right criticizes the left, it is, a priori, a “personal attack” - there is no “there” there. The left is an empty suit, across the board. Even in this long blog today, nobody critizes Ann’s idea. I have tried to draw out the critics repeatedly on the ideas. The left limits its critique to only the words she used to send the message. Thus, the left attacks only the messenger, not the message.

By Van

June 12, 2006 11:18 AM | Link to this

Woodie,

Yes, Cindy Sheehan and the Jersey Girls have a message, supplied by their handlers and paid in full.

All Ann Coulter did was point this out in her usual witty way.

Not everyone decided to make a career out of vitimhood.

Many women(like my mother) during WWII proudly displayed their gold star window handing to honor the departed ones, and not as a paycheck.

By G

June 12, 2006 11:21 AM | Link to this

Ann Coulter is an antisocial monster. She glories in behavior that I would not tolerate from a kindergartener, much less a so-called adult. Her supporters obviously think that the proper way to deal with people they disagree with is all-cannons-firing viciousness. I’d rather rot than act like that in public or private. General nastiness and lack of manners are a constant problem in society.

Of course, if you’re polite, nobody pays attention to you. Rudeness has become the norm if you want people to listen to you, so what other choice does an attention-craving loose cannon have?

Truth or lie, good message or bad, the vileness of her conceit and sheer viciousness keeps many people from listening to her message. When a product is in a package that ugly, I just don’t care what’s inside it.

By tiffeney

June 12, 2006 11:28 AM | Link to this

GO ANN, GO ANN, GO ANN, WHOO, WHOO!!!!! She just tells it like it is!!!!!!! It is about time somebody did!!!!!!

By tiffeney

June 12, 2006 11:28 AM | Link to this

GO ANN, GO ANN, GO ANN, WHOO, WHOO!!!!! She just tells it like it is!!!!!!! It is about time somebody did!!!!!!

By Jay

June 12, 2006 11:30 AM | Link to this

She simply calls a spade a spade. She is harsh but sometimes so is the truth. Sheehan is the poster-child for this evolving victimhood. She left her son when he was young and has recently done it again with another one. You can see in her facial expressions she craves the attention. As with the 9/11 victims wives, she has no ability or qualifications to call the shots on the war on terror. It is a sickening display on all accounts and feeds into the everybody owes me because I suffered mentality. Get a clue people, everybody suffers during their lives. Get over yourselves.
For those wives to blame Bush for 9/11 is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Clinton should have taken Bin Laden when he had him served up from the Sudanese but he didn’t. THAT is the only thing that could have prevented 9/11. According to liberals, er. now, 9/11 and Iraq are not related so why do these wives speak out about the situation. Wives, go knock on Clinton’s door if your looking to point fingers.

By jenny

June 12, 2006 11:32 AM | Link to this

I can assure you that the comments made by Ms. Coulter are not comments made by any true Christian. Love is the mssage of Christ and any true Christian knows this and tries to practice it no matter how hate filled others mat be.

By jenny

June 12, 2006 11:32 AM | Link to this

I can assure you that the comments made by Ms. Coulter are not comments made by any true Christian. Love is the mssage of Christ and any true Christian knows this and tries to practice it no matter how hate filled others may be.

By northener

June 12, 2006 11:33 AM | Link to this

Yeah she has a point. the 9/11 widowers collected a lot $$$$. But what if it was your family member or mine. I would talk my butt off. They deserve every penny because they put their hands out and told this backward government —it’s ours—-you owe us, for the pain and grief. If they have done their job from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration this would have never happened. And why not continue speaking out, this sorry gov’t hasn’t found the leading perpetrator which is in AFGANISTAN. That would make me angry, my loved one is killed and the person is on national t.v saying he is responsible for this. We know he lives in Afganistan but we go to Iraq. Our court system doesn’t do that, so why is our gov’t doing this.

By Red

June 12, 2006 11:34 AM | Link to this

Coulter is giving America the splash of cold water in the face it needs. Wake UP! Those ‘womens’ husbands went to work and didn’t come home; then they got paid. MOVE ON!

By Craig

June 12, 2006 11:34 AM | Link to this

Braves66,

There is a pretty good reason the media didn’t cover Karl Rove’s indictment. Do you think you can figure out what that reason was?

By Joe

June 12, 2006 11:35 AM | Link to this

Ann seems to come across as another right wing attack dog. This has been the hall mark of this administration which has done more than any other in my memory to set back our American ideals.

By raceman94

June 12, 2006 11:37 AM | Link to this

She’s just telling the truth that everyone is afraid to say.

By Evan

June 12, 2006 11:45 AM | Link to this

Years ago when someone was killed in an accident we accepted it, mourned, and went back to our lives. Then the lawsuits atarted. Now and then someone would be awarded a small amount, usually for bills, lost work, etc. Awards grew larger and the percentage of successful suits also grew. Now a distant relative of someone killed or hurt in any tragedy just threatens a suit and is usually given a princely sum to just forget the suit.

By Justin

June 12, 2006 11:47 AM | Link to this

Men do all the dangerous work and the women get paid. We work hard for our families but yet can’t get equity in family court.

I applaud Ann for speaking the truth!

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 11:53 AM | Link to this

To the left: The truth hurts, you are exposed, get over it. You can’t scare folks, lie, and use people as pawns. Come up with some ideas and you may win a seat somewhere. Ann has done precisely what the left wishes they could do; the only difference is she speaks the truth, instead of distorting it.

By Van

June 12, 2006 11:55 AM | Link to this

Ever notice, how the lefties always attack what Ann Coulter said, and not comment on the actual message?

It appears that if what Ann Coulter said was a lie, then the lie would be exposed. Has it? Will it? Or is the lefties only interested in attacking anyone that disagrees with them.

The far left is morally bankrupt and deserves all the scorn that falls on them.

By Andrew

June 12, 2006 11:56 AM | Link to this

My God..We were all Americans once. Despite political differences there use to be a sense of dignity, compassion, justice and decorum. Now we have political suicide, on both sides. Slander, malice, rudeness, despicable and outrageous behavior. We are like a room filled with abhorrent, spoiled children, yelling screaming, crying and lying. When a woman, Ann, turns into this disgusting shrew, all is lost. I use to think America needed a woman president. Not anymore with the likes of this witch disguised in Armani clothes. I pity any sibling or relative of hers. Imagine listening, living with this abominable creature. I wonder her tune if her husband, son, father, sister, mother was in the Trade Center that morning. Shrivel up and blow away..soon.

By Left in the South

June 12, 2006 11:56 AM | Link to this

Michael Moore has never said anything as vile as Ann Coulter, but that doesn’t stop you right wing idiots from wanting to exile from the USA.

By Left in the South

June 12, 2006 11:57 AM | Link to this

Michael Moore has never said anything as vile as Ann Coulter, but that doesn’t stop you right wing idiots from wanting to exile from the USA.

By chris broe

June 12, 2006 11:57 AM | Link to this

The sheer volume of comments on this subject validates everything Ann Coulter has ever said. She sells. Jim Wooten is a genius.

Please click on the ads on this page once in a while so the blog will live.

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 11:59 AM | Link to this

True Christianity is not for wimps. If you are not willing to stand up for truth, you have no right to call yourself a Christian.

The truth often hurts; that does not make truth “un-Christian.” Ann Coutler professes Christian beliefs. The fact that she is willing to challenge the integrity of an opponent does not make her any less Christian. I think honest discussion of Ann’s commentary should not hide behind any labels - let’s talk about the ideas.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 12:00 PM | Link to this

Andrew, where are all the other widows coming to these four defenses? There were more than four widows in the WTC, wasn’t there?…just wondering.

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 12:01 PM | Link to this

Why did Ann Coulter title her book Godless? Is it because of the assumption that being Godless is evil? That assumption would be wrong. The Godded of this world have not proved themselves to morally superiour to anyone.

Godless <=> Evil <=> Godded

Or better yet:

Godless/ \Godded \Good/

What’s in that center? Hey, it’s PEOPLE!

It’s absurd to call the far left morally corupt you stupid glass house resident…

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 12:03 PM | Link to this

Damn! My Circle of God and Goodness didn’t come through…

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 12:03 PM | Link to this

Andrew, where are all the other widows coming to these four defenses? There were more than four widows in the WTC, wasn’t there?…just wondering.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 12:04 PM | Link to this

Andrew, where are all the other widows coming to these four defenses? There were more than four widows in the WTC, wasn’t there?…just wondering.

By Jay

June 12, 2006 12:04 PM | Link to this

Ann tells the truth, Micheal Moore wouldn’t know the truth if he found it under one of his fat rolls. He is a LIAR and manipulates to produce propaganda.

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 12:05 PM | Link to this

Who cares if she’s Christian? That is utterly meaningless.

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 12:11 PM | Link to this

“Amen” Jennifer, if you’ll pardon the expression.

By Anthony

June 12, 2006 12:11 PM | Link to this

if some liberal pundit made those statements, there would be call for their head and another call to boycott them. They are pathetic and where do they get the gaul to call themselves christians.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 12:11 PM | Link to this

LEFT IN THE SOUTH, you are insane! What Michael Moore are you talking about? The last time I had to stomach his lard a*, was a picture of him at the GOP convention with his hand in the shape of an L for Loser. Nice spin attempt but you only illustrate one of the many points Ann points out about the left, which is basically, a bunch of hypocrites.

By Sabrina

June 12, 2006 12:15 PM | Link to this

Jim Wooten - I’ve rarely agreed with you about anything and today is a classic example of being thankful for disagreement. However, I would think, that even you would be against someone who could insult these women.

Your core group is dependent on 911 for everything you stand for and you have not lost as much as these 4 women. How dare you or anyone condem them when they speak out against anything related to 911? I dare to say, that either you or Ann would trade places with these women. Maybe you would, but not for the same reasons.

You are pathetic and so is Ann Coulter.

By John

June 12, 2006 12:16 PM | Link to this

Bless her. Those rich women just need a cause with too much time to do anything constructive. Clone Miss Ann.

By W Bailey

June 12, 2006 12:17 PM | Link to this

Obviously, since for liberals “political correctness” (PC) trumps everything in its wake, the prescribed remedy for the truth spread by Ann Coulter is to pillory the messenger. Her message cannot be attacked head on because it is “dead on target” to the lies, half truths and PC of the liberal bias. Ann Coulter’s statements are provacative only because they dare expose the truth.

By realist

June 12, 2006 12:26 PM | Link to this

Thank you Jim Wooten. You hit the nail right on the head. Ann Coulter is more “right” than the left would like her to be, and the Dems’ are furious.

By tspec

June 12, 2006 12:26 PM | Link to this

If Iraq wasn’t an imminent treat and didn’t have those WMD’s, we wouldn’t be such a divided nation!

By Stewart

June 12, 2006 12:27 PM | Link to this

Jennifer,

I wasn’t trying to insult Lauren at all. I simply responded to her post that said that all conservatives do is listen to conservative talk radio without thinking for themselves. I basically said that people want to listen to those that they agree with..How is that personally attacking her?

By Shannon

June 12, 2006 12:29 PM | Link to this

I’m so disappointed! I saw the headline and thought wow, maybe he’s getting a group together to actually hang her. Dang. I suppose it’s too much to ask the right-wingers to break the vitriolic lockstep just because one of them goes national with obvious lunacy.

By Shannon

June 12, 2006 12:30 PM | Link to this

I’m so disappointed! I saw the headline and thought wow, maybe he’s getting a group together to actually hang her. Dang. I suppose it’s too much to ask the right-wingers to break the vitriolic lockstep just because one of them goes national with obvious lunacy.

By GT

June 12, 2006 12:30 PM | Link to this

Machinegun Ann is making more money off the 9/11 thing than any of these wives and she got in the game cheap. The silent majority has gone to the loud minority. It is like the teenage child that has been begging to drive the family car and finally gets his chance. In his immature excitment he wrecks the car and sets back all the other teenagers that want to drive their family car by his example. I use to be and probably still am a conservative, but if this is where the conservatives are getting off I’m riding the wrong bus.

By Shannon

June 12, 2006 12:31 PM | Link to this

I’m so disappointed! I saw the headline and thought wow, maybe he’s getting a group together to actually hang her. Dang. I suppose it’s too much to ask the right-wingers to break the vitriolic lockstep just because one of them goes national with obvious lunacy.

By Joe Dugger

June 12, 2006 12:32 PM | Link to this

My God, she is absolutely right about those taking advantage of the deaths of their husbands. But, all that money that was collected and sent to the victims and disbursed, did that just go to Democrats? I think not. This B—ch of a political hack, is focusing on 4 women that are democrats and you Mr. Wooten, unable to critize Ms. Coulter’s ridiculous writings because of your strong agreement with most of her writings, steer us off into the true problem of nation of victimization. Let me give you a few examples that you may want to talk about. The US (Terror Victim), Christians (major victims of the culture), white people, (toiling under reverse discrimination), American Insurgents (better known as the confederates), and finally the overtaxed (which means that there must be some of us that are undertaxed). But then again, these are your good victims…… Yea right, and with all that said, from either side of the coin, Lets be true Christians and live as Christ wanted us too and forget all the divisive ideas and actions. Humanity is not a football game, there doesn’t have to be winners and losers and enemies are not required in order for us to lead happy and productive lives.

By Jim

June 12, 2006 12:34 PM | Link to this

Support the FAIR TAX!!! FAIRTAX.ORG This is what our country needs to focus on!

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 12:35 PM | Link to this

Sabrina, how does it feel to be the Exact point, that Ann is making.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 12:39 PM | Link to this

Thankfully, Mr. Wooten’s blog is a bastion of anti-political correctness, where people are free to type the uncomfortable truth.

Let’s face it - Coulter is very popular in the red states, where education standards have always lagged, where alcoholism and meth abuse rates lead the nation; where divorce, incest, and child abuse are what passes as family life for many (the south leads the nation in all 3), states that need big cash infusions from the blue states to keep their economies going (Federal tax dollars are collected in the north and spent in the south). States where lynching and institutionalized bigotry and buffoonery are a large part of their history. States where white-on-white violent crime rates are 2 to 4 times that of other areas.

These are the facts folks. Believe me, there is plenty of reputable scholarly work that supports my well-founded position.

So instead of all these strawman and ad hominem attacks, why not let this blog be a place where we find out more about why you red staters - with all your difficulties in living decent, productive lives with your families and the rest of us - find the manly Ann so fascinating.

Let’s see if we can get around your victimology, red staters, and see if a little less hate and obnoxiousness just might make you more happy - and better citizens!

Rather than defend Ann, why not just try to better your lives?

Cut down on the meth and drinking too.

By One person's opinion

June 12, 2006 12:40 PM | Link to this

Well, this appears to be tell it like it is day, declared by Ann and Jim. So, let’s tell it like it is.

GWB lets Ann shoot her mouth for him, he knows there are still glaring gaps in security in this country, our borders are still porous, our ports timebombs waiting to be exploited. This is the message those ladies from Jersey want us to hear. Did they get paid? yep. So what? Ann gets paid millions to tell her stories too. Ok, Ann maybe thinks GWB is doing a good job, great! she has some facts that support it? good. Who is gonna to tell me that our borders are secure? Have we stopped illegal immigration? Can people enter this country on temporary visas and overstay those visas with impungnity? How many of the containers entering our ports are checked? What the H3ll has GWB done to protect my family from living through another 9/11? made us take off our shoes at the airport?

Sheehan says GWB lied to get us into IRAQ, an excellent point. You have studies and “evidence” saying there were WMD, but there is no evidence found on the ground. You say Hussain was a dictator and tyrant — I say, and so is 3/4 of leaders in Africa, but we aren’t invading them… oh, I forgot, they aren’t sitting on oil and didn’t evade utter defeat in the first gulf war….

there’s only one real way to deal with spewing crap that is based on faulty intelligence info and the blind faith in a lying government. Tell the truth. Ignore their latest screaming mimi (aka Ann) and keep telling the truth.

By Toad

June 12, 2006 12:41 PM | Link to this

Joe Dugger, I appreciate the irony in your 12:32 post. But, let’s all live ethically, whether we’re Christian, Muslim, or any other religion or lack of religion. I second Jennifer’s pointing out that godless doesn’t equal evil.

By MG

June 12, 2006 12:44 PM | Link to this

This is truly unbelievable. What Coulter said is simply outside any reasonable conception of deceny. Shame on her and shame on her apologists. How predictable that so-called conservatives rush to her defense. You embody the sad definition of partisan hacks and ideological sheep.

By doug

June 12, 2006 12:44 PM | Link to this

I nominate Ann for sainthood. It’s hard to find someone willing to stand up and tell the truth. BTW, Jesus did call the pharisees a bunch of vipers.

By chris broe

June 12, 2006 12:46 PM | Link to this

Every focal facet of Coulter’s facade is fickle, feckless, and fecund! She’s a fecal, fetid fake, (and a fink).

Ann Coulter should fax her facile, farcical and feral face to the friggin’ fascists!!

By your hero ann

June 12, 2006 12:47 PM | Link to this

Coulter is famous for vulgar statements. Impeachment was too good for Bill Clinton; she suggested he be assassinated.'' She wants all Muslims converted or shot. She said her only regret about Timothy McVeigh is that he chose to bomb a federal building in Oklahoma City rather than go to the New York Times Building,”

She drags her mother into arguments. She has no shame or morals.Wingnuts love this kind of sh-it.

By Flarben

June 12, 2006 12:49 PM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten is slyly attempting to “reinterpret” Coulter. Coulter has stated that the 911 widows are “witches” and “millionaires” who are speaking out against Bush “enjoyed their husbands’ deaths” and also implies that they weren’t really happily married…that maybe their husbands were planning on divorcing them. Then she says that the fact that the widows were victims means that she can’t question them. Well, what is it that she is bloody doing, then? It sounds to me like she is QUESTIONING THEM. As for her ridiculous doctrine of liberal “infallibility”, it seems like the pot calling the kettle black. The Bush Crime Family and its legions of apologists have been using the troops and the victims of terror as human shields for political propoganda for years. Anyone who speaks out against Duh Fuhrer is an enemy of freedom, right? This isn’t conservatism were seeing…it’s fascism. Really…I’ve never seen so many straw dogs in my life. Stop sanitizing Coulter and recognize her for what she is — an ugly, very twisted bomb-thrower who, with a national audience in tow no less — claims that she is somehow being muzzled while demonstrating none of the values she claims to uphold. I hope she’s enjoying her 15 minutes.

By sue

June 12, 2006 12:52 PM | Link to this

Christ used harsher words in His day towards the elitist hypocrits who professed to know God but used their knowledge to create rules outside of God-given moral laws. He called them “white-washed sepulchres…full of dead men’s bones….” Ann actually isn’t as harsh, but her tongue needs to be controlled and her mind needs to speak the Truth in better form. Name-calling doesn’t facilitate change; it merely deepens the chasm between false attributions and reality. And, if you ignore her, and those like her, they eventually fade into the distant memory of culture. Give it a rest.

By quint

June 12, 2006 12:57 PM | Link to this

Maybe the deaths of the widows created their political views. Ms. Coulter sells more books when she says something outrageous because everyone is talking about her comments. There is no bad publicity. By the way, she is still not the brightest bulb to come out of the box. She says nothing new. Anyone can talk with substance and a few statistics. I too hate what the republican party has become. If you question the government or the President, you are unpatriotic. However, if you questioned President Clinton or the Dmeocrats when they were in powere, you were considered very patriotic by the Republicans. I hate the two-party system. They all lie and cuss you when you show them that they do. Ann Coulter is so popular with the conservatives because she is a handsome woman who speaks like an ultra-conservative man.

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 01:02 PM | Link to this

Stewie,

I wasn’t sure if you were attacking her or not. I didn’t understand your post and just put out what I thought you might mean.

Thanks for clarification. And I agree with you.

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 01:03 PM | Link to this

I think even our leftist friends can see Ann’s end-game, and it has nothing to do with the harpies. This is a strategic strike against the next “victim-expert” the left trots out as their sole argument for some half-baked program or law. The “harpy” attack now will make it much easier to make an “emperor’s clothes” argument against the next unqualified leftist spokes-person.

Please forgive my over-use of metaphors; writing gets sloppier as the day goes on.

By K

June 12, 2006 01:03 PM | Link to this

I really think this has nothing to do with being on the left or the right. It all boils down to whether or not you would really walk up to any of these women or their children knowing what you know now, and say something like what she said to their faces. I think that answer, no matter what side you are on, is no. What if one of these women was your daughter or your sister or even your best friend? Would you be rah-rah or boo-hiss about these comments then? Because in my opinion it is too easy to talk about these women on this message board without having to face the reality of seeing a reaction or getting it back as good, if not better, than you can give it. Just something to think about.

By Flarben

June 12, 2006 01:04 PM | Link to this

The essential point I am making with Ann Coulter is that it is her most disgusting remarks that are simply glossed over by her little fan club. If a popular liberal were to actually say that a terror victim who supports the President really didn’t love their lost loved one, or that a pro-Bush military family that lost a son in Iraq was somehow joyful about losing some good-for-nothing kid, there would be such an uproar. But Ms. Coulter can throw just these kinds of bombs at people who disagree with the president and her weirdo defenders claim that she is just “telling it like it is” and that she really is a victim of people who are trying to muzzle her. Well, who’s muzzling her? Surely not the pro-war, celbrity-obsessed conservative infotainment mainstream media, which still has not subject the president or his cabinet to any serious questioning about the BS “War on Terror”, nor the overwhelmingly right-wing goose-stepping talk radio/Fox news mediaphere, which has done everything short of putting this twisted pundit from purgatory on a pedestal.

By whynot

June 12, 2006 01:07 PM | Link to this

I can’t believe Wooten’s mentioned the war in another post. For a man who has been WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING concerning Iraq he sure does like to talk about it. Face it Jim, everybody who said the war would be an umitigated disaster was right, and you and you’re breathren are as ignorant as they come. I got a tip for you: Next time try studying the the thoursands of years of recorded history before opening your yap. At least maybe you’ll just be thought a fool than to remove all doubt.

By Lauren

June 12, 2006 01:08 PM | Link to this

I am so sick of Republicans waving the Bible around as a justification for their views. It is disgusting. The Klan has been doing the same thing for over 100 years. So you all think that the 9/11 widows are “paid” to say things against this administration? Well, Rush Limbaugh is sent “talking points” every day by the White House. He is told by his party what to say and like any good Toadie he says it. I don’t get my news from television but I do know most Republicans get theirs from Fox which is an unapologetic propoganda machine. If you are a Republican and you think your views are so darn popular then why do you think your precious president is so unpopular. He has the lowest approval ratings since, well, Nixon, another corrupt right-wing LIAR. The rest of the country (70%) of us are sick of you blowhards and you are going to get the message loud and clear in November.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 01:10 PM | Link to this

GodHatesTrash…2/3rds of the USA are red states. What’s your point? With the exception of NY and Cal and a FEW more sprinkled in states. Its all RED BABY!

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 01:13 PM | Link to this

Whynot, you err. The war is an unmitigated disaster only for demos, as they are on the wrong side of freedom. (The only good news - to demos - is when there is bad news for America.) There are no Iraqis who want to go back to the good old days of dissenters being fed to wood chippers. Only you demos would wish that on the poor people of Iraq.

That is what Coulter means by “Godless.”

By Lauren

June 12, 2006 01:13 PM | Link to this

And to actually come out and say that the 9/11 widows did not love their husbands and that they are happy that they died so that they can make money is just about the most hateful, unChristian, unAmerican thing I have ever heard. You don’t hear people from the left making statements like this about people we disagree with. You all are like a pack of rabid dogs viciously attacking anyone who gets in your way. Put a bullhorn on Coulter’s mouth and let everyone get a good earfull of her hateful vitriolic views. Let us all get a very good grip on what the right stands for- total humiliation and persectution of those who dare, in a free society, to disagree with them. Show them the door America!!

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 01:16 PM | Link to this

Lauren, we understand you are disgusted by people who hold Bibles. That is what Coulter means by “Godless.”

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 01:18 PM | Link to this

Flarben, the only serious flaw in your post is the reference to a “popular liberal.” We all know that there are more unicorns than popular liberals.

By BrightLiberterian

June 12, 2006 01:18 PM | Link to this

Why are all of the leftists that are posting so freely generous with ad hominem attacks and relativist arguments that have little or nothing to do with the issue at hand? It is time for you to wake up and understand absolutes. Coulter is talking about a certain group of people and describes them very well. Jim is right to post as he did, and there’s really no point in arguing about it. The media loves profile stories; you all know that. They make people whose Chevys get blown off the blocks during tornadoes instant wind speed experts and analysts. They like to put faces with names and people love to see their faces on TV. Stop derailing into arguments about Bushs’ approval rating, the price of rice in China, or the size of Ann Coulter’s head.

By Lauren

June 12, 2006 01:19 PM | Link to this

No one is falling for this “oh, the news only reports the bad stuff in Iraq and not the good stuff”. There is no good stuff to report. You cannot travel from a hotel in Baghdad to the airport without being blown to bits. The freaking capital is totally unstable. We have not accomplished a thing in Iraq except to inflame a civil war and embolden terrorists. You can shove the idea that the left is enjoying this failure. We are not!! We are totally dismayed that things have gotten this bad and that you people are still trying to convince us that it is good.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 01:21 PM | Link to this

LAUREN, I bet you said the same thing 2 years ago, 6 years ago, and 2 years from now you’ll say the same thing. Funny how “70%” of the country keeps electing more and more Republicans. Ann speaks the truth, you just don’t get it. Maybe someday when you can learn to love instead of hate, you’ll get it.

By Lauren

June 12, 2006 01:21 PM | Link to this

JBMLAW, who are you to question my faith? You don’t know me from adam’s house cat. And you call me godless? You are totally full of 5hit!

By Lauren

June 12, 2006 01:23 PM | Link to this

The hatemongers are telling me to love instead of hate. Oh, the irony!

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 01:23 PM | Link to this

Lauren is right, we need to stand behind our troops, to allow them to seize the moral high ground again, rather than undermine the mission with misguided statements of disapproval.

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 01:24 PM | Link to this

Lauren, we shall know you by your fruits.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 01:25 PM | Link to this

I’d like to know when Lauren was in IRAQ and when she last spoke with these widows she speaks for as-well.

JBMLAW, right on!

By Ellie

June 12, 2006 01:26 PM | Link to this

Libertarians used to be interesting. Now they have their heads so far up Bush’s arse they can’t see daylight.

By Lauren

June 12, 2006 01:28 PM | Link to this

Okay, Cynthia, when were you last in Iraq? When was Ms. Coulter last in Iraq? The very idea that you have to have been there to have an opinion is idiocy. Find a better argument. That one is very lame.

By BrightLiberterian

June 12, 2006 01:29 PM | Link to this

Actually, not a Bush fan. And not a government fan in general. I study economics and do media research. As for HIA syndrome (Head in Arse) if you don’t understand, I’m sorry if you are a sufferer.

By R@

June 12, 2006 01:32 PM | Link to this

Wooten - you’re right - we have become a nation of people who love to be victims. Will Coulter’s latest book change this mindset? I doubt it. Will any book change that mindset? I doubt it. Only Americans can do this.

Was this nation better off before a lot of people figured out they could take advantage of being a victim? Yes it was. Will it ever change back? Only if all Americans decide to quit playing the blame game. And our so-called leaders could and should lead the way. The blame game practiced by politicians and journalists and commentators alike do a great deal of damage to America by continuing the blame game. Coulter has just figured out she can stir the pot with her writing skills and marketing knowledge and make a lot of money while doing it. Can’t blame her for that. But she’s not alone in this racket.

Take Hillary’s comment “vicious” - for instance. Why does Hillary even bother to comment? I could care less if Hillary thinks Coulter is “vicious.” Most folks I know could care less what Hillary says about a book. Why does the media tell us what Hillary said? How is that important in the big scheme of things? It isn’t. All of this energy and good air wasted on nothing. None of if will make a real difference.

If they’d all just stop the name calling and blame games and get down in the trenches and get some real work done, we’d all be better off.

Why people get so worked up over any American practicing a basic constitutional freedom is beyond me. Whatever she says, I’m just glad I live in a country where she is free to say it. Her book, however, won’t make a damn bit of difference in my life. Or any other person’s for that matter. Much to do about nothing.

By Lauren

June 12, 2006 01:33 PM | Link to this

Well, if you will know me by my fruits then I am comfortable with that. I go to church every Sunday, I believe in God and I fully support ideas of love, tolerance and acceptance and I am uncomfortable with those who are against love, tolerance and acceptance. I would never be so arrogant as to condemn someone to hell for disagreeing with me. So, yes, know me by my fruits. And I will know you by yours.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 01:35 PM | Link to this

Lauren, actually I was in Kuwait (thanks for asking).

By Da%n Right, I'm American

June 12, 2006 01:35 PM | Link to this

I am all for Ann Coulter, Freedom of Speech, Upholding the Constitution, Supporting our Troops, freeing enslaved lands, eradicating ALL terrorism, and TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS AND LIVES. Anybody that capitalizes off a family member’s death should be the one that is taken out back to the tall tree with a short rope.

By N-GA

June 12, 2006 01:38 PM | Link to this

Mike Luckovick published a cartoon the other day that had some of the devil’s disciples looking at a schedule for beheading Al-Zarqawi every hour or so. At first I didn’t understand why the hour (or so) lag time between beheadings. Now I do understand

In between they are beheading Ann Coulter and all those pseudo-christian apologists who are complicit in her beliefs. May God have mercy on your souls because I, for one, don’t believe that asking forgiveness of your sins completely absolves you of all punishment due. I think God sees around that ploy as a backdoor escape hatch to do your evil deeds and get away with it. Man, are you gonna be surprised. Hypocrites!!

Impeach Bush!!

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 01:39 PM | Link to this

Dear Lauren, in this entire long post, only one person has used the term “unChristian.” Only one person has condemned others. It’s the “fruits” thing.

By Lauren

June 12, 2006 01:40 PM | Link to this

Also, we have a little thing in this country called separation of church and state. I am a Christian, yes, but I also don’t think we should be governed in our laws and by our government by the Bible. Not everyone in this country is a Christian and they are free to worship as they so choose and I bet they are sick of all the Bible talk coming from our elected officials. If you people stop and think about it many of the 10 commandments are legal! It is not illegal to cheat on your wife or lie (under oath, excepting), or worship another god. If you have your faith and it helps guide you in your life, good, that is great but stop telling us the government should be run according to the Bible and stop thinking that the right wing has a monopoly on church and faithfullness. That is just part of your game. Oh, call them godless that will get ‘em. As if you have any authority to judge what is in people’s hearts.

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 01:41 PM | Link to this

My error - NGa proved me wrong, in a timing move.

By Lauren

June 12, 2006 01:42 PM | Link to this

Do you think calling someone godless is not the same as or worse than unchristian? Really? You are very selective in what you have taken from these posts.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 01:43 PM | Link to this

Lauren, what TV are you talking about CBS? I’m sure you were a big NYT fan until you’re hero Jason Blair was terminated, huh? You have selective hearing, one last question for you, why do you hate America?

By Joe Wilson

June 12, 2006 01:43 PM | Link to this

I feel sorry for the wingnuts.

Just think of all the blame Clinton and liberals took for the problems of today.

We will be blaming wingnuts and W for all problems in the future.

Karma.

By Lauren

June 12, 2006 01:46 PM | Link to this

Cynthia, Kuwait is not Iraq. We are talking about Iraq. So Da%m right is all for free speech, but if you say something he disagrees with then you should be lynched. Beautiful! 9/11 widows are not doing what they are doing to make money, that is just the cry of those who don’t like them.

By Joe Wilson

June 12, 2006 01:47 PM | Link to this

I am writing a book stating that Ann is a man and the devil that showed up 6/06/2006.

I will make millions.

God bless America.

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 01:47 PM | Link to this

Ann does talk about the “separation of church and state,” a humorous joke on America by leftist jurists. Re-read the first Amendment. A strict reading of the Amendment would allow Maryland to be Catholic, Alabama to be Baptist, and California to be Buddhist. The Amendment only forbids Congress from establishing a religion.

“Godless,” in the title, refers to the left’s religion, worship of the majesty of the state. When you affirm - falsely - that “we have a little thing in this country called ‘separation of church and state,’” you are reciting part of the cathecism of the left, of the “Godless.” You confirmed Ann’s argument.

By N-GA

June 12, 2006 01:47 PM | Link to this

This is for By Da%n Right, I’m American:

I don’t get your observation that these widows are capitalizing on a family member’s death. They are being painted as “millionaires” when all the victims’ families were compensated in a more-or-less equitable way (taking into account insurance, etc.). So are all 9/11 widows and widowers taking advantage of their spouses deaths because they received millions of dollars?

Also, these widows are speaking out against what they perceive to be a failure of the administration to protect the U.S. from terrorists. Right or wrong, they are not seeking to earn more money from the loss of their spouses. And they have freedom of speech, just as you and I.

Your suggestion that the widows are trying to profit from these deaths is clearly an abuse of freedom of speech…like this administration and Ann Coulter, you choose to distort the truth for your own convenience. I view that as profoundly un-American.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 01:48 PM | Link to this

Yeah Lauren, all four of them

By Lauren

June 12, 2006 01:49 PM | Link to this

Oh, yes, I hate America. I am godless. I don’t support our troops. You people are like a bad broken record. You hurl the same insults over and over again and all it amounts to is “if you disagree with me then I will say that you don’t love America or the baby Jesus”. Blah, blah, blah!

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 01:50 PM | Link to this

Bizarre - now the left affirms that “distorting the truth for [one’s] own convenience” is unAmerican. What a country!

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 01:51 PM | Link to this

I love beating the liberals at their own game, thanks Ann. Whatever happen to free speech?

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 01:53 PM | Link to this

JOE WILSON, Al Franken beat you to it, he sold about 2000 copies

By Lauren

June 12, 2006 01:55 PM | Link to this

Hey, I bet when Bush trotted out an obviously doomed marriage ammendment that you righties were actually distracted enough into thinking that was the real issue! Your own president played you all like a fiddle. “Hey, I’m losing my base, they don’t like me anymore, they are upset about the war, let’s put on our anti-gay tap shoes and dance that number again! They love that one! That will distract them from the real trouble and fire them up again! God bless America and god bless straight people. Yeah, that’s the ticket.”

By N-GA

June 12, 2006 01:55 PM | Link to this

Lauren,

While we should pity them, we should not condemn them for they are already condemned.

If you recall the Inquisition, many Christians sinned by lying, torturing, and murdering. Do you really think they are sitting in heaven at the right hand of God? Take that piece of history and apply it to today’s events. Are there Christians lying, torturing and murdering now? In this administration? Supporting haters like Ann Coulter?

Just help get people out to vote. The wing-nuts will not change their minds by listening to us. They are part of that last 30%.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 01:56 PM | Link to this

Lauren, it was a question, not an insult. No need to be defensive. I’m glad you had a chance to look in the mirror though.

By Joe Wilson

June 12, 2006 01:57 PM | Link to this

Cymac,

My book, “Godless Ann is a man and the devil” will sell millions.

Watch me on all the talk shows and I will unleash hatred like this world has never seen. LOL.

Please buy my book.

By martin

June 12, 2006 01:59 PM | Link to this

Using Hillary or Pataki as “good examples”…that took away any validity of your stance.

Pataki has raped the employees of the State of NY several times. Hillary is just a big mouth.

By N-GA

June 12, 2006 02:01 PM | Link to this

JBMlaw,

I guess by some of what you have said that you are in the legal profession. If that is the case, I can understand how you would be bemused by my observation that distorting the truth is un-American. Lawyers, by-and-large, have made an industry out of contorting the truth.

I hope none of your blogging minutes are chargeable:)

By really want a change????

June 12, 2006 02:02 PM | Link to this

THEN VOTE THE BUMS OUT

By Lauren

June 12, 2006 02:03 PM | Link to this

Oh, no, Cynthia, asking me why I hate America is not insulting at all! I am just oversensitive. Now get you mouth off my daddy’s peter and go make me some lunch.

By Stewart

June 12, 2006 02:04 PM | Link to this

Lauren,

Are you indicating to all of us on this board that Democrats do not pander to their base? The reason that both parties do it is because people are too stupid to realize it. So I guess I agree with your point to a certain extent. But if you think that only the Republicans do it your either ignorant or hypocritical. I can name many instances where the Democrats use this tactic such as “Tax cuts for the rich” blah blah, Seniors healthcare, etc.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 02:05 PM | Link to this

N-GA, I’d think it would be pretty easy to beat 30% popularity. Why do you keep losing President Elections, Senate, and House seats?

By N-GA

June 12, 2006 02:07 PM | Link to this

C’mon, Bed Wetter….you can do better than that!

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 02:08 PM | Link to this

While we have your attention, let’s make a couple of arguments Ann did not offer.

Government performs three functions well: (1) Murder on a broad scale. Whether we speak of Stalin and Mao, and their millions of deaths, or merely Waco’s 80 or so, no entity has ever matched the government’s capacity to kill. (2) Incarceration. Our leftist friends will be quick to cite Abu Graib or GTMO or even US drug laws, but certainly the Soviet’s gulag and Cuba’s dungeons are the models in the field. No private enterprise has ever so-effectively enslaved mass populations. (3) Taxation. At its best, government is a mere leak in the economic balloon. At its worst, it can bankrupt a country with the natural resources of Russia.

When Jefferson spoke (in his original draft) of the people’s natural right to “life, liberty, and property,” he truly understood the risk of the “Godless.”

By

June 12, 2006 02:11 PM | Link to this

Hate sells. Ann Coulter is laughing all the way to the bank.

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 02:12 PM | Link to this

The “myth” of seperation of church and state:

Myth? http://www.creationists.org/churchandstate.html

Chronicle? http://www.theocracywatch.org/separationchurchstate2.htm

Read them both and decide for yourself.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 02:13 PM | Link to this

JBMLAW, you may need to clairy that’s Thomas Jefferson, not the shinning example of our liberal friends William Jefferson.

By Oldpunk

June 12, 2006 02:14 PM | Link to this

Dear Mr. Tyler Durdin:

Iraq was not involved in 9/11. He did not have weapons of mass destruction. He did not sponsor, train or shield the terrorists involved in 9/11. Whether the UN believed it or not is immaterial. The inspectors were in Iraq until Bush kicked them out to go to war. If they had completed their work, this would have been obvious.

These are FACTS. If you want to dispute them, please state FACTS, not Neal Boortz’s ‘the WMD’s were so too found!’ garbage.

By GT

June 12, 2006 02:14 PM | Link to this

A bunch of trained monkeys. In Sunday’s AJC there was a report about a convention to discuss the future of humans and how human enhancements would be common in the future. This would be the downfall of many a politician who live on the kneejerk response of a confused moran.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 02:16 PM | Link to this

Lauren, now that doesn’t sound like something someone would say who goes to church every Sunday.

By Tax Payer

June 12, 2006 02:24 PM | Link to this

Where in the Constitution does it authorize taking public funds to pay victims for a wrong that was not committed by the government.

These “victims” have profited handsomely by the deaths of their spouses. And, no matter how tragic the demise of the relatives, the expenditure of public funds to “compensate” them is unjustified.

Coulter merely stated bluntly in public what many in private think but don’t utter lest pusilanimous people criticize them for being “insensitive.”

By Van

June 12, 2006 02:25 PM | Link to this

Oldpunk,

Do you get tired of repeating the same old garbage?

Latest from the land of WMD’s or Iraq Belive it or not, your all wet.

Saddam did provide support for the people sending the hijackers, this has been proven, unless the 9/11 commission is lying.

The inspectors had 10 years to complete their mission, what happened to giving them enough time?

By Stewart

June 12, 2006 02:28 PM | Link to this

Oldpunk,

The facts are that Iraq was a supporter of terrorism and he did have WMD and used them. He may have removed them before the second Iraq war. He also played the UN and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots for over a decade meanwhile pocketing billions from the Oil for Food program. It is ok to be against the Iraq war, but your credibility goes down when you discount the obvious.

By Andrew K.

June 12, 2006 02:28 PM | Link to this

Lynn, the word is incinerate. You are obviously as stupid as you are mean and nasty.

By sriraj

June 12, 2006 02:31 PM | Link to this

Jim,

Neal Boortz has said it the best today on his website…..where there a lot of us who agree with Ms Coulter’s disapproval of the shenanigamns of the Brunswick widows, Ms Sheehan, etc of the world, we strongly feel her choice of words was inappropriate and hyperbolic. The sad thing is all conservatives get tagged in the same bracket as Ms Coulter, and that is far from the truth. Conservatives can make an argument without resorting to cheap gimmickry. Unfotunately, that’s not what the liberal media (including the very liberal AJC) want to believe or portray conservatives as.

By Patman

June 12, 2006 02:36 PM | Link to this

To the blogger who whined “many of the libs who have responded to Mr. Wooten’s blog over the past week have taken a great deal of delight in sterotyping conseratives as ignorant, racist, homophobic, etc,” it looks to me like you neo-fascist cowards have done a good job of doing that to yourselves! Yes I’m calling names and if you neo-Nazi twerps can’t take it, don’t dish it out! How many of you “more American than thou” types have lost a loved on in Iraq or anywhere else? How many of you are over there right now instead of throwing out hateful and tired (most of you wouldn’t have much of a vocabulary without the words liberal or traitor) rhetoric around on a website? As far as I’m concerned, Cindy Sheehan and the ladies who lost their loved ones on 9/11 have way more credibility than you robotic right-wing puppets ever will!

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 02:47 PM | Link to this

By Cynthia Mckinney’s hair dresser

June 12, 2006 01:10 PM | Link to this @Cynthia McKinney’s love slave

GodHatesTrash…2/3rds of the USA are red states. What’s your point? With the exception of NY and Cal and a FEW more sprinkled in states. Its all RED BABY!

By your same logic, there are trillions of flies on the planet - shouldn’t be out eating some dogdoo right now?

Honestly, you sheep would be so funny if you weren’t so stupid.

By Stewart

June 12, 2006 02:49 PM | Link to this

Patman,

You forgot a few…Some recent words that I have recently added to my vocabulary is communist, socialist, Ignorant, Dishonest and thief.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 02:49 PM | Link to this

If Casey Sheenan was a true Marine (which I’m sure he was/is), he’d be sick, and rolling over in his grave about his mother being used as a pawn by Michael Moore. Don’t believe me, go ask any Marine. Cindy, go buy you son a tombstone with all your money and quit disgracing you son’s memory. Ann’s 100% Right.

By really want a change????

June 12, 2006 02:53 PM | Link to this

now you want us to believe the propoganda published by the free republic…. hmmm, wouldn’t it be nice if it were so clear cut. We could stop arguing over whether or not there were WMD. oh, wait, if we did that we might have time to look at the other shortcomings of this administration and our government in general.

Both sides (democratic and republican) lie like dogs… and they do so without fear of reprisal. They want us to believe their bit of sound bite more so they hold on to power longer. Make no mistake, this government is not making you safer, it is not protecting you, it is not exercising fiscal restraint or spending wisely where needed. It is doing a very good job of maintaining smoke screens (like Ann and her comments and the response from the liberals) to keep us blind to how little they have done to actually govern. None of us would keep our jobs in the private sector were we so incompetent, but they not only aren’t fired, they expect to have their contracts re-newed!

THEY ALL LIE — HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE AND VOTE THEM OUT

By ?? authority

June 12, 2006 02:56 PM | Link to this

not everyone agrees with the free republic

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3718150.stm

By Nikster

June 12, 2006 02:56 PM | Link to this

Jennifer, The link between Ms. McKinney & the “911 widows” is self promotion, a photo op. or just another chance to slam the current president. They need to remember that freedom is not free,the many who have given their lives to protect our freedom & that they didn’t died in vain. We have an all volunteer military & no one is there against their will… Cindy Sheehan’s son included. He had just re enlisted by the way. Would you rather the fight against terrorism be fought on U S soil ? Car & roadside bombs,suicide bombers at the mall or grocery store in your neighborhood ? I personally am glad Bush was president when terrorists showed us how unprepared we were. If Gore/Clinton had been in charge, we’d all either be died,in prison camps or running for our lives.

By GT

June 12, 2006 03:01 PM | Link to this

Conservatives and these terrorist actually have a lot more in common than either are willing to admit.

By WHAT??

June 12, 2006 03:03 PM | Link to this

you think you’re safe now, nikster??… what have we done to secure the borders or protect our ports?…. taking off my shoes at the airport makes me feel safer?…. how about all that wiretapping … feel safer ‘cause of that?

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 03:03 PM | Link to this

Godhatestrash, being called stupid by the likes of you, is a badge of honor.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 03:04 PM | Link to this

What’s the buzz here - Coulter is the kind of trash that trashes dead soldiers’ mothers and the widows of terrorist victims.

The people that support her and the GOP are trash too.

What a silly bunch of hillbillies you red staters are. But no new news there. Much ado about nothing.

By techaholic

June 12, 2006 03:05 PM | Link to this

Ann Coulter in a party that says we are UNITERS not dividers, spews EVIL from her mouth everytime she speaks. How EVIL can you get?

This woman is VENOM personified!!

It sickens me that this kind of rhetoric and anger is allowed in our society …!

She DESERVES to be HUNG OUT TO DRY now and for a very long time!

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 03:06 PM | Link to this

WHAT??…good questions, read Ann’s book’s and she answers everyone of those questions for you.

By Linda

June 12, 2006 03:06 PM | Link to this

Wonder if these women have made any money off of these deaths, now that would be far worse than what Ann Coulter said.

By Nikster

June 12, 2006 03:09 PM | Link to this

God Hates Trash, You say I’m stupid because I wrote something you disagree with & let’s please leave God/religion out of this. How would you know what God likes & hates anyway Bozo ? I have been called alot of things but stupid ain’t one of them.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 03:13 PM | Link to this

@ Cynthia McKinney’s butt wiper

Keep bleating, boy. BAA BAA BAA

Wear it next to your Cub Scout Merit Badge - the other kids on the short bus will be impressed.

By Oshkalaboomboom

June 12, 2006 03:13 PM | Link to this

Wow, keep repeating a lie long and and hope it becomes truth, eh? The big lie=Coulter dissed the 9/11 widows. The truth=Coulter dissed a small group of women who used their grief to bash Bush and Republicans, turing a national tragedy into a partisan political event. Being a victim of a tragedy does not give you carte blanche to make any statements you want and not get called on it. The Jersey Girls used their victimhood and Ann took them to task. Good for her, we need more gutsy women like her.

By WHAT??

June 12, 2006 03:15 PM | Link to this

Cynthia — are you her publisher?? I’m pretty sure that you are advocating reading propoganda on the order of Farheint 9/11, Bill O’Reilley’s rediculous “no Spin” zone or Al Franken’s latest book (God knows what that is). Hopefully, many REAL AMERICANS are getting tired of propoganda and are looking for reliable reviewable information. If you want to refer someone to a source, I’d think you’d want a source that was not subject to the vitirol of this magnitude but an actual legimate source of unbaised data.

Anyone know of one?

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 03:15 PM | Link to this

Note to my compatriot “Cynthia Mckinney’s hair dresser”: Funny. Notice how little humor (other than your one-liner) there is in a blog about the funniest book on the market today. Too bad.

If I were on the other side, I would be mocking us Coulter supporters. They are sputtering, they are so angry. Lighten up, leftist world.

By Nikster

June 12, 2006 03:15 PM | Link to this

What? I don’t fly anymore & always hated it anyway. Do I feel safe ? I feel safer now than 5 years ago. I put another clip for my gun in the glovebox.

By suzie

June 12, 2006 03:18 PM | Link to this

I have seen better conflict resolution on a pre-school playground. Why don’t we just stand in a circle and start yelling “she started it”! “No, he started it”. Grow up! Both of you…was always my Mother’s answer.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 03:20 PM | Link to this

@ Nikster

Oh please Nikster - you’re no rocket scientist. You might be bright for a Georgia con, but that’s really no mark of intellectual prowess. Your dumbarse frat brothers might be impressed, but come on!

You cons are supposed to hate political correctness. It’s a harsh word, but it’s no lie to call you stupid. I stand by my statement.

And I thought you cons love God. If He belongs in our schools and public buildings, surely He belongs here in this very important debate.

By susan

June 12, 2006 03:21 PM | Link to this

As a somewhat center to left thinking (note the word “thinking”) individual, Ann Coulter can say what she wants when she wants. I put her in the same class and Cynthia McKinney—a self promoting, condescending witch—just like McKinney. However, as a liberal, I don’t care what Coulter says or to whom she says it. That is what free speech is about. If we censor any speech with which we don’t agree, we end up as we are now—slaves to what the powerful decide is suitable speech. Speak up Ann Coulter. You are just promoting your book to make money off the stupid who will run out and buy it.

By thirstyman

June 12, 2006 03:23 PM | Link to this

When will folks on the “Left” learn to address the substance of Ann’s remarks? She is talking about a real abuse of authority. Are these women to be protected, shielded from criticism because of their loss? And furthermore, the lost loved one is certainly NOT speaking for himself, especially in Cindy Sheehan’s case! Is that fair? And how does being a 9/11 victim/survivor make your opinion about George Bush and the WOT any different or more valid than mine?

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 03:24 PM | Link to this

Godhatestrash, were you bullied when you were a little boy? Your mommy had to come to your rescue, poor thing. You sound like an insecure momma’s boy, perhaps you’re a girl, but you sound like a tough-guy-want-be. What’s with the name calling, can’t you debate? You have a lot of hate, not only in your name.

By LHM

June 12, 2006 03:24 PM | Link to this

Sorry to say, but Ann did not wrong.

I stand for Ann.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

By Alan

June 12, 2006 03:25 PM | Link to this

Ann Coulter never lets the facts get in the way of making an offensive joke. (Those are her words - paraphrased - from a story on her in TIME a few years back.) So, she apparently won’t mind if we take a few liberties in bashing her incredibly abrasive style. People such as her and Rush Limbaugh make some good points, but the delivery is so off-putting that reasonable people have no desire to listen to them.

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 03:25 PM | Link to this

Apologies to NGa, you also had a good one-liner. You deserve credit also.

By Randy

June 12, 2006 03:25 PM | Link to this

Ann C. calls a spade a spade. I don’t particularly like going after widows, but that has been almost 5 years ago, 9/11. So Ann C. is probably right, I agree with her for the most part.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 03:27 PM | Link to this

@ thirstyman

She is talking about a real abuse of authority.

>

The most moronic post of the day on a very moronic blog. Congratulations!

By hellinahandbasket

June 12, 2006 03:28 PM | Link to this

Ann Coulter did not make these women use their loved ones for their political agenda…these women choose to do that. They should not be exempt from questions or confrontation just because they lost a loved one on 9/11. Many lost loved ones but did not choose to use them as a political statement. Shame on these women for using their loved ones as shields so that they can push their own agenda’s, just like the Sheehan woman whose son ‘volunteered’ for the military and instead of understanding that being part of the military carries a lot of risk she choose to blame others for his death…why didn’t she blame those who killed him? As for these 9/11 widows they blamed Bush right off….hmm, lets see he was only in office 8 months when we were attacked how on earth can he be responsible for the 9/11 attacks ! Blame those who are really responsible first and foremost the terrorists, then Clinton and the elder Bush who not only decided to not finish what they should have started but Clinton and his administration decided to neuter our intelligence community thus making them less affective than they could have been. Just because someone you love dies it does not give you carte blanche, you cannot throw out lies and they automatically have to be believed without question, you cannot unfairly accuse others just because you want it to be so and you should not use that deceased loved one as a shield or a battering ram for your own political agenda.

By whynot

June 12, 2006 03:28 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw: The ‘woodchipper’ you say. Is that straight from Drudge, Rush, or Colin Powell’s UN presentation. I’d say you’re merely factually challenged, but a better guess is you’re just a brain washed dullard. Tell me about the WMD, OBL connections, and how the Iraqi’s want us to stay as well. You’re dense with a capital D my good man/woman. But I’d expect nothing else from a Coulter fan.

By WHAT??

June 12, 2006 03:30 PM | Link to this

@ Nikster

so… you stop flying and carry a gun. How would that protect you from a 9/11 style attack? or a “dirty bomb” smuggled into one of our ports in the uninspected cargo container? or your dirty little secrets (I don’t want to know) from being leaked by a wiretapping corrupt government offical? Even if you think GWB is beyond reproach and would never ever do anything illegal, what stops the next president? Would you want Clinton to hear your phone calls?

By Stevarino

June 12, 2006 03:32 PM | Link to this

Can someone explain to me why if Anne Coulter is such a good devout christian, she chooses to dress like a whore in those tight dresses and short skirts every time she’s on TV. If y’all don’t get that she’s only about selling books, y’all don’t get much at all.

By jbmlaw

June 12, 2006 03:32 PM | Link to this

Ok, whynot, have it your way - all of the Iraqis really want the good old days of Saddam’s mass murders in Iraq. We understand your admiration.

Lighten up, and have a good evening.

By WAUKON

June 12, 2006 03:32 PM | Link to this

AMEN! Never has a truth been better stated!

By Joe Wilson

June 12, 2006 03:34 PM | Link to this

Good lord Jim.

Just look at what you have done.

Are you writing a book?

By thrillionaire

June 12, 2006 03:38 PM | Link to this

To the person who said the Republicans are the ones who want to burn books, please reference the joint press release this weekend from NJ Assemblywomen Joan Quigley and Linda Stender- they don’t want to burn the book…just ban it from being sold….”No one in New Jersey should buy this book and allow Ann Coulter to profit from her hate-mongering. We are asking New Jersey retailers statewide to stand with us and express their outrage by refusing to carry or sell copies of Coulter’s book. Her hate-filled attacks on our 9/11 widows has no place on New Jersey bookshelves.”

By thirstyman

June 12, 2006 03:38 PM | Link to this

thirstyman: “When will folks on the “Left” learn to address the substance of Ann’s remarks? She is talking about a real abuse of authority. > GodHatesTrash: The most moronic post of the day on a very moronic blog. > Good night now you attack me! Attack, attack attack. Any hope of you addressing the substance instead of attacking the person? > How is the opinion of the Jersey widows irt Geo Bush or the WOT any more significant than any other person alive? Do they deserve to be shielded from criticism?

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 03:38 PM | Link to this

So, nikster….you gonna lump Coltish in with these peeps? By your def…

By Randy

June 12, 2006 03:43 PM | Link to this

First we need to remember the definition of a liberal vs a conservative. A conservative is someone who trys to follow God’s rules, a liberal is someone who wants to be God. Is Ann Coulter trying to sells books YES, is most of the book correct ABSOLUTELY.

By Nikster

June 12, 2006 03:45 PM | Link to this

GodHatesTrash, I am female by the way & don’t hang out with frat boys. Does it make you feel superior attacking others & feed your tiny underinflated ego ? Your mom must of refused to breast feed you,you never got over it and still have alot of suppressed anger. I am bright for Ga? I’m smart & educated period. If you dislike southerners/the state of Georgia so much, please don’t stay here any longer. We won’t miss you. I think you just don’t like anybody.

By Jim Wooten

June 12, 2006 03:48 PM | Link to this

Good Lord, Joe Wilson, I don’t know. Who would have thought that so many people would have such unkind thoughts about high-profile women with strong opinions?

By mike moore

June 12, 2006 03:48 PM | Link to this

how hard would it be for the mainstream media to interview a 9/11 widow that supports Bush every time they interview one of the 4 New Jersey widows who campaigned for Kerry? Why can’t the MSM include interviews with families of soldiers who died in Iraq who stand by Bush when Cindy Sheehan is interviewed? ann coulter could have made her point in a nicer way, but that wouldn’t have gotten any press coverage. by being rude and crude, her point is getting attention from the MSM that it wouldn’t have received, otherwise.
coulter’s theory of the agenda of liberals to use victims to present their views in hopes nobody will argue the issues is correct, and the MSM helps out by focusing on the victims the liberals trot out and take advantage of…..the MSM doesn’t give nearly the same coverage to the 9/11 widows or families of soldiers who aren’t raving lunatics of the left

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 03:48 PM | Link to this

I’m sick and tired of reading this tripe. I’m going to go do some work before the day’s done.

Everybody here’s is wrong, especially the one who made the whore comment. As a woman I detest any drawn links between any woman and the concept of whore.

There’s nothing wrong with selling sex. There’s certainly nothing wrong with giving it away. And since we live in a capitalist economic system I think that prostitution should be generally thought more highly of. I think that making prostitution a moral issue is a conspiracy that men came up with because they can’t make money off it without enslaving the women….

Have a great day….I’m going go out and make money prostituting my brain…

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 03:53 PM | Link to this

Sorry, one last cheap shot:

“Your mom must of refused to breast feed you………….. I’m smart & educated period”

I really hate that. It’s MUST HAVE. And you don’t spell the period, you just .

And it’s nonsense as an emphatic. It means End of Sentence, but does not exclude Start of New Sentence.

Lawd….

By prostitution

June 12, 2006 03:53 PM | Link to this

….I’m going go out and make money prostituting my brain…

I will pay you to STFU.

By viktor

June 12, 2006 03:54 PM | Link to this

Can use some pocket change, eh, Jennifer?

By Braves suck this year huh?

June 12, 2006 03:54 PM | Link to this

Why do people keep referring to Ann as the “unofficial spokesperson” of all republicans. She is a way to the right, out of the mainstream way of thinking. She is basically the Jesse Jackson or Ted Kennedy of the republican party. The only thing they accomplish is making the opposing party mad as fire.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 03:54 PM | Link to this

@ thirstyman

In the US of A, no one’s opinion matters any more - or less - than anyone elses. These women have a right to say whatever they want wherever they want, just like you and your boyfriend Annie do. In America, Dumbya’s opinion has the same weight as mine.

Annie is trash (it’s my opinion), you choose to cheerlead for him.

By thirstyman

June 12, 2006 03:54 PM | Link to this

mike moore you have made some excellent points. If I’m not mistaken you will now be trashed personally, a moron, an ignoramous, a coulter groupie, rather than having your points addressed thoughtfully. That’s the way of the left I’m afraid. It’d be nice if I were wrong. We’ll see.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 03:59 PM | Link to this

Hey - interesting how Jim titles this piece.

Maybe all this controversy has activated his “lynchmob” gene, which seems to have afflicted many a southron over the years.

Most lynch victims were castrated before the hanging - and Ann’s only real mystery would thence be revealed!

By chris broe

June 12, 2006 03:59 PM | Link to this

Weather Report: Tropical Storm/Him-icane AnnCoulter zeroing in on Florida……

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 03:59 PM | Link to this

NIKSTER, you have to pity Godhatestrash. He obviously had a very bad childhood…oh wait, maybe he still is a child.

By Thomas Jefferson

June 12, 2006 04:03 PM | Link to this

Ann is a genius. Liberals are jealous.

By Reece

June 12, 2006 04:04 PM | Link to this

It seems to me that Jim Wooten has decided that any tactic is worthy of use if it promotes trash like this and the rest of the Republicans. This is just another straw piled upon the camel in an effort to create a divisive, hateful and nasty environment for Americans to live in. Mr. Wooten seems to be using the same methodologies that Bush and Co. have been using for most of the last 6 years. Create a great deal of anger, frustration and hatred over non-issues and sit back to watch Americans struggle with it.

Jim, you sir are an outrageous hateful person.

By Stevarino

June 12, 2006 04:05 PM | Link to this

Randy:

A conservative is someone who believes in limiting the role of government in our lives. It has nothing to do with being religious. Unfortunately, some people have hijacked the term conservative to mean someone who wants to impose their particular secular views of christianity on the rest of the country via government regulation.

By thirstyman

June 12, 2006 04:06 PM | Link to this

“In America, Dumbya’s opinion has the same weight as mine.” Well GodHatesTrash, now you’ve overstated your point. W’s opinion has an effect on the whole world. Yours, mine and Ann’s are the same as the Jersey widows: 4 Kerry-supporting liberal democrat widows. We’re ALL subject to the critique and challenge of others. In short, that was/is Ann’s point. Ann has exposed the one-sided nature of their coverage as mike moore has pointed out so well.

By

June 12, 2006 04:08 PM | Link to this

While I am not crazy about her choice of words, Ann Coulter’s sentiment is spot on. Every time I saw Kristin Breitweiser on Hardball giving her “expert” analysis of national security and laying blame squarly on Pres. Bush while Chris Mathews acted like he needed a cold shower, I just wanted to puke. During the 9/11 hearings, she was a fixture on his show and I absolutley resented her being given a free pass to express her political opinion and hide behind the veil of a widow. Not once have I ever seen Breitweiser challenged and made to really explain her worthless opinions.

The fact that her husband died in the tower does not make here and autority on anything. Oh…but she loves to wear her $1000 black suit with her reading glasses half way down her nose and act like she is taking notes on what is going on around her. Her taking notes would indicate an interest in what someone other than herself has to say. She is smug and self-important. She is the one I wish would go away 3 years ago.

Oh, and while I am talking about Mathews, what makes him and impartial journalist? He was a bag man for Tip O’Neil. And what about George Stephanopolis, bag man for Bill Clinton. And, of course, there is Tim Russert, our modern day Ed Morrow. he loves to speak truth to power. He was a bag man for Dan Pat Moynohan. This is who the newworks roll out as their political analysts?

Who thinks Carl Rove will get a anchor chair at CBS when Bob Sheiffer retires from Face the Nation? Don’t hold your breath.

By Duke in Cumming

June 12, 2006 04:09 PM | Link to this

While I am not crazy about her choice of words, Ann Coulter’s sentiment is spot on. Every time I saw Kristin Breitweiser on Hardball giving her “expert” analysis of national security and laying blame squarly on Pres. Bush while Chris Mathews acted like he needed a cold shower, I just wanted to puke. During the 9/11 hearings, she was a fixture on his show and I absolutley resented her being given a free pass to express her political opinion and hide behind the veil of a widow. Not once have I ever seen Breitweiser challenged and made to really explain her worthless opinions.

The fact that her husband died in the tower does not make here and autority on anything. Oh…but she loves to wear her $1000 black suit with her reading glasses half way down her nose and act like she is taking notes on what is going on around her. Her taking notes would indicate an interest in what someone other than herself has to say. She is smug and self-important. She is the one I wish would go away 3 years ago.

Oh, and while I am talking about Mathews, what makes him and impartial journalist? He was a bag man for Tip O’Neil. And what about George Stephanopolis, bag man for Bill Clinton. And, of course, there is Tim Russert, our modern day Ed Morrow. he loves to speak truth to power. He was a bag man for Dan Pat Moynohan. This is who the newworks roll out as their political analysts?

Who thinks Carl Rove will get a anchor chair at CBS when Bob Sheiffer retires from Face the Nation? Don’t hold your breath.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 04:14 PM | Link to this

@ Jennifer,

LOL - still for Georgia, nikster is practically a genius.

You’d think these yahoos would at least learn to use spellcheck.

By chris broe

June 12, 2006 04:15 PM | Link to this

NEW FLASH::: Civil Wars likely now in Palestine, (hamas vs fatah), Afghanistan, (taliban vs tribes), and Iraq (Sunni vs Shia). It would have all blown over if only Ann Coulter had kept her big fat mouth shut!

By chris broe

June 12, 2006 04:22 PM | Link to this

Ann Coulter chased a bear up a tree in New Jersey last weekend. But it’s okay, it was a liberal bear looking for free government picnic baskets. (The ranger’s not going to like this, Yogi).

By time for the truth

June 12, 2006 04:22 PM | Link to this

GodHatesTrash clearly needs to sue the experimental (legally blind) surgical team that performed his last federal court ordered Peach Care lobotomy. Its turned him from a loyal clear thinking Bush supporter into a fiendishly unhinged imbecilic liberal.

Ms Coulter’s recent measured remarks and book observations are astute, factually and intellectually honest and happily have hilariously (and effortlessly) wound up the morose, knuckle dragging left whose hyper sensitivity to legitimate, logical criticism provides enormous FREE entertainment for the rest of us.

The obsenely stupid lefties on this blog have generated enough hot fetid air to power one of those “green power” windmills the odious Kennedy’s refuse to allow spoil their yachting fun up there in Martha White’s Vineyard.

By war eagle

June 12, 2006 04:25 PM | Link to this

Sheer ignorance I say. Peace, Love and Joy. Where is Ann’s. Get a life. I have yet to see such a disgrace to humanity quite like this jezzebel!

By Stating the Obvious

June 12, 2006 04:25 PM | Link to this

its called approval ratings. The extreme right keeps rearing its ugly head and will hand congress back to the democrats. True CHRISTIAN conservatives and moderates pay ann coulter and those like her no mind. People like coulter (on both sides) will say just about anything to sell books and get attention. Thats how she makes a living - disgusting as it may be.

The people on this blog (and elsewhere) who support her so ardently are in the minority, similar to the KKK and other hate groups. Cynthia McKinney doesn’t represent all liberals and Coulter certainly doesn’t represent all conservatives.

By nikster

June 12, 2006 04:25 PM | Link to this

Jennifer, I don’t know where you were schooled but “period” is a real word & can be used in a sentence to make a point. Do you own a dictionary ? And do you not speak “southern ” ? Must of is acceptable to use instead of must have,dear.

By chris broe

June 12, 2006 04:29 PM | Link to this

Fetid? Panting breathlessly?

Oh, Ann’s breath and panties are fetid, alright.

Fetid? Panting breathlessly?

Who are you, Scooter Libby?

By time for the truth

June 12, 2006 04:32 PM | Link to this

and who are you?? Monica Blewinski’s trusty stand in?

By chris broe

June 12, 2006 04:36 PM | Link to this

NEWS FLASH:

Three Guatanamo detainees hung themselves. The kindler, gentler GOP has called the surviving detainees, “noose-challenged”.

Iran lost to Mexico, 3-1, in the World Cup. The one thing the GOP fears is Iranian terrorists disquised as illegal aliens crossing our borders by pretending to chase an errant fooseball.

Someone pointed out last Friday that the reason the liberal media didn’t label the Canadian Terrorist Suspects as Muslims was because in Canada, they are called, “Mooselims”.

CONNECTING THE NEWS DOTS: So, if the Canadian Terrorists rat each other out, then are they “Loose-lipped, noose-less, Moose-lim Fooseballers????”

By Eroc

June 12, 2006 04:39 PM | Link to this

Ann Coulter is so nasty, that a fly wouldn’t even land on her to lay her maggot eggs. I do not care which side your on, she is just horrible. And this is not the first time she has gone for the throat in such a tasteless unfair way.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 04:41 PM | Link to this

Godhatestruth “The most moronic post of the day on a very moronic blog”, you sure do have a lot of entries.

By time for the truth

June 12, 2006 04:41 PM | Link to this

the irony of an extremely sexist, judgmental “war eagle” advocating peace and love is just more drooling liberal idiocy.

Are you a reject from some John Wayne or Clint Eastwood western?

By The Sad Truth

June 12, 2006 04:43 PM | Link to this

Wooten, you make me sick. I’ll bet you and your conservative “Christian” friends will get together at church this Sunday to pray that the 911 widows burn in Hell. Have you completely lost your humanity? Jesus said “Love those who persecute you…” What ever happened to that? Well, onward Christian soldiers. Onward to hate. Onward to cruelty. Onward to war. May God have mercy on your souls.

By Nikster

June 12, 2006 04:44 PM | Link to this

I have spellcheck GodHatesTrash & I know how to use it.I was taught to spell & use proper English a long time ago. You need to purchase a dictionary because your spellcheck apparently has a very limited list of words. People need to know how to spell without their computer doing it for you. Plus you don’t speak “southern”.You just seem to get your jollys making fun of & picking on people. Maybe if you are nice, your mommy will get you a puppy & then you’ll have a friend to play with.

By War, what is it good for?

June 12, 2006 04:47 PM | Link to this

Absolutely nothing.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 04:47 PM | Link to this

@ thirstyman,

The trash has been after these women for speaking their opinions from the first time they questioned the foolishness in Iraq. You and your ilk have been after them like a pack of braying stupid rabid hyenas.

@ Cynthia McKinney’s boot licker

You’re not that witty - more like halfwitty. Try to be more like time for truth - s/he’s working on a 60% wit score.

@ nikster

Are you offering supplemental feedings? I might be interested if you’re willing to take a looong hot shower before we get together. With tons of soap.

G’day y’all!

By time for the truth

June 12, 2006 04:47 PM | Link to this

actually godhatestruth’s mommy did buy him a puppy - but he’s so hateful and bilious that his mommy had to a hang a pork chop around his neck to get the dog to play with him!!

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 04:51 PM | Link to this

@ time for truth

Funny - I never heard that one before! Man - Letterman and John Stewart need to get a hold of you!

G’day again, cons!

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 04:54 PM | Link to this

G’day Godhatestruth…and take that thumb out of your mouth!!!!!

By time for the truth

June 12, 2006 04:55 PM | Link to this

@ GOD NEEDS TO DUMP THE TRASH!!

I see ye olde divide and attempt to effetely conquer thine INTELLECTUALLY/MORALLY SUPERIOR conservative enemies is your latest pinko playbook entry.

In all seriousness though you must admit that Ms Coulter would be a superb albeit unconventional pick for Supreme Court Justice.

By borisdag

June 12, 2006 05:00 PM | Link to this

Enough with these people! How many more Sean Hannitys, Rush Limbaughs, and Ann Coulters do we need? How much right wing conservative bluster will the American public digest before we realize that these talking heads DO shape public opinion? And not in a good way! Coulter is a inhuman fembot who plagurizes, disguises her arguments with thinly veiled attempts at scholarly rhetoric, and garners more attention that she should be given. But let’s get real, especially here in the South, there is a huge contingent of unenlightened, uneducated rednecks who feel threatened by anyone who isn’t a white heterosexual Protestant/Baptist. And these ignorant people gorge on this type of quasi-politcal opiniontainment. Sickening.

By Concerned

June 12, 2006 05:01 PM | Link to this

Ann is just another character from the endless parade of right-wing motormouths who make assanine, malicious statements for publicity…Robertson, Falwell, Dr Laura, Dobson, etc. Their scripts are interchangeable; doesn’t matter who says what, it’s all the same embarrassing “message.”

By time for the truth

June 12, 2006 05:01 PM | Link to this

@ GOD NEEDS TO DUMP THE TRASH!!

joke selection for special needs liberals always needs to be familiar and non theatening, otherwise they can suffer instantaneous apoplectic fits that result in chronic attacks of piles, hives and post Clinton Cigar Stress Disorder

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 05:02 PM | Link to this

I had to check in right (get it, RIGHT?) before I go home.

Nikster, honey, why are you “talking southern” when the language in this country is English? We don’t like them Mexicans speakin Spanish. Fair’s fair.

You’re completely foolish. Making ASSumptions about me based on absolutely nothing other than your desire to one-up me.

FYI, I was born and raise in the South. Even further South than dear ole Georgia, but above the old US border… I know “southern”.

And the use of the word “period” to indicate emphasis on finality has no supported literary use. It’s slang and therefore subject to person scorn. You, and many other, use it to mean that you have reached your conclusion and it’s final and there is nothing more to be said by anyone. However, the actual use of a period is to indicate the conclusion of a sentence, indicating that the following words are part of another sentence. Therefore, when you use such slang to indicate that you have stated that your conclusion is the final one by using the word “period” then you would be translating that grammatical mark incorrectly. What you actually done is completed your conclusion and have allowed the beginning of the next one.

As for your criticism of Trashy at 4:44pm dealing with spellcheck….it’s obvious you are no better than any of us here with your use of * must of * instead of must have.

The ball is now in your court. We have now moved the game into another field altogether should you like to join in.

By time for the truth

June 12, 2006 05:03 PM | Link to this

Enough with these people! How many more Sean Hannitys, Rush Limbaughs, and Ann Coulters do we need?

ABOUT 300 MILLION MATE!!

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 05:05 PM | Link to this

One more thing…using the word “period” is not something the South came up with.

Morons all over this country use it. Us southerners did not invent that.

We DID invent y’all, how’s ya mom and them, fixin to, makin groceries, and gettin down (as in getting out of the car and going inside the store or wherever your destination is).

By Republican

June 12, 2006 05:06 PM | Link to this

Do any of you liberal/ leaners ever approach a republican with an open mind or is it just open at liberal meeting places and are you not at all curious? I was a liberal till I met a superior argument. And I am so very grateful. I don’t even go to church! And I didn’t even call any of you names. Amazing? no, just testing.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 05:07 PM | Link to this

@ time for truth

Speaking of jokes, give my regards to your daddy!

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 05:08 PM | Link to this

I was born and raised a conservative. It was open discussion, education, and having kids that turned me around….

By Beverly

June 12, 2006 05:12 PM | Link to this

Bravo to the author for recognizing the point that it is wrong to set aside some people as victims whose actions cannot be criticized.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 05:12 PM | Link to this

Godhatestrash…you really needed a father figure growing up. Would you like us to pray for you?

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 05:14 PM | Link to this

@ Jennifer

Education. Alas, a foreign concept to most GOPers.

By time for the truth

June 12, 2006 05:14 PM | Link to this

@ GOD NEEDS TO DUMP THE TRASH!!

AT LEAST I KNOW WHO MY DADDY WAS!!

See how uppity liberals are!!

By Republican

June 12, 2006 05:17 PM | Link to this

Jennifer, GodHatesTrash one of your children? Give ny regards to Your dad.

By borisdag

June 12, 2006 05:17 PM | Link to this

LOL! We can always count on the wingnuts to boil everything down to these things: 1. Guns 2. God 3. Money 4. Children

I don’t own guns (nor do millions of other Americans), I don’t worship your God (nor do BILLIONS of other people on this planet), I don’t hoard money (neither CAN millions of Americans, and I couldn’t care less about your need to reproduce. Someday the winguts might get it that they are not the only people on this planet and we would all like to be treated with some sort of respect.

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 05:20 PM | Link to this

My dad is a Vietnam Vet who raised me to be a conservative. I grew up and thought for myself.

If Trashy were my child I’d only chastise him for being so naughty in relentlessly harassing the “conservatives” on this blog. Shame on you! You’re baiting them and that’s not nice, Trashy! Now, in the corner, on your knees, on those raw red beans! After you’ve thought about what you’ve done I want you to put more punch in your attack.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 05:23 PM | Link to this

BORISDAG, do something about people hijacking planes and flying them into US building and you’ll get some RESPECT.

By Winger

June 12, 2006 05:24 PM | Link to this

The difference is Ann tells the truth. Michael Moore lies.

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 05:28 PM | Link to this

That’s just brilliant Winger. They’re both spin doctors, fool, and you’re a fool’s fool for trying to force the issue otherwise.

EVEN THEY KNOW THEY’RE PULLING YOUR LEG.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 05:29 PM | Link to this

@ Jennifer

Gosh, nikster offered to continue my breastfeeding, and you are going to set me in the corner.

Do I want the smart mom or the dumb mom with the breasts?

Decisions, decisions…

If nikster looks anything like Ann Coulter, I’m headed for your corner.

By KFR

June 12, 2006 05:29 PM | Link to this

I am a veteran. I served in Desert Storm. I can tell you what most enlisted talk about in the desert. When can we go kick a* so we can get this over with and go home. Damn it’s hot, I really miss my family.When is our next hot meal. In the entire time I was in the desert no one paid attention to the left, right or middle. We watched for the factual articles that would give us an idea when we would go home. We didn’t talk about the latest OPINION article on the war, we didn’t care, we were living what these self important people sit on the sidelines and talk about. I believe that the soldiers over there and every other hot spot around the world think along the same lines. Bottom line,history shows that as the calvary rode through a town to complete it’s mission, the men and horses paid no attention to the cur dogs barking at their heels and we still don’t and I don’t understand why any intelligent person would.

By Republican

June 12, 2006 05:34 PM | Link to this

Amazing Godless (the book)describes Media Bias wherein the Major Media outlets use losers to promote the preexisting democrats position. America lost something on 9.11 and The Media has not interviewed me once and I, for one am tired of being left out, so here I am. Where is Dan Rather, Katie (the perky one)?

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 05:36 PM | Link to this

@ Repub

Aren’t there enough idiots on the airwaves, without you too?

By equalizer

June 12, 2006 05:37 PM | Link to this

Coulter’s principal “point” was that the 9/11 widows and those like Cindy Sheehan cannot be criticized because of their losses without the risk of being perceived as mean spirited. OK, fine, can those on the right also cease branding those that criticize the administration as “hating the troops?”

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 05:38 PM | Link to this

nikster…while I am extremely well endowed in the baby feeding machinery it is currently not operable. So, I cannot help you there.

I do, however, cook a really good jambalaya.

I don’t look ANYTHING like Ms Coulter, though I will not go on record claiming she is physically unattractive. She is more than passable to look at. She looks rather hardened but that doesn’t make her ugly. Only her vitriol makes her ugly. And from what I hear she isn’t really like the persona she’s crafted to sell her stuff. She’s supposed to be just a regular conservative, according to Keith Olbermann (sp?). She just knows how to make a buck. Good for her.

I do wish I were thin like she is. I would love to be able to wear the “whore” dresses. It’s a real kind of power to know that you can control millions simply because you look good. And then if you’re smart you can get the rest to agree with your mind. And then you can CONTROL THE WORLD! BWAAHAAHAAHAAHAAAAA!

By Van

June 12, 2006 05:42 PM | Link to this

borisdag, you have shown you vast ignorance.

Millions of American Citizens do own weapons, only the ignorant would suggest otherwise. There are more weapons legally owned than there are people in this country. Last I looked it was about 2.6 per person on the average.

Billions of people in the world worship a diety, some worship more than one - where do you fit in? One of the godless hoard?

Saving money is not hoarding, investing your earnings - do you have any? - is the wise and best thing to do with your money

Children are reat, I’ve go two myself.

BTW, in this country you have the freedom to worship or not, to own a weapon or not, to save money or not and finally you have the freedom to have children.

Ain’t this a great country

Grow up, finish high school, get a life and join the rest of us in the real world.

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 05:49 PM | Link to this

Van, as long as you’re on the subject of vast ignorance- your red state edumacation is showing there, chief.

The phrase “godless hoards” should be spelled as “godless hordes”.

And “diety” is correctly spelled “deity”.

You’re welcome!

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 05:50 PM | Link to this

Goodbye all, Godhatestruth, I’m going to pray for you tonight, right after I get my Pat Kennedy face on. Good luck in your quest for masculinity.

Jennifer, want get your Pat Kennedy face on with me? YOU ROCK!

By getalife

June 12, 2006 05:51 PM | Link to this

I just found a conservative that is worse than Ann

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 05:53 PM | Link to this

Van,

I own three guns, I do not worship god, and I have kids.

Borisdag is not incorrect in stating that there are many many Americans who don’t own guns, don’t worship a god, or have chidren. There are billions who fall into at least one of these.

Why do you assume he has not finished high school? Because you don’t like what he said?

By GodHatesTrash

June 12, 2006 05:53 PM | Link to this

Cynthia, I’m not surprised that while you’re on your knees, you’ll be thinking of me…

Pervert.

By Jennifer

June 12, 2006 05:57 PM | Link to this

Sorry, Cynthia,

While I’m not a big fan of Trashy’s method I happen to mostly agree with his general position. Mostly and general.

I’m a librul, which I don’t think you are. To tell you the truth, I’ve lost track. I am now deleriously responding the latest post as I wait for my spousal unti to pick me up so we can commute home (BLAH!)

By Republican

June 12, 2006 06:09 PM | Link to this

I’ve come to see a common thread shared by those who will waste time correcting the “spelling” of the arguements on the other side but will rarely attempt an honest discussion about the “principle” at hand. Smartest one in the rume, I guess. Eyetalics are your friend.

By Cynthia Mckinney's hair dresser

June 12, 2006 06:11 PM | Link to this

Damn Jennifer, understood, I just love your witt. I am neither a liberal nor conservative. I haven’t prayed in years (sorry Godhatestrash), don’t own a gun, and smoked more weed than Bill Clinton. However, I have traveled the world and understand and appreciate how nice it is to live in America. To bad, people like Godhatestrash, just don’t get it.

By B. Reese

June 12, 2006 06:12 PM | Link to this

Wooten’s pathetic generalizations and swipes at people exercising their right of free speech and to petition their government, is truly craven. I guess when you can’t find anything positive to write about your chosen political party, a good personal attack is always a good substitute.

I thought he at least, had more scruples than potty mouthed Ann Coulter. Guess not.

By GT

June 12, 2006 06:20 PM | Link to this

The truth of the matter is that the Republican controlled government has jacked around with this 9/11 situation, taking the advise of the right and now finds themselves with four flat tires and an empty tank. Bush lands on an aircraft carrier and declares a premature victory, dressed in a macho outfit like he was in some kind of costume party. We capture their leader and parade him in his underwear and spin to the world that this one guy was the heart and soul of this third world country’s fighting machine. We figure we can pull his toenails out until he tells us where the hidden weapons are hid. And can you believe this clown, no hidden weapons, who is he kidding. In the meanwhile who is leading these soldiers that are killing our soldiers? And as if we haven’t got enough of an enemy in Iraq we now are turning on our own. Four ladies in New Jersey, if we could just shut those fools up in New Jersey we would win this damn war. I wish more than anything they were right.

By Fed Up

June 12, 2006 06:47 PM | Link to this

First, let me say that I have been in the Air Force for 30 years and I am extremely proud of our men and women who have performed their duty so that we can have this very discussion. If people on this BLOG want to call eachother childish names, there are other sites in which to vent your childish tendencies. We have serious issues, lets have serious discussion. Now, for those of you who say that those Americans who are not in the service, do not have a relative in the service, or have had someone close to them killed in battle do not have the right to an suggest we send them to fight, you are way off the mark. It is a privilege to serve in the armed service. We do not join for college payment plans, three squares a day, base housing, or nice, neat, and pressed clothes with shiny shoes. When we become a part of the armed services, we have the understanding that there is a good possibility we will have to be sent to fight somewhere. That is what we are trained to do. If someone joins the service without this understanding and the will to accept this natural outcome should not and should have not joined the service. We are trained to fight and protect wherever freedom is threatened. When a person is sick, they go to the doctor EXPECTING them to perform their job with skill and expertise because it is what they were trained to do. Sadaam Hussein WAS a threat to the security of the United States. EVERY American should have EXPECTED us to go in and perform our duty. For me to die for the sake of my country is a possible consequence of performing my duty. However, I knew the possibility existed and accepted it when I joined. Remember, we do not fight for your right to free speech. We fight for the institution which provides you that right. Understand, with that right comes responsibility. Do NOT, I beg for the sake of my fellow soldiers, misuse that right to promote your own personal agenda. We fight and die out of duty, not sacrifice. Please do not cheapen the very thing we fight to protect. Americans are a lot wiser than that…I pray.

By GodHatesTrash

June 13, 2006 09:38 AM | Link to this

@ Republican

How is it possible to have an intellectual discussion with someone that is either too stupid or too lazy to use proper grammar or spelling? Van was calling someone else ignorant, I was pointing out a big hole in his analysis.

Now, I’m assuming you spent at least 12 years in school - sure they were Georgia schools, but if you didn’t learn to spell - it’s your own fault, it’s your own lack of caring and rigor.

By steve

June 13, 2006 09:47 AM | Link to this

All of you bashing Ann Coulter are proving her point. These women can spew hate at the president and then hide behind their “widow shield” when challenged. If they were truly nonpartisan and interested in what happened on 9-11, then why no critism of Bill Clinton? After all, the reports show the planning for 9-11 started in 1996.

By North Fulton OtherSide

June 13, 2006 09:51 AM | Link to this

All this insensitive, “creative” dialog from Ms. Coulter and the far right wing so clearly reinforces to me why I stopped believing in the conservative Republican line of reasoning. Face it, we are not all the same. I go to church, I read Harry Potter, AND I’m liberal. Wow, am I ever in trouble.

By Angela

June 13, 2006 09:55 AM | Link to this

Ann is cruel and insensitive. It is not about whether or not she is being politically correct. It is about whether or not she is being a decent, caring human being. People, please stop thinking left and right and think for yourselves! I’m independent and fed up with both of the parties and their dishonest, elistist ways. Ann thinks the widows are seeking attention and fame. No, they are trying to speak up for their spouses, who can no longer speak for themselves. Ann is actually the one who is trying to cash in on their tragedy by putting this out there.

By Angela

June 13, 2006 10:14 AM | Link to this

Steve, yes, the planning began before 9/11. Clinton certainly made a some mistakes, too. Of course, he did…but the current administration is the one that botched the intelligence and missed the signs and let the attack happen on their watch. Remember, look at both sides.

By

June 18, 2006 04:06 PM | Link to this

Jim - shame on you. Be glad your family were safe on 9/11. This is like having a pudgy offspring deciding to sue McDonald’s because their menu contains too much fat, when instead they could have just kept on driving instead of stopping at the takeout window every nite, gorging their cheeks. You know what’s true Jim. Now back off and climb back into your wormhole.