(Update) When is the Right Going to Rise Up and Utterly Shun this Vile Creature?
By Mona
From Think Progress:
Yesterday on ABC’s Good Morning America, Coulter said, “[I]f I’m gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.†She has previously called Edwards a “faggot.†In 2003, she wrote a column claiming that John Edwards drove around with a bumper sticker saying “Ask me about my son’s death in a horrific car accident.â€
Elizabeth Edwards, the mother of the son who died in that accident, called in and had a few things to say. I, too, lost a son in a horrible car accident, and what I have to say to Ann Coulter — and the MANY prestigious conservative outlets that continue to pay her to appear, and the morons why buy her books — would entail a scatological rant that I feel best left to everyone’s imagination. (And hey, you right-wing parents who have buried a child, how can you possibly not find this repugnant beyond uttering?)
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Coulter is routinely asked to appear at right-wing festivals such as the Conservative Political Action Conference. When will they have the decency to stop?
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“Angry Left,” puh-leeze. The pus in the contemporary right could not be more foul.
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Update:
What The Carpetbagger said:
This has been another installment of “There Is Nothing A Conservative Can Say To Get Ostracized From The Mainstream Media.†Indeed, Coulter will make her first Hardball appearance in a year tonight. (The last time she was on, she referred to Al Gore as a “total fag.â€).Rationalizing a return invitation for Coulter, Chris Matthews said, “Say what you will, she sells books.†I don’t know what that has to do with having her on his show, but then again, I find most of Matthews’ observations incoherent.On his worst day, Michael Moore is Cicero compared to Coulter, but what do you suppose would happen if, during his ongoing promotional tour for his new movie, Moore told a national television audience, “I’ll just wish (insert Republican presidential candidate here) had been killed in a terrorist assassination plotâ€? Do you think we might hear something about it?
Comment by Thoreau —
June 26, 2007 @ 7:23 pm
There’s only one way to deal with Ann Coulter: Don’t buy her books, and don’t buy tickets to her events.
Comment by Mona —
June 26, 2007 @ 7:34 pm
But Thoreau, she is one of the most coveted speakers of College Republicans other right-wing enclaves. THEY have to decide she is filthy, and until they do, they ought to be held accountable for endorsing such a peddler of vile shit.
Comment by Davebo —
June 26, 2007 @ 7:37 pm
Mona, they don’t care. Because for far to many of them she doesn’t go far enough.
Comment by Thoreau —
June 26, 2007 @ 9:31 pm
Mona, do you know why College Republicans invite her to speak?
Because everybody else freaks out and gives them attention. Seriously. They live for that shit.
“Oh, look, those evil liberal professors said something mean about the crazy woman that we invited! We’re so persecuted! I’m going to put on my resume that I was censored, and then apply for an internship with Heritage Foundation!”
My plan, once I’m a full-time professor this fall, is to smile politely when College Republicans talk about this crazy speaker that they’re bringing, say that I think it’s nice, then ask for their homework assignment. And suggest that they read the Economist.
If I let them know that I’m outraged, then they’ll feel vindicated.
Comment by Mona —
June 26, 2007 @ 9:52 pm
No, they really like her. She speaks for them. And adults invited her to CPAC, and still do.
Comment by Jon H —
June 26, 2007 @ 10:00 pm
“No, they really like her. She speaks for them. And adults invited her to CPAC, and still do.”
Yes, but they could invite any number of other wingnuts who will entertain them by telling them the atrocious things they long to hear.
But it’s Coulter who gets the media attention.
Comment by Thoreau —
June 26, 2007 @ 10:08 pm
And adults invited her to CPAC, and still do.
Maybe they do, but I still plan to smile insincerely when an excited College Republican tells me about his awesome speaker. No need to help him feel like a persecuted rebel.
Comment by Jon H —
June 26, 2007 @ 10:21 pm
Thoreau,
Another thing you could do when the GOP hack zygote poses the question would be to name some respected highbrow libertarian or conservative thinker. If you can think of any.
Then when the kid names Coulter, you could act crestfallen and grumble that nobody ever invites big-thinking conservatives anymore.
Comment by Jon H —
June 26, 2007 @ 10:22 pm
Correction. Not ‘big-thinking’. There’s too much big-think at right-wing places these days. So big it can’t be contained within the limits of reality.
Maybe ‘deep thinkers’ or something.
Comment by Thoreau —
June 26, 2007 @ 11:06 pm
I’ll suggest somebody from Cato, or the Reason Foundation (headquartered in LA, I believe).
Comment by Phillip J. Birmingham —
June 27, 2007 @ 8:54 am
My plan, once I’m a full-time professor this fall, is to smile politely when College Republicans talk about this crazy speaker that they’re bringing, say that I think it’s nice, then ask for their homework assignment.
Either that or ask if she’s going to be filling in for [whatever you guys call your religious nut who shouts sermons outside the student center.]
Comment by Thoreau —
June 27, 2007 @ 9:07 am
[whatever you guys call your religious nut who shouts sermons outside the student center.]
The Provost?
Trackback by Moonage Political Webdream —
June 27, 2007 @ 9:49 am
I’m with Elizabeth Edwards…
Elizabeth Edwards sent a personal message out to the world for Ann Coulter to hear after Coulter made this rather non-political comment:
“If I’m going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed…
Comment by Barry —
June 27, 2007 @ 11:50 am
This all boils down to – Coulter is *core*; she’s not an embarassment, an exception, or a ‘bad apple’. What she says is what most of them believe.
Comment by Nell —
June 27, 2007 @ 11:56 am
Thoreau, that’s probably the best approach for college Republicans.
Something different is required for the Chris Matthewses of the world.
Comment by Thoreau —
June 27, 2007 @ 1:24 pm
If Chris Matthews ever takes a class from me I’ll smile condescendingly at him as well.
Comment by Noumenon —
June 28, 2007 @ 9:47 pm
Just for context, the full quote is “But about the same time, you know, Bill Maher was not joking and saying he wished Dick Cheney had been killed in a terrorist attack. So I’ve learned my lesson. If I’m gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”
I think she’s mischaracterizing Maher’s statement, but not nearly as badly as what your omission of context is doing to her quote. If I said, “It was OK when Mona said the right is full of pus, so I guess now I can safely say the left is full of pus,” and then people quoted me, “Noumenon: I can safely say the left is full of pus,” and said I was Mr. Hateful Language, I would be mad.
Comment by Noumenon —
June 28, 2007 @ 9:47 pm
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