I didn't realize it had been so long since I put something up. Hopefully someone is still checking in on this. Today, let's talk Ann Coulter. This is the woman all of these homophobic, anti-porn, anti-abortion white men go home and beat off to. She's made a career out of wearing little black cocktail dresses, stroking (haha...stroking) the egos of the right, and ruffling feathers on the left. And that's why she's possibly the greatest person in America right now.
Ann Coulter represents everything the rest of us think we stand for when we say we believe in free speech. She's not afraid to say anything and she has no shame. She's apparently the only one willing to even question some of the motives of the 9/11 survivor families. I'm not agreeing with her exactly. She lumps a very diverse group of people under one banner. And she could have been far more tactful. But it's something we were all thinking. She just had the balls to say it.
The next time you hear a democratic politician say they believe in free speech, ask them if that includes Ann Coulter. You won't get a straight yes. You'll get a lot of bullshit about how she's gone too far and doesn't love America. Whether you agree with her or not, you have to defend her right to say it. Otherwise, maybe a I question how much you love America. The best part of the whole situation is that she's busy defending a group of people that are working as hard as they can to take free speech away from her. And if you don't believe that, just take a look at who is responsible for the steep increase in censorship of TV, military blogging, and FOIA requests over the past five years.
Ann is in the entertainment business. She's a stripper dazzling the political right with anti-liberal speech instead of her tits. Although to be fair, she's not working real hard to keep those out of the spotlight either. She's no different than Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, or Sean Hannity. Her job is to sell books and airtime. No one in their right mind takes her seriously. She's not looking to deliver facts or thoughtful commentary. There is no analysis involved in her arguments. She's telling half of the people what they want to hear about the other half. She's intentionally pushing buttons to get a rise out of people and keep her face in the news. And if you really hang on her every word as if they in any way reflect reality, you're just as gullible as she's hoping you are.
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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire
One of my favorite quotes ever.
I actually think she's a bleeding polyp on America's rectum, but you're right-- she is certainly allowed to say whatever she wants whenever she wants. And, personal antagonism aside, she's damn good at being the anti-liberal talking pair of sweater puppets.
However, I must disagree over 'what we were all thinking' about the 9/11 widows-- I didn't find it irritating or surprising at all that they would criticize our government for publishing a big fancy security report and then implementing NONE of its recommendations. If that makes them 'evil' or 'opportunistic', then we've got some fucked up definitions in this country.
I was more referring to when she said that the widows were self-obsessed and enjoying their husbands' death. Some of these people were fucking outrageous, making all kinds of asinine, unrealistic bullshit demands and parlaying the opportunity into money and free shit. Most of them weren't. But the ones that were deserve to be called out and she was willing to do it.
But I agree with you on the report. We spent incredible sums of money to study it, produce it, and publish it. And when it essentially came to nothing because the imbeciles in charge didn't implement the suggestions, America should have been outraged. Instead we were jerking off and eating Cheetos.
I was shocked that we implementednone of the recommendations. After all, (This is the only great line from the horrible movie, Contact) "the number one rule in government is why by one when you can buy two for twice as much." As someone in Government, I love this line (and it is somewhat true).
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