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MANGO!
10-02-2007, 01:23 PM
Coulter gets warm reception
Conservative writer skewers liberals, Democrats during talk at Livingston Economic Club.

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John M. Galloway / The Detroit News (http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071002/METRO04/710020383)

Gallery: Ann Coulter at Livingston Economic Club (http://info.detnews.com/pix/photogalleries/newsgallery/annc10012007/index.htm)

HOWELL -- Conservative columnist Ann Coulter spoke to a sold-out crowd of about 500 on Monday, taking jabs at her favorite targets: liberals. She also included a one-liner aimed at Gov. Jennifer Granholm. "I think anyone of you in this room could do a better job (than Granholm)," she said when a supporter urged Coulter to run for Michigan's top office.

Coulter, a University of Michigan Law School graduate, received a warm welcome from those applauding her stance on political issues and entertained by her views. The outspoken columnist, who was invited by the Livingston Economic Club to speak at Cleary University's Howell Campus a year ago, brought almost instant response from those opposed to her right-wing views.

After Coulter penned derogatory terms for presidential candidate John Edwards and Arab-Americans, the Livingston Diversity Council and local Democratic Party requested the event to be canceled. "She has a sharp tongue, but the things she says are on target," said Gary Rice of Brighton.

The New York Times best-selling author delivered her liberal-bashing one-liners to thunderous laughter and applause from the $60-a-plate crowd. She poked fun at Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's "freakish laugh" and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's knowledge of Middle East issues. "I can't believe how stupid that woman is, if she was captured by terrorists they wouldn't have to blindfold her," Coulter said.

During a question-and-answer segment, Coulter advised one father who asked "I caught my son reading the New York Times, what should I do?"

"Get him a Playboy," she said.

The controversy surrounding Coulter's visit to Livingston County was sidelined by a "Counter Coulter" event expected to be held Monday evening, featuring Jonathan Cohn, author of "Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis -- and the People who Pay the Price." Another effort to turn "a negative into a positive" by the organizer, Community Unitarian Universalists in Brighton, challenged Cleary University President Tom Sullivan to a duel for donations, raising funds for a nonprofit county dental clinic. Sullivan declined.

"There's not anything negative about this. It's not about one-upmanship. We presented a speaker series. This is about embracing a diverse group of speakers," Sullivan said. "We're a nonprofit group, too."

Only one protester stood out in the rain holding a sign that said "Ann, you ignorant slut." The man opposed Coulter's views on Sept. 11 widows as self-serving millionaires.

"I thought she was funny, more abrasive than I anticipated. She's very bright and intelligent and she's right on with where this country is going and where we need to go," said Cindy Jonckheere of Brighton. Whether Coulter was worth the $30,000 speaker fee she was paid by the Livingston Economic Club, Jonckheere said she was outraged that one speech was worth the same as what some people make in salary annually. "No one is worth that much (as a speaker)," she said.

Other Coulter comments:

On Larry Craig, the Republican senator from Idaho arrested for soliciting sex in an airport bathroom, and the hypocrisy of Democrats: "They're against the war on terrorism, but they'll declare their own war on gay Republicans. If Craig is a sexual deviant how come the ACLU hasn't offered to defend him."

On lethal injection: "I want a death penalty to replicate the way the victim died."

Global warming: "I'm promoting luke-warming. The Earth could be tepid by 2010."

On Democrats: "They spend so much time hating, hating. That's why they can't get anything done. We thought Bill Clinton was a creep and a pervert but we didn't hate him."

"Liberals yell louder but I think they punch themselves out."

On herself: "One Christian commandment I have problems with is love your enemy."

On running for political office: "Politicians have to be diplomatic. I don't have that gene."
Jake Featherston
10-02-2007, 02:15 PM
Before I die, I want, just once, to hear Chris Matthews on MS-NBC refer to Anne Coulter as "a neo-con she-male."
WFHermans
10-02-2007, 03:02 PM
Let's see...my favorite wish is that Ann Coulter invites Phil Spector to tell him what a wonderful person he is, Phil Spector pulls a revolver and shoots her in the head, Ann Coulter is paralysed and will never be able to write again.
Alison
10-02-2007, 03:05 PM
Tell me more about this woman, please.
Angocachi
10-02-2007, 03:39 PM
She makes money off of retards who want to read & hear opinions they already have.
She's a far-far right neocon who advocates all kinds of craziness. Big Bush supporter and what not.
Alison
10-02-2007, 03:41 PM
Thanks, A. Heck, I hardly know our own rabble rousers here, let alone the lot in the US. :)
WFHermans
10-02-2007, 04:01 PM
She advocates murdering one billion people.
Alison
10-02-2007, 04:02 PM
Tell me more, WHF.
WFHermans
10-02-2007, 04:17 PM
I'd have to google the exact quote, and maybe I'll do that later, but she said that the muslims in the Middle East must be converted or killed.

She makes all kinds of remarks like that, and instead of being ignored like the ranting nut she is, she gets lots of publicity. Martin Lindstedt is a choir boy compared to Mann Coulter.
Alison
10-02-2007, 04:21 PM
So she's a complete nutjob then. What puzzles me is why she gets the coverage. surely it must mean that people agree with what she says?
Hermanric and Horse
10-02-2007, 04:37 PM
So she's a complete nutjob then. What puzzles me is why she gets the coverage. surely it must mean that people agree with what she says?
Haha how naive. :)

No, it means that she is useful to the people who own/run the media and the political system here in the USA.

The opinions of mere Americans have nothing to do with the matter.
Alison
10-02-2007, 04:41 PM
Yes, I admit to being naive about American politics. We have our own bunch of nutjobs in government here that we have to keep an eye on. Not that it helps, of course. :)
Hermanric and Horse
10-02-2007, 04:58 PM
Yes, I admit to being naive about American politics. We have our own bunch of nutjobs in government here that we have to keep an eye on. Not that it helps, of course. :)
Yes, I'm sure you do have lots of them over there!

I make lots of allowance for non-Americans who aren't familiar with our media or political system.

Believe me, there are plenty of Americans living here who don't understand what is going on, so I wasn't trying to pick on you! I just thought your statement sounded funny (in an American context).
Alison
10-02-2007, 05:04 PM
:) That's OK. I know quite a few Americans, among people of other nations who don't have a clue of what's going on in South African politics. It's pretty scary here at the moment wrt politics.
Hermanric and Horse
10-02-2007, 06:15 PM
For the record there are some people who agree with Coulter or who say they do; point is prior to about six years ago, someone like Coulter would never have been tolerated on American media, saying those sorts of things. What has changed is not the number of people who agree with her; their opinions are as irrelevant as ever. What has changed is the political agenda of the ruling elites.
Alison
10-02-2007, 06:22 PM
Now that is one thing that bothers me. Have we all become so complacent and accepting that we allow this type of behaviour? Surely we should all be vociferous in our objections?
il ragno
10-02-2007, 07:35 PM
For the record there are some people who agree with Coulter or who say they do; point is prior to about six years ago, someone like Coulter would never have been tolerated on American media, saying those sorts of things. What has changed is not the number of people who agree with her; their opinions are as irrelevant as ever. What has changed is the political agenda of the ruling elites.

You're high on crack.

TEN years ago - with the Clintons in power and the cable-news talk shows thriving on combativeness for its own sake - Coulter was condoned and encouraged. Ten years ago, eight years ago, six years, etc, etc. And with Fox News ruling the cable-news ratings roost, she's going to continue to be condoned and encouraged.
Pasdaran
10-02-2007, 10:16 PM
Ann Coulter reaffirms my belief that politics is strictly a man's issue.
WFHermans
10-02-2007, 11:26 PM
Then I got two words for you: Rush Limbaugh.
MANGO!
10-03-2007, 03:50 AM
Coulter, a University of Michigan Law School graduate

She's a lawyer, I always wondered what her qualifications were to speak on geopolitics. Here's a collection of her quotes: Wikiquote (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter). I disagree with her on most things but she is occasionally funny.
bardamu
10-03-2007, 02:01 PM
She's a lawyer, I always wondered what her qualifications were to speak on geopolitics. Here's a collection of her quotes: Wikiquote (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter). I disagree with her on most things but she is occasionally funny.

Ann Coulter aside, a person shouldn't need to be 'qualified' to opinionate on world politics as then it becomes a question of who does the qualifying and what qualifies them to do so? It is more an issue of speaking or writing well and having people who agree with you, in which case the speaker becomes the mouthpiece for a point of view.
MANGO!
10-03-2007, 02:08 PM
:) Didn't commentators used to require some type of credentials pertinent to the topic at hand in order to spread their views on national television? (S)he's an "attractive" (to a handful of cretins) "woman" (unverified) of above average intelligence with a law degree who is brought on national television to discuss everything from theology to the Vietnam War to gay bathroom sex. (M)ann Coulter might be an expert on the latter, I have my doubts as to the level of her expertise when it comes to most other things.
Radix
10-04-2007, 02:28 AM
She makes money off of retards who want to read & hear opinions they already have.
She's a far-far right neocon who advocates all kinds of craziness. Big Bush supporter and what not.

And you Sir, are One with the mindless Liberals.

In my opinion, Ann Coulter is a soft moderate.

In my other opinion, you are a mindless Liberal.
Hermanric and Horse
10-04-2007, 04:21 AM
You're high on crack.

TEN years ago - with the Clintons in power and the cable-news talk shows thriving on combativeness for its own sake - Coulter was condoned and encouraged. Ten years ago, eight years ago, six years, etc, etc. And with Fox News ruling the cable-news ratings roost, she's going to continue to be condoned and encouraged.Uh, okay, rags, whatever. I lost track of how long the b!tch had been on the air. So sue me. Not really the point I was driving at, now was it?

Was she advocating genocide of muslims 10 years ago? I doubt it. The bar was raised (or lowered, depending on how you look at it) after 9/11/01, as to what she could get away with saying, IMO.

I stand by my point, the agenda has changed so now her type can get away with making remarks on TV that wouldn't have been tolerated formerly. I don't give a flying f_ck whether genocidal comments directed at muslims began to be tolerated in the mass media six years ago, or ten. I just note the change of agenda and adjust expectations accordingly.

You were too busy knee-jerking, to get my point, seemingly.
Pasdaran
10-04-2007, 04:56 AM
We need to kill their leaders and the convert those muzzies to Christianity!
Angocachi
10-04-2007, 06:22 AM
And you Sir, are One with the mindless Liberals.

In my opinion, Ann Coulter is a soft moderate.

In my other opinion, you are a mindless Liberal.
I'm anti-abortion, anti-gun control, pro-death penalty, anti-homosexual, anti-recreational drug, anti-euthanasia, anti-secular, anti-feminist, and anti-pacifist...
I'm no liberal.

Ann Coulter's errors are as follows;
1. She makes baseless accusations and arguments against liberals, passing up the multitude of legit accusations and arguments against liberals.
2. While she understands there are right conservatives and wrong conservatives, she defends the wrong conservatives and attacks the right conservatives.
rust never sleeps
10-04-2007, 08:22 AM
Tell me more about this woman, please.

My personal take on it is that she is a total sellout POS, whether you be liberal, conservative, neo-con, or whatever.

She plays to a crowd, and there might be the occasional seemingly relevant utterance or soundbite (starr has a good quote of hers in her sig at the Phora). But that is about it. 99.5% phoneyphuck.