Coulter Sheds any Remaining Vestiges of Humanity in her Latest Rant

[stevenleser]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_steven_l_080114_coulter_sheds_any_re.htm
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January 14, 2008

By Steven Leser


As I read the beginning of her most recent article dated January 9 2008, http://www.anncoulter.org/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=229 , something miraculous began to happen to me. I began to feel sorry for Ann Coulter.


For those of you who do not know, Ann’s father passed away on January 4th. Her latest article is mostly about that and about what kind of a man he was. Through the first five paragraphs, ending in “…forgot to put on your skirt” I already had a letter to Ann written in my head. The letter would have given her my condolences and said something along the lines of “…despite the fact that we vigorously disagree on the issues, this was no time for those kinds of disputes. I feel for you and your family that you have lost your father, he sounded like an amazing fellow and I offer you my most heartfelt condolences.”


I have written several articles that were very critical of Coulter so I would not have taken this course lightly. I remain very angry about some of the things she has written and said and I think she routinely goes a mile beyond what is decent, fair and reasonable discourse. However, I thought, this isn’t the time to be political. This person’s father has passed away and it seemed clear from the beginning of the article that she loved him a great deal and that he personified nobility to her. This was the time to rise above politics and reach out to another human being.


Unfortunately, after the fifth paragraph that ended as I described above, Ann started being Ann. Somehow, this woman used the same article she was penning as a eulogy to her father as vicious attack agit-prop against Liberals and Democrats in general and John Edwards and the Kennedy’s in particular, so much for my letter offering condolences. Once again, Ann has shown that even when you think she has been as vile or disgusting as possible, she will prove you wrong. She can exceed even that level of hatefulness.


It is hard to imagine a person showing this kind of disrespect to their loved ones. I dislike Ann and Republican & Conservative views at least as much as she dislikes John Edwards and Democratic and Liberal views, but I would not mention her or attack her or Republicans or Conservatives in the same article I was using to eulogize someone about whom I cared or loved. The people I care about are a hundred times more important than scoring political points, particularly during a eulogy for one of them!


I realized as I continued to read her latest exercise in visceral hatred that this person has ceased being human. Ann’s entire world is now about hate. With most people, if you want to feel some degree of empathy with them, you can tell yourself, well, at least they love their children and/or their parents, etc. One can no longer do that with Ann Coulter. Her hate is so overwhelming that it has even penetrated and poisoned the love that she has for her parents.


The rest of the ideological right in this country needs to do something about and for Ann Coulter. I cannot imagine Tony Snow or Bob Novak or even Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly ranting about Liberals in a similar situation. When you think that the article you are writing that discusses the passing of your father is a good place to make points about your political opposition (assuming that political opposition did not cause the death) I think some kind of intervention is necessary.

[lvx35]

1. Profoundly disgusting article at that link.

I mean, facing the REAL death of her REAL father, she ends by saying that daddy is in Heaven with Joe McCarthy and Ronald Reagan, and she hopes they will stop laughing about reds long enough to ask God to smite liberals. She must have sold it all, nothing is sacred to her IN HER OWN LIFE! Its really sad.

[Skittles]

5. she's proud he was a union buster

:puke:

[lvx35]

6. Even that doesn't bother me as much as the fact that she renders her father as a cartoon.

I mean there's politics, but what you feel for your family is so much deeper than any of it...Its about the chicken noodle soup from mom and throwing the football with dad. But the way she describes him as this cartoon man laughing at reds and hating liberals...I don't know what to say.

Maybe that's the problem. Maybe her father was a cartoon, and that's why she is so messed up. Or maybe she just saw him that way her whole life. Whatever the case its a horrifying view into her mind..

[mojowork_n]

2. It's not even ironic -- it's beyond irony -- but one of...

the best critiques of that whole 'libruls are scum' attitude came from a conservative:



The same essay was cross-posted at the libertarian, paleo-conservative website,

lewrockwell.com.

Lew R. was the conduit, or the creator, of some of the newsletters that generated so much bad press for Ron Paul.

Excerpt:

James Bovard, the great libertarian champion of our freedom and civil liberties, recently shared with readers his mail from Bush supporters (Lewrockwell.com, October 12). For starters here are some of the salutations: "communist bastard," "asshole," "a piece of trash, scum of the earth." It goes downhill from there.

Bush's supporters demand lock-step consensus that Bush is right. They regard truthful reports that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction and was not involved in the September 11 attack on the US--truths now firmly established by the Bush administration's own reports--as treasonous America-bashing.

As well, Bovard is interpreted as throwing cold water on the feel-good, macho, Muslim butt-kicking that Bush's invasion of Iraq has come to symbolize for his supporters. "People like you and Michael Moore," one irate reader wrote, "is (sic) what brings down our country."

[alphafemale]

3. Yet we all liked the "Whistle-Ass" comment in that obit awhile back.

And we were really upset when people attacked political speech at the Wellstone funeral.

For Ann, I have to say it's really not that bad.

Political people don't ever stop being political.

Even when they grieve.

[Voltaire99]

4. Reagan in heaven?

I hate to disappoint the old girl, but I rather expect he's being bent over by three-donged demons in hell.

[Hawaii Hiker]

9. And I think McCarthy would be passed

out drunk somewhere.....That SOB was a big time boozer...

I don't think Reagan has known where he's been since around 1975, or so...

[road2000]

7. An Extreme Exercise

The OP sounds like an extreme exercise in self-control... on the part of Steven Leser.

I heard a re-run of "A Prairie Home Companion" the other night, on which Molly Ivins was a guest. Wasn't able to pay close attention, but I think she was talking about a bar where writers hung out. She said every one was pretty nice, then stopped for a moment and said (paraphrase) "'cept for Ann Coulter. They threw her out into the street."

Garrison Keillor dedicated the show (it was actually parts of two shows, both in Austin) to Molly.

Wouldn't it be glorious to be able to make an even trade -- Ivins for Coulter? Trouble is, Coulter would land in the wrong place...

[Joanne98]

8. Annthrax needs electroshock therapy!!!!!! BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[cyr330]

10. And Coulter's Pa's most Repulsive feat?

Well, he impregnated Coulter's mother who, in turn, gave birth to that thing. . .

[awoke_in_2003]

11. Well, I would sympathise about the loss

of her father, but when it comes right down to it, she got the way she is somehow. And the biggest formers of character in our lives are our parents. Take me- my parents were pretty liberal. In my younger days I was more conservative, mainly as a little protest. But once I got a little older, say 25, the wisdom of my parents came through. I have become my parents (with my own personal flair), she has probably become hers.

[yellowcanine]

12. The OP makes the assumption that Coulter was once human. Where is the evidence of that?

I think I could come up with just as much evidence that she is a rodent.

[stevenleser]

13. I'm not sure I've ever so thoroughly enjoyed the responses to one of my articles

thanks to all! LOL