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Opinions/Editorials Title: Ann Coulter: Parasitical Wretch Or Clueless Idiot? Ann Coulter has had her day. Unfortunately that day ended with the exit of Bill Clinton from the White House. Her schtick back then was criticism of Clinton for the various torts that almost got him impeached. After Clinton left office, she became just another brainless Bushite, a blind follower of the most profoundly un-conservative president in recent history. Our girl didn't have the experience in politics needed to see through the neocon agenda of open borders and liberal internationalism. And any presumptively conservative pundit who failed to see through Bush lost all credibility. Of ocurse that disqualifies just about all the wannabe conservatives who occupy the airwaves, such as Limbaugh, Hannity and on down the list. These people are entertainers, not journalists. But they should at least have a little respect for those of us who get out into the world and do the hard work that gives them the material without which they would be helpless. In that regard, there was one line from Ann Coulter's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference that was dimwitted even by the liberal standards of her sort. Check at about the five-minute mark of the above video where a questioner asks her about journalists being jailed in Egypt as they covered the demonstrations there. Coulter might have replied that the journalists in question are infinitely more courageous then she is. Covering political demonstrations in the Third World is not like sitting around the Washington Marriott pontificating on Egypt - a subject about which Coulter knows little and would know less if not for the work of those journalists. And then there's the fact that jailing journalists is the sort of thing totalitarians do. And that conservatives opposed that sort of thing. Instead she answers, "What do I think about jailed journalists? I think there should be more jailed journalists." At that very moment, as we now know, CBS News reporter Lara Logan was recovering from a brutal sexual assault that occurred the prior day when she was coering one of the demonstrations in Egypt. A mob separated her from her crew and she was assaulted by a group of men. That's what happens when you get out of the luxury hotel and actually do some work. And it gets much worse. In the 1980s, when I used to report from Central America, I did a long piece on a Philadelphia writer named Nick Blake who disappeared in the mountains of Guatemala. He was doing a freelance article on the guerrillas for which he might have made a tiny fraction of the appearance fees Coulter collects. Blake's body wasn't found for years. What was Ann doing during those years? Going to law school and a lot of Grateful Dead concerts, I gather. She certainly wasn't doing anything that gave her the slightest knowledge about the most important topic of the modern era, counterinsurgency warfare. That's a subject on which all of her comments prove her to be completely and utterly clueless. That's okay. People inside the Beltway are allowed to make stupid remarks. But when they start to make fun of people who risk their lives bringing them the material on which to base their stupid remarks, that's not funny anymore. If Coulter wants to comment on Egypt, let her go over to the Mideast and see how well she fares in a crowd of crazed protesters. I think she'll find it's a little riskier than law school. In that regard, there is one comment Coulter made at CPAC with which I wholeheartedly agree. That was when she told the mostly young audience, "Don't go to law school." Good advice. You might be ruined for life and end up sounding like a complete idiot years later. Like Ann Coulter.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Ann Coulter was part of the GOp noise machine designed to give snappy one liners to keep the base in a frenzy and on message. It seems the gOP is in fear of their followers listening to alternative views or counter views lest they be swayed. Everything from Coulter to Malkin to Limbugh all through the Bush years was a concerted effort to produce sound bite memes to block acceptance of counter arguments. It was not designed to attract new people into their movement but to keep the base from leaving. What do y'all think?
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Remember the good old days at FR where every article about Coulter had some idiot poster(s) demanding pictures because of "the rules". No more.
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