Blogged by Brad Friedman on 10/20/2005 1:15PM  
Anti-Coulter Documentary in Production, Release to Coincide with Rightwing Gadfly's Next Book!
ALSO: PowerPoint Presentation Exposing Coulter's Religious Hypocrisy, Opportunism, Flip-Flops Released Exclusively to BRAD BLOG!

While the recent nomination of Hariet Miers for the Supreme Court by George W. Bush may have revealed more than a few cracks in the usually lockstepped Conservative Movement in America, Daniel Borchers has been calling out "fake Conservativism" --- as we refer here at The BRAD BLOG to those who use the tenets of the true Conservative Movement merely for cynical, opportunistic political gain --- for years.

Borchers' organization, Citizens for Principled Conservatism (CPC) is currently in-production of a documentary named The Truth About Ann which aims squarely at political and religious hypocrisy of Rightwing commentator and author, Ann Coulter.

As well, Borchers has created and released exclusively to BRAD BLOG, a PowerPoint presentation entitled "The Gospel of Ann".

The presentation, which we've converted into downloadable streaming video, excoriates the controversial Coulter's religious opportunism. It was inspired, according to Borchers, "by Ann Coulter's 'jaw-dropping' expression of faith in God, a faith which otherwise seems so empty in everything Coulter does."

Indeed, Coulter's "faith" may be as empty and phony as her self-proclaimed "conservative" beliefs. The presentation points out the recent TIME Magazine profile of Coulter which implies that she is a member of Redeemer Presbyterian, an evangelical Christian church in New York, and yet the ministry at the church never seems to have heard of her!

The Redeemer church, "whose non-political stance is well-known, disavows all hateful and hostile speech," according to Borchers' presentation, had to "Google" her name to figure out who she was! Apparently Coulter is not a member of that church at all!

The complete "Gospel of Ann" video, along with selected excerpts and screenshots is available at the end of this article.

The Truth About Ann, the documentary DVD currently in-production promises to "expose the extremist nature of Conservatism's preeminent diva and reigning political icon," according to a press release given to The BRAD BLOG by CPC. The film is said to examine "Coulter's worldview, and the extremist polemics used to promote it."

"Ann Coulter is mainstreaming extremism within the Conservative Movement," warns Borchers. "Coulter has hijacked a substantial segment of the Conservative Movement and is re-creating it in her image. Her 'New McCarthyism' is poisoning millions of minds."

The explosive "truth" about Coulter revealed in the documentary, according to the release, is that while she may be a "conservative icon," in actuality she is "not really a conservative!"

The Truth About Ann is currently scheduled for release in June of 2006 to coincide with the release of Coulter's next book.

Borchers is a lifelong conservative, and a Vietnam-era veteran with intelligence analyst experience, according to his bio. In the fall of 2001 he became "disenchanted by the hypocrisy and corruption which invaded the Conservative Movement." That disenchantment led to his founding of CPC after having founded the conservative newsletter Brother Watch back in 1996.

In 2002, while attending a Conservative Political Action Conference, Borchers was stunned when the organizers attempted to confiscate the press kits he was distributing --- with prior permission --- to conference attendees. The materials denounced Coulter's extremism.

His "clarion call for character in the Conservative Movement", as he describes the incident in "The Gospel of Ann", was "inconvenient...because Ann Coulter is their most notorious speaker."

Following the conference, Borchers wrote an essay on Coulter entitled "Columnist does conservatives a disservice." [PDF] It's posted along with others on CoulterWatch.com, a site he created that "promotes the proposition that Conservatism can only endure as a viable and vibrant movement if it maintains a commitment to the core character traits of honor and integrity, honesty and virtue."

He describes the essay as "calling upon conservatives to seek the higher ground and renounce the hypocritical excesses of Conservatism's reigning diva." From the essay:

Coulter's greatest fault, however, is not her provocative policy ideas or discriminatory remarks. Ours is a country of free thought and free speech, and Coulter is entitled to her opinions. Coulter's offense is rather that she portrays herself as a Christian conservative, a representative of the views and principles of the Religious Right, and then uses that adopted identity to spread hate and fear, thus stigmatizing all those who embrace Christian conservatism.

His call seems to have fallen on deaf ears, as he regretfully adds in the presentation: "The conscience of the Conservative Movement still sleeps."

We were contacted by Borchers not long after a recent radio debate we participated in with Coulter (who, for one reason or another, decided to leave half way through the program). He asked if we'd mind being interviewed for his documentary. Always happy to learn that there is yet another intellectually honest conservative left in America --- a vanishing breed, as Borchers is working hard to point out --- we were more than pleased to oblige his request.

In exchange for our interview, completed last weekend, he shared information about the documentary, along with the exclusive look at his PowerPoint presentation with us.

In reviewing the presentation, Borchers wishes he'd gone back still further in exposing Coulter's assertions about Christianity. "From as early as 1998 to the present - that there are no liberal Christians. None. According to Coutler, all Christians - that is to say, all true Christians - are conservatives. I guess exit polls from the last election, showing a fairly even split among Christians, don't count," Borchers wrote to us via Email as we finished the conversion of the presentation to video format.

Indeed, exit polls don't count, as regular BRAD BLOG readers know all too well, at least in America. But we digress...

While Borcher's presentation, which asks "Is Ann Coulter a Heroine or a Heretic?" can be somewhat on the dry side, the hypocrisy of the "polemical rants" of Coulter the "hate monger" are priceless and build as the presentation gets rolling.

By way of example of just one of Coulter's rather Anti-Christian hate mongering, here she is from 1999: "If you don't hate Clinton and the people who labored to keep him in office, you don't love your country."

Or this from 2002: "We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals by making them realize that they can be killed too."

Or this loving and very Christian chestnut from an appearance on Fox & Friends in 2004 prior to the election:

HOST: [Bush said to Kerry] "You can run, but you can't hide." That's what he said about Osama bin Laden.

COULTER: I hope the results are similar, since Osama is D-E-A-D dead in Tora Bora since December, 2001"

More than a few classic Coulter "flip-flops" are revealed in the presentation as well. In 2000, for example, Coulter denounced the Christian Right for "fascism", the next year vociferously proclaimed there is no Christian Right in America and then finally announced herself a member of the Christian Right the next.

Or decrying the slaughter of innocent civilians on 9/11, followed shortly thereafter with her defense of the "War on Terror" by declaiming: "We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities: we killed civiliians. That's war. And this is war."

Then there are her "flip-flops" concerning her moral pronouncements about sex and Bill Clinton, versus her very own personal sex life which would seem to betray her denouncement of that of others who don't happen to agree with her political point of view.

But it's her use, or rather misuse, of "faith" for apparent political expediency that seems to get under the skin of Borchers. He appropriately winces at Coulter's statement in January of this year: "Oh, it was so much fun this year, because saying 'Merry Christmas' is like saying 'Fuck you!' I've said it to everyone. You know, cab drivers, passing people on the street, whatever."

"Speaking the truth in love is a Christian imperative," says Borchers, "But both truth and love --- core Christian concepts --- are foreign to Ann Coulter."

The final credit slide in "The Gospel of Ann" says that the work is "dedicated to Jesus Christ, our Redeemer and the One who commands that we should be nice to people (as well as loving them as He loves)." And finally, a special thanks "to Ms. Ann Hart Coulter, whose words and conduct have necessitated" it.

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Here is the entire "Gospel of Ann" presentation, converted to Windows Media Player Video.

Selected excerpts and screenshots from the presentation follow...

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NARRATION: Coulter's tenous grasp of Jesus' gospel of forgiveness and love is exposed by her zealous declarations of hatred.

NARRATION: Is there anyone Ann Coulter does not hate?...In her fervent opposition to partial birth abortion, Coulter erupted with her heartfelt desire to kill her fellow New Yorkers.

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NARRATION: 9/11 brought out the worst in Ann Coulter. She proclaimed a crusade against pagans and a jihad against liberals. Coulter advocated slaughtering civilians, ethnic cleansing and identity papers.

NARRATION: Immediately after 9/11, Coulter relished the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent civilians. Smiling became a capital crime...But five months before 9/11, Coulter defended the Mai Lai massacre with earily similar language, saying, "Even on the worst version, I think it's a little scurrilous to sit back and attack him. That's why they say, 'War is hell'".

NARRATION: Whom did Coulter target for death? Not the terrorists, but those who cheered and danced. Yes, inappropriate laughter is now a capital offense.

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NARRATION: (After saying that the Religious Right doesn't exist)... Coulter herself acknowledges that she is a member of the Christian Right. She just can't seem to make up her mind.

In her essay defending Rush Limbuagh's alleged illegal drug use, Coulter defended hypocrisy using Jesus Christ as her argument.

All of a sudden, we should ignore the moral and legal indescretions in prominent conservatives, all because Jesus is the only one who is perfect.

Coulter's typical response to conservative hypocrisy is that either everybody does it or that no one is perfect.

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NARRATION: Coulter's overzealous defense of The Passion of the Christ was exhibited in two back-to-back essays.

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NARRATION: Just when it seemed there was hope for Ann Coulter, Ann Coulter once again opened her mouth ? this time to defame Jesus' birth.

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NARRATION: Oddly enough, the ministry at Redeemer had never even heard of Ann Coulter. She is not a member of their church. Moreover, Redeemer, whose non-political stance is well-known, disavows all hateful and hostile speech.

NARRATION: Nevertheless, Time's profile implied that Coulter is a member of that church. Was Coulter trying to clothe herself in the righteousness of a church to which she does not belong?

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NARRATION: More importantly ? from a political and cultural standpoint ? is the impact Coulter's hatred has in the public square and within the Conservative Movement. Consider this dialogue on Fox and Friends, in which Coulter desired the death of a political foe.

NARRATION: None of the hosts evinced surprise at Coulter's desire for Kerry's death. Coulter habitually declares death wishes for liberals ? and conservatives only chortle with glee. Execution, assassination, carpet-bombing, friendly fire ? all means to the end of the eradication of liberalism.

{Special thanks to BRAD BLOG'S not-so-secret weapon, David Edwards in converting "The Gospel of Ann" to downloadable video!}

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READER COMMENTS ON
"EXCLUSIVE: CONSERVATIVE GROUP DENOUNCES ANN COULTER!"
(245 Responses so far...)

COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
... Doug Eldritch said on 10/20/2005 @ 1:36 pm PT...


What in the world is wrong with Coulter!???

Lately she's been going back and forth between liberal and conservative, I think she's just an opportunist.

Doug E.


COMMENT #2 [Permalink]
... Hawk said on 10/20/2005 @ 1:40 pm PT...


Too bad it is a conservative group that has to do this, where are the democratic groups doing this kind of easily done exposures


COMMENT #3 [Permalink]
... sukabi said on 10/20/2005 @ 1:49 pm PT...


Coulter is an opportunist who will do or say anything for a buck. For the last several years she's been on the reicht-wing payroll and that works for her.... her mental illness ( and yes I think she's nutz) fits right in with the rest of the whack jobs (hannity, limbaugh, O'loofah, wiener/savage, bowtie boy - who also fall into the category of opportunist --- their individual levels of sanity vary from day to day and with whatever dose of crap, drugs, koolaid, or money they've imbibed)...

If she's been flipping lately between rw conservative and liberal I'd say it's because inspite of the crap she spews she can feel the wind shifting and doesn't want to miss the next gravy train heading left.


COMMENT #4 [Permalink]
... Ralph said on 10/20/2005 @ 1:49 pm PT...


Ann Coulter is not representative of anyone but her loathsome self.

may she disappear into obscurity where she and here ideas belong


COMMENT #5 [Permalink]
... Savantster said on 10/20/2005 @ 1:50 pm PT...


Hawk, when "liberal groups" do it, the talking heads just spin it as more "hate and consiracy".. doesn't do any good.. anyone with eyes can see how nuts Ann and the rest are.. They do a huge disservice to the Conservative movement.. Why would Liberals try to save them if they don't want to save themselves? If Conservatives don't want to be lumped in with the whack-jobs, then Conservatives have to distance themselves.. no one can do it for them..

And I tell ya what.. When the psychos who claim to be Conservative are out of the party, I could try to repsect Republicans again.. but not while they prop up people like Ann, Hannity, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, etc etc.


COMMENT #6 [Permalink]
... Robert said on 10/20/2005 @ 1:59 pm PT...


Ann's a grenade thrower - she doesn't care where she throws it, as long as their is a "boom", someone gets hurt, and after she gets to say "I threw it".


COMMENT #7 [Permalink]
... David said on 10/20/2005 @ 2:00 pm PT...


I may not like their points, but I can respect a conservative's point of view. It is not inherently anti-human. That, of course, is unlike Ann Coulter's point of view. Hers is vicious and inhumane. I'd much prefer to have a discussion and debate on values with a true conservate than a debate littered with ridiculous accusations. At least with a conservative, we can both agree that we're people and have a toast to it.


COMMENT #8 [Permalink]
... Floridiot said on 10/20/2005 @ 2:00 pm PT...


OT, Ted Stevens was just on C-Span 2 crying about his bridge to nowhere, their trying to cut funding for it
He says he's going to resign if he doesn't get the money

I say "BYE-BYE TURD STEVENS"


COMMENT #9 [Permalink]
... sd dan said on 10/20/2005 @ 2:01 pm PT...


Watching that video of the powerpoint i'm thinking two things... first: this guy wants to bone ann coulter... and second: I really want to bone ann coulter. she may be crazy, but DAMN she's f-ing hot!


COMMENT #10 [Permalink]
... sd dan said on 10/20/2005 @ 2:02 pm PT...


Watching that video of the powerpoint i'm thinking two things... first: that guy is kind of psycho... he really wants to bone ann coulter... and second: I think i really want to bone ann coulter.

DAMN she's f-ing hot!


COMMENT #11 [Permalink]
... sd dan said on 10/20/2005 @ 2:03 pm PT...


oops... my bad

i still want to bone ann coulter


COMMENT #12 [Permalink]
... Snoopy said on 10/20/2005 @ 2:09 pm PT...


Thank you, Brad, for providing the clear photos of Ann's Adam's Apple.


COMMENT #13 [Permalink]
... Independent One said on 10/20/2005 @ 2:13 pm PT...


Gak, I find almost nothing as hideous as thinking about boning ann coulter. She's hideous. Gaunt, boney, anorexic for sure, horrid personality, a face thats proportioned twice as long as it should be, etc.

Now Reese Witherspoon in the movie legally blonde, THAT is a hot blonde slender lawyer!

Personally I think Ann is good for the right-wing. I sure as hell wouldn't want her on MY side! If anyone is capable of discrediting the right-wing pursuit of gigantic government, religious theocracy, and wars in the majority of Americans' eyes, its people/pundits like Ann who SUPPORT such nonsense.


COMMENT #14 [Permalink]
... Kira said on 10/20/2005 @ 2:20 pm PT...


I second that, Snoopy! I will be totally shocked if Ann Coulter is NOT a transexual (or in hormone therapy preparing for the big operation.)


COMMENT #15 [Permalink]
... saveme said on 10/20/2005 @ 2:25 pm PT...


Ann: Why don't you give me the respect that I deserve!?
Answer: BECAUSE I AM NOT ONE OF YOUR FANS!!!!! :laugh:


COMMENT #16 [Permalink]
... Bernie said on 10/20/2005 @ 2:30 pm PT...


Anyone who is attracted to that bag of bones is a necrophiliac. A steaming sack of hog shit would have more substance (and be less offensive).

It is about time that conservatives take back their political philosophy. First George Will, now Daniel Borchers. Hey there, all you conservatives who believe that the Rapture is not an Iraq exit strategy, come on down. We'd love to hear from you since we share more in common (e.g., love of country, fiscal responsibility, sanctity of our own homes and bodies) than you share with the Republi-Nazi election thieves.


COMMENT #17 [Permalink]
... Susan Easley said on 10/20/2005 @ 2:35 pm PT...


I seriously think mAnn Coulter needs proffesional help .

She is an embarrassment to God and christianity !

Read the bible ! we are all conservative by nature !
but Jesus was a ground breaking " Liberal " in every way !

That is why most of us have a hard time letting go and truly following Jesus's true love and selflessness .

Jesus never made the mean spirited remarks the foolish mAnn Coulter makes .

It's all for the $$$$ money for the evil demon Mann Coulter .


COMMENT #18 [Permalink]
... A friend in NY said on 10/20/2005 @ 2:39 pm PT...


Dear Brad,

I come from a long line of "true" conservatives. While I am still a Christian, because of people like Ann Coulter, Jerry Falwell, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and yes, our current hypocritic supposedly "saved" President (since when does being "Christian" give one the right to lie and decieve) I cannot in good faith call myself a "conservative" Christian. Even though my values are indeed Christian. Isn't it time that we stopped refering to ourselves with labels like "evangelical" and "conservative" and began to just "be" Christian?

Anyway, it is refreshing to see someone from within the flock finally stand up to Coulter and her ilk.


COMMENT #19 [Permalink]
... MagnumDB said on 10/20/2005 @ 2:41 pm PT...


This slightly reminds me of another doc about her... Is It True What They Say About Ann?


COMMENT #20 [Permalink]
... anon said on 10/20/2005 @ 2:46 pm PT...


http://www.straponvets.com/

The chick was a dude...
Ann Coulter is actually a former drag queen from Key West named Pudenda Shenanigans. Ms. Shenanigans was famous for her renditions of “Dude Looks Like a Lady” “I will Survive” and “You Shook Me All Night Long” as well as an extensive Barbra Streisand repertoire. We who used to work with her are concerned for her as well as upset by the vile hatred she has spewed towards her former friends in the gay community. We feel that by bringing the truth to light perhaps Ann will come to grips with her past and change her wicked ways.


COMMENT #21 [Permalink]
... Doug Eldritch said on 10/20/2005 @ 2:47 pm PT...


She's not that hot at all....more like a poor exscuse for Paris Hilton.

Besides....who would want to date someone like that who screams and raves all the damn time?!?!??

My god she must drive any of her friends nuts.....

No, most of the really hot women of the world are liberals for a fact......liberals are always the hot girls, not to mention the progressives!!!!!!!!!! :cool:

Let Coulter get on her one trip train to nowhere with Brittany "I'm a glutton" Spears

Doug E.


COMMENT #22 [Permalink]
... dojoguy said on 10/20/2005 @ 3:12 pm PT...


Jeez... at one time I thought I'd be willing to do her purely out of mercy. Now I don't think I'd be physically capable...


COMMENT #23 [Permalink]
... KEVIN SCHMIDT said on 10/20/2005 @ 3:23 pm PT...


I knew Coultergeist was skinny, but I didn't know she was suffering from bulimia. To keep her weight down, she spews her hate in every direction every day.

She is not a man, but she is not a woman either. It is a well documented medical fact that a woman with a low body fat ratio as low as hers will not be able to have a period, or a baby. Also, since the brain is made mostly of fat, her starving bird brain is not functioning properly, but you knew that.

Her writing style reminds me of the basement blogger losers living in their parents' houses. Her parents may have let her out of the basement, but what I want to know is, WHO LET ANN COURLTERGEIST OUT OF HELL???


COMMENT #24 [Permalink]
... blubblub said on 10/20/2005 @ 3:29 pm PT...


wow. i never knew she looked like a crack whore.


COMMENT #25 [Permalink]
... colleenmilitarymom said on 10/20/2005 @ 3:30 pm PT...


Ann, Ann, Ann.

She's Rush with sex a peel..

Go Rev Borchers!

And Brad!


COMMENT #26 [Permalink]
... colleenmilitarymom said on 10/20/2005 @ 3:39 pm PT...


Bottom Line:
Hate speech is so Bad!!
And Ann C. promotes it.


COMMENT #27 [Permalink]
... Zaphod said on 10/20/2005 @ 3:42 pm PT...


Man she wants to make me puke on so many levels... physically, mentally, I could go on....


COMMENT #28 [Permalink]
... nikto said on 10/20/2005 @ 3:54 pm PT...


Well, Ann has convinced me...

ALL conservatives are dishonest, warmongering, wackos.

Conservatism and integrity are mutually exclusive.

This Borcher guy actually seems to have some integrity--So, by definition, he can't be truly conservative.


COMMENT #29 [Permalink]
... Robertman said on 10/20/2005 @ 4:00 pm PT...


I'd like to boink that girl while reading to her
Bill Clinton biography.


COMMENT #30 [Permalink]
... Andrew said on 10/20/2005 @ 4:00 pm PT...


She feels she's smart,confident,business savy.She found an opening, like politicians you fake what you need to. If not she could take a lie detector test. My opinion, like Madonna+Brittney she's had her day, but if she's drunk or stoned she might be fun...


COMMENT #31 [Permalink]
... John said on 10/20/2005 @ 4:06 pm PT...


This is my first time here - the site is unreadable - urine yellow on snot green?


COMMENT #32 [Permalink]
... George said on 10/20/2005 @ 4:11 pm PT...


Coulter is an attention seeking moron. Anyone who would take her seriously is worse.
She's lied openly throughout her career and even when proved D-E-A-D wrong, continues to argue the point. A real sign of intelligence.. NOT.
Now she's proven to have lied about her religious affiliation? Lying about being a Christian? Does it get any scummier?

I've always felt any "Christians" who supported her hateful approach to be anything but Christians.

Someone needs to hold her down and tattoo JESUS WAS A LIBERAL on her boney flesh.


COMMENT #33 [Permalink]
... Notaspook said on 10/20/2005 @ 4:34 pm PT...


I think it is pretty obvious why she hasn't been exposed like this by the Democratic party:

Ann, whether by design or incompetence, is doing damage to the image of conservatives. She's making all conservatives look like loonies in a "guilt by association" way. Even if you are an agnostic conservative who is against the War in Iraq, you tell someone you are a conservative and they will think, "Oh, right wing Ann Coultier loony conservative, eh?"

Ann is doing the Democrats a great service, that's why you won't see her exposed for the hypocritical fraud she is. It's the same reason Pat Buchanon was on Crossfire, Clinton had those highly visible meetings with Newt Gingrich, etc. All you have to do in politics is encourage the nutballs on the opposite side of the aisle to be more visible, and more polarizing, and you will harm them greatly.


COMMENT #34 [Permalink]
... CATWOMAN said on 10/20/2005 @ 4:35 pm PT...


I like her, and anyone who does'nt ought to be slashed with my claws! :angry:


COMMENT #35 [Permalink]
... Mary Reynolds said on 10/20/2005 @ 4:38 pm PT...


I happened on this site from crooksandliars. I'm Canadian, so it's not that important to me politically, but I hope Mr. Borcher reads these "christian" comments. So this is what "christians preach and practice". No thanks, I'll pass.


COMMENT #36 [Permalink]
... nonny mouse said on 10/20/2005 @ 4:43 pm PT...


As a life-long liberal Democrat, I cannot even begin to express how relieved I am - not glad, not gloating - relieved to see real Christians, real conservatives taking back the Republican party from those like Ann Coulter and the neoCon extremists, who, by pretending to speak for all Republicans, have done more to polarize and damage this country than any Democrat ever could. The 'values' Coulter had made a small fortune promulgating - hate, fear, killing, suppression of any dissenting opinion - have tarnished conservatives badly. I hope that other Democrats, like me, are less interested in gloating and more interested in finding common ground with real conservatives to bridge the chasm between us, and repair the incredible damage our country is suffering, and will suffer for years to come.


COMMENT #37 [Permalink]
... Marge said on 10/20/2005 @ 4:46 pm PT...


I really truly think the reason Coulter is so negative and latched on to liberals is the fact that this person has had a sex change operation. That this person is so mad at the world because they do not fell competent in anything. they lash out and flame and smear. I think it is a personality conflict. And it will never change. All you need to do is look at pictures of Coulter which are all over the net and you can tell this is what is wrong. The hate will never end.


COMMENT #38 [Permalink]
... bluebear2 said on 10/20/2005 @ 4:49 pm PT...


The girl needs to eat something!


COMMENT #39 [Permalink]
... BigTobacco said on 10/20/2005 @ 4:57 pm PT...


What's interesting is that traditional conservatives are finally getting some traction. Pat Buchanan had tried his best to prevent the Invasion of Iraq... and conservative groups like the John Birch Society have long criticized the Bush Administration as being fraudulently conservative.

But Fox News, Bill O'reilly, and Ann Coulter are to conservativism what Hot Topic is to gothic.... just mainstream corporate spinoffs of spectacular and eccentric fringr cultures.

I'm just glad that it has officially become OK for the mainstream press to permit some criticism of the President... provided, of course, it doesn't offend any big companies.


COMMENT #40 [Permalink]
... jurassicpork said on 10/20/2005 @ 5:01 pm PT...


My instinct is to say, "Ann, for God's sake, eat something!"

Then I think of her statements and say, "Eh. Fuck her."


COMMENT #41 [Permalink]
... oakland soul said on 10/20/2005 @ 5:05 pm PT...


While I'm delighted to see Ann Coulter exposed as the black-hearted opportunist that she is, what about the other icons of the right? You know, the male ones? O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Delay, etc. They're every bit as vile and phony as she is, and they've been at it longer. Ok, well, I guess you gotta start somewhere. I vote for Rush next.


COMMENT #42 [Permalink]
... Mooser said on 10/20/2005 @ 5:26 pm PT...


Borcher is trying to pull the wool over our eyes. I'd rather Ms. Coulter pull her skirt down over her knees. His attempt to diavow Coulter is pure sophistry. Ms. Coulter is, in fact, a true reflection of conservative thoughts and feelings. It is Mr. Borcher who is making feeble excuses for conservatism, trying to put a kinder, gentler face on a hateful philosophy. I have never heard a conservative talk like Mr. Borcher, while I hear conservatives express the same thoughts as Ms. Coulter every day. He doesn't fool me.


COMMENT #43 [Permalink]
... James said on 10/20/2005 @ 5:27 pm PT...


Well this is very welcome.

I'm on the left. But true conservatism - as opposed to the
corrupt, extremist ratbaggery we've put up with since Reagan
- is the "other blade of the scissors", and deserving of our
respect.

We're stupid to "reach across the aisle" to radical extremists,
but it makes sense if you're talking to someone who
understands what honest debate and disagreement means.


COMMENT #44 [Permalink]
... IgnoreHer said on 10/20/2005 @ 5:27 pm PT...


Would you devote a website to a insane homeless man raving about being Napoleon? That's all that horse-faced GOP broad is. The only power she gets is from people like you and websites like this. She is a child. Your response to her should either be to ignore her or to laugh at her. Treating her idiotic statments as worthy of rebuttal is a waste of time and a worthless tactic. When someone asks you about the horse-faced bitch, just say "Never heard of her" or "Yeah - I think she's hilarious! She's like a female Andrew Dice Clay!"


COMMENT #45 [Permalink]
... Captain America said on 10/20/2005 @ 5:35 pm PT...


Someone needs to seriously fuck this woman in the ass.


COMMENT #46 [Permalink]
... Arry said on 10/20/2005 @ 5:40 pm PT...


It would be like screwing cardboard --- no I won't get into that. They gotta have *depth*... (We are only taking like this because she deserves it. There are some hot progressives out there - I haven't said a word, have I? :) )

On another level :) ... Here are the six "canons" of conservative thought, according to one of the respected big shots of conservatism, Russell Kirk - from his book, The Conservative Mind

1. Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as well as conscience.
2. Affection for the proliferating variety and mystery of human existence.
3. Conviction that civilized society requires orders and classes, as against the notion of a classless society.
4. Persuasion that freedom and property are closely linked.
5. Faith in prescription and distrust of "sophisters, calculators, and economists" who would reconstruct society upon abstract designs.
6. Recognition that change may not be salutary reform.

Conservatives believe in a "concept of society as joined in perpetuity by a moral bond among the dead, the living, and those yet to be born - the community of souls."

This just goes to show what I've been saying --- We need to rethink the terms we use. Progressives don't have an "affection for the proliferating variety and mystery of human existence"? Of course they do. They are trying to save it from imposed blank sameness, being promoted by fake "conservatism".

Belief in a transcendent order? Is this really a defining political issue?

I think you can see the flaw in conservatism I mentioned on another thread. Greed is not mentioned and is ignored in the focus on property and classes. Fatal flaw, IMO.

The "community of souls" - a beautiful concept - of course, is Christian in the conservative world view. Unfortunately for this view, Christ was a "leveller" because he understood the concept of greed as a moral and practical iniquity. He was very clear on this, it seems to me. Another flaw in the "canon."

I think most of you will agree with me that there are some great concepts here, though vitiated, possibly destroyed, by confusion and blindness to key facts.

But, "progressives" have a lot to talk about with true conservatives and it's about time everyone recognized the fact.

About greed, about corporatization, about homogenizing and degrading the beauty and variety of life, about nourishing the "community of souls". Am I wrong?

Ann Coulter is a weed, and has nothing to do with conservatism, of course.


COMMENT #47 [Permalink]
... mary said on 10/20/2005 @ 5:42 pm PT...


The first time I ever saw 'her' live and talking was on Bill Maher a few weeks ago.

She dithers and sputters and jerks her head around like a chicken while speaking.

She's like Bill O'Reilly, who has Daddy issues he constantly has to parade for the world to see.


COMMENT #48 [Permalink]
... Human said on 10/20/2005 @ 5:45 pm PT...


Wow man. Talk about obsession. You need to take a vacation dude. The only people who believe what the sick bitch says are sick people like this -
http://www.passtheammo.com/

Peace. your fellow Human

ps. here one can find some videos that are a lot more
useful - http://marc.perkel.com/archives/000753.html

Another one that is interesting can be found here -
http://www.thewashington...com/archives/001018.html


COMMENT #49 [Permalink]
... Scotty G said on 10/20/2005 @ 5:49 pm PT...


I think Ann is really a man born into a woman's body.


COMMENT #50 [Permalink]
... Andrew said on 10/20/2005 @ 5:49 pm PT...


I feel if you're liberal you don't care if people are aethiest or extremely religious, while if you're conservative you want to make people live and think the way you were taught to. Coulter's confusing.She looks like an all-american christian barbydoll that spews amazing hatred. It's a neat show but not really what I grew up thinking religion was about. On the other hand she shows how religion's been used by folks for warped theories,starting wars etc. over the years..


COMMENT #51 [Permalink]
... Kira said on 10/20/2005 @ 5:49 pm PT...


Arry, here's an article I think you will find interesting:

Corrupt, Incompetent and 'Off Center'
by Eric Alterman

[snip] Here is the liberals' problem in a nutshell: More than 30 percent of Americans happily answer to the appellation "conservative," while 18 percent call themselves "liberal." And yet when questioned by pollsters, a super-majority of more than 60 percent take positions liberal in everything but name. Indeed, on many if not most issues, Americans hold views well to the left of those espoused by almost any national Democratic politician.

In a May survey published by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 65 percent of respondents said they favor providing health insurance to all Americans, even if it means raising taxes, and 86 percent said they favor raising the minimum wage. Seventy-seven percent said they believe the country "should do whatever it takes to protect the environment.'' A September Gallup Poll finds that 59 percent consider the Iraq War a mistake and 63 percent agree that US forces should be partially or completely withdrawn.

Nevertheless, extremist right-wingers, including a few apparent criminals, enjoy a stranglehold on our political system and media discourse. And so the majority views of the American people are treated with contempt by pundits and politicians alike. [snip]


COMMENT #52 [Permalink]
... Arry said on 10/20/2005 @ 5:50 pm PT...


I said in #46..."It would be like screwing cardboard --- no I won't get into that. They gotta have *depth*... "

That's in general...not re: #45 which was posted, unfortunately, right above mine.

Sheesh --- the things you got to explain...


COMMENT #53 [Permalink]
... Floridiot said on 10/20/2005 @ 6:11 pm PT...


Talk about the neo con religeous mantra,
I watched something on PBS (I think)
It showed the Whigs back in the 1840s, played a similar game just before they imploded, pretty much the same crap the Pugs are playing now, right down to the fear tactics
History repeats itself


COMMENT #54 [Permalink]
... NanceRants said on 10/20/2005 @ 6:21 pm PT...


For years, I have absolutely LOATHED Coulter. Then I saw an interview with her (on Passionate Eye, a TV show here in Canada, where Americans - like myself - can see the REAL news once in a while).

She was fidgeting, yanking on her own hair constantly, crossing and uncrossing her legs continually --- and I realised, she's just extremely metally ill, and needs professional help.

Now, as hateful as she is, I just feel sorry for her.

I know you check out the websites, Ann, to see what's being said about you --- that explains why you're now wearing turtle-necked sweaters instead of your usual low-cut outfits. Sorry, but it is SO NOT WORKING. We can still see your Adam's Apple bouncing up and down, even underneath all of that wool.

Give it up. We know you're a MAN --- maybe that inner hatred of yourself is what's really causing your hateful behaviour towards your fellow man.

It's not too late --- get some help to resolve your inner issues.


COMMENT #55 [Permalink]
... Max Liebe said on 10/20/2005 @ 6:24 pm PT...


She's in good company with the other violent, racist, corporatist, politicos who call themselves conservative Christians.

Nice little compilation of sickness. I think she's great though. She motivates progressives. Currupts conservatives.

Rightwing boys think she's sexy. Don't forget that. You know the real power freaks always go for the dominatrix. Sex sells though she's not my cup of arsenic, I'm sure Dick and Dub gets a tickle from hearing her foul mouth. Unfortunately for all of us the typical righty bible thumper can't enjoy the natural fruits of their arousal and instead sublimate it into greed and violence.


COMMENT #56 [Permalink]
... Eddie said on 10/20/2005 @ 6:25 pm PT...


i would simply ignore her as was earlier suggested. its gone beyond that though, she has real influence and has poinsoned many young conservative minds. many arent capable of a thought out debate because all they do is shout and call names. she has to be discredited.


COMMENT #57 [Permalink]
... respect said on 10/20/2005 @ 6:30 pm PT...


Some of the comments here are really creepy. These don't correspond to the belief systems that would find Coulter loathsome. I smell GOP trolls trying to discredit liberal blogs by posting fake commentary.


COMMENT #58 [Permalink]
... Arry said on 10/20/2005 @ 6:33 pm PT...


#51 --- Kira --- That's very good and shows that our primary task is to break the "stranglehold". The other task is to talk and to sort out what citizens really believe because the whole labeling thing is doing little but confusing the issue. Many people seem to understand this. The percentage of those who didn't call themselves conservative or liberal is very significant. Of course, we also should factor in the fake conservative propagandist campaign of demonizing the word "liberal".


COMMENT #59 [Permalink]
... Andrew said on 10/20/2005 @ 6:36 pm PT...


I've been pissed off with, say, CNN for letting there be NO bias when doing politics. When one side speaks the other sends a pro out to claim the opposite. Lots of things are verifyable but left confusing creating mainstream apathy. Thank 'god' for blogs eh..


COMMENT #60 [Permalink]
... Bigislandboy said on 10/20/2005 @ 6:48 pm PT...


As any AquaTeen Hungerforce fan will know, Ann stays slim by eating "Parasite" candy bars.


COMMENT #61 [Permalink]
... purvis ames said on 10/20/2005 @ 6:48 pm PT...


Yawn. When are you people going to get over a boring old transvestite who is only around for a poor old closet queen like Sean Hannity to leer at?


COMMENT #62 [Permalink]
... MarkH said on 10/20/2005 @ 7:07 pm PT...


Coulter offers nothing to the political discourse. She's just a rabble-rouser for the right.

Perhaps the clearest reason the Bushistas appear to be Fascists at time is their complete separation from the conservative public. They play to the Religious Right, but it's pretty clear from all they do that they're not religious themselves.

Instead, it seems to me they are a secret political party, dedicated to the Rich and Corporate America. Call them Skull & Bones or the party of the Rich if you wish.

Their use of the Religious Right, the Libertarians and others in the Republican Party can only last a short time. Then, like a supernova they'll implode and just fade and disappear. They'll scurry for the dark spaces like so many cockroaches.

Why is it these people seem to gain control of a political party, rather than the true believers? It's because they are more Machiavellian and take power more effectively. Like most sociopaths they manage the political lying and machinations easier than normal healthy people. Nixon was that way too.

I'd love to see that movie The Corporation which compares the modern American corporation to a sociopath. I think a national airing of that might explain a lot to the American people.

That everyone says America is to the right, much further than Europeans, and yet the polls which show the public to the left of the politicians. It's quite amazing and shows there's something seriously wrong, call it an illness, with our system.

I'd guess it's the skewing influence of money which Jerry Brown talked about during his 1992 presidential campaign.


COMMENT #63 [Permalink]
... Savantster said on 10/20/2005 @ 7:26 pm PT...


"I'd love to see that movie The Corporation which compares the modern American corporation to a sociopath. I think a national airing of that might explain a lot to the American people."

Exactly.. And, that's why I suggested in the other thread that we "prosecute all the 'people' who drive Corperations" when they do things wrong. You can't leave those people in charge, they say "the company did it, not me.. I'm just doing my job".. bullshit..

We need to fix this mess .. and soon..


COMMENT #64 [Permalink]
... Sarah said on 10/20/2005 @ 7:31 pm PT...


While the ability to have a baby does not a woman make, the thing is, and I think the most important thing that we all keep losing sight of, is the fact that Ann Coulter has no real power of her own. She has none. She has no influence over other people that is not superficial and faked. She has, for one reason or another been given one thing: a pass to get on television. So how does she manage that? This is the thing that should be focused on: who is letting the mentally ill imbecile spew all over the airwaves? Who is supporting her? Who is orchestrating it?
This goes to what Mooser said. Isn't her hateful crap indeed the same thing that most Conservatives *have* been saying, for decades? In other words, if you consider yourself a "true" Conservative from back in the day, how can you in good conscience align yourself with these whackjobs? Where indeed is YOUR voice?
Oakland Soul: you make a good point, since there is no dearth of male morons also being paid to speak on TV - but hey we are used to those. Not too many women as idiotic as Coulter, so perhaps it's a bit of a novelty :)
And as for the John Birch Society, they are sorta like the NRA (of which I am a member): they need to get past their hysterical paranoia and fear before they will change any hearts and minds.
P.S. Scotty I think you have it backwards.


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