Perfected

Kudos to Leah Kauffman for this video.

A Scoop This Big Can Only Be Found At The Supermarket

Thanks, Ann, for reading The National Enquirer for us.

John Edwards Responds On Coulter

MSN Video

Sandy Vagina

Coulter's just a weeee bit whiny after Elizabeth Edwards' comments.



"I have written five New York Times bestsellers."

A) Interesting to quote that fact since I was under the impression that her opinion of the NYTimes itself is better dead then read.

B) How many times is she going to remind us she's a writer of best-sellers? Sheesh, does she have to put a bumper sticker on her forehead so we all know it when listening to her? It sounds eerily like the same excuse she uses when she attacks John Edwards about talking about his dead son all the time.

Fancy that.

Coulter Is One Fantastic Money Maker

Unfortunately for Republicans, she's turning out to be quite the money pit for Democrats

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Wednesday encouraged his supporters to donate to his campaign in response to "hateful" comments from conservative author Ann Coulter.

Edwards made his first comments to The Associated Press in response to Coulter's suggestion that she wished he would be "killed in a terrorist assassination plot." His campaign cited her remarks in two e-mails and a telephone text message to supporters for donations, with the fundraising deadline on Saturday.

It's not the first time Coulter has given the Edwards campaign a financial boost. In March, she called Edwards a "faggot" and the campaign used video of the comment to help raise $300,000 before the end of the first quarter.

In the e-mails, the campaign asked supporters to send donations to defy her remarks and help Edwards meet his goal of raising $9 million in the second quarter. The first e-mail from campaign adviser Joe Trippi showed a clip of Coulter on ABC's "Good Morning America," where she made the comments on Monday.

Although I haven't settled on a pick for an '08 nominee, I see nothing wrong with throwing a couple bucks to John Edwards, or any candidate for that matter, who uses these prime opportunities to seek donations.

If you're a little unsure if you want to donate to Edwards, just remember what Coulter said:

And she also said this about Edwards:

She also called Bill Clinton a homosexual:

She's also attacked Barrack Obama because of his name and his race:

Again with Obama:

Michael J. Fox:

Attacking the 9/11 widows:

Attacking the residents of New York as cowards:

Howard Dean:

Al Gore (Just kidding!)

Immigrants:

I'd rather not drag this blog down any lower than it already is so I figure I'll stop here for now.

Coulter's Comedic Career Visciously Attacked And Mauled By Frothing, Rabid, Angry Liberal Wife Of Presidential Candidate

Usually Chris Matthews' Hardball on MSNBC provides a welcome respite from the deterioration of political dialogue in this country. In recent weeks Matthews and his deferential commentators have discussed numerous topics that the liberal media patently ignores such as Fred Thompson's powerful musk and the frightening possibility that Hillary Clinton will paint the White House pink. So I was looking forward to spending a whole hour watching Matthews discuss the important issues of the day with Ann Coulter, who was promoting the paperback version of her book Godless, which is only 1,740 places behind Amazon's Number One non-fiction title A Tragic Legacy by Glenn Greenwald, who is not blonde or photogenic enough to appear on Matthews' show. Ann Coulter looked great despite her very cheap, Republican haircut and the fact that she apparently hadn't eaten in days.

But then Matthews played a terribly mean trick on Coulter, the beloved conservative pundit. It turns out he had agreed to let Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of Presidential candidate John Edwards, call in and confront Coulter without informing his guest beforehand. Coulter seemed shocked that Edwards even had a wife, since she had once called him a "faggot." Was her gaydar not working properly? she seemed to be wondering. Had all those men who had told her they were gay only done so to get her to leave them alone?

Go read the rest. Swift may truly have outdone himself on this one.

(h/t to Frank)

Where's Tom Capano When You Want Him?

While you're letting Good Morning America know how you feel about their not only bringing this hateful, nasty, and vindictive idiot bitch with the IQ of a soiled diaper onto their show to spew such hateful and vile speech towards a fellow American, how about throwing a few bucks towards John Edwards?

Coulter's Latest Attack On Obama Really Just....Dumb

A recent Newsweek poll showing Democrat Barack Obama leading top Republican presidential hopefuls could have been made up and might help al-Qaida, conservative commentator Ann Coulter said in her latest verbal broadside.

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"I think this is Newsweek doing more push polling for al-Qaida," she said, referring to campaign-season telephone calls to voters masquerading as neutral surveys but designed to build opposition to targeted candidates.

Asked by host Geraldo Rivera whether she thought Newsweek would make up the results, Coulter said, "Yes, I do," adding, "In polls where people are actually allowed to vote, Republicans do a lot better." - (Source)

Asked exactly how this might help Al-Qaeda, well...

Coulter did not explain how the poll might help the terrorist group.

Because she says so, of course!

Naturally, this will be filed under Unexplained.

On the other hand, perhaps Coulter would like to take up case with Chevron and Condi Rice and how that might have helped fuel terrorism. Seems they had this little Oil-For-Food thing greased well.

The Parsing Of Coulter's Words Continue

I just finished reading the latest update on the case of Ann Coulter's disappearing advertisers and at the end of that post was a link to some reaction by the fringe version of our counterparts, Free Republic.

Contained within those many, many pages of many, many comments are some hilarious twistings of the case of Ann Coulter and the naughty, yet harmless schoolyard taunt that all children use when talking to the friends in front of their parents, the word "faggot."

She called him a cigarette?

No. A fag is a cigarette. She called him a faggot = bundle of sticks.

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She called him a cigarette?

Naaah. She didn't even call him a butt.

I really couldn't tell from the video that Ann had actually called him, and intended to call Edwards, a bundle of sticks. Had that been the case, even I would agree that there wasn't a controversy.

Clearly, that wasn't the case and surprisingly, there are a few brain cells left amongst the masses of Free Republic.

For the life of me, I can't see what is so "noble" and "brave" about what she said, and why it needs to be defended so rabidly.

If it's so noble and honorable, then the first thing the President and Vice President should do tomorrow morning is call a press conference and call someone a faggot.

And as sure as the sun rises in the east, you would have Freepers defending it.

Of course, the Freepers are mad that leftys got organized and started contacting advertisers to inform them where their ads were being placed and whose words they ultimately were paying for and promoting.

So what do they do when they start reading about which companies are pulling their ads?

Maybe Anns supporters should cancel their Verizon accounts. 2 can play this game.

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Thanks for your comments. I have been looking for reasons to dump Verizon and you just gave it to me. Thanks.

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I'll be looking for a new phone service/internet provider tomorrow. A boycott cuts both ways.

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Verizon is major but I've never heard of the other two.
Verizon loses my cellphone account tomorrow morning. I have used their service for more than 5 years now.

It continues for pages, but you get the gist. As far s I'm concerned, friend, please...institute and continue your own boycott for whatever reasons on Verizon. I don't like the company to begin with but more importantly, I believe they were involved with that little domestic spying racket that's going on so if you want to give them less business overall, by all means, be my guest. You won't hear any argument from me.

By the way, god forbid a corporation be "socially responsible."

As we continue, it becomes apparent that some there clearly don't understand the difference between consumer activism and free speech...

A diarist at the liberal blog DailyKos.com posted contact information
for dozens of companies with ads on Coulter's site

A diarist at the liberal blog DailyKos.com posted contact information
for dozens of companies with ads on Coulter's site

Har,Har, HARDY-HAR HAR.

Don't the Liberals just love free preach?

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I am not aware that the First Amendment of the Constitution protects Americans from having their speech muted by Verizon.

Nobody has prevented Coultergeist from speaking. If you want to try to say somebody has, please...I'm all ears and good luck in making that case. Otherwise, she's free to continue on her sickening diatribes against everything not as American as apple pie or as Christian as she is but then again, that's between her and her supporters. Otherwise, this has nothing to do with freedom of speech and everything to do with socially responsible corporations not supporting those who make nasty and divisive comments like Ann has/does/will continue to do.

Next up, we have the PC/anti-PC crowd that wants to argue the semantics of the use of the word "faggot" to begin with. These are the types who argue "it doesn't mean anything anyways. What's the big deal?"

That is, of course, until it's their children being teased and called "faggot" at which point they tell their children to resort to violence and go beat the pulp out of these people.

When I was in high school, any prissy boy, any wimp was fair game to be called "faggot"--without necessarily implying sexual orientation.. That was nearly 40 years ago.
The 'F' word, was then (and I presume in most contexts now) taken as a euphamism for some form of sexual contact, and would have then (and now) earned me a slap across the chops had I said it in the presence of my mother (despite the fact she is a great-great grandmother now). She is every bit a Lady, and will not tolerate such language.

Are we to begin applying subscripts to all the verboten verbs and nouns, just to keep track of which 'f' or 'n' or whatever word it was supposed to be, or can we speak our minds plainly and clearly?

It is obvious that no matter how civil the attempt to frame the discourse, at some point the walls of political correctness will close in and be used to villify the bearer of any message the Left does not like.

After all, that is the purpose of P-C, to provide Liberals a way out of discussing the issues by villifying the verbiage used to deliver a point.

If Edwards is a "faggot", well, let him be offended. If not, he should simply say that it does not apply.

Instead, the prissy ambulance chaser has managed to use this (sarc)horrible insult (/sarc) to suck in funds which will languish in his low ranked campaign, and will not go to the Dems current two front-runners.

So much the better.

Meanwhile, he milks it for all the airtime and column inches he can.

I am decidedly amused by that.

First off, let's go with the argument presented by Ann Coulter that "faggot" is merely a schoolyard taunt while we consider the last commenter I cited who said, "If Edwards is a "faggot", well, let him be offended. If not, he should simply say that it does not apply."

If we go with Ann Coulter's indication that the word "faggot" is merely a schoolyard taunt (and by making that claim it becomes an attempt to rob the word of the clearly potent violent intent behind it), what does that say about a grown woman who has built a successful career built upon the back of villanizing the left and criticizing others with malicious terminology she refers to at the end of the day as "schoolyard taunts?" Furthermore, what does that say about Ann Coulter's entire line of work, not to mention all her supporters who cheer and defend her words?

Are they all children since they prefer to use and defend language that according them, is schoolyard language?

As for the commenter who thinks Edwards should just let it go and say it doesn't apply, perhaps that advice would work coming from a school teacher, a principal, or a parent who doesn't want a particular student to get him or herself into trouble by defending him or herself physically in retaliation for being called such a name, by someone else, on the schoolyard. Of course, anyone who ever lived and went to school knows that while advice like that is often well intentioned, it's hardly applicable without constant repercussions and resurgence of the same situation, over and over again, down the road.

The language itself has no place in American culture, whether it's on the playground or off. And it's not just the word "faggot" but also "nigger," "nigga," "kike," "hymie," "cracker, "spick," and any variety of words that reasonable people of sound mind and judgement find offensive to various groups of people for obvious reasons.

But hey...maybe we're all wrong and you guys really are right about Ann Coulter and that we shouldn't get so worked up when someone uses a word like "faggot" in a derogatory manner.

After all, perhaps Michael Richards was simply using a harmless schoolyard taunt when he called the guys in his audience "niggers."

Perhaps Mel Gibson was using a schoolyard taunt when he called "sweet-tits" the cop that all the wars in the world were because of "the Jews" which coincidentally, is a phrase that has been used to describe just about every possible negative action that has befallen man since the beginning of time, it seems. Bad weather? It's the Jews. War? It's the Jews. Fresh Grocer ran out of peanut butter? Clearly, the Jews.

And perhaps, just perhaps, these school children were just using schoolyard taunts when they wrote this to a Native American activist:

From: "squanto geronimo"
To: www.iwchildren.org
Subject: indians taste like chicken
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 11:42:57 PST

matthew richter,

so we just got done killing some buffalo so we thought that we would drop you a line. we saw your home page on the internet today it really sucked dick, indian dick that is. i hope you die you liberal cult bastard. we sure do hate indians i wonder if you have any injun blood in you. we are going to scalp your ugly dog. i hope he wants a haircut. by the way we are going to rape your wife, but that shouldn't bother you since you're an indian and you guys do that sort of thing all the time.

we will probably do this on the way up to kansas city to do some heavy gambling and smoke some payoti. well i got to go make some clay pots now so i will see you on the reservation.

p.s. i love you and have a bag ready to put over your wife's head when i fuck the shit out of her. please write back.

To be fair, Ann Coulter didn't come near to saying anything like this but I would assume that had any of you gotten a call from the school implicating your child in this, you wouldn't be patting your kid on the back since you'd be too busy trying to deal with the embarrasment of being the parent of the child who says and does things like this while trying to find out where you went wrong amidst the legal charges that are most likely headed your way.

Society has recently decided that parents truly are resposible for their children and so when their children do things like this and say things like this, not only does the child get into trouble, but so do the parents.

If adults continue to give this type of language a pass, for whatever reason, in the public square, especially one of national prominence and importance, what kind of lesson is that teaching our children who are growing up in the thick of pre-teen and teenage angst when emotions are all over the place and their core beliefs are being instituted into their very blood?

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Seeing a lot of people coming to Coulter's aid and defense in this manner really strikes with me as discomforting and so as an afterthought, I considered changing the title to "I learned it by watching you!" or some variation of that since I feel it has a good measure of legitimacy in this situation.

Remember this?



This ad ended with this phrase:

Parents who use drugs...have children who use drugs.

Now while that isn't a statement carved in stone and in the recent past, more properly aimed programs at reducing drug use among children and teenagers has helped to curb the use of drugs from an early age, it remains true that overall, adults are the primary role models from which our children learn the buildings blocks of life from "please and thank you" to standing up for what they believe and coming to the aid of those in need of defense.

If we as adults and parents are saying that the use of divisive language is OK and is simply "schoolyard" language, we're not doing any good by our own children. Fortunately, kids these days are increasingly more educated and far more intelligent than we are today.

Perhaps there's hope yet...

Fun With Video

Ann Coulter To Romney: "You Can't Get These Sectarian Wars Going With Us. We're All Christians."

Just past the 2:00 mark.

"Unhinged" Indeed

In case video isn't showing up properly, it can be viewed here.

Christian Bashing

Boston Herald

"I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I'm - so, kind of at an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards, so I think I'll just conclude here and take your questions,"

'Class' Acts 33:12-14

"C'mon, it was a joke. I would never insult gays by suggesting that they are like John Edwards. That would be mean."

I hear we're a Christian nation these days...

Does Mitt Romney, Like Ann Coulter, Feel That John Edwards Is A Faggot?

I think Mitt Romney, as a 2008 Presidential candidate, needs to clarify his stance on whether he agrees or not with Ann Coulter's representation of John Edwards that he is a faggot.

Americablog weighs in:

Every year this conference showcases the worst of the Republican party. Conservatism at its cruelest, most extreme core. And this year was no different. One of the top conservative pundits calls John Edwards a "faggot." Nice. And these are the people who make up the core base of the Republican party. Mitt Romney praised Coulter only moments before her public slur. Will Romney now retract his praise? Oh that's right, the very pro gay Mitt Romney is "now" anti-gay. I forgot.

DailyKos is starting to make some noise (front-paged now), as is Crooks and Liars, Huffington Post, Atrios, ThinkProgress, etc.

Ask Mitt Romney if he supports Ann Coulter's description of John Edwards.

Hey Ann...How's Afghanistan Going?

Remember this? (Kirsten Powers starts in on Ann around 0:33)



And now it seems the US and Nato apparently knew there was a suicide bomber "at large" that according to the Taliban was targetting Dick Cheney and that in the end, despite his surviving without incident, killed around 23 people while working towards resurgence for the anticipated spring offensive.

"They must have only had a few hours' notice, since the trip was kept secret. This implies a pool of willing suicide bombers available at a moment's notice," said Peter Bergen, a terrorism analyst.

The Taliban, a radical Islamic movement that was driven from power by a U.S.-led coalition after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, is becoming tactically more like the Al Qaeda terrorists the group once sheltered, analysts said.

There were no suicide bombings in Afghanistan before 2001, when bombers disguised as Arab journalists assassinated a prominent anti-Taliban rebel, Ahmad Shah Massoud. There were 27 suicide attacks in 2005 and 139 in 2006.

Seth Jones of the RAND Corp. think tank said what amazes him is the speed with which the bombing was carried out. "It shows a very strong and well-developed infrastructure, that they could grab somebody, hand him to the handlers and carry it out in the time Cheney was there," he said. (Source)

Swimmingly...

Wednesday Videos: Circle Jerks

Again, not always the best quality but damn it's good to hear this stuff. I effectively grew up, in part, on this kind of music thanks to my dear sweet brother Brendan.

Red Tape



I Wanna Destroy You



This last clip has two songs, Making The Bombs and Killing For Jesus. I'd like to dedicate the first song to all the warmongering right-wing bloggers and the second song I'd like to dedicate to politicians and pundits like John McCain, Mitt Romney, Ann Coulter, George Bush, and the rest of the Republican Party who not only enabled this war but have time and time again tried to separate themselves and those like them from the rest of the country, often in the name of Jesus.

Making The Bombs/Killing For Jesus

Peace Takes Courage: California Dreamin'

I came across this video at Decline and Fall where at first, I thought perhaps they had made this video. Clicking on it for the YouTube embed, I see it's made by Peace Takes Courage.

Enjoy. What am I saying? There's nothing really to enjoy about this film. I guess take heart in that there are people who still care for the Iraqis despite what we have done to them and to quote Decline and Fall above:

But this video is an important reminder that our intervention in Iraq has made life worse for Iraqis. Yes, I said that: life for an average Iraqi is worse today than it was under Saddam. This is not to apologize for or downgrade the awfulness of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime, it's just to say that life there is even more unsure and filled with horror now than it was then. Do I need to point out that it's our fault?

No you don't. History will point that out.