No, but you get the Battle in Seattle and the assassination of Pim Fortyun. You get anti-war/anti-US rallies organized and administered by avowed Stalinists. You get important research at various academic institutions destroyed by ALF. The now-extinct/underground militia movement in the US is quite comparable to the Red Brigades of the 70's-80's. We could both go on and on with various examples from both ends of the spectrum. The extremists on both sides are of the same ilk. They - and both parties' pandering to them - are part of the problem. Great post, losttexan. The polarization of both parties in the US is very troubling.
I agree with most of this. I don't believe you have anti-war rallies being held and run by avowed Stalinists. They might be run by avowed communists, but I doubt by Stalinists. Even if it were, there isn't really anything wrong with that. They should be allowed to gather and protest all day long. Also I disagree that the Democrats are playing to that part of their party. I have yet to see a democrat trying to curry favor of Stalinists or even communists. The far left of the party is largely hidden like a dirty secret, or at least that seems to be the intent of a large number of democratic politicians.
She never actually makes a case for any conservative issues. Not school vouchers, not supply-side tax cuts, not privatization of Social Security. The entire book is filled with distortions, factual errors, and vicious invective-slander, if you will-bolstered by the shoddiest research this side of the Hitler diaries. -Al Franken
i think the whole notion of america being too polarized on both sides is similar to the republican notion that abramoff scandal is bipartisan. its just not. and the democratic party isn't all that liberal. it just isn't.
how liberal the dem. party is or isn't has nothing to do with it. this is about the fact that nation has gone into two camps and no one dares take up a single issue that the big party chiefs say their party is against. I wanted to keep this neutral but ole ann is one of the worst hate mongers there is. She is making a buck on this air of fear and distrust that exsists between the two parties.
I'll make a prediction about Ann Coulter that nobody will remember when it happens. She will (figuratively) come out of the closet in the future and admit she was a complete fraud who pandered to get attention. If not for her inflammatory nonsense people wouldn't know she exists. She's just using her legs and her big mouth to generate attention and money. She doesn't believe everything she says. Ann Coulter isn't crazy and hasn't "lost it". She knows what she's doing. Another example is Michael Savage.
The only thing I fear about Ann Coulter is standing next to her when she sneezed. I would fear getting a cocaine projectile lodged in my eyeball.
'Not Fit to Live! - Ann Coulter's Gospel of Life' The Second in a Series of Short Anti-Coulter Video Presentations by 'Citizens for Principled Conservatism', A -- yes -- conservative organization! Compilation of Coulter's Greatest Hate Speech 'Hits' Draws Comparison Between the Extremist Rightwinger and Osama bin Laden... Today, Borchers has released the second in the series, this one entitled "Not Fit to Live! - Ann Coulter's Gospel of Life". The video presentation, released exclusively here at BRAD BLOG, documents Coulter's seeming obsession with death and destruction to any and all perceived as an enemy, political or otherwise... Borchers explained in an email to The BRAD BLOG, that the series of video presentations "highlight different aspects of Coulter’s incendiary rhetoric and provide more than adequate justification for questioning Coulter’s choice as a spokesman for Conservatism." He point out that her defenders usually use of of two approaches in coming to her defense by either "deny[ing] she expresses hatred or speaks hatefully," or claiming "that she was 'only joking'". "These videos," says Borcher, "disprove both contentions." Indeed, Coulter's comment last week at Philander Smith College, when she said, "We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee," was quickly followed with "That's just a joke, for you in the media." Good one, Ann! What a great joke! So great, in fact, that the media -- Wingnuts and Otherwise (from Hannity to Couric) -- have been lining up to invite her for one appearance after another of late. Something we suppose a Liberal who had suggested the assassination of Justice Scalia or Alito or Thomas -- joking or otherwise -- would not likely have been invited to do. John Amato had some other thoughts at Huffington Post recently about Coulter's hilarious joke. And BRAD BLOG Guest Blogger Lydia Cornell, wrote late last year about her telling adventure while trying to learn about Coulter's "joke" that Democrats should have their Right of Free Speech revoked. That article, earned her the wrath of the vindictive Coulter, who proceeded to post Cornell's unlisted family phone number and other personal information on her own website in petulant retaliation. The result was midnight phone calls, death threats and more for the Coulter critic. Borchers series of videos highlights the dangers, as he sees it, of Coulter's "extremism" and its fundamental harm to the true Conservative movement -- as opposed to Bush, DeLay, Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter et al's "Conservative" movement, which is anything but conservative. He hopes the series will serve Coulter's campus speaking tour audiences and the media in general, with material to refute Coulter's "pugnacious punditry and predatory polemicism," as Borchers describes it. In fact, Coulter's "jokes" about who should be killed and how, when taken in total as compiled in the following video presentation, paints a rather disturbing picture of the iconic darling of the "Conservative" movement and her rabid obsession with death and destruction. "All too often, Coulter’s hateful words are treated as humor rather than the hate speech it really is," Borchers explained. He even goes so far as to compare Coulter to Osama bin Laden in one section of the video, suggesting they might be "Separated at Birth?" "Rhetorically, yes. The parallels are obvious," he wrote in a recent email. "As for actualization, who knows whether a nut case has or will follow-up on Coulter’s rhetoric and attack or kill someone just because they are liberals?" "Incendiary language is intended to inflame emotions and who knows whether someone may become unhinged enough to do as she suggests? Shouting "Fire!" as a prank in a crowded building is illegal because it can have lethal consequences. Proclaiming a jihad against liberals and death to liberals is similarly dangerous, especially in the volatile political climate in America and in the world (and in time of war, no less)." Here then, is Citizens' for Principled Conservatism's presentation of "Not Fit to Live! - Ann Coulter's Gospel of Life"... http://bradblog.com/video/flvplayer...live_060201a_480x360.flv&width=480&height=360
Coutler is at it again. "Jokes" about assassinating Bill Clinton, calls Muslims "ragheads" http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Ann_Coulter_describes_Muslims_as_ragheads_0210.html
