Even FReeps think Coulter's USA Today piece was crap

[Mike Daniels]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179452/posts

It's bad when your own base defends the paper that dumped your column.

Comments defending paper's decision are in member's posts.

[maggrwaggr]

1. my pet theory about Ann Coulter

Was that she started out to satirize the far right by making these outrageous hateful comments.

Then people started paying her money to write books and make appearances.

So now she's playing the role to the hilt.

Yes, she's a whore.

I can see no other explanation for the kind of bullshit that spews out of her. It's so over the top there's no way that she could possibly believe it herself.

[LiberalTechie1337]

2. interesting

The first time I read one of her columns, I said "this is a joke, isn't it?"

4. I think she's dead serious

After reading Thomas Frank's critique of her in his new book, I don't thnk it's an act on her part.

Check this info about her father

http://www.voccoquan.com/worldofcrap/rich.htm


"And speaking of devolution, Ann's father was a union-busting lawyer for Phelps Dodge Corporation, the mining and manufacturing giant -- while negotiating with the unions, he presided over the largest union decertification ever.. One would think that his offspring couldn't sink much lower than that, but Ann is proof that one of them could.

Here's Ann defending Dad in a NY Observer interivew:

One of those cases was the copper mines in Arizona …. I’ve worked in one of those mines, as has my brother, as summer jobs. They get very high wages, they get all their health care taken care of, and it’s an open-pit mine, so you’re working on the side of a mountain—and for the union to be going on strike at that point was just absurd, and they broke the strike and the union was voted out."

Yes, working in the copper mines is a great job, because it's on the mountainside, in the sunshine and fresh air, so it's just like a stay at resort or Swiss health spa. (How much do you want to bet than young Ann and her brother worked as office help during their little summer adventures, and not actually doing any mining?)"

[Mike Daniels]

7. I agree with maggrwaggr

I'd like to think she's a huckster who's shtick is to be this outraged "every man/woman" and that she's laughing all the way to the bank to deposit the money of the fools who buy her books.

Unfortunately, enough people sincerely agree with 100% of everything she says and that's what makes her dangerous.

[maggrwaggr]

8. oh yes! She's extremely dangerous! She advocates terrorism and violence

Anyone who's at all unbalanced might take her up on it and go blow up the NY Times building or start killing Muslims (hmmm, our own President does that).

She's the human personification of someone yelling "FIRE" in a crowded movie theater.

She's like the guys in that movie "The Accused" who encouraged the rapists to rape the girl in the bar.

[Edmond Dantes]

9. I can't find any record of her contributing to the Bush campaign.

I think she's just a parasite who makes money by throwing her "red meat" at any right-wing jackass who'll buy it.

[movonne]

3. I guess I finally agree with a freeper!!! she is crappy.

[candy331]

6. Her dementia comes from the brain dead cells long neglected from the

absence of substance-food

[Fleshdancer]

5. Many republicans distanced themselves from her after her last book...

It's hard to make friends when you talk about how McCarthy wasn't bad, just "misunderstood".

While it's fun to judge the mental capacity of freepers, I can't imagine many of them are THAT stupid to defend this neurotic idiot. Even if they were ridiculous enough to agree with the substance of the article, no one can deny how poorly written that piece of crap was.

[LuminousX]

10. Looks like a long argument over the word censorship

but for the most part, they are all in support of her column. I guess it is like a Mary Jane novel and they are just excited to see liberals insulted in such a way.

Ann, you have a delightful fan club. I hope you appreciate them as you slide into relative obscurity in the next four years.