Who's up for an Ann Coulter/Michelle Malkin Book Burning?

[DesEtoiles]

I think it would be a great idea.

[StClone]

1. Salem circa 1690's

Burn babies burn.

[d_b]

2. haha

I'll bring the Ronsonol.

[NYCGirl]

3. Book burning is not what we're about.

No matter what the subject or how repulsive it is.

[Soup Bean]

4. I agree. Freedom of Speech is for everyone.

I don't like to joke about book burning, or running John Deere tractors over Dixie Chicks CDs. That kind of thing really scares me.

[allemand]

13. Like the poet Heinrich Heine famously said in 1821:

“Where one burns books, one will, in the end, burn people.”

»Das war ein Vorspiel nur. Dort wo man Bücher
Verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.«
(Almansor, 1821)

[blondeatlast]

15. Thank you for the note of sanity.

I'm a librarian and the thought of this literally makes me ill.

[Mz Pip]

5. In order to burn the book

I would have to buy it. Not gonna do that, ever.


Don't waste your money on that crap.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[NEOBuckeye]

6. Why give those two your money?

I don't think much of that harpy Coulter, either. But I'm sure as hell not going to give her MY $20 dollars just so I can burn her book.

She's a pretty marginal right-wing figure, anyway. At least when compared to Flush Limbaugh.

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. I disagree that she is a marginal right winger

For several reasons:
1. She was chosen by USA Today to report on the DNC
2. She makes outrageous statements, like the one about raping the environment. In this respect, she is more outrageous than rush, IMO.
3. The freepers and repukelicans everywhere just love her. She is a huge heroine to them.
4. I hate her more than I hate rush and my opinion is important :)

[tuvor]

7. People will want to read their stuff, then. n/t

[DavidMS]

8. Book burning is somthing conservatives do

Liberals, favor public ridicule and/or application of slander and libel laws.

The only treatment for bad speach is good speach!

[Leilani]

9. Ha! Ha!

Do you think any DUers have their books?

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[cidliz2004]

24. You took the words out of my mouth

[dreadneck]

11. Malkin is not in same league

as Coulter. Coulter once wrote a column dismissing triple amputee Max Cleland because while he lost three limbs in Vietnam, it was in an accident and not in battle. Dispicable.

She'll burn soon enough, in a lake of fire.

[blondeatlast]

16. Malkin, of Japanese American descent,

wrote an entire book in DEFENSE of the WWII internment of the Japanese.

They are equally vile.

[piece sine]

19. Malkin is Phillipine

and she ocassionally makes sense.

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. I don't know about that

she is so darn hateful she rarely makes sense to me. I am still just reeling over her column explaining why she wouldn't get vaccines for her baby. Talk about a conspiracy nut.

[blondeatlast]

28. When? I want specifics here.

Until then, she's a despicable, loathsome, creepy, wacko bitch.

Have I entered a parallel DU?

[Bridget Burke]

30. What, exactly, makes sense?

Please point us to the best of the wit & wisdom of Malkin?

[blondeatlast]

33. Give him a month or two, it can't be easy to find anything.

I suspect she once said in print that on a sunny day, the sky is blue or words to that effect.

Of course, she also said that Kerry shot HIMSELF, and that interning the Japanese-Americans in WWII was justifiable.

On second thought, it will require a lifetime of study.

I'll wait for peace sine's biography of her. Or better yet, no I won't.

[Downtown Hound]

12. Can't burn a book

that's what right-wingers do. I could however, throw it in the trash, where it belongs.

[MaineYooper]

14. not a good plan

a) book burning is something for whacko censors to do
b) it would give them far more attention than they deserve
c) as others have already said, burning the books would imply that we bought them, and there's no way we should be giving our money to these two.

Quiet ignoring of them and any show that employs them is my proscribed plan of attack.

[otohara]

17. Wouldn't That Require Buying One of Thier Shit Books First?

not something I'm willing to do

[UpsideDownFlag]

18. don't beat them at their own game. nt

[Retrograde]

22. well, since my furnace is broken

and I could use some kindling to get a fire going.... but then I'd have to buy a copy first.

BTW, try not to have major appliances break near a long holiday weekend - while northern California isn't usually as cold as some parts of the country it is decidedly chilly right now.

[ohioan]

23. I thought we fight against people like Coulter/Malkin because THEY'RE

the kind of people who would condone burning books containing views they don't like.

If we behave like they do, how are we different than they are?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. And if DUers had not responded the way they did

this thread would have been up on FR in about fifteen seconds talking about how liberals are for censorship.

Nice try.

[struggle4progress]

26. Who? eom

[zulchzulu]

27. They don't deserve a goddamn book burning

That might mean they get media attention. Starve them out.

[blondeatlast]

29. As long as Bill Maher has a sex drive, we'll always have mAnn.

I'm going to throw up now. Pardon me.

[Bridget Burke]

31. Nope. You'd have to buy the books first.

And think of the air pollution!

The best revenge will be looking at their "works" in the piles of remaindered books--the ones that nobody wants to buy.

[Cheswick2.0]

32. only fascists burn books

not democrats and other lefties.

[tavalon]

34. Only if we steal the books

otherwise, they win.

Caveat: I don't steal, therefore, no dice. Sorry.