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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-16-06 07:36 PM
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Taylor Marsh: Ann Coulter's Beautiful Big Money Smear Machine
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Taylor Marsh: Ann Coulter's Beautiful Big Money Smear Machine

Taylor Marsh 2 hours, 9 minutes ago

When I saw the latest insanity in The New Republic, "A Defense of Ann Coulter" by Elspeth Reeve, I knew it was time to let fly my latest piece. Reeve's article is a beauty. That is if you like pimping for the Republicans' prime propagandist.

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Basically, Ms. Coulter isn't so much about important issues as she is a political ambulance chaser. She goes to the scene of news to capture the hyperbole and then offers her special brand of huff 'n puff for the president's party, which assures her noise gets covered. She's also willing to say things no one else would dare utter and gets away with it; all because she's a girl. This picture captures the set up. Little black dress and knee high black boots, with her long blonde locks flowing; all pictured beside the children, yes, always the children. A more apt phrase would be: here comes Ann, hide the children.

Coulter had stated that her "only regret with
Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building." - NewsMax


That the leading conservative ringmaster would promote terrorism on a free press institution, no matter how much she disagrees with their stance on issues, shows the desperation of conservatism and the plight of the Republican Party. There's nothing witty about it. Since Newt Gingrich's failed Contract on America, which was followed by his disgraced Speaker of the House era, conservatives have slowly and steadily been losing ground on credibility, policy and ethics. However, that hasn't stopped Chris Matthews and his friend Sean Hannity, both practicing Catholics, from offering post indictment interviews of Tom Delay, the champion of "forced abortions" in the Northern Marianas. But there's one person who hasn't suffered any real legal troubles, pocketbook blues or consequences for her vituperativeness. Her name is Ann Coulter.
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Here's a chronicle of some of her greatest quote hits.

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Why is she successful? Because she reduces liberals and most progressives to silence, then takes the floor for her own and the fans that flock to her. Few on our side like to go toe to toe rhetorically with the likes of someone who spews this type of venom. One clue as to what she's really doing came when she suggested putting "rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee," which was followed by her contention it was all a joke. Ah, yes, Ann is so witty. One wonders what would be said of a liberal spewing such hate. We all know the answer.

What is also ignored in all the laughing is that Ann Coulter is the Republican Party. The Grand Old Party of the Past will do anything to get the job done, kill off their critics or candidates they don't like, as well as silence their enemies. Their tactics inspired The Patriot Project. Today's GOP is Nixon's enemies list on steroids.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20060816/cm_huffpost/027397
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Solo_in_MD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-16-06 07:40 PM
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1. Ewww,.. Ann Coulter and Beautiful in the same sentence, have you no shame?
Edited on Wed Aug-16-06 07:41 PM by Solo_in_MD
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-16-06 07:40 PM
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2. "Today's GOP is Nixon's 'enemies list' on steroids".
That's just such an excellent summation on SO many levels.
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-17-06 12:27 PM
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12. Yep, it in a nutshell.
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Maestro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-16-06 07:50 PM
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3. One of the best assessments of Ann
I have read. After reading some of her quotes I am even more appalled by her.
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PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-16-06 07:55 PM
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4. It's funny...
in my browser, when I looked for the picture of Coulter, there was an ad for a company with a real model, who is good-looking. Old Ann the Man with her flowing locks looks like an anorectic crack-whore.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-16-06 08:07 PM
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5. So Ann is 45 or 46?
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-16-06 09:05 PM
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6. Does the heart good to see Danny Deustch beat her up!
She looks absolutely frazzled by the end.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-16-06 09:56 PM
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7. Coulter & McVeigh: Seperated at hatching, or the same person? You decide.
Edited on Wed Aug-16-06 09:59 PM by elehhhhna




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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-16-06 11:06 PM
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8. Certainly, that photo of Ann with schoolchildren in her hometown
must constitute some heretofore undiscovered and undiagnosed form of child abuse?
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-17-06 10:39 AM
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9. "What is also ignored...is that Ann Coulter is the Republican Party."
Yup!
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-17-06 11:21 AM
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10. Ann Coulter IS the Republican Party
Remember that, and never let them claim they had nothing to do with it. Force them to show you their condemnations when she said the NYTimes should be blown up, etc. Same with Pigboy and Hannity; they are MARRIED to these guys. Torture just frat hijinks? Make them show you where they condemned Pigboy and the rest on that one.

I'm working on congressional campaigns here this year (mainly Duckworth) and we're going to STICK it to these fascists by painting them as Coulter and Pigboy. Live by sword, die by sword. They all chuckled and grabbed for the votes the Swiftboat shitbuckets attracted from the nazi right, so now they OWN it. Too late to distance themselves.
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chat_noir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-17-06 11:30 AM
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11. Taylor's blog
...those Yahoo links tend to disappear


http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=24392
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