...the Terrorist Deportation Plan can't wait.
September 28, 2001 7:25 AM Subscribe
-- Nostradamus
posted by luser at 7:49 AM on September 28, 2001
posted by newnameintown at 8:10 AM on September 28, 2001
posted by Witold at 8:23 AM on September 28, 2001
in two words:
Republibimbo
Feminazi
it's time the latter Limbaughism was reclaimed to describe her ilk.
posted by y2karl at 8:36 AM on September 28, 2001
posted by slipperytoast at 8:53 AM on September 28, 2001
posted by slipperytoast at 8:57 AM on September 28, 2001
posted by risenc at 8:58 AM on September 28, 2001
posted by kboyer at 9:07 AM on September 28, 2001
posted by davidmsc at 9:10 AM on September 28, 2001
posted by piskycritters at 9:11 AM on September 28, 2001
ps: Geraldo,often having her as a guest, seems to dig her.
posted by Postroad at 9:23 AM on September 28, 2001
Thats a pretty stupid thing to say.
posted by glenwood at 9:27 AM on September 28, 2001
Uh-uh, she's always been a nutball. In her book High Crimes and Misdemeanors she wrote, "We have a national debate about whether Clinton ‘did it,’ even though all sentient people know he did... otherwise there would only be debates about whether to impeach or assassinate."
posted by nikzhowz at 9:36 AM on September 28, 2001
posted by beagle at 9:45 AM on September 28, 2001
posted by donkeyschlong at 9:48 AM on September 28, 2001
posted by beagle at 9:51 AM on September 28, 2001
- Quit injecting yourself with your own urine
- Eat some cake
- Have a beer
- Quit being white
- Stop being a mean bitch
- Free your hair from that dominatrix hair stylist
- Get a nice short cut
- Buy a vibrator
- Get your head out of your ass
- Don't make your living as a sexual harpy
- Get real
"It's times like this that I get down on my knees and..."
Yes, I know its way out of context but the beavis and butthead in me has been itching to show its immature face
posted by Qambient at 10:11 AM on September 28, 2001
Anyway, let's leave the Coulter-baiting (homophonically) to the Freepers, yeah?
(Although, Qambiant, do you get the feeling that after two weeks of slagging off "McDonald's reject" airport staff and "sullen, dictatorial security", the next time Ms Coulter flies it's likely to be the full cavity strip-search and a downgrade from business class to the luggage hold?)
posted by holgate at 10:19 AM on September 28, 2001
posted by RakDaddy at 10:28 AM on September 28, 2001
I actually do agree with most of her suggestions for fixing airline security.
Does anyone else think that having armed national guards roaming the airports is going to help stop highjackers?
posted by Qambient at 10:38 AM on September 28, 2001
This should make us safe. Terrorists can't be citizens.
posted by Sinner at 11:04 AM on September 28, 2001
posted by Charmian at 11:30 AM on September 28, 2001
posted by hincandenza at 1:09 PM on September 28, 2001
posted by rdr at 4:52 PM on September 28, 2001
Still, Eric Alterman called this one in his "Sound and the Fury" about the rise of the punditocracy: it's essentially become such a great, exclusive club to get into- once you're a known "pundit" you can write your own meal ticket with speaking gigs and MSNBC/CNN/FOX/Nightline appearances. So the cardinal rule among these folk is you never criticize each other directly- you just play your assigned roles, from leftwing to right, from "voice of conscience" to "snarky contrarian", and everyone rakes in the cash. If that weren't the case, people like Coulter would and should get reamed if they ever appeared on a Greenfield or an O'Reilly type show- the host would tear them a new one! Fortunately, that won't happen since it would require integrity on the part of the host, a six- or seven- figure earning pundit themselves.
posted by hincandenza at 6:04 PM on September 28, 2001
I find myself thinking in mystical terms of President Bush's speech to Congress and the country, and I know from conversations with many people that I am not alone.
It seemed to me a God-touched moment and a God-touched speech, by which I mean, in part, that little miracles surrounded it. A president and staff who had no time to produce something fine and lasting, produced it.
Uh, yeah, Pegs -- it was a darn decent speech by Bush terms, which is normally but faint praise. It was written by someone with an ear for Dubya's just- a- simple- man- from- Texas speech patterns, and laid out some important, broad themes that needed to be heard, but it was by no means perfect or miraculous. Unless you count -- well, apparently you do count his previous unremarkable performance:
it. A president who at his strongest moments had betrayed a certain "I'm kinda surprised to be here" vibration had metamorphosed into a gentleman of cool command--the kind of command you sense in a man who understands he ought to be there, should be leading, can trust his own judgment and rely on you to respect it. A great but wounded country heard exactly what it needed to pick itself up, dust itself off and start all over again.
Mr. Bush had a new weight, a new gravity, a new physical and moral comfort. You could see it. A man who had never been able to read from a TelePrompTer before used the TelePrompTer like a seasoned pro, which is to say like a man who didn't need one.
Mr. Bush found his voice, just at the moment when people tend to lose theirs.
Not that any conservative columnist would have dared break ranks to describe the obvious Quayle-in-headlights look Bush all too often displayed -- and any liberal who dared would have been instantly labeled a "Bush hater", I suppose. Post-Sep.-11, Noonan can say whatever she wants about the man, because now those truths have been eclipsed by national unity and purpose. But they were never untrue.
Then she manages to close the column with a horribly researched anecdote, something the Wall Street Journal might have been ashamed to print had it not been a tweak to one of its supposed arch-rivals:
I was thinking the other day: In 1964, Time Magazine famously headlined "God Is Dead." I hope now, at the very highest reaches of that great magazine, they do a cover that says "God Is Back."
Except it wasn't 1964, it was 1966; and it wasn't "God is Dead", but "Is God Dead?" And they concluded that America was still pretty darned religious after all.
At least Peggy had a little religious moment there. Maybe she'll start the Church of Dubya the Merciful and Forceful of Speech. :-S
posted by dhartung at 6:27 PM on September 28, 2001
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Dear me. I'm sure the only people who bother to read Ann Coulter are on the left, and in need of righteous indignation; the righties are too busy playing the pink trombone to pictures of her legs.
posted by holgate at 7:39 AM on September 28, 2001