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Coulter on Canada

Lisa S — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:27:49 -0800

The ever-gracious Ann Coulter on why Canada is "lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent." A foreigner's (can anyone figure out where from?) incisive media-mash highlighting some [more] nauseating drivel from rockstars of the far right. (via wonkette)

By: McBain

McBain — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:32:25 -0800

Where from? That foreigner got it from David Brock's Media Matters for America.

By: Cryptical Envelopment

Cryptical Envelopment — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:37:45 -0800

The bow-tied guy pissesd me off more.

By: fandango_matt

fandango_matt — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:38:46 -0800

Stop hurting America.

By: tomharpel

tomharpel — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:41:05 -0800

She is vile trash. There, I said it.

By: unsupervised

unsupervised — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:42:25 -0800

I liked Colmes better when he played the Cryptkeeper. Oh, and is Ellis Henican the voice of Stormy on Sealab 2021? Sure sounds like it.

By: EvilKenji

EvilKenji — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:42:59 -0800

its lucky we allow them to exist on teh same continent...however if we ever changed our minds, i'm sure we could just use our might to make canada phsyically part of europe with the magical powers of our arrogance.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:43:32 -0800

man coulter.

By: inksyndicate

inksyndicate — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:44:00 -0800

My God, I've always kept up on Coulter and never watched her on TV. And my gut just screamed "this person was not born a biological woman." Maybe she's just a cyborg.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:46:10 -0800

Ann Coulter is actually a former drag queen from Key West named Pudenda Shenanigans.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:46:38 -0800

I'd let her play with my wiener. But she would have to wash her hands first.

By: Lisa S

Lisa S — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:47:13 -0800

That foreigner got it from David Brock's Media Matters for America. Duh... oops on me. While we're on it -- she's not even that hot.

By: Rattmouth

Rattmouth — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:48:11 -0800

Ellis Henican is indeed the voice of Stormy Waters. Very observant, Unsupervised. You get 3880 Geek Points! =) And of course Ann Coulter is smelly garbage.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:48:32 -0800

scraggly stringbean bitch ain't hot at ALL.

By: scheptech

scheptech — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:50:04 -0800

By: twsf

twsf — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:53:22 -0800

Ann Coulter makes incendiary (but mostly inane) comments on Fox TV! [yawn]

By: ontic

ontic — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:53:49 -0800

The fact that someone can believe that claim, "Canada is lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent.", and not hate America is truly baffling to me. We are bullies, and how dare people hate us. She loves that we are belligerent, coarse, powerful, and rash. She loves that we behave not like a benevolent dictator, but like a king who keeps his subjects alive only for his pleasure. What a mad, twisted sense of love of one's country. Strength makes one powerful, but it does not make one right.

By: Salmonberry

Salmonberry — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:54:51 -0800

I think a lot of this started due to Canadian Members of Parliament (such a Parrish) making rude comments about Bush - calling him a moron, for example, and stomping on a Bush doll - on national television. I'm no fan of our Prime Minister, but if an American senator stomped on a doll of him, I'd be pretty pissed too. Whenever I saw Parrish getting ready to open her mouth on tv, I just kept hoping a giant hook would come in from the side of the screen and pull her away. I don't like Ann Coulter either. Or that bow tie dude. Why do all those people get to be on tv?

By: cosmonik

cosmonik — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:56:16 -0800

Condolences on Canada, having to exist on the same continent as that.

By: Armitage Shanks

Armitage Shanks — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:56:17 -0800

CanuckerTuckerCoulterNutterFilter.

By: Saydur

Saydur — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:00:18 -0800

Eh, she knows her sensationalism pisses off the left, and she likes it that way. Coulter gets to sell books to the real rabid right wingers, and anyone who wants to bash the left. The left wing pays attention. She's a TV troll, simple as that. She might be pretty though, if she weren't made entirely out of anger, evil, spite, and hatred.

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:00:22 -0800

I'm no fan of our Prime Minister, but if an American senator stomped on a doll of him, I'd be pretty pissed too. Whenever I saw Parrish getting ready to open her mouth on tv, I just kept hoping a giant hook would come in from the side of the screen and pull her away. If our Prime Minister had executed illegal wars and was responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of innocent people, I wouldn't give a fuck what people did to a doll of him on t.v. Likewise, Canada != Parrish, so it doesn't matter. Allowing for reason behind the actions of those such as Coulter is a losing proposition.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:01:14 -0800

So when is the Ann Coulter sextape coming out?

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:03:30 -0800

I'd let her play with my wiener. But she would have to wash her hands first. God, you're boring. Couldn't you at least come up with something more original if you're going to be so fucking juvenile and reinforce all those tired boyzone stereotypes. At least you waited, what, a day before you stopped jerking off to the anarchist cookbook long enough to delve back into it.

By: orange clock

orange clock — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:04:35 -0800

yawn

By: dougunderscorenelso

dougunderscorenelso — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:05:01 -0800

Dear Canada, Please continue to give us your superior music and comedy. I will pay for these things with whichever dollars you prefer. Love, Doug. PS: Thanks for putting up with us these past few years.

By: mds35

mds35 — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:15:31 -0800

"BY THE WAY, THERE'S SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH HER.” (the CAPS are God's not mine)

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:18:19 -0800

Heh, I'd say be careful where you're going with this one Ann. The destruction of Canada and, presumably, creation of several new northern states would result in 32 million voting Canadian-Americans who would tend to go democrat. That's the kind of assumption a democrat pundit would make...Even conservative Canadians are to the left of the Democrats. Hell, we just picked a socialist reformer as the greatest Canadian. What Ann Coldsore and that Carlson guy from WKRP said are just more bellicose versions of what Canadians hear from the U.S. every single day in one form or other. Of course this fuels our smug sense of superiority since it is usually based on incredibly stupid misinformation

By: justgary

justgary — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:22:01 -0800

Ann Coldsore So witty. Metafilter at its finest.

By: squeak

squeak — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:27:33 -0800

Ahh yes, blame Parrish for the actions of idiots south of the border. It's all Parrish's fault. (that's sarcasm btw) Scary but true part is some Americans feel this way about Canada, what Parrish has said isn't the reason for this attitude. She may have given them an excuse but she isn't the cause of all the negative things said about us. That reasoning is too simplistic.

By: rocket88

rocket88 — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:28:18 -0800

America won't be happy until the whole fucking world hates them. When Carolyn Parrish spouted off against Bush (and Americans) there was a public backlash in Canada and she was fired from caucus. When Coulter and Carlson spew their shit, Americans just shake their heads and make a few comments on the internet and otherwise let it pass. Maybe we need a few Canadian patriots to drive over the border with a truck full of dynamite to settle this score

By: Dipsomaniac

Dipsomaniac — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:29:25 -0800

I saw her on a Canadian news show being interviewed by the host (can't remember which one, but a fairly well-known guy). Man, she is dumb. Just sub-standard, intellectually.

By: Oyéah

Oyéah — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:31:49 -0800

Previous to this, I had only heard quotations from Coulter. After watching the video, I think that previous to this, was much better. That individuals with such meager humanity are chosen to represent our nation on the world's stage, is proof positive of some hideous turning in time, to a period whose atrocities, we will grimly regret. Some awful machinery is working that would make her, a public voice of America.

By: Salmonberry

Salmonberry — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:33:27 -0800

I'm not saying Parrish is the reason Coulter et al are spouting off (do they ever need a reason)? But I saw on tv that with Bush's recent visit to Canada, American news stations were pulling out tapes of that sort of behaviour. I think without that, Canada would never have even crossed the minds of Americans. Which is how it usually goes. Parrish got fired for publicly going after the Liberal caucus, not the Americans from what I saw.

By: kindall

kindall — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:34:49 -0800

The destruction of Canada and, presumably, creation of several new northern states would result in 32 million voting Canadian-Americans who would tend to go democrat. Well, obviously, Ann intends that you all be converted to Christianity. That goes without saying!

By: Salmonberry

Salmonberry — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:36:57 -0800

Oh, and mad shoutout to Ann Coulter for saying she liked Western Canada! That made me feel weird. Not good weird.

By: juiceCake

juiceCake — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:39:33 -0800

Does anyone with an ounce of education and intelligence actually take these two seriously? Canada teamed up with the States in WWI, WWII (entering earlier than the U.S. of course), the Korean War, and most recently Afghanistan, not to mention a number of peace keeping efforts around the world. This isn't relevant to someone who clearly thinks in terms of power by commerce or force? The seige and take over mentality that underlies these comments, coupled with woo-hoo popularity and the worship of commerce is very disturbing.

By: fandango_matt

fandango_matt — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:40:45 -0800

Some awful machinery is working that would make her, a public voice of America. The machinery to which you refer is called "marketing."

By: juiceCake

juiceCake — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:45:23 -0800

she knows her sensationalism pisses off the left Does it really just offend "the left", or anyone, left, right, or otherwise with any sort of rudimentary critical skills? The most painful thing is to see someone repeatedly embarrass themselves in public. Good silence those around you tactic I suppose.

By: schroedinger

schroedinger — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:46:19 -0800

They aren't "chosen to represent us". The people who put sideshow acts like Coulter and Carlson aren't thinking about America's reputation or delivering intelligent analysis--they're calculating the amount of money they'll add to their bank account. Ridiculous positions and super-inflammatory remarks are the gold they pay to get publicity frenzies and increased ratings.

By: Cryptical Envelopment

Cryptical Envelopment — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:47:16 -0800

That made me feel weird. Not good weird. It made me feel scared and angry at western liberals. Ann Coulter deserves a bukkake spray from Ralph Klein mixed with Mike Harris's saved bag. I'm not sure why this compilation made me so, so angy, but it did. I was steaming mad. Still am. Fuckers. I have nothing to say about this beyond the fact that those kinds of jokes aren't funny when it comes to national security. Jon Stewart was right when he said this kind of media hurts America. I can't believe he got me on Carolyn Parish's side!

By: schroedinger

schroedinger — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:47:47 -0800

Oh fudge, fadango mentioned that.

By: Cryptical Envelopment

Cryptical Envelopment — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:48:47 -0800

Sorry.

By: stray

stray — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:54:01 -0800

oo come back proud canadians before you had tv no hockey night in canada there was no cbc in 1812 madison was mad he was the president, you know well he thought he tell the british where they ought to go he thougth he'd invade canada he thought that he was tough instead we went to washington and burned down all his stuff and the whitehouse burned burned burned and we're the ones that did it it burned burned burned while the president ran and cried it burned burned burned and things were very historical and the americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies wa wa waaaa /arrogantwormfilter

By: faithnomore

faithnomore — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:54:11 -0800

What I would give to see Ann Coulter cross checked by Scott Stevens.

By: dancingbaptist

dancingbaptist — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:54:44 -0800

I love her, will someone please buy me the Ann Coulter talking doll? Pretty please?

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:14:55 -0800

I'd hit it. With a 2x4.

By: flotson

flotson — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:15:52 -0800

I think the website was from Iceland. I'm curious what the commentary said. . .

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:16:35 -0800

Sure dancingbaptist, I'll buy you the doll!

By: C.Batt

C.Batt — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:17:41 -0800

As a western canuck, I was suprised that Coulter would say that the west is all cool and where the conservatives are. Obviously, she's talking about the rural priaries, and rural Alberta specifically. (Think of Alberta as being like Texas, only it votes Democrat.) There's gay marriage in Sask and BC. Vancouver, heck BC in general, might as well be the netherlands when it comes to drug culture. Hell, Edmonton (home town) is apparently unbelieavably liberal, this from my Wife, an American who votes Democrat. The only thing really conservative about western Canada (imho) is that we're fiscally conservative and, at least in the prairies, we adhere to the protestant work ethic. That's it. Socially, we're light years apart, unless you hit certain rural areas (central Alberta, interior of BC, etc...) or listen to the politicians (who get their powerbase from the rural areas and pay lip-service to their causes). Being in Coulter's good graces makes me feel like taking a shower and scrubbing till I bleed.

By: Firas

Firas — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:18:56 -0800

To be fair, Coulter at least had a point to make ('being near the USA helps Canada out militarily'). The bowtie guy was just engaging in a pissing match (what kind of statement is 'x country needs y country more than y country needs x'? Seriously, is he in 3rd Grade?) He just beat up on her; they should have paired him with another jackass.

By: interrobang

interrobang — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:19:54 -0800

Last time I saw her on television (on FOXNEWS, of course), they were talking about torture, and she talked loudly in the background over the "liberal" commentator, saying things that were the logorrhiac equivalent of: "I'M NOT LISTENING, BLAH BLAH BLAH, I'M NOT GOING TO SHUT UP, OOOOOH SAAAY CAAAAN YOU SEEEE? WHY DON'T THEY CUT HIM OFF, I'M NOT GOING TO SHUT UP, LIBERALS ARE RACIST." She's a turd. She feeds hatred, and knows that she's doing it. She's exactly the same as second-generation revivalist tent-preachers who get into the family business and use all the same sorts of cold-reading and mailing-list trinket tricks that their fathers did. Hate-mongering is a business now. You don't have to believe what you say to make money off it.

By: Firas

Firas — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:23:12 -0800

For example, when he said the USA exploits Canada's natural resources, she should have said that no, they turn over their hard earned money for it like the desperate oil addicts they are.

By: Slagman

Slagman — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:23:34 -0800

Look -- it's a foreskin in a blonde wig.

By: carabiner

carabiner — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:28:25 -0800

I really don't know what else to contribute to this thread (as most of my personal beliefs/reactions have been expressed above), except that watching this video saddened me a great deal. I understand that people are entitled to their own views, which each person in the video had, but such sensationalism isn't always the best way to solve the issue. They each said there were problems facing the Canada/US relationship, but no one suggested alternatives to the larger issue at hand. Instead of sprouting out soundclips that land them into the media spotlight, I would (for once) love to see these "political pundits" in any form of media be part of the solution, not the problem. Or, as Jon Stewart once said, "Stop hurting America." (and in this case, Canada as well).

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:34:14 -0800

You know, I'm truly glad Ann Coulter keeps getting airtime. Her laughable ignorance and utterly isolationist idiocy is self-polarizing. It sounjds so completely jaw-droppingly moronic that no one in their right mind would agree with any of the turds that spill from her mouth like a vomitfall of fascist sewage. Keep her on the air. She's the best case for progressivism, liberalism and internationalism we have. If you cut her off, behind her is an endless faceless mass of barking middle-aged white men who are way scarier in their anonymity than Coulter ever would be. Squawk away, sister. Tell us all about it. Hit us where it hurts.

By: furiousxgeorge

furiousxgeorge — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:37:44 -0800

tucker carlson is a dick.

By: VeGiTo

VeGiTo — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:42:25 -0800

I'd do her.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:48:29 -0800

You know, she seems almost patriotic and sorta hot if you watch the video without any sound at all. And even better, you can make up what she's saying, "Free Quonsar! Bababooey! I like to play the accordion in my slave outfit while listening to Michael Bolton played backwards." Damn that guy is absolutely hideous, how did he get on television and why in the hell did they let him stay? Sheesh.

By: Krrrlson

Krrrlson — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:59:22 -0800

When Carolyn Parrish spouted off against Bush (and Americans) there was a public backlash in Canada and she was fired from caucus. When Coulter and Carlson spew their shit, Americans just shake their heads and make a few comments on the internet and otherwise let it pass. Coulter and Carlson were not members of congress last time I checked. Whenever I saw Parrish getting ready to open her mouth on tv, I just kept hoping a giant hook would come in from the side of the screen and pull her away. This could be a marketable device!

By: squeak

squeak — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:59:53 -0800

Bush came to visit us, media looked for interesting dog sledding stories, found none. Sadly they found out we don't have, 'kill a polar bear day in TO' so had to find something news worthy (read: shocking). I think some of us are worried about how we will be perceived by Americans and the rest of the world. I don't think Parrish got canned for her appearance on television. I think she got stomped on for her comments about not caring if the Liberals lose the next election. I must confess I highly enjoyed her, 'coalition of idiots' comment. meh ... I have a uncle (by marriage) he went to university here, he has a Social Insurance card, Old Age Pension card, owns property up here, visits on a regular basis. He could be Anne Coulters brother for all I know. He spews the same BS that she does. He came up here in June and proceeded to tell me that we as Canadians were selling poison prescription pills to Americans (this is a highly educated man). I've met other Americans with similar views. I don't think it matters what we say or don't say. They have an opinion and no matter how civil, polite etc you try to be you can't convince them their position is wrong. and stray? we burned the white house down ... not once, but twice ;)

By: fenriq

fenriq — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:05:11 -0800

squeak, we don't know how to deal with them either so don't feel so bad.

By: interrobang

interrobang — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:08:53 -0800

I'd like to point out that it's pretty easy to get a million comments off a thread that's about Anne Coulter, and that the really good posts on Metafilter are not those that have a million comments.

By: nostrada

nostrada — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:25:24 -0800

And think of the children!

By: PareidoliaticBoy

PareidoliaticBoy — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:29:17 -0800

For a developed nation, Americans are incredibly provincial. They know next to nothing about other countries, including their immediate neighbours.It's no surprise then, that these paid mouthpieces can spew any inanity they want about Canada, Americans simply don't know any better. In point of fact, if Canada stopped exporting cheap energy to the States, the American economy would come to a crashing halt. This winter. But American arrogance is such that they just assume that paying 25% of world energy prices is their god-given right. I fondly remember a water-skiing trip we made to California a few years ago. Two of us had Northwest Territories trucker's caps, with the white polar-bear logo on them. It was incredibly easy to convince supposedly educated and intelligent Americans that we were polar-bear ranchers. When asked, "Well, what do you feed them? ", we'd nonchalantly respond "Salmon, of course" , and that'd be it.

By: bwg

bwg — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:40:59 -0800

I'd do her. posted by VeGiTo at 2:42 PM ACST on December 10 With a gun or a knife?

By: schroedinger

schroedinger — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:43:12 -0800

Oh fudge again! I'm sorry Cryptical Envelopment, this referred to my post, not yours. I didn't anticipate a comment in between the two I made. -------- Don't the Canadians ever get sick of the endless Canada-bashing? Do you guys get comedians that rant against it but they just don't get coverage in the US, or are you all just very good-natured? Or is it a front? I get a sinking feeling that Canada's healthcare and superior education systems combined with a population empowered by civil liberties will create a generation of super-beings who will one day invade the US and wipe us out in the middle of our latest "Canada sucks" joke.

By: davy

davy — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:48:16 -0800

Oh gee, a post directing me to a site in a Scandinavian (I guess) language I can't read -- where I got a notice that I'd better download yet another plugin. Wow.

By: Espoo2

Espoo2 — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:49:50 -0800

she's just an act folks. She's paid to be the sewer-dwelling scum queen that she is.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:22:42 -0800

Pudenda Shenanigans is my new favorite made-up name. I heartily approve.

By: i_cola

i_cola — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:46:06 -0800

Did anyone see the 700 Club report on how Europe (Sweden especially) is going down the tubes because of our socialist ways? That was funny altho' if you know the reality (and I'm guessing that the average 700 viewer doesn't) it's a lot more scary that kind of stuff is aired. The guys in this vid are what we call back in the UK, wind-up merchants. They're just trying to get a rise out of people & it's just a bit dumb. The fact that these types pop up all over the US media in such abundance makes the US look a bit silly to this outsider (currently on the inside) but there is so much media to fill that the barrel tends to get a good ol' scraping. Near endless choice isn't always a good thing but that's a whole other discussion. (The baby on The Family Guy, however, makes up for assorted dummies on Fox News et al ;-)

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 01:26:10 -0800

(The baby on The Family Guy, however, makes up for assorted dummies on Fox News et al ;-) The ruptured capillaries in your nose bely the clarity of your wisdom.

By: jackiemcghee

jackiemcghee — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 01:28:30 -0800

I want to dance on that bitch's grave.

By: squeak

squeak — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 01:49:44 -0800

Don't the Canadians ever get sick of the endless Canada-bashing? Yes and some days I want to bash back. fenriq: I know *sigh* its just we see so much of it up here and some days there is a limit on how much more a person can take. Today was one of those days where my personal limit was reached.

By: leftcoastbob

leftcoastbob — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 02:07:46 -0800

As an American, I'm a little afraid that there exists somewhere on this planet a country that we haven't pissed off yet. If so, I apologize; it is a mere oversight and I have faith that with hard work and the help of patriots like Ann Coulter we will get around to pissing off every citizen of every government in every corner of the world. (By the way, they should comsider themselves lucky that we even allow them to exist in a corner of Our World.) It's not easy pissing off everyone when we have had to spend so much time and effort on the French, so just wait your turn.

By: Cryptical Envelopment

Cryptical Envelopment — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 02:12:12 -0800

I didn't anticipate a comment in between the two I made. Ha, schroedinger. I was saying sorry for not closing my italics tag. Altogether too Canadian. :-) Don't the Canadians ever get sick of the endless Canada-bashing? Do you guys get comedians that rant against it but they just don't get coverage in the US, or are you all just very good-natured? Depends on how you define coverage.

By: matteo

matteo — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 02:50:19 -0800

[insert usual, generic anti-Coulter snarky comment here]

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 03:20:26 -0800

Why does Ann Coulter hate America?

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 03:45:36 -0800

Don't the Canadians ever get sick of the endless Canada-bashing? Do you guys get comedians that rant against it but they just don't get coverage in the US, or are you all just very good-natured? Have you read any of the stuff I say about you guys on here? Come on! Get with it. ::hugs mefi::

By: gsb

gsb — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 03:46:43 -0800

>70 comments after a media whore says something inflammatory. Impressive!

By: fshgrl

fshgrl — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 04:04:05 -0800

We hates her. What irritates me is that everyday this woman goes to work and people say hello and maybe new people even meet her and shake her hand and she goes on TV shows and the hosts are polite and the crews record her and make sure her mike works and all. She's a nasty little racist hate-monger and yet apparently no-one in the media has the balls to mention it or refuse to work with her. If I was told to interview her or do her makeup or whatever I'd quit. Either that or she really did get that security escort and they're scary big.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 04:07:56 -0800

::hugs mefi:: /head explodes I'm still waiting for it in a FPP. Or two.

By: LouReedsSon

LouReedsSon — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 04:11:13 -0800

Ann who? I sure hope there aren't many Canadians who actually think a twit like that speaks for me. You guys rock!

By: n9

n9 — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 04:54:55 -0800

I read her book, Treason. Well, about 4/5th of it. Do you know what she spends a great deal of it doing? Defending McCarthy. No I'm serious. She does this in a very creepy tone, also. She is sure as sure can be that Joe was the good guy and that the Communist threat was real. She asserts that the Democrats of the day were the ones with the blacklists, forcing people to name names. I think that she is no WWF-style pro personality. She has deep and real beliefs about this vitrol. It is a real cause for her. What a stupid, deluded, evil person. If she is the leading edge of something (and Tucker seems to be following in her footsteps) then we are really seeing a truly sad development. She is a post-post-modern anti-reality reactionary. Hopefully we won't breed a strain more virulant than her anytime soon. And Canada, just take pleasure in the fact that this is not happening to you... and make sure that you never cut education spending or else it will, eventually.

By: purephase

purephase — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 04:58:37 -0800

Coulter? Horrid. Carlson? Idiotic. They're both employed to be the marginal "right" voices, and they succeed extremely well. For instance, it looked like Coulter was about to throw-up when she said: "There's French people in Canada." She might want to look in own backyard, because there is probably more French living in the US that in all of Canada. We just support multiculturalism ideals and that means they can freely speak the language (or, their version of it) as any other nationality within the country. This, coupled with the dog-sledding comment, and the very negative press coverage (in the US) during Bush's visit to Canada has me a little worried. I realize that these voices are hardly the voicebox of the nation but allowing them to spout their filth could engender a "grass-root" anti-Canada sentiment. Crossing the border into our "neighbour" is already bad enough, now I'll have to remove all my maple leafs. Oh, and unsling my dog sled. Tucker did make an interesting point when he said that a lot of educated folks decide to hop down to the US after receiving their education in Canada. This is a dangerous trend, and I know first hand that it is all too true (especially in the healthcare industry) and something this country has to address. Maybe this is a subject for an FPP.

By: crasspastor

crasspastor — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 05:15:40 -0800

Why don't we all quit allowing fucking idiots such as Coulter and Carlson (god that guy's a shame) "speak for America"? The other week I was driving through Tacoma on my way to Portland with my dad. There on one of the overpasses stood a number of patridiots, each jumping up and down with the cheapest fucking flag on planet Earth clutched within their hands -- "Old Glory". Unfurled off to the side was a ten foot tall banner which read: US Troops Rock Terrorists Suck Yes. On I-5, American fucking social retard fascist cheerleaders saw to it that countless hundreds of Canadians heading south from BC saw what I saw. What a fucking embarrassment this place is.

By: nofundy

nofundy — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 05:15:49 -0800

AnnThrax is the favorite fantasy sex object of the micro-penis wing nuts crowd. The only question that remains is whether in these fantasies they angrily rape her skin pores with their tiny penises or actually imagine thmeselves amply endowed as they penetrate the walking skeleton.

By: crasspastor

crasspastor — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 05:22:20 -0800

Sorry for all the profanity. I simply need to be converted to Christianity or killed. That'd do it.

By: orange swan

orange swan — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 05:40:49 -0800

The woman is simply a high-profile troll who feeds on your attention. Don't give it to her, and she will fade away.

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 06:03:38 -0800

just think of how much ann coulter's parents could have helped out america and the world if they'd only have had the foresight to purchase a condom. stupid spiteful hatemongering bitch. i absolutely despise her and all she represents, the holier-than-thou god-fearing posturing crowd that only wants to see a sterilized america of fat happy white churchgoers who pay their taxes without complaining and are content with the cheap chinese imports and low-paying service sector jobs they can get at the walmart.

By: glenwood

glenwood — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 06:22:59 -0800

why are we talking about this?

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 06:25:16 -0800

It was incredibly easy to convince supposedly educated and intelligent Americans that we were polar-bear ranchers. When asked, "Well, what do you feed them? ", we'd nonchalantly respond "Salmon, of course" , and that'd be it. Ya know, it's not always the case that people you convince of some outlandish thing are dolts. At least sometimes, it's simply that they're being serious in their question (ie, what do you do for a living, or what's with the hats) so that only an asshole would tell them a stupid lie back because there's just no goddam reason to lie about it, and you don't seem like an asshole. Being that manner of prick to the locals isn't cool wherever you are.

By: frenetic

frenetic — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 06:34:07 -0800

Yep. Don't feed the troll. Canada's feelings will be OK, I promise you.

By: juiceCake

juiceCake — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 06:56:27 -0800

why are we talking about this? Because it interests some of us.

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:01:09 -0800

Two things. One, Ann Coulter, in her little mind and that of the Liberal Media, speaks for about 51% of America. That gives her the hubris and confidence to talk shit like this. Two, an integral part of the Canadian character is the ability to take (and tell) a joke. After wheat, comedians are Canada's #2 export. So let the little schoolyard tyrant beat her chest. There's queers that need marryin', and all this pot won't smoke itself.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:20:58 -0800

Eventually Ann Coulter will get too cocky and say something that offends even her fans. Then Fox or one of her other backers will cut their losses and release a "sex tape" or a photo of her barbecuing a baby or something and she'll join all her forebears in the dustbin of history. Till then I'll just let her spew and ignore her.

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:27:01 -0800

Oh, Bill Maher alone has more hours of the two of them banging like minks in some vault somewhere than any of us could ever imagine.

By: wfrgms

wfrgms — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:28:59 -0800

Take off, eh? What a couple'a hosers.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:34:08 -0800

thanks for that, chicobangs, now I'm gonna have to sleep with an extra nightlight tonight. If I'm good, pips will let me use the Underdog one. Yay! But I digress... I'm somewhat serious about the scenario. Professional loudmouths always eventually get too cocky and flame out a la Swaggart, Downey, Limbaugh, etc. Or someone behind them decides their becoming a liability or someone opposing them decides they've had enough.

By: wfrgms

wfrgms — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:39:32 -0800

Tucker Carlson never made it through college and Ann Coulter... well she can no better survive outside of her insulated bubble of right wing idiocy than Rush or O'Reiley. Take them out of their zip-loc and they invariable melt down. Eventually these people will either loose their jobs or retire or die - and when that happens I think a lot of people will look back on their careers not with any sort of admiration but with shame and disgust. What a strange world we live in where the media has given rise to these mad and twisted right-wing automatons.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:43:33 -0800

What a strange world we live in where the media has given rise to these mad and twisted right-wing automatons. I think a lot of people watch Coulter and her ilk for the same reason people watch Jackass: they just wanna see how over the top they're gonna get.

By: Darkman

Darkman — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:22:19 -0800

Don't you think that Ann's parents should have bought her that pony she wanted for her 14th birthday? Maybe she'd be, you know.... human-ish.

By: anthill

anthill — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:45:42 -0800

Exactly, johnmc. Which is why they're hurting america. They're ... what do you call it ... 'hacks'. And I'm Canadian. Don't worry, my feelings aren't hurt.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:59:16 -0800

someone may have mentioned this but the answer "can anyone figure out where from?" - the webpage address ends in -.is, which is iceland.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:03:13 -0800

anthill: there's always been people like her, and there always will be. Every bit of indignation we might spew only helps her. It's her food, for god's sake.

By: petebest

petebest — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:13:04 -0800

Fox Facts?!?! BWhahahaHAhahaah!! . . . hee! . . . oh man. . .

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:18:15 -0800

Today's lead story... Anne CoUlTeR is teh wInGnuT!!!! Next on Metafilter: WaTeR is teh M0isT!!!!

By: Krrrlson

Krrrlson — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:40:30 -0800

I get a sinking feeling that Canada's healthcare and superior education systems... Better hope you never need an urgent MRI in Toronto and lack the money to get it done in Buffalo. Anyway, back to Two Minute Hate, y'all.

By: owillis

owillis — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:46:28 -0800

I put that video together at Media Matters. You can see the original item here.

By: recursive

recursive — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:57:56 -0800

I think Jon Stewart's influence has really rubbed off on that insufferable twat Tucker Carlson. Lots of dogsledding going on.

By: chaz

chaz — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:00:39 -0800

America can't even take over Iraq, what makes her think America could take over Canada, a massive, well-armed, extremely rich country.

By: jackiemcghee

jackiemcghee — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:02:15 -0800

[chortle]

By: RakDaddy

RakDaddy — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:02:59 -0800

WaTeR is teh M0isT!!!! I think this is going to be my new motto.

By: zoogleplex

zoogleplex — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:15:43 -0800

Canadians: I suggest that you may have the power to end the war in Iraq, and any other American aggression along with it. All you have to do is to immediately cut off all exportation of oil, natural gas, lumber and other wood products. This would create a crisis at home that would require us to immediately bring all those troops home... to invade Canada and get control of these vital resources. Hmm, maybe that's not the best idea. But still, you get my drift. /somewhat tongue in cheek

By: mdn

mdn — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:41:33 -0800

While we're on it -- she's not even that hot. she's blonde and has boobies. That is all that matters to some people. Seriously. A friend of mine moved to sweden and was going on about how amazing it was that all the girls were so hot, but when I went to visit, I didn't see it. I asked him if he'd think they were hot if they weren't blonde, and he was sort of surprised and looked around and thought about it, and agreed that it would probably seem pretty normal if there was an array of hair color. But being surrounded by only blondes! It triggers something for some guys. It's like a 'northern european fetish' as opposed to an asian or black fetish... and jonmc, no, she's not going to say something that will 'go too far'. People love when she goes too far. 'kill their leaders and convert them to christianity?' c'mon. Her supporters will just say, "oh relax, it's only hyperbole," and they'll love the fact that her detractors are completely sickened by it. Ignoring her is the only way she'll go away. Well, and getting old won't help if she doesn't have enough cash for a good face lift, 'cause she'd disappear if she weren't giving her supporters hard-ons.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:08:51 -0800

Why don't we all quit allowing fucking idiots such as Coulter and Carlson (god that guy's a shame) "speak for America"? Crossword puzzle: Australian troll. (2 words)

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:30:33 -0800

and jonmc, no, she's not going to say something that will 'go too far'. Then she'll say something about the wrong person. She's definitely a narcissistic egomaniac, and people like that have the delusion that they can get away with anything, and they ultimately fuck up. she's blonde and has boobies. And that gets old after awhile. If somebody wants to see blondes with boobies, it takes about three seconds of googling. And they won't have to listen to her droning on and on. Which, trust me kills whatever sex appeal she might have. (not to me, she's not my type, speaking hypothethically, ...may need third nightlight to sleep tonight)

By: stinkycheese

stinkycheese — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:26:08 -0800

That breeze in the air you feel is chickens coming home to roost.

By: nola

nola — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:07:31 -0800

i have nothing to add but , down with us.

By: FormlessOne

FormlessOne — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:23:22 -0800

Who's Ann Coulter again, and why should I care about her opinion? She sounds like she's just another saber that the far right rattles when they're not getting enough press.

By: bardic

bardic — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:03:06 -0800

Canadian people are really some of the nicest in the world. And Toronto is a fun place with great food. /anti-snark

By: Polonius

Polonius — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:25:12 -0800

Dear Ann Coulter, Come on up here. We'll kick your ass. Love, Canada

By: Polonius

Polonius — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:26:58 -0800

P.S. And then, when you've outlived your usefulness, and the right-wing goons you hang around with finally throw you to the sharks, and you drag yourself up here begging for help, we'll refuse to give you free health care. And then we'll kick your ass again. Love, Canada

By: apodo

apodo — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:39:44 -0800

I knew nothing of Ann until I first got an internet connection a couple of years ago. Whilst trying out the internets I followed a link to a list of quotes attributed to her. Naturally I assumed she was a stand up comedian - rather a good one, in fact. When I later discovered that she is taken seriously as a political commentator, I was astonished. Of course she's a comedian, only it's her laughing, not you. This is the wrong way round.

By: aisforal

aisforal — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:33:24 -0800

Is she Pisces?

By: exlotuseater

exlotuseater — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:11:28 -0800

Sometimes, when I get overwhelmed, I pretend that I am a canadian, and I feel much better. Adopt me?

By: exlotuseater

exlotuseater — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:13:17 -0800

Canadian. sorry. Caps issues today.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:16:29 -0800

"God, you're boring. Couldn't you at least come up with something more original if you're going to be so fucking juvenile and reinforce all those tired boyzone stereotypes. At least you waited, what, a day before you stopped jerking off to the anarchist cookbook long enough to delve back into it." Yawn. I could continue to be completely unoriginal and flat out call you a bitch (thus reinforcing the boyzone stereotypes) but this is metafilter, not 6th grade. Or is it? It's not like Ann Coulter isn't living up to her stereotypes as well. Besides, this boyzone ideology: Isn't Ann herself contributing to it? Who is making more of a disparaging statement, my opinion of Ann Coulters sexuality (which by the way was a ploy to reinforce the concept of mutual masturbation, zing) or Ann's opinion of a group of people who happen to live across some invisible line? Aren't invisible lines reinforcing stereotypes? Excuse me, now i'm just digressing. Basically, I was throwing rocks at glass houses. Whats your excuse?

By: mountainmambo

mountainmambo — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 05:46:44 -0800

Any criticism of this troll is pretty dead on. Here is a funny piece by way of meat-eating leftist.

By: dougunderscorenelso

dougunderscorenelso — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:11:48 -0800

The allure of possibly having a voice in the country with the most potential global impact is what keeps me here. But do any other MeFites ever just think, "I really wish I lived in a country where I didn't have to spend half my time worrying or fighting about said country?" "I really wish I lived in a country where I didn't have to hear Southern accents, ever again?"

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 19:58:58 -0800

cmon doug, thats like saying "I really wish I lived in a country where I didn't have to see black people, ever again?" because cops tend to bust black people. (I think its racial profiling but thats another argument)... or libertarians, etc. insert generic, keyser sozeesque-devils advocate pander about how people should not be judged by color or accent and you should know better. :)

By: dougunderscorenelso

dougunderscorenelso — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 06:52:19 -0800

Heehee. I never said those people were BAD. But it's well within my right to dislike their accent (especially recently; now that it supposedly represents the Values and Heart of our Great Nation). I could've said "I never want to see another bumper sticker proclaiming that soccer players do it for 90 minutes," and that wouldn't have been offensive. Actually. I'd like to move to a country without that, too. Hmm.