Subscribe"Ignoring the fact that [Ann Coulter] exists doesn't make her go away. If it did, you wouldn't hear me utter her name. So I think maybe the better thing to do is simply confront people like her. Are you going to stop them? Under no circumstances will you stop them. But maybe you empower other people to stand up, and maybe that has an effect. When I travel, so many older people thank me for what I did. Because the vile kind of way Ann Coulter thinks and talks, that was not ever part of the public discourse until recently...'
Ignoring the fact that [Ann Coulter] exists doesn't make her go away. If it did, you wouldn't hear me utter her name."If X worked, I'd do it. I'm not doing X, so X must not work."
Are you going to stop them? Under no circumstances will you stop them.Right. So quit wasting your breath and cast your attention elsewhere.
YearlyKos will be addressed this year by just about the entire Democratic Party leadership -- Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, and Dick Durbin.Fact is, kos is some guy who turned a website into one of the major influential media organizations for the Democratic Party. Bill O'Reilly and Michelle Malkin are corporate-paid twits who like to pretend they're journalists. kos gets future presidents to speak at his "hate fest" wheras Michelle's big appearance this year was the undercard for Ann Coulter in the basement ballroom at CPAC in the Arlington Marriott.
It will feature a candidate forum of all the top Democratic candidates -- Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, and Bill Richardson.
It will also be addressed by other notable elected Democrats like Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, Sen. Jon Tester, Reps. Rahm Emanuel, Paul Hodes, Lynn Woolsey, Mike Panetta, Tim Walz, and Steve Kagen. Gen. Wesley Clark will be there, as well as dozens of other mainstream, notable Democrats.
Anyone who tries to claim this is a "hate" gathering is saying, essentially, that the entire Democratic Party is a "hate" party. And sure, there are plenty of rabid crazies on the other side that would make such a claim, but no reasonable person will think that.
And that's the key -- anyone who claims this event is anything but a celebration of the best the Democratic Party has to offer is simply, to put it mildly, blinded by partisan rage and completely out-of-touch with reality.
nitfilter: That's a really odd way to parse what Edwards said. The more conventional way -- and the way that would be more in line with American English grammar -- would be "X does not work. If X did work, I would do X. I do not do X." Note the absence of an implied causal relationship between 'X does not work' and 'I do not do X'.Ignoring the fact that [Ann Coulter] exists doesn't make her go away. If it did, you wouldn't hear me utter her name."If X worked, I'd do it. I'm not doing X, so X must not work."
Now news of your publicly caving to Bill O'Reilley's smear campaign -- and
simultaneously continuing to advertise on Fox -- makes me very sad indeed.
I'm not very comfortable with the idea that I'll be more likely to
encounter the kind of ill-informed, closed-minded people that take smear
campaigns like this one seriously, yet (through caving to the pressure,
and seeking out Fox viewers, aka O'Reilly viewers, as customers) these are
the very people you appear to be courting as customers.
I hope in the future the people in charge of making such decisions will
consider this: if people are divided over an issue, the right decision to
make -- not just morally, but for profitability -- is the one that
supports and embraces the best in everyone. By publicly dropping support
for the DailyKos web site and kowtowing to an individual and a network
who are manufacturing confrontation in order to boost ratings, you've made
a mistake.
"Bill O’Reilly said recently, 'When we see objectionable things [on my website], we take it off immediately.' AmericaBlog notes a commenter on billoreilly.com who suggests a terrorist attack against the U.S. Capitol building. For pointing that out, John Aravosis says he has now been banned from the site. BarbinMD from DailyKos was banned too."
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