What liberals find funny
1) Comparing the cancellation of the self-indulgent Golden Globes ceremony to the fall of Saigon.
2) The death of Ann Coulter’s father (via Darleen Click).
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The vaunted liberal tolerance of yore is today all too often an oxymoron.
Tinfoil hatted leftist loonies have no heart that is why they feel they have the right to tell everybody else how to live. It is a mental condition for which I do not believe there is a cure.
Yeah, the fall of Saigon was hilarious. So was John Coulter’s death. Why am I not laughing? My moral values and decency get in the way. Guess I’ll never make it as a liberal.
Liberals are tolerant of all things abhorrent to normal caring people.
Righteously indignant and bankrupt of morals and character=liberal
The illness spreads. Help stamp out liberal mental aberrations
More justification for the claim that Liberalism is a moral and mental disease
Unbelievably evil.
That’s the most accurate word for these two examples.
How much worse can these loons – socialists, perpetual adolescents, jihadi sympathizers, secularists, Communists, America-haters, Western civ-haters, _________ (insert your term here) – get, before the rest of us wake up and realize that they are shouting “fire” in a crowded theater; that they are screaming out fighting words.
Man, it looks as if these people are BEGGING for a hot civil war, not simply for a culture war.
If you need any proof that liberals have their priorities out of whack – here it is.
The cancellation of an insipid, drawn out, pompous awards show is a tragedy.
The death of a conservative’s father is a cause for mockery and celebration.
Nice. Real mature. Real “progressive”…liberals are really just overgrown kindergarteners.
(And I wholeheartedly apologize to kindergarteners and their parents).
Seems to me, EQ, these are the kind of folks that give spoiled brats a bad name.
Well, if you want to know what liberals find funny, just look at liberal “commodians” like Maggie Cho, George Carlin, Kathy Griffin, et al, who aren’t funny, but insulting at others expense.
As opposed to conservative comedians like Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, et al, who are funny at their own expense.
Truthfully, I wouldn’t have expected anything less. Ann and Michelle are the embodiment of evil to these people. The drool & spittle should be considered a compliment.
In another thread someone mentioned liberal = an open mind. From what I have seen they are sick people with closed minds in desperate need of some counseling. I like many others believe liberalism is a mental disorder.
To add to granite’s fear of a hot civil war I have been reading my history on the last disagreement between the Southern states and the Federal government in the 1860s and I agree the country is just as divided as it was then. Only this time a civil war will not be about “states rights” but liberals vs. conservatives. I ask the hate filled liberals one little question. Who has the most guns, military training, obeys the rule of law (reason we haven’t risen up just yet), and has the will to use them?
I know there’s a lot of sarcasm in the liberalism/mental disease connection, but I’m beginning to think its true. Liberal amorality should lead someone to a logical mindset, like a Mr. Spock. Perhaps the flaw in the Roddenberry character is that the absence of morality is really just evil.
I saw the liberals going off on Ann Friday. She’s ran every Friday and on this particular Newspaper’s website, they have posting boards and lets just say, the libbies have no heart at all
That was appalling. Their argument is that since she politicized and mocked her father’s death, they can mock her eulogy. I don’t think she politicized her father’s death at all. The way I read it, she talked about the politics and values that were important to her father. If she had been recounting her father’s love of unions and desire to raise taxes to fund socialist programs, would they have been disgusted at her “politicizing”?
But regardless, I don’t care how these people feel about Coulter in general, she is still a woman who lost her father and in reading that article it’s obvious (to those whose who don’t have the liberal mental disorder) she loved him and misses him very much. Not the time to attack her and make jokes.
Completely atrocious and inexcusable.
Holy Crap… what a piece of filth…
God Bless Ann and her Dad, What a funny guy. When me and my wife have our Anniversary people will ask how long have you been married my wife alway’s respond’s “To long” and I answer after with “27 year’s in hell I hope that’s enough lord” or I sometimes say to my son’s which are in their 20’s “I should of smothered you when I had the chance” or “you know I love you to death, literally”. They alway’s laugh cause they know I’m kidding around. This may seem harsh but if your not getting picked on in my family your not liked.
I hope my kid’s speak of me as fondley as she did about her Dad.
The problem is Liberal’s have no sense of humor and what they find funny is never funny at all. I’ve had to tell several of them “Hey ya know I think Wal-Mart has a sale on sense’s of humor I think you should go buy one”
Many liberals don’t seem to understand that satire is only funny when it is based in reality.
1. Coulter’s lambasting of the “Jersey Gurlz” was focused on their political actions, not on their dead husbands.
2. Coulter feigned wishing death upon Silky Pony to highlight Bill Mahr’s equally absurd wish earlier that week.
Stomping on a dead man’s eulogy is less a reflection of one’s disagreements with his daughter, but more a reflection of one’s lack of humanity.
Chris Kelly from Arianna Huffington’s site is quite a class act, one of the few Irish-American bards who can make Margaret Cho sound like Maya Angelou.
Hey, did you hear the one about the Huffington Post’s Chris Kelly’s dead relative?
Nah, you see? It just isn’t funny on either side of the aisle.
I’m sure they will claim that it is a small fringe that says these horrible things. That might be partially true. But the fact of the matter is the left never jumps to the media to condemn this sickness. Think about that.
Larry Craig plays footsies in a bathroom stall and the left is out there wall to wall with their outrage. But when their own people do and say thing many times worse….crickets. They have to be prompted to condemn it.
Liberalism and the left has become a total become a moral, decency, and common sense vacuum.
Wow. When does he get his own HBO special? Calling her dead father an a-hole is comedy gold. Gold Jerry, gold!
What a classless loser.
Good points Blind_Mule
How blindly ignorant does someone have to be to read what Ann wrote and seriously think her father hated his wife and kids? Did they also belive that Bill Cosby wanted to kill his children when he said, “I brought you into this world and I can take you out”?
Next time the world needs an enema we all now know exactly where it should be administered …
#18 On January 14th, 2008 at 12:01 pm, Blind_Mule said:
“God Bless Ann and her Dad, What a funny guy. When me and my wife have our Anniversary people will ask how long have you been married my wife alway’s respond’s “To long” and I answer after with “27 year’s in hell I hope that’s enough lord” or I sometimes say to my son’s which are in their 20’s “I should of smothered you when I had the chance” or “you know I love you to death, literally”. They alway’s laugh cause they know I’m kidding around. This may seem harsh but if your not getting picked on in my family your not liked.
I hope my kid’s speak of me as fondley as she did about her Dad.”
Good post, Blind_Mule.
My wife and I are halfway to 31 years; and, a couple of times a year for most, if not all, of those years, referring to my wife, I tell my father in-law, “You know, Pa, I think I’ll keep her.” And we enjoy a good chuckle.
…Umm…
I mean halfway to 31 from 30 years!
You have to credit some of the commenter’s at huffpo, they are condemning Chris Kelly. That guy has issues. He is at home there. Who are you going to complain too that would make a difference?
Good riddance GG. Never watched ya!!! I am with Bill Cosby; the only award show worth its salt is People Choice and that is suspect anymore.
God be with Ann and her family right now…I loved her column…the last line brought tears to my eyes…
I can’t wait till she comes out swinging…
Raised Right, did you see the comments on SJ-R’S website Friday? I tried my best to defend her, but they blocked most my posts. Hell, they even went after Michelle on her piece. I did manage to get in a couple post to defend Malkin.
My wife and I kid each other also about our marriage. Her favorite, “Lord what did I do that was so bad, that I got this guy?” It has always drawn a laugh. Mine has been that I’m looking to trade her in for a “newer model”. Everyone knows we’re inseparable after years. I smiled reading about John Coulter. Good man there.
As disgusting as this article is, I think the above attempt at satire provides an instructive glimpse into the worldview of liberals. This is what they think of what in a different time (not so long ago) men were expected to be. Now, self-absorbed, whiners that feel our pain are their ideal man.
Far left loons never fail to show their true colors. Chris Kelly chose the death of an ideological opponent’s father to show the world what a complete and total waste or air and water he really is.
Re: the Golden Globes; That orb lost its luster long ago. Like so much of Hollywood it is fake and false, just so much fool’s gold.
SJ-R.com, just checked it out. A complete misuderstanding of Coulter’s article, no sense of humor, and eagerness to bash any conservative figure and accuse her of hate… it’s just as I remember things.
Wife after a trip: Did ya miss me?
Soap: I didn’t throw anything at ya.
Wife: Do you love me?
Soap: You’re all right.
If I didn’t answer this way, she would think I was sick or dying!
It is called playful banter Chrissy Kelly. Get a woman and find out for yourself.
Those people are mentally ill. Seriously, mentally ill.
unbelievable…maybe not
It used to be that all differences were put aside at the death of a loved one. Folks took a few days to recognize the grief of the opponent before getting back to sparring. I believe it was called “respect.”
If you read through the comments at that site, they all justify it by saying that’s how we act. I go to lots of conservative sites each day, and I’ve never seen a full-on article tearing into someone personally like this. You’ll see it in the comments, of course, but never a total mocking of someone personally. I don’t know what they’re talking about, when they talk about conservatives being the bullies. They must have a serious inability to grasp reality, or see anything other than what they want to see. I understand differences on policy, differences on using emotion or logic to decide the big issues, but to engage in this sort of activity and then justify it boggles my mind.
These people are devoid of any measure of kindness or decency. They should be ashamed, but as we all know, they aren’t, which just leads to them continuing to be horrible people.
LOL! Oh that was funny… oh wait a minute… no, it wasn’t. I don’t get it. Actors refusing to cross a picket line of striking fellow creators is comparable to civilians fleeing a savage army bent on their slaughter or enslavement, how?
As for the HuffPo comments, just par for the course. At least they are kind enough to wear their sign at all times so you know what to expect.
Who’s being sarcastic? When I say that liberalism is a mental disorder, I’m quite serious.
Although, in the interest of technical accuracy, “liberalism” itself isn’t the mental defect but rather a collection of symptoms and avoidance mechanisms that are indicative of the underlying disease.
If one surrenders oneself to Napoleon Hill’s “Seven Major Negative Emotions” – Anger, Hatred, Fear, Jealousy, Greed, Superstition and Revenge – the result is a malevolent inner ugliness seeking to express itself outwardly.
We all have these negative feelings to some degree; they are our “default set” of emotions, and unlike their seven positive counterparts require no conscious cultivation to take hold of the mind. The difference between a liberal and a well-adjusted person is that the latter confronts the negativity and seeks to overcome it, while the former tries to either deny its existence or to rationalize away its effects.
So much of what we see in liberal sociopathy – the projection, displacement, malignant narcissism and self-imposed alienation, the seething rage and hostility, the congenital dishonesty and paranoia – stems from their refusal to deal with the inner rot and decay that comes from wallowing in the Seven Major Negative Emotions.
“Liberalism is a mental disorder” isn’t a slogan, but a verifiable statement of hard fact. The two examples that are the subject of this thread are but more evidence of this truth.
Regulus:
Well said and I don’t dispute your points. However, if this is all true, what does it say about us as a society that we keep electing these people with mental disorders to govern us. Are we all suffering, to a degree, the same maladies or are we just so apathetic that we allow it? If what you say is true then at least half the people in this country need mental counseling.
While some of the commenters at Huffington Post were critical of the tasteless column, they were few a far between and were immediatly jumped on by others.
#41 Regulus:
Excellent post.
unforgivable. period.
These two pieces ultimately show nothing more than the stupidity,hypocracy and juvenile thinking of the left.
How anyone could find humor in the suffering that occured after our pull-out from VietNam,or how anyone would even use such a tragedy as a comparison to something as trivial as an a self-promoting farcical awards show is not just appalling,it’s sickening.
These are same self-aggrandizing,so-called educated idiots who support pedaphiles,rapists and murderers(after all,they are VICTIMS OF SOCIETY-whatever the H*** that has to do with their crimes).They can justify any sort of degenerate behaviour based on an idea that we must respect the culture in which the criminal was raised.Where is there respect for Ann’s culture?They don’t want to see her column for what it is–a young lady greiving the recent death of a man who helped mold her into the person she is(whether you agree with her views or not).Chris Kelley and those commenters who berate her for the Kennedy jokes and light-hearted comments in her article simply don’t want give her the right to grieve her loss in her way,through the written word.
Regulus, something I found in PatriotPost, regarding denying and rationalizing: “It is a greater honor to be right than to be president—or popular, for statesmanship consists rather in removing causes than in punishing or evading results—thus, it is the rarest of qualities.” —James Garfield
The Youth Culture of the Woodstock generation and their inability/refusal to grow up results in childish behavior.
That their children have been brought up to be rude, demanding brats should be no surprise.
My fear is that it may be too late to recover from this.
Suggestions?
Thanks for the fodder for an article. I can use it on my plane ride tomorrow morning.
this only reinforces EVERYTHING I have been stating lately concerning how putrid Liberals are. I mean, to be making fun of her father, to be laughing about hin and mocking him and his funeral…this goes beyong repulsive. It took everything I had this morning to get through that…article.
I look once again to Trollville for the Mayor of Trollville’s official response to this post. I want to hear from them. I want to hear how they explain away why Liberals can be so crass, so filled with hatred and vileness when we are expected to believe that they are the bastions of “Tolerance” where we are to go to them and learn not to label people, to call names, to be sexist, to “pick on girls”, to not be violent. You know…”All we need is love…” “Can’t we all just, GET ALONG?”
We here all day, every day how wicked, evil, mean, horrible, horrendous Republicans, Conservatives, and Right-Wingers are. We hear all the time about how we Righties are trying to “Kepp the brotha man down”, we hate immigrants, women, darkies, brown people, we are racist, sexist, violent, war mongers.
Well? Where to you get that? Can you please, oh Trolly trolls from the Bridges of Trollville, point out to all us Right-Wingers, Conservatives and Republicans, where you find evidence of such things? Please, we would like to know…I would like to know where such evidence exists…where did you come up with these claims? Because frankly, all I can see…all any one can see is everything you claim, everything you guys state that is said, done, representative of the Republican Party, Conservative Movement or Right-Wing causes is clearly made by, shown by, seen at, demonstrated by, stated by and otherwise representative of everything that is, has to do with, or represents the Democrats, the Left-Wing Movement, and Liberalism as a whole.
This article is not a rarity, it is a normality…it along with the giddy, child-like comments that agreeably followed, are the norm, not the exception. And it is sickening, and you should be ashamed oh yourselves.
I see you’ve read Think and Grow Rich an excellent book and I suggest everyone read it, what regulus say’s is true and I can’t add anymore to it, great post.
Wow! That Chris Kelly is a real funny fellow. Classy too. Must have stayed up all night working on that stuff. Thought all Bill Maher’s writers were carrying misspelled picket signs. His stuff reminds me of that really funny one:
What’s a HuffPo?
About 10 bucks down on 42nd
“They started it!!!”
I’m afraid that’s all you’ll hear, Retfireman
Every single time a conservative is struck with tragedy the libs bring out the long knives.
Every single time.
Regulus, granite, Blind_Mule,
I love reading your posts and I agree with most of what you say, however, it seems that we are all just patting ourselves on the back for being able to diagnose the problem and assure ourselves that we don’t suffer from the same mental disease. Meanwhile, those who do suffer this illness frame the debate. So what does Napoleon Hill say about confronting these folks?
Libs just love it when a conservative dies.
Coulter probably won’t even respond to such crap.
Ignoring them will infuriate them more.
I wouldn’t have done it, myself, but Chris Kelly was responding to Coulter’s using her tribute to her dead father as another opportunity to bait liberals. He just took the bait. She takes shots at Kennedy and John Edwards, and once again she makes a “lighthearted” comment about liberals being killed–being smitten by God, in this case. She has mocked Edwards and the “9/11 widows” for their supposedly opportunistic references to their loved ones’ deaths, so Kelly thought that turnabout was fair play. Again, not really my cup of tea, but it’s no more tasteless than the average example of Coulter’s “wit.”
#54 On January 14th, 2008 at 2:01 pm, genso said:
“…about confronting these folks?”
As I alluded to above (#8), we may be end up leaving the “cold” , nonshooting culture war and enter a hot civil war. That may be the only way for our culture to recover and survive.
It (the culture) has been perverted and devastated so by the socialists, leftists, Communists, hedonists, progressives (there’s a lie for you), self-haters (somebody stop me, please!), etc.; that reason and verbal, debate-type argumentative persuasion may be futile.
We cannot afford to meakly, effeminately end up like Europe; for that will seal our fate.
I agree. I’m just not sure that we aren’t already at that point. The timbre of this political season doesn’t bode well in this regard.
The problem is, their minds are so open liberals have allowed their brains – along with morality, common sense, and common decency – to fall out.
I’ts like an addiction, you have to admit to yourself and recognize that it is a problem first. Do you think that their going to admit they have a problem with their thinking? Probably not they’ve convinced themselves that what they think and how they act are right and they have been doing it so long they don’t know how to think any differently. You might as well as beat your head against a wall trying to convince them or any negative thinker, that his thought pattern’s are flawed. Seriously you should read the book and you’ll notice that many people fall into this trap and you’ll benefit from reading it. If you know anyone that act’s as if their a victim on a daily basis then you have just identified one of these type’s of people. We all have negative thought’s at some time or another but some of us recognize what’s going on and change the behavior.
Kovacs #56…
Nice try, but I for one am not buying your argument of Liberal-baiting in Coulter’s column and some kind of parity over her generalized “death wishes” for liberals
also, no reason for putting wit in quotations… anyone with a sense of humor and without an ax to grind would admit Ann is one heckuva comedic talent
#61 max:
JUST
IGNORE
HIM
#60 Blind_Mule
I agree with what you’re saying. It is difficult for me to force my mind to even consider the things that they think. My point is that unless we have some way to confront what is happening to this society, all we’re doing is confirming their victims status by defining them as mentally ill. Few debates, for instance, even on this great site, concern conservative actions. Mostly what I read are comments about what the left has done. If we can’t change the debate, then granite is right…we’re headed for capitulation or revolt.
#63 genso:
You make a great point.
We should somehow start to think the way U.S. Grant is said to have talked to his generals at one of their meetings.
(Paraphrase):
You’re always saying Bobby Lee this and Bobby Lee that.
What if Lee does this, or what if Lee goes there.
I’m tired of thinking about what Bobby Lee might do to us.
I want us to start thinking about what WE’RE gonna do to HIM!
#64 granite
One would think that mindset would come naturally to conservatives…the last time I heard one that sounded remotely like that was Reagan. Damn sad, too.
Granite#64… it is a great U.S. Grant quote….
..
“I am heartily tired of hearing what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land on our rear and on both our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.”
#66 max:
Thank you!
Great quotation – my paraphrase didn’t do it justice!
#56 kovacs said:
As Bubba used to say to Monica, “close, but no cigar.”
I am quite certain that Ann Coulter never made:
1. an insinuation that the deceased father of a political opponent was a child beater,
2. three jokes that the deceased father of a political opponent is dead,
3. one insinuation that the deceased father of a political opponent was an anal orifice,
4. one jab at the actual ailment that killed the deceased father of a political opponent,
5. five insinuations that the deceased father of a political opponent was a twisted, hateful twit,
6. two insinuations that the deceased father of a political opponent was a transvestite,
7. one insinuation that the deceased father of a political opponent was like Hitler,
8. one insinuation that the deceased father of a political opponent is going to hell,
9. one reference to a political opponent who just lost her father as a “fatherless creep.”
In fact, when Ann Coulter has a difference of opinion with someone, she has the habit of taking that difference straight to that individual. She doesn’t hide behind the casket of that individual’s dead relative, scrawling “pee-pee” and “wee-wee” into the wood.
Only when Ann violates her own standards, and originally utilizes the same liberal insults noted above, will your equivocating opinion be validated. Only then.
I’m not going to argue for the quality of Chris Kelly’s humor–like I said, my cup of tea. And I’m not going to try to dig up Coulter’s greatest hits, whether it’s the one about poisoning a supreme court justice or wishing the entire staff of the New York Times would be killed by terrorists, just to name two off the top of my head. I’ll just say that the idea of her having standards and a sense of decorum is really rich. I’m just saying that when you close your tribute to your dead father by saying, “And Daddy, now that you’re in heaven, please talk to God about smiting some liberals for me,” you’re kinda asking for it. And that’s Coulter’s whole schtick–always, always asking for it. How can anyone deny that? I’m sure she wouldn’t.
oops! Not my cup of tea. As I said before. I’m sure I’m going to hear about that….
LOL
I think you’ve got them pegged.
RE: genso #63, granite #64 and mas #66
Exactly , you have to identify the enemy and dedide how you will approach the challenge, we have to continue to convey positive thinking, positive message and positive action this breed’s leader’s and success, people by nature will follow success instead of failure. I say raise your kid’s in a positive atmosphere with moral’s, integrity and with out prejudice and the table’s will turn on these people and maybe sooner than we think.
Rush made a good point today you can’t destroy conservitivism, why? because it is an ideaology you can not supress thought no matter how hard you try.
I find it interesting how many of the “tolerant” posters call her a “mAnn” and make cracks of a sexist nature. One of them even says it’s justified to mock her father’s death because they’re tired of her “calling us GAY with every breath.”
I’m confused… is gay or cross-dresser an insult or not? Because liberals are so ambiguous with this standard, that is the reason Ann calls them gay. Not because she thinks “gay” is an insult perse, but because it’s funny to watch liberals squirm under their own hippocracy with the term.
I think that’s the reason they hate her so much, though they accuse her of hatred… They will never understand the true nature of satire… to be an exaggeration of true reflection. And they hate what they see when they look in the mirror.
Kovacs #69…
Oh, are you afraid of being “smitten” kitten?
It’s called satire…
Classic liberal thinking.
RESPONDING to an attack is “beginning” a war.
#74
That’s cute. But seriously, Coulter regularly jokes about killing people she disagrees with politically. Please tell me: what’s the satirical thrust of those jokes? How does they fit Webster’s definition of using “trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm to expose and discredit vice or folly”? A poster on this thread has already said that the culture war should become a “hot” war–that is, liberals should be killed–to apparent general approval. Is “granite” being satirical, too? You’re a regular bunch of Voltaires, aren’t you?
I reiterate: you guys will not be able to claim any sort of high ground of taste or decency as long as you embrace the likes of Coulter. You have to know that.
You’re a regular bunch of Voltaires, aren’t you?
good one.. Lol!
Coulter’s extreme moments are actually fairly rare, i hear much more profanity laced violent invective regularly from loud-mouthed lib women in bars…who seem to expect everyone to accept that they’re alwasy “just joking” but will not cut Ann C. the tinmiest sidgeon of slack…
the tiniest smidgeon of slack
durn chechnian spailchiecker…
#77 max
Right you are. If Ann was on the left, she would be lost in the noise. We wouldn’t even know who she was.
#69 kovacs said:
Agreed, I just take issue with those who claim moral equivalence between Ann Coulter’s style and the vile individuals to whom she responds.
Do you realize that both the cases you cite here are examples of Coulter’s satirical responses to previously similar liberal outbursts? This satirical style makes up a large portion of Ann’s work, as she loves to throw liberals’ statements back in their faces to illustrate how absurd they are. Jonathon Swift did the exact same thing back in the 17th century (see Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal.)
Case in point, Coulter’s reference to poisoning Justice Stevens’ food (or something to that effect) was a direct reference to a liberal columnist’s (Julianne Malveaux)open call for Clarence Thomas’ wife to feed him lots of eggs and butter and other high-fat foods in the hope that he would die of a heart attack. Ridiculous, right?
Case in point, Coulter’s reference to bombing the NYT building, post 9/11, was in direct reference to the decades of liberals’ calls for establishments of opposition (the Pentagon, police stations, university administration buildings, Brinks trucks, animal research facilities, etc.) to be bombed to the ground, in order to further their cause and/or save lives. Ridiculous, right?
Case in point, Ann Coulter recently wished she had simply wished John Edwards dead in a terrorist attack because that is exactly what Bill Mahr referenced days earlier, regarding Dick Cheney. Ridiculous, right?
I assure you, Ann Coulter doesn’t actually “wish” these things like a petulant child, she references them to satirically illustrate how absurd many liberals are.
But I already illustrated that she does. For one, she doesn’t defecate on the good names or the memories of her political opponents’ dead relatives like Chris Kelly at Arianna Huffington’s site does.
Asking for what? Asking for Chris Kelly and a host of liberals at Arianna Huffington’s site to mock your dead father as a sick, twisted, hateful, child-beating, anal-orifice, Hitler-transvestite who’s going to hell?
Where is the satiric irony on Mr. Coulter’s behalf to warrant such a sick and vulgar editorial?
Kovacs, I respectfully and tastefully disagree with your opinions on this matter. I see absolutely no moral equivalence between Ann Coulter and her liberal detractors. I believe Chris Kelly’s response to Ann’s eulogy is neither witty nor satirical, but rather vulgar due to a lack of creativity and substance.
Nope.
No satire.
Just sadness for the downward spiral of our culture and society, at the hands of folks to whom you sound similar – I may be wrong – but, to whom you sound similar.
And, sadness because a hot, shooting war may be the only way our nation, our society, our culture – not the sewer and madness into which we have descended these past 40 years – has a chance of surviving.
Never said the culture war should become a hot war.
But, if it comes to a hot war, it will be commenced with sadness and reluctance, yet with grim resolve.
Ultimatly, the basic, simple questions for us are how shall we live? What do we owe others? What do others owe us? How shall we govern ourselves? Who will control our children? Who will control us? With which worldview will our culture and society survive and thrive? Which worldview will destroy our society and culture, as is presently being allowed to occur?
So, please spare us what socialists, leftists, secularists, liberals, self-haters, etc. do when confronted and challenged; when their bullying is fought against; stop blaming those under attack for fighting back – although it is understandable that the one being fought back against would get enraged.
Why should we be expected to sit idly by when the greatest, best nation that ever existed continues to be dismantled and ruined piece by piece, slice by slice (salami tactics, after all)?
#76 Kovacs said:
Please see paragraphs 4 though 8 of #80.
I beseech you Kovacs, when you finally begin to understand the concept of satirical response to previously absurd, liberal statements and/or concepts, you will find the high ground of taste and decency to continually rise.
Onward and upward, my friend.
BrianNY#80
nice post! exactly what i was struggling to express…. kudos!
BrianNY #80
Wonderful post. I think people “forget” the vile the left spews because it’s not mentioned much or maybe the MSM agrees with it when it is directed at conservatives, such as Clarence Thomas, Michael Steele or Dick Cheney.
I couldn’t agree more with BrianNY (post# 80)!
As a big-time fan of Ms. Coulter’s, I’ve always admired her unique and intelligent ability to volley back liberal satire with a delivery that is not only distinctively conservative and enlightening, but downright hilarious!
The woman is a genius!
As for Chris Kelly, ad hominem attacks upon someone who is undergoing a devastating loss and experiencing overwhelming grief is not only a sign of poor taste, it wreaks of career desperation!
Mr. Kelly, you are no gentleman!
Napoleon Hill (in his timeless master work Think and Grow Rich) doesn’t speak of “confronting” those who choose the path that leads to misery and poverty; life is too short and time too precious to waste on them. When he speaks of the Seven Major Negative Emotions, it’s a word of warning for the wise, not a battle plan against fools.
My point above was simply to argue against any doubt that liberalism in its present incarnation really is a mental defect, or at least strongly suggestive of one. And just like I don’t get into “debates” with the certifiably insane, it’s equally as pointless to try to engage liberals in civil discussion when politics is concerned. They’re not capable of rising to that level, so why waste time and breath?
So Coulter is actually a gracious, warm-hearted woman who has devoted her entire public persona to satirizing evil, bloodthirsty liberals? You’ll forgive me, I hope, if I don’t buy it. And so the fact that she closes her tribute to her dad by wishing divine retribution on evil liberals, that’s part of her schtick, too, I suppose. That’s hardly classy, is it?
Can anyone name an occasion that she took the high road and said something gracious instead of taking a cheap shot, mocking someone who lost a son or a husband, calling someone a faggot or a traitor, encouraging the bombing or beating or poisoning of people she disagrees with? What’s an example of Coulter showing class?
If you folks think it’s just the left that spews hatreds on blogs and in comments, you’re delusional. There’s more than enough hate on both sides to go around.
Context
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Context
Look, all the things you cited have roots. Do your research and come back and act like something besides a troll.
To point: The faggot was a reference to an actor who checked himself into rehab for saying “faggot”. See, she has wit. You just have to know “wit” to understand “wit”. The lefty libtards and the MSM used it to defame her which was “rich”.
P.S. She has little regard for conservatives who do things that make you go; “WHAAAA?” If you read her columns you will find she will go after Bush and Clinton with equal enthusiasm.
Try again – nobody is buying what you have to sell.
Because homophobic slurs are always funny! Ha!
Mookie
Context
See post #89
P.S. The shot was at the actor so I suppose it is actorphobic? Sheesh.
I understood the context perfectly. I still don’t think using homophobic slurs are funny regardless of the context. Ann reaps what she sows.
#88
Sorry Mookie, but I don’t think anyone here thinks it’s only the lefties who spew hatred. However, I am hard-pressed to find a conservative who comes straight out and wishes for someone to die of a heart attack (Cheney) or cancer (Tony Snow). You may not like Ann Coulter or the manner in which she employs satire, but she’s got nothing on some of the bloggers on DK or HP. Not here to defend everything she’s ever said even though I believe that sometimes she’s very provacative
There have been bloggers on HuffPo who have wished Snow and Cheney would die? Bloggers, not commenters.
Michelle, Rick, I noticed that disgusting piece at Puffington Host at about 6:00 am CST Sat morning and wrote about it at LGF. I kinda monitor that disgusting site, so I’ll let ya know in the future of such shenanigans.
#88
Mookie,
I was only responding specifically to your above post. I didn’t realize we were splitting hairs and you were only talking about commentators when you said “If you folks think it’s just the left that spews hatreds on blogs and in comments “. Besides, I’m sure it wouldn’t be difficult to find a left-wing host who has wished the President were shot or assassinated, say Randi Rhodes for instance? I know she’s only a radio “personality”, but that counts, right? I guess I could spend all day researching and pulling quotes, but I have to get my kids ready for school.
#88 Mookie said:
Mook, As my second grade teacher, Mrs. Helms, used to say: “Please see me.”
I hope your point is not as Kovacs’ appears to be; he seems to still believe that there is some sort of moral equivalence between Ann Coulter’s craft and the vile sentiment that Chris Kelly bended over and pushed out at Arianna Huffington’s site yesterday.
1. Ann Coulter takes her arguments directly to those she is addressing. Chris Kelly spent the majority of his piece demeaning the character of a dead man who had no piece of the fight, akin to a playground bully who is so tired of getting one-upped by someone stronger that he turns around and wallops the other guy’s sister in the face.
Someone as especially fair minded as you might concede that yesterday was a new depth for the American Left at the Huffington Post.
2. Like 17th century Irish author Jonathon Swift, Ann Coulter most effectively utilizes vulgarity and ill will in her work when she merely collects it from her opposition and throws it right back in their faces. (Please see paragraphs 4-8 of my entry before you arrived, #80.)
As #89 “On My Soapbox” ably explained, Ann didn’t only utilize the word “f#gg#t” to identify John Edwards as the obvious wuss that he is,or for mere shock value, she was also highlighting the current fascist state of the left, where the use of certain words can either get you fired, or thrown into a rehabilitation camp, or in Issiah Washington’s case, both. (I believe that the American Left still ironically venerates 1960’s comedian Lenny Bruce for having utilized the same strategy.)
You don’t find the actual word “f#gg#t” funny, fair enough. Neither do I. But your sensibilities seem to be forcing you to take your ball and go home too early. In my opinion, you are misunderstanding a very basic tenant of Ann Coulter’s style. Her style being, vulgarity and ill will not for their own sake, but to emulate and highlight the folly of her opposition.
I also notice that Ann gets a bonus pleasure from the major media not even understanding that a liberal had already said or did exactly what she is currently getting in trouble for. Can you say “Lexis-Nexis?”
PS.
Huffington Post’s 2006 Thanksgiving Prayer for Dick Cheney’s Heart Attack
But back then, at least they weren’t knocking over his dead father’s gravestone.
From one of the comments on that site:
That greatly interested me. What do liberals call their parents? By the name?
Way to pull a Chris Hitchens, Huffington. What a smear-snob site that place is. When all is said and done, we’ll see who’s lighting it up in Hell.