Ann Coulter and Lady Gaga
Every time I read about Ann Coulter, for some reason, Lady Gaga rushes up in my head. I think Lady Gaga attained her celebrity through the combination of her songs and her eccentric costumes and performance. She is certainly not alone in using this unconventional approach to achieve notoriety. That’s how I look at Ann Coutler, who has employed the same mechanism in attracting attention politically.
Here’s Coulter’s view on woman voters—”… it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.” Now, she is so unique here.
This is her message of getting rid of all environmental protection —”God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, ‘Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.’” Wow! Did God say this?
Sometimes, Coulter doesn’t feel the need to respect human beings who might hold different views — “The swing voters — I like to refer to them as the idiot voters because they don’t have set philosophical principles. You’re either a liberal or you’re a conservative if you have an IQ above a toaster.” This must be the first time that the swing voters are told they are idiots.
This is just for a starter. If anything, she functions more like a destroyer rather than a defender of conservative values. Her extreme approach and machine-gun style attack do not encourage people to take her seriously. If people don’t take her seriously, what’s the point of her making noises, other than Lady Gaga type of attracting attention? Except this is not performance.
The sad part is her debating style seems to be accepted as a norm by many otherwise intelligent people, who, instead of focusing on topics and views, resort to personal attacks, throwing out of window all the due considerations of basic civility. The anticipated consequence of this approach is people no longer take real issues seriously, which will decrease political participation and increase cynicism.
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Mark Hastert
2 months, 3 weeks agoIt seems Ms. Coulter is more intend on promoting Ms Coulter. She must be of the opinion that all publicity, even negative, is good. Or, maybe it all a private joke to her. Like all the talking heads who trade on the outrageous she gets the audience she’s aiming for.
JR Beillenhouser
2 months, 3 weeks agoThe sad part is her debating style seems to be accepted as a norm by many otherwise intelligent people, who, instead of focusing on topics and views, resort to personal attacks, throwing out of window all the due considerations of basic civility. The anticipated consequence of this approach is people no longer take real issues seriously, which will decrease political participation and increase cynicism.
Read more here: http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/ann-coulter-and-lady-gaga/#storylink=cpy
Yeah, her debating style should be like Chris Mathews or Keith Olbermann or other liberal talking heads, who pretty much do the same thing.
Mark Hastert
2 months, 3 weeks agoCoulter must have a new book coming out. She always launches a new book with a flamethrower attack to get a little free publicity.
Mark Hastert
2 months, 3 weeks agoThe Democratic Party activates mobs, depends on mobs, coddles mobs, publicizes and celebrates mobs—it is the mob.”
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What Coulter calls mobs we call voters….. I know she her colleagues consider us the great unwashed rabble but thus far the Supremes haven’t found a way to give the uber rich more than one vote each. They’d better be careful that the occupy anger doesn’t spill onto their finely manicured lawns.
JR Beillenhouser
2 months, 3 weeks agoThe Dems have benefitted just as much as the Reps from any Supreme Court ruling. Why do you libs bring that up?
Mark Hastert
2 months, 3 weeks ago“The Dems have benefitted just as much as the Reps from any Supreme Court ruling. Why do you libs bring that up?” Read more here: http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/ann-coulter-and-lady-gaga/#storylink=cpy
Wrong question. It’s about the rich and the rest. The Supremes gave the rich $Millions of speech while the rest of us are stuck with our 2 cents worth. We’d better pray that the “mobs” (read voters) prevail.
Chuck Close
2 months, 3 weeks agoMark: Kevin oversimplifies Coulter’s premise…..but that premise was (I have read the book) completely validated by the Occupy movement.
Of course they are voters….who says they are something less? What has that got to do with the mob menatlity?
Though it is also worth noting that you tend to call lots of people “voters” that we would put into other catagories….like Disney characters and baseball players …..per your ACORN model of voter registration.
George Hunsucker
Northland
2 months, 3 weeks agoMaybe this explains the fleabaggers, or is it the big 0’s 2012 campaign plan:
The folks who are getting the free stuff, don’t like the folks who are paying for the free stuff, because the folks who are paying for the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff.
The folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop, and the folks who are getting the free stuff want even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting!
Now… The people who are forcing the people who pay for the free stuff have told the people who are RECEIVING the free stuff, that the people who are PAYING for the free stuff, are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.
So… The people who are GETTING the free stuff have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the free stuff by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their free stuff, and giving them the free stuff in the first place.
We have let the free stuff giving go on for so long that there are now more people getting free stuff than paying for the free stuff.
Now understand this. All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason? The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.
The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 235 years ago. The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff. We have one chance to change that. In 2012. Failure to change that spells the end of the United States as we know it.
ELECTION 2012 IS COMING A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!
George Hunsucker
Northland
2 months, 3 weeks agowe need more fleabaggers doing these things:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/howoccupywentwrongPbpcKJgxQg1FiU4D7vdefI
Mark Hastert
2 months, 3 weeks ago“ELECTION 2012 IS COMING A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!”
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On this, KC, we can wholeheartedly agree. We’ve been sheep too long. Buying into the fairy tales we’ve been told for decades. “Make me rich and I’ll let you have some too, but you’ll have to wait.”
“A rising tide lifts all ships, but I get the yacht and you get the dingy.”
It’s turned us into a nation of share croppers.
BTW how ya doing with all your free stuff?
George Hunsucker
Northland
2 months, 3 weeks agoYou mean the “free stuff” I and my employuers together paid over 400K for mark, or am I missing the point.
As I have offered you libs numberous times, ruturn my money with a paltry 3% interest and we will call it even—I didn’t think so… And you continue to screw today’s kids by not offering them a CHOICE like Rep. Ryan’s plan would. You libs are sooooooooooooooooooooooooo concerned about other people’s money.
Mark Hastert
2 months, 3 weeks agoYou mean the “free stuff” I and my employuers together paid over 400K for mark, or am I missing the point.
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Wow! if your combined contributions were 400Gs then you were REALLY paying lots and lots and based on the withholding tables damn near impossible. You never paid a dime for you part D. You get generous COLAs nearly every year. I know you worked for 60+ years but you’re no longer a producer. What would Ayn Rand have called you???? Moochers! Why are you entitled to mooch for 25% of your adult life? You know these kids you’re calling names are trying to get a start so they can have a life and a home and a family just like you did lo all those years ago. There is not a single person in this country that doesn’t pay some kind of tax so no, they aren’t getting any more free stuff than you are. If they can get a decent start on a career and life they’ll contribute more any of us.
Did you know that in a recent poll something on the order of 70% of the Tea Party still doesn’t want the government to “interfere” with their SS & Medicare. How ignorant are these people? If you like Rep Ryan’s plan so much then call up Blue Cross tomorrow and get some insurance with a drug benefit as good as you’re currently enjoying. We all know that you’re never going to get private coverage because they won’t insure you. Then call Paul’s office and ask them how that works.
George Hunsucker
Northland
2 months, 3 weeks agoThe offer stands, give back the confiscated money and I am off your plan that returns, overall, less money then people have or will pay in. It is just another lib-led Ponzi scheme without any people going to jail.
And the real travesty is that you refuse to give the young people you TRY to say you are soooooooooooooooooooooooo concerned about a chance to get off the merry-go-round. Actions speak louder then words.. You libs are a true piece of work….
George Hunsucker
Northland
2 months, 3 weeks agoBTW, I dug out the last annual statement from SS that shows yearly earnings and contributions to SS & Meidcare, and the total contribtutions made by George the softie(make that govt. patsy) and my employers were $327,804. The 400K was, in fact, wrong!! I will in the future say 300K+.
The offer though still stands, give it back with 3% interest and we’re even!!! And for crying-out-loud libs, let the young people off your train headed for the cliff!
George Hunsucker
Northland
2 months, 3 weeks agoJust to correct ANOTHER misstatement of FACT, there are yearly premiums for Part D, the doughnut hole and differing copays based on the PRIVATE PLAN each individual CHOOSES vs. having a one-size fits all 0’care plan you libs love of course to “administer”…. So some of the cost of the plan is paid for mark as contrasted to your statement of “You never paid a dime for you part D.”—wrong AGAIN!
You never hear libs talk about how Part D is so far UNDER predictions in terms of cost. I wonder if it could be the fact it is private enterprise vs. govt. bureaucracy you libs love for the votes?????
Chuck Close
2 months, 3 weeks agoI pay for part D via a private carrier. Where in the world do you come up with that nonsense?
Mark Hastert
2 months, 3 weeks ago“I pay for part D via a private carrier. Where in the world do you come up with that nonsense?”
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A pittance as you know. and the majority enjoying their free stuff never paid into D while they were working… and who’s picking up the rest of the tab for those prescriptions? Not the drug compamies, they don’t have to discount a dime. It’s me and the other tax paying producers.
Chaz, KC here’s my point. Everybody who is getting thinks that they deserve it, we all deserve to be treated fairly. Those kids you are denigrating will be paying your freight soon and at a higher rate than you ever did. Should they resent your living? No, in Amnerica we take care of our own, whether they like it or not.
George Hunsucker
Northland
2 months, 3 weeks agoGeeeeeeez you don’t know anything about Part D mark… why do you keep writing this bs?
NO ONE is paying for their future part D coverage unless you are saying oh, it is part of Medicare. So, if you are saying that, then EVERYONE who has worked has paid like a 1 & 1/2% WITH NO CAP for Medicare.
Your snide remark that drug companies aren t discounting is of course bs. The law merely says the FEDERAL GOVT., in its of course infinite wisdom of economics, cannot negotiate. Drug companies negotiate with every part D provider for market share. Part of this negotiation is PRICE, a concept which may be foreign to you.
So, what do you think the average Part D monthly premium is? What do you think the average per person spend is for drug coverage? What percentage of the people on Part D are also on Medicaid?
You need to get educated, AGAIN!!!!
Chuck Close
2 months, 3 weeks agoMark, you are wrong again……a “pittance” is relative……in the two years that I have enjoyed the benefits that I spent a lifetime paying for…..or as you call it….the free stuff, I have spent over 700 dollars for part D and have benefitted to the tune of one prescription that would have cost me 10 bucks at a wal mart.
Guess what…..if I had a choice i would never have purchased a Part D plan…..but I had no choice they mandate it.
My sister is worth about 20 million @70 years old and she tried to decline SS and Medicare and was not allowed to do so ….and you whine at us for our freebies? The stupid bureaucrats who always shrink to the lowest common denominator (one plan for all) pee away all kinds of money on crap like that.
You pay no more than I did until I was retired by Obama’s stunning rejection of conventional economic wisdom 3 years ago.
What kids am I, or have I ever “denigrated” ?