2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum‘I’m ashamed to have known you’: Conservatives rip Ann Coulter for ugly smear of hero Marine’s dad
Addressing Trump directly he said, Let me ask you, have you even read the U.S. Constitution? I will gladly lend you my copy, before adding, You have sacrificed nothing!
Khans attack on the GOP nominee triggered unabashed Trump supporter Ann Coulter, who tweeted: You know what this convention really needed? An angry Muslim with a thick accent like Fareed Zacaria.
Her ugly smear set off conservatives, including longtime friend and editor John Podhoretz who admitted, Im ashamed ever to have known you.
Coulter's misspelling was in reference to Fareed Zakaria. The article contains a sampling of other conservative responses.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/im-ashamed-to-have-known-you-conservatives-rip-ann-coulter-for-ugly-smear-of-hero-marines-dad/
TexasProgresive
(12,165 posts)whathehell
(29,113 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)Friend or Foe
(195 posts)I don't think you're really sharing anything.
George II
(67,782 posts)Ilsa
(61,721 posts)She has been a festering pustule on the ass of the United States for decades, and they are just now realizing the stench eminating from her putrid piehole every time she opens it?
greenman3610
(3,947 posts)lapfog_1
(29,244 posts)on the ass of civilizations everywhere in our Galaxy... possibly even our Galactic sub group
SnowCritter
(810 posts)Nope, they'd be insulted, too.
lapfog_1
(29,244 posts)they might decide to subject us all to a poetry slam in response to our broadcasting Drumpf to the Universe
Orsino
(37,428 posts)The party and Fox News have in recent years been much more useful to her than the other way around. She may not get much help for a while in selling her ghost-written books.
Beartracks
(12,841 posts)It didn't just now happen. It happened years and years ago.
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Ilsa
(61,721 posts)Who are you talking to?
What's lkr?
Beartracks
(12,841 posts)First sentence starts out, "Conservative writer and professional provocateur Ann Coulter may have finally gone too far Thursday night after mocking the Muslim father of a U.S. Army captain..."
I was responding to the author's assertion that Coulter had... >gasp!< ... FINALLY gone too far.
Oh -- and IKR is the acronym for "I know, right?" In short, I am agreeing with you -- pustule, stench, piehole, all of it!
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Justice
(7,188 posts)DURHAM D
(32,619 posts)Thanks for the reminder.
brush
(53,978 posts)IronLionZion
(45,674 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Even live, I missed it, as I couldn't hear it above the applause in my own head.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)She's been nothing but a hateful,racist hatemonger for decades,maybe they should reflect on that.
Lefthacker
(264 posts)More like the crazy train!
Native
(5,943 posts)auntpurl
(4,311 posts)Until her comment, I thought Trump mocking the disabled reporter was the ugliest thing I have seen so far in this election. She takes the cake!
AllyCat
(16,275 posts)Welcome to DU!
niyad
(113,993 posts)ugliest thing I have seen so far this morning. I am sure there is plenty more to come. as I have observed to a number of people, there seems to be no depth to which they will not sink.
Doodley
(9,179 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,398 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)I hope everyone remembers their names when they come back here and try to pretend they're liberals.
BeyondGeography
(39,398 posts)And not missed at all.
obamanut2012
(26,192 posts)I mean that. wtf
GoCubsGo
(32,103 posts)I'm mostly not shocked. A lot of the names there are people I have had on "ignore" at one time or another, because they constantly spewed that kind of crap--at least at the level at which they could get away with it here. A couple of them really surprise me, however. Sad.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)I hope the few people with common sense over there realize the sludge they are soaking in.
sarge43
(28,947 posts)I cancelled my membership. I won't hang out with people who will say crap like that.
Hate the war; honor the service.
BeyondGeography
(39,398 posts)Amazing that he had to.
sarge43
(28,947 posts)Been thinking about Capt Khan. He answered one of the highest callings of duty - he willingly stood between death and his unit. That's a commander. It was right and meet that his father reminded all of us what service and sacrifice can be and that those qualities aren't the sole possession of any one group.
BeyondGeography
(39,398 posts)It's not pretty. At best, it will make you dull. But you can also lose a big part of your soul.
sarge43
(28,947 posts)His speech wasn't about Hillary Clinton. It was a reminder of the ideals of this country; why he and his family came here; why his son stepped up. People who would demean that, Trump, Coulter, so called 'progressives' or anyone else, are lost.
TwilightZone
(25,525 posts)Some of the most prominent members are some of the most obvious.
treestar
(82,383 posts)because he was not in the Senate at the time to have to vote - surely he would have been for it and would be for more war in the future.
mcar
(42,476 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Or just saying the most outrageous things possible to try to sell books.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)"Ann Coulter" is a cartoon character.
Outrageous is her brand.
It's working for Trump, too.
KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)Democrats really pulled off the convention well and conservative can't stand it.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)RobinA
(9,911 posts)I don't even understand her comment.
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get the red out
(13,468 posts)She would melt.
maxrandb
(15,405 posts)I wouldn't even pee on her
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)gohuskies
(1,159 posts)What a vile P.O.S. Just when you think she couldn't sink any lower she finds a way to voice her useless hateful rhetoric. But I guess when you cast no reflection in a mirror, you think you are untouchable when in fact it's a sub-human entity like Coultergeist.
anamandujano
(7,004 posts)They rely on shocking statements to keep them relevant. They can't shock if they say something that they've already said. They have to keep pushing.
It's a relief that some Republicans are making it known that they don't approve of this kind of stuff.
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)It would be a little encouraging if they didn't give her a microphone
heaven05
(18,124 posts)but distance themselves from this trump clone. He disparges all vets and our service to this country, she disparages the parents of an honored vet of this nation... this is the perfect representation of what and who the new nazi party exactly are. They who will still vote(party loyalty) for their fuhrer know their protestations are all kabuki to keep their base of ignorant and hateful human beings wondering...and confused.
Javaman
(62,540 posts)coulter is nothing but a self loathing shill.
safeinOhio
(32,762 posts)has anyone seen the birth certificate?
sarge43
(28,947 posts)The second she was born; all the medical staff ran screaming from the OR, never to be seen again.
Wounded Bear
(58,797 posts)to the shit they will fling? Doubtful, I guess, but I've seen some conservatives come around a bit and start criticizing their most vocal shit flingers. About time.
randr
(12,418 posts)is finally settling into an easily identifiable blob. We are in the process of separating the wheat from the chaff in America.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The dregs of humanity are all there!
underpants
(183,057 posts)Motley13
(3,867 posts)I have to listen to dim don 'cause he is running for Prez
I DO have respect for Fareed Zakaria & the Muslim man that spoke last night. Every word he said about the maggot was right on.
This is just one of Coulter's really intelligent statements
On March 16, 2011, discussing the Fukushima I nuclear accidents, Coulter, citing research into radiation hormesis, wrote that there was "burgeoning evidence that excess radiation operates as a sort of cancer vaccine."
tavernier
(12,429 posts)now that your looks are gone, Annie Cokely?
BlueInPhilly
(870 posts)She can't lose what she ain't got
Peacetrain
(22,881 posts)Cary
(11,746 posts)What I'm really surprised at is how many people don't see that "conservatives" are our real enemy. I don't get it. People would rather aid and abet "conservative" lies and smears than find common ground, overwhelm and marginalize people like Coulter, and move forward.
I don't get it. I really and truly don't.
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)...I mean, really? "You're ugly and talk funny?" Put her in time out (a looooong time out).
If Republicans of any stripe are waking up to the fact that this makes them look bad (and might make the rich Arabs they and their business partners want to keep happy upset with them), then they need to stop feeding this infantile troll with any kind of attention.
PatSeg
(47,774 posts)when people become famous for saying outrageous things. They have to get more and more outrageous to stay in the limelight, or their nutty base loses interest. There is always another fear-monger out there to take your place.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)That's the most cutting remark one can make to her.
Initech
(100,152 posts)JHB
(37,166 posts)How many days until a MSM talking head show has her back on, as if she hadn't been spouting vile poison for decades?
Or should it be hours?
SDJay
(1,089 posts)accomplishes her mission again. Just say whatever insane, horrible thing will get shock value and people will talk about you.
She'll make money off of this and that makes me almost physically ill.
I wish there was a way the public at large could just collectively agree to ignore these horrifying people. If so, they'd disappear quickly.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,088 posts)thucythucy
(8,139 posts)saying they were "enjoying" their husbands' deaths didn't make you ashamed?
Jeezus, these folks are slow.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Its a laugh to see all these republican Dr. Frankenstein's weeping and moaning at the state of the dirty lowball gutter party that they themselves created since the days of Ronald Reagan.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)She was on some YouTube channel complaining/whining that she has been dropped by Fox, which was the only "news" channel left that would let her advertise her sh!tty books. Fox decided her racist diatribes against immigration were too OTT -- even for them.
So we are now seeing her losing it as she descends into total irrelevance. She is pathetic and hysterical, and like her hero Trump she blames everyone but herself.
IronLionZion
(45,674 posts)How does anyone become so hateful and wallow in bitterness like she does?
Whatever happened in her life to cause it, I would try to avoid that.
nolabear
(42,009 posts)for forcing a few people who have been just sure their hateful but careful rhetoric wouldn't ever be revealed for what it actually is to reap that particular whirlwind.
Peregrine Took
(7,421 posts)The victim's families always say the same thing:
"I looked right at them to see any sign of remorse. There was none."
47of74
(18,470 posts)...he'd rip Coultergeist a new one.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I was privileged to see him get angry once, when he was president of the Yale Political Union (he was a year behind me). Raygun's defense secretary Cap Weinberger was addressing the PU. Not surprisingly, a number of students chose to exercise their First Amendment rights. Fareed was having none of it. He pointed them out one by one for expulsion.
But since then, he's been one of the few conservatives who are actually capable of discussing things rationally.
mcar
(42,476 posts)But not surprising. Why anyone gives this woman 1 second of attention is beyond me.
Martin Eden
(12,887 posts)I don't mind when Bill Maher has "conservatives" on his show, but I lose respect for any host or news organization that gives this loathsome creature a platform to spew her hateful bile.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)'Ann Coulter' is some sort of absurd performance art to highlight the absurdity of the far right. My guess is that when she writes her last book, it will be a far left book detailing how awful the right wing is.
No one can be that absurdly right wing.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)If Trump wasn't the nominee they wouldn't have said a word. They have the long view in mind of propping the party back up after November.
Chimichurri
(2,911 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)She's bad news.
DinahMoeHum
(21,842 posts). . .no wonder she's out of it. . .
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)She's just revolting.
okieinpain
(9,397 posts)Pc and that you cant speak your mind any more. Then they are the first ones to get upset when someone says something they dont like.