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Native

(5,943 posts)
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 10:43 AM Jul 2016

‘I’m ashamed to have known you’: Conservatives rip Ann Coulter for ugly smear of hero Marine’s dad

“Hillary Clinton was right when she called my son the best of America. If it was up to Donald Trump, he never would have been in America,” he said. “Donald Trump consistently smears the character of Muslims. He disrespects other minorities, women, judges, and even his own party leadership. Donald Trump loves to build walls and ban us from this country.”

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!”

Khan’s 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, “I’m 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/
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‘I’m ashamed to have known you’: Conservatives rip Ann Coulter for ugly smear of hero Marine’s dad (Original Post) Native Jul 2016 OP
I'm ashamed to share the human race with her TexasProgresive Jul 2016 #1
+100 n/t whathehell Jul 2016 #32
x10000 Fast Walker 52 Jul 2016 #67
Unless you're a lizard-brained cretin Friend or Foe Jul 2016 #79
Me too. But with comments like that she may wind up being the best surrogate for Clinton!!! George II Jul 2016 #80
Geez Louise. What took them so long? Ilsa Jul 2016 #2
they are morally reprehensible greenman3610 Jul 2016 #5
You are insulting Festering Pustules lapfog_1 Jul 2016 #31
Well, maybe the Vogon's wouldn't be insulted SnowCritter Jul 2016 #64
even worse lapfog_1 Jul 2016 #66
Republican operatives are quickly discarded when they become inconvenient. Orsino Jul 2016 #81
Ikr? "finally gone too far"?? Beartracks Jul 2016 #85
I didn't say "finally gone too far". Ilsa Jul 2016 #88
That was from the linked article. Beartracks Jul 2016 #91
He said you have sacrificed nothing and no one. Why does everyone leave off the "no one"? Justice Jul 2016 #3
Good question. DURHAM D Jul 2016 #39
Yes, he has those strapping sons, and daughters, now that women serve as well. brush Jul 2016 #45
To misrepresent his words and weaken it IronLionZion Jul 2016 #59
Honestly, you could barely hear it over the applause. Barack_America Jul 2016 #93
Gosh, that's big of them to finally throw her off the bus. sufrommich Jul 2016 #4
Crazy train Lefthacker Jul 2016 #8
I do take a sick liking to watching them eat their own. Native Jul 2016 #11
Where the F do they think Trump came from? auntpurl Jul 2016 #17
ugly izzybella Jul 2016 #6
That's a tough call izzybella. Not sure which is more horrible AllyCat Jul 2016 #36
welcome to du. given the pukes, I would only say that coultergeist's comment is the niyad Jul 2016 #73
She represents the ugly side of America, as embraced by Fox News and much of the right. Doodley Jul 2016 #7
Anne has some kindred spirits on the left at JPR BeyondGeography Jul 2016 #9
So does Trump: sufrommich Jul 2016 #14
So many are just unappeasable, exhausting people BeyondGeography Jul 2016 #16
I am shocked at this, and the link above obamanut2012 Jul 2016 #41
Sickening, but only shocking in one regard for me. GoCubsGo Jul 2016 #84
Truly evil. Sickened reading that. grossproffit Jul 2016 #60
Jackhole radicals have really shown their true colors ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jul 2016 #15
Thanks for pointing this out. sarge43 Jul 2016 #44
The OP was fighting the good fight BeyondGeography Jul 2016 #47
Yup. sarge43 Jul 2016 #48
People get utterly lost and robotic when they dehumanize others BeyondGeography Jul 2016 #50
They definitely lose it when they have no sympathy for pain of others sarge43 Jul 2016 #57
They're being extensively trolled - they just haven't figured it out yet. TwilightZone Jul 2016 #52
how narrow minded to absolve Trump treestar Jul 2016 #69
Beyond reprehensible mcar Jul 2016 #76
She has to be doing performance art oberliner Jul 2016 #10
It's just a game and a paycheck to these people. yallerdawg Jul 2016 #12
+1 Kathy M Jul 2016 #40
When you make Coulter that angry, you are doing something right KingFlorez Jul 2016 #13
Exactly! AgadorSparticus Jul 2016 #92
I Have To Admit RobinA Jul 2016 #18
Post removed Post removed Jul 2016 #19
If someone doused her with water get the red out Jul 2016 #20
If Ann Coulter were on fire maxrandb Jul 2016 #29
+ 1 billion oswaldactedalone Jul 2016 #22
Coulter is a vampire; she has no sou gohuskies Jul 2016 #26
People like Coulter and Trump always have to amp it up to get attention. anamandujano Jul 2016 #68
But watch how many tv shows have her on world wide wally Jul 2016 #21
what else can they do heaven05 Jul 2016 #23
any woman, let alone any human that supports tRump is working very hard against their own interests. Javaman Jul 2016 #24
Easy, not a woman safeinOhio Jul 2016 #37
There isn't one. sarge43 Jul 2016 #46
Could it be that they have finally found a limit... Wounded Bear Jul 2016 #25
All the shit in the gene pool randr Jul 2016 #27
And its called the Republican party for easy identification workinclasszero Jul 2016 #35
Gin is going to write what Gin is going to write underpants Jul 2016 #28
When Coulter is on, I can't get to the mute button fast enough Motley13 Jul 2016 #30
Not getting as much attention tavernier Jul 2016 #33
She never had them BlueInPhilly Jul 2016 #58
That is not the first time she has attacked the American soldiers Peacetrain Jul 2016 #34
I'm not suprised about Coulter Cary Jul 2016 #38
All this comment deserves is an eye-roll. It's like it came out of the mouth of a two-year-old... Moonwalk Jul 2016 #42
That's the problem PatSeg Jul 2016 #43
Ann who????? AlbertCat Jul 2016 #49
People are just now figuring out how toxic Ann Coulter is? Initech Jul 2016 #51
Shall we start a betting pool?... JHB Jul 2016 #53
And This Piece of Human Garbage SDJay Jul 2016 #54
Who let Einstein in? Thick accent, atheist, doesn't know how to use a comb! Get him outta here! . /s Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2016 #55
Her mocking 9-11 widows thucythucy Jul 2016 #56
Yeah they were good with that one apparently workinclasszero Jul 2016 #61
She has been dumped by Fox so she is desperate as she descends into total irrelevance anneboleyn Jul 2016 #90
Was she not hugged enough as a child? IronLionZion Jul 2016 #62
I'd like to thank Ann Coulter nolabear Jul 2016 #63
She reminds me of those "cold eyed" killers seen so often on True Crime shows. Peregrine Took Jul 2016 #65
God where is Keith when we need him... 47of74 Jul 2016 #70
??? Fareed is not particularly angry by conservative standards, nor is his accent that thick. KamaAina Jul 2016 #71
That is so ugly mcar Jul 2016 #72
Ann Coulter is (and always has been) an Evil Harpie Martin Eden Jul 2016 #74
I'm ashamed she's a member of the human race. muntrv Jul 2016 #75
Coulter is so 2004. muntrv Jul 2016 #77
I am still convinced that... Else You Are Mad Jul 2016 #78
Don't be fooled. Capt. Obvious Jul 2016 #82
Wow. Just WOW n/t Chimichurri Jul 2016 #83
I'm sorry to breathe the same air as her. Lifelong Protester Jul 2016 #86
Methinks a house fell on her sister. . . DinahMoeHum Jul 2016 #87
What a sociopath! smirkymonkey Jul 2016 #89
The right always complain about people being to okieinpain Jul 2016 #94

Ilsa

(61,721 posts)
2. Geez Louise. What took them so long?
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 10:47 AM
Jul 2016

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?

lapfog_1

(29,244 posts)
31. You are insulting Festering Pustules
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 11:34 AM
Jul 2016

on the ass of civilizations everywhere in our Galaxy... possibly even our Galactic sub group

lapfog_1

(29,244 posts)
66. even worse
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:53 PM
Jul 2016

they might decide to subject us all to a poetry slam in response to our broadcasting Drumpf to the Universe

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
81. Republican operatives are quickly discarded when they become inconvenient.
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:31 PM
Jul 2016

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)
85. Ikr? "finally gone too far"??
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 02:18 PM
Jul 2016

It didn't just now happen. It happened years and years ago.

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Beartracks

(12,841 posts)
91. That was from the linked article.
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 08:32 PM
Jul 2016

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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Barack_America

(28,876 posts)
93. Honestly, you could barely hear it over the applause.
Sat Jul 30, 2016, 09:54 AM
Jul 2016

Even live, I missed it, as I couldn't hear it above the applause in my own head.

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
4. Gosh, that's big of them to finally throw her off the bus.
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 10:49 AM
Jul 2016

She's been nothing but a hateful,racist hatemonger for decades,maybe they should reflect on that.

izzybella

(236 posts)
6. ugly
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 10:55 AM
Jul 2016

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!

niyad

(113,993 posts)
73. welcome to du. given the pukes, I would only say that coultergeist's comment is the
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:19 PM
Jul 2016

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.

GoCubsGo

(32,103 posts)
84. Sickening, but only shocking in one regard for me.
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:55 PM
Jul 2016

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.

ProudToBeBlueInRhody

(16,399 posts)
15. Jackhole radicals have really shown their true colors
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 11:12 AM
Jul 2016

I hope the few people with common sense over there realize the sludge they are soaking in.

sarge43

(28,947 posts)
44. Thanks for pointing this out.
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 11:57 AM
Jul 2016

I cancelled my membership. I won't hang out with people who will say crap like that.

Hate the war; honor the service.

sarge43

(28,947 posts)
48. Yup.
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:17 PM
Jul 2016

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)
50. People get utterly lost and robotic when they dehumanize others
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:23 PM
Jul 2016

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)
57. They definitely lose it when they have no sympathy for pain of others
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:32 PM
Jul 2016

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)
52. They're being extensively trolled - they just haven't figured it out yet.
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:28 PM
Jul 2016

Some of the most prominent members are some of the most obvious.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
69. how narrow minded to absolve Trump
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:56 PM
Jul 2016

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.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
10. She has to be doing performance art
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 10:59 AM
Jul 2016

Or just saying the most outrageous things possible to try to sell books.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
12. It's just a game and a paycheck to these people.
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 11:03 AM
Jul 2016

"Ann Coulter" is a cartoon character.

Outrageous is her brand.

It's working for Trump, too.

KingFlorez

(12,689 posts)
13. When you make Coulter that angry, you are doing something right
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 11:05 AM
Jul 2016

Democrats really pulled off the convention well and conservative can't stand it.

Response to Native (Original post)

gohuskies

(1,159 posts)
26. Coulter is a vampire; she has no sou
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 11:30 AM
Jul 2016

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)
68. People like Coulter and Trump always have to amp it up to get attention.
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:55 PM
Jul 2016

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)
21. But watch how many tv shows have her on
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 11:23 AM
Jul 2016

It would be a little encouraging if they didn't give her a microphone

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
23. what else can they do
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 11:23 AM
Jul 2016

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)
24. any woman, let alone any human that supports tRump is working very hard against their own interests.
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 11:24 AM
Jul 2016

coulter is nothing but a self loathing shill.

sarge43

(28,947 posts)
46. There isn't one.
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:00 PM
Jul 2016

The second she was born; all the medical staff ran screaming from the OR, never to be seen again.

Wounded Bear

(58,797 posts)
25. Could it be that they have finally found a limit...
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 11:25 AM
Jul 2016

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)
27. All the shit in the gene pool
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 11:31 AM
Jul 2016

is finally settling into an easily identifiable blob. We are in the process of separating the wheat from the chaff in America.

Motley13

(3,867 posts)
30. When Coulter is on, I can't get to the mute button fast enough
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 11:34 AM
Jul 2016

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."

Cary

(11,746 posts)
38. I'm not suprised about Coulter
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 11:48 AM
Jul 2016

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)
42. All this comment deserves is an eye-roll. It's like it came out of the mouth of a two-year-old...
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 11:56 AM
Jul 2016

...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)
43. That's the problem
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 11:57 AM
Jul 2016

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.

JHB

(37,166 posts)
53. Shall we start a betting pool?...
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:28 PM
Jul 2016

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)
54. And This Piece of Human Garbage
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:29 PM
Jul 2016

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.

thucythucy

(8,139 posts)
56. Her mocking 9-11 widows
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:31 PM
Jul 2016

saying they were "enjoying" their husbands' deaths didn't make you ashamed?

Jeezus, these folks are slow.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
61. Yeah they were good with that one apparently
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:36 PM
Jul 2016

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)
90. She has been dumped by Fox so she is desperate as she descends into total irrelevance
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 06:56 PM
Jul 2016

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)
62. Was she not hugged enough as a child?
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:38 PM
Jul 2016

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)
63. I'd like to thank Ann Coulter
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:48 PM
Jul 2016

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)
65. She reminds me of those "cold eyed" killers seen so often on True Crime shows.
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:51 PM
Jul 2016

The victim's families always say the same thing:

"I looked right at them to see any sign of remorse. There was none."

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
71. ??? Fareed is not particularly angry by conservative standards, nor is his accent that thick.
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:18 PM
Jul 2016

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)
72. That is so ugly
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:19 PM
Jul 2016

But not surprising. Why anyone gives this woman 1 second of attention is beyond me.

Martin Eden

(12,887 posts)
74. Ann Coulter is (and always has been) an Evil Harpie
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:19 PM
Jul 2016

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.

Else You Are Mad

(3,040 posts)
78. I am still convinced that...
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:23 PM
Jul 2016

'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)
82. Don't be fooled.
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:33 PM
Jul 2016

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.

okieinpain

(9,397 posts)
94. The right always complain about people being to
Sat Jul 30, 2016, 10:02 AM
Jul 2016

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.

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