PS - I can send you a copy of the Bible so that you can look up “Pharisee.” I don’t suspect that you have that book in your collection of German literature, like “Mein Kampf” and “Communist Manifesto.”

Regards,
Peter H.

Fred Phelps is also a Baptist minister and a lawyer. I notice that you don’t mention any of that.

It appears to have escaped your notice that anyone can register him- or her-self with any political party he or she wants.

BTW, have you read the US Constitution yet regarding amendments? Didn’t expect that you had.

Regards,
Peter H.

Maybe it’s because she reminds me of a lot of gay men - we’re definitely the ones who kiss-and-tell, who say the snide and coarse remarks through a smile, and who are the first to point out hypocrisy.

I mean, admit it…we can all be a bunch of whiny bitches at times. Just look at some of these posters on this board! I rest my case.

Regards,
Peter H.

Typical. I experienced the exact same thing in a debate when I was using Native Americans as an example of a culture that had exhibited the excellent quality of managing their resources well and the liberals in the audience gasped. It was an analogy about not strangling the businesses we rely on for goods and severices with taxation and regulation. Afterward a lady came up and started chastising me about how it was the white man that killed off the buffalo. I started to say that was exactly my point when several conservatives nearby said it for me. THEY understood me perfectly, presumably because they were actually listening to what I was saying instead of immediately jumping to the conclusion that I was racist and tuning out my words.

There’s no comparing her to Michael Moore. He’s an outright liar. The NRA article picking apart his tactics on Bowling for Columbine was an eye-opener. What she says is true, though tactlessly presented.

Ann has her purpose. She calls the left out on their bullshit. I’m glad someone is saying the things she’s saying and is then willing to take the heat for it. She deserves all the criticism she’s getting, but meanwhile, now the truth is out there and has to be dealt with. There is a running theme in her books and articles about leftist tactics- villianizing and discrediting their oponents, revising history, repititive soundbites, emotional rather than logical arguments - all sorts of tactics to avoid an actual debate on a subject because they’d soundly lose. I think pissing ppl off is her way of getting their goat so that they can prove her point in a very visible way.

It made me wonder whether her success–such as it is–at book selling was due more to her exposed legs than to her supposed erudition.

As for the far lefties who put down the military or slam it every chance they get - often with false information - there are too many cases for me to count. Discussing it would make this post too long.

Finally, are you aware that Fred Phelps, the originator of “God Hates Fags” who tries to disrupt military funerals, is a Democrat? (Look up his Wikipedia entry.) Trying to pin him on the Right doesn’t work.

olaskym, I also typed in an answer to #30 last night, but the comment system didn’t take it for some reason. I will make another try.

You said, “it truly is my impression that any Democrat interested in winning elections stays as far away from Moore as possible…” Consider this:

- Moore had a prominent seat of honor at the 2004 Democratic Convention, next to Jimmy Carter.

- John Kerry was recently - perhaps still is?? - a contributor at Daily Kos.

- Howard Dean gave his imprimatur to some of the most twisted and hateful 9-11 speculation out there - and he is now chair of the DNC.

So no, I don’t think you can argue that the Dems keep their nutjobs at arms’ length.

Coulter, on the other hand, is being roundly slammed by a great many conservatives as we speak. Even I - although I don’t really count as a conservative, except on foreign policy maybe - DON’T support her and acknowledge her language went too far. Peace!

That would be just about anybody on the left. Do you suppose that the Jersey GALS believed their husbands were “little Eichmans”? Do they think that we “deserved it”? We see the liberal left slander and smear the military every chance they get. Do they lose any sleep?

in this one sentence you imply “just about anybody on the left” believes 9/11 victims were “little Eichmanns” who “deserved it”. So every person (or “just about”) in the US that doesn’t vote Republican believes these things? That’s news to me.

Ok … then I hereby declare that “just about anybody” on the right believes that “God hates Fags”. I dare you to find a flaw with that blanket accusation (I preemptively declare that all who do are atheist traitors).

On video, the context is:

(1) Coulter trying to explain her pet peeve of “liberal infallibility” where, in her view (right or wrong), conservatives are not socially ‘permitted’ to respond to certain liberal speakers or points.

(2) Lauer talking over Coulter, more and more insistently, before she can get it out.

(3) Coulter saying in effect (and a reasonably good-humored way), ‘Isn’t my theory illustrated by the fact that you are getting a little upset with me this minute, as we speak?’

Regards,
Peter H.

Also, just as FYI - Burlingame did manage to land an interview after Condollezza Rice’s appearance with the Jersey Girls on an ABC interview. When she had finished airing her views critical of the accusatory tone and tactics of the Jersey Girls, her interviewer, ABC congressional reporter Linda Douglass marveled, “This is the first time I’ve heard this point of view.”

And they say there is no bias in the drive-by media. Scribes, Pharisees and Hypocrites all!

Regards,
Peter H.