I ran across this dkos diary 
discussing Coulter's latest outrageous statement:
WASHINGTON (AP) 
- A recent Newsweek poll showing Democrat Barack Obama leading top Republican presidential hopefuls could have been made up and might help al-Qaida, conservative commentator Ann Coulter said in her latest verbal broadside.
[...]"I think this is Newsweek doing more push polling for al-Qaida," she said
Coulter is predictable and stale, reduced to ever more trollish and deliberately offensive soundbites in a desparate attempt to cling to the spotlight. After she essentially called Edwards a "faggot" at CPAC, conservatives rushed to distance themselves from her remarks. I viewed her comments as part of a disturbing trend 
of slash-and-burn politics embraced by a vocal subset of Republicans. FOX typifies the gloves-off approach that Coulter takes to extremes, so it's no surprise that they didn't get the memo that conservatives didn't wish to be associated with her venom.
FOX was out front smearing Obama 
, perhaps the most electable Democratic Presidential candidate, and was subsequently frozen out by the Senator. Coulter's comment is outrageous, but not unexpected coming from her, and not out of character with previous FOX coverage. It's time to quit pretending FOX is a serious news outlet. They choose to embrace Coulter and Coulteresque commentary, and they choose to demonize their political opposition. Hey, if that gets them ratings, whatever, but let's treat this "fair and balanced" charade with the contempt it deserves.
Comments :
The only way that Coulter (and others like her)would be reviled,
is by allowing her to have her platform. The more she opens her mouth, the more she exposes herself for and reveals who and what she really is. Eventually, people will see the light, turn her off, and she'll hopefully disappear into thin air, if you all get the drift.
Actually, I like Ann.
Maybe that is not a surprise to most, I suppose. I think that she is very intelligent, and she uses it in such a deliciously cutting manner. I can definitely see why liberals hate her so much, but she is no worse than some of the insufferable pundits on the left.
I'm the Bugs Bunny of Swords Crossed!
-4 Strongly Disagree - 0 Meh - Strongly Agree +4To each their own, but, first of all, GoRight.
not withstanding the fact that her viewpoints are really way too conservative for my tastes, she seems like a person who (a) really doesn't know much, and (b) like some pundits on the left and right alike, she seems to have an unmitigated hatred for people who disagree with her points of view, and, (c) the fact that she spouts off rhetoric suggesting that gays, liberals, etc, should be assaulted with baseball bats is even more disgusting.
There are people on the Left that I like little to no better, but Ann Coulter is not my idea of a sweetheart.
I don't know who on the left approaches Coulters levels
There are many on the left and the right that hate criminals, especially for specific crimes, but the hatred for opinions, looks, lifestyle, etc seems to be primarily a function of the Right. The Left doing so would definitely be a man bites dog story.
The equivalent bile of, Coulter, Savage, Beck, and many others, like those Spocko have outed, is nonexistent in the left. Perhaps when gangs of gays start grabbing skinheads off the street and drag them behind trucks, in equal numbers as the reverse, perhaps we can talk about "both sides do it".
The Self Made Man is just not admitting where he got all the parts.
I have to respectfully disagree with you somewhat, Freedom.
"There are many on the left and the right that hate criminals, especially for specific crimes, but the hatred for opinions, looks, lifestyle, etc seems to be primarily a function of the Right. The Left doing so would definitely be a man bites dog story."
The above-mentioned quote in your post is what I disagree with somewhat, Freedom. Maybe the Left doesn't do it to the same extent, and/or intensity as the Right, but it does occur, to a certain degree on the far left, nonetheless. Debate today has gotten much, much shriller, from both sides, and it's not uncommon for people on both sides of a given issue to end up just hurling vile insults at each other, whether it's insulting someone's opinion, or attacking him/her as a person. When the Left does it, there's not as much power behind it, but who's to say that that wouldn't somehow change, someday?
There is more than my opinion.
http://patternsthatconnect.blogspot.com/2006/03/rightwing-authoritariani...
Patterns That Connect: Rightwing Authoritarianism and Conservative Identity Politics (Pt 3 in the series)
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/
The Authoritarians
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/28/11942/4635
RWA & Blogs.
as well as the other parts noted by me here
http://swordscrossed2.org/node/1137
As Dr Altemeyer points out LWA's exist , like Lewis Farrakan, but are quite rare and not supported a lot on the left generally, such as Coulter is on the right.
Given the research, and given that the likes of LeRouche, or Farrakan, do not find a way to magically fulfill their dreams of conquest, then yes I can say that the left would not behave as the right does. Because they are not wired that way.
The debate has gotten shriller because propaganda has been answered, albeit inadequately. That is why I included hatred for crimes and criminals as legitimate anger. That is where the shrillness on the left is found. Just look at Olbermann and ORielly, much less Coulter, and you can see the difference between hatred and anger.
The Self Made Man is just not admitting where he got all the parts.
Um....who's to say that certain elements on the Left wouldn't
behave as the Right does, if they had the power and were better-organized? That's what I'm asking here.
Because there are elements on the far left that're almost as bad as the Right in that respect--brooking no dissent or difference in opinion, and the persistance refusal of some elements on the (far) Left also, to see the various shades of gray between the black and the white so to speak.
I still remember those kinds of attitudes on both sides of the busing issue in Boston when mandated school busing took Boston by storm some 30 years ago.
Many people on both sides, i. e the pro-busing as well as the anti-busing side refused to see the shades of gray between the black and white, and therefore no understanding was reached. This is what's often prevented people from really talking and reaching some kind of understanding, which is quite unfortunate, imo.
the research noted says that
The Self Made Man is just not admitting where he got all the parts.