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Originally Posted by mirevolver
Reading this thread is quite amusing to me. I've met Ann Coulter, sat down with her and had a nice little discussion. Perhaps this might be because I am a Republician, but I found her to be very nice and had a great sense of humor. I can also say that she always puts some element of her humor into her one-liners.
Ann Coulter's problem is that she operates in the realm of politics, where nobody says what they mean nor do they mean what they say. Politicians have no clue what directness is, which is why they always give long winded answers where they skirt the issue until they decide it's a safe issue for them. Ann Coulter is on the other hand, extreemly direct and doesn't care what people think about her directness. She speaks her mind wheras others in the field of politics don't want you to know what's truely on their mind. And the thing that has Liberals/Progressives the most infuriated with her is that she is completly 100% against political corectness.
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Those that take her absolutely seriously are hyperbole-impaired. However, I admit to having the same failing--I scratched my head with the "Is he serious?" look when Jesse Jackson came to my home town and said a flood had been "racist" because it flooded more black homes than white ones. However, he got the cheers and applause he was fishing for.
The difference as I see it is that Ann states some pretty out-there OPINIONS, but Michael Moore lies in an attempt to legitimize his original lies. To me, a statement like "All liberals are idiots" is much less harmful than Moore's claim that “numerous investigations said that Gore won Florida.”
The first is obviously her opinion; the second attempts to deceive people who don't read The New York Times, the Washington Post, or USA Today, to name three.
On a marginally related note, if you ever want to meet a full-fledged alcoholic moron who has only survived by surrounding himself with some very sharp people, try to meet Teddy Kennedy.