Comments on: Media Rewards Coulter’s ‘Faggot’ Comment With Greater Publicity http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:12:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: USpace http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2140273 USpace Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:25:15 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2140273 John Edwards is a pussy as in a wimp, Coulter was not calling him a gay slur, she knows he's not gay, he's just an ambulance-chasing scumbag and a pussy. absurd thought - God of the Universe says mention Cheney's gay daughter . John Edwards is a pussy as in a wimp, Coulter was not calling him a gay slur, she knows he’s not gay, he’s just an ambulance-chasing scumbag and a pussy.

absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
mention Cheney’s gay daughter
.

]]> By: unbelievable http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2034560 unbelievable Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:20:27 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2034560 <em>SAY THIS PRAYER: Dear Jesus, I am a sinner and am headed to eternal hell because of my sins. Comment by Rev. Donald Spitz — March 6, 2007 @ 7:03 pm</em> Dude, you really must hate yourself to be so self-depricating... Say this: I'm just a human being. I can't fix all the world's ills, but I sure will feel better if I am tolerate, peaceful and loving. It's not being 'good' that makes you happy, it's being happy that makes you 'good' (good is subjective, though we universally tend to agree that it's about not hurting others - including judging, condemning, hating and killing them). Feels much better than your crap. SAY THIS PRAYER: Dear Jesus, I am a sinner and am headed to eternal hell because of my sins.
Comment by Rev. Donald Spitz — March 6, 2007 @ 7:03 pm

Dude, you really must hate yourself to be so self-depricating…

Say this: I’m just a human being. I can’t fix all the world’s ills, but I sure will feel better if I am tolerate, peaceful and loving. It’s not being ‘good’ that makes you happy, it’s being happy that makes you ‘good’ (good is subjective, though we universally tend to agree that it’s about not hurting others – including judging, condemning, hating and killing them).

Feels much better than your crap.

]]> By: Rev. Donald Spitz http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2031075 Rev. Donald Spitz Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:03:25 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2031075 Either Edwards is a faggot or he is not a faggot. I hope he is not, because being a sex perverted faggot is a despicable and disgusting thing to be. Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: :27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. SAY THIS PRAYER: Dear Jesus, I am a sinner and am headed to eternal hell because of my sins. I believe you died on the cross to take away my sins and to take me to heaven. Jesus, I ask you now to come into my heart and take away my sins and give me eternal life. Either Edwards is a faggot or he is not a faggot. I hope he is not, because being a sex perverted faggot is a despicable and disgusting thing to be.
Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:
for even their women did change the natural use into that which is
against nature:
:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the
woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men
working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that
recompence of their error which was meet.
SAY THIS PRAYER: Dear Jesus, I am a sinner and am headed to eternal hell because of my sins. I believe you died on the cross to take away my sins and to take me to heaven. Jesus, I ask you now to come into my heart and take away my sins and give me eternal life.

]]> By: unbelievable http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2028621 unbelievable Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:03:59 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2028621 <em>That’s the beauty believing in heaven or hell. When we die, if there is no afterlife - so what. But I would hate to swear something doesn’t exist and is superstitious hokum….and then find out, “Oh my God….IT IS real.” Comment by valiant venus — March 5, 2007 @ 7:09 pm</em> So if it turns out that flying invisible unicorns are real and they send you to an eternity of pain for not beilieving in them, then what? You god story is just as ridiculous... That’s the beauty believing in heaven or hell. When we die, if there is no afterlife – so what. But I would hate to swear something doesn’t exist and is superstitious hokum….and then find out, “Oh my God….IT IS real.”
Comment by valiant venus — March 5, 2007 @ 7:09 pm

So if it turns out that flying invisible unicorns are real and they send you to an eternity of pain for not beilieving in them, then what?

You god story is just as ridiculous…

]]> By: unbelievable http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2028610 unbelievable Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:01:58 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2028610 <em>What’s going on here? Is unbelievable pretending to be Jesus? Isn’t that like blasphemy or something? Comment by Zooey — March 5, 2007 @ 6:36 pm</em> It's pronounced HAY-soos... What’s going on here? Is unbelievable pretending to be Jesus? Isn’t that like blasphemy or something?
Comment by Zooey — March 5, 2007 @ 6:36 pm

It’s pronounced HAY-soos…

]]> By: Raymond Funamoto http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2028005 Raymond Funamoto Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:12:25 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2028005 Didn't the media also devote a lot of air time when poor Anna Nicole Smith KICKED THE BUCKET? All I can say is, Ann Coulter-GEIST, "GO THOU AND DO LIKEWISE!!!!!" KICK THE BUCKET, THAT IS!!!!! YOU MISERABLE SKANK AND RANCID PIECE OF HYENA-SHIT, Ann Coulter-GEIST!!!!! Didn’t the media also devote a lot of air time when poor Anna Nicole Smith KICKED THE BUCKET? All I can say is, Ann Coulter-GEIST, “GO THOU AND DO LIKEWISE!!!!!” KICK THE BUCKET, THAT IS!!!!! YOU MISERABLE SKANK AND RANCID PIECE OF HYENA-SHIT, Ann Coulter-GEIST!!!!!

]]> By: cosmosis http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2026426 cosmosis Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:08:13 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2026426 Coulterlogic: No, you've got it all wrong. Andy Coulter was only joking. You can always tell when he's joking, his adam's apple shakes. Wait, you mean Andy doesn't have an adam's apple? Why, I was only joking! Coulterlogic: No, you’ve got it all wrong. Andy Coulter was only joking. You can always tell when he’s joking, his adam’s apple shakes. Wait, you mean Andy doesn’t have an adam’s apple? Why, I was only joking!

]]> By: Kate Henry http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2025023 Kate Henry Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:02:09 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2025023 "Ann Coulter joins Paula Zahn with her side of the story," Just exactly what can "her side of the story" be other than the fact that she is a vulgar hatemonger with a potty mouth. Also, regarding the first poster saying "First TP makes a big post about how the national media isn’t covering this story. Now everyone is covering the story and your upset again. Figure out what you want already!!"....there's a big difference between the news covering the story by telling the public what she said and offering her a platform where she can spew more of her hate-filled rhetoric. “Ann Coulter joins Paula Zahn with her side of the story,”

Just exactly what can “her side of the story” be other than the fact that she is a vulgar hatemonger with a potty mouth.

Also, regarding the first poster saying “First TP makes a big post about how the national media isn’t covering this story. Now everyone is covering the story and your upset again. Figure out what you want already!!”….there’s a big difference between the news covering the story by telling the public what she said and offering her a platform where she can spew more of her hate-filled rhetoric.

]]> By: tarazan http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2020449 tarazan Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:24:30 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2020449 If you look at it from any angle, there is nothing Conservative about Coulter and others like her. If you look at it from any angle, there is nothing Conservative about Coulter and others like her.

]]> By: Anastasia http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2019773 Anastasia Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:44:33 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2019773 While giving Ann Coulter time on Paula Zahn to defend herself is over the top, in general all of the publicity surrounding her remarks seems to have hurt Coulter. The more mainstream America learns about split personality of the Republican Party; talking up Family Values and religion on the one hand while applauding hate speech on the other, the more the Dems will benefit. Raw Story has done a piece saying that 4 major advertisers have pulled their ads from Coulter's Web site. The fact that they were there in the first place is pretyy shocking in itself. <strong>> At least four companies have decided to pull advertisements from Coulter's website in the wake of the controversy that erupted after the conservative columnist called presidential candidate John Edwards a "faggot" last Friday, reports CNN. Verizon, Netbank, and Sallie Mae have all removed ads from the website. The ads were pulled in part due to a grassroots effort by a DailyKos diarist, who is reporting that Washington Mutual has also pulled ads from the website. http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Three_companies_to_pull_ads_from_0305.html</strong> While giving Ann Coulter time on Paula Zahn to defend herself is over the top, in general all of the publicity surrounding her remarks seems to have hurt Coulter. The more mainstream America learns about split personality of the Republican Party; talking up Family Values and religion on the one hand while applauding hate speech on the other, the more the Dems will benefit.

Raw Story has done a piece saying that 4 major advertisers have pulled their ads from Coulter’s Web site. The fact that they were there in the first place is pretyy shocking in itself.

> At least four companies have decided to pull advertisements from Coulter’s website in the wake of the controversy that erupted after the conservative columnist called presidential candidate John Edwards a “faggot” last Friday, reports CNN.

Verizon, Netbank, and Sallie Mae have all removed ads from the website. The ads were pulled in part due to a grassroots effort by a DailyKos diarist, who is reporting that Washington Mutual has also pulled ads from the website.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Three_companies_to_pull_ads_from_0305.html

]]> By: JPark http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2016201 JPark Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:59:08 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2016201 #221 You are probably kidding but I have heard that exact same defense several times. Once and for all..."faggot" is a derogatory term for homosexuals. It is like calling an African-American a nigger. Get it? Good. #221 You are probably kidding but I have heard that exact same defense several times. Once and for all…”faggot” is a derogatory term for homosexuals. It is like calling an African-American a nigger. Get it? Good.

]]> By: 'faggot' http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2016174 'faggot' Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:49:21 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2016174 I don't get it,what's the big deal? I don’t get it,what’s the big deal?

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2014512 Zooey Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:12:47 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2014512 <em>Oh yeah it was a long hard slog. All 72 or whatever pages. I had nightmares for weeks. But, at least I had the balls to try it. Comment by Bowdler </em> Thanks for taking one for the team, Bowdler. I've never been able to get past the crap on the book cover. Ick. Oh yeah it was a long hard slog. All 72 or whatever pages. I had nightmares for weeks. But, at least I had the balls to try it.
Comment by Bowdler

Thanks for taking one for the team, Bowdler. I’ve never been able to get past the crap on the book cover. Ick.

]]> By: Shane http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2014273 Shane Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:44:21 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2014273 #216 Amen Chimpeach! And since there are more Muslims on the planet than Christians we should all be a little more tolerant of others. Wonder what Jesus would think of the religious right and their propensity for PLAYING GOD. #216 Amen Chimpeach! And since there are more Muslims on the planet than Christians we should all be a little more tolerant of others. Wonder what Jesus would think of the religious right and their propensity for PLAYING GOD.

]]> By: Shane http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2014242 Shane Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:36:23 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2014242 If Coulter gets her kick seeing post about her who cares? This isn't for her. And before TP got on it it wasn't news anywhere. Let Frau Coulter spew all over MSM. Give her all the press she wants. Better than the cloak of secrecy bigots like her usually operate under. Bring it all into the daylight and then let people decide which side they're on. Let the Repug candidates decide what they think of her. At least in their allegiance to Coulter. I don't know of a Dem who would support venom-spewing stupidity the way Repukes support her. Let them have at it. The sooner everybody sees what Repugs are all about the better. Religious Right=Family Values=BS! Thumping your bible soesn't make you a better person - only being a better person brings you closer to God. If Coulter gets her kick seeing post about her who cares? This isn’t for her. And before TP got on it it wasn’t news anywhere.
Let Frau Coulter spew all over MSM. Give her all the press she wants. Better than the cloak of secrecy bigots like her usually operate under. Bring it all into the daylight and then let people decide which side they’re on. Let the Repug candidates decide what they think of her. At least in their allegiance to Coulter. I don’t know of a Dem who would support venom-spewing stupidity the way Repukes support her. Let them have at it. The sooner everybody sees what Repugs are all about the better. Religious Right=Family Values=BS! Thumping your bible soesn’t make you a better person – only being a better person brings you closer to God.

]]> By: chimpeach http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2014227 chimpeach Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:32:45 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2014227 #193 media matters <em>Media Matters? Media Matters is your source? How Clintonesque. How utterly liberal of you. Media Matters eh? You people are goons.</em> Yeah, how utterly liberal. Keeping track of the idiotic things that right-wingers say so that they can't deny them or try to edit them. And it's so unfair, too. O'Reilly calls it "smearing" when Media Matters reports his hypocrisy and contradictions word for word. #193 media matters

Media Matters? Media Matters is your source? How Clintonesque. How utterly liberal of you. Media Matters eh? You people are goons.

Yeah, how utterly liberal. Keeping track of the idiotic things that right-wingers say so that they can’t deny them or try to edit them. And it’s so unfair, too.

O’Reilly calls it “smearing” when Media Matters reports his hypocrisy and contradictions word for word.

]]> By: chimpeach http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2014208 chimpeach Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:27:35 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2014208 #188 valiant venus <em>If you die AND there is a hell….are you going to ask for a “do over”? That’s the beauty believing in heaven or hell. When we die, if there is no afterlife - so what. But I would hate to swear something doesn’t exist and is superstitious hokum….and then find out, “Oh my God….IT IS real.”</em> I look at it this way: If there is a God, and he wants me to believe all this stuff about Heaven and Hell and everything else, would it be asking too much that he tell me about it himself? Or else, at the very least, send someone who isn't a total hypocrite, hate-monger, or assclown to tell me about it. If it's that important for me to know, send a believable spokesperson. Any god that'll send me to burn in Hell forever because I didn't listen to some pompous f*ckhead like Jerry Falwell -- that's a god I just can't respect. I'm not going to live my life reacting to threats of eternal damnation from some other mere mortal who claims to know what God wants. And by the way, valiant venus, since there are so many religions to choose from, how do you know you picked the right one? What if it turns out the Hindus are right, for example, and you guessed wrong. Do YOU get a "do over"? #188 valiant venus

If you die AND there is a hell….are you going to ask for a “do over”?
That’s the beauty believing in heaven or hell. When we die, if there is no afterlife – so what. But I would hate to swear something doesn’t exist and is superstitious hokum….and then find out, “Oh my God….IT IS real.”

I look at it this way: If there is a God, and he wants me to believe all this stuff about Heaven and Hell and everything else, would it be asking too much that he tell me about it himself? Or else, at the very least, send someone who isn’t a total hypocrite, hate-monger, or assclown to tell me about it. If it’s that important for me to know, send a believable spokesperson. Any god that’ll send me to burn in Hell forever because I didn’t listen to some pompous f*ckhead like Jerry Falwell — that’s a god I just can’t respect. I’m not going to live my life reacting to threats of eternal damnation from some other mere mortal who claims to know what God wants.

And by the way, valiant venus, since there are so many religions to choose from, how do you know you picked the right one? What if it turns out the Hindus are right, for example, and you guessed wrong. Do YOU get a “do over”?

]]> By: katy http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2014175 katy Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:17:49 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2014175 <em>Comment by katy #203 I apologize if this sounds presumptuous but… …surely this can’t be a revelation? Comment by big papa — March 5, 2007 @ 8:57 pm</em> no... of course not... thinking out loud, i guess... no need to apologize... Comment by katy #203
I apologize if this sounds presumptuous but…
…surely this can’t be a revelation?
Comment by big papa — March 5, 2007 @ 8:57 pm

no… of course not… thinking out loud, i guess…
no need to apologize…

]]> By: circusfifthfloor http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2014165 circusfifthfloor Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:15:24 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2014165 Shame? For being a hypocrite? Shame for being a heretic? YES!!! When Ann reveals to the world, in whose name we should invade other nations and convert their citizens, I'll shut up... Well, maybe Shame? For being a hypocrite? Shame for being a heretic? YES!!! When Ann reveals to the world, in whose name we should invade other nations and convert their citizens, I’ll shut up… Well, maybe

]]> By: Willy http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/comment-page-5/#comment-2013919 Willy Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:46:39 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/05/coulter-publicity/#comment-2013919 Shame on you Republican Christians who embrace Ann Coulter and her hate speech. If you think her speech is okay, you're <strong>not</strong> a Christian, but instead only a hypocrite. Shame on you Republican Christians who embrace Ann Coulter and her hate speech. If you think her speech is okay, you’re not a Christian, but instead only a hypocrite.

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