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On a day where this woman has launched yet another publicity campaign for her delusional rampage of patronizing hatred, bigotry and misinformation, Ed Schultz showed us the only logical and viable option to try to quell such a harmful voice….by not giving her a platform from which she can set up her soap box and start inflaming the public with hypnotic fire and brimstone preacher/medicine mannish sermons to peddle her ‘magical elixirs’.
People like Ann Coulter have a few agendas, none of them, in my opinion is to create a better community or to mend a country that is already being torn apart, by its citizens, by the media’s constant cashing in on the ‘Us and Them’ syndrome, and by big business and
special interest groups who are more interested in sucking out their portion of the lifeblood of this country than helping anyone or anything.
Her true agenda is couched in the outrage of a pseudo-patriot, and her performances are deliberately constructed to target the most primal and fundamental of triggers within us. Whether she triggers an agreeing response or an outraged response, is of little concern to her (I greatly suspect she doesn't give a crap about these issues she spends so much hot air on, especially the christian morality ones, considering her own reputation as the whore of Manhattan), so long as she has captured your attention for a long enough span of time to create interest. Interest is so very vital a commodity to someone whose welfare (as well as career longevity) is based upon celebrity and the cult of personality.
Ann Coulter may be a very detestable human being, but she is not stupid. In fact, she manages to suck in more ‘liberals’ than I'd like to admit. What these people do not understand is, even if you are arguing her points with intelligence and the absolute ‘moral high-ground’, she does not care; that is not her motive in ‘taking them on.’ She needs to peddle her books’ she needs to be talked about on every liberal radio show, she needs to be the ‘controversial’ guest on Bill Maher’s TV program, she needs to be watched on the mainstream morning media blitzes…. Because the minute she stops being an attraction, her little vitriolic side show will be replaced.
Where do you think she would be if the only place you could hear her is on the occasional Fox circle-jerk? In which direction do you think her book sales would go if she didn't’t have the entire media giving her free infomercial time? And without a public clamor (either
for or against her), who do you think would be interested in dragging along someone whom people just don’t have the time of day for? There is not much room for has-beens in the cutthroat world of the ‘celebrity’.
Ann Coulter is an entirely replaceable commodity, and she knows it. She works tirelessly to never ever be so dumb as to be dull, even if it means gratingly and tirelessly voicing the most despicable and unfounded lies, slander and shock-statements. In fact, she is quite ‘exquisite’ herself in her mania to be the most unconcerned ‘shockstress’ of her time.
Why we are not smart enough to recognize that… is beyond me.. but if more people did as Ed Shultz did and say.. No, though Ann Coulter vs ‘Big Eddie’ would be a very popular and well listened to radio ‘smack down’, I will not give her use of my respect, the use
of the confidence my listeners place in me not to manipulate their decision to listen to my program by putting on ‘radio ‘cockfights’ to get higher ratings, nor the use of my show and my time to promote herself and propagate her media whoring. (Er… I did rather
paraphrase Ed Shultz there, sorry!)
Thanks to Ed Shultz for taking one small fang out of the bite of Ann Coulter. Disempowering her mic is the best way, and probably the only way, to get this woman to stop.
< Message edited by puella -- 6/8/2006 1:34:28 PM >
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RE: Now this is just wrong. - 
spankmepink, thanks for posting it. Not everyone has the courage to say "something is wrong" when it pertains to such a tough situation. I know for a fact that it doesn't neccessarily make one uncaring or heartless to do so, which I certainly don't think you are. 
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....... yes, there's lots of bs on all sides of the politcal spectrum, but there is also truth to be found. It sure can be hard to do, sometimes 
..... take Rush Limbaugh. I enjoy listening to him, in small doses lol. Some things he says are correct, some are pure self-serving propaganda, or hypocrital hoo-ha. Same with Al Franken, or Michael Moore.
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