Gibson needs a new brain.
subtitled “John Gibson: all the intellectual integrity of the average successful pseudo-conservative pundit – and less.”
This is another one of those where I’m too pissed to write a good intro and need to just launch right in to the foaming at the mouth. Here’s the source. Here’s a similar one that proves that the echo chamber is in perfect working order.
Everybody is saying outrageous things these days.
I can just feel it, someone’s about to say another outrageous thing.
Bill Maher wishes the terrorist bomb had actually got Dick Cheney.
We’ll get to this little idiotic trick later. Remember this moment.
Ann Coulter uses the “f” word about John Edwards. We’re talking about the anti-gay slur word.
Or, you could be talking about a bundle of sticks, but I find that highly unlikely. Get a grip, John, your audience is over the age of 12. There are less intellectually insulting ways you could have phrased that.
And Kenneth Eng says he hates blacks and whites and I think he even said he hates Asians, and he is Asian.
So you don’t know what he said? Then again, I’ve been reading his blog, and I’m not sure what the hell he saying.
You have to be artful if you’re going to be in the outrageous remark game.
George Carlin is truly artful in the outrageous remark. Coulter is not artful at all. Neither are you. Evidently you don’t “have” to be artful.
Ann Coulter probably really doesn’t like John Edwards, but I don’t think she thinks he is gay.
Since Ann Coulter isn’t known for telling the truth anyway, I’m not surprised.
I think she wanted to express her dislike for him, and she wanted to express her dislike for the fact that liberals like Edwards evidently believe a person who uses the “f” word — the gay slur — should go to rehab.
Now you’re reaching. Let’s see how far you go.
She didn’t just make that up. That’s precisely what happened when a Hollywood actor called one of his colleagues — a gay man — that same name. He got packed off to rehab.
Erm, not quite. The big gay PC enforcement squad did not pack him off to rehab, he went into rehab as a public show of contrition to try and rehabilitate his career – pretty stupid, since he didn’t have a substance abuse problem that we know of. I will say that if the idea of going to rehab for homophobia is silly, then so is being re-educated out of homosexuality.
Bill Maher has been in the bomb-throwing game for quite a while, and I don’t suppose either he or Ann Coulter would like people knowing they are pals, after a fashion.
Bill Maher is a comedian, Coulter is not. Read that statement carefully, because there are levels and levels of truth there.
His remark about Cheney was about as close as you can come to saying I wish this person were dead without actually saying it.
And your commentary is about as close as you can get to actually saying something without actually doing it.
He did say millions of people wouldn’t die if Cheney were dead, so one can logically conclude he wishes Cheney were dead, because he could not possibly wish that millions of other people would die.
Put down the Fischer-Price “My First Logic Book” and grow up, please. By that chain of reasoning, since you find his comment outrageous, you must value the life of Dick Cheney more than millions of people in the Middle East and a few thousand here in the States.
But Kenneth Eng is a novice at this stuff. He says he hates blacks and whites and Asians. I don’t know whether he does or not, but in the outrageous remark game he had virtually nothing to rationalize the outrageous statement. Young Mr. Eng may get better at the outrage game, or he may just disappear. We shall see.
Will you stop pretending that you just wanted to apologize for Coulter and slam Maher? The sentences about Eng look like they were grafted on later.
But you haven’t seen the end of either Ann Coulter or Bill Maher. They are practiced old pros at ticking you off with something completely over the top. To put it bluntly: It’s their job.
Actually, it’s Maher’s job to make you laugh, too. That whole comedy thing.
Who’s worse? Well, it’s way worse to wish a person dead than to call a person a name.
I’m glad you think so. Here are some quotes for you, guess who said them, Maher or Coulter:
“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.”
“When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.”
“My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.”
“We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens’ creme brulee,” Coulter said. “That’s just a joke, for you in the media.”
Here’s another. There are others, but I’m tired.
Plus, liberals do think you have to go to rehab if you say the “f” word, and Maher has nothing to back up the claim that millions of people die because Cheney is alive.
Just a war that Cheney still wants to escalate, which is more than you’ve presented to prove that “liberals do think you have to go to rehab if you say the “f” word.” I’d call you a faggot just to make the point, but that would be insulting a lot of decent people, and paying you a compliment by association which you don’t deserve.
That’s My Word.
Naw. Your word is “dimwit.”
March 7th, 2007 at 11:36
I think Ms. Coulter is all about Ms. Coulter and that’s it. She knew making that statement at that particular event would make the news everywhere. So now she’s got people’s attention again.
It was an outrageous statement — a very calculated, outrageous statement.
I think using a slur for self-promotion is even worse than using it to offend. Especially when you know what you’re doing.