Difference between revisions of "Talk:Godless: The Church of Liberalism"

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Hey, that sounds good. Must get that.--bill m 12:07, 29 March 2007 (EDT) 12:41, 29 March 2007 (EDT)

Wow...just...wow...so that's who Ann Coulter is...she seems...kind of...I can't think of a nice word for it so I'm just not going to say it...a good entry though about the book.NSmyth 12:50, 29 March 2007 (EDT)

Wait. Adult men don't actually believe what she says... do they?-AmesG_yo! 13:00, 31 March 2007 (EDT)

Many adults are perfectly willing to pretend that they do. She's succeeded in making outright lies, borderline physical threats, and deliberate obtuseness respectable, and I'm afraid there are many people grateful to her for that. --PF Fox 13:12, 31 March 2007 (EDT)

Are you inviting debate? --Ed Poor 13:13, 31 March 2007 (EDT)

I'm curious as to who or what takes her seriously.-AmesG_yo! 13:21, 31 March 2007 (EDT)

It did not occur to me that what Coulter has said is debatable, but if you want to debate the issue, I'm up for it.

Did she or did she not say that "“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.”

Did she or did she not say of some of the 9/11 widows: "“These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzies. I have never seen people enjoying their husbands’ death so much.” Did she or did she not also say of them,"How do we know that their husbands, the husbands of the people who died on 9/11, weren't planning to divorce these harpies,"

Did she or did she not say that her only regret about Tim McVeigh was that he didn't go to the NY Times Building? --PF Fox 18:23, 31 March 2007 (EDT)

I've told you a thousand times, stop exaggerating! ;-) --Ed Poor 18:26, 31 March 2007 (EDT)

If what PF Fox says is correct, it doesn't sound like this author is family-friendly at all. I suggest deletion, with a protection in place to prevent re-creation. --Huey dun gotcha 18:27, 31 March 2007 (EDT)

-) Didn't she say these things? --PF Fox 18:41, 31 March 2007 (EDT)

She did say those things, she truly is an awful woman. Should we delete her articles?-AmesG_yo! 11:07, 1 April 2007 (EDT)

Jersey widows

Among the more controversial sections of the book was Ann Coulter’s attack on several women who had lost their husbands in 9/11 and had voiced criticism of President Bush’s approach to terrorism:

“These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis.... I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much ... how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy.”

This was not "controversial", let alone "more controversial". Rather, this was a section which liberals objected to. An objection does not make a controversy. There is only a controversy when there are two sides, and a debate goes on and on about an issue.

The Jersey Girls flap was merely a PR attack on Coulter and does not deserve mention in the article. --Ed Poor 11:54, 16 May 2007 (EDT)

What, Ed, would you define as a "controversy" if not a passage in a book that arouses a high level of heated debate? And yes, it does deserve mention in the article. You'd just like it removed because that passage is embarrassing to Ann Coulter and well nigh impossible to defend. --PF Fox 14:53, 17 May 2007 (EDT)

From Ed Poor "Rather than answering any of her criticisms of liberal ideology substantively, critics made ad hominem attacks. "Ad hominem" means "against the man", rather than against what the man is saying (or in Coulter's case, against the woman).

This is your lucky day Ed! I'd be DELIGHTED to answer her criticism of the Jersey girls, and I have no doubt you'll be just as DELIGHTED to defend those remarks of her's! Let's have at it! My criticism is as follows:

Ann Coulter is in absolutely no position, and has absolutely no business announcing in a book that some of the women widowed by 9/11 are "enjoying" their husbands deaths. She has even less business referring to them as "harpies" and saying that they had better hurry up and pose for PLAYBOY and speculating that their husbands may have wanted to divorce them anyway.

Plainly you disagree with this criticism of mine. Let's hear your arguments.

Look forward to seeing them. --PF Fox 15:04, 17 May 2007 (EDT)