Unpatriotic

[mr.Curmudgeon]

I was happier about politics when I was 22 and completely ignorant of them.

See...now that's a statement I can agree with. We have a really beautiful political system, it's just completely full of a**holes. I wish I could just "unlearn" the things that I've learned about this country and it's leaders...but I'm not a "Blue Pill" type person, even to my own detriment.



mrC

[ChadTower]

I'd go further than that.  All political leaders are sh1theads.  All of them.  Federal, state, county, town, etc etc.  all of them, it's just a matter of how much power they have to abuse.

The things I have learned from politics that I wish I could unlearn are all about human nature.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Damn, I wouldn't go that far, you're even more jaded than me. Are you familiar with the political career of Paul Wellstone? He's not around anymore, unfortuntely, but he seemed like one of the good ones.

Anyhow, to walk around and just assume everyone is on the take is a little bit too unproductive, even for me. At some point, unless you are going to run for a political office yourself, you have to get behind someone to get things done.

In my view, there are far fewer "good", "decent", and centered people in the world (and by that, I don't just mean "people who agree with me") than there are vicious, greedy, petty, selfish people . That fact makes me fight that much harder against those who'd champion the worst in human nature, but it's also what makes me a Curmudgeon (at times).



mrC

[ChadTower]

There are plenty of good people.  Few, if any, of them end up in high political office.  The political process weeds out quality individuals by its very nature and only the slimiest (Clinton) or the easiest to manipulate while still placing into position (Bush) make it.

The process will not allow good, quality people to survive an election anymore.

[Dartful Dodger]

Ann Coulter is hot.

[ChadTower]

The more I think about the pair of Coulter and Franken, the more convinced I am that neither one of them cares much about the point of view they present. 

I'm coming to the conclusion that it's all mostly trumped up, hyperbolic garbage for the singular purpose of selling books.  It is really the most logical reason any person would spew such stupid crap from either side of the fence.

[fredster]

I agree with that. Everybody is selling a book.  Clark sold a book, that Joe guy and his wife Val are selling a book.  Both Clintons, their old campaign manager, etc.  Maples wrote one.  Cindy Shehan is writing one (?)

Everybody has a book.  Everybody wants the "truth" out there.

You turn on the TV and the news is always flavored one way or the other. Everybody has to put in their 2 cents. All I want to hear are the facts.  But the facts are constantly being mixed with "news analysis" by the commentator. 

And everybody has an ax to grind and an ass to cover.

[ChadTower]

Unfortunately, everyone is grinding their ax on someone else's ass cover.

[shmokes]

I thought Ann Coulter had proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Joe McCarthy was right and all the people he procecuted were actual communists infiltrating the government in "How to Speak to a liberal - if you must".

You read that and Slander didn't you?  I mean, after all you do follow the classic patterns identified by Ann in about every one of your comments.

You have read Ann haven't you?

McCarthyism is a made up controversy by the liberals, after all.  So any referance to it is simply unnecessary....

All I want to hear are the facts.

Who is this guy?

And Fred, I see your confusion up above, thinking that I don't believe Coulter and Franken are on opposite ends of the spectrum.  It's cos I didn't quote your entire post that I was responding to and you read it as though I was taking that single line out of context. 

The crux of your post was that Franken and Coulter are merely disagreeing in their respective books, which is understandable considering they are at two opposite ends of the political spectrum. 

The point of my response is that this makes it obvious that you haven't read Franken's book, since it's not just two different philosophies or interpretations of facts.  Franken's chapters on Coulter detail specific examples of things Ann says that are clearly inaccurate, and many more that are intentionally misleading.

[shmokes]

For anyone completely unfamiliar with Ann Coulter here's a comical interview with Chris Matthews on Hardball:

http://www.therationalradical.com/matthews-coulter-transcript.htm

I would imagine that there are more flattering portayals of her, but I'm not really sure.  Even in this interview with the right-wing Front Page Magazine (where you can read her column) she comes across as batshit crazy:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11689

[Dartful Dodger]

Ann Coulter is hot.

[Zero_Hour]

Anybody here ever see the movie Network (1976)? It seems to have a real solid take on where our newsmedia is right now. In fact it could be argued that it is more relevant today then when it was being made 30 years ago.

If I ever list Franken or Coulter as a primary source of information about anything other than what they had for breakfast, I hope someone shoots me. And yes, I have read quite a bit of both their work.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Ann Coulter is hot.

Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder. Egads!  Look at that freakish neck! You'd need THREE hands to choke her! And those crinkley man-hands. It'd be like getting a massage from your grandfather!

I mean, I'd bang Michelle Malkin and turn her Liberal right quick, but Coulter is just physically repulsive. I wouldn't touch that rancid skeleton even if she promised me she'd crawl back into the grave she clawed her way out of.


mrC

[Dexter]

Please note the adams apple in the pic. I reckon she has to shave from it all the way down to her testicles

[Havok]

Ann Coulter is hot.

Never take her picture in b/w...

[fredster]

Shmokes, those were great Ann Interviews! I missed the one on Hardball. Wow she's funny.  I bet she looked good too.

I really liked the other one. She made some good points.  I'll have to read "treason".  I never picked that one up.

[ChadTower]

Did Mr C just use difficulty of choking as a criterium for the beauty of a woman?

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Did Mr C just use difficulty of choking as a criterium for the beauty of a woman?

It's just one of many. Especially when it comes to judging the beauty of right-wing windbags.


mrC

[fredster]

Be honest Mr.C, You want her don't you?

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Be honest Mr.C, You want her don't you?

Right. Just the sight of her (let alone the grating sound of her "Lilith Crane" voice) shrivels me up worse than a long day at a cold-water spring.

You can have her, I'm glad she's on *your* side. Even though she's still an embarrassment to humanity in general.


mrC

[Grasshopper]

Well there's no accounting for taste. But personally she reminds me of one of those aliens from Star Wars who built the clone army.

[Stingray]

I don't even know who she is, apart from ugly.

-S

[ChadTower]

She is Moff Tarkin.

[Stingray]

In which case, I'll try to make sure she's inside the next Death Star when it explodes.

-S

[ChadTower]

In a way, you have determined the choice of the party that'll be destroyed first. Since you are reluctant to provide us with the location of the Democrat campaign headquarters, I have chosen to test this station's destructive power... on your home party of Democrats.

[Stingray]

Governor Coulter, I should have know it was you holding Bush's leash. I recognised your foul stench when I was brought on board.

-S

[Bones]

Ann Coulter looks like a robbers dog.

[Dexter]

Especially if you draw a face on that robbers dogs butt and train it to walk backwards

[Goz]

Coulter Cheesecake?

[Stingray]

I hope this thread is officially derailed. I'm sick of it.

-S

[Goz]

I hope this thread is officially derailed. I'm sick of it.

-S

I'm trying... 

[Stingray]

This thread makes Nanotina Turner cry.

-S

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Hey fredster....tell Ann, "There's hope!"





mrC

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Coulter Cheesecake?

Coulter Photoshop.


EDIT: I found the original (unedited) photo.

[ChadTower]

Erf.  Grunt.

Message - irrelevant.

Messenger - bad.  Hate.  Attack.

erf.  Scratch.

[Stingray]

Erf.  Grunt.

Message - irrelevant.

Messenger - bad.  Hate.  Attack.

erf.  Scratch.

Could be time to up Chad's meds.

-S

[ChadTower]

No, they finally kicked in.

That was a political post hacked down to the exact message.

[shmokes]

Her boobs are still obviously photoshopped.

[ChadTower]

Faked fake boobs?

Don't two negatives make a positive?

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Erf.