Right, that would be an insult to Hitler.
Coulter slurs John Edwards...
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Right, that would be an insult to Hitler.
I'm old-fashioned. I don't find women in power sexually appealing. But "overall?" You got to be kidding, considering my name...
But isn't the point that Coulter or anyone else on the right doesn't go around gratuitously calling their opponents "Hitler?"
Implying that you couldn't talk about Edwards without using the term faggot was definitely a low blow, but it was clearly sarcasm. Calling people Hitler because you disagree with them is not. It is beyond the pale, or at least it should be.
Its so funny watching this unfold....your offended by the use of Faggot but go around saying insulting things about women and jews...its hysterical really! Me? I could care less...Im all for people saying what they feel without restriction....Im just pointing out some weird double standards society has
Slur relativism from the right...
Ad hominem is ad hominem, right?
Or are you once again in the business of saying "Our sins are not as bad as their sins, therefore we are righteous."
Hell, it is not as if people call right wingers Satan...wait, I think maybe I have heard the Church Lady on SNL say that before...
Face facts, you give Mann Coulter, Rush et. al a free pass the exact same way the left gives Bill Mahr, etc. the same pass...
The bottom line is that if Jay Leno says something comparing someone to Hitler or the Devil, etc. it is known ahead of time that he is a jokester, and not to be taken seriously.
Mann Coulter wants it both ways, she wants to be taken seriously and she wants to use slurs when she feels like it...twisting her long hair with her finger saying in defense of her intentional slurs that "I am just a girl, it is just a joke."
At least people like Mahr, Franken and many other stand up comedians who attack the right wing could and did make a living in comedy, where as Coulter makes a living only as a flame thrower for the right.
Oh yes, many people do laugh at Mann Coulter, but as a laughing stock, not as a comedian...I think if you ask real satirists like Mort Sahl, who attacks both left and right if Coulter is funny or clever and he would say no.
Roseanne Barr could say Bush is worse than Satan or Hitler, and she might actually mean it...at least one of her many multiple personalities might mean it...but no one takes her seriously overall. Mann Coulter wants to be taken seriously, and so do the other talking heads on the right...this is the difference between a satirist or comedian, and simply an angry partisan taking swipes at the other side with poor comedic skills...
Ad hominem is ad hominem, right?
Or are you once again in the business of saying "Our sins are not as bad as their sins, therefore we are righteous."
Hell, it is not as if people call right wingers Satan...wait, I think maybe I have heard the Church Lady on SNL say that before...
Face facts, you give Mann Coulter, Rush et. al a free pass the exact same way the left gives Bill Mahr, etc. the same pass...
The bottom line is that if Jay Leno says something comparing someone to Hitler or the Devil, etc. it is known ahead of time that he is a jokester, and not to be taken seriously.
Mann Coulter wants it both ways, she wants to be taken seriously and she wants to use slurs when she feels like it...twisting her long hair with her finger saying in defense of her intentional slurs that "I am just a girl, it is just a joke."
At least people like Mahr, Franken and many other stand up comedians who attack the right wing could and did make a living in comedy, where as Coulter makes a living only as a flame thrower for the right.
Oh yes, many people do laugh at Mann Coulter, but as a laughing stock, not as a comedian...I think if you ask real satirists like Mort Sahl, who attacks both left and right if Coulter is funny or clever and he would say no.
Roseanne Barr could say Bush is worse than Satan or Hitler, and she might actually mean it...at least one of her many multiple personalities might mean it...but no one takes her seriously overall. Mann Coulter wants to be taken seriously, and so do the other talking heads on the right...this is the difference between a satirist or comedian, and simply an angry partisan taking swipes at the other side with poor comedic skills...
The right has been throwing insults all over the place and been laughing at the left's "sensitivity." But they can't stand a single comparison to Hitler. Must have touched some nerves.
when the leader of a G7 nation is the one comparing bush's political tactics to hitler... it kind of takes the comment to another level
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Nope...Just pointing out how the Politically Correct crowd is full of it and could care less about sensitivity...you proved that with your posts..Thank you very much
You still don't get it. Coulter's message had no content except for her expression of hatred. Comparing her to Hitler, OTOH, has a political message in it - that like Hitler, Coulter is the messenger of hate. So there is no insult here. It's an observation.
Maybe our disagreement is in whether there is any content in Coulter's attack. If there is one, tell me what it is.