But… but… Jesse… she’s hot! How will I, sitting here in my parent’s basement, make fag and woman jokes about Democrats while convincing myself that doing so has the possibility of getting me laid without actually having to shower or go outside without Ann Coulter to stare at longingly on the television?

I’ve already re-read “Atlas Shrugged” picturing Angelina Jolie as the protagonist THREE times, and Sarah… oh Sarah… how we miss you…

Now I’ve heard that she WILL be on the Today Show (a/k/a The Ruin My Coffee Programme) tomorrow, Wednesday.  Sigh…if it wasn’t for The Weather Channel, I’d have nothing to watch while I wake.

1) Now, one has to wonder how there’s a person at NBC who says, in a perfect capsule, the exact thing that summarizes every conservative complaint about the librul MSM.

That is the power of accurate critiques.  Amazing, isn’t it?  If you’re going to start complaining about anonymous sources, then your linking is going to be considerably curtailed—the NY Times constantly cites unnamed sources who are critical of republicans.

2) Yeah, they hand out University of Michigan law degrees to stupid people all the time.

1) I love that you gloss over that you demeaned a woman with a law degree from a prestigious university because she disagrees with you.

2) Shorter Jesse: Anonymous sources are accurate when I say they are.  Stay tuned for further updates.

“Yeah, they hand out University of Michigan law degrees to stupid people all the time. “

There’s more than one way to get into law school.  IF you know what I mean.

Well, I can see this will end up being a useful thread. And yet it had such promise…

Yeah, they hand out University of Michigan law degrees to stupid people all the time.

Well, I don’t know.  Harvard gave Bush an MBA.  Why can’t the University of Michigan give academic degrees to idiots too?

I possess several graduate degrees. Mostly they are a test of endurance and determination. If you have a damned desire to get a degree, you’ll get one. If you decide that you want to stop thinking afterwards, no one is going to stop you. Defending someone against charges of being “stupid” based on an academic accomplishment they made 20 years ago isn’t really much of a defense.

Put a sock in it Al.  Coulter is perfectly intelligent.  I think what Jesse meant is that her schtick is stupid and predictable.

There’s plenty of very bright people who are total pieces of shit.  Do I even have to cite any examples?

I think that Al is demonstrating the conservative problem whereby they judge people by some gestalt of who that person “is”. Ann Coulter is considered to be a “smart person,” so they defend her against charges of being stupid. Jesse, being a bit more liberal-minded, looks at what Coulter does and how she acts, and says, “these are the actions of the stupid.” Such reasoning has no currency with Al because Al believes that Coulter’s status as “smart” means that she is invulnerable to charges of stupidity, regardless of Coulter’s actual actions.

A similar mindset is at work in decreeing Bush to be a good and/or virtuous person, despite his behavior and actions which are the acts of a bad person.

1) I love that you gloss over that you demeaned a woman with a law degree from a prestigious university because she disagrees with you.

And I love:

1) How right-wingers all become more feminist than Andrea Dworkin as long as they’re using it as a tool to attack progressives and defend their own Token Female mouthpieces.  Of course, as Sarah Palin discovered and Ann Coulter will, that protection dissolves as soon as they stop being useful and pretty, but in the meantime…

2) That you either truly consider something as mild as “She’s stupid” to be “demeaning”, or you’re just pretending to so you can abuse the lingo of feminism still further. 

3) That you either genuinely believe that a law degree automatically places someone above accusations of stupidity, regardless of their actions, for the rest of their lives, or you’re using it as a cheap “gotcha” because it’s actually the fact that she agrees with you that insulates her from all criticism forever.

Al,

Clearly you don’t understand how anonymous sourcing works, or have a very simplistic view of it. I’ll explain: in serious journalism, anonymous sourcing of any sort (there are several levels—background, deep background, etc.) is discouraged by editors. It’s reserved for cases where the source can expect serious retaliation from his organisation or supervisor (e.g. for whistle-blowing or taking sides in an internal dispute), or where the organisation where the source works has a blanket policy that non-designated staff can’t talk to the press. Even then, editors usually insist that the source be identified as specifically as possible without blowing his identity in order to demonstrate that the source has some authority on the topic at hand (e.g. “senior White House aide,” “a vice president at the company’s widget division,” “a veteran producer,” etc.). “Deep Throat” type sources, who remain a mystery for decades, are very rare, and for good reason (Nixon was powerful, corrupt and vindictive).

When a writer uses terms like “one network insider” to describe his source, he’s entered the realm of gossip. There, the anonymous sources are generally PR reps shilling a client, jilted lovers, ex friends, and others who either stand to gain financially or fulfill on a personal vendetta. This is the stuff of “Page Six” and the National Enquirer—they don’t exactly aspire to serious journalism as the NYT does.

Since Drudge chooses to be deliberately vague (it could be anyone from Jeff Zucker to the night janitor), the reader is left open to speculate on who this “insider” is. I wouldn’t attach much credibility to a drunk and self-important junior Today Show booker that Drudge was trying to pick up at a gay spa on New Year’s Eve, but that’s my opinion.

Drudge has built his career, such as it is, on conflating gossip with serious journalism. And it’s no co-incidence that he chooses to pander to bedwetting conservatives like yourself—you lot aren’t exactly known for critical thinking or questioning of (false) authority, but you’re right up there when it comes to prurient interest in gossip and seeking even the slimmest confirmation for your biases.

As for attending U. Mich Law School, it doesn’t mean that one is stupid, but it definitely doesn’t mean that one is smart—especially in one’s current actions. I’ve met a lot of moronic lawyers and MBAs in my time, but perhaps you’re one of those readers of The Wizard of Oz who really believed that being handed a diploma gave the scarecrow brains.

There’s more than one way to get into law school.  IF you know what I mean.

Careful, P.A.T.  That’s awful close to all the jokes about how ugly/unfuckable/mannish Coulter is - attacking Coulter for her femininity instead of her character.  There are plenty of evil, stupid male conservative lawyers, and you wouldn’t automatically accuse one of them of getting into Law School by blowing the admissions panel, no matter how many of them turn out to be closeted.

Unless you were accusing her of bribery, in which case I apologize.

I don’t think there’s a politically aware person in America who can’t make predictable fag and woman jokes about Democrats to their heart’s content without giving this idiot more play.

There is so much fun to be had with her, and that’s the way you deal with the phenomenon. She’s a live-action troll, and troll-baiting is at its best when it’s absurdist. Punk Ann Coulter, or ignore her.

I wonder how many people know who the luchadore is supposed to be and why he would relate to the term Banniated.

I wonder how many people know who the luchadore is supposed to be and why he would relate to the term Banniated.

I know who he is, but it’s been a long time since I’ve visited Homestar Runner and the gang so I don’t quite get the “Banniated” reference. Did he move from answering audience e-mails to running his own Web forum?

Not to belabor the obvious, but “controversy” is one of the easiest things to aspire to as a commentator. If you keep attacking and slandering people long enough, you will ipso facto be controversial.

It’s a referance to Trogdor the Burninator.  Who became one of the most popular things on the homestar franchise with an extended version of the song in the email going onto be in Guitar Hero 2, on a t-shirt and clothing line as well as people dressing up as him. http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail58.html is the email that introduces him.

Strongbad by the way has a game out on the wiiware service. It’s a five episode game series. Episode 5 has Trogdor escaping his game and Strong Bad has to put him back into the arcade cabinet and restore reality. There is also a trogdor game on the homestarruner.com website.

Having just seen the documentary “The Aristocrats”, I’m wondering if Coulter is kind of a living performance art piece of the same type.

Someday, someone’s going to ask her “and what do you call the act?” and she’ll answer “The Aristocrats! Thank god, now I can stop this bullshit game!” and become someone normal.

Nah; she’s just squeezing the tit of Conservativism until money comes out, and will keep on squeezing even if the money goes away, sure enough that if she tweaks it hard enough, they’ll keep paying her to shit on America and its values. Because that’s what free market capitalism is all about, after all.

I love that you gloss over that you demeaned a woman with a law degree from a prestigious university because she disagrees with you.

And yet Ann Coulter has no problem demeaning Michelle Obama, a woman who went to an even better law school than Coulter did.  (U of M is #9; Harvard Law is either #1 or #2 depending on whose rankings you look at). 

So why is it bad for Jesse to criticize Coulter but it’s perfectly fine for Coulter to criticize Obama, who’s clearly her academic superior?

Of course, even Coulter knows she can’t claim to be smarter than Michelle Obama, which is why she can only criticize the way Obama dresses for being too sophisticated and Jackie Kennedy-like.

Careful, P.A.T.  That’s awful close to all the jokes about how ugly/unfuckable/mannish Coulter is - attacking Coulter for her femininity instead of her character.  There are plenty of evil, stupid male conservative lawyers, and you wouldn’t automatically accuse one of them of getting into Law School by blowing the admissions panel, no matter how many of them turn out to be closeted.

I don’t think that was where P.A.T. was going with that.  If you seem like a “good fit” for a college/university because your background is like that of most of the student body…you will have an easier time of gaining admission than if you didn’t…..even if your academic record is marginal at best. 

The fact a more extreme version of this…..legacy admissions is still practiced at many topflight public and private Ivy/Ivy-level undergrad/grad schools shows that not everyone who went to [name your Ivy/Ivy-level school] got in on their academic/intellectual merits.  Our current outgoing esteemed president is one such case who managed to get into Harvard Business School despite graduating from Yale College with an overall average in the C- range and having practically no meaningful working experience at the time.

I’m betting there are plenty of people on this blog and elsewhere who personally know/know of someone who got into a topflight college/grad school with similarly subpar academic records.

Coulter’s pretty much all the righties have got these days, since “Conservatism” is now nothing more than “Things That Piss Off Liberals”.

Let’s hope that people don’t rubberneck this time, since we’ve all seen this wreck before.

I caught the act on CBS this morning. She spent most of the time being defensive, since the host had rather obvious contempt for her. I predict she’ll get her NBC spot and get similar treatment. Then Al will emerge from his rubber bondage suit (the one with the strategically placed built-in 747 dildo) and whine that poor old Adam’s Apple Annie didn’t get a fair shake from that awful liberal media.

“I’m betting there are plenty of people on this blog and elsewhere who personally know/know of someone who got into a topflight college/grad school with similarly subpar academic records. “

Said subpar academic holder having family or friends who contributed heavily to the school or were alumni. It’s affirimitive action for people of privelage.

I saw the YouTube of her CBS Morning Show appearance at Jezebel.

God, I love Harry Smith: “Take a breath. Take a breath! Take. A. BREATH!”

>>>|I love that you gloss over that you demeaned a woman with a law degree from a prestigious university because she disagrees with you.

Apparently, Michigan’s law school doesn’t care if their grads can research their way out of a paper bag, much less frame an argument with all the skill and finesse of a Sunday morning boozehound.

Thus, we have Ann.

Said subpar academic holder having family or friends who contributed heavily to the school or were alumni. It’s affirimitive action for people of privelage.

High school classmates who attended classes with such legacies and college classmates/Profs who TAed/taught such courses at Ivy/Ivy-level schools have all mentioned that with few exceptions, they tend to be the most mediocre students they’ve ever encountered in their undergrad/grad school/academic careers.

They changed their minds.

Of course they did.  Coulter went around and whined about how she’s a victim and the MSM is so mean to her and don’t they know she’s an entertainer and she got them to back down.

Whining about the mean ol’ liberals always works for conservatives.

Of course they did.  Coulter went around and whined about how she’s a victim and the MSM is so mean to her and don’t they know she’s an entertainer and she got them to back down.

Well, she said herself that “that is how you get ahead in America, by being a victim.” She’s just following her own advice. Or being monstrously hypocritical. One or the other.

I hate to get off topic.  But is that really a picture of Strongbad being attached by a bear wielding a shark??

Yes, and that looks like a really machoized version of Strongbad, maybe to make him more distinguishable from Senor Cardgage.

“really machoized version of “

Play 8-bit is Enough to see how Strongbad views himself he has far more muscles then that Deviantart looking version does.

I don’t know, maybe the NBC producers thought she had nothing much of interest to say after yet another book of probably little perceptible difference from any of her previous books, or indeed any other wingnut book that’s been published since the Clinton administration.

Shame on them for allowing themselves to be shamed into letting her on.