INTRO TO COULTER (COURSE 101)
TURDS15. "(Liberals say) (t)he death penalty does not deter. How do liberals know? This is an article of faith, not a statement of empirical fact. If the death penalty doesn’t deter murder, how come Michael Moore is still alive and I’m not on death row?"
I’m not even entirely sure what this means; is she trying to prove some sort of point through two examples of anecdotal evidence?
14. "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."
This is an incredibly bold statement that I fear hints at an underlying theme in today’s society; rule through fear as opposed to good policy. Also, to add to the hilarity, John Walker was a fundamentalist Muslim, about as far from liberal as one gets.
13. "They’re [Democrats] always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let’s do it. Let’s repress them. Frankly, I’m not a big fan of the First Amendment."
I have to wonder if she truly hates the First Amendment, or merely wants to apply it according to her standards? She doesn’t seem to be in any rush to limit "her" speech anytime soon.
12. "Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity (as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of ‘kill everyone who doesn’t smell bad and doesn’t answer to the name Mohammed’)".
This one is just ironic. Agree with her political position or not, I don’t think that anyone is in any rush to label Ann Coulter as "nice."
11. "Press passes can’t be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the President."
There are many quotes displaying Coulter’s propensity towards racial profiling, so this one is merely representative.
10. "God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, ‘Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.’"
Seems a rather disrespectful thing to say about a gift, if you ask me.
9. "The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man’s dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet–it’s yours. That’s our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars — that’s the Biblical view."
This indignant attitude about human beings possessing dominion over the entire Earth is too prevalent in religious institutions for comfort. Have these people not given half a thought to preservation, both for our generation and generations to come? Or are they excited to hasten the Rapture?
8. "I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn’t."
Hmm.
7. "I think [women] should be armed but should not [be allowed to] vote. No, they all have to give up their vote, not just, you know, the lady clapping and me. The problem with women voting — and your Communists will back me up on this — is that, you know, women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it. And when they take these polls, it’s always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care."
Now this one is truly bizarre; who would even joke about having their right to vote taken away? Especially someone so involved in politics … Susan B. Anthony is most certainly rolling over in her grave (if you believe in that sort of thing).
6. "When we were fighting communism, OK, they had mass murderers and gulags, but they were white men and they were sane. Now we’re up against absolutely insane savages."
Joking or not, this is a frightening display of white supremecy. The assumption inherent in this quote is that any person of non-Caucasion origin is a "savage."
5. "Our book is Genesis. Their book is Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the original environmental hoax."
There is certainly a healthy debate as to the cost / benefit of prohibiting the use of DDT for environmental conservation versus the preventative effects of DDT on the spread of malaria, I just can’t seem to remember it being addressed in Genesis. Why must some people involve the Bible in so many contemporary debates?
4. "I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo."
There is so much wrong with this statement: abandon of human rights, racism and racial profiling, torture, and the threat of arrest for particular political ideals. She seems surprisingly willing to abandon basic and fundamental American ideals for a Conservative.
3. "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."
Welcome back to the Dark Ages, complete with a Holy Crusade! How does this woman get air-time?
2. "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."
She later amended this quote, and added "after everyone but the reporters and editors had left the building."
1. "I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions, like the Cargo Cult of the South Pacific. Practitioners of Cargo Cult believed that manufactured products were created by ancestral spirits, and if they imitated what they had seen the white man do, they could cause airplanes to appear out of the sky, bringing valuable cargo like radios and TVs. So they constructed "airport towers" out of bamboo and "headphones" out of coconuts and waited for the airplanes to come with the cargo. It may sound silly, but in defense of the Cargo Cult, they did not wait as long for evidence supporting their theory as the Darwinists have waited for evidence supporting theirs."
To me, this is the most dangerous of her outrageous crusades, as even moderate religious faithful have proven their propensity towards joining the intelligent design bandwagon at a nudge. I saw an interview of Coulter on the 700 Club where the host (his name escapes me) was absolutely gushing over the logic and scientific validity of her arguments against evolution in her book ‘Godless.’ Even a cursory review of the published literature on evolution will reveal to the intelligent reader that every single one (and I mean every single one) of Coulter’s arguments has either been debunked, or was never a valid argument in the first place. I dislike her enough when she spouts her misguided political rhetoric; I absolutely loath her when she makes an attempt to discredit a theory before even bothering to open a book on the subject!







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