Exactly Curt. I emailed the WP writers who parroted his talking points without putting hers in context. Amazing. The bias of reporting on a conservative making a faux death threat vs NOT reporting a liberal making a faux death threat is blatant and inexcusable.

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Oh, I agree he is right, but he along with his wife are liars. There is absolutely no way they could misconstrue Ann’s remarks but they purposely took that route anyway to become the victim. Ann was making that same exact point, the left go off the deep end daily but are never called on it….let a conservative do it and BAM, raked over the coals.

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Let’s remember something…irony aside, he’s right.

WHAT?!

Yep, I think he’s comments are correct (he just doesn’t have the balls to do what he says). Hateful, emotional, nutjob political rhetoric (whether it’s “Bush Lied”, or WTC7, or fake moon landings) is presented with the intent of shifting the discussion from rational to emotional. It’s the same as the difference between a car commercial with no words, just text detailing cost and features of a car vs a car commercial with babes, cool tunes aimed at an age demographic, and maybe some flashy imagery. Emotion sells better than rational assessment.

He’s also right in that people who make such emotional, irrational commentary need to be confronted. Lacking that, we get things like the latest Global Warming gig where if it rains, people blame it on Global Warming, and if it doesn’t rain, people blame it on Global warming. Why? Because some wacko made a movie comparing industry and technology with NAZIs, and because an end on the political spectrum desperately needs a core issue to distract from Iraq (an issue which they are losing on yet again). If the nutjobs’ emotional rhetoric isn’t confronted and posed next to rational discussion, then the nutjob rhetoric goes unchecked and accepted by a population that is too busy to look up boring rational facts, and is too often too apathetic to care. We buy the emotion so much easier. Me, I like the mileage my new Pontiac G5 gets, but the flashy metallic blue color is pretty hot too. I didn’t buy it for the color, but people do. There are too many people who will buy sizzle rather than look at the steak or the mileage or the facts.

Irony aside, the man’s comments are right. He just doesn’t have the balls to face those elements of his support who are nutjobs.

Harry Reid echoes this as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoDDTJeiodA

In fact, it’s a serious problem for the entire Democratic Party. They have sold sizzle for so long that now they have no steak. Their promises have been revealed as empty despite having been elected, and that’s why support for the Democratic Congress has dropped to below Dick Cheney’s. They can either face the emotional rhetoric and explain the rational, cold, hard, ignored facts, or they can continue to hypocritically (see also Edwards’ and Reid’s irony) fuel the far left by giving legitimacy to the wacko BDS conspiracy theorists.

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Ann Coulter does go a little close to the edge sometime. Maybe no one told her that the rules for speech, like conduct and ethics are entirely different for conservatives than for liberals.

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Amazing isn’t it? And now Hot Air has a video of that idiot Shep on Fox reporting the same kind of idiocy…..

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This is a joke right? We know Edwards and his wife are stupid (they’ve proven it time after time), but his entire high paid staff. Where do you find this many bumbling idiots? Did they work for Nifong before joining Edwards, that would explain their lack of ability to reason or read.

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Excellent, excellent post Curt!!!!!! Seeing the entire interview with Ann helped me understand the whole context of what she had said. You did a great job of bringing context to the whole scenario and pointing out how hypocritical Elizabeth is for her attacks on Ann.

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what do you expect out of the camp of a stuffed shirt with a squirrel on his head. I mean cmon this clown used his own wifes cancer to try and get a bumb in the polls.

PS Coulter is on Glenn Beck you might be able to catch the rerunn later tonight.

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