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Millions of Americans watched the United States advance in the World Cup on Thursday. Ann Coulter was probably not one of them.
In a column published on Wednesday, Coulter, the conservative pundit and provocateur, blasted the sport of soccer and trolled its U.S. fans, whom she refers to as "Americans" quotes marks included.
"I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade or about the length of the average soccer game so as not to offend anyone," Coulter's column begins. "But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay."
*It's not violent enough for Coulter.
"The prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury is required to count as a sport," she writes. "Most sports are sublimated warfare."
In American football, she writes, "ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box."
http://news.yahoo.com/ann-coulter-world-cup-column-182845703.html
This woman belongs in a straight jacket.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)on the wrong side of everything.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,270 posts)She's descended past the level of mere obnoxious right-wing punditry; her use-by date has expired and now she desperately seeks attention by saying things that are nothing but pure trollery. Don't feed the trolls.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)with all the English, Scottt, Irish and European immigrants. Eastern shipbuilding yards had weekly matches many in Brooklyn, where the winners were feted with a big dinner.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Honestly. She's a pure troll. I don't think she believes a quarter of what she spouts. She's trolling, period. Don't give her the money.
ck4829
(34,974 posts)tkmorris
(11,138 posts)Because when people are mad at you they talk about you, and her greatest fear is being irrelevant. Sadly, when you go as far as she has to make people talk about you you guarantee that the thing you fear most will inevitably come to pass. You CANNOT be taken seriously when you try this hard to have people notice you. You become a caricature of yourself. People begin not to care what you are saying, but only to laugh at you for trying so hard. Then the laughter becomes slightly uncomfortable as you try ever more desperately to get people talking about you. The, the few who remain just look on with pity as you jump up and down making screeching noises.
Ann Coulter is an angry chimpanzee throwing feces in the zoo that is modern American Media.