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damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 10:38 AM Jun 2014

Ann Coulter: Real Americans hate soccer

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.

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Ann Coulter: Real Americans hate soccer (Original Post) damnedifIknow Jun 2014 OP
again warrior1 Jun 2014 #1
Coulter is a troll. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2014 #2
real americans hate ann coulter leftyohiolib Jun 2014 #3
I was very popular during WWI ... Historic NY Jun 2014 #4
Stop giving that asshole hits alcibiades_mystery Jun 2014 #5
Ambulances carry off the wounded? Lame. The losers should be sacrificed. ck4829 Jun 2014 #6
She tries so very hard to make people angry at her tkmorris Jun 2014 #7
She is pissed because Soccer is now more popular in America than Nascar Bandit Jun 2014 #8

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,270 posts)
2. Coulter is a troll.
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 10:40 AM
Jun 2014

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.

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
4. I was very popular during WWI ...
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 10:53 AM
Jun 2014

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)
5. Stop giving that asshole hits
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 10:56 AM
Jun 2014

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.

tkmorris

(11,138 posts)
7. She tries so very hard to make people angry at her
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 11:01 AM
Jun 2014

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.

Bandit

(21,475 posts)
8. She is pissed because Soccer is now more popular in America than Nascar
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 11:05 AM
Jun 2014
Who pays any attention to her anyway?
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