Is Ann Coulter normally this stupid?
Now i know she's meant to be a moron but to deliberately write an article so retarded? I suppose this article would be useful if you wanted to portray American sport in the worst possible light.
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-06-25.html
(1) Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer. In a real sport, players fumble passes, throw bricks and drop fly balls -- all in front of a crowd. When baseball players strike out, they're standing alone at the plate. But there's also individual glory in home runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks.
(2) Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.
(7) It's foreign. In fact, that's the precise reason the Times is constantly hectoring Americans to love soccer. One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not "catching on" at all, is African-Americans. They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it.
(8) Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it's European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren't committing mass murder by guillotine.
Anarcho-Socialist
(9,601 posts)From where the US imported such "foreign" concepts such as the English language and common law.
TexasTowelie
(111,287 posts)It was a godsend when she broke her jaw and it was wired shut in 2008.
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Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)That's what I keep wondering.
Got her picture taken at the grave of "her idol", Joseph McCarthy?
And is proud of being a disciple of a man who destroyed many hundreds of lives and careers by being a lying son of a bitch?
Among his minions were Richard Nixon and Bobby Kennedy.
T_i_B
(14,734 posts)....as the sort of rubbish you might write if you were a leftie attempting to discredit conservatism by pretending to be a right winger and spouting the stupidest stuff possible.
Of course there are UK right wing gobshites who also fit that description such as James Delingpole and Katie Hopkins as well.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)Which states (loosely) that the ravings of a right winger is indistinguishable from satire of those ravings. If this was The Onion, how would it be different?
--imm
SamKnause
(13,037 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Nitram
(22,663 posts)kemah
(276 posts)No college needed, in fact it hinders your credibility to have a degree, example Hannity, Rush
marble falls
(56,357 posts)alarimer
(16,245 posts)Although this is worse, because she actually claims soccer is unamerican (which is nonsense).
I have read many comments claiming that soccer is boring, that games should never end in a tie, that there is too much "flopping" (that actually is probably true) to draw fouls on someone. I don't think soccer is boring at all. I get that some people don't enjoy watching and that's okay, but don't denigrate it as a sport of "girly-men" (which is an actual thing I've heard people say) when you don't know a thing about it. Soccer players are incredible athletes. Seriously, if you want to get fit in a hurry, take up soccer. You will run for miles.
Her main argument is that it's "foreign". I hate that argument with a passion. It makes no sense and it is just emblematic of the close-mindedness of a certain segment of the population. Here's a hint, Americans: the vast majority of the world is not American, go figure.
I'm beginning to wonder if Ann Coulter is just trolling her fans at this point.
ChazInAz
(2,534 posts)She and P.J. O'Rourke are made for one another.
T_i_B
(14,734 posts)...even he is capable of infinitely better then this dross.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)At least PJ O'Rourke can make observational humor and be thought provoking those times you're lucky enough to catch him being apolitical and not being a tool for the plutocrats.
At his best, I consider him to be what I would term "A cerebral smart-ass".
Coulter just relies on snark. A smart-ass without the smart, as it were.
T_i_B
(14,734 posts)It's just diarrhea of the keyboard.
Paladin
(28,202 posts)An ugly column, trashing soccer in every way possible---right when the whole country is expressing enthusiasm for the U.S. team's performance? There ought to be Coulter-(George)Will trophy for this sort of brain-dead, events-ignorant, career-impacting "journalism."
All day, every day..With no let up and no exception...
elias7
(3,976 posts)I don't know what else could explain her constructions.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)It's what they do in place of being funny. Usually gratuitous insults of people they want to think are beneath them. And then they laugh.
--imm
MFrohike
(1,980 posts)The only popular American sport that has a real claim to being domestic is basketball. I somehow doubt that's her favorite.
DFW
(54,047 posts)She was in her chauffeur-driven limo in Connecticut on her way into New York City. In a rural area, her driver took a curve too fast and killed an old cow that was crossing the road as he rounded the curve. There was a farm house nearby, and Coulter told her driver to go ask the people how much money they wanted to forget the incident and get right back to the car, as she was in a hurry.
The driver went to the house, knocked on the door, and was let in. Two and a half hours later, he returned, carrying a wine bottle, his shirt smeared and his hair disheveled. Smoking furious, Coulter asked him what happened. He said,"I did what you told me, and they insisted on giving me dinner and a bottle of wine to take with me, and then their 26 year old daughter took me upstairs for a good time. They wouldn't let me go any earlier, I swear."
Coulter was exploding with anger, and insisted the poor guy tell her exactly what he had said. He said,"Ms. Coulter, I only said what you told me to say. I said I was Ann Coulter's driver, and that I had just killed the old cow."
bravenak
(34,648 posts)steve2470
(37,456 posts)lanlady
(7,133 posts)but as usual, "conservative humor" is a contradiction in terms. William F. Buckley was the last and maybe only conservative, ever, who had wit.
T_i_B
(14,734 posts)....by ditching any notion of teamwork in favour of running round aimlessly like headless chickens and letting in lots of goals!
As opposed to Germany, with their evil socialist notions of using teamwork and tactical planning to win football matches.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)I do not see her regularly. But when she pops up, I usually end up shaking my head!
Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)My brothers and I LOVE Soccer and ALWAYS have she just likes to say ignorant shit to get some publicity. I find it hilarious that this idiot whose expertise about black folks pretty much ends at the tip of Jimmy Walker's member.
CincyDem
(6,281 posts)...with a unique mastery of the stupid to which all around her can only aspire.