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T_i_B

(14,734 posts)
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 02:55 AM Jun 2014

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

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. But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.


(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.

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Is Ann Coulter normally this stupid? (Original Post) T_i_B Jun 2014 OP
Soccer (football) is from Britain Anarcho-Socialist Jun 2014 #1
Yes she is that stupid. TexasTowelie Jun 2014 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author giftedgirl77 Jun 2014 #4
Why does anybody listen to this harpie in the first place? Manifestor_of_Light Jun 2014 #3
It comes across.... T_i_B Jun 2014 #8
An instance of "Poes Law." immoderate Jul 2014 #27
Always SamKnause Jun 2014 #5
she makes a living off of stupidity Skittles Jun 2014 #6
She's a professional troll. She got you. n/t PoliticAverse Jun 2014 #7
You have to ask? Nitram Jun 2014 #9
It is a cottage industry that pays very well, all you have to do is bad mouth liberals kemah Jun 2014 #10
She's normally abnormal. marble falls Jun 2014 #11
Every time the World Cup rolls around, we get the "Americans don't like soccer" columns like this. alarimer Jun 2014 #12
I have an idea. ChazInAz Jun 2014 #13
As much as I dislike PJ O'Rourke... T_i_B Jun 2014 #14
True that Populist_Prole Jun 2014 #16
This shit doesn't even work on a snarky level. T_i_B Jun 2014 #19
She's always that stupid and hateful, but her timing's usually better. Paladin Jun 2014 #15
Yes abakan Jun 2014 #17
I think she thinks she's being witty for her imagined WASP audience elias7 Jun 2014 #18
for that dying group of Americans that isn't entirely sure the rest of the world even exists yurbud Jun 2014 #20
This is conservative humor. immoderate Jul 2014 #28
I do love the foreign bit MFrohike Jun 2014 #21
The best Ann Coulter story I ever heard DFW Jun 2014 #22
I love it.nt bravenak Jul 2014 #26
great story lol ! nt steve2470 Jul 2014 #29
she's trying to be "funny" lanlady Jun 2014 #23
Looks like Brazil tried to make things better for her last night.... T_i_B Jul 2014 #24
She has never said anything that made sense to me. oldandhappy Jul 2014 #25
WTF does Skeletora know about Black folks and whether or not we like soccer? Ecumenist Jul 2014 #30
She is blessed... CincyDem Jul 2014 #31
I saw some black guys watching the world cup at the gym. Maybe they don't read Coulter yurbud Jul 2014 #32

Anarcho-Socialist

(9,601 posts)
1. Soccer (football) is from Britain
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 03:18 AM
Jun 2014

From where the US imported such "foreign" concepts such as the English language and common law.

Response to TexasTowelie (Reply #2)

 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
3. Why does anybody listen to this harpie in the first place?
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 03:28 AM
Jun 2014

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)
8. It comes across....
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 07:53 AM
Jun 2014

....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)
27. An instance of "Poes Law."
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 01:20 AM
Jul 2014

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

kemah

(276 posts)
10. It is a cottage industry that pays very well, all you have to do is bad mouth liberals
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 09:16 AM
Jun 2014

No college needed, in fact it hinders your credibility to have a degree, example Hannity, Rush

alarimer

(16,245 posts)
12. Every time the World Cup rolls around, we get the "Americans don't like soccer" columns like this.
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 10:11 AM
Jun 2014

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.

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
16. True that
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 04:38 PM
Jun 2014

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.

Paladin

(28,202 posts)
15. She's always that stupid and hateful, but her timing's usually better.
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 02:20 PM
Jun 2014

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."

elias7

(3,976 posts)
18. I think she thinks she's being witty for her imagined WASP audience
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 11:26 PM
Jun 2014

I don't know what else could explain her constructions.

 

immoderate

(20,885 posts)
28. This is conservative humor.
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 01:28 AM
Jul 2014

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)
21. I do love the foreign bit
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 01:12 AM
Jun 2014

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)
22. The best Ann Coulter story I ever heard
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 08:16 AM
Jun 2014

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."

lanlady

(7,133 posts)
23. she's trying to be "funny"
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 10:17 AM
Jun 2014

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)
24. Looks like Brazil tried to make things better for her last night....
Wed Jul 9, 2014, 07:43 AM
Jul 2014

....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)
25. She has never said anything that made sense to me.
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 12:33 AM
Jul 2014

I do not see her regularly. But when she pops up, I usually end up shaking my head!

Ecumenist

(6,086 posts)
30. WTF does Skeletora know about Black folks and whether or not we like soccer?
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 05:12 AM
Jul 2014

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.

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