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SkiGuy Donating Member (451 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 05:59 PM
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Contact townhall.com and demand a retraction for...
Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 06:40 PM by SkiGuy
this statement made by Ann Coulter: "What is this? Special Olympics for the Democrats?"
Here's the link to the whole article http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/anncoulter/2005/12/01/177286.html
Here's the contact link http://www.townhall.com/townhall/contact.html

Thanks to fellow DUer Danca for the idea.

My feeling is this, take them ALL down one by one. Ruin their credibility for any future articles. The press has mislead the US far too long. I know she appears regularly on CNN. Tell them too. Is there anywhere else her columns appear?
Don't know how much effect it will have, but there are 70,000 DUers. Please help and don't let this one slip by. Email your state Special Olympics offices as well and let them know. Question for lawyers, can something be done legally?
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:01 PM
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1. Don't get too worked up
That exactly what AC and her media outlets want. Ignore her.
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SkiGuy Donating Member (451 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:03 PM
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2. Disagree
I ignore her when she says stuff about Liberals. I will not ignore this comment, and I don't think anyone else should too. It is not political. It is ridiculing.
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:12 PM
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4. I agree
e-mailing them (as I started to do) only shows that you read her column, which is exactly what they want you to do.

Mann Coulter lives to rile up liberals and conservatives alike.

She is nothing in the scheme of things.
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Agnomen Donating Member (420 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:22 PM
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10. I agree - ignore her
The worst thing one can do to an enemy is to refuse to acknowledge their existence. Coulter's m.o. are over-the-top statements which generate outraged responses, thus keeping her name in focus. Ignoring her outbursts dooms her to oblivion.
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prescole Donating Member (416 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:05 PM
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3. What's the RW attack machine if not Special Olympics for journalists? nt
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:13 PM
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5. Ms. Coulter is preaching to her own demented choir.
Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 06:14 PM by Cleita
I consider anything printed that she says no more important than a bird cage liner. One of these days she is going to insult one of the members of her own choir with her vitriol and they will probably give her a figurative sky diving lesson without a parachute when that happens and her columns will start disappearing from view until she becomes a has been.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:50 PM
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18. Indeed. Townhall.com is nothing but a puddle of vomit-soaked electrons.
It's a looney-bin full of psychopathic reichbots, swallowing and recycling their own delusional dairrhea. They're human sewage.
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shenmue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:14 PM
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6. I'm at a point...
where I don't know whether to react to her, if only because she is an influence on other people, or just treat her like a drunk screaming in the street, and walk by shaking my head.

:shrug:
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bluedawg12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:17 PM
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7. Like poop on the side walk, look away and walk around it.
E-mailing about her will give her attention, or "buzz", and actually increase the money ho's value.
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Somawas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:19 PM
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Dupe
Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 06:23 PM by Somawas
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Somawas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:19 PM
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8. Done.
My kid brother is mentally retarded and played in some Special olympics games when he was a kid. Her comments are an outrage. And I have told townhall that I think they are an outrage.
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SkiGuy Donating Member (451 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:23 PM
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12. Thank you
Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 06:41 PM by SkiGuy
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mimitabby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:21 PM
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9. lol that was really funny!
she is the most pathetic thing i ever heard! I haven't gotten a laugh like this from a rabid raging gop in a long time.
would you like some cheese with that whine??? poooor pooor anne.

rotfl
thanks for sharing this. they need a special category in the special olympics for the emotionally and mentally stuck mentality category that she fits so well

snort
mimi
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mandyky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:22 PM
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11. I can think of many things worse she has said
She is also a columnist and writes opinion pieces. I can't stand the woman, but she has the right to her opinion.

I think we need to get her out of as many mainstream papers as possible, just for her tone. Out of curiousity, why does the "Special Olympics" thing bother the OPer, so much? No more or less offensive to me than most of what she has to say...
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whathappened Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:25 PM
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13. has she any real people
that reads what she rites , she will jump off a ledge one day from all her hate and lie,s , she thinks she is carrying on the work of olsen
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SkiGuy Donating Member (451 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:30 PM
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14. I think you've missed my point
Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 06:43 PM by SkiGuy
This isn't so much anti-Ann, it was more like the Special Olympics do not need anymore negative comments. And the fact they came from a RW commentator.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:31 PM
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15. What the hell is wrong with him? Why does he talk that way?
He is one sick man.
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:41 PM
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16. Putting Her Insanely Warped Viewpoints Aside, I Don't Really Find This
to be that offensive.

I do, however, find Ann as a person in entirety to be offensive to the human race altogether.
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newswolf56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:50 PM
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17. Best antidote would be an Ann Coulter satire:
Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 06:52 PM by newswolf56
called Nna Retluoc and written by a woman with the acid-tongued eloquence of a Maureen Dowd. Take every one of Coulter's columns and apply the principle of reductio ad absurdum -- sort of like Walt Kelly did with Joe McCarthy or Charlie Chaplin and his script-writers did with Hitler. In this particular instance, by pointing out that Coulter's "special Olympics" remarks not only reflects her pure-Nazi contempt for the disabled, but also (by the inference that every Democratic member of Congress is mentally challenged) her savage hostility to the American people and ultimately to our liberty itself.

I'm not a humorist -- in fact it has been seriously questioned whether I have ever laughed even once in my life -- so I couldn't do it. But someone else surely could:

Nna Retluoc: if Madam Lafarge and Josef Goebbels had a daughter


edit: typo

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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 06:57 PM
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19. Murtha won't release his medical records
to prove he deserved his purple hearts. Well my my my.

And he shouldn't have to.

The correct response is, shut up Ann, you ignorant slut.
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