The Liberal equivalent to Ann Coulter....?

I am in discussion right now where some wing-nut is saying Michael Moore is exactly like Ann Coulter. I pointed out the myriad of ways they were not the same.

That got me to thinking...Do WE on the left have our own Coulter?

If so, who is it?

Of course minus the heels, and Malloy has a soul, which Ann does not.

but If I HAD to pick a similar tone, I'd say Malloy.

Moore can't done what Malloy can do.. that's work a crowd with just his speech.

Moore is too contrive if he tries to speak from the hip.. it doesn't come out right, Moore is a writer, he needs a script to come off well. Malloy is a natural born speaking Motivator his show gets me worked up and anyone who listens to it.

but you can tell that Malloy hold a lot animosity and anger (for good reasons) at the right wing nuts to the point of a frenzy, I feel for him sometimes.. I think it's almost unhealthy for him, I wish him peace.

Ann on the other hand.. she's beyond help, she's internalized her darkness she can't say something nice about anyone.

I have never heard Malloy's show or when he's done a show. I rarely stream shows and now that DC has Progressive talk (1260) I get Rachel Maddo, Stephanie Miller and on the way home Ed Shultz and sometimes Randy.

But I've never heard Malloy. I looked up his Bio and like what I read...Our Coulter? Hmmm.

problem: Mike has said over and over that he doesn't have solutions and despises praise.

Ward Churchill ,I believe? Who said all those in the WTC were "little Eichman's" and deserverd to die. Yeah, he would count. Of course I've seen people around here say Jill Carroll deserved to have her head cut off because she was in Iraq. No, I'm not kidding. And no, he wasn't a freeper but still a good standing DU member. Oh and people say the 9/11 widows should "shut the fuck up" and just enjoy their millions. YES, even supposed liberals have hate inside them.

There are probably people on the left who have attitides and speech like Coulter; but they're not celebrated by MSM. Coulter seems to be on TV almost every night.

I was asking him...Find someone on the left paraded around by the media that is like Coulter?

Moore does films that you only see if you choose to. Coulter just shows up on the damn TV show when you aren't even expecting it and she is promoted as some sort of sensible individual.

No, they don't use all of the same tactics, but Moore is a propagandist. He does play fast and loose with the facts.

That's a freaking huge difference IMHO

However, both spin facts that are, at times, dubious, to promote an agenda. Both make their livings intentionally upsetting the opposing party.

I've only seen his F9/11. If you can contain it that, I might watch the movie again this weekend to see.

they both shave :)

Coultergeist last night with an "adam's apple" aside. He had David Brock on from MediaMatters debunking Ann's "Godless" book. Lots of fact errors. Her publisher, Crown, just printed whatever she wrote -- no checking for validity.
As an example, Brock cited her hysterical claim in her book that kindergartners were being schooled in adult sexual acitivities. Her footnote claimed an article from the NTY as the source.
Well, go to the cited source and it's an article from 20 years ago...about Dartmouth students learning sex ed. Not kindergartners.
And that's just one of her glaring errors.

just to make your freeper friend have a brain fart.

and insulting stuff meant to just shock the way Coulter does.

Michael Moore is a compassionate person who points out the truth with brilliant documentaries, which *wingnuts just HATE. He's for the little guy. Coulter is simply a hater who appeals to homophobes, racists, bigots and all the rest of the scum in the RW pond. (no offense to scum)

People like her and the rest of the rw bloviators should be banned from the airwaves with their hate filled spew they call "entertainment".

It's really pretty impossible to have someone as an "opposite" that one would be called "liberal". By definition, both would have to be self-centered. And most self-centered people are Republicans or worse.

Funny how they let her get away with attacking the 9-11 widows (who are definitely a thorn in BushCo's side!) and other trash talking.

Olbermann does a pretty good job shredding her credibility.

can you imagine, for even one minute, lefties lining up to support and scheduling television interviews and buying books from a liberal who advocated murdering conservatives?

I'd say Ted Rall is as nasty as Coulter, but not as much of a self-promoter.

"writers" like Ann use bullshit they make up as they go along.

:silly:

not even Malloy....nor any libs that have called for the death of a rival...

Great public speaker, smartass, tall, blond, super corporate/legal sales woman, at least as telegenic as Anne-- I could annihilate her in a debate & make her and their Party a laughingstock if given the chance.

Anybody want to ghostwrite an incendiary, snarky ANTICON book(let)? I'll front for it.

show and part of me scrotum dangle from my little black cocktail dress.

if they're going to compare our adam's apples they may as well start making nearly verifiable claims that I Am Actually A Man, too.

:rofl:

Wouldn't that be a hoot. Fortunately/Unfortunately I've never had the urge to do it so I would be REALLY BAD at it. Except the debate part - I could do that with one tongue tied behind my back.

It'll piss her off. I even have 2 bio children to PROVE IT! And a husband! PLEEEEASE?

Well they both have adam's apples, but the similarity stops there.

Michael Moore has never advocated even hyperbolic violence against anyone, including republicans and neo cons. You can't compare a relative pacifist to a rabid anti-intellectual hate mongering bag of bitter bones.

What an odd odd thing to say; Ann Coulter is subhuman, and in permanent glucose deficit craving crack, cigarettes and a dime sized breathmint for dinner.

it drives me crazy. Mike Moore doesn't have a hateful bone in his body.
they are nuts.

I really can't think of anyone, even our own dear Distressed American, who comes even within spitting distance of the vitriolic beast.

" It's high time we killed all of the Neocons
and
"Eat The Rich"

Come on, Everyone out of the projects and invade the McMansions"
"Kill them all and bury them out back"
Move in 10 families of Latinos into each one"

100 people per Bank Branch
Loot all the money

!0 million people on the WH lawn

Invade Crawford en mass!

(How am I doing?)

He's about as inflammatory, and even makes the same attacks as Ann Coulter on occasion. Then again, he's a bit more of an iconoclast, rather than following the marching orders of a political party, so he attacks Democrats far more often than Coulter attacks Republicans.

...articulate, well-documented, and puts his body where his mouth is (he covered the invasion of Afghanistan, on his own dime, as an unembedded reporter)...opinionated and brash, but not nearly as vicious...or vacuous. And he's better looking...and his characature of Junior as a drooling, third-world generallisimo is priceless.

surprisingly restrained. After reading his cartoons, I was expecting a firebrand. He's actually very methodical in his arguments and deliberate in his speech.

...endlessly prostituted by the MSM/Cable "news" and be allowed to lie endlessly about every radical, LW idea that pops into her head.

So no, when someone like that does appear on the MSM, they are quickly labeled a LW Wacko, or worst, and then quickly dismissed.

...we just don't elevate them to the status of spokes-holes and prophets and the punditocracy.

cynically,
Bright

They walk among us. But we don't get our millionaire buddies to bulk buy their books or fly them around the country to shill their diatribes with paid-off talk show hosts.

I'm sure we could find some lefties similarly vocal, such as Malloy, but you will not find any with the mainstream media support that Coulter receives.

as Coulter. It takes a special breed of miscreant to do and say what Coulter does. Liberals, by definition, can bring no one to the table as low as she. She's one, minuscule step above plant life.

I think you'd have to go that far left to find a true parallel for her ideology-driven disdain for truth & logic. Of course lefty loonies don't get on TV. Moore is a propagandist, but he traffics in fact and the occasional sarcastic jibe. Coulter is just pure distilled mean--and seems to be a bit emotionally unbalanced.

just as Coulter advocates for liberal. So, maybe it's me. Except for my cock is bigger than Coulter's

I like her, but it's only because I'm on her side, politically. She tends to make leaps in logic sometimes, making claims that aren't strictly backed up by facts.

However, there are still three big differences between her and Coulter:

1. She's not a liar. Coulter is. Randi's arguments are based on facts at their base, though she does sometimes make leaps in logic.

2. She does not, and never will, get the kind of media exposure that Coulter gets. Wild, unmoderated, right-wing rhetoric is acceptable in the corporate media. Left wing rhetoric is not.

3. Randi Rhodes rants for a political side, she doesn't sell hatred and racism, as Coulter does.

Randi that Ann tosses around like it's acceptable, like calling a respected senior journalist an old arab and other racist things she says about Middle Easteners.