Comments on: HuffPo’s Ann Coulter article a perfect example of the way the way the Left demonizes conservatives

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 04:52:30 +0000

Who is this LSBeene person and why hasn’t he/she been posting here before? I want more!

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:18:13 +0000

Earl, I was at CSU from ’77 to ’79. I know exactly what you mean re. cowboys and backpackers.
I recall a Californian grad student sitting next to me in the stands at a Rams football game (the football weather there were so absolutely perfect!). Out of the blue, he decides to tell me how he absolutely hated cowboys. I asked him how many he knew? All i got was mumbles as his gaze shifted elsewhere. The way he said it, I suspected that cowboys threatened his manhood. Schmuck!
Mike Devx, as usual, nails it with a pithy remark. Yes, Colorado has been trashed. Very sad. We always hoped to retire there. Now? Maybe not so much.

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:50:24 +0000

LSBeene #10, well said, hurrah! I think you perfectly captured what is great about Ann Coulter. I wish we had a ‘Like’ button, for what you wrote!

I admire the hell out of Ann Coulter.

By: LSBeene

LSBeene — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:27:37 +0000

Bookworm,

I often read your stuff, but mostly lurk and not comment. This however has struck a nerve with me.

Ann Coulter is a brilliant woman. Let me caveat this by saying there is a huge difference between her books and her public appearances. In public she tosses out rhetorical bombs that make me cringe – but, your comparison to Mahar is very very apt. One is lionized for his wit and fast commentary, and one is demonized for her wit and fast commentary.

In her books Coulter really impresses. She researches and footnotes with great detail and her ability to research is amazing. I find myself using her books as great “talking points” platforms when subjects come up in discussions on political subjects.

What struck a nerve with me is Liberal women like Arianna Huffington and Hilary Clinton are hypocrites, vicious opportunists, and have a fully ingested sense of elitest entitlement complex.

Arianna Huffington, in effect, SLEPT her way into what she has. Hilary is a brilliant woman, but so are millions of others – she got onto the national stage due to who she got married and what office he held. Both remind me of their generation’s “feminist leader” Gloria Steinem who slept with various men who then bankrolled her efforts to promote her liberal version of feminism, which, lol, proclaimed that women didn’t need men.

Do not mistake what I am saying – brilliant hard working women (see: Coulter for example) can make it big without a man (or with one), but many liberal “feminist” women would never have made it to the A-List of movers and shakers without either 1) Some husband (they didn’t need, of course) bank rolling them / introducing them to the world and / or 2) The gov’t funded feminist apparatus “good ol’ girl” system giving them a platform from which to speak.

Ann Coulter’s books are AMAZING. She really taught me a lot about history – and I’m an amateur history nerd – and dispelled a lot of myths that I really had no clue were myths. She has a way of being snarky and tearing up liberal sacred cows.

The reasons why she is so unpopular with the left is the way she communicates is an affront to all the things they believe :
1) She is not “sensitive” to how she says things – meaning she won’t let the left control the language and she won’t play the “gee, I said this in a mean way, and therefore you win” – she won’t let them play victim and start you off on the defensive.
2) She won’t let the left re-write history – which is CRUCIAL to the left. The left has based their cultural attack on the US on critical theory and has relied on re-written or subjective views of history to do it.
— Other cultures had slavery – all of human history did – and it was the UK and then the US who lead the way to eradicating it. But you’d not get that impression if you were to learn history from a leftist. They have to discredit and destroy the US’s past in order to destroy the basis / foundation of our society in order to build their utopian dream. If the left were to admit that the Founders were amazing men and their ideas did indeed stem from their Christian beliefs then they (the left) would have no justification for their desire to disassemble our culture (because it’s “bad”) and remake it in the image they want.

Coulter is a self-made woman who can intelligently and disprove the basis of their arguments – therefore she must be criticized and silenced. They can’t attack the message, so they attack the messenger.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:50:22 +0000

Ann Coulter pushes a lot of lib buttons. For one, she is a woman- and a good looking woman- advocating conservative policies. Many libs look at her as if she went off the reservation. A woman is supposed to be on OUR side! She pokes fun at libs, which REALLY tees off the humorless, self-righteous lib element- which constitutes a substantial proportion of the libs, What infuriates tlibs even more is that she delivers substantive political commentary while poking fun at them.

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:23:06 +0000

I may be exaggerating slightly here concerning Colorado, but I believe that when trash moves into your neighborhood, your neighborhood becomes trashed. What more needs to be said to explain what has happened?

By: Earl

Earl — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:35:30 +0000

1971-’73, plus most of ’76, Danny….College of Forestry and Natural Resources.

At that time, the northern Front Range was in the top 10 of fastest growing areas in the country, and I understand that it accelerated after I left (don’t think there was a connection, though!).

Big deal on campus was the backpackers v. the cowboys. One year they declared “Wear Levis if you’re gay” day. I wore what I always wore – Levis – as did pretty much everyone else, as far as I could tell. Since then, it appears that the backpackers (or worse, their “descendants”) have won….although it’s still not Boulder (or “Berkeley east” as we called it in those days – I think Ashland, NC has inherited that title).

Love The Fort, owned my first home there, and laid the foundation for 30+ wonderful years of college teaching, so I’m very grateful.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:06:28 +0000

Earl, you and I may have been at CSU at the same time.
I agree – a big part of this is that Colorado (esp. Boulder and Nederland) has always been a magnet for hippies and trust-fund babies. More recently, it has been hope to a massive influx of California refugees determined to recreate exactly the conditions in Colorado that they sought to escape from in California. Very sad!

By: jj

jj — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:49:44 +0000

I hardly ever see Ann as particularly extreme, and I wouldn’t bet the ranch she was “quipping,” either. When you look at what giving women the vote has wrought, and you look at the people the female vote has inflicted on us, all the way from Boxer, Fienstein, Hillary, Cantwell and Murray to JFK, Clinton, and Obama – I wonder what leads you to suppose she’s kidding?

By: Earl

Earl — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:36:47 +0000

The “Colorado Model” depends on getting voters to vote for “progressive” Democrats, and against Second Amendment rights, traditional marriage, lower taxes, restrained spending, etc. etc. etc.

I don’t think that a great many of the traditional Colorado voters are on board for any of that, regardless of what “four rich liberals” are doing. Those guys depended on mobilizing voters who were not conservative at their cores and could be swayed by a bunch of lefty utopian advertising plus the demonization of those who disagreed.

I went to grad school in Fort Collins in the ’70s, and I saw the beginnings of the problem at the time – loads of folks moving in from elsewhere, many of them from California (as I was). They completely changed the electorate along the Front Range, and they were the perfect targets for those who devised the “Colorado Model”.