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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (107438)	4/12/2007 6:07:46 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (2) of 132070

I agree that it was slimy comment because there was no reason to target those girls. So I have no problem with people saying that, explaining why, and trying to enlighten Imus and his listeners. I have a problem with anything beyond that. However, I disagree about Ann Coulter. Personally I don't agree with everything that Ann Coulter says, but I do agree with a lot of it. One difference between her and most other people is that she is willing to say things that some people would hold their tongue about specifically because they are sensitive to the feelings of others or are afraid to get targeted by the "PC police". She doesn't seem to care. What really sets her apart is that she purposely says things in as offensive a way as is humanly possible to get people riled up. It's her own form of comedy/way of entertaining the hard right. She is specifically going to the far edge to upset the left (people like you) as much as possible. That's the joke. After 9/11 she called for the US to simply go to the Middle East and convert all the Muslims to Christianity. I was laughing my ass off that people took those comments seriously. I still read articles about that where people think she really meant it. If fact, she made fun of the people that didn't "get it" back then in another recent column and they still probably don't get it. It's comical. It's not all that different than what Bill Maher does with Bush, Cheney and the rest of the far right. I disagree with Maher more often than Coulter, but he cracks me up even when I disagree and being offensive because I know what he's doing and why. He's playing to the far left and trying to piss the right off as much as possible. It's that people "don't get it" that causes the problem.

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