What do people think about Ann Coulter's comments?

Question

Do you think her comments about John Edwards are socially expectable or just flat out bigotry?

Answer 1

It's called "hyperbole".
I doubt that was the only thing she said that day but that particular utterance was a BIT over the top and that received media focus.
I thought it interesting that what she said was NOT exactly what the media reported. I think she said she could NOT call Edwards a ****** because of social impropriety - so the media reported that, effectively, she DID call him one.
I'm not a big fan of name calling. I think, though, she was in an interview and being asked to give short answers to describe various possible presidential candidates.
I do, indeed, WINCE sometimes when I read some of things she writes although, on the whole, the articles she writes are very thought-provoking, packed with documentable facts and tend to shine some light on the hypocrisy within the government. Most of it, admittedly, concerns Democrats and liberals but she has written a number of items acosting Republicans and conservatives.
She IS an entertainer of sorts and she DOES insert the various over-the-top and outrageous comment or remark.
BUT THIS IS WHAT POLITICAL COMMENTATORS DO!

Answer 2

Coultergeist just talks out of her azz and says the most outrageous things to get publicity. She's just mad at the world because of her botched sex change operation. She took the cheap way out and had a veterinarian do it. He gave her the wrong hormones. That's why she looks like an ostrich with a blond wig. Coulter is a turd in the toilet of humanity.

Answer 3

Freedom of Speach is great. You also have the freedon not to listen when someone says something stupid. Name calling doesn't further the debate or help us share ideas. Funny, though, how the media reports on this and not something like the new National Monument off Northwestern Hawaii; the largest Marine Sanctuary in the world.

Answer 4

John Edwards should sue her for slander!

FYI-She said the same thing about Al Gore.

Answer 5

I would say they were in bad taste. She meant it as a put down to Edwards not the homosexual community. Basically, she's an entertainer and free to say what she wants. And if people don't like what she's saying, don't watch her, and she'll eventually disappear off the TV.

Answer 6

i think we should look at her comments as an opinion and nothing more. i believe when people make comments we sometimes read into them too much and thus make a judgement about that person's character. it happens to me alot in this forum.

Answer 7

She is hilarious. She pushes the envelope. No her comments are not really socially acceptable, but she was not being a bigot. She was making a point. Unfortunately, most of what she says goes way over most people's heads.

Answer 8

I believe her when she says that it's illegal to be a conservative or a Republican. Liberals have said worse, and to more people, but it's acceptable. If a liberal Democrat is found to lie, steal, perjure, etc., they are re-elected, a Republican is forced to resign or goes to prison for doing the same thing.

Answer 9

she is a writer, needs to sell her books, shock value is
important to her.......I think some of her ranting have merit

Answer 10

She justs wants the attention that everybody is giving her. I don't even listen to her.