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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatching Bill Maher now, since I was out and recorded it. Two things...
His opening was great.
Coulter is an act. She's always been an act. She failed at being a lawyer and a few other things but discovered her niche as a snide pseudo-conservative. I doubt she believes for a minute half the stuff she spouts, but it's a paycheck. I don't hate her so much as her "followers".
Actually, I suspect most of the wingnuts who back her don't take her seriously either, but a good shitstirrer is not a bad thing to have around. And, if you watched their interchange with the properly jaundiced eye, you would see how it was not serious at all. (Is Bill really gonna go for a shag after the show?)
ITMFA!
CincyDem
(6,363 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)I can't watch her.
California_Republic
(1,826 posts)A political entertainer. She says what ever keeps her in the news. I agree that her true beliefs are not really important to her.
radius777
(3,635 posts)to those who are the targets (PoC, Latinos, immigrants) of it.
She may seem "harmless" to some on the white left, but not to PoC like myself.
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Either way, a disgusting POS.
Cha
(297,314 posts)her a pass.. 'cause maybe she's not actually as big an asshole as she tries to be.
nolabear
(41,986 posts)I really hate the entertainment/government/information meld we have now. It is entertaining to the point of being addictive but Im afraid its fiddling while Rome burns on a global scale.
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Play on white resentment, while being "entertaining" to their nasty, mean fans.
nolabear
(41,986 posts)I dont think for a minute most of them have anything but contempt for the fans.
brush
(53,787 posts)And what kind of no conscience sociopath engages in inciting wingers to more and more extreme views and even actionslike she did to the biggest, dufus winger in existencethe one in the Wh.
She deserves not just hatred, but contempt and exposure for what she is as well.
No tolerance for the shit she's spreading please. Shistirrers are ok my ass. Look what her shitstirring got the country.
radius777
(3,635 posts)Buchanan and other alt-righters were old and boring.
Enter Coulter, who was young, attractive (to some), media savvy, female, etc.
She spent years crafting and perfecting a "pop" brand of alt-rightism... one that Trump would eventually pick up on and add to himself.
Coulter and Trump are more dangerous than Buchanana/Duke et al for this reason - they were able to make alt-right/fascism/white nationalism seem trendy and part of mainstream pop culture.
It doesn't matter if on some level it's an act - Hitler was an act on some level - what matters is the real damage it does to real people.
UTUSN
(70,710 posts)at how shallow she is. I have *never* listened to her all these years, but thought she was an "intellectual" of the wingnut sort.
Look, SHITLER is a fool, nobody to take strategically, but because of the "influence" COULTERgeist (and LIMBOsevic) have had on him for the past few weeks, I assumed she was a teeny bit towards the David FRUM sort.
Well, surprise surprise after watching the YouTube of the MAHER/COULTERgeist bit, my first long term exposure to her, she is a TOTAL FLAKE!1
MAHER brought up her past years of supporting SHITLER and her "reasons" were complete ridiculousness! Her current disappointment in SHITLER is just deflation of conviction.
To say, now, she is an idiot is nothing. The incredible gobsmaking is that some weirdo occupying the "most powerful" slot in the world looks to her for direction!1
lunatica
(53,410 posts)800,000 people lost their credit rating, couldnt even pay for gas to work for free, went into deeper debt, couldnt pay their mortgage, had to go to food pantries to eat and may take months or even years to recover financially and she says it was all just a fun act?
Anyone buying this excuse for a human being as being just some entertainer is a fucking idiot.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)blame the asshole who listened to her.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)and told him to open the government.
How can you stand to defend her? She spreads damage like contagious sickness.
And yes, Trump is a fucking idiot for listening to her!
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)a profitable niche.
Like Father Coughlin, Walter Winchell, and so many others, we tolerate them as a side effect of democracy and free speech, but the onus is on us as a nation if we take them seriously.
I mention Coughlin and Winchell because they were eventually taken down when they caused more trouble than amusement. We have either not learned that lesson, or the new ones haven't reached the tipping point yet.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I shouldnt have said you were defending her because you arent please accept my apology.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)dlk
(11,569 posts)Coulter is just another bs artist out to make a buck. She doesnt appear to believe the spin she spews. Shes found her niche market & is milking it for all its worth.
dweller
(23,641 posts)of a repuke?
I've never expected anything different from one ...
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