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Date Posted: 01:59:55 07/11/03 Fri
Author: H_Bergeron
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Subject: Title: ��Idiot Comment of the week (Ann Coulter)

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 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:50:08 EDT

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 Subject: Idiot Comment of the week (Ann Coulter)

 

 Idiot Comment of the week (Ann Coulter)

 

 "No serious person thinks that we are in the middle of a civil-liberties crisis"

 

�Ann Coulter, Time Magazine July 14, 2003 

(via Page 8, 10 questions for Ann Coulter)

link to full article

Q and A in context with statement bolded

Q: In Treason you say, "Liberals' principal contribution to the war on terrorism
has been to bill themselves as a corrective to 'jingoism.' Their real goal is too appalling to state out loud."
Care to state it out loud?
A: They are rooting against America.
I don't think there is any other way to explain hysterical claims of a civil-liberties emergency
in this country every time John Ashcroft talks to a Muslim.
No serious person thinks that we are in the middle of a civil-liberties crisis.
We have just seen thousands of fellow Americans slaughtered by legal immigrants to this country.
And John Ashcroft has detained several hundred illegal immigrants?

The best critique I've read concerning Ann Coulter
is this article from Spinsanity -
a site which I highly recommend for articles that aren't afraid to go after the left or the right -
sometimes both in the same article...

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[> I have not read Ann Coulter's book "Treason" yet. I have read excerpts from it here and there. With that said, that I have not read the book but I have read excerpts (here and there) I see nothing major wrong with her book ... yet. I know that David Horowitz also criticized her book as well. Why don't I have a BIG problem with it yet ...? -- William, 00:16:39 07/14/03 Mon (cache-dl03.proxy.aol.com/205.188.209.39)

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[> Because, from what I have seen, she is using a magnifying glass to bring to light the dishonesty and anti-US agenda of the Liberals and the Leftists. The Leftists and Liberals do much worse than she has done, and it is their modus operandae. I think Ann Coulter, right or wrong, adds balance to Liberal and Leftist lies and rhetoric, by blowing their BS up large for all the world to see, even if it is a bit exaggerated at times. -- William, 00:17:42 07/14/03 Mon (cache-dl03.proxy.aol.com/205.188.209.39)

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[> I first note that's from Time magazine. Then I focus on the word "crisis." While I think there may be some affronts to civil liberties, i do not think it has reached anything near a crisis. Do you? I think terms like "crisis" are overused so they lose their meaning. While I am not at all pleased with several Ashcroft's actions, is it yet a crisis? We should be critical in measure. -- SurveyGuy, 20:36:51 07/14/03 Mon (pcp01422563pcs.lndsd201.pa.comcast.net/68.81.153.209)

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[> The problem is that the Democrats prove Coulter correct each and every day regardless of the well-written, spinsanity piece. If she had called the book "Sedition," few would have even looked at the title. With many Democrats there is a pattern -- character assassination to win power, no matter what the cost to the country. Look at the discussions of extending the crisis in CA caught on open mike, for political gain. -- SurveyGuy (Not needing Coulter's book to come to the same conclusion.), 16:48:05 07/25/03 Fri (pcp03884941pcs.lndsd201.pa.comcast.net/68.32.204.89)

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