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"We have to learn the lesson that intellectual honesty is fundamental for everything we cherish." -Sir Karl Popper

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Monday, May 09, 2005

Coulter: "Let's oppress liberals."

Well, it's happened again. Animatronic skeleton Ann Coulter made a speech in Texas (picking up $30,000 from whoever is funding the College Republicans there), and used the opportunity to continue promoting violence against fellow Americans.

Here's some creepy video from Crooks & Liars featuring Coulter's eerily juvenile defense of herself:

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So, Coulter's built a lucrative career out of peddling aggressively stupid lies and advocating violence against those with whom she professes to disagree. But as soon as she runs into a little adversity, she's ready to claim victimization. It goes without saying that she's pulling off a scam worthy of P.T. Barnum-- cater to the desires of the nation's most gullible and bloodthirsty, and you can't help but make a fortune.

A young Texas activist (complete with scraggly beard and socialist bona fides) rightly called her on her hypocrisy-- albeit in an unnecessarily graphic manner. His reward for standing up to the woman who gleefully claims that her opponents have suffered broken bones at the hands of good little College Republicans (see video above-- that claim is a lie, too, thankfully)? Prosecution. Let's see, he said 'fuck,' which Cheney used on the Senate floor, and he used 'ass,' which Bush has used while being recorded. To be honest, Bush actually said "asshole." I propose this defense: "I learned it by watching you, all right?!?"

(Thanks to "Het Flegma" for the latest wrinkle in this sad, sad story.)