One may start to feel like a loner at UNH being a conservative. This week seems to have started no different than the rest, with a joke, no, really a joke. Anne Coulter, is a outspoken conservative columnist, her comments on presidentail hopeful John Edwards, have seemed to stop the media and politicians in their tracks. Every news station from here to timbuckto has decided to jump on the bandwagon of what seems to be a monopoly of this story, to try to make all conservatives turn away from the one person who will actually stand up to the lies that the liberals have spread over the years. I may be biased, as I am an avid reader of Anne, not only of her books but her blogs, before you get your stakes out... hear me out, have you ever taken the time to listen to what she is saying? At times she can go over the top, but her facts that back up her arguements that are never less than right on the money. One could spend hours listening to the reasons why what she said was more than just "a school yard taunt", but honestly I have lost patience for that kind of agreeing to disagree. Everyone in the media should take a step back and look at this for what it is, which is first of all the reason why its funny: becuase NO one should go to rehab for using any word! I would hope to think that everyone outside of Hollywood, would think its ridiculous that anyone would go to a mental institution for such a thing, this kind of thing this is semantic totalinarianism that is going on, by automatically for using the "f" word ,it is asumed that one would go so far as to use the "n" word. All and all, I must remind you that despite what you believe, she spoke at a CONSERVATIVE CONVENTION, do not sit there a liberal and think your the innocent ones either as far as jokes go. Case in point, what about liberal John Kerry, telling a group of college students that if they didn't get an education, they would end up "stuck in Iraq." The media is giving her a hard time now, saying this is "career ending"... well this is the same thing that has happend for the past 10 years that her statements every so often attract this kind of publicity. Really, what is the big deal, even if she did say it, it was a joke...just like John Kerry's, shocking, but everyside has there miscommunications. There is no reason to say this is going to persuade a following of people agaisnt her, like the media has portrayed time and time again, cant they just realize "a zebra never changes it's spots" and sometimes the truth hurts.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070304/pl_nm/people_coulter_dc
2 comments:
So you say "whats the big deal, it was a joke?" As some people say, fag is just a word, it doesn't really mean anything. I do not know if you have ever been on the other end, hearing that word, but it is a powerful word, such as the "n" word. It is powerful when there is still so much hatred behind it. It is powerful when people on the street mumble it under their breath as you walk by. It is powerful when a knife is lying close to your neck as someone screams those words while threatening your life, all because of your sexuality. Granted, I don't think she should go to a mental institution for it, it is not ok to just throw around. You can label me whatever you want for saying this, but it is not "just a joke" to those who feel the negative affects.
woah, dorothy, you're a conservative? I don't have much to say about Ann Coulter, except she's hot. That's probably it.
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