Comments on: Michelle Malkin on Coulter’s Idiot “Ragheads” Comment

By: Patterico’s Pontifications » A Simple Question

Patterico’s Pontifications » A Simple Question — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 06:20:48 +0000

[...] UPDATE: I guess I didn’t pass on this after all. [...]

By: Orson

Orson — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:22:15 +0000

To call an Arab or Middle Easterner “raghead” is certainly abusive, but it’s far from racist” as many alledge. Put simply, it’s slimy invective.

But don’t Arabs and Middle Essterners ever do anything slimy?

Oh - like behead innocent people, murder apostates, or terrorize civilians? And when Muslims fail to reject this evil-doing and resort to pretentious hypocrisy like”the Religion of Peace” to characterize their superior religion - don’t cha just wanna use the “R” word?

I know I do!

By: Patterico

Patterico — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:09:06 +0000

croche, I asked regular leftist commenters here to comment on who was a bigger threat/enemy: Bush or Osama. I heard from everyone except you; you demanded to be paid, though we regularly get your silly opinions for free. So I paid a penny for your thoughts on that issue, which was overpayment enough — and you still refused. I had you pegged as a guy who would never say, flat-out, that Osama is worse than Bush. So far, my prediction appears to remain accurate. Prove me wrong.

By: m.croche

m.croche — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:23:11 +0000

Patterico sez: “… I think she should crawl into the same hole already occupied by lunatics like croche who are unwilling to deem Osama a bigger menace than Bush.”

Criminy.

Every once in a while I get the feeling that Patterico may be, despite everything, an honest soul. Then I read things like this and the feeling goes away.

(Where is Osama by the way? I still can’t forget the words of GWB: “– I’ll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.”)

By: Dana

Dana — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:42:13 +0000

There have been plenty of conservative writers who have decried the lovely Miss Coulter’s choice of words, not only for this latest incident, but ones in the past as well.

I’m just wondering when we’re going to see our friends on the left similarly criticize liberal writers who call their political opponents all sorts of vile crap?

By: Patterico

Patterico — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:32:23 +0000

Also, I have not been on the Internet as much as normal. If she winked and nodded at violence against anyone, croche knows damn well that I denounce that, and I think she should crawl into the same hole already occupied by lunatics like croche who are unwilling to deem Osama a bigger menace than Bush.

By: Patterico

Patterico — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:24:39 +0000

It goes without saying that Coulter should apologize. That I feel that way should have been obvious to anyone reading my post.

By: m.croche

m.croche — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:17:52 +0000

Well that was a pretty milquetoast response. No bold-faced indignation? No calls for an apology?

Apparently Coulter’s racial epithet garnered a heckuva lot of applause at CPAC.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/ann-coulter-at-cpac-on-r_b_15434.html)

Nota bene: this isn’t a problem just with Coulter alone. So why is Malkin trying to tell the young conservatives at CPAC what they think?

And why does Patterico give Coulter a pass on her CPAC statements which, yet again, wink and nod at political violence (against Bill Clinton and 5 members of the Supreme Court)? Where is his signature bold-faced outrage? Where is his call for a clear and unambiguous statement by Coulter on the issue of political violence?

Coulter’s track record is plenty long. What does this say about conservative groups, such as CPAC, who continue to support her?

By: actus

actus — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:17:15 +0000

When are people going to catch on to her shtick? Who are these morons that invite her to places? the future of the right wing? The present?

By: paul

paul — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:22:45 +0000

Conservative though I may be, the entire diatribe was trivialized by the preamble…”Ann Coulter stated….” She has fallen into a liberal mindset of name calling and often pointless vitriol. She has a tendency to ‘fall in love’ with certain lines which she repeats until she finds a conversation that it fits into. She has just gotten lazy. C’mon Ann, to the showers for now. Maybe your game will sharpen up in the next half.