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Call Off The Dogs
Tonight I've been studying for my exam on the bed, and Joey the Dog decided to get up on the bed with me. Instead of just curling up next to me, she decided that it was time to be noticed, so she got in my face, pushed the book around, and barked several times. After being told by both Chris and I to stop barking, she kept going. Even minor amounts of petting weren't keeping her from wanting more.
After another round of barking, I told her, "Shut up Miss Coulter!"
Really, that's just the thing, just like Joey, the conservative pundit is just out there barking for attention. She's hoping that barking will lead to book sales and more speaking opportunities, as she doesn't seem to have much in the way of other talents. The more we pay attention to her, the more she gets.
Truly, the worst part is there are plenty who are listening to her every word. they love for her to be outrageous and go cackling on, since they think its 1) something they couldn't, or wouldn't say themselves. 2) something that validates their victimhood. Attacks like hers generally are applauded by those who feel that they've been hurt or wronged in some way by the other side. it's sort of the same thing as those who believe in the "War on Christianity" feel like their being persecuted by a minority and can't properly celebrate if it isn't done in a mass, publicly acknowledged way.
At the Conservative Political Action Committee Convention you have a lot of people still smarting from the Democratic majority in congress and a weakening president the attendees were just waiting for someone to come out swinging - but it wasn't going to be any of the candidates. Given that a word like "faggot" could sink a campaign in this exceptionally early race, none would actually say something like that. Heck, Senator Joseph Biden's campaign has practically been put to pasture by just mentioning that Senator Barack Obama was "clean".
So what to do? Send out the dog. Here she is, she has not political campaign to worry about, and she's preaching to the choir. She's the one who can be unleashed. Still, except for the attack on former Senator Edwards, what did she say? Little has been said about the rest of her speech, which I would guess was mostly about Democratic frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Obama as she said she didn't get a chance to talk about the other frontrunner.
My guess is that she hadn't gotten much milage about her views on the frontrunners, so why not throw out one big, nasty bomb at the end of the speech? This is from someone who has dogged World Trade Center widows, so what would be shocking?
It's the problem with current media that they keep falling for this shit. Look, someone said a naughty word, or shaved their head, or got caught with a bad drivers license or exposed their nipple? Come on people. Don't you know when your being used? We've got plenty of media whores around here, and a very big group of encouragers - Entertainment Tonight, Extra, Larry King, Nancy Grace, Bill O'Reilly, I could go on and on.
Sure, there's people who laughed. Heck, it's like a Bevis and Butthead level joke - there's little thought required. Ohh, look, she's so outrageous. Ohh, Zing! Big deal. Beyond the shock value, what is there of substance? It's the same of her colums or speeches. How many people really talk about her books beyond the outrageous blurbs on the cover?
Really, I've talked about this more than I wanted to, as I too have joined the ranks of people who've given her more attention than she deserves. While some of you may want to scream about putting this particular bitch on a leash, personally I'd be more satisfied if she was just spayed and taken off to the farm.
I have my own dog, and she's much more lovable and pleasant to be around, barks and all.
After another round of barking, I told her, "Shut up Miss Coulter!"
Really, that's just the thing, just like Joey, the conservative pundit is just out there barking for attention. She's hoping that barking will lead to book sales and more speaking opportunities, as she doesn't seem to have much in the way of other talents. The more we pay attention to her, the more she gets.
Truly, the worst part is there are plenty who are listening to her every word. they love for her to be outrageous and go cackling on, since they think its 1) something they couldn't, or wouldn't say themselves. 2) something that validates their victimhood. Attacks like hers generally are applauded by those who feel that they've been hurt or wronged in some way by the other side. it's sort of the same thing as those who believe in the "War on Christianity" feel like their being persecuted by a minority and can't properly celebrate if it isn't done in a mass, publicly acknowledged way.
At the Conservative Political Action Committee Convention you have a lot of people still smarting from the Democratic majority in congress and a weakening president the attendees were just waiting for someone to come out swinging - but it wasn't going to be any of the candidates. Given that a word like "faggot" could sink a campaign in this exceptionally early race, none would actually say something like that. Heck, Senator Joseph Biden's campaign has practically been put to pasture by just mentioning that Senator Barack Obama was "clean".
So what to do? Send out the dog. Here she is, she has not political campaign to worry about, and she's preaching to the choir. She's the one who can be unleashed. Still, except for the attack on former Senator Edwards, what did she say? Little has been said about the rest of her speech, which I would guess was mostly about Democratic frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Obama as she said she didn't get a chance to talk about the other frontrunner.
My guess is that she hadn't gotten much milage about her views on the frontrunners, so why not throw out one big, nasty bomb at the end of the speech? This is from someone who has dogged World Trade Center widows, so what would be shocking?
It's the problem with current media that they keep falling for this shit. Look, someone said a naughty word, or shaved their head, or got caught with a bad drivers license or exposed their nipple? Come on people. Don't you know when your being used? We've got plenty of media whores around here, and a very big group of encouragers - Entertainment Tonight, Extra, Larry King, Nancy Grace, Bill O'Reilly, I could go on and on.
Sure, there's people who laughed. Heck, it's like a Bevis and Butthead level joke - there's little thought required. Ohh, look, she's so outrageous. Ohh, Zing! Big deal. Beyond the shock value, what is there of substance? It's the same of her colums or speeches. How many people really talk about her books beyond the outrageous blurbs on the cover?
Really, I've talked about this more than I wanted to, as I too have joined the ranks of people who've given her more attention than she deserves. While some of you may want to scream about putting this particular bitch on a leash, personally I'd be more satisfied if she was just spayed and taken off to the farm.
I have my own dog, and she's much more lovable and pleasant to be around, barks and all.
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Then again, I cannot help but go through a knee-jerk, verbal assault of calling her the "c" word anytime I see her name in print.
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I just keep looking for someone to do an expose to find out what Ms. Coulter's real bith gender was.