3 Suckas, 3 Rulas
Wow. Counterpoise has experienced difficulty in publishing our Suckas and Rulas of the week column since the holiday season and the recent "Noreaster" storm have been in effect. (by the way, why is it not a "Northeastern" storm; is the abridged term intended to convey some sort of regional accent?) Here are the make-up assignments.
Ann Coulter is probably the most consistently hateful participant in mainstream political discourse. Ann combines the most caustic of Fox News style right-wing punditry with a sort of generic, corporate blonde sex appeal. Her omnipresent vitriol is so overwhelming that it often seems to cause her to include in her arguments crude asides and baseless hyperbole that many others who possess her sharp wit and legal training would wisely avoid for the sake of persuasiveness. Some examples of her remarks include her statement after September 11, 2001 that "[w]e should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity", and her dire warning just prior to the recent presidential election that a John Kerry win would mean "the end of the Republic". Some of her sputum is archived here; the factual errors in her book, Slander, are well chronicled in Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars that Tell Them. If her goal is to provoke emotional responses from her critics, she is certainly accomplished. It was in this interview with Chris Matthews concerning her newer book, Treason, the thesis of which is that the Democratic Party and "the liberals" are generally traitors, where Matthews demanded an explanation for her knock against arabs: they smell really bad. As she often does when confronted in televised interviews by intelligent arguments against her far-reaching published positions, she shrunk from her bile and brimstone, resorting to snarky, legalistic evasion and hedging. I am hard-pressed to find someone who is a bigger Sucka than Ann Coulter.
Look at the man to Ann Coulter's left in the book shill picture above (in terms of a political spectrum, I believe most people who are not militia members are to Coulter's left). That's Sean Hannity, Clear Channel radio fixture, co-host of the Fox News shout-show Hannity and Colmes, and the perpetually smirking, Long Island Irish face-boy of binary variable, intellectually shallow conservatism. There is a memorable segment from Hannity and Colmes included in the film Outfoxed, where Sean disagrees with a former CIA expert regarding the military's capacity to conduct simultaneous campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. The CIA dude discusses diverted air-lifting assets; Sean, clearly drawing upon a robust, relevant body of knowledge, responds "we can walk and chew gum at the same time". Generally, Sean speaks more simply than Ann. He likes to make rantings containing the essential message "Freedom is Good, Liberals and Terrorists hate Freedom, George Bush Loves It". "Freedom" can mean the freedom of corporations to benefit from from government largesse, the freedom to conduct preemptive war, the freedom to deny others the freedom of electing an abortion, or the Bush Administration's freedom to torture people. "Let Freedom Ring", says Sean. "Sean, you a Sucka", says I.
Since we are behind schedule, why not go for a FNC Sucka trifecta? Bill O'Reilly. "...then I would take the other hand with the falafel [sic] thing and I’d put it on your pussy but you’d have to do it really light, just kind of a tease business."-Quote attributed to O'Reilly in legal briefings filed in sexual harassment case.
Rulas, real quick:
For escaping political upheaval a la Pol Pot, opening the first Cambodian restaurant in this nation, The Elephant Walk, and unveiling the splendid secrets of once endangered Khmer cuisine to anglophones in a related cookbook, Longteine "Nyep" de Monteiro rules.
Since his 1969 Pulitzer Prize reporting of the My Lai massacre, Seymour Hersh has been at the forefront of investigative journalism, blowing up spots Republican and Democrat alike, and he is still at it, recently writing in The New Yorker about Ministry of Peace chief Donald Rumsfeld's designs on Iran.
Johnny Carson, RIP.
Ann Coulter is probably the most consistently hateful participant in mainstream political discourse. Ann combines the most caustic of Fox News style right-wing punditry with a sort of generic, corporate blonde sex appeal. Her omnipresent vitriol is so overwhelming that it often seems to cause her to include in her arguments crude asides and baseless hyperbole that many others who possess her sharp wit and legal training would wisely avoid for the sake of persuasiveness. Some examples of her remarks include her statement after September 11, 2001 that "[w]e should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity", and her dire warning just prior to the recent presidential election that a John Kerry win would mean "the end of the Republic". Some of her sputum is archived here; the factual errors in her book, Slander, are well chronicled in Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars that Tell Them. If her goal is to provoke emotional responses from her critics, she is certainly accomplished. It was in this interview with Chris Matthews concerning her newer book, Treason, the thesis of which is that the Democratic Party and "the liberals" are generally traitors, where Matthews demanded an explanation for her knock against arabs: they smell really bad. As she often does when confronted in televised interviews by intelligent arguments against her far-reaching published positions, she shrunk from her bile and brimstone, resorting to snarky, legalistic evasion and hedging. I am hard-pressed to find someone who is a bigger Sucka than Ann Coulter.
Look at the man to Ann Coulter's left in the book shill picture above (in terms of a political spectrum, I believe most people who are not militia members are to Coulter's left). That's Sean Hannity, Clear Channel radio fixture, co-host of the Fox News shout-show Hannity and Colmes, and the perpetually smirking, Long Island Irish face-boy of binary variable, intellectually shallow conservatism. There is a memorable segment from Hannity and Colmes included in the film Outfoxed, where Sean disagrees with a former CIA expert regarding the military's capacity to conduct simultaneous campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. The CIA dude discusses diverted air-lifting assets; Sean, clearly drawing upon a robust, relevant body of knowledge, responds "we can walk and chew gum at the same time". Generally, Sean speaks more simply than Ann. He likes to make rantings containing the essential message "Freedom is Good, Liberals and Terrorists hate Freedom, George Bush Loves It". "Freedom" can mean the freedom of corporations to benefit from from government largesse, the freedom to conduct preemptive war, the freedom to deny others the freedom of electing an abortion, or the Bush Administration's freedom to torture people. "Let Freedom Ring", says Sean. "Sean, you a Sucka", says I.
Since we are behind schedule, why not go for a FNC Sucka trifecta? Bill O'Reilly. "...then I would take the other hand with the falafel [sic] thing and I’d put it on your pussy but you’d have to do it really light, just kind of a tease business."-Quote attributed to O'Reilly in legal briefings filed in sexual harassment case.
Rulas, real quick:
For escaping political upheaval a la Pol Pot, opening the first Cambodian restaurant in this nation, The Elephant Walk, and unveiling the splendid secrets of once endangered Khmer cuisine to anglophones in a related cookbook, Longteine "Nyep" de Monteiro rules.
Since his 1969 Pulitzer Prize reporting of the My Lai massacre, Seymour Hersh has been at the forefront of investigative journalism, blowing up spots Republican and Democrat alike, and he is still at it, recently writing in The New Yorker about Ministry of Peace chief Donald Rumsfeld's designs on Iran.
Johnny Carson, RIP.
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