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(National Post) Unlikely Conrad Black: "Ann Coulter is a rational conservative, slightly to the right of Ronald Reagan, and a practicing, middle-of-the-road Christian. This puts her within, albeit on the right side of, the American mainstream"   (nationalpost.com) divider line 202
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strangeguitar 2009-03-22 01:03:50 PM  
I put more stock in what Conrad Bain says:
i166.photobucket.com

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 01:08:19 PM  
HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*gasp*

HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 
St_Francis_P [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 01:11:33 PM  
She is a rational rabid conservative, slightly to the right of Ronald Reagan Adolf Hitler, and a practicing, middle-of-the-road fake "look at me, I'm OK because I'm a" Christian.

FTFY

 
clifton [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 01:19:13 PM  
She's looking out for the best interests of America.

You libs should be lucky since you'll benefit by proxy.

 
Weaver95 [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 01:20:56 PM  
She is a rational conservative, slightly to the right of Ronald Reagan, and a practicing, middle-of-the-road Christian. This puts her within, albeit on the right side of, the American mainstream, a position that perhaps corresponds with Mr. Moore's idea of the Middle Ages.


*blink*

ok, this guy obviously doesn't mingle with the pesants very often.

 
PacersJAM3s 2009-03-22 01:21:23 PM  
How hilarious would it be if Ann Coulter was actually a secret liberal? It wouldn't surprise me as I've definitely witnessed crazier things in the world.

Who knows, she may be putting on this stupid act she does because it makes her a millionaire. If it is 100% legit, all I can say is holy crap.

 
Weaver95 [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 01:23:47 PM  
PacersJAM3s: How hilarious would it be if Ann Coulter was actually a secret liberal? It wouldn't surprise me as I've definitely witnessed crazier things in the world.

Who knows, she may be putting on this stupid act she does because it makes her a millionaire. If it is 100% legit, all I can say is holy crap.


I think coulter found a way to troll the nation and get PAID for it. I wish I could write books and get paid to piss people off. Best I can manage is the occasional video making fun of Rush Limbaugh.

 
Mordant [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 01:28:16 PM  
The funniest part of her being a secret liberal is that so many self described conservatives have embraced her like their mother.

The difference between Coulter's most vicious day and an average day on Fark is not even worth trying to measure.

 
Dinki [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 01:29:57 PM  
So a right wing criminal, someone that was born rich but most assuredly thinks he is a self made man, thinks that Coulter is just peachy. How unsurprising.

 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 01:32:20 PM  
Isn't this guy in jail for fraud? Awesome.

 
ecmoRandomNumbers [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 01:34:35 PM  
That's an awful lot of words to use as a euphemism for "coont."

 
hubiestubert [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 01:35:50 PM  
Weaver95: She is a rational conservative, slightly to the right of Ronald Reagan, and a practicing, middle-of-the-road Christian. This puts her within, albeit on the right side of, the American mainstream, a position that perhaps corresponds with Mr. Moore's idea of the Middle Ages.


*blink*

ok, this guy obviously doesn't mingle with the pesants very often.


I think that maybe someone may have put mescalin in his poutine...

 
oldfarthenry [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 01:42:59 PM  
Conrad Black: Lord of assholishness and pontificating twat extraordinaire!

How's prison working out for you, Conrad?

 
coco ebert [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 01:58:21 PM  
PacersJAM3s: How hilarious would it be if Ann Coulter was actually a secret liberal? It wouldn't surprise me as I've definitely witnessed crazier things in the world.

Who knows, she may be putting on this stupid act she does because it makes her a millionaire. If it is 100% legit, all I can say is holy crap.


I agree that it's largely an act. I don't think she's very religious either.

 
robmilmel [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 02:01:00 PM  
She is eccentric, alluring and slightly outrageous, with a hint of being a bit gamey.

I truly have no words to describe my reaction to this.

 
horse-pheathers [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 02:02:36 PM  
If (m)Anne Coulter represents mainstream America.....we're pretty much screwed as a nation.

 
RocketRod [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 02:06:08 PM  
She's hot.

 
Stay Cool Babylon 2009-03-22 02:08:43 PM  
I'd be fine with these idiots if it weren't for the sinister Divide and Profit agenda behind it. Perhaps on some days these demagogues believe what they say. But I'm betting that they just see a way to get rich by pitting one side against the other. This same charge can be levied against certain libs, but I have never, ever seen a machine that runs on pure spite and baby intestines like the one the so-called conservative pundits have created.

Also, I'm angry that I didn't think of it, first...

 
namatad [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 02:16:46 PM  
mainstream?
um no
not really
unless you define mainstream as the 20% who still think bush did a great job

yup, change the definitions to fit your needs

 
namatad [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 02:19:47 PM  
hecatomb?

who uses hecatomb in everyday speach

damn elite right wing warmongers

 
GWShenlong05 [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 02:40:19 PM  
Hah. Conrad is such a dickweed.

He's ticked that John Moore is one of the only few people in Canadian media willing to go on record and say "Yes, if crack dealers belong in prison for committing crimes, then so does Conrad Black." So he opens with something along the lines of "I've never heard of this guy John Moore who writes columns for the newspaper I farking founded as a vanity project and had dictatorial control over until a few years ago."

Fark you right in the teeth, you self-deluded elitist ass. Continue rotting in prison.

 
slayer199 [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 02:41:15 PM  
Uh, how about no.

She's a radical conservative and a neo-con. While some of her ideology may be traditional conservatism, the rest of it is batshiat insanity.

/is non-partisan

 
Lundah [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 02:47:52 PM  
This is coming from a guy doing time in PMITA prison for fraud. Yeah, he's got credibility.

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 03:21:09 PM  
Yeah Conrad, how about you shut up?

 
Procedural Texture [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-03-22 03:21:27 PM  
Wow, even Conrad thinks Bill O'Reilly is a "blowhard". Awesome.

 
BKITU [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 03:32:06 PM  
namatad: hecatomb?

who uses hecatomb in everyday speach


M:TG players:

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darkhorse23 [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 03:43:07 PM  
That's the funniest thing I've read all week.

 
real shaman [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 04:14:37 PM  
Depending on how you define mainstream, this is accurate. Is the middle 80% mainstream? she certainly isn't in the rapid 10% of tinfoil wearing militia members.....

oh wait... this is fark... if she isn't in the far left 20%, then she must be a fundy wingnut.

 
MacEnvy [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 04:25:03 PM  
real shaman: oh wait... this is fark... if she isn't in the far left 20%, then she must be a fundy wingnut.

Spoken like a true wingnut.

 
Bestbank Tiger 2009-03-22 04:25:07 PM  
Mann Coulter is a nutjob.

George Will, Kathleen Parker, Thomas Sowell, and Monica Crowley are rational conservatives. Even Pat Buchanan is a sane conservative compared to Coulter.

 
Kendaric 2009-03-22 04:27:33 PM  
"She is eccentric, alluring and slightly outrageous, with a hint of being a bit gamey."

Getting lonely in prison Conrad?

 
kyoryu [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 04:28:28 PM  
So the point of the article is that she's not insane, she's just a troll?

I don't know if that makes me feel better about her or not.

/hates trolls

 
DGS 2009-03-22 04:30:14 PM  
GAT_00: HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*gasp*

HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


This.

 
smeegle [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-03-22 04:35:10 PM  
...what a grand and successful send-up and put-on much of her career has been.

That I believe. Slightly right of the middle? I think not.

 
Mugato [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 04:35:12 PM  
PacersJAM3s: How hilarious would it be if Ann Coulter was actually a secret liberal?


I usually entertain the notion when someone's act is so over-the-top. The Village People might really be straight, Anne Coulter is a liberal, Larry the Cable Guy is a MENSA member, etc.

 
VulpesVulpes 2009-03-22 04:35:26 PM  
real shaman: Depending on how you define mainstream, this is accurate. Is the middle 80% mainstream? she certainly isn't in the rapid 10% of tinfoil wearing militia members.....

oh wait... this is fark... if she isn't in the far left 20%, then she must be a fundy wingnut.


So you're saying that most rebublicans believe that "Jews need to be perfected by becoming Christians," and all the other tripe that comes out of her hay-hole?

 
bobbette [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 04:36:06 PM  
I'm going to work up some faux outrage on the National Post for publishing a column from a criminal, although it's not all faux - I actually am slightly irritated by it. A criminal who gave up his Canadian citizenship, is serving time in an American jail and using his column to defend Americans far to the right of anyone in this country, attacking Canadians for being too provincial. When was the last time Conrad was even permitted to visit the country where he, by his own choice, is a foreigner? What perspectives of value can he share from his jail cell? And why is this in a Canadian newspaper again?

Anyway...

She is the ne plus ultra of pulverizing and scandalizing the soft left, implying revisionism about Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and Darwinian evolution, though she believes in due process and is not a creationist. She stakes out a number of positions on other current and philosophical issues, which provoke the holders of the conventional liberal wisdom to react like wounded animals, but she really differs only marginally from standard, respectable conservative views on most subjects.

So she's a hypocrite and a liar, but it's cool because she's a sell-out who does it for the cash, and she doesn't really believe that sh*t? So... where does this leave her promotion of anti-Semitism? And how does Conrad justify publishing her?

Ah yes...

With her long blonde hair, micro-dresses that may incite the prurient to hope for an occasional fleeting glimpse of her underwear and photographs on her book jackets of her in leather dresses, arms akimbo, like a stern but voluptuous school mistress, she is not, as Mr. Moore wrote, "faux glam." She is eccentric, alluring and slightly outrageous, with a hint of being a bit gamey.

She's hot (from his perspective) and he wants to see her panties while she's dressed in a leather dress, and hear her talk down to him like a schoolmistress in her Eleanor Roosevelt accent... how many times do I have to hear about conservatives and their perverted turnons today? Ughhhhh... Joe the Plumber gets off on the spotlight, Conrad Black wanks in his jail cell to Ann Coulter. Gross.

 
Paduke 2009-03-22 04:37:36 PM  
I was watching an old episode of Politically Incorrect on youtube the other day and it was fascinating to see Coulter interact with the other panelists (Chris Rock, Jon Stewart, Lennox Lewis). She laughed at all their jokes (even when Rock was saying funny and outlandish things about race) and was conservative but still rather pleasant. Didn't seem to take herself all that seriously. By contrast, Laura Ingraham was and is an insufferable woman.

It's all an act. She realized where the money was and adapted accordingly.

It's also funny to see where Maher was politically 10 years ago as opposed to now. The Bush years basically destroyed his "they're all the same" act.

 
depmode98 2009-03-22 04:38:56 PM  
have republicans stooped so low that now they have to get convicted criminals who served time in jail to defend them? I pine for the days that Republicans had enough integrity that they at the very least could count on the support of gay male prostitutes masquerading as journalists to protect their asses... and in some cases have sex with them.

 
A Dark Evil Omen 2009-03-22 04:40:43 PM  
*blink*

Conrad Black's still running around making an ass of himself? The man is just... indomitable in a sad and pathetic sort of way.

Christ. He's an embarrassment to three countries.

 
Uchiha_Cycliste [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 04:41:34 PM  
He's a loony.

 
t3knomanser 2009-03-22 04:43:19 PM  
real shaman: Depending on how you define mainstream, this is accurate.

Well, yes. If we expand the definition of "mainstream" to include all but the most insane people, yes, Ann Coulter is to the far right of the mainstream. Or left. I mean, she certainly advocates larger more intrusive government, and honestly? I can't tell one pro-government moron from another.

 
hubiestubert [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 04:44:40 PM  
kyoryu: So the point of the article is that she's not insane, she's just a troll?

I don't know if that makes me feel better about her or not.

/hates trolls


She is willing and knowing tool, I suspect. She is bright enough to realize exactly the response that she'll get, and she is certainly bright enough to realize that she will be paid handsomely for her role. What I am unsure is, if she is bright enough to realize the damage that playing this role actually has had on her, and at which point she gave up any semblance of being able to express an opinion of her own.

It is getting more and more shrill as of late--as she ages, as the role has changed over the years, and now, it looks like the money might dry up, it is getting increasingly hard to keep up the appearances and the rhetoric as she has to keep spinning the cognitive dissonance. That is the thing that I think that makes her an almost tragic figure, is that she is bright enough to realize when she is fully off the reservation where ideas are concerned, but she has to keep at it, because that's what she's paid for.

 
Murkanen 2009-03-22 04:46:19 PM  
Bestbank Tiger: George Will, Kathleen Parker, Thomas Sowell, and Monica Crowley are rational conservatives.

LOL wut?

 
Uchiha_Cycliste [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 04:46:29 PM  
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It would appear the big floating head escaped once being given a big floating hand.

 
DemonEater 2009-03-22 04:46:45 PM  
Bells on. The other one has them.

 
Lord_Baull 2009-03-22 04:47:48 PM  
"Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking. "

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war. "


Yup, I bet Jesus would agree that she's a middle of the road Christian.

 
Dwight_Yeast 2009-03-22 04:49:13 PM  
Dinki: So a right wing criminal, someone that was born rich but most assuredly thinks he is a self made man

He is a self-made man: he took the millions his father left him, turned it into billions, then brought the family fortune back down to near-zero again.

(And remember: it's always easier to be a "self-made man" if you start out with family money, like "Lord" Black, Donald Trump or William Randolph Hearst.)

 
bobbette [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 04:49:29 PM  
A Dark Evil Omen: *blink*

Conrad Black's still running around making an ass of himself? The man is just... indomitable in a sad and pathetic sort of way.

Christ. He's an embarrassment to three countries.


Canada revoked his citizenship but it didn't work. He keeps acting like he has some relevance here. As far as I know he has none whatsoever and I thought we got rid of him. I owe a swift kick in an uncomfortable place to whoever at the National Post gave in to his/Barbara Amiel's begging to give him some work while he was in jail.

 
Corn_Fed 2009-03-22 04:50:10 PM  
I'm not quite sure how Coulter's incessant partying and one-night-stands, combined with a serious drinking problem aligns with her professed "Christian" faith. Why does she not get married, instead of shacking up with numerous guys? Isn't sex out of wedlock considered a sin?

Since she continues to engage in this behavior, she is unrepentant. And if you are unrepentant, then you are not a practicing Christian.

 
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