Betcha can outlast him.

What does this say about them? If you really believe what you are saying and think that it compares favorably to the views of your opponents and holds up under criticism, why hide it?

He either has an inferiority complex or is completely disingenuous – or both.

But, like the Media Matters wailing, it sorta confirms our whole approach; they wouldn’t squirm if it weren’t a vital area.

Sure she did. That’s why people are pissed.

You can believe it, but you can’t say it in certain company.

I mean, what else is a Christian supposed to think? God says that if you are given the choice of accepting Jesus and don’t, you burn. Is she supposed to say, no, it’s okay to be Jewish when the Bible clearly states that it isn’t?

Not that their beliefs aren’t reprehensible, but if she is genuinely a Christian, she’s kind of stuck with that shit. I think that hanging it on Coulter is a lazy out, when the fault is with their religion of hate.

Apostate.

That should be:
Oh! My kneepad! Meow!

Die, heretics!

I disagree. Sure, she uses a persona, but she didn’t invent it as a character to speak in opposition to her true beliefs. It speaks hyperbolically in order to reflect her core values. Colbert is a satirist. Coulter is a sadist.

Well, C.R.E.A.M. (“Cash Rules Everything Around Me”) may not have the poetical zing we’ve been trained to expect from our godsbotherers, but I assure you that it is the the Primary Directive for all the best-known Talibangelical ministers in the public media. You think Pat Robertson, huckster of blood diamonds and protein powders, gives a flying fart about that easier-for-a-camel-to-pass-through-the-needles-eye-than-for-a-rich-man-to-enter-heaven backscript? Or that Dobson consulted his Jesus’s precepts before promoting those best-selling books telling people to beat their kids ‘in His name’?

In ‘her’ own sick, twisted style, Coulter has actually managed kind of a cute double-reverse triumph over the Christian fundamentalism ‘she’ pretends to revere. As others have pointed out, under a successful Christian sharia code, peroxide blondes in miniskirts would never be permitted to pollute the public media, however hate-friendly and infidel-smiting their message. But it’s really tough for yet another standard-issue Big Daddy Preacher Man to find a unique media niche in our message-saturated country. Coulter’s one real “accomplishment” was discovering the novelty value in presenting hard-core fundamentalist hatred while dressed up as the epitome of a twentieth-century slut. Like Elvis or Madonna, Coulter has made a very nice living by presenting the art of a media-marginalized “fringe society” in a watered-down, prettied-up format that the megacorporations found suitable for sale through the better big-box retail outlets and non-cable television channels.

I’m also not a fan of libel writs, but given that one will pretty much eat up the Costco Coulter’s entire punditin’ income for the year, I have to hope that Soros’s lawyers oblige, because the only way to hurt these hate-flingers is to bankrupt them.

Y’know, as someone whose job for years was to sit on the copy desk and watch out for stuff that might lead to said libel suits, I gotta say the phrases about Soros pretty much set off the flashing red lights and deep-throated “Ah-OOO-gah!” klaxons. I’m not sure if he’d want to sully himself by having this kind of libel repeated (as it would be) if he were to bring such an action, but he would pretty much be guaranteed a victory on this one. Provably false, reckless disregard for the truth, provable actual malice and intent to harm on Schlussel’s part.

This is the kind of thing that they construct entire teaching modules over in Press Law 404 in J-schools all over the country.

Of course, it would be shrieked hither and yon all over the wingnutosphere that this was just another commielibrul attempt at muzzling the free speech of rightwingers, PC orthodoxy run wild again, flabberjabber snacklefratz, but it would be fun to see everyone who has republished (or probably would republish) such a vile libel get added to the “Does 1-1000″ list on the First Cause of Action…

Debbie has really hung herself out to dry. Every second she spends from here on that is outside of a courtroom, with a bank account that reads more than zero point zero zero … is pretty much borrowed time.

Abso-freakin’-lutely Robert. I hate that kind of holier-than-thou bullshit.

Really, it’s a lot like what Raven’s point-of-view was, a couple of threads back. It is as if, in the main, the people who are most in support of this war are precisely the people who have the most illusions about the nature of life in the middle of a war.

And yes, I know that some of them don’t have illusions so much as a kind of emotional deadness about the suffering.

Maybe it’s because I’m a convert instead of born and raised, but I don’t really get what Zionism has to do with my faith in God. Why, WHY, should I care more about some stupid line in the dirt over my own faith in God?

It’s not even the right borders, from I can recall. Where’s Judah? Do I have to get pissed at people for refusing to regard the Sinai peninsula as part of Israel, or was that just overreaching?

But real frum Jews (as opposed to the fakers like Schussel) generally don’t eat food that is acceptable under batel b’shishim. They make sure there are no acccidents.

Anyway, the situation with the Christian Zionists, though, is the opposite. It is their Zionism that is the contaminant, not the anti-Semitism. Just because you use Kedem sacrimental wine, rendered perfectly mevushal, etc. etc, to make your pork braised in wine sauce doesn’t make that pork kosher.