03-10-2005, 01:43 PM
Tonight i'm off to watch Janet Reno debate Anne Coulter as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series that comes to our area. I will post any interesting (ie demented) bits tomorrow afternoon. I expect it to be pretty silly.
03-10-2005, 01:43 PM
03-10-2005, 01:57 PM
mrbungle2103 Wrote:
Tonight i'm off to watch Janet Reno debate Anne Coulter as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series that comes to our area. I will post any interesting (ie demented) bits tomorrow afternoon. I expect it to be pretty silly.
Have fun. sounds like one of those 'more heat, less light' situations.
Pity they could only find one distinguished speaker for their distinguished speaker series - suppose the hysterical circus act that is Anne Coulter could be entertaining - if a little predictable :wink: :D
03-10-2005, 02:17 PM
Amusingly enough that has been the main comment in the newspaper debate around here. Stuff like
"Distinguished Speaker Series? Anne Coulter? Surely some mistke..?" Absolutely right that people should be pissed that Janet Reno is posing as her opposite foil. I call that insulting.
Coulter irritates the knickers off me. First book - hilariously funny and often insightful. Since then she has shown herself to be a demented cabbage. When I last saw her on C-SPAN a few weeks back she reveled in being a turd. She is what I dislike about the right. And worse, she is what many on the right embrace in the "ooh a pretty smart woman...we could use one of those for legitimacy" way of things.
"Distinguished Speaker Series? Anne Coulter? Surely some mistke..?" Absolutely right that people should be pissed that Janet Reno is posing as her opposite foil. I call that insulting.
Coulter irritates the knickers off me. First book - hilariously funny and often insightful. Since then she has shown herself to be a demented cabbage. When I last saw her on C-SPAN a few weeks back she reveled in being a turd. She is what I dislike about the right. And worse, she is what many on the right embrace in the "ooh a pretty smart woman...we could use one of those for legitimacy" way of things.
03-10-2005, 02:20 PM
I was going to say....Ann Coulter a distinguised speaker?...Pah...
03-10-2005, 02:25 PM
mrbungle2103 Wrote:
Amusingly enough that has been the main comment in the newspaper debate around here. Stuff like
"Distinguished Speaker Series? Anne Coulter? Surely some mistke..?" Absolutely right that people should be pissed that Janet Reno is posing as her opposite foil. I call that insulting.
Coulter irritates the knickers off me. First book - hilariously funny and often insightful. Since then she has shown herself to be a demented cabbage. When I last saw her on C-SPAN a few weeks back she reveled in being a turd. She is what I dislike about the right. And worse, she is what many on the right embrace in the "ooh a pretty smart woman...we could use one of those for legitimacy" way of things.
"Distinguished Speaker Series? Anne Coulter? Surely some mistke..?" Absolutely right that people should be pissed that Janet Reno is posing as her opposite foil. I call that insulting.
Coulter irritates the knickers off me. First book - hilariously funny and often insightful. Since then she has shown herself to be a demented cabbage. When I last saw her on C-SPAN a few weeks back she reveled in being a turd. She is what I dislike about the right. And worse, she is what many on the right embrace in the "ooh a pretty smart woman...we could use one of those for legitimacy" way of things.
I suspect she is smart, she is alawyer after all, which only makes it worse. She's cynical as well as hysterical - nothing to be proud of.
03-10-2005, 02:48 PM
Rob S Wrote:
I suspect she is smart, she is alawyer after all, which only makes it worse. .
Yeah, because all lawyers are smart..... :roll: :wink: :D
03-10-2005, 03:06 PM
adeshell Wrote:
Rob S Wrote:
I suspect she is smart, she is alawyer after all, which only makes it worse. .
Yeah, because all lawyers are smart..... :roll: :wink: :D
Yeah, I wasn't going to let that one go either!
I looked her up -- she actually did go to good law school (Michigan), but, there again, mine is ranked even higher and look at me.
Seriously, I've done enough of the "good school does not equal smart people" talk on this forum, so I won't go there again.
03-10-2005, 03:12 PM
TexasBrit Wrote:
adeshell Wrote:
Rob S Wrote:
I suspect she is smart, she is alawyer after all, which only makes it worse. .
Yeah, because all lawyers are smart..... :roll: :wink: :D
Yeah, I wasn't going to let that one go either!
I looked her up -- she actually did go to good law school (Michigan), but, there again, mine is ranked even higher and look at me.
Seriously, I've done enough of the "good school does not equal smart people" talk on this forum, so I won't go there again.
OK - so self deprecation doesn't come across easily on a the web... :roll: :D
03-10-2005, 03:17 PM
I know, those little smileys only go so far, don't they.
03-10-2005, 03:20 PM
TexasBrit Wrote:
I know, those little smileys only go so far, don't they.
Indeed. For future reference, when I say complimentary things about lawyers or judges - its safe to presume that tongue is firmly in cheek. :D
I do think that Coulter is probably quite smart - although her looks won't have done her harm in the bastion of chauvanism that is American Conservatism :roll:
03-10-2005, 03:40 PM
Rob S Wrote:
TexasBrit Wrote:
I know, those little smileys only go so far, don't they.
Indeed. For future reference, when I say complimentary things about lawyers or judges - its safe to presume that tongue is firmly in cheek. :D
Need a tongue in cheek smiley. Been around American's too long to recognise that was tongue in cheek. They tend to say stuff like that and be serious... :roll:
03-10-2005, 07:25 PM
Ok, I was going to "blog" this thing, but that's way too sad. Room's very full and there's 30 minutes till it starts. ALOT of the faculty seem to be here. Anyhoo, I need to snag me one a pack of crisps or something. I'm starving.
03-11-2005, 09:02 AM
In a word - dissapointing.
Really bad format. The theme was something about how to unify a divided country. They tried to have them debate Presidential Debate style, which doesn't work. In fact I've never seen that format ever work. They gave 15 minute opening remarks each, responded to each other for 6 mins, then fielded questions.
At least that was the plan. Coulter went first. Shortest skirt you will ever see. To me Coulter looks like a blonde rake - not my thing. Spent her 15 minutes explaining why being united would have been a bad thing. Lots of stuff about appeasement, Saddam still being there if we'd been unified, blah blah. Very funny, but when you pick through it, not very clever. A little gloating regards the Domino theory, and a few digs at Reno. Basically a long "this is why liberals hate America" diatribe.
Reno on the other hand looked as if she could die at any moment. Very frail, and extremely softly spoken. Her speech was basically a "we should work together for the children" speech. Standard stuff. No substance, and thanking Coulter for not being "mean."
Then it went really crap. Parts of the crowd were extremely partisan regardless of the empty headed statements made. Clapping like crazy every 15 words. Reno bothered the liberal partisans by praising the Patriot Act. Coulter bothered partisan conservatives by saying Dianne Fienstein would make an excellent choice for Presidential candidate for the DEms (bloody good idea if you ask me). The only point of consensus was when Reno made a speech about how much she loves the United States and we should all work to make it the most prosperous powerful nation on earth. Conservatives didn't clap cuz Reno said it, and liberals didn't clap because they thought it was psychophantic. Coulter seemingly was the only person in the room to agree. Bless.
Coulter's attention grabbing comments of the night - when asked what the Republican Party had done to help her she said "they didn't abort me." When asked about Abu Ghraib she fobbed it off as nonsense and said it was a drop in the water compared to what "a certain person did to 80 innocent people in Waco." Reno on the other hand didn't want any part of the Crossfire type questions and didn't answer a thing for the last 45 minutes. Pointless.
Anyhoo, they got their fee, and I got a free NPR decal.
Really bad format. The theme was something about how to unify a divided country. They tried to have them debate Presidential Debate style, which doesn't work. In fact I've never seen that format ever work. They gave 15 minute opening remarks each, responded to each other for 6 mins, then fielded questions.
At least that was the plan. Coulter went first. Shortest skirt you will ever see. To me Coulter looks like a blonde rake - not my thing. Spent her 15 minutes explaining why being united would have been a bad thing. Lots of stuff about appeasement, Saddam still being there if we'd been unified, blah blah. Very funny, but when you pick through it, not very clever. A little gloating regards the Domino theory, and a few digs at Reno. Basically a long "this is why liberals hate America" diatribe.
Reno on the other hand looked as if she could die at any moment. Very frail, and extremely softly spoken. Her speech was basically a "we should work together for the children" speech. Standard stuff. No substance, and thanking Coulter for not being "mean."
Then it went really crap. Parts of the crowd were extremely partisan regardless of the empty headed statements made. Clapping like crazy every 15 words. Reno bothered the liberal partisans by praising the Patriot Act. Coulter bothered partisan conservatives by saying Dianne Fienstein would make an excellent choice for Presidential candidate for the DEms (bloody good idea if you ask me). The only point of consensus was when Reno made a speech about how much she loves the United States and we should all work to make it the most prosperous powerful nation on earth. Conservatives didn't clap cuz Reno said it, and liberals didn't clap because they thought it was psychophantic. Coulter seemingly was the only person in the room to agree. Bless.
Coulter's attention grabbing comments of the night - when asked what the Republican Party had done to help her she said "they didn't abort me." When asked about Abu Ghraib she fobbed it off as nonsense and said it was a drop in the water compared to what "a certain person did to 80 innocent people in Waco." Reno on the other hand didn't want any part of the Crossfire type questions and didn't answer a thing for the last 45 minutes. Pointless.
Anyhoo, they got their fee, and I got a free NPR decal.
03-11-2005, 09:15 AM
Sounds like it was typical political cloberdeclop.
I know its not a word but it makes as much sence as the substance of the debate IMO.
I know its not a word but it makes as much sence as the substance of the debate IMO.
03-11-2005, 09:16 AM
mrbungle2103 Wrote:
. The theme was something about how to unify a divided country.
Well, I can see why Anne Coulter was participating then... :roll: :D