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In reply to the discussion: Ann Coulter has fallen from grace — and the reason why is terrifying [View all]TlalocW
(15,381 posts)10. Even if your speakers "go to 11"
If you start there, eventually everyone gets used to it. There was no room for Coulter to up her nuttiness because she started out full-bore nutjob to begin with. It reminds me of two things
1. In the late 90s, there was an online cartoon of Rush Limbaugh facing the same problem so his handlers' solution to his losing national prominence was to get him another TV show where he ate anyone who disagreed with him (it actually worked though, making him more popular than ever, and the world became a dystopia).
2. This story from the Onion.
http://www.theonion.com/article/marilyn-manson-now-going-door-to-door-trying-to-sh-459
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Ann Coulter has fallen from grace — and the reason why is terrifying [View all]
TexasTowelie
Jun 2015
OP
She's just another Right Wing lunatic. Her 15 minutes are up. Retire Ann, retire. She won't.
YOHABLO
Jun 2015
#18
I don't have time to read the whole thing now, but what is the "terrifying" reason?
Arugula Latte
Jun 2015
#32
I can't keep the page loaded, so I'd like to know that too. She's a hateful specimen....
Hekate
Jun 2015
#33
Thank you TT. Yes, the poisoning of political discourse is costing this country its soul. The sooner
Hekate
Jun 2015
#38
Which would explain 20 years of miniskirts? She's always played up the blonde bullshit angle.
hatrack
Jun 2015
#41