Comments on: Fire Ann Coulter

By: Kenny

Kenny — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:03:37 +0000

Hello, I saw your blog on CSS Mania too. Nice site On a tangent, I’d like to drop in the slightly pedantic point that anarchism - at least as it’s usually defined - is a leftwing thing. Most of the great anarchist minds of the 19th & 20th centuries (Proudhon, Bakunin, Rudolf Rocker or whoever) use “anarchism” synonymously with “libertarian socialism”. Certainly the only vaguely successful anarchist uprisings (Barcelona, perhaps parts of the Paris Commune) were definitely down to lefties.

“All anarchists are socialists,” as the saying has it; “but not all socialists are anarchists.”

I make that point just because I think the notion that anarchism is kind of politically baseless, that it *isn’t* rooted in a form of revolutionary socialism, detracts from it and makes it a bit toothless.

I’m not an anarchist, for the record, though I am sympathetic.

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:20:54 +0000

First off, thanks for chiming in Ronnie. Always good to get another point of view on everything.

As for the demon spawn, Ann Coulter, I didn’t even know she spoke any truths. Every time I hear her talk it’s always tearing someone else down. She doesn’t explain anything in terms of “what to do” just in terms of how her way is better than democrats and how horrible and lowly democrats really are.

I will agree though that this back and forth name calling is equal from both sides. There are figures on each side that seem to live and die by the constant name calling and bashing of the opposition. I think it’s important for people to push these people to talk about the issues and not about the people that are opposing them.

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:03:31 +0000

Hi Brett,
usually I don’t read blogs but since your design appeared on cssmania.com I looked and find your blogs interesting.
I am a conservative - ya I guess republican. Ann Coulter is at times over the edge but behind all the crass (I hope I spelled that right) a lot of what she says is true. I don’t agree with the way she spews it.
On the other hand I sit down and with that Nincompoop bill Maher (that claim he isn’t “nor democrat or republican”) and uses his non fact based reviews of world including that people should not multiply and makes fun also in a crassy way about couples who chooses to have lots of kids. So come on its bad on both sides and with the addition of so many clueless - living in a bubble celebrities - there is more exposure to republican/conservative bashing.
I hope I didn’t dirty up your blog to much
Love your design Ronnie

By: Brett

Brett — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:39:09 +0000

I was speaking of her one-sided view of everything.. not Fox News. Because I have seen other guests on the show representing the other side, like I mentioned in that last paragraph. My whole rant was strictly about the Demon Spawn.

By: olbermann

olbermann — Mon, 07 May 2007 13:14:29 +0000

You had me till the last paragraph…. You bash the “one sided view” of Fox News - then go on to write “The lady is pathetic and needs to be silenced.”

The very definition hipocrisy….