Ann Coulter: Name-caller

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Originally Posted by Danzig188

leave out al franken?....funny, the thread was started to attack an attacker--but when another is named, now let's not go in that direction?! whatever...

calling someone a ****** for instance is completely unnecessary, and certainly does nothing to further dialogue. i can't stand ann coulter, and i really wish they would not give her air time. it's a shame that those with legitimate viewpoints aren't allowed on air, only those who are far right or far left....
and yes, bill mahr is disgusting. to call for the death of an american, just because his thoughts don't jibe with ones own, is despicable.

Danzig, that's not at all what Maher said- it's what the right-wing media wants you to THINK he said. Here's his actual quote:

Maher: But I have zero doubt that if Dick Cheney was not in power, people wouldn’t be dying needlessly tomorrow. (applause)

Scarborough: If someone on this panel said that they wished that Dick Cheney had been blown up, and you didn’t say…

Frank: I think he did.

Scarborough: Okay. Did you say…

Maher: No, no. I quoted that.

Frank: You don’t believe that?

Maher: I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.

Says conseravtive John Cole on balloon-juice, "Saying that X would happen if Y had happened is not the same thing as saying Y should have happened or you wished Y had happened. There is no way around that, even when you selectively quote and remove the jocular context from the program."

Here's the link to Cole's comments on the subject- good reading:

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=7944