{"id":41411,"date":"2014-03-12T23:13:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T05:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/ann-coulter-veers-from-zany-to-creepy.html"},"modified":"2014-03-12T23:13:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T05:13:14","slug":"ann-coulter-veers-from-zany-to-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/ann-coulter-veers-from-zany-to-creepy.html","title":{"rendered":"Ann Coulter veers from zany to creepy"},"content":{"rendered":"
I mean … really? \u00a0"Crazier than a soup sandwich" comes to mind.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I know — I try not to talk about Ann Coulter much because there's the distinct impression that she just says insanely outrageous things to drive her fame and fortune and book deals and speaking engagements.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But there are times when it's worth lifting that rock to see what's crawling beneath, and hear what sort of stuff is being said (and applauded) at places like CPAC. Because talking about death squads, even assuming she's being hyperbolic and "amusing," is just plain not funny. Really. (Let alone all the other plain-not-funny stuff she's spewing.)<\/p>\n

And by normalizing that kind of talk, honestly, she makes it less hyperbolic and less outrageous and more okay for others to talk that way, too. And when it stops being outrageous to talk that way, it only encourages the dolts who think that acting<\/i> that way might not be so outrageous an idea …<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Media Matters for America<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Uhhh\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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I mean … really? \u00a0"Crazier than a soup sandwich" comes to mind. Yeah, I know — I try not to talk about Ann Coulter much because there's the distinct impression that she just says insanely outrageous things to drive her fame and fortune and book deals and speaking engagements.\u00a0 But there are times when it's … Continue reading “Ann Coulter veers from zany to creepy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10256,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/06\/lie_down_with_dogs_get_up.html","url_meta":{"origin":41411,"position":0},"title":"Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Mar-07 6:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Boy, you're out of town then down sick for a couple of days and you miss all sorts of things. 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