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October 17, 2004
Ann Coulter must be a man.
Don't get me wrong. She's a beautiful woman. I bet she was a beautiful man at one point. Actually, this is probably more than a little offensive to transgenders, and I don't mean for my joke to hurt anyone. But I found this gem of a quote here (it might be here once she updates things; it's the October 13 column), and I can't believe s/he's really saying it:
Imagine President John Kerry at the Berlin Wall. "Mr. Gorbachev ... I challenge you to get to an emotional place where you can imagine a different kind of non-wall reality, that fully respects the 'wallness' of your current reality, yet takes us on a spiritual journey in which ..."Republicans are more simple-minded, but for some things you want to be a little less contemplative, a little less nuanced.
Hm. My goal is to always be aware, nuanced, seeing as many sides and angles as possible. I think humans would be much better off if words came
Just think, if we all looked out for another person, if we, EACH PERSON, was more concerned with someone else's well-being, we would ALL be treated fairly and with kindess.
Simple-mindedness frightens me. Thoroughly.
Plus, her jab about the "non-wall reality" and spirituality is more than kind of ironic, if you consider the article in today's NYT by Ron Suskind (this is via Daily Kos) in which Bush's strange affinity for getting divine direction is creating quite a rift within the GOP... further, an aide told Suskind that
"guys like me [Suskind] were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities...
So, for Kerry to ask Gorbachev to imagine a non-wall reality really is the same as what this administration does to the media and the American public on a daily basis. The only difference is that Coulter admits Kerry would ask for the reality shift. This administration simply shifts it without telling anyone.
Posted by mryonker at October 17, 2004 11:27 PM