Coulter on Gingrich and the Tofflers

From her latest Column: 

"The day after the Republicans' historic takeover of the House of Representatives in the 1994 election, Newt was off and running, giving a series of Fidel Castro-style speeches about "the Third Wave information revolution."

Hadn't Republicans just won on a platform of smaller government? Instead of a Republican victory, the '94 election seemed to be a victory for the Tofflers' cyber-babble about "social wavefront analysis," "anticipatory democracy," "de-massification," "materialismo," "the Third Wave" and "decision loads."

Soon, Gingrich was writing a foreword to a Toffler book -- the same one on the Republicans' reading list –- and spending Christmas with the pro-choice, anti-school prayer, Christian Coalition-hating Tofflers. Yes, there's nothing like having an old-fashioned Christmas with a doddering couple who hate prayer and Christians, love abortion and are afraid of their microwave.

At the end of Gingrich's first year as House speaker, his endless, nutty pronunciamentos -- in addition to his plan to entrust Republicans' legislative agenda to an old couple whose living room VCR continuously flashed "12:00" -- had driven his public approval numbers into the dirt.

Newt Gingrich is the "anti-Establishment" candidate only if "the Establishment" is defined as "anyone who remembers what happened the day before yesterday."

Captain Ed attacks Coulter

Yes, I know, what else is new? In addition to being verbose, pompous, and utterly humorless, "Captain Ed" is never happier than attacking a fellow conservative. He hates Buchanan, loathes Rush, and despises Coulter. So, Ed's the latest attack on her, for threatening to vote for Hillary was expected.

And as usual, Ed just doesn't get it. Coulter is a smart woman and she directs her humor toward smart people - who get the joke. Unfortunately, stupid people feel the need to comment on her. And so do not-so-stupid liberals and "reasonable" conservatives; who deliberately play dumb, and treat jokes and hyperbole as sober, serious policy statements.

But this is just S.O.P for Captain Ed. His constant attacks on Coulter use 2 basic tricks. Trick one, take a Coulter joke or sarcastic comment and treat it as a serious literal statement. Using this approach, you can attack anyone who makes any unserious comment. For example, isn't it shocking that Henry Youngman hated his wife and wanted someone to take her. And I'm glad someone stopped Reagan from bombing Russia in three minutes, like he threatened.

The 2nd approach, is simply to misquote her. He also tries that approach in his latest attack. You see, according to Ed: "she derided John Edwards as a "faggot" and then she refused to apologize. (!)

First, Coulter never apologizes to liberals since as shown in the case of Imus, Trent Lott, etc. an apology gets you nowhere. Conservatives are never forgiven. The whole point is to attack and destroy them, not reach some sort of understanding.

Secondly, in her JOKE she did not call or deride Edwards as a "faggot". She was making 2 points , one Edwards is a wuss, and secondly Hollywood and PC have gotten so out of hand that you need to go to rehab for using the word "faggot".