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Old 03-24-2010, 01:23 PM
 
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Originally Posted by wedjat View Post
Lady, cut the BS. Everyone & their grandmother knows for a fact that Coulter is not a comedian nor does she engage in satire. I guarantee if this same person were to reverse her foul mouth & direct it at what republicans hold dear to them or what republicans find offensive, you'd be singing an entirely different tune.

Anyone who thinks even remotely for a minute that Coulter is an engaging, witty, personable, charming & nice person is stupendously moronic.
For your education:
Satire - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Main Entry: sat·ire
Pronunciation: \ˈsa-ˌtī(-ə)r\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin satura, satira, perhaps from (lanx) satura dish of mixed ingredients, from feminine of satur well-fed; akin to Latin satis enough — more at sad
Date: 1501
1 : a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
2 : trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly


Trenchant - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Main Entry: tren·chant
Pronunciation: \-chənt\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English trenchaunt, from Anglo-French, present participle of trencher
Date: 14th century
1 : keen, sharp
2 : vigorously effective and articulate <a trenchant analysis>; also : caustic <trenchant remarks>
3 a : sharply perceptive : penetrating <a trenchant view of current conditions> b : clear-cut, distinct <the trenchant divisions between right and wrong

Do you "get it" yet?

Class dismissed.
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Old 03-24-2010, 01:30 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Canada is not the U.S. as the provost attempted to explain to Ms Coulter

University of Ottawa's letter to Ann Coulter (http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2710037 - broken link)
Do you know anything about how she forced them to invite her to speak there? The way I heard it they invited her and let those students force them to keep her out. The University tries to promote free speech and other views and the students force them to back down. I think we have seen the same kind of crap here also and that has to do with the kind of people we have raised in that generation.

I forgot to mention the words about civilized discussion. From the looks on the faces of those Canadian students that I saw on TV I doubt that there could have been any civilized discussion with them unless it was purely liberal speech. Coulter doesn't make that kind of speeches. Canada surely doesn't have real freedom of speech.
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Old 03-24-2010, 01:34 PM
 
Location: just here
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For your education:
Satire - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Main Entry: sat·ire
Pronunciation: \ˈsa-ˌtī(-ə)r\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin satura, satira, perhaps from (lanx) satura dish of mixed ingredients, from feminine of satur well-fed; akin to Latin satis enough — more at sad
Date: 1501
1 : a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
2 : trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly


Trenchant - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Main Entry: tren·chant
Pronunciation: \-chənt\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English trenchaunt, from Anglo-French, present participle of trencher
Date: 14th century
1 : keen, sharp
2 : vigorously effective and articulate <a trenchant analysis>; also : caustic <trenchant remarks>
3 a : sharply perceptive : penetrating <a trenchant view of current conditions> b : clear-cut, distinct <the trenchant divisions between right and wrong

Do you "get it" yet?

Class dismissed.
Are you done being insulting yet? Thanks. Yep, I know what satire is. Coulter may think she's satiric, however it's quite clear she is not.
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Old 03-24-2010, 01:39 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Originally Posted by wedjat View Post
Lady, cut the BS. Everyone & their grandmother knows for a fact that Coulter is not a comedian nor does she engage in satire. I guarantee if this same person were to reverse her foul mouth & direct it at what republicans hold dear to them or what republicans find offensive, you'd be singing an entirely different tune.

Anyone who thinks even remotely for a minute that Coulter is an engaging, witty, personable, charming & nice person is stupendously moronic.
Now I am called a moron. That is the second time today that I have read that kind of Pelosi on this thread and I will extend the same invitation to you that I did the other name caller. Bring your test to my house and measure my intelligence. I will ask only one favor. I would ask that if your test is purely liberal in nature you tell me in advance so I can shift into liberal mode. It is painful but I have learned to do it reading things like you write.
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Old 03-24-2010, 01:41 PM
 
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Are you done being insulting yet? Thanks. Yep, I know what satire is. Coulter may think she's satiric, however it's quite clear she is not.
You can lead a liberal to water but you can't teach a chicken a card trick.
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Old 03-24-2010, 01:42 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Hmm, nice deflection. Like I said, I did not call a person retarded, I called a thought or idea retarded. To me, there is a difference. Can't handle it? Not my problem.
When you say that thinking like that is retarded it seems to me that you have called the speaker a name and in this case it was a poster. Your definition of words seems to be a bit different than what I was taught in school. However, I left high school in 1950 and progressive definition hadn't taken over yet then.
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Old 03-24-2010, 01:46 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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No one is denying that she should've been allowed to speak. I believe we all believe in free speech. It's more about the type of persona she puts out there & the things she says. Just as she has the right to say the ignorant & inciteful things she says so do those of us who despise her have the right to call her out on her crap.
I would say that you should call her out instead of bad mouthing her on a forum like this one and calling that calling her out.

You don't believe in free speech or you wouldn't use those words about how ignorant people are who talk anti-liberal.
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Old 03-24-2010, 01:47 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Originally Posted by lifelongMOgal View Post
For your education:
Satire - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Main Entry: sat·ire
Pronunciation: \ˈsa-ˌtī(-ə)r\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin satura, satira, perhaps from (lanx) satura dish of mixed ingredients, from feminine of satur well-fed; akin to Latin satis enough — more at sad
Date: 1501
1 : a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
2 : trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly


Trenchant - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Main Entry: tren·chant
Pronunciation: \-chənt\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English trenchaunt, from Anglo-French, present participle of trencher
Date: 14th century
1 : keen, sharp
2 : vigorously effective and articulate <a trenchant analysis>; also : caustic <trenchant remarks>
3 a : sharply perceptive : penetrating <a trenchant view of current conditions> b : clear-cut, distinct <the trenchant divisions between right and wrong

Do you "get it" yet?

Class dismissed.
You wasted your time here since those who need to know the definition of the word already knew it and those who needed the help probably didn't even read any of it. Nice try, anyway.
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Old 03-24-2010, 01:49 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Are you done being insulting yet? Thanks. Yep, I know what satire is. Coulter may think she's satiric, however it's quite clear she is not.
My golly, you call people names and then tell them it is your opinion that Coulter is not satirical as if it was the real truth. Just your opinion, don't you see that?
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Old 03-24-2010, 02:00 PM
 
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Apparently you don't grasp that most of Ann's commentary is very dry sarcastic wit. Do you similarly complain about Dennis Miller's comedy style?

Liberals have NO sense of humor.

Canada has no recognition of "free speech". Anything deemed controversial to the liberal agenda in Canada is deemed "hate speech".

Obama tried this in Missouri during his Presidential campaign and actually enlisted law enfocement and public officials to crush criticism against him.

I can easily see freedom of speech in the United States being eliminated and that we would have our speech limited as is the practice in Canada.

:t ape::tap e:

Dennis Miller is a CONSERVATIVE. Is that what you meant?
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