RE: RE: RE: FLASH: COULTER, CARLIN ON LENO
Admit it, Strother, it is her positions that really irritate you... I can assure you that it is completely due to personal bias on your part, Strother... She verbally beats the living hell out of liberals...
I generally don't agree with her. Her positions don't irritate me, though. I love to discuss positions, even those 180 degrees from mine — it's not personal bias. There are plenty of folks I'd get along with swimmingly that could share Coulter's viewpoints on things. It's her tone that bothers me. And yes, folks like Penn Jillette can be equally irritating. Maybe he says things I agree with sometimes, but I usually don't like how he says them. Coulter and Jillette are the kind of folks that people roll their eyes at in social settings — especially at parties. They're entertaining, yet irritating. And they’re always speaking too loud.
Besides, speaking (and writing) like Coulter insures that she will always end up preaching to the choir. What good comes from that?
Chuck, a good friend of mine, sums it up well: 'I love to debate, but I hate to argue.'
...among the circle of people you call friends, I would venture a guess that 9 out of 10 of them are liberals.
Who's deciding who's a liberal or not? To a staunch conservative (who, in this case, is called that by a supposed 'liberal'), yeah... but maybe 8 out of 10, though.
However, if I threw a party and invited them all, the liberals and the conservatives would have a blast. Nobody would have to bite their tongues or feel the need to offend anybody, either. Besides, I'm an entertainment industry writer and a musician — that's the world I live in and friendships develop largely via proximity. Plus, some philosophies are simply part of my very being. I'm cool with it all.
I generally don't agree with her. Her positions don't irritate me, though. I love to discuss positions, even those 180 degrees from mine — it's not personal bias. There are plenty of folks I'd get along with swimmingly that could share Coulter's viewpoints on things. It's her tone that bothers me. And yes, folks like Penn Jillette can be equally irritating. Maybe he says things I agree with sometimes, but I usually don't like how he says them. Coulter and Jillette are the kind of folks that people roll their eyes at in social settings — especially at parties. They're entertaining, yet irritating. And they’re always speaking too loud.
Besides, speaking (and writing) like Coulter insures that she will always end up preaching to the choir. What good comes from that?
Chuck, a good friend of mine, sums it up well: 'I love to debate, but I hate to argue.'
...among the circle of people you call friends, I would venture a guess that 9 out of 10 of them are liberals.
Who's deciding who's a liberal or not? To a staunch conservative (who, in this case, is called that by a supposed 'liberal'), yeah... but maybe 8 out of 10, though.
However, if I threw a party and invited them all, the liberals and the conservatives would have a blast. Nobody would have to bite their tongues or feel the need to offend anybody, either. Besides, I'm an entertainment industry writer and a musician — that's the world I live in and friendships develop largely via proximity. Plus, some philosophies are simply part of my very being. I'm cool with it all.
posted by Strother | 12:00 AM
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