Topic: Ann Coulter Becomes Unhinged
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Fri 08/08/14 08:55 PM
Edited by Dodo_David on Fri 08/08/14 08:56 PM


Has Ann Coulter become unhinged? It looks as if she may have.

Coulter throws verbal bombs for a living. It was only a matter of time before one of her verbal bombs blew up in her face. That time has arrived.

In a commentary published by TownHall.com, Coulter aims one of her bombs at Dr. Kent Brantly, a Christian physician who performs medical missionary work in Africa under the leadership of Samaritan's Purse, an international Christian charity. Dr. Brantly is the American physician who acquired the Ebola virus and was returned to the USA for specialized medical treatment.

In her commentary, Coulter accuses Dr. Brantly of "Christian narcissism" because he performs his missionary work in Africa instead of the USA. Coulter writes the following:

But serving the needy in some deadbeat town in Texas wouldn't have been "heroic." We wouldn't hear all the superlatives about Dr. Brantly's "unusual drive to help the less fortunate" or his membership in the "Gold Humanism Honor Society." Leaving his family behind in Texas to help the poor 6,000 miles away -- that's the ticket.


Pardon me for taking a moment to vomit.



Apparently, Coulter has read neither the New Testament parable about the sheep and the goats nor the parable about the Good Samaritan, both parables having been told by Jesus himself. Had she read and understood them, the Coulter would know that Dr. Brantly was doing exactly what living out the Gospel message requires, which requires taking personal risks when necessary.

The idiocy of Coulter's rant against Dr. Brantly has resulted in plenty of scorn. In a commentary published by the American Thinker, Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse writes the following:

One of the essential lessons of clear thinking is to avoid specious "either/or" dichotomies. Ann Coulter violated this basic standard in her intentionally sensational article, "Ebola Doc's Condition Downgraded to 'Idiotic.'" She wondered why missionary doctor Kent Brantly didn't stay in the U.S. to "serve Christ" instead of going to Liberia, where he "risked making his wife a widow and his children fatherless." In other words, in Ann's opinion, Christian service is limited to one of two options: serve in the U.S., or abandon wife and children to "slink off" to do "heroic" "good works" in "Third World countries" that are "disease-ridden cesspools." Obviously to folks with Ann's infantile perspective, such "idiocy" is merely to "impress' people like the NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.

It is ironic that someone as so publicity-obsessed as Coulter would have the gall to assert that if missionaries weren't so "narcissistic" and had courage or weren't burned out over all the social problems in the U.S., they'd stay in "some deadbeat town" in the U.S. and forego all the "superlatives" they get for serving as foreign missionaries.

It probably is a waste of time to ask the question: did you really mean to reveal how shallow your thinking can be?


Regarding Coulter's rant, Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. writes the following:

Coulter has written a very sad and infuriating article -�� an article that should lead to outrage in Christian circles. It reveals a radical nationalistic and libertarian worldview that is fundamentally incompatible with evangelical Christianity, with the Scripture, and with the command of Christ.


Peter Rosenberger is president of an organization that provides prosthetic limbs to people in Africa. In an opinion piece published by FoxNews.com, he writes the following:

There are plenty of things for Ann Coulter to harp about when it comes to American politics. When it comes to this issue of why American Christians go to the mission field, she, like many of the patients we treat, doesn't appear to have to have a leg to stand upon.


Only time will tell if Coulter feels enough shame to apologize for what she wrote, or if she will be too narcissistic to make such an apology.

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OP Article Source: http://wizbangblog.com/2014/08/08/ann-coulter-becomes-unhinged/

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So, what do you think about Ann Coulter's criticism of Dr. Brantly?

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Sat 08/09/14 12:01 AM
Edited by IamwhoIam1 on Sat 08/09/14 12:15 AM
It's called freedom of speech, the last time I checked, even if politically correct BS artists don't like her comments or agree with them. As far as your religion is concerned, Ann Coulter is too highly intellectual to believe that lie created by wily old men to control and dominate the rest of the gullible masses. So she doesn't give a dang for your holy scriptures crap either. She's probably atheist and her mention of Christ was sarcastic. I don't agree with her stance on many issues, like wearing fur, but I will defend her right to say whatever she pleases. The same politically correct BS was pulled on Joan Rivers recently for her unsavory comments in her comedy routine. There are many things I find offensive about her comments but I will defend her right to say them. Some people want to look like a horse's a s s, let them. They have that right. Although, I find her to be a comic genius and have find her highly amusing, original, witty, one of a kind, and most importantly BRAVE in this world dominated, and slowly being stifled, by political correctness. This concept was created by the media to slowly erode our freedom of speech.

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Sat 08/09/14 06:43 AM



Has Ann Coulter become unhinged? It looks as if she may have.

Coulter throws verbal bombs for a living. It was only a matter of time before one of her verbal bombs blew up in her face. That time has arrived.

In a commentary published by TownHall.com, Coulter aims one of her bombs at Dr. Kent Brantly, a Christian physician who performs medical missionary work in Africa under the leadership of Samaritan's Purse, an international Christian charity. Dr. Brantly is the American physician who acquired the Ebola virus and was returned to the USA for specialized medical treatment.

In her commentary, Coulter accuses Dr. Brantly of "Christian narcissism" because he performs his missionary work in Africa instead of the USA. Coulter writes the following:

But serving the needy in some deadbeat town in Texas wouldn't have been "heroic." We wouldn't hear all the superlatives about Dr. Brantly's "unusual drive to help the less fortunate" or his membership in the "Gold Humanism Honor Society." Leaving his family behind in Texas to help the poor 6,000 miles away -- that's the ticket.


Pardon me for taking a moment to vomit.



Apparently, Coulter has read neither the New Testament parable about the sheep and the goats nor the parable about the Good Samaritan, both parables having been told by Jesus himself. Had she read and understood them, the Coulter would know that Dr. Brantly was doing exactly what living out the Gospel message requires, which requires taking personal risks when necessary.

The idiocy of Coulter's rant against Dr. Brantly has resulted in plenty of scorn. In a commentary published by the American Thinker, Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse writes the following:

One of the essential lessons of clear thinking is to avoid specious "either/or" dichotomies. Ann Coulter violated this basic standard in her intentionally sensational article, "Ebola Doc's Condition Downgraded to 'Idiotic.'" She wondered why missionary doctor Kent Brantly didn't stay in the U.S. to "serve Christ" instead of going to Liberia, where he "risked making his wife a widow and his children fatherless." In other words, in Ann's opinion, Christian service is limited to one of two options: serve in the U.S., or abandon wife and children to "slink off" to do "heroic" "good works" in "Third World countries" that are "disease-ridden cesspools." Obviously to folks with Ann's infantile perspective, such "idiocy" is merely to "impress' people like the NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.

It is ironic that someone as so publicity-obsessed as Coulter would have the gall to assert that if missionaries weren't so "narcissistic" and had courage or weren't burned out over all the social problems in the U.S., they'd stay in "some deadbeat town" in the U.S. and forego all the "superlatives" they get for serving as foreign missionaries.

It probably is a waste of time to ask the question: did you really mean to reveal how shallow your thinking can be?


Regarding Coulter's rant, Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. writes the following:

Coulter has written a very sad and infuriating article -�� an article that should lead to outrage in Christian circles. It reveals a radical nationalistic and libertarian worldview that is fundamentally incompatible with evangelical Christianity, with the Scripture, and with the command of Christ.


Peter Rosenberger is president of an organization that provides prosthetic limbs to people in Africa. In an opinion piece published by FoxNews.com, he writes the following:

There are plenty of things for Ann Coulter to harp about when it comes to American politics. When it comes to this issue of why American Christians go to the mission field, she, like many of the patients we treat, doesn't appear to have to have a leg to stand upon.


Only time will tell if Coulter feels enough shame to apologize for what she wrote, or if she will be too narcissistic to make such an apology.

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OP Article Source: http://wizbangblog.com/2014/08/08/ann-coulter-becomes-unhinged/

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So, what do you think about Ann Coulter's criticism of Dr. Brantly?



I think that she is making a lot of money, :wink:

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Sat 08/09/14 06:55 AM

It's called freedom of speech, the last time I checked, even if politically correct BS artists don't like her comments or agree with them. As far as your religion is concerned, Ann Coulter is too highly intellectual to believe that lie created by wily old men to control and dominate the rest of the gullible masses. So she doesn't give a dang for your holy scriptures crap either. She's probably atheist and her mention of Christ was sarcastic. I don't agree with her stance on many issues, like wearing fur, but I will defend her right to say whatever she pleases. The same politically correct BS was pulled on Joan Rivers recently for her unsavory comments in her comedy routine. There are many things I find offensive about her comments but I will defend her right to say them. Some people want to look like a horse's a s s, let them. They have that right. Although, I find her to be a comic genius and have find her highly amusing, original, witty, one of a kind, and most importantly BRAVE in this world dominated, and slowly being stifled, by political correctness. This concept was created by the media to slowly erode our freedom of speech.



isn't the term 'politically correct' a way of belittling the speech that people don't agree with as well?

I just think when we speak of freedom of speech, we need to remember that also includes not only disparate opinions, but opinions about opinions.....


as to ann coulter, she gets paid to be insulting and sound intelligent doing it,, basically,,,,

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Sat 08/09/14 07:14 AM
Ann is a brilliant satirist. Some of her sharp views offend but all are intended to make you think. Some may think she is selfish in her world view that the US is broke so it needs to focus on "helping it's own" instead of spreading limited resources around the world, but she is also the first to say that each of us has the right to do what we please without government interference.

I don't agree with her position on this item. I think providing limbs for the foreign needy is a good thing. However, I think her deeper message is being missed.

I have a much bigger problem with the PC crowd deciding what should be said and what should be silenced.

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Sat 08/09/14 07:29 AM
which 'crowd' is deciding this? I see coulters comments as well as people disagreeing with her comments,,,,

disagreeing with what is said is not the same as deciding 'what should be said'

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Sat 08/09/14 08:24 AM
Far as Coulter's commentary, it's her right to speak out.

The opposed have that same right.

As far as the infected folks brought back here. It's my conviction they should have been quarantined and treated, til they died, in Africa.

Now they are putting our nation at risk.

PTL?

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Sat 08/09/14 08:36 AM

which 'crowd' is deciding this? I see coulters comments as well as people disagreeing with her comments,,,,

disagreeing with what is said is not the same as deciding 'what should be said'




True

metalwing's photo
Sat 08/09/14 08:02 PM
Edited by metalwing on Sat 08/09/14 08:02 PM

which 'crowd' is deciding this? I see coulters comments as well as people disagreeing with her comments,,,,

disagreeing with what is said is not the same as deciding 'what should be said'




The "crowd" is known as the PC crowd.

msharmony's photo
Sun 08/10/14 06:21 AM
and yet, I see all types of differing opinions in the media'

so they must suck at their job,, whomever the members of this 'pc crowd' are...lol

metalwing's photo
Sun 08/10/14 08:14 AM

and yet, I see all types of differing opinions in the media'

so they must suck at their job,, whomever the members of this 'pc crowd' are...lol


whoa

You don't have to look very hard. There is a reason the political
cartoons about the topic are so numerous.

I realize some only see
what they want to see.


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Sun 08/10/14 08:25 AM
It is her opinion and one can agree or disagree with her argument.

The idea that she should apologize is absurd.

These types of arguments are always made when something bad happens to someone that takes a huge risk..

It is the persons decision to do what they feel called to do vs the ethical or moral ramifications of leaving a family behind to do it.

More often than not the decision to go doesn't result in the type of tragic event that leads to a grieving family and pundits debating the sanity of the endeavor.

But, when it does happen you can expect these types of responses to ones perceived irresponsibility or perceived heroism depending on which side you of the fence you stand.


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Sun 08/10/14 08:32 AM
Edited by MariahsFantasy on Sun 08/10/14 08:33 AM


It's called freedom of speech, the last time I checked, even if politically correct BS artists don't like her comments or agree with them. As far as your religion is concerned, Ann Coulter is too highly intellectual to believe that lie created by wily old men to control and dominate the rest of the gullible masses. So she doesn't give a dang for your holy scriptures crap either. She's probably atheist and her mention of Christ was sarcastic. I don't agree with her stance on many issues, like wearing fur, but I will defend her right to say whatever she pleases. The same politically correct BS was pulled on Joan Rivers recently for her unsavory comments in her comedy routine. There are many things I find offensive about her comments but I will defend her right to say them. Some people want to look like a horse's a s s, let them. They have that right. Although, I find her to be a comic genius and have find her highly amusing, original, witty, one of a kind, and most importantly BRAVE in this world dominated, and slowly being stifled, by political correctness. This concept was created by the media to slowly erode our freedom of speech.



isn't the term 'politically correct' a way of belittling the speech that people don't agree with as well?

I just think when we speak of freedom of speech, we need to remember that also includes not only disparate opinions, but opinions about opinions.....

as to ann coulter, she gets paid to be insulting and sound intelligent doing it,, basically,,,,


At this point I feel like it's a publicity stunt. No person can carry around that much ignorance and sleep with the same brain.

Ann is a typical example of a the equivalent of a youtube vlogger gone off on ranting tangents. I don't see a difference.

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Sun 08/10/14 01:35 PM
For what it's worth, Dr. Brantly's wife and children were originally in Liberia with him, and at the time that he arrived there, Ebola wasn't a problem there.

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Mon 08/11/14 01:02 PM

Coulter's an establishment Repulsicon...... what do you mean "becoming" unhinged? If She and Rush Limpdick ever had babies the world would be in trouble for sure!