Sunday, April 6, 2008
Ann Coulter...Seriously?
So i had no idea who Ann Coulter was before having to watch these videos. But Wow, watching those video clips was an ordeal. It wasn't so much that I was bothered by her actual arguments, but rather the way she defended them, or rather the way she didn't defend them. Her responses were in an aggressive tone and it reminded me a lot like the guy in middle school who was too slow to come up with a good comeback that they just ended up repeating something, or arguing with a little kid. Some things i noticed was her use of the straw man and personal attack in her hardball interview. EE was calling her out for making personal attacks instead of actually talking about politics. Coulter's response then distorted EE's request to keep it clean and twisted it around to make it sound like EE was trying to get Coulter to stop writing completely. Also in the clip Ann Coulter is losing it, she wouldn't let the guy get a word in edge wise. I guess people can see her as persuasive if they had the same beliefs as her or if they easily believe arguments with little or no evidence. She relies too much on personal attacks to make her points and when defending herself she often begs the question and ends up going in a circle. I don't even recall her answering half the questions she was asked in any of the clips. For someone who is apparently a big whig with a bunch of best sellers, i would have thought she would be able to defend her arguments a little better. Again, i'm not bashing conservative beliefs, im just bashing Ann Coulter for doing an awful job of arguing her points. Just a side note, In a different Youtube clip i saw on the side, Adam Corrola hangs up on Ann Coulter which i thought was hilarious.
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This is really good Tim, I agree with everything you said. It annoyed me when Ann kept twisting EE's comments to make it seem like she wanted her to stop writing completely, like you said. She definitely has that middle school style of arguing and her attempts at being funny or clever are just sad in my opinion.
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