Indeed they can, Heather. Heck, I disagree with billroper and a few other people so deeply on politics that we mutually agreed to cease discussing them so that we could stay friends, because everything else was good.
My view on Coulter et al. is that, yes, fine, they do indeed build from grains of truth. However, they go off in directions I find so vile and hateful that I don't even want to deal with them. Coulter in particular has advocated the deaths of (for instance) the NY Times editorial board, a Supreme Court Justice, and most of Islam. She keeps saying offensive, inflammatory things, and then goes, "Whoa! Just a joke!" when called on it. Beck is just a bigoted moron with a mic, as far as I can tell. Hannity hates anything that dares to challenge BushCo -- anything at all. And Malkin, in a famous fit of self-loathing, not only advocates setting up internment camps, but also ragged on Teresa Heinz Kerry for publishing something political under a pen name -- exactly as Malkin does.
If it happens that you enjoy their columns, fine. That would be the purview of your LJ.
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Date: 2007-09-21 12:59 am (UTC)My view on Coulter et al. is that, yes, fine, they do indeed build from grains of truth. However, they go off in directions I find so vile and hateful that I don't even want to deal with them. Coulter in particular has advocated the deaths of (for instance) the NY Times editorial board, a Supreme Court Justice, and most of Islam. She keeps saying offensive, inflammatory things, and then goes, "Whoa! Just a joke!" when called on it. Beck is just a bigoted moron with a mic, as far as I can tell. Hannity hates anything that dares to challenge BushCo -- anything at all. And Malkin, in a famous fit of self-loathing, not only advocates setting up internment camps, but also ragged on Teresa Heinz Kerry for publishing something political under a pen name -- exactly as Malkin does.
If it happens that you enjoy their columns, fine. That would be the purview of your LJ.