Ann Coulter makes her living saying outrageous things, but she ventured Thursday (April 20, 2006) into the territory of stupid, as opposed to outrageous, with her appearance on Fox News' "Dayside," when she claimed that illegal immigrants routinely run nearly 130 miles in order to give birth.

Coulter was debating her "plan" to have illegal immigrants build a wall (the Great Wall of Coulter) along the U.S.-Mexican border to keep themselves out (and us in?) Her opponent was Susan Estrich, a sometime progressive strategist and regular Fox News guest.

Coulter says what she's been saying for several weeks now, that the U.S. is a country, not a department store, and its citizens ought to have a say in who gets to come in and stay. Then she added this gem:

"Eighty percent of the babies being born at the Los Angeles Public Hospital were from illegal aliens running across the border right as they are about to give birth. Their children immediately become citizens and they get to stay. This isn't the way we should be choosing citizens," she said.

Whoa there, Coulter. Los Angeles is some 129.54 miles, give or take a Mapquest hiccup, from the U.S.-Mexican border crossing at San Ysidro/Tijuana. The driving time is 2 hours, 10 minutes and 21 seconds. I am not a runner, but I'm in decent shape for my age, and I walk at a four-mile-an-hour pace on level ground. Assuming a woman "right as they are about to give birth" can keep that same pace, she would need 32.38 hours to "run" from the border to Los Angeles.
News Hounds: Ann Coulter Needs a Geography Lesson

How much do you in Freudian want this ?????????????

This is a STUPID thread - and even you ought to know it.

First of all, the article is 6 months old.

Second, every idiot knows that when I use a "figure of speech" and say something like, "I'm going to run to the grocery store" I do NOT mean that I'm going to strap on my New Balance shoes and go for a jog. I mean that I'm going to go to the grocery store by whatever means of transportation I choose.

Third, there's a growing sentiment in the United States that is demanding EXACTLY what Coulter suggested - A WALL ALONG THE BORDER. Is Ms Coulter a prophet?

Fourth, if we can't keep illegal immigrants OUT, we need to change the law concerning their children - being born in America - automatically being American citizens. That's an EASY change to make, and it would make all the difference in the world.


NON-ISSUE.
STUPID THREAD.

Desparate people do desparate things. Obviously an feeble attempt. Ho hum.

Find all the illegals here in America and have them build the wall. If they want to stay in America, they have to help build the wall. That is the funniest and best thing I have ever heard!

That's her. She's a comedian with a point and the left doesn't get it. She's Al Franken in drag.

Tommy DeVito: [it becomes quiet] Funny how? What's funny about it?
Anthony Stabile: Tommy no, You got it all wrong.
Tommy DeVito: Oh, oh, Anthony. He's a big boy, he knows what he said. What did ya say? Funny how?
Henry Hill: Jus...
Tommy DeVito: What?
Henry Hill: Just... ya know... you're funny.
Tommy DeVito: You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little <censored> up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to <censored> amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?
Henry Hill: Just... you know, how you tell the story, what?
Tommy DeVito: No, no, I don't know, you said it. How do I know? You said I'm funny. How the <censored> am I funny, what the <censored> is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what's funny!
Henry Hill: [long pause] Get the <censored> out of here, Tommy!
Tommy DeVito: [everyone laughs] Ya motherfucker! I almost had him, I almost had him. Ya stuttering prick ya. Frankie, was he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, Henry. You may fold under questioning.


So Ann Coulter is a "comedian" now.
Funny how I don't ever see her make people laugh.

Or maybe you mean she's a comedian because she takes things, and twists them into a mockery of reality for effect?
Except she tries to pass her crap off as real and truthful...

Yeah. I could be a "comedian" like Ann Coulter.
I could talk about how Christians believe in cannibalism, and the religious right pray to George Bush, and how Republicans are racist for their slow response to Katrina...

Yeah. That's just freakin' hilarious!

That would not be funny because there is no truth in it. You have to take a topic with some truth in it and then exaggerate it for it to be funny. Like the bit from "Slingblade".

You see, you and I are a lot alike,
strange as that may seem. I mean
not physically or even mentally
really, just well, maybe
emotionally or actually the hand
we've been dealt in life. We're
different. People see us as being
different anyway. You're -- well
you have your affliction or
whatever and I, well mine's not as
easy to see. I'm just going to say
it. I'm gay.
(watts)
Does that surprise you?
(watts)
That I'm gay. You know what being
gay is, don't you?

KARL
I reckon not.

VAUGHAN
Homosexual. I like men. Sexually.

KARL
Not funny, ha, ha, funny queer.

VAUGHAN
Well that's a very offensive way to
put it. You shouldn't say that. You
were taught that, weren't you?

KARL
I've heard it said that way.

Now that is funny.

Sure there is.
Christians and the sacrament of the "Last Supper". They have varying beliefs about the passage where Jesus said "This is my body" / "This is my blood", and then passes it to them to eat.
Some sects actually believe it IS his "body" and "blood".
Ergo, a link to cannibalism.

"the religious right pray to George Bush". Did you see that video? Or is it just something you disregarded without even looking at?

"Republicans are racist for their slow response to Katrina"
There was a slow response to Katrina with Republican holding power in the White House and Congress. The reason why can be debated. Claiming there is no "truth" is just plain blindly disregarding the issue.


These have about as much, if not more, of a tenuous grasp on "truth" as Ann Coulter's statements...
And like Ann Coulter's statements, there is no "comedic" value to them at all...

The religous right prays to Bush???? Man, whatever you're smoking, I hope it gets off the street soon. You mean you saw a video of a church and then the camara showed you a picture of Bush and you took that to mean they were actually praying to Bush? You're easy to fool if you believe that.

They may not be humerous to you, but it makes me laugh. What is humerous to you is not always humerous to me and vice versa. That's the beauty of America, something for everyone.

Are you even trying to pay attention and listen?
I don't believe the religious right "prays" to Bush.

I was making an ANALOGY between the absolutely STUPID statements that Ann Coulter makes by twisting reality, and SIMILARLY absolutely STUPID statements that I could make about the other side of the fence.

Pay attention.


I don't believe that.
If you had been paying attention, you would have known that.


You are the only person I have ever met who says they laugh at Ann Coulter's stuff.
I believe it's usually sold in the "politics" section. Not the "humor" section.

I guess it's better than taking the inane crap she says seriously...