Mark Levin Smacks Down Ann Coulter Article

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[rosco rathbone]

The weak sisters are already caving into the Oromna inevitability, I see.


Good to see that Levin still holds the fort.

 

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[atmas]

I heard parts of this when it was broadcast. Levin has made it clear that when talking about Gingrich or Romney, neither of whom he has endorsed, his aim is for the facts to be presented without adulteration. And it seems Miss Coulter did indeed adulterate a few facts.

 

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[phrodeau]

I could read the transcript of this in a third the time it takes him to get out his words.

 

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[phrodeau]

He didn't mention her ass or rectum or feces at all. Why do you listen to him?

 

[ChinaBandit]

The most important questions have not been asked!

Does Ann shave?

Does she wax?

Does she sport a full blonde muff?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The most important questions have not been asked!

Does Ann shave?

Does she wax?

Does she sport a full blonde muff?

Is she female or Mike Yates?

 

[Peregrinator]

David Frum weighs in, in case anyone is interested in his opinion:


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/02/for-coulter-against-levin.html

Levin's principled objection is to any government requiring citizens to buy a service from a private company. At the federal level such a requirement is unconstitutional (he argues); at the state level, it is destructive of liberty even if constitutional.
Levin has to use some delicate phraseology here to avoid such problems as: Was it unconstitutional back in 1792 for the federal government to require male citizens of the appropriate age to buy guns and enroll in their state militias? What about requiring car insurance from all drivers? Is a compulsory vaccination against an infectious disease an abuse of government power if the injections are administered by private doctors?
And notice the destination at which these convoluted distinctions finally arrive:

Since Levin does not want to argue that Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional, he is forced to argue that the real evil of Obamacare and Romneycare is that they rely on private insurance. Had they taxed citizens to finance a federal single-payer program, that would be quite OK!
A structured and subsidized private market becomes, in the Levin telling, a much more pernicious assault on liberty than a British-style National Health Service!

How can that make any sense?
It does not. The seemingly principled argument is in fact utterly ad hoc, developed on the fly to score a point against a hated opponent without alienating an audience of senior citizens who would throw the radio out the window if Levin told them what he truly thought about the social programs they depend on.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Was it unconstitutional back in 1792 for the federal government to require male citizens of the appropriate age to buy guns and enroll in their state militias? What about requiring car insurance from all drivers? Is a compulsory vaccination against an infectious disease an abuse of government power if the injections are administered by private doctors?

No - Defense
Privilege to drive

Then let's get back to the Scalia question: Can they make us eat broccoli, as long as it is just a health issue.

 

[Peregrinator]

I thought pretty much the same thing when I read the Frum piece. I think Levin has the winning argument so far.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I thought pretty much the same thing when I read the Frum piece. I think Levin has the winning argument so far.

Levin's pretty sharp when it comes to the Constitution.

Frum might be a little weak on history too, we were surrounded by England, France and Spain and soon to be at war again with England.

I'm still not so sure about federally "mandated" vaccinations either.

I do not think that was an issue when the Constitution was written and therefore, one of the powers left to the states.

Now, are vaccines a good thing? Of course they are. But that should be an argument easy to win in the court of public opinion, where each state legislature can be pressured into protecting the poor that cannot afford it.

 

[Sean]

Gonna be some conflicted wingnuts around here. Any criticism of Coulter's bullshit is usually greeted with howls of rage.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Gonna be some conflicted wingnuts around here. Any criticism of Coulter's bullshit is usually greeted with howls of rage.

You are mistaken.

She has a small following, at best.

I believe you are mistaking the person for the point.

 

[klippert]

Lawyer Levin is a bad ass... I listened too his auto rewind. Like he does too every liberal, progressive....he picked her article apart, sentence by friggin sentence.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Lawyer Levin is a bad ass... I listened too his auto rewind. Like he does too every liberal, progressive....he picked her article apart, sentence by friggin sentence.

Like the way Vinnie's family argues.

 

[FloridaSmoothie]

What about requiring car insurance from all drivers?

1. The state requires the insurance, not the feds.
2. The liability insurance is to protect the other guy in an accident, not the purchaser.

 

[Peregrinator]

Levin's pretty sharp when it comes to the Constitution.

Frum might be a little weak on history too, we were surrounded by England, France and Spain and soon to be at war again with England.

I'm still not so sure about federally "mandated" vaccinations either.

I do not think that was an issue when the Constitution was written and therefore, one of the powers left to the states.

Now, are vaccines a good thing? Of course they are. But that should be an argument easy to win in the court of public opinion, where each state legislature can be pressured into protecting the poor that cannot afford it.

I think Frum is weak on the vaccine thing. It's different from forcing people to have insurance. You carrying rabies is a threat to me. You not having health insurance means nothing to me. I want the government to fight infectious diseases with every tool at its disposal.

 

[Peregrinator]

Gonna be some conflicted wingnuts around here. Any criticism of Coulter's bullshit is usually greeted with howls of rage.

True, though I have seen a lot of them over the years call her stuff like "rabble rouser."

You are mistaken.

She has a small following, at best.

I believe you are mistaking the person for the point.

It's a vocal small following, then. Or perhaps it's just that only certain people are "allowed" to criticize the shrieking jackass.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I won't be carrying rabies long...

 

[Peregrinator]

I'd settle for quarantine.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'd settle for quarantine.

FEMA camp?

 

[Peregrinator]

Traction splints for everybody!