Wednesday, November 30, 2005

The Ann Coulter Mess

I am deeply saddened by the uproar caused by the Ann Coulter article I wrote and the subsequent posting of my phone number. I just hung up the phone shaking and in tears after the most vicious attack from a stranger who had gotten my number off Coulter's front page. I thought I had put my office number on the e-mail, but accidentally typed in my home number. My kids, the school and all our relatives are affected by this, and of course the number will be changed. But that still doesn't excuse Coulter posting it on her site. And the hate mail I've been receiving is very hurtful and personal. Thank God I know the truth in my heart, and will remain strong. And I want to thank all of you enlightened, wonderful people who have open minds and see beyond mere words, beyond the letter to the spirit. So many of you have written letters of support. I will reprint some of these e-mails and comments soon. I did get the most beautiful voice message from a woman whose voice was cracking as she told me how incredibly grateful she was that I spoke out in the exact words she had been thinking. I will listen to the message and transcribe it or download it later. Hey WORFEURS, you are so right! I would like to have a dialogue with you about scripture; you could educate me. Your beautiful letter about your adoption and your views on abortion show me that our side has many colors, and we don't have to put ourselves in a box with a label.

I never had any intention of creating more hate and divisiveness; in fact, I thought my article was just expressing frustration with humor. And the line "For Christ's sake" -- was a play on words; I was making fun of myself. Oh well -- In case you're wondering what I'm talking about, you can read all about it at: Click here to read my new article at BRAD BLOG! I have written a new book: "How to Talk to Ann Coulter and Other Hate-Mongers IF YOU MUST" Countering the Culture of Political Porn. I am collaborating on this book with the inimitable Brad Friedman and Dan Borchers.

I also did two radio shows yesterday: Radio America's Battle Line with Alan Nathan. He's a brilliant host (a centrist "with teeth")and I was quite nervous, but it went surprisingly well! When my book comes out you will see in-depth writings and some ideas I've never heard before, that seem to be writing themselves. I have been holding it all back until now -- and all this stuff with the Coulter article is a complete surprise. I never expected anyone to really notice the article that much. Editor and Publisher reprinted the brouhaha...

I had the most amazing spiritual journey and if there is one thing I know, the God of love is real and everywhere (and not at all political), we just have to open our eyes. I can't tell you how it has transformed my life (and one of my sons) from the brink of death several times. These absolutely mind-boggling prayer miracles will be in my next book "Falling UP", on the heels of the Coulter book.
God Bless! More very soon.... don't forget to check out BRADBLOG!

42 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:34 PM

    Dear Lydia,
    Love your blog, you must keep writing these blogs. I believe it will help the world. Rock on!

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  2. Anonymous6:38 PM

    Lydia,

    This is fair game. You write an article with loads of hysterical accusations against Ann Coulter with no substantial fact to back it up.

    Your party is just a vitriolic and crass when it comes to arguments.

    If you or Brad really want your party to win, start with the nutcases on your side of this debate.

    What bothers people like you and Brad is NOT the alleged "hate" speech. It's debate! As liberals always do, you have put forth all of these hysterical accusations against Ann Coulter without making the case of guilt.

    You did your best, and wasted a lot of energy. You hit Ann, and she hit back....and did a better job at it without spending one tenth of the energy on you, that you spent on her.

    You wrote an email to her, included your information, and mis represented yourself to her. The tone in your email to Ann is nothing compared to the writings you have posted.

    What you did was sneaky, without merit, and unfair.

    Quit crying about it. Before this Ann Coulter never knew who you were, and I'm sure she has already forgotten.

    If you are going to put yourself out there in that way, you better expect retaliation.

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  3. Anonymous6:38 PM

    Me again, I read all the articles you wrote (I am only commenting here for now) and I think you're fabulous.

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  4. Anonymous6:40 PM

    I wonder what's really going on here? The enmity between Lydia and Ann Coulter seems to transcend the politics. It's the type of behavior one would expect to see from two women competing for the same lover....

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  5. Anonymous6:45 PM

    Speaking of honesty.....I wonder if Ann Coulter is HER real name....

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  6. Anonymous6:47 PM

    yeah it's her real name.

    it's actresses that adopt fake stage names.

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  7. Anonymous6:51 PM

    "I was thinking about Josef Stalin and Ann Coulter came to mind"

    Mind you Josef Stalin was responsible for the deaths of millions. Estimates range from 10 million to 50 million. To give you an idea of how big that number is, the population of this country is not quite 300 million.

    On the basis of this argument alone, I'd say for slandering Ann Coulter this way, you got exactly what you deserved!

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  8. Anonymous8:59 PM

    Hey Lydia, Just to the left of your innocent looking picture on the Brad Blog, stands a pair of male feet bound by chains in a sexual connotation. (advertisement from gay.com)

    Just right of that sexual image is your message talking about Christ and his real message.

    Good grief!

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  9. Just forget about Ann Coulter and all of her apologists. They're not worth your time or aggravation, which is really all they want when it comes right down to it.

    Don't let them get you down, Lydia. The muck they spew is why I left the Republican party almost 15 years ago. They became the intolerance party back then and they haven't stopped since. They cling to "conservatism", but they've forsaken the concept entirely. And now their elected and appointed officials at the highest levels have resorted to criminal activity. Their slide into oblivion continues. Good riddance.

    Stay the course, Lydia, and don't be afraid to speak your mind. Peace!

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  10. Anonymous9:25 AM

    Attention Lydia, Worfeus, et al.

    There is an enormous difference between spirituality and religion.

    Quoting scripture is not spirituality.

    Conversely, one can attain spiritual heights without ever having consulted a bible, koran or other such writing.

    When you attempt to embellish your arguments with help from Jesus, you wind up diverting attention from your origianl arguement, and the debate degrades into "My god is better than your god"

    ZZZZZzzzzzzz

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  11. Anonymous1:56 PM

    Worfeus,

    Well excuuuuuse me! I guess thou art holier indeed.

    You are so absorbed in your own rhetoric that you just assume that I am opposed to your politics because I dare to criticize your use of Jesus.

    Go back and read my earlier comments very carefully (move your lips if you have to). All I said was that you are softening your arguments and your points are getting lost in the Jesus noise.

    [Hmmmm..now let's think for a minute....If I were opposed to your politics why would I try to help your strengthen your arguement?]

    But you respond with "So if you guys want to spread your doctrine of blood and horror, ......blah, blah, blah". You're just a like a tape recorder. All I have to do is push the right button, and you play the whole tape of rhetoric (that you seem to have memorized by rote)regardless of whether it's in context or not.

    Another example: "Having studied the bible as a young man, with particular emphasis on the life of Christ, I was shocked to see the twisted, corruption of concept of “Christianity” being pushed by this goosestepping right winged crusade to kill Muslims."

    Well, I did use the Koran word, so maybe your comment has context after all :)

    [The problem with the comments section of this blog, by the way, is that we can't go back and modify what we've written after it's been posted....unlike Lydia's blog where it seems that her words have been changed nearly everytime I visit]

    And then your closing argument: "There are those of us out here, who know his words a little better than you, so you may want to start looking to another God to support your wars".....Brilliant! I hear that as "My god is better than your god". Excellent reasoning, except for one tiny point......I didn't identify with any religious beliefs!! You're talking just to hear the sound of your own voice, because now nobody's listening to you.

    But that's OK....keep coming back. Bring the body and one day the mind will follow.

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  12. Anonymous2:10 PM

    Worfeus

    One more point....I can't let this one get by without comment.

    There's an obvious problem in referring the "the words of Jesus". Jesus did not write them down, nor were there any contemporaries of Jesus that transcribed his words (perhaps there were, but there is no archeological evidence therof).

    In fact, the earliest written evidence of the words of Jesus are from 100 years after his death. His "ords" and teachings had survived orally until then.

    Have you ever played the childhood game of "telephone"? You know where one person tells the next, and so on and so on, and then the first person and the last person compare the information.

    So you may well know the bible better than "Falwell, Roberston and the entire group of right winged pseudo intellectual holier than thou conservative movement", but unless Jesus has been speaking to you directly, I claim you know nothing of his words.

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  13. Anonymous3:13 PM

    Worfeus,

    Dude.....I don't have an agenda. I just come to this sight because it's so GD amusing!

    Thanks for entertaining me.

    You've impressed me with your academic prowess, yet your reasoning skills could stand some improvement. Put down the bible and go buy a book on logic.

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  14. Anonymous3:15 PM

    I think now I'll go surf a Britany Spears blog, or maybe the Gay Conservatives.

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  15. Anonymous3:21 PM

    Dear Lydia

    We love talking about how silly you are about Ann Coulter and your most recent boo-hoo-hoo spin! LOL!

    We dare ya; http://celiberal.com/phpBB/index.php

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  16. Anonymous3:33 PM

    Hook, line and sinker Worfeus, hook....line....and sinker.

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  17. Anonymous3:59 PM

    Worfeus,

    Read several, thanks.

    That's yet another reason to implore you to cease with ad hominem arguements based on Jesus (or Ann Coulter for that matter, or Bush, et al).

    BTW...I tried to surf over to the Ann Coulter blog, but you know what? She doesn't have one. Imagine that.....none of this caotic embarasing and potentially damaging blathering going on at her site.

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  18. Anonymous4:22 PM

    Worfeus,

    So let's figure out how to salvage this mess and get this chick all fixed up again. I'm really kinda fond of her, you know (duh.....why would I be hanging out here in the first place?). But she says some dumb stuff sometimes and has indeed brought this firestorm upon herself.

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  19. Anonymous5:14 PM

    "Coulter is happiest when she's making others miserable."

    "When everyone of your arguments is characterized as an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate"....Ann Coulter

    It doesn't matter what she could possibly say. She's a conservative and liberals cannot stand the fact that she has the ability to have such a strong voice.

    Coulter is doing just fine as well. She's thin, gorgeous, blond, and was just paid $30,000 to give a speech in Florida...ask Lydia.

    Plus, she's on her 4th NY Times bestseller.

    She's on O'Reilly tonight to discuss these liberal smear sites. Can't wait to hear/see it.

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  20. Anonymous5:21 PM

    Chairman Ann herself wrote that last comment. I swear to Allah.

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  21. Anonymous5:36 PM

    LOL I wish I was Ann Coulter. I'd be having a load of fun with you guys.

    "Mr. Rice" is much like Lydia. He tried opening a can of worms to jumping to conclusions, and she is responding in the way he'd expect her to. It's called sarcasm. Like Lydia, the man was basically begging for a response, for some attention....and she gave it.

    Worf, why can't you see who the real victim is here? If "Mr Rice" or Lydia had written something untrue about you and had compared you to Stalin, what would you have done. Then how would you feel is someone like this was being patronized by someone like you.

    This holier than thou attitude of yours of passing judgement of hate onto others is unbecoming of a biblical scholar.

    Call me crazy, but wouldn't Jesus say "those without sin, cast the first stone" LOL.

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  22. Anonymous5:47 PM

    Worf, it's true, what about the pie throwing? What about the smear? What about comparing her to Stalin? LOL

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  23. Anonymous6:04 PM

    LOL, well you have a sense of humor so that's okay.

    So you must appreciate Ann's poke when in response to O'Reilly's comment about her being hit by pies, Ann said that though pies were thrown at her, they missed because "liberals throw like girls".

    LOL.

    So, now I wonder if that's going to be labeled as hate speech?

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  24. Anonymous6:06 PM

    A picture says a thousand words: http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2005/11/glimpse-of-hidden-ann-coulter.html

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  25. Anonymous6:38 PM

    Thats interesting Worf, you have said more on here than anyone else, and watched Coulter's interview.

    Would hate to see how much webspace it would require if you were truly interested in someone.

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  26. Anonymous6:39 PM

    A picture says a thousand words: http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2005/11/glimpse-of-hidden-ann-coulter.html

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  27. Anonymous7:08 PM

    You know the point, and I'd make it again, but you'd probably just avoid it again. ;-).

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  28. Anonymous7:10 PM

    LOL regarding a picture, notice how both of Lydia's photos are touched up and we have one of Ann close up, and one of Ann in the infamous Time Magazine article that she herself ranted about. That was intentional by the photo editors, which was pointed out.

    Mediamatters a lib site said she was lying about that LOL.

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  29. Anonymous7:49 PM

    This picture is fair: why doesn't liberal websites show ones like this?

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/humblegunner/Coulter1.jpg

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  30. Anonymous7:53 PM

    Sorry that link doesn't work...

    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1387696/posts

    this is a good one for Ann pics.

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  31. Anonymous7:55 PM

    Who cares about her appearence. She looks as if she could suck a golf ball down a lenght of garden hose.

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  32. Anonymous8:20 PM

    Okay I worked hard to find this. Click on my name "CoulterCouricCatfight" to see the full 10 Minute interview (require windows player) it starts playing immediately. Worf, this is a good explanation of how conservatives are mis characterized. This is just to provide you with another perspective. I'd like your comments on it if you don't mind. Thanks. (Courtesy antiauthority.com)

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  33. Anonymous9:00 PM

    I'm not Ann Coulter LOL. She was on O'Reilly tonight remember?

    We talked about it. Debate on, we've been shooting comments back and forth. I'm waiting for your comments on the interview.

    I'll keep checking back.

    My giving you the interview was part of my point of mischaracterizing Ann as a hate monger. You think she is, I don't.

    What else would you like to debate?

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  34. Anonymous4:12 AM

    Ms. Cornell

    Definite MENSA material, I'd love to read your "Trotsky Assassination" tome, you volunteer the source of your flawed logic in the latter part of your blog: "feeling" rather than "thinking." Apparently your functional uterus and fashionably leftist assumptions have granted you some esoteric insight into reality in general. Anybody who doesn't agree with you must of course be a theocratic right-wing nut. Some thoughts:

    -Some leftist think that free speech is the left spouting their propaganda without fear of recrimination or criticism. Right-wing criticism equals "hate speech" in the leftist lexicon, e.g., Ann Coulter's "Hate Speech". Leftists doesn't seem to realize that everyone is free to be an idiot, but there is no constitutional right to not being identified as one in a public forum.

    -Christ was not a Marxist & therefore would never be a modern Democrat. Christ was a traditional Liberal as in "libertarian" who valued the individual whereas Democrats value "groups". Jesus detested "Evil" where as Democrats detest perceived "Inequality." Just for kicks, ask any overtly rabid Democrat if they view themselves as being in either the:
    +"To each according to his needs" column: this will be the majority, i.e., "Sheeple" who feel morally superior in their entitlement mentality due to group membership

    +"From each according to his abilities" column: this will be the minority
    -Utopians: well meaning people who think that social engineering can change basic human nature (very dangerous people, these are the human secular "theocrats")
    -Disingenuous Elitists: Leaders of the "Party"

    -A few laughable Theocrats (e.g., Pat Robertson) notwithstanding, the Republican party is more inclusive than the Marxist dominated Democratic Party. In fact, Bush's political philosophy would conform to any "Christian Democrat" Party platform in Europe: social conservative, economic liberal.

    -Ann Coulter is no more or less a "Bomb Thrower" than Al Franken.

    -Since we're talking about unrealistic "perfect worlds", my utopia is Libertarian Society where:
    + Only the people who actually paid income taxes are allowed to vote
    + No progressive income taxation rate that harms the productive
    + The "State" does not control the education of the young
    + Women are expected & encouraged to exercise reason & accountability just like any man (I would call this the "Equal Responsibility Amendment" to the U.S. Constitution)
    + Morality is not legislated, but amorality is not subsidized
    + Acknowledgement that individual choices have consequences, both good & bad
    + Acknowledgement that human secularism is a religion and in its most virulent form, Communism, has been the most destructive force in the history of mankind
    + People will be judged via merit as individuals and not by group membership...

    - The Nazi's were leftists of the National Socialist variety & the only difference between the Democratic Leadership (e.g., Howard Dean,Ted Kennedy, etc.) is that they are leftists of the International Socialist variety. WRT abortion, Both Hilter and Margaret Sanger (founder of "Planned Parenthood", responsible for 30% of all abortions in this country) were eugenists that admired each others views about the extermination of "lesser" races. Hitler would fit in well with the Sierra Club, PETA & any number of leftist organizations because he shared their charming views.

    -People pay $20,000 for eruditic, thoughtful political humor. This is why "Air America" is such an abysmal failure and will soon be cast onto history's ash heap.

    -""It is usually futile to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance." (Thomas Sowell) This would apply to you, Ms. Cornell.

    Demosthenes--

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  35. Anonymous11:04 AM

    Lydia Cornell is one of the funniest and most insightful comediennes around; she did a hilarious show at a Westside playhouse, based on her humiliating adventures as an actress and the desperation so many of us feel -- I laughed so hard, then I found myself crying. She's a true humanitarianreally speaks from experience and you're going to find it all out when her books come out. I was an editor on her personal book, which is not yet released.
    Janna

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  36. Anonymous7:24 PM

    So Lydia, are you basking in your 15 minutes of fame? Bet you have never had this much activity ever!

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  37. Anonymous10:39 AM

    You Lib's make me chuckle,supposedly tolerant,supporters of free speach,support womens rights but your attacks on Ann Coulter lead me to believe there are quite a few you not practicing what you preach.Or perhaps its a bit of jealousy with Ann just being so damned smart and whitty,not to mention pretty damn good to look at.Plus,she has more "balls" than most of the Allen Alda type liberal men who sit down to pee.

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  38. Anonymous6:26 PM

    What does "whitty" mean? I am talking to you in the above post. Are you really Ann Coulter trying to fake us out?

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  39. Anonymous10:21 PM

    I need a second opinion.Has anyone else noticed that in most every still photo of Nancy Pelosi she has this sort of wide eyed surprised look on her face as if someone had snuck up behind her and unexpectedly stuck a broomstick up her ass? Am I wrong here?

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  40. Anonymous10:00 AM

    worfeus,

    Mein Kamf also had little tidbits like suppressing religion, disarming the public, and limiting speech. Arguably leftist tenets. Another good book in leftist literature is the Communist Manifesto, Carl Marx. You will find some interesting parallels there as well between the current Democratic Party objectives and those ideas. There are no direct ties, but it does get a little to close for comfort occasionally.

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  41. Anonymous5:37 AM

    lydia,

    Take a look at your rhetoric from an objective standpoint. It combines much of the rhetoric of conservative christians(God is love, belief in the power of prayer etc) and combines it with the same tired categorizing of people that so manyl iberals(not progressives since that suggests progress) like to do with conseravtives and the like. In the end you have become what you say you hate. God is love, by the looks of your rhetoric , are you sure you got the message?

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