I'm not familiar to this lady, so... is that bona fide satire or just a case of Poe's law?

I think it's the second, as satire always haves a counterpoint which is the actual point of the satire, and that article just looks... serious.

In which case I recommend that lady to stop a ball with her head after a professional football player kicks it from half the field away, without a helmet. And then she can explain us how "wimpy" does that feel.

I forget when I stopped reading, but it was about the time I realized this woman is either a brilliant troll or the next Glenn Beck. Her bullet points became progressively ridiculous and mockable and I just lost interest because sadly, she will be championed for this opinion by a vocal minority of the country and amplified through biased networks.

There's not much I can say. Anyone with half a brain and an ego that's not too big to accept another well known sport that is undeniably bigger than anything here in the states is on the same level as American Football should gloss over this article.

I love American Football. Love it. I call it Football and I don't care that the rest of the world mocks me for it and refers to it as hand egg. I don't like Soccer, or Futbol. My reasons are pretty good actually. I like the drama and suspense occurring between every play in baseball and every down in football. I like the strategies coming out of the dugouts and sidelines, there is a whole 'nother level going on besides what the players are doing on the field. I am not a fan of constant in motion sports like Soccer, Basketball and Tennis and the like. But THAT'S JUST ME. That is what I like and dislike and I laid out my reasons for it.

It has nothing to do with where the sport was born or my ethnicity. Personally, I think Miss Coulter would be surprised to find out the types of people who watch soccer, but she probably didn't bother to look because it might disagree with her theories and arguments about the direction our country is taking. In fact, it seems she views soccer as a sissy sport. While I wouldn't dare compare it to contact football, her aggressive stance on the issue seems to suggest our society should be writhing with bare chested vikings beating their chests with spiked maces for fun, or perhaps we should just bring back the roman gladiators. I love the violence of contact football but dear lord don't paint our society as barbarians please.....

I've always thought that American, of all people, would appreciate the egalitarian spirit of football: it requires no special equipment (bats, gloves, helmets...) and no special playfield. It only takes, literally, one football.

This is why a guy can be born in a slump in a third world country and become a world famous idol just by being one of the best.

I'm not sure why the American sport is called football though. The ball is only occasionally kicked, and is pretty much tossed around....using the hands.

It's, "Ann Coulter's Unbelievable RANT Against [INSERT SUBJECT]." She's a ranting machine! What ever you do it will not stop!

Thank you, Krixtal, next time I get the question why the rest of the world hates America so much, I'll point them to this article and explain this is why. America is the only nation on Planet Earth where ignorance is socially accepted together with batshit insanity, sputtered by the likes of this woman.

For clarity, please refer to it as soccer. Football to every American reading this means our violent sport.

I wasn't sure for a bit which one you meant. Thanks.


ed: Football is a great name for the European version for obvious reasons.

I'm not sure why the American sport is called football though. The ball is only occasionally kicked, and is pretty much tossed around....using the hands.

But handball is already taken, so what's to do ??

I'm going to stick with the fact that the football is nearly a foot long.

She is a professional troll from the American neo-con right.

Then you don't know anything about her. She supports Romney, who is a GOP establishment RINO right down the line. She supports romneycare, which is full on RINO. She just says a lot of stuff, usually meaningless to what she actually does, which is whatever the RINO's do. She only says this or that for shock value, but her actions go along with the herd. I could mention names of people and groups that she has gone against, attacked, to nail the point, but then that would stir too much controversy in an already doomed ibtl thread. But she is establishment RINO, flat out.

What are you kidding?

Find me a neo-con who is not a RINO. There is no such thing.

IBTL

Thanks for that. All afternoon I've been picturing Ann Coulter as a dangerous Serengeti land mammal in the crosshairs of a poacher. It was really confusing to me emotionally.

Thank you, Krixtal, next time I get the question why the rest of the world hates America so much, I'll point them to this article and explain this is why. America is the only nation on Planet Earth where ignorance is socially accepted together with batshit insanity, sputtered by the likes of this woman.

Republican in name only

The other side of the aisle are called blue dogs or something like that

That's right, America is the only place in the world where ignorance is socially accepted together with batshit insanity.
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Coulter is harmless. Laugh at her if you want, but don't act like she's a icon of Americana. The rest of the world hates us because in our country, even dingbats get to choose their own lives, and do with them what they please. We're such asshats!

That's right, America is the only place in the world where ignorance is socially accepted together with batshit insanity.
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Coulter is harmless. Laugh at her if you want, but don't act like she's a icon of Americana. The rest of the world hates us because in our country, even dingbats get to choose their own lives, and do with them what they please. We're such asshats!

You are missing the point. Plenty of stupidity in the world but in America, it is and continues to be a respectable professional career choice unlike the rest of the world where it is mostly just socially accepted and a way of life.

edit: The thing is -- base cruelty is a completely different thing than the stupid blathering of arrogant ignorant americans who don't have the sense to shut up.

Except for American Indians, every single person here is an immigrant.

"Native" Americans are immigrants too, they crossed over here from Asia. And they were doing a pretty good job of killing and enslaving each other before the next wave of immigrants showed up. Same ole stuff, was just a different day.

But technically we all emigrated out of the Fertile Crescent, or Olduvai Gorge, whichever is considered de rigeur in this century.

Except for American Indians, every single person here is an immigrant.

So like, the English are just immigrants living in England, too?

Depending how far back you want to look, yup.

Really, they constantly call the English just immigrants? No, they don't. It's just used as a political motive here. It's like saying the English don't even really exist. It's purely political nonsense.

her crazy ass doesn't have to worry. if america gets knocked out of the tournament, 95% of american viewers won't be watching anymore.

For clarity, please refer to it as soccer. Football to every American reading this means our violent sport.

I wasn't sure for a bit which one you meant. Thanks.

But I know were you get that from, how it's usually used here (or misused), who uses it for what purpose, and I just don't agree with it as it's not logical to world history. I didn't immigrate from anywhere, I'm an American.

. It's like the whole "red skins" controversy here now (American football), while people act all outraged over a name to have it removed while they call them "Indians"... lol.

lumps of groups your trying to hate on or whatever, just a book salesman.

For clarity, please refer to it as soccer. Football to every American reading this means our violent sport.

I wasn't sure for a bit which one you meant. Thanks.


ed: Football is a great name for the European version for obvious reasons.

I'm not sure why the American sport is called football though. The ball is only occasionally kicked, and is pretty much tossed around....using the hands.

But handball is already taken, so what's to do ??

Kinda splitting hairs here.

But technically we all emigrated out of the Fertile Crescent, or Olduvai Gorge, whichever is considered de rigeur in this century.

Determined to preserve American exceptionalism against a rising tide of baguette-munching ball-juggling pinko Europhile hippy surrender-communism, Ann Coulter has come to the rescue: "Any growing interest in soccer," she wrote to widespread amusement, "can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay."

Ann Coulter's fame and prosperity is built on being as inflammatory and controversial as possible. I doubt she believes any of what she says.

Since I heard her name for the first time (today) I just thought she was some sort of comedian, then I continued to read and changed my Mind and thought she was one of those batshit insane bloggers, I had to read her up on wikipedia to find out that she is a politian... is she really a thing in the USA? Do people actually listen to that nonsense?

Probably Coulter is no worst than some of our european nutjobs. Just they speak non-English languages, live in smaller countries and there's not much money in letting them spread their nonsense on the media.

1% of 300 million people is a sizable market. 1% of 80 million people, not so much...