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February 24, 2012

CalCoastNews is now including work by San Luis Obispo cartoonist Joseph Rankin. Check out his work at the Kranky Cartoonist.

 


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I tend to be “right” on fiscal issues, and a little “left” on most social issues, I would vote libertarian if I thought I wouldn’t just be throwing my vote away. I find it very interesting that people are all for freedom of speech as long as the speaker is on their side. As soon as its the other sides turn to talk, the “Lets shout them down” crowd starts up. Read all the posts but switch right and left and see how they make you feel.


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Shelworth, to my knowledge nobody from San Luis Obipso has ever “shouted down'” Ann Coulter. Let her talk, i say. But please don’t deny others from having equal access to free speech.


Some people simply find Coulter speeches so vile that they can’t help feel it necessary to speak UP about alternative viewpoints and the terrible concepts that Coulter promotes.


The fact is that Coulter is a bully with a pulpit. That does bother people. She puts our society in an uncomfortable place, brining animosity and fostering it in every community she ventures into. Sad.


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I would never deny anyone their free speech, but I have the right NOT to listen to anyone I don’t want to listen to. Also, to the guy screaming about his god last week at farmer’s market; free speech should come with volume controls. You don’t have the right to scream in anyone’s ear.


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I haven’t seen anyone state that AAA doesn’t have the right spew her hatred. Can you please CCP a quote from anyone that has said that Coulter doesn’t have the right to speak because she’s not on ‘our side’? Are you saying that we don’t have the right speak in opposition of the evil one? Sounds to me that you are the one choosing who should be allowed to voice opinions, perhaps a case of projection on your part.


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“I would vote libertarian if I thought I wouldn’t just be throwing my vote away.”


The only way to create change is to make choices that are different. I’ll be voting for Ron Paul and I do not consider it throwing away my vote. If he gets enough votes it will send a LOUD MESSAGE to both parties who hold us hostage because we all believe that we have no other choice. If he comes close at all in votes, they’ll know (both Dem and Rep politicians alike) that they are loosing their strong hold with the American people and if they don’t change, we will be changing them, sooner than later. Who knows maybe Paul will actually take the 2012 election, I believe its possible,not probable but possible. There are certainly enough of us that are fed up to pull it off, IMO.


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The only message that you’ll be sending out is that you’ll vote for a racist. But that’s cool, the more the vote is split the less worry for those of us on the left.


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If that is the message that some obsessive, bleeding heart, lefties or super conservatives get, then they’re IDIOTS and it doesn’t matter what they think. No skin off the rest of our backs in my opinion.


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What are you talking about? It’s a fact that he’s a racist, you must have read about his newsletter, do I have to post a link? I’d post it but you wouldn’t read it anyway. You are set on Paul, if he was the grand dragon for the KKK you’d still support him,,now that’s idiotic. No skin off your back,,because you’re white and you don’t give a cr@p about minorities, just a basic lack of respect on your part, too bad.


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No, he couldn’t be a Grand Dragon, he’s not a democrat. The KKK was formed by southern democrats, and was a very exclusive club. You know, the same democrats that got us into the quagmire called Viet Nam and opposed desegregation. Here’s a pop quiz for you: What’s the most liberal city in America? Answer: San Francisco. Why, under 40 years of liberal rule, has the Black population dropped from 17% to 6%? Answer: white liberal economic apartheid. Spin the race card as you will, but we know your ugly little secret. Remember, MLK was a Republican.


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MLK a murder victim, killed while supporting union labor rights had some thoughts about republicans.


Eisenhower:In September 1957 I thought it was quite regrettable and unfortunate that young high school students in Little Rock, Arkansas, had to go to school under the protection of federal troops. But I thought it was even more unfortunate that Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, through irresponsible actions, left the president of the United States with no other alternative. I believe firmly in nonviolence, but, at the same time, I am not an anarchist. I believe in the intelligent use of police force. And I thought that was all we had in Little Rock. It wasn’t an army fighting against a nation or a race of people. It was just police force, seeking to enforce the law of the land. It was high time that a man as popular in the world as Eisenhower-a man with his moral influence-speak out and take a stand against what was happening all over the South. So I backed the President, and I sent him a telegram commending him for the positive and forthright stand that he took in the Little Rock school situation. He showed the nation and the world that the United States was a nation dedicated to law and order rather than mob rule.


Nevertheless, it was strange to me that the federal government was more concerned about what happened in Budapest than what happened in Birmingham. I thought Eisenhower believed that integration would be a fine thing. But I thought he felt that the more you push it, the more tension it would create, so, just wait a few more years and it will work itself out. I didn’t think that Eisenhower felt like being a crusader for integration. President Eisenhower was a man of integrity and goodwill, but I am afraid that on the question of integration he didn’t understand the dimensions of social change involved nor how the problem was to be worked out.


Goldwater:The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right. The “best man” at this ceremony was a senator whose voting record, philosophy, and program were anathema to all the hard-won achievements of the past decade.

It was both unfortunate and disastrous that the Republican Party nominated Barry Goldwater as its candidate for President of the United States. In foreign policy Mr. Goldwater advocated a narrow nationalism, a crippling isolationism, and a trigger-happy attitude that could plunge the whole world into the dark abyss of annihilation. On social and economic issues, Mr. Goldwater represented an unrealistic conservatism that was totally out of touch with the realities of the twentieth century. The issue of poverty compelled the attention of all citizens of our country. Senator Goldwater had neither the concern nor the comprehension necessary to grapple with this problem of poverty in the fashion that the historical moment dictated. On the urgent issue of civil rights, Senator Goldwater represented a philosophy that was morally indefensible and socially suicidal. While not himself a racist, Mr. Goldwater articulated a philosophy which gave aid and comfort to the racist. His candidacy and philosophy would serve as an umbrella under which extremists of all stripes would stand. In the light of these facts and because of my love for America, I had no alternative but to urge every Negro and white person of goodwill to vote against Mr. Goldwater and to withdraw support from any Republican candidate that did not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy.


While I had followed a policy of not endorsing political candidates, I felt that the prospect of Senator Goldwater being President of the United States so threatened the health, morality, and survival of our nation, that I could not in good conscience fail to take a stand against what he represented.


Reagan: …When a Hollywood performer, lacking distinction even as an actor can become a leading war hawk candidate for the Presidency, only the irrationalities induced by a war psychosis can explain such a melancholy turn of events.

Nixon: “moral coward”


In a transparent attempt to back away from his repulsive newsletter, Rep. Ron Paul has recently lauded what he sees as King’s libertarian creds. But Paul opposed both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the MLK holiday.


Dr King did not play party politics, did not endorse either party. He is America’s Ghandi.


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Thank you for this concise refutation of the right-wing’s lies and red herrings.


Also, while Vietnam should be considered a bi-partisan disaster, it was Republican Eisenhower that first sent in “advisors” at the urging of Dulles. It is now known that those “advisors” were CIA agents.


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Those same advisers tried to brainwash George Romney , or so he said


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Latest addendum to “W iseGuy” theory below:


The Coulter Team has advised Roger Freberg to, “shut the F… up!” about the Ann Coulter appearance as he has already thrown kinks into their scheme by not sticking to the script and witlessly tipping off people to aspects of their plan.


The Coulter Team now fears their plan is falling apart and conflict is arising among the team members, some of who now recommend scrubbing some of the plans for Cal Poly and instigating them at another location. To their surprise, they have found the folks of San Luis Obipso to be wiser than they had imagined, it not being the “rural, white trash hick town of pawns” that they had been led to believe.


Members of the Coulter team are furious with Freberg, who has been asked to keep a low profile until Tuesday. Freberg is having a hard time containing himself. The Coulter Team is worried as impending layoffs of team members are rumored and dissension among the ranks is mounting.


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Personally, I would like to encourage anyone who was thinking of going to picket the engagement of Ann Coulter at Cal Poly to reconsider; beings such as herself “feed” on the controversy, if there is no one there to make any sort of fuss about her being on the Cal Poly campus, it will injure her apparent never-ending need to be the center of attention. Just like a troll on the internets, the best solution is usually to just ignore their outbursts and temper-tantrums and once they finally realize that they are not getting a rise by constantly trying to derail the conversation, they usually go away, their anger and need to be recognized just kind of fizzles out. Please, for everyone’s sake, just ignore her; can you imagine how wounded she would feel if there was nobody “upset” about her appearance at Poly? Let her spew without limits, without any controversy and her appearance at Poly will most likely help society for the greater good. Perhaps if her team fears that there will be no controversy, like WiseGuy has suggested, perhaps she will just cancel her appearance.


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WiseGuy Theory:


Fact:

Ann Coulter’s popularity among Republicans is plummeting, Fear is rising about her future book sales and speaker fees.


Thus, in order to garner massive amounts of free publicity and “sympathy” from conservatives, the Ann Coulter team has been scouting universities in order to instigate an “attack” against Coulter to be blamed on “liberals” and to garner news coverage.


Cal Poly is looking ripe for this kind of despicable , underhanded publicity stunt, especially having recruited Roger Freberg who the Coulter camp expects will issue opinion pieces and monitor the blogs in order to sway opinion to sympathize with Coulter for having her “free speech” attacked by “fascists”, “socialists” and “wild eyed liberals”.


Cal Poly is one of a few campuses that are be scouted for this type of propaganda scheme, the final selection determined on a case by case basis on the day of her talks. Blogs and newspaper letter sections will be among the things monitored by Coulter’s team as it does daily analysis, aiming for an attack scenario that will generate the most lucrative publicity for Coulter.


Roger Freberg doesn’t realize that he is being played by Coulter’s team, members of which laugh and joke about the fact that Freberg is doing work for Coulter without even being paid. That’s one reason they say they love San Luis Obispo, where hardworking conservative pawns and suckers abound.


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Addendum to above theory:


A “pepper-spray incident” is being considered. But the Coulter team is divided on this, some saying that it could have troubling public relations ramifications for Cal Poly; the other faction of the team maintaining that would be of side benefit, as it would put the “egg-head liberal academic community” on notice and cheer up Ann who has been feeling troubled and mean after the recent polling has showed her popularity among conservatives, particularly moderate Republicans, spiraling downward, with the possibility of lay-offs of her team members looming.


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Second addendum to above theory:


Not satisfied with the speaker fee being provided for her Cal Poly gig, and concerned that “the jig is up” on some of the more dastardly publicity schemes considered, and with rifts among members of her team, Ann Coulter will cancel her Cal Poly appearance on the pretense of receiving “credible” threats against her and/or her team members, or a “too liberal atmosphere to allow for Ann’s strident free speech.”


This move has been calculated by Coulter team members to have the potential, if handled strategically–including the witless help of town criers Roger Freberg and Cal Poly young Republicans–to generate more dollar value of publicity for the Coulter enterprises than would be obtained from the Cal Poly speaker fee, which Ann was never very happy about in the first place.


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Thats great! We need more levity on this site. It has been funny lately in Paso, but in a different sort of way…


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Well, Ann Coulter will be at Cal Poly at the end of the month, so this cartoon is just a precursor in the fact that Mr. Freberg will probably have the whole front row reserved for himself and his likewise thinking Conservatives.


Furthermore, if you can’t get the front row seats to experience Ann Coulter’s “shock jock” routine, where you can feel the spittle from her liberal bashing mouth as she spews forth her make believe lies and disparaging comments to the left , then it’s really not worth going.


One thing missing from this great cartoon, is Ann’s “adams apple” is a lot larger than shown. I can only assume that Mr. Rankin took solace with Ann and didn’t want to show it in it’s actual size. NO, I am not alluding to Ann having a sex-change, so don’t even go there, okay!


My fellow Conservative Christians, what is your favorite Ann Coulter comment? Mine is the one where she bashes the wives who’s husbands were burned alive in the twin towers on 9/11: “These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by griefparrazies. I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s death so much.”


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Brother Ted …once again I am amazed at how you discern fact from fiction ! It must be because of your daily prostrations and fealty to Our Supreme Christian God in whatever form he chooses to present himself at the time of your petition.


HOLY, HOLY, HOLY !


While you correctly observe that Mr. Rankin unfairly reduced the size of MISS Coulter’s throatal projection, we can only ASSUME his motives for doing so !

Could it be that this “artist” ( and I use the term advisedly ) WANTED to cast aspersions as to the divinity and God-inspired words from this prophet of polarity ?

I mean, HAVING an “Adam’s Apple” does give one a ‘leg up’ when it comes to having the GRACE of AUTHORITY in our CHRISTIAN CHURCH !


ALLE, ALLE, ALLEMALECHAM !


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Oh, liberal cartoons aren’t supposed supposed to be funny. However, it is fun that I got under their skin…


BTW, obviously this person hasn’t seen me up close… I much cuter than that.


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Getting “under their skin”, huh? That’s exactly what a virus does. What is so funny about that?


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Cheap-shot cartoons are simple; Tom Tomorrow makes hilarious use of straw-men. Being not particular about slander, adherence to facts and a general contempt for any and all who oppose are the prerequisites…


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Could you site an example for us please, because simply parroting glossary terms you pulled out of your old rhetoric text book does not really say much to us.


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If you can’t discern it yourself it’s not worth the time trying to explain it to you…


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Thank you! The pleasure is all mine!


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Was that supposed to be funny?


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Conservatives don’t know funny. Really, I’m not trying to be rude but it’s true. Who is funny on the right, what comedy shows are laced with conservative wit? None. SNL is one of the funniest shows on TV, very liberal. Although two of their alums are cons ie Victoria Jackson and Dennis Miller, they are far from funny, VJ is just plain dumb.

So we have SNL, The Daily Show, The Soup, comics such as Bill Maher, Joan Rivers, David Letterman,,,I can’t think of any really funny people that don’t lean to the left. I suppose that’s because it takes a quick wit and intelligence to be funny. So the point is, just leave the comedy/wit to the liberals.


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I agree – keep the conservatives out of comedy. But conversely, please keep the liberals out of government.


I like laughing at liberals.


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if you want to keep the conservatives out of comedy, you need to end the Republican Presidential Candidate debates where the candidates appear to be a second rate Monty Python-style comedy troupe


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No, please don’t let the debates end yet I’m still getting a lot of laughs from them, I hope that they go on for a bit longer. You’re right, there are funny repubs but they don’t know that they’re funny, that’s not the same.


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Tools is as Tools does !


Contraception is evil. Trees are the right height. Aspirins as birth control .

Multiple marriages are family values .


The Republican party is a CORRUPT CULT ! They are CRAZY people that NEED to be ISOLATED like SERIAL KILLERS .

They are THAT BAD !

Republicans are NASTY, MEAN, and EVIL


they will KILL ANYONE in their way , if they think they can get by with it.


THIS IS TRUTH !


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Now THAT was funny — in a kind of off-the-wall, crazy sort of way. I probably lean left more often than right under current definitions, but I am hoping that Slowerfaster was using hyperbole in an attempt to be funny here. (If not, such an attitude is a wild and often unfair generalization.)


That said, I agree that Libs are, on average, better at comedy than Cons, there are some Cons that are funny too — PJ O’Rourke comes quickly to mind. However, the ability to make quick-witted comments about another person’s foibles doesn’t guarantee that one has better ideas.


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Yep, when someone on the ‘LEFT’ makes statements of this type, it is common to not to know …or to assume, that it is done “tongue firmly planted in cheek”.


Not so when utterances like this come out of the mouths of conservatives and Republicans.


The only remotely funny modern Republican was William F. Buckley …when he was not too snide about it.

Lincoln was quite witty. it would be interesting to hear him describe these lunatics that hijacked the political party he brought to prominence.


As TQ has observed, these Cons today don’t know funny except in unitentional ways. These CalPolyRepubes have a T-shirt claiming that THEY Outlawed Slavery, Outlawed Segregation, and Ended Communism .

Pretty delusional.


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Well now when it comes to running things like the govt. that’s a whole different story. The problem is that funny people use more than one part of their brain, cons are unable to do this. So let the libs, the people that can use more than a speck of their brain run things. You just down a few beers and laugh at the funny libs on TV but don’t try using other parts of your brain, it might explode and make a mess. We’ll run the govt..


One word,,’Bush’….now that’s funny.


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But, but, but why are you hating on Ann and Roger? /end of sarcasm.


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Now that’s funny!


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It’s really not sarcasm if you feel the need to tell us where it begins and ends. Sarcasm isn’t really funny when it appears that you are afraid to use it for fear that someone may isunderstand you.


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When I am trying to explain something to conservatives, I try to make it a rule to never over-estimate the intelligence needed to understand my comments.


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How do you know where to draw the line ?


I usually start out with, “FIRE BAD !” and then work down from there.


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