Why, yes!

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Why, yes!

TB — 7/6/2007 12:43:31 AM (archived)

Odds are Coulter is marginally smarter, but both use hyperbole, outrage, shrillness, and verbal overkill to get attention and sell themselves. I would bet a lot of others here would agree they were almost two of a kind.

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Scooter Scott Free - ARRELL - 7/2/2007 10:42:14 PM
- Paris Hilton spent more time in jail than Scooter Libby - What a farce - 7/4/2007 5:52:38 PM
  - Bush and Cheney Should Resign - Keith Olbermann - 7/4/2007 6:15:38 PM
    - Edward R. Murrow reborn - azstrummer - 7/5/2007 8:06:34 PM
      - Murrow? Good Lord. A rehashed Howard Beale at best. - TB - 7/5/2007 9:04:28 PM
        
        Emotion and Reason - Jody - 7/7/2007 6:06:20 PM
        
        "Voice of Reason" - TB - 7/7/2007 10:18:02 PM
        
        Oh no TB, know this:...Your point most assuredly did not elude me. - Jody - 7/7/2007 11:10:10 PM
        
        I guess just like that! (n/t) - Jody - 7/7/2007 6:07:35 PM
        
        Come on Tom...Think how fun he will be to watch when Hillary is President! - TAFKASE - 7/6/2007 3:37:36 PM
        
        re: Come on Tom...Think how fun he will be to watch when Hillary is President! - azstrummer - 7/7/2007 12:32:57 AM
        
        Not surprised - azstrummer - 7/5/2007 10:14:47 PM
        
        A small aside... - TB - 7/5/2007 11:04:14 PM
        
        Small asides are all you have - azstrummer - 7/6/2007 12:44:08 AM
        
        Art, I'm not the one being compared to Edward R. Murrow, am I? - TB - 7/6/2007 1:08:35 AM
        
        re: Not surprised - TB - 7/5/2007 10:53:59 PM
        
        You're comparing Olbermann with Ann Coulter? - azstrummer - 7/6/2007 12:23:04 AM
        
        Why, yes! - TB - 7/6/2007 12:43:31 AM
        
        " I'm well-aware that a lot of my opposition is running on emotion and not reason. " - Lindy - 7/5/2007 10:12:13 PM
        
        Tom, I agree with Lindy - ARRELL - 7/5/2007 10:49:21 PM
        
        Tom, I agree with Lindy - ARRELL - 7/5/2007 10:49:16 PM
        
        "Mindless drone" - TB - 7/5/2007 10:59:51 PM
        
        So was it emotion or reason that broke our bonds with the British? - azstrummer - 7/6/2007 1:01:18 AM
        
        re: emotion or reason - TB - 7/6/2007 3:37:45 AM
        
        P.S. if Goldwater were in politics now, Olbermann would be ripping him up. (n/t) - TB - 7/5/2007 9:09:46 PM
- They should do away with presidential pardons. - REB - 7/3/2007 3:19:35 PM
  - My mistake. The sentence was commuted not pardoned. - REB - 7/3/2007 4:57:40 PM
- Like everything else, Bush only went in half way committed. - TAFKASE - 7/3/2007 2:00:28 PM
- MY GOD!!~ WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO GET THROUGH TO YOU PEOPLE!? - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 9:07:51 AM
  - Preferably something other than shrieking hysterics. - TB - 7/3/2007 6:39:30 PM
- Or maybe they are just feeling guilty that he was a patsy, for those higher up that were really guilty.... - ARRELL - 7/2/2007 11:33:00 PM
- re: Scooter Scott Free - TB - 7/2/2007 11:25:41 PM
  - Indeed Republican morality is amazing..... - Publius - 7/4/2007 2:06:29 AM
    - Okay, let's nail down the morality issue. - TB - 7/4/2007 5:01:04 AM
      - Errrr, it's kinda embarrassing Tom...... - Publius - 7/6/2007 1:27:43 AM
        
        re: Errrr - TB - 7/6/2007 3:58:38 AM
      - Psst Tom - Lindy - 7/4/2007 4:24:05 PM
        
        re: Psst - TB - 7/4/2007 4:47:39 PM
        
        Here's a scoop for you Tom - azstrummer - 7/7/2007 12:31:55 AM
  - re: Scooter Scott Free - Yeti - 7/3/2007 12:36:48 AM
    - Scooter and Clinton - Buck Galaxy - 7/3/2007 4:17:53 AM
      - Plame was no more a "spy" than I am. - TB - 7/3/2007 5:28:26 AM
        
        What a crock - azstrummer - 7/4/2007 5:04:36 AM
        
        Like I said - Buck Galaxy - 7/3/2007 5:45:05 AM
        
        And you? No real knowledge of the case (n/t) - TB - 7/3/2007 5:50:02 AM
        
        From the man who still has never stated the SPECIFIC charges that Clinton was impeached for. - Buck Galaxy - 7/3/2007 6:15:12 AM
        
        Buck.... - azstrummer - 7/4/2007 5:12:12 AM
        
        re: Specific charges - TB - 7/3/2007 6:28:37 AM
        
        Apples and Oranges - Lindy - 7/5/2007 6:08:04 PM
        
        re: Apples and Oranges - TB - 7/6/2007 4:34:38 AM
        
        "Armitage leaked the name. Try to keep that in mind." - Tony - 7/7/2007 11:41:57 AM
        
        Googling - TB - 7/7/2007 5:54:59 PM
        
        re: "Armitage leaked the name. Try to keep that in mind." - Lindy - 7/7/2007 3:19:50 PM
        
        "Education is a thankless task around here." - Lindy - 7/6/2007 4:58:22 AM
        
        See what I mean? - TB - 7/6/2007 5:26:04 AM
        
        Dry facts - Lindy - 7/6/2007 2:09:43 PM
        
        re: Dry facts - TB - 7/6/2007 6:24:06 PM
        
        Thank you for proving my point - Buck Galaxy - 7/3/2007 7:44:09 AM
        
        ps, don't "disappear" on this one. Don't dodge the questions. Answer them IF you can. (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 7/3/2007 7:53:25 AM
        
        You're not a lawyer - TB - 7/3/2007 11:09:57 PM
        
        Tom B the "House Manager" - Buck Galaxy - 7/4/2007 2:04:10 AM
        
        Okay, now you're just flailing. - TB - 7/4/2007 4:07:36 AM
        
        My point is this: - Buck Galaxy - 7/4/2007 6:48:01 AM
        
        "Learn anything today?" - TB - 7/4/2007 4:49:04 PM
        
        "YOU have to settle for an amoral bum .........." - Lindy - 7/6/2007 5:02:43 AM
        
        Hillary and her "husband" are running in 2008. Bush isn't. - TB - 7/6/2007 5:29:36 AM
        
        re: Hillary and her "husband" are running in 2008. - Lindy - 7/6/2007 4:09:28 PM
        
        re: "Learn anything today?" - Buck Galaxy - 7/4/2007 6:44:42 PM
        
        Depends on what the meaning of "was" was..... Ahhh... Irony. (n/t) - Yeti - 7/3/2007 5:42:14 AM
    - "Just like Clinton?" - TB - 7/3/2007 1:18:52 AM
      - A lot of 'Mommy They Did It Too', and nothing addressing the points at hand. Good Job... Mr Jello meet mr tree (n/t) - Yeti - 7/3/2007 3:19:59 AM
      - "And I remember Clinton's own pardon list, which had more than a few interesting characters in it, including one who went to jail for not testifying against him." - R.L. - 7/3/2007 1:22:59 AM
        
        And incidentally... - TB - 7/3/2007 2:23:10 AM
        
        "You say you think Sandy Berger should be in jail? I don't recall your indignation here when he got off" - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 8:06:23 AM
        
        "Evil?" - TB - 7/3/2007 1:30:36 AM
        
        Cripes, sit down and blow some cool air in your face. - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 1:54:53 AM
  - Typical Tom when faced with a moral dillema - ARRELL - 7/2/2007 11:56:36 PM
    - TB Is avoiding this post, above all others- Gee I wonder why.... (n/t) - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 7:53:44 AM
      - For starters... - TB - 7/4/2007 4:48:54 AM
    - Do you support this move? And Why- Do find it reasonable? - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 1:12:54 AM
      - Oh and before you ask- - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 1:17:19 AM
    - :) Oh and I do know what you will try next... - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 12:01:18 AM
      - The problem for you and your ilk is that we are dealing with THIS point in history (n/t) - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 12:04:22 AM
        
        Well, I was right about the foam, anyway. (n/t) - TB - 7/3/2007 12:55:43 AM
        
        Let us all note Tom avoided the 'Typical Tom' post (n/t) - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 1:09:31 AM
        
        No, TB, You really were wrong in EVERYTHING in this thread - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 1:04:30 AM
        
        Let me make this clear-- - TB - 7/3/2007 1:28:09 AM
        
        re: Let me make this clear-- - Yeti - 7/3/2007 3:26:37 AM
        
        Tom must be getting a little wrinkled. - RobVG - 7/3/2007 4:20:05 AM
        
        Oh! I can be cute too: Sing it with me- 'We didn't start the fire...' - Yeti - 7/3/2007 4:38:35 AM
        
        Ah, rare form tonight. - RobVG - 7/3/2007 5:00:51 AM
        
        Get one thing straight. Don't count me as a Bush supporter. - Yeti - 7/3/2007 6:02:52 AM
        
        Pullease... - RobVG - 7/3/2007 3:16:39 PM
        
        re: Pullease... - Yeti - 7/3/2007 4:11:45 PM
        
        "...you never questioned" - RobVG - 7/4/2007 4:01:07 PM
        
        re: "Your a little boy with a big stick and a small piñata" - Yeti - 7/4/2007 9:26:34 PM
        
        Oh the horror, an error in grammar. - RobVG - 7/5/2007 4:03:34 AM
        
        re: Oh the horror, an error in grammar. - Yeti - 7/5/2007 6:24:37 AM
        
        Foam gets any deeper, we'll need a boat. - TB - 7/3/2007 6:14:04 AM
        
        I love it. You have nothing. Your hypocrisy is manifest, so you revert to 'maggots flying' and 'foam spitting' and whatever - Yeti - 7/3/2007 6:24:08 AM
        
        Back so soon? (n/t) - Nyeti - 7/3/2007 6:05:17 AM
        
        Just to rile up anonymous cowards who wn't post their handle. - Yeti - 7/3/2007 6:11:15 AM
        
        24 hours? You promise? (n/t) - Nyeti - 7/3/2007 9:30:59 AM
        
        Why don't you use your real handle- Last I heard, un attributed posts like yours were against HZ regs. (n/t) - Yeti - 7/3/2007 3:09:23 PM
        
        I agree - TB - 7/3/2007 11:14:03 PM
        
        You watch O'Reilly?? - TB - 7/3/2007 6:16:04 AM
        
        Yeah- It gives me an exectutive summary of what TB@hz.com will be writing within 24 hours - Yeti - 7/3/2007 6:28:13 AM
        
        re: Let me make this clear-- - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 1:50:23 AM
        
        "victims rights?" What victim? The court? (n/t) - TB - 7/3/2007 2:01:26 AM
        
        I am so sorry, Tom.... I thought you could be rational.... - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 2:14:34 AM
        
        You must be kidding. - Eri - 7/3/2007 3:06:58 AM
  - You were one of the ones I predicted would defend this.... - ARRELL - 7/2/2007 11:35:18 PM
- I has an aproval raiting arond 30%, Thus I have a mansdate- and I plans to take avantege uv it!!! (n/t) - Bush - 7/2/2007 11:11:50 PM
- Makes no sense - Yeti - 7/2/2007 10:53:51 PM

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