killthiskid's Journal: I just trolled (or flame baited?) for the first time.

I just flamed or trolled (not sure of the right term) for the first time ever. I feel kinda dirty. See my asshole post.

What do you think of that? Anyone else ever done it just to see if you can get a good response? If notanatheist (581086) does respond, I will post his/her post here... and comment. I'm also going to make him a 'friend', just to fuck with his/her mind.

Yeah.

Ann Coulter

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Not a reply to your flamebait comment, but I just wanted to say that, speaking as a non-American, the fact that Ann Coulter is taken seriously enough to get TV spots and a book deal diminishes my opinion of your entire country.

When I think of all the absolute wackos that I see on American talk shows: Ann Coulter, Tom Stoppard, Jerry Fallwell, Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchannan, and countless others... It just amazes me because just across the border in Canada, these pundits would have essentially no audience. Ho

Re:Ann Coulter

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Agreed... I'm torn becuase ideally no one would pay attention to her or give her attention... but I'm doing just that with my .sig...

Extremism is really rampant in politics... for whatever reason. I'm not a political person by nature, I'm far to logical. But I still pay attention and vote, but I defeinately don't have any good answers to people like Ann.

Re:Ann Coulter

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Agreed... I'm torn becuase ideally no one would pay attention to her or give her attention

I dunno. Wouldn't they? I see her a fair amount on TV. I assume they wouldn't give book deals/tv spots to pundits who don't have some following. Or do these people get a following simply *because* they are on tv?

CNN's idea of "balanced" coverage seems to be to get extremists from both sides of the political spectrum and let them shout at each other. It is pretty rare that I agree with either guest. The same was tru