Ann Coulter on the State of the Union speech

[Monkeyleg]

For the last year or so, Ann Coulter has seemed to have lost some of her witty edginess. It was back tonight, though, in her column on Obama's SOTU speech, which you can find here.

This was one of several gems:

Obama said, "We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook."

And then the government outlawed Edison's great invention, made the Wright brothers' air travel insufferable, filed anti-trust charges against Microsoft and made cars too expensive to drive by prohibiting oil exploration, and right now -- at this very minute -- is desperately trying to regulate the Internet.

[Perd Hapley]

That is beautiful.

[Battle Monkey of Zardoz]

Yep. She was in rare form in that article.

[Boomhauer]

It's sad because it's true 

[HankB]

I still think she's being too easy on Nero Obama.

[tyme]

I'd be more impressed with her position on net neutrality if I thought she knew what TCP stands for.  She probably thinks "net neutrality" is code for "give the government the power to block foxnews.com", which it may be in Obama's dreams, but that's quite different from what tech people mean when they say they want net neutrality.

Also, the government already has the power to block or take down sites, and they're using it poorly, by taking down sites that intellectual property owners object to.  The "government might shut down sites it doesn't like" scare tactic to sway people against net neutrality might work better if a) the government wasn't already doing that, and b) net neutrality had anything to do with shutting down or filtering sites.

[MechAg94]

If you don't like her, just say so.  No reason to start arguing against the stuff no one said.

[BridgeRunner]

I notice that are careful to tell us all the scary things that net neutrality isn't, but why IS it a good/acceptable thing?  Thread veer or new thread?

(Backstory: I have an unreasonable prejudice against Ann Coulter and have been bugged by nickpicky ways to criticize this quote since I saw it, unattributed, and re-quoted it.  Love having my unreasonable prejudices revealed unwittingly for what they are, and naturally then fixate on proving I was right after all. ) 

I'd be more impressed with her position on net neutrality if I thought she knew what TCP stands for.  She probably thinks "net neutrality" is code for "give the government the power to block foxnews.com", which it may be in Obama's dreams, but that's quite different from what tech people mean when they say they want net neutrality.

Also, the government already has the power to block or take down sites, and they're using it poorly, by taking down sites that intellectual property owners object to.  The "government might shut down sites it doesn't like" scare tactic to sway people against net neutrality might work better if a) the government wasn't already doing that, and b) net neutrality had anything to do with shutting down or filtering sites.