• Coulter is illogical, seeks attention • Seek peace over war Coulter is illogical, seeks attention This weekend I finally had an opportunity to catch up with last week’s papers. Apologies for the delay in responding to a Thursday column. Ann Coulter
• Coulter is illogical, seeks attention • Seek peace over war
Coulter is illogical, seeks attention
This weekend I finally had an opportunity to catch up with last week’s papers. Apologies for the delay in responding to a Thursday column.
Ann Coulter is such a predictable mischief-monger I have to laugh every time I read one of her ridiculous columns. She loves to stir the pot even if what she’s saying is totally illogical. She’s definitely not stupid, but she’s certainly not wise. I believe she’d say anything to get a little attention.
She doesn’t admit until the end of her column that there aren’t “many facts to go on” regarding the Las Vegas shooter’s motives, yet in paragraph after paragraph she breathlessly blames journalists for not giving us more information! She wants reporters to make assumptions about what the truth “must be” using Sherlock Holmes’s lessons in deduction — instead of waiting for police, FBI, and whoever else is investigating this case, to discover the actual truth. The journalist’s job is to report the facts, not to make up scenarios as she does in her columns.
She goes one step further on the same theme: Although she spent years ranting about the mistake journalists made reporting the Duke lacrosse case, now she uses that as an example to goad reporters to do the same thing? Sometimes I wonder if she really is just needy for attention, or if she’s actually evil. As I said, she’s smart. She knows the difference between logic and lack of logic, but she is a pro at obfuscating and making her illogical statements seem logical.
One final example of her lack of logic: Like Phyllis Schlafly, her counterpart in an earlier generation, she often makes sneering remarks about feminism as she does in this column. But if it weren’t for feminism’s social advancements, she most likely wouldn’t be able to do most of the things she takes for granted, including having a column of her own.
Vera Benedek, Kilauea
Seek peace over war
Reggae legend Peter Tosh once sung, “We don’t want no nuclear war, with nuclear war we won’t get far”. Truer and wiser words have never been spoken (unless you consider Hawai’i 78). Perhaps Donald Trump could leave Twitter for a minute, smoke some pakalolo, and realize what a reckless and idiotic foreign policy on Korea he has embraced.
In Hawaii, our peaceful island home is threatened by a psychotic CEO turned U.S. president, with his finger on the trigger. While life in the Pacific might be a little different than Pyongyang, our people want peace and friendship.
Hawaiians stand nothing to gain and everything to lose, in a potential nuclear conflict with North Korea. Aloha aina means loving the land, not destroying it, as the great Israel Kamakawiwoʻole knew so well.
Say no nuclear war, demand the U.S. military leave Hawaii, and return base lands to Native Hawaiians.
Rev. Dr. Eric Hafner, Mountain View, Hawaii
