Fallacies and Ann Coulter

After watching the clips about Ann Coulter and the arguments she makes, I didn’t find the things she said very persuasive. First of all, she makes fun of people’s physical appearance, and she tends to ignore and purposely misinterpret the ideas of others. For instance, she made fun of Hillary Clinton’s legs. I don’t see what Hillary’s legs have anything to do with politics and Coulter’s argument, yet Coulter seems to just randomly makes fun of people in her books just to make things interesting. Furthermore, she constantly makes false statements in her book. In the clip where Coulter talks with Al Franken, she basically ignored Franken when he pointed out that one of the quotes she made in her book was false, proving that she is untrustworthy.

Overall, what I really disliked about Ann Coulter was when she continued to disregard the opinions of others and then accuse others of doing that to her, especially the part she wrote about the widows. She says the widows shouldn’t come out and speak and allow others to speak, yet when the reporter told her that they never forbid Coulter to say anything, Coulter did not really respond to that statement. Instead, she just says the widows of 9/11 shouldn’t have the freedom to speak their opinions. Basically, Coulter wants to say that only she has the right to say something about the world and politics, and everyone else should shut up and listen. In my opinion, I think Coulter is a hypocrite and that everything that comes out of her mouth or from her book is false. I don’t think anyone should waste time speaking to her or arguing with her about her ideas because she’d probably ignore it and disregard it anyway.