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web page Ann Coulter's Hashtag Hijacking Of #BringBackOurGirls Backfires Big Time CAITLIN MACNEAL – MAY 12, 2014, 2:12 PM EDT Conservative pundit Ann Coulter on Sunday night joined the band of conservatives mocking the #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign, which began as a way to call attention to the 300 Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram. Coulter posted a photo to Twitter with her own iteration of the hashtag, in an apparent attempt to ridicule some of the high profile people, including First Lady Michelle Obama, who took part in the original campaign. She got more than 1,000 retweets, including by Red State's Erick Erickson. Conservative radio host Thomas Purcell also tweeted a photo of himself holding up Coulter's hashtag. However, her attempt backfired with a slew of people tweeting images of Coulter holding the same sign but photoshopped with messages that turned the tables on her. Gawker curated many of them, including some of the crudest. Here's a sampling of the tweets
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There is nothing more annoying then a party pundit that will ridicule people for trying to bring attention to atrocities like this, and then turn around and critize the same people for not doing enough about them. Coulter deserved to have this backfire on her. 
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I liked the #bringbackmysoul
I am sorry, but this crap has gotten out of hand. Is there ANYTHING that we as Americans can all be behind without bloodsuckers like Ann Coulter making into a
' look at me" political statement?
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Here's the way I see this.
The solution to nutbags like these Boco Haram guys is to hunt them down and put a bullet in their heads.
Liberals, however, just can't bring themselves to this solution. What they are doing, en masse, is moaning and whining about how offended they are that these 300 girls have been kidnapped. The result of this is the US has sent some drones, and military help, and is urging the Nigerians to get their rear in gear with their army, with the goal of hunting the nutbags down and putting a bullet in their heads.
The liberals seem to actually believe that these, and other nutbags, will stop doing what they are doing just because it offends the liberals, as though the simple act of their being offended will automatically cause this.
Later on, when Boco Haram has been hunted down and bullets shot into their heads, and the girls are freed, the libs will complain about the violence used to achieve this goal. If no violence is used and the girls all end up dead, they will complain that the negotiations and outreach programs weren't begun soon enough.
Anybody ever notice that it is extremely rare that a Russian airliner gets hijacked, they hardly ever have a "hostage crisis"? There is a simple reason for that. If you do this in Russia, you will end up dead, everyone with you will end up dead, you will not get a TV interview, you will not get a write-up in the local newspaper. Not only will you be dead, but your family will also suffer.
It is most definitely crude, and unpleasant. It is also dramatically more effective than most other strategies in preventing a large number of such incidents from happening in the first place.
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CAN YOU PEOPLE JUST KNOCK IT OFF!!!! QUIT THE CHILDISH FINGER POINTING GARBAGE!!!!
This is the BS I am talking about!! Stop the Liberal vs conservative crap and think for yourself for once!!
That crap is why nothing can get done in this country because grown adults are acting like children. Both sides!!
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This is the BS I am talking about!! Stop the Liberal vs conservative crap and think for yourself for once!!
That crap is why nothing can get done in this country because grown adults are acting like children. Both sides!!
Be careful, you'll upset the sheep.
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Are you really getting upset with what loons like Ann Coulter or Nelson37 have to say?
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Are you really getting upset with what loons like Ann Coulter or Nelson37 have to say?
No, not them specifically. Just in general it is so freaking frustrating. I am sure this thread will turn into a political pissing match too
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Have you seen the number and type of countries that have volunteered to help find these girls and hunt down their kidnappers?
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What exactly STARTED this thread if not a "political pissing match" ?
Don't discuss strategy, the merits of different approaches, just call the other guy a loon. Because that's the best you can do.
Do you want to SOLVE the problem, and LOWER the odds of something similar happening again?
OR, is it more important to FEEL GOOD about expressing support for these poor girls, while doing nothing at all to solve the problem?
Forget the labels applied to the various sides, and ignore the name-calling which accomplishes nothing. There are only a few basic strategies available to apply, one usually works, others don't.
I would like to discuss actual methods to address the problem. Simply expressing outrage is not one of them. If you think that works, explain how.
Many will say "Find out what Boco Haram wants, and give it to them". I think that rewarding this action is a very bad idea. IMO, we should give them what they DON'T want, because they have done something very bad.
I don't give a crap who, what group, or which political side agrees with this concept or does not. I think my method works, and history shows it works, I think the other methods don't work, and history shows this. The two approaches do tend to coincide with particular ideologies. I will not attempt to argue that one approach or another is good, or bad, solely due to which political camp it comes from.
The problem and solution can be debated without any reference whatsoever to a particular political ideology.
I do believe that one particular side keeps proposing ideas that are proven to be un-workable, doesn't so much mean that side is "bad", just that they keep coming up with bad ideas.
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I'm not sure how being part of viral internet message which like it or not has lead to an overwhelming response is not doing anything to help the situation.
I am pretty sure though that there's a backlash against the success of this grass roots movement.
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You are aware that you are the one who injected ideology into this thread, yes?
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Don't discuss strategy, the merits of different approaches, just call the other guy a loon. Because that's the best you can do.
When your solution to everything is to rape or kill, it isn't so much a strategy or approach as the rantings of an unstable lunatic.
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Well first, I am not the one who called you a "loon"
Second, you charged right in and started the " liberals" garbage.
I would say that your ideas sound good, but it is not as simple as all that. First we must locate them(hence the drones) . Then we have to deal with the fact that they have separated the groups, so we have to find them all and coordinate carefully or we will have many innocent deaths on our hands. We also must deal with international political issues.
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The campaign has put drones in the air and boots on the ground, with the end goal of putting bullets in heads.
Why not just be straightforward and ask for this in the first place?
Are the negotiations that may occur the main goal? If so, are these not right out of the terrorist playbook? Has the campaign strengthened the terrorists hand at the table, or weakened it? Which side is more motivated to compromise, because of the twitter campaign?
Will Boco Haram be rewarded, or punished, for the kidnappings? Which is preferrable?
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Do you want to SOLVE the problem, and LOWER the odds of something similar happening again?
OR, is it more important to FEEL GOOD about expressing support for these poor girls, while doing nothing at all to solve the problem?
I'm not a big fan of Coulter but what exactly can a media pundit contribute to actually SOLVING the problem other than to call attention to it..... and in the process be accused of calling attention to themselves?
And the original link, is a twitter pic of her trying to call attention to the problem... but that's not why this is up here right now.. it's up here because another group took that pic and manipulated it to call attention to THEMSELVES...
If you are going to report the news and/or get involved in calling attention to problems, you are going to have to put yourself out there... if you view that as calling attention to yourself then so be it. There are a lot of things to dislike about Ann Coulter, I just don't think this is one of them.
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I think more than anything, the thing that irritates me about "Bring back our girls".....is the feminist ideology that somehow kidnapped girls becomes more of a story than all of the boys that were murdered. Like really?
I have 80/20 bought in to the anti feminist movement.
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I think more than anything, the thing that irritates me about "Bring back our girls".....is the feminist ideology that somehow kidnapped girls becomes more of a story than all of the boys that were murdered. Like really?
I have 80/20 bought in to the anti feminist movement.
Why do they need to be mutually exclusive?
Forget the anti anything. There are 300 innocent girls, girls who did nothing to anyone but get up and risk their lives in order to attempt to obtain an education. Who are being held hostage and God only knows what is being done to them.
Screw your ideologies, we need to figure out a way to get these girls to safety.
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I think more than anything, the thing that irritates me about "Bring back our girls".....is the feminist ideology that somehow kidnapped girls becomes more of a story than all of the boys that were murdered. Like really?
I have 80/20 bought in to the anti feminist movement.
A lot of the bigger cities' efforts on gun control were specific to saving the lives of murdered youth. As well as anti-war efforts and pushing for veterans', some who are female, benefits.
I think women and girls get attention because they're damned if they act independent and damned if they defer to males. Of course I completely understand that I'm stating an opinion and in no way am I stating you are doing anything other than the same.
(just trying to avoid the slings and arrows of outrageous posting this thread has created) 
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I have 80/20 bought in to the anti feminist movement.
Boys were murdered as well? Articles I read didn't mention that at all.
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jc.. Is it me or is the hashtag thing just overused. It seems to pop up for everything, that I now ignore anything that has a hashtag attached to it as a grab for attention. #puppysarecute #lookatme #checkoutthisvideo #outofcoffee #needtouserestroom #showering #pantsonelegatatime #sneezed #cokecameoutmynose 
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Is it me or is the hashtag thing just overused.
It seems to pop up for everything, that I now ignore anything that has a hashtag attached to it as a grab for attention.
Is it only my old a** who has no idea what # even means?
What are these tweets these young kids are doing these days!?!? 
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Is it me or is the hashtag thing just overused.
It seems to pop up for everything, that I now ignore anything that has a hashtag attached to it as a grab for attention.
Is it only my old a** who has no idea what # even means?
What are these tweets these young kids are doing these days!?!?
I don't know how old you are, but I'm 45 and don't know what the " # " means.
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Is it me or is the hashtag thing just overused.
It seems to pop up for everything, that I now ignore anything that has a hashtag attached to it as a grab for attention.
Is it only my old a** who has no idea what # even means?
What are these tweets these young kids are doing these days!?!?
I don't know how old you are, but I'm 45 and don't know what the " # " means.
59 and when we were young it was whatever you could manage with a rotary phone and your ability to politely get past someone's mom,
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Is it me or is the hashtag thing just overused.
It seems to pop up for everything, that I now ignore anything that has a hashtag attached to it as a grab for attention.
Is it only my old a** who has no idea what # even means?
What are these tweets these young kids are doing these days!?!?
I don't know how old you are, but I'm 45 and don't know what the " # " means.
Well... you place one of these dealies in front of a musical note, and it raises the pitch of that note 1/2 step-
"too many notes, not enough music-"
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It seems to pop up for everything, that I now ignore anything that has a hashtag attached to it as a grab for attention.
Is it only my old a** who has no idea what # even means?
What are these tweets these young kids are doing these days!?!?
I don't know how old you are, but I'm 45 and don't know what the " # " means.
Well... you place one of these dealies in front of a musical note, and it raises the pitch of that note 1/2 step-
I'll remember that............just in case I hit my head and start playing musical instruments. 
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Ah yes the problem with this county is the Idiots on the far right, and the idiots on the far left (OK that covers half the country) and just to be fair to everybody the idiots in the middle like myself.
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just thinking out loud here, but BpG brought up a point that not a lot of people really think about.
when men are being mass murdered, not a whole lot is said, but when women start getting axed, its gets blown up media wise, globally.
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just thinking out loud here, but BpG brought up a point that not a lot of people really think about.
when men are being mass murdered, not a whole lot is said, but when women start getting axed, its gets blown up media wise, globally.
Of course this is not always the case, but women are fare more likely to just be innocent victims
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Also, like someone mentioned before, there have been campaigns to save young men from murder. Unfortunately each of those campaigns was killed by the NRA.  And, there was the civil rights movement to end lynchings. Anti-war protests, etc. But overall comparing the plight of young men to women of any age is kind of weird.
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just thinking out loud here, but BpG brought up a point that not a lot of people really think about.
when men are being mass murdered, not a whole lot is said, but when women start getting axed, its gets blown up media wise, globally.
At the risk of ticking you off I half agree with you. When a white man is killed nobody pays attention, and if a black women is killed nobody pays attention, but if a white women is killed look out all hell is going to break loose. 
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Unfortunately each of those campaigns was killed by the NRA.
Can you expound on that? Thanks.
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Probably campaigns to stop gun violence in America.
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Also, like someone mentioned before, there have been campaigns to save young men from murder.
Unfortunately each of those campaigns was killed by the NRA.
Can you expound on that? Thanks.
Sure, when big cities try to enact any gun control as a stated effort to curb gun violence, predominantly among young men, the NRA invariably floods money to the region to defeat the legislation.
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Probably campaigns to stop gun violence in America.
I'm all for stopping gun violence in America. I'm not sure how the NRA is stopping that from happening.
If you want to end gun violence - take every gun away. Oh, can't do that, can we?'
We hear all the news about school shootings............but do we hear about gang shootings, and drug shootings? Gangs and drugs are the problem - not guns. But we don't hear about that.
Guns aren't the problem. Law breakers are the problem.
Hey, drunk driving is a problem. Is banning alcohol the solution? Hell yes!!! Ban alcohol, we won't have any drunk drivers, right?
Do the math.
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Unfortunately each of those campaigns was killed by the NRA.
Can you expound on that? Thanks.
Sure, when big cities try to enact any gun control as a stated effort to curb gun violence, predominantly among young men, the NRA invariably floods money to the region to defeat the legislation.
So, cities like Chicago, or DC......where you can't even own an assembled weapon........yet the murder rates are sky high........that's the nra's fault?
Speeding kills. I don't see anyone going after car owners as a whole, to stop the speeding problem.
Do you find it odd that cities that ban weapons have some of the worst gun crime rates in the country? Or does that not occur to you?
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Can you show me where any big city gun control legislation in this country has curbed gun violence? For that to happen, you must depend on the criminals to abide the legislation. The only thing curbed is the ability of the law abiding to defend themselves.
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I believe the original question had something to do with efforts to save boys from murder. I stated some of those efforts as they were presented and I threw in my opinion, largely based on fact, about why those efforts failed. If you want to argue 2nd amendment rights that's cool, but I'm not the guy.
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Illinois is one of the strictest states with gun control, but has a lot of violence across the state. Per capita they are around the middle in gun deaths. Louisiana has a very lax gun policy and they have the second most gun deaths per capita.
Both sides have their arguments for why we need more or less guns, but they're both wrong at the end of the day. At the end of the day, gun violence goes away when jobs come back.
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