God Bless Ann Coulter
When you see Ann Coulter in an interview, you can tell from the vacant, yet feral look in her eyes that she’s trying desperately to think of the most outrageous thing possible to say. She’s a two year-old who’s desperate for attention and she loves it – loves it loves it LOVES IT – when Daddy spanks her. Never mind that fully 91.6% of what comes out of her filthy little mouth is about as coherent as Charles Manson after a week in the sleep deprivation tank. It’s not about fact. It’s not about truth. It’s about LOOK AT ME I SAID A BAD WORD!!!
A few days ago s/he said a really bad word or two, wrapping her lips around John Edwards like he was the last unshaved mule willy on Earth, and gods, has the outcry been deafening. And now the trending iteration: what to do about her? Speak out against her (and for convenience, I will use “her” here). Ignore her. Make fun of her obvious masculinity (not everybody is using “her,” it turns out). Stop publishing her rantings. And if you’re one of the conservatives who’s been enabling her Satan’s Little Whore act, you know, for years, offer up hypocritical condemnations and pull the bitch’s credentials.
Now, why would they want to do that? And what lesson can we take from the fact that they do want to do it?
Here’s the thing. If you’re the Dems, the last thing in hell you want is for Ann Coulter to stop talking. When you’re arguing with a complete moron, the best strategy is to hand him/her a microphone and stand aside. (Actually, this is the basic Miltonian principle behind America’s notions of the value of free speech, so I can’t take credit for inventing the idea.) If you’re a Republican, it’s a bit trickier. Ann was fun when you were passing her around at fundraiser afterparties like a bottle of cheap tequila. She deflowered a whole generation of College Republicans in a series of campus whistlestops, and she actually served a purpose when she was out on the circuit “energizing the base.” But damn, now the crazy skank done gone and got noticed by the mainstream, and in a flash she went from everybody’s party favor to the party’s biggest liability.
Right now, America is looking at her like she’s the loose cannon love spawn of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Katherine Harris, and every time she opens her mouth in public she costs you votes that recent polling results indicate you can’t afford to lose.
John Edwards is the luckiest man alive right now, and if you’re Hillary, you have to be banging your head against the door wishing Man Ann had called you a carpet-muncher. If you’re Obama, your people ought to be working around the clock trying sucker her into calling you a house nigger. And if you’re anybody else (Richardson, Kucinich, Biden, etc.) you’re desperately wishing she’d simply notice that you exist.
That’s why the GOP disinfo machine is in full rage right now. I mean, let’s be honest. Not only is this not the worst thing Coulter has said in the last few years, I’m not sure it even makes her Greatest Hits double CD set. She’s so damned nuts that you could stick her in a room full of Iranian holocaust deniers and they’d all start nervously edging toward the door.
But we’ve never seen the Wide Right establishment call for her head. Not when she joked about poisoning a Supreme Court justice. Not when she said that liberals hate America worse than Islamic terrorists. Not when she accused 9/11 widows of “reveling in their status as celebrities.” Not when she said “my only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.” So what makes the attack on Edwards special?
Right. She has outlived her usefulness. The bloom is off that rose, as it were, and if something isn’t done America might notice that hey, don’t you guys all agree with her, more or less?
So whatever you do, folks, if you truly love freedom and great political drama, rage, rage against any attempt to silence this … woman? Stand up in defense of her right to speak. Write your local conservapundit. The comment boxes at Little Green Footballs? Bang ’em like they were a screen door in a hurricane. Call Rush and demand that he put down those pills and throw his weight behind her like the Real American Conservative Hero® that she is.
Dammit, e-mail party chairman Mike Duncan at the Republican National Committee and insist that she be named the keynote speaker at the 2008 GOP Convention.
God Bless Ann Coulter. S/he’s great for America. S/he needs to be heard. Lots.
(Note: It’s okay, Ann. I’m just joking.)
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On the other hand, the national (read, “government propaganda”) broadcaster just fired (oh, actually, he “resigned”) the only free-speaking journalist they had. Maybe you can send Anne here and she can do her level best to insult our government. If she called one of our ministers a raping, child-molesting, wife-beating, carpet-bagger, she probably just met the Minister of Justice.
On the other hand, the national (read, “government propaganda”) broadcaster just fired (oh, actually, he “resigned”) the only free-speaking journalist they had. Maybe you can send Anne here and she can do her level best to insult our government. If she called one of our ministers a raping, child-molesting, wife-beating, carpet-bagger, she probably just met the Minister of Justice.
Listen to what Rush had to say about Obama owning Sharpton.
Listen to what Rush had to say about Obama owning Sharpton.
As long as Ann and Rush are alive, it’s going to be hard for anybody else to ever win the Worst Person in the World. On most days, it’s a race for third.
I will give KO props for managing to get through a Rush item without referring to the fact that he’s fat and a convicted drug offender. It was more than I could do….
As long as Ann and Rush are alive, it’s going to be hard for anybody else to ever win the Worst Person in the World. On most days, it’s a race for third.
I will give KO props for managing to get through a Rush item without referring to the fact that he’s fat and a convicted drug offender. It was more than I could do….
I got pretty beaten up on a post I made the other day from a couple of my liveral friends when I rebuked Anne, but brought up the Bill Maher comment about Cheney. I need to learn not to post any political stuff. At least, nobody unfriended me this time, like they usually do after I post political stuff.
I usually laugh at Ann, as she’s pretty outrageous. That being said, I don’t necessarily read any conservative material, as that would be preaching to the choir. The only conservative columnist and author I read is a guy who’s a personal friend, and we go to baseball games and fishing whenever comes down from Washington. All of my political magazine subscriptions are to liberal sources such as “New Republic,” “Nation,” and the “Utne Reader.” I find them very challenging, but nonetheless wade through them. I do like to see what the other side is saying and how they think.
I enjoy your posts very much. I might not agree with some of your ideas, but wholly respect them, and appreciate your well thought out logic.
Sometimes, we’ll just have to agree to disagree:)
Aloha,
Jeff
I got pretty beaten up on a post I made the other day from a couple of my liveral friends when I rebuked Anne, but brought up the Bill Maher comment about Cheney. I need to learn not to post any political stuff. At least, nobody unfriended me this time, like they usually do after I post political stuff.
I usually laugh at Ann, as she’s pretty outrageous. That being said, I don’t necessarily read any conservative material, as that would be preaching to the choir. The only conservative columnist and author I read is a guy who’s a personal friend, and we go to baseball games and fishing whenever comes down from Washington. All of my political magazine subscriptions are to liberal sources such as “New Republic,” “Nation,” and the “Utne Reader.” I find them very challenging, but nonetheless wade through them. I do like to see what the other side is saying and how they think.
I enjoy your posts very much. I might not agree with some of your ideas, but wholly respect them, and appreciate your well thought out logic.
Sometimes, we’ll just have to agree to disagree:)
Aloha,
Jeff
Well, Ann is hardly one to argue about. I’m having a hard time these days finding any conservatives who will admit to seeing her as anything more than entertainment.
I would love to see her help kill off the neocon/religious wide right, though. This would be a perfect time for the GOP moderate to reassert itself…
Well, Ann is hardly one to argue about. I’m having a hard time these days finding any conservatives who will admit to seeing her as anything more than entertainment.
I would love to see her help kill off the neocon/religious wide right, though. This would be a perfect time for the GOP moderate to reassert itself…
I agree with you about the neocon/religious right. I have problems because my liberal friends lump me in with that crowd. They need to learn that there’s more than one brand of Conservatism, just as there’s more than one brand of Lberalism. Both parties are quite diverse, when you get to the bottom of it.
Simply put, the neo-cons have given us mainstream conservatives a black eye.
Aloha,
Jeff
I agree with you about the neocon/religious right. I have problems because my liberal friends lump me in with that crowd. They need to learn that there’s more than one brand of Conservatism, just as there’s more than one brand of Lberalism. Both parties are quite diverse, when you get to the bottom of it.
Simply put, the neo-cons have given us mainstream conservatives a black eye.
Aloha,
Jeff
Yup. And I say that as a guy who used to BE a moderate Republican.
Yup. And I say that as a guy who used to BE a moderate Republican.
Maybe this is the “Rights’ answer to Al Franken. You think about it there are really no funny Republicans, she may be the closest thing. Rush is just an idiot but she is just plain funny. I saw a pic of her on her website where she’s standing next to the grave of Joseph McCarthy here’s the link http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/photo.cgi?image=grave_bg.jpg
and yes she’s pretty hot for a man
Maybe this is the “Rights’ answer to Al Franken. You think about it there are really no funny Republicans, she may be the closest thing. Rush is just an idiot but she is just plain funny. I saw a pic of her on her website where she’s standing next to the grave of Joseph McCarthy here’s the link http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/photo.cgi?image=grave_bg.jpg
and yes she’s pretty hot for a man