I can't help it, I love this girl:

Coultergeist

God, what a bitch.

OMG, William1865, thank you for that link!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love that woman!! That column had me howling with laughter. Excuse me for a moment while I log onto Amazon to buy all her books.

Re the above interview with the crazy illiterate b*tch, from Media Whores Online:

"In an interview with the New York Observer's George Gurley, Ann Coulter says she regrets that a terrorist did not attack the New York Times building.

Was it an offhanded, off-the-record remark?  No, Coulter encourages Gurley to turn on his tape recorder so that he can be sure to record (and presumably report) her regret that New York Times journalists have not been killed.

Coulter's comments should sicken anyone..."

[ August 21, 2002: Message edited by: Bill W ]

This is great. From the article:

What about Clinton [i.e., is he sexy]?

"Oh! Never. Oh, he’s a pudgy little guy whose greatest moment on the football field involved a clarinet. And take that down."

It was a saxophone, but no matter.

Anne Coulter appears to be suffering from the most American of celebrity diseases. She's believing her own press. I'm sure she's having a great deal of fun being so right so much of the time, and I'm sure she'll be laughing all the way to the bank. But she strikes me as someone who isn't in it for the money, but for the adoration and recognition. And that's going to dry up like a tap being turned off when America finds a newer, shinier plaything. Her type of rhetoric doesn't exactly have a shelf life and as a one trick pony,she has nothging else to offer. (I dolove to mix the metaphors)

I think Ann should ask Mary Maitlin's hand in marriage, and they could walk off togther in the sunset... two peas in a pod as far as I am concerned.

[quote]Originally posted by jqueer:
Anne Coulter appears to be suffering from the most American of celebrity diseases. She's believing her own press. I'm sure she's having a great deal of fun being so right so much of the time, and I'm sure she'll be laughing all the way to the bank. But she strikes me as someone who isn't in it for the money, but for the adoration and recognition. And that's going to dry up like a tap being turned off when America finds a newer, shinier plaything. Her type of rhetoric doesn't exactly have a shelf life and as a one trick pony,she has nothging else to offer. (I dolove to mix the metaphors)

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She's actually had two bestsellers. Doesn't that make her at least a two-trick pony?

[quote]Originally posted by William1865:



She's actually had two bestsellers. Doesn't that make her at least a two-trick pony?

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No, that makes her a two hit wonder. Both bestsellers were the same vitriolic pap she's been pushing for years on Politically Incorrect (she's one of the reasons I stopped watching the show), and that makes her a one trick pony.

Great woman, and a DG to boot! That was one lunch I'd have been happy to pick up the tab for. I can totally relate to her thoughts about Kansas City and its lifestyle, stifled as I am in SF. But I'm not one to preach "love it or leave it," so here I'll stay in an effort to return it too to some semblance of normality.

[quote]Originally posted by gmginsfo:
Great woman, and a DG to boot!

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Doltish Guttersnipe?

None of you Ann(Thrax) fans addressed her call for terror deaths at the NY Times, I see.

She's a sorority girl shock jock. At least Howard Stern stumbles on a joke now and then.

She's just Camille Paglia in different clothing. In love with the sound of her own voice and after as much attention as she can get. As for Coulter's basic premise, she's wrong. Although individual journalists may tend to vote Democratic, the newspapers and other media are overwhelmingly pro-business corporate toadies. This shows up most tellingly in what does NOT get reported.

Did you mean Camille Paglia or Sandra Bernhard?

[quote]Originally posted by Bill W:


Doltish Guttersnipe?

None of you Ann(Thrax) fans addressed her call for terror deaths at the NY Times, I see.

She's a sorority girl shock jock. At least Howard Stern stumbles on a joke now and then.

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Just as I'm sure you were outraged when lefty Michael Moore complained that the terrorists' biggest mistake was in not killing enough Republicans:

"Many families have been devastated tonight. This just is not right. They did not deserve to die. If someone did this to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, DC, and the planes' destination of California--these were places that voted AGAINST Bush!

Why kill them?"

(To Mr. Moore's credit, he, like Miss Coulter, had an almost immediate "I shouldn't say this after 9-11" epiphany, tacking on a "Why kill anyone?" at the end of this screed. He later edited this rather bizarre analysis out of his original reaction to the attacks.)

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Ms. Coulter says outrageous and occasionally dangerous things and I think some of it posturing. I guess she needs to surpass the equally conservative young, blonde pundit, Laura Ingraham.

I read " Slander"-- pure drivel.

The biggest reason I love Ann Coulter is that she is piss-yourself funny. But the 2nd biggest reason is that she so easily gets under liberals' skin. I love how y'all take her all so gawd-awful seriously. Why don't you take the money you're saving by not purchasing her books and buy yourself a sense of humor instead?

For Pete's sake, can't you see that she's trying to get a rise out of you? And then when you spin off into a Tasmanian Devil tizzy, (whether she shows it or not) Coulter is howling with laughter. God knows I am.

Liberals have Whoopi Goldberg and Dennis Miller and Alec Baldwin and blah blah blah ... myriad entertainers who ridicule conservatives and Republicans at every turn. What are you complaining about? You got your source of chuckles; I got mine.

in coulter we trust!

[quote]Originally posted by BoSoxRudy:
The biggest reason I love Ann Coulter is that she is piss-yourself funny. But the 2nd biggest reason is that she so easily gets under liberals' skin. I love how y'all take her all so gawd-awful seriously.

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I preface this by saying that I've never seen her on TV or read anything she's written, so I can't vouch for her accuracy or entertainment value. My question is: is she being billed as a comedian or is she billed as a political commentator or expert? If she isn't being introduced as an entertainer, why shouldn't anyone take her seriously? And if she is billed as an entertainer, why would anyone take her seriously?

My main criticism of Coulter is her hypocrisy ("I'm shocked...shocked...shocked to discover a TV pundit to be a hypocrite.") She argues that liberals tar conservatives by lying about them, painting their ideas with too broad a brush, and making things up. She then lies about liberals (claiming that she would convert followers of Islam to Christianity following 9/11 while liberals would provide the terrorists with food stamps and directions to Planned Parenthood) paints their ideas with too broad a brush (see above or her claim that all liberals attack religion in this country with the zeal of Carrie Nation going after alcohol) and makes things up (see above.)

As I stated on a different thread, we expect too much if we hope for reasoned political discussions on TV ("reasoned debate" is an oxymoron to TV people), but for what it's worth, when she appears on TV, she is offered up as a "conservative political thinker," NOT an entertainer or humorist, implying that she has some clout with the Republican Party.

~Adam

A funny liar she is! As Joe Conason has pointed out repeated on his blogs, Coulter is a pathological dissimulator whose publisher is now reviewing her book footnote by footnote and considering a correction (or more) because she apparently created tales and incidents that have no basis in truth. And she wasn't doing so to be funny.

See Conason here The Daily Howler or Tapped's Fact Check Ann Coulter Contest! for more about her chronic inability to tell the truth!

A hysterical madwoman who ought to be sent down--to the funny farm, that is!

BTW, the lack of condemnation of her hideous call for the killing of human lives speaks volumes for her fans and patrons on here. Ha ha...

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Politics is performance.

[quote]Originally posted by fantomas:
BTW, the lack of condemnation of her hideous call for the killing of human lives speaks volumes for her fans and patrons on here. Ha ha ...

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You'll see my response earlier in this thread: go out and buy yourself a sense of humor. She was KIDDING. Coulter makes her well-heeled living pissing off and outraging liberals (which is, of course, why I love her so). It's laughable that liberals actually take Coulter so seriously. Then again, that Coulter so easily gets liberals frothing at the mouth does prove her fundamental premise: that liberals are indeed that f*cking stupid.

If you don't like Coulter, guess what? Do what I do whenever I see that jacked-on-coke liberal, Dennis Miller: turn him (her) off. The popularity of her new book (still #1 on the NYT best seller list after 7 weeks) does make me wonder, though. Who are all these people buying it? Liberals and Democrats obsessed with discrediting her??

The day that Ann Coulter gets busted for planting bombs in the NY Times offices, I'll issue an official retraction on and apology for everything I said in this thread. Now go take your blood pressure medication.

You guys who "love!!!" Ann Coulter picked a real class act to look up to.

"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."

-Ann Coulter in an interview with the New York Observer.

She also agreed with Falwell/Robertson on who was to blame for Sept 11th, you know...gays, lesbians et al.

[quote]Originally posted by William1865:
Politics is performance.

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You are the true cynic on this board, Wm. NO, politics was NOT performance for Lincoln, FDR, or Cynthia McKinney. It was principle. I guess that disconnect explains why you "loved loved loved" Incurious George's face next to Mount Rushmore...

Coulter certainly does not present herself as an entertainer, even beyond the fact that she's unfunny.

Nader-bashing Clintonites like Alec Baldwin are not "liberal," except by the current diluted definition. And a know-nothing, death penalty-supporting, glib goon like Dennis Miller? Constipated Republicans just make better photo backdrops for his self-satisfied channel-surfing "sass."

I would agree that public liberals need to get more of a sense of humor -- except the few who ARE make a number of missteps, like Michael Moore (who I like on balance, nonetheless).

[quote]Originally posted by BoSoxRudy:
If you don't like Coulter, guess what? Do what I do whenever I see that jacked-on-coke liberal, Dennis Miller: turn him (her) off. The popularity of her new book (still #1 on the NYT best seller list after 7 weeks) does make me wonder, though. Who are all these people buying it? Liberals and Democrats obsessed with discrediting her??

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So you're saying we shouldn't read or expose ourselves to anything we might disagree with. These people decided to read her book, and they're discussing why they disagree with it. That makes liberals stupid?

No, I'm saying that if you take everything Ann Coulter says as gravely seriously as some liberals obviously do, then it's proof-positive that you're an idiot. Coulter's raving bitch routine is carefully scripted to elicit as much outrage as possible. Good gawd, there are folks who are ready to form a voluntary SWAT team outside the NY Times offices to safeguard their hallowed liberal newspaper against Ann Coulter's one-woman bomb squad. The way liberals froth at the mouth in reaction to Coulter is a more sure-fire response than anything Pavlov could have hoped for.

As one who shares a similar disdain for liberals, I of course think Coulter's a hoot! Her nasty little zingers have me swiping tears from my eyes, and if I ever get a tape of Coulter and Couric's early AM catfight, I'll have to buy some Depends before watching it. But I imagine liberals don't find her particularly funny, just as I don't find the schtick of conservative- and Republican-bashing Hollywood types all that amusing. But I don't froth at the mouth whenever Dennis Miller or Michael Moore go on a tear. I just turn them off.

While I realize that Coulter claims to be a political thinker and not an entertainer, it doesn't mean that she is (or isn't). Is Coulter a one-woman conservative think tank? Please, I doubt there's a single conservative who respects Coulter as a great thinker. Just because you label yourself as something, it doesn't mean you are as you claim. Ya think every single one of those actors who claim to be straight really are?

One final note: I find it interesting that there are liberals so obsessed with Coulter that they have set up these 24/7 "Coulter Watches" to deny or discredit everything she says. How ironic that Michael Moore's rants are just as chock-full of distortions, yet the liberal (although they vehemently deny such leanings) press give him a free pass.

[quote]Originally posted by Bill W:


You are the true cynic on this board, Wm. NO, politics was NOT performance for Lincoln, FDR, or Cynthia McKinney. It was principle. I guess that disconnect explains why you "loved loved loved" Incurious George's face next to Mount Rushmore...

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Politics is performance for the whole McKinney Klan - her henchman/father put on quite a show in spelling out the real enemy (as Sinead O'Connor might put it): J-E-W-S (he literally spelled it out). Though I don't doubt that this particular principle (Jew=Bad) is very dear to the McKinney's hearts (assuming they have them). I think highly enough of you, Bill, to assume that's not a principle you share.

As far as Lincoln/FDR, performance wasn't an issue simply because the media did not exist to the extent that it does today, though I would list FDR's fireside chats as one of the early political performances. If Lincoln were around today the New York Times would probably be running "news" articles saying top Republicans opposed the Civil War, that the War would cost too much money, that innocent people would die, that "sources close to the War" are afraid Lincoln "hasn't made a strong enough case" for it. C'mon, Abe. Just talk to the Confederacy.

Finally, just because you don't agree with President Bush's principles doesn't mean they're not principles.

Finally (this time I mean it) I cannot think of a truly funny leftist. Florence King could kick Molly Ivins' ass, and P.J. O'Rourke probably wouldn't even waste his time with a fat-ass, butt-ugly no-count talentless hack loser (that's a personal attack, by the way) like Mikhail Moore.

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[quote]Originally posted by William1865:
I cannot think of a truly funny leftist. Florence King could kick Molly Ivins' ass, and P.J. O'Rourke probably wouldn't even waste his time with a fat-ass, butt-ugly no-count talentless hack loser (that's a personal attack, by the way) like Mikhail Moore.

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Do they have to be writers? What about Rosie O'Donnell?

That was a joke.

[quote]Originally posted by William1865:
Politics is performance.

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For further proof of this see the thread on Shrub's "economic forum" in Wacko.
"good show!!"

[quote] Finally (this time I mean it) I cannot think of a truly funny leftist.

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It's because of your political slant, don't you think? I, a self-described moderate-to-liberal Democrat think Molly Ivins is absolutely HILARIOUS and dead-on correct in her observations. And I can't think of a single right-winger I find funny. It's all in the eye of the beholder. (Or is that a little too relativistic for you?)

That just shows that conservatives need to buy a sense of humor.

If you like Molly Ivins, you'll probably like Florence King, too, since Ivins at one point completely plagiarized Miss King. Ivins was forced to issue an apology. Here are some of Florence King's National Review Columns:

The Misanthrope's Corner

I recall at one point Miss King had some rather unpleasant things to say about Ann Coulter. It was sometime around the Elian saga.

[quote]Originally posted by BoSoxRudy:
How ironic that Michael Moore's rants are just as chock-full of distortions, yet the liberal (although they vehemently deny such leanings) press give him a free pass.

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BoSoxRudy, prove it. If you're going to start screaming fellow posters down and attacking them personally, as you have done more than once, then at least back up your words with proof.

And I do take high blood pressure medicine, thank you very much!

BTW, Bill Cosby is hilarious, Margaret Cho is sidesplittingly funny, Ellen de Generes is a laugh a minute. Three liberals for you. Do you want more? W. actually is far more comical than Coultergeist ever has been.

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[quote]That just shows that conservatives need to buy a sense of humor.

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i presume you're a freakin' conservative.

[quote] One final note: I find it interesting that there are liberals so obsessed with Coulter that they have set up these 24/7 "Coulter Watches" to deny or discredit everything she says.

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I never attacked anyone personally, and I'm sorry you took it that way. The "you" I was referring to was not you, specifically, but a general "you" to anyone who actually took Coulter's outrageous bitch act seriously. It is my opinion that anyone who is so easily manipulated by Coulter's transparently calculated provocations is a fool. I stand by that statement.

By the way, as a comedian, Bill Cosby is OK - sometimes funny, sometimes not. But I have unwavering respect and admiration for Bill Cosby as a human being and as a humanitarian. Margaret Cho, sorry, not my cup o'tea, but she does have the occasional sharp one-liner. Ellen as a comedian is pretty damn funny. Ellen as a political activist is nauseating. Just my opinion again, but Ann Coulter is funnier than all three combined.

After his first film "Roger and Me" came out, I saw a report on one of the news magazines about how Moore took a lot of liberties with the facts in his "documentary" storytelling (it's been so long that I can't remember the precise details). Mind you, this was back in the day, when I too was an angry young liberal. Even though Moore and I shared the same political bent in those days, he lost credibility with me and I haven't bothered with much of his stuff since. If you demand more recent "evidence", I'll confess I don't have any (we conservatives have far better things to do with our lives than 24/7 vigilance of Michael Moore's liberal dissembling). So go ahead and jump all over me.

Well, tzeile29, I'm sure glad you added the gremlin. I would have been so wounded to have someone think I was a conservative. I was, of course, merely facetiously mimicking an earlier comment about people who didn't find Ann Coulter funny.

I think you're also overestimating how much anyone takes Michael Moore seriously. He's pretty much a clown, despite his "good intentions". I don't see him getting much mainstream credibility.

And Ellen DeGeneres mixes her comedy act with politics and commentary, which is what makes it funny. That HBO special she did was terrific.

Here's some of Ann's "wisdom" in an article about gay priests:


Meanwhile, no spate of sex scandals is engulfing the Boy Scouts of America. Inasmuch as the Boy Scouts were not taking risk-assessment advice from Norman Mineta, they decided to eliminate a whole category of potential problems by refusing to allow gay men to be scout leaders. Perhaps gay scout leaders just really liked camping. But it was also possible that gay men who wanted to lead troops of adolescent boys into the woods were up to no good.

Moore has been on a lot of mainstream talk shows discussing corporate greed, etc. They obviously take him seriously.

I suppose I'm being narrow when I talk about "funny leftists," but I'm mainly talking about journalists, writers, thinkers, etc. - people actually involved directly in the political process or "culture wars". James Bowman is another funny right-winger. Andrew Ferguson also. Jonah Goldberg gets on my last nerve - he's a P.J. O'Rourke wannabe who got where he is because of his mom. (I point that out in the hopes that somebody will reply, "I don't usually agree with William, but ...")

James Bowman

See, THAT's how Coulter is funny -- inadvertently. Yeah, the Boy Scouts don't HAVE ANY gay troop leaders now! I believe that one... And I do chuckle when I look at her clenched speed-freak jaw!

Michael Moore's "The Awful Truth" TV series had many funny sequences, like leading a gay male chorus to sing "On the Street Where You Live" on Jesse Helms' Washington lawn. Much cogent political thought is expressed via humor, as Will Rogers proved.

[quote]Originally posted by Bill W:
Michael Moore's "The Awful Truth" TV series had many funny sequences, like leading a gay male chorus to sing "On the Street Where You Live" on Jesse Helms' Washington lawn. Much cogent political thought is expressed via humor, as Will Rogers proved.

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That's not just inherently funny, though. You might think it's funny, but I don't see the humor in harrassing people (unless I'm doing the harrassing). I don't find Adam Sandler particularly funny either, but obviously plenty of people do. Obviously this is all very subjective.

Obviously.

Except Adam Sandler is the definition of "not funny."

And harassing people who are hellbound total shits like Helms with their worst nightmare is *hilarious.*

You know what this reminds me of? "Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot" by Al Franken, but in reverse.

Ann Coulter FIRED!

Okay, one newspaper fired her. The Centre Daily Times in State College, PA has decided to no longer run her column. The executive editor, in a column, called her "a hater."

Letter to Coulter

I listened to her defend her book on a few political commentary shows. I empathize with her when she says some republicnas get a bad rap. I couldn't help but notice on some of these shows, she fed right into the streotypical view of what some people think about certian repbulicans. Although I'm not repubican., I don't hold these views. I tried to digest as much of her commentaries as I could. It was her condensending demeanor toward some viewers who didn't agree with her I found annoying. I wanted to take her side when I felt she was by herself, but when I saw how nasty she was , I was like, "f*ck that". I understand some people generalize when they criticize. But how does generalizing your adversaries make you any better than them?

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[quote]Originally posted by William1865:
That's not just inherently funny, though. You might think it's funny, but I don't see the humor in harrassing people (unless I'm doing the harrassing).

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Harrasing? A group of talented young men arrived to serenade the senator with, I'm sure, a lovely rendition of an American classic, and that's harrasing?
On the whole, I am a fan of private citizens not having to be subject to political protests on their private property. But to call Jesse Helms a private citizen is to call what the Texas Rangers are playing this season baseball. If you're going to be a public figure, you have to take public ridicule, and as long as they didn't cross the line of damaging Helm's property or annoying the neighbors, I find Moore's stunt very funny. Nothing else I've seen him do or say has been funny, but that was.

From CentreDaily.com:

"Dear Ann Coulter:

You're fired.

It's not that extreme viewpoints are unwelcome on the opinion pages of the Centre Daily Times. All political viewpoints, from Cal Thomas on the right to Molly Ivins on the left, are welcome here.

But, we don't welcome haters, Ann, and that's what you are."

Full Story

She got fired for saying that the Kennedys are a bunch of "heroin addicts, convicted killers, cheaters, bottleggers and dissolute drunks"???

hahahahahahahaha ... hee hee hee hee hee ... ho ho ho ho ho <slapping my thigh ... wiping tears from my eyes>

No wonder I love Ann Coulter so much!

Then again, maybe she was fired for inaccuracies. She forgets that Ted Kennedy was never convicted for the murder he committed.

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I wish this guy had stopped at "you're fired" so he wouldn't sound like such a jackass. To wit:

"On a late summer morning almost a year ago, all of us -- Republicans, Democrats and everyone else -- witnessed what hate is capable of."

Does this guy seriously think Ann Coulter's dislike of the Kennedy's makes her capable of launching a full-scale terrorist assault on U.S. skyscrapers and military facilities? Maybe he's as drunk as a Kennedy.

"Since that day, Americans have tried to remember that they are on the same side, regardless of differences in skin color, nation of origin, religion or political viewpoint."

No, we're not. For example, Cynthia McKinney is an American. I'm an American. I don't think we're on the same side of anything at all, even when it comes to some self-righteous appeal to patriotism. I don't think we share the same vision for America. Also, the hijackers were right here in our country. Until that late summer morning almost a year ago, jackass here would have probably included Atta, et al in the ranks of those who just love our country half to death, just because they were here (unless he wants to check peoples' papers or something like that). I mean, really, how do you know your neighborhood Muslim isn't a terrorist? The hijackers were given the benefit of the doubt, and it cost almost 3,000 people their lives. Do you think people who worked out in the same gym with the hijackers said, "Oooh, now those guys look like terrorists." Did any pilots or flight attendants on that hot summer morning say, "Yikes! Five Muslim men, all together in first class! This looks suspicious." If one of them had, it could have saved a lot of lives. It's naive to the point of dangerous to still think we're all in this together.

"It has not always been easy because, more than ever, those who are different can seem more threatening."

To me, the Kennedy's seem just as threatening as ever.

"But we're trying because what we have in America is worth keeping. And, Ann, you're not helping. You do nothing to elevate our spirits, to celebrate the great bond that holds us this unruly people together and makes us a nation."

Ann certainly elevates my spirits, and I know many of my straight friends find their spirits very elevated, so to speak, by Miss Coulter.

"Hate is easy; love is hard."

Huh-huh. He said "hard."