― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
exactly. I think that's been the schtick, to always dump so much effort into being "outrageous," that it becomes to require more and more thrashing about, like a rabid doberman staked in a front yard just straining to get at those delicious toddlers frollicking next door.
"grasping" (and "gasping") are really OTM terms here.
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan (Yikes) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
But the problem with Coulter is that she is a form of camp, is she not? The minute you take her seriously, you lose grip on her reality. She's not a social or political commentator. She's a drag queen impersonating a fascist. I don't even begin to believe she actually believes this stuff. It's post-modern performance-art. I think of Coulter in that sense as more at home on the pomo-left than the Christianist right (which is why the joke, ultimately, is on the Republicans who like her). Devoid of sincerity, detached from any value but performance, juggling rhetoric for its own sake, she is Stanley Fish's model student. Half the time, I tend to think that a Hannity or O'Reilly or Malkin actually believes their own rhetoric. With Coulter, I don't believe it for a second. And so her vileness cannot be taken seriously. She is worse than vile. She is just empty.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 8 June 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link
the comments on the few blogs i skimmed (i had to stop pretty quickly because i honestly thought i was going to have a stroke) were totally supportive. people were saying things like "people die every day - why should those women get more sympathy than anyone else?" and "it's sickening that they're using the death of loved ones to further the liberal agenda" and "if they really cared about america, they wouldn't be trying to weaken it."
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 June 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 8 June 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link
The idea is older than that. It's probably as old as government itself.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."
-Seneca4-65 AD
― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Thursday, 8 June 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link
-Aristotle
― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Thursday, 8 June 2006 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link
who wants to read the first chapter of her latest book? see if you spot more of her cut & paste scribblin's!
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 8 June 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link
She's pretty, yeah, if too old for me.
― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 8 June 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 9 June 2006 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 9 June 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link
"feel her up - then she will talk to you about welfare"
― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan (Holy Shit) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan (Whoops) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=30&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=apple+house
― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
I suspect I know the answer to this but in a country ruled by Republicans, that's the world's bastion of capitalism, with such a strong Christian influence, why are conservative writers so obsessed with what 'liberals' think?
― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 9 June 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link
because all of the ideology seems to have fallen out of American conservatism, leaving only a constant posture of fear of and aggression towards the "enemy"? viz. the apparently genuine fear that America might become an Islamic theocracy.
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link
I bet cheerios will love this picture.
― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
She's not pretty or funny, btw.
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
I read that a large group of her fans bought up the Leno tickets, so poor wickle Ann did not have to endure any jeering or boos.
― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't think I ever saw an episode of Leno in its entirety before, but euuugh. Dude made a PAULA JONES joke in his monologue.
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link
(I don't know why I've become fascinated by her.)
― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
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― stevie, Sunday, 4 March 2007 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link
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― jessie monster, Sunday, 4 March 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link