― lord pooperton (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link
"no one ever lost a nickel underestimating the taste of the american people." - mencken
my mother has that on her office wall.
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Someone more shrewd and far more wealthy than you or I.
― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Thursday, 8 June 2006 01:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 8 June 2006 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan (Also Ally OTM) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
..right.
― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Ding ding! That she says these mock-horrors with such insouciance makes her an Aryan wet dream for we're-so-offended talk show hosts who invite her.
When liberals learn to master Gore Vidal's poise and diction, Ann Coulter will have some competition.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link
dunno. she's what, 44? born in dec '61? how much more mileage can she get out of that real estate? what do you think?
coupla years, maybe more if she tries to do the M.Dowd thing?
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Though, yeah, she's gonna keep aging poorly.
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link
I honestly don't think I've ever seen her any other way. She's been batshit from the word go, the only difference is that now her cause is less popular, which gives Matt Lauer the freedom to stand up to her. It's really sad all the way around.
― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
in a not-really-related question: T/S: Susan Sarandon vs Lesley Ann Warren
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link
If you assume she was serious all along, then I don't think there's a significant difference.
― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Alice Cooper was at least smart enough to know that when the kids in the front row at his shows had bigger pet pythons and more makeup on than he did, it was time to give it a rest.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Jeez, calm down. I'm not picking a fight over Ann Coulter on the internet.
― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Tom, I think it's a given that she's on shit like that!
I am wondering if there are really that many crazies who will continue to stand by her after the 9/11 comments?
xpost lol @ ethan, dude sorry
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― 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