ann coulter is pretty

..right.

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.

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?

Though, yeah, she's gonna keep aging poorly.

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.

in a not-really-related question: T/S: Susan Sarandon vs Lesley Ann Warren

If you assume she was serious all along, then I don't think there's a significant difference.

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.

Jeez, calm down. I'm not picking a fight over Ann Coulter on the internet.

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

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.

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.

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."

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."

-Seneca
4-65 AD

-Aristotle

who wants to read the first chapter of her latest book? see if you spot more of her cut & paste scribblin's!

She's pretty, yeah, if too old for me.

"feel her up - then she will talk to you about welfare"

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=30&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=apple+house

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?