ann coulter is pretty

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?

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.

I bet cheerios will love this picture.

She's not pretty or funny, btw.

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.

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.

(I don't know why I've become fascinated by her.)