Of course, she?s wearing the ever-present little black dress hiked thigh high and her legs are crossed as she sits slightly sideways on the stool.
I don't know why nobody has ever noticed this before, but Ann Coulter's body language, while lobbing her nasty little bombs of hatred, is that of a barroom skank at a pickup joint at half past three in the morning. Closing time. There?s a slight air of desperation as she flirts, minces, and attempts to seduce the audience and the usually male talk show host.
But the statements are getting more outrageous. The little lines around her mouth and eyes are ever so slightly harder than they used to be. The act is wearing thin as the pre-pubescent Young Republican boys who used to lust after her in their adolescent fantasies grow up, find their own wives, have children and actually begin to worry about things like decency and civility and the kind of world they want to leave their children.
Meanwhile, the talk show hosts are starting to get ever more alarmed at her outrageousness and the public's possible blowback. You never know when the audience is going to develop another one of those Imus revulsion moments and sympathize with one of her victims. Bullies, after all, always go too far and cause their own downfall.
When Elizabeth Edwards called in to the Chris Matthews show and challenged Coulter for her dreadful statements, wishing John Edwards had died in 9/11, the audience cheered, not for Ann, but Elizabeth.
What Coulter, like Neal Boortz and others of that ilk, do is lob their verbal stink bombs and if anybody tries to hold them accountable, they rear up like a cornered rodent with its back to the wall and scoff that they were just joking. They are bullies who try to intimidate their critics into silence by falling back on the old, tired accusation that their opponents lack a sense of humor or are too "politically correct."
Nope.
You don?t have to be a dour, politically correct stick in the mud to see that this is simply rudeness. Vicious rudeness. This type of a corrosive battery acid tongue has done more to cause the break down of society than any atheistic statement Christopher Hitchens or Daniel Dennet could have made. Civility is the glue that holds any society together. All the Pat Robertson "decency rallies" won't cure the indecency and crudeness that the Coulters, Boortzes and Imuses spew.
But the interesting thing about Coulter was that at the end of the Chris Matthews show, when Elizabeth Edwards was dressing her down, Coulter was shifting uncomfortably in her seat. She looked impatient and annoyed. And that's when it struck me; she?s nothing more than a former sorority deb who feels entitled to be a mean girl because she's pretty and has always gotten away with it.
Well, it's time to end Coulter's free pass. And it looks like Elizabeth Edwards, a serious woman with depth and brilliance, has done just that. What else to do about Coulter? Don't censor her for goodness sake. Just keep calling in those Coulter dollars. When Democratic candidates start raking in money from those who object to Coulter's behavior, her own fellow Republicans will turn on her. And don't worry about their accusation that we are exploiting her bad behavior.
Take away the fake boobs and the very fake hair and you got an Adam's apple, mannish features and un-curvy hips.
Plus, did you never hear the expression "mutton dressed as lamb?"
Also, lately I noticed that the Supreme Court has ruled that it is illegal to use free speech to promote illegal behavior like using marijuana or hashish. However, it is ok for our Army to have friendly relations with war lords who grow poppies for heroin.
I also have noticed that it is legal for (M)ann Coulter to advocate the assassination of a member of Congress on national TV. I suppose it is illegal to advocate that Bush should be assassinated, but ok to advocate the same for Democratic Senators. This seems to be the perverted free speech system administered by the Republicans.
My neighbor who is a Republican today said she will not watch a news show she has watched for years because they failed to condemn what Coulter said. So blowback is here and none too soon. She is saying she likes Obama too!
Solution to the Coulter problem:
A good investigative reporter should uncover (M)ann's past as a man and expose it. Next someone should sue her for advocating the murder of a public figure and take the case before the Supreme Court. Well, at least the expose of her past would work. Who knows where the Supremes would come down on this one.
Greg Palast, where are you?
Every time you speak her name or let her cross your mind, you are letting her achieve her goal. If you ignore her, then stations will stop inviting her to appear and her books won't sell as much. She'll be relegated to being a cheerleader at CPAC meetings. And if Republicans want to pay her for entertainment, bully for them. But let's not bother with her anymore.
Speak for yourself! A lot of us picked up on the fact that she has more than just a dirty mouth a while ago (but it probably helps if you're given towards noticing women).
The woman is an insult to the gender--hell, to the species. During her performance on Hardball, my wife asked if I would loan her my pistol, as she wanted to go Elvis on the TV.
What is it about these Republican women pundits? Is there a secret cloning chamber that spits them out every month or so? They all look exactly the same, Coulter being the basic model. But if they're blond, bitter and bulimic--you automatically know they'll spew the hate speech we've come to expect from the right side of the pundit aisle.
I notice the Democratic women pundits come in all sizes, shapes and color. They look like America. Anne Coulter looks like the mistake I made one night in 1982 at the end of a bad binge. It's enough to make a man put down the bottle and start giving away Bibles in Africa.
I know she's controversial and makes for a lot of conversation, but I find it hard to take Chris Matthews very seriously just for the reason the keeps having this woman on his show. I know he's trying to get good ratings, but any respect I had for him has disappeared in the cloud of bile Ms Coulter seems to revel in spreading around. I noticed she's trying to pass off some of her bile as humor--but one of the basic qualities of humor is that the joke must be funny, and there's nothing funny about her, except the fact she tries to pass herself off as some sort of vamp.
I don't get what her deal is, but I have to assume the woman saw something bad in the woodshed during her formative years. Whatever happened, Coulter has definitely been marked forever and there is no cure for what's wrong with her.
On the other hand, I must thank her for making me more religious, because I'm pretty sure if I go to hell, Anne Coulter is gonna be there talking about politics and that really scares a lot more than a red guy with horns and pitchfork. I couldn't imagine a worse punishment for my sins so I'm going say my prayers on a more regular basis and try to live as a proper... uh... backsliding Methodist..er..Zen Baptist...well, I'm not sure what I am, but whatever it is, I'm gonna be better at it.
So how do we deal with such a thing? I suspect the best thing to do is sit back and watch her implode. Just comparing her to the greatness of a woman like Elizabeth Edward make Coulter seem laughable and if Anne Coulter is an example of what Republicans are looking for in a woman or a pundit, expect to see the GOP go the way of the Whigs and the Bull Moose Party. What she's really doing is helping Dems, especially Edwards, raise money.
Representatives like Coulter will do more harm to the GOP than good. Every time we make the comparison between her and any Democratic woman on TV, it's just laughable. Nothing like a trash-talking (er...I can't use the words I'd like to use here)"woman" from hell to further erode GOP support from undecideds and the so-called Reagan Democrats. Her constant harping on good Democrats does nothing but alienate voters further from the Republicans. Sure, she's gonna sell a lot of books, but the country also paid a lot of attention to Joe McCarthy, right before they kicked his ass into obscurity.
I'm certain she's done nothing for her cause except turn potential GOP voters into solid Democrats. So wail on. And let me say to her--Heck of job, Annie.
I'm in the middle of starting a new politics and culture blog. I've tried to avoid the impulse for several years, but I can't help being a professional smartypants. Might as well set it up as an outlet for the books and music and my complaints about the powers that be. I'm stuck in the name generation part and if I could only come up with a decent name, I'd be in business. I'm taking your advice and using Soapblox as the format here at RK is the one I feel so comfortable.
Hopefully I'll be able to post here more often once I get the blog up and running. My wife, Bonnie McCafferty--the real writer in the house will be reviving her syndicated column, Offbeat. and hopefully, I'll be able to get some good content from you and other good writers I've met over the years. We probably are going to look at national news and culture with an effort of have some fun while we're doing it. Life's too short--gotta make it wide.
