Ann Coulter Attacks 9/11 Widows

Lightwizard wrote:

Well, plainoldme, she stimulates thoughts about how dumb many people have become about politics and society in general. She's from the Dark Ages and her form of inquisition is not even on a par with the great and witty curmudgeons of the past, my favorite being quite obvious to everyone.

Yet here we are, 57 pages into a discussion about her. Most typed in by those that dislike her... Says a lot for the job she is doing, and doing quite well apparently.

Lightwizard wrote:

In driving one nuts, is that like making sure there's an airsick bag at hand when she appears on the boob tube? She drives the right nuts with their false praise of a distinctly neutered personality and warped character. I can pay attention to a limited number of sound bytes or quotes from her books which usually make it onto The Daily Show, The Tonight Show, Conan O'Brien and Steve Colbert. I don't think she will be rushing to accept another Leno outing as Jay put her across the boards and instead of literally fu*king her, fu*ked up her head with some serious finesse.

See?

finn wrote:

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It need not be celebrated. It is funny. Whether or not it is concerned in any manner with the truth is something only Bill, Al, and Hilary can confirm. It is not substantive public discourse, but it may be admirable.

You find it funny. OK. And, as I suggested elsewhere, how about something like a cartoon of Laura Bush being sodomized by a St. Bernard? That funny too? And equally admirable?

I don't think the picture you describe would be particularly amusing, and I also don't see it as a equivalent to Coulter's brand of humor.

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Ann Coulter is the Conservative equivalent of National Lampoon.

That she drives you Libs nuts makes it only that much funnier.

Blatham, you may not have been a fan of National Lampoon in which case your inability to see the humor in Coulter's remarks is understandable, but if you were, then there is something slightly (or more) hypocritical about taking Coulter's outrageous comments so seriously.

Let's face it, one of the reasons those of us with roots in the American Counter-Culture (and I include Canadians here as they have religiously mimicked American trends) enjoyed National Lampoon, Cheech & Chong, and Firesign Theater et al, is that their humor either baffled or repulsed our elders.

It is the same with Ann Coulter.

So, the equation is...if someone is baffled or repulsed, then whatever has produced that reaction must be funny, witty, admirable, a good time had by all? Perhaps that's why torture, war, child-molesting and the Holocaust provide such rich veins of classic humor.

Climb down from your high horse blatham. You don't like her politics and so you can't see the humor. Face it.

Your comparison of Coulter with NL or C and C or Firesign is...well, it's a bit baffling and repulsive, actually. Not least because of how indiscriminating the analogy is.

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Perhaps if she was a Cabinet level Secretary, a Senator, or even a mayor, I might find Coulter's comments a bit much, but she is an entertainer.

That's just lazy and disingenous. finn. Ann is merely the same sort of creature as Cirque d'Soleil?

What is lazy and disingenuous is insisting that Coulter is some sort of horrible harpy who makes the world dangerous for liberals. She is an entertainer, not a public official. Obviously you do not find her entertaining, but then you have a stick planted well up your rectum.

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For Lefties, figures like Lennie Bruce and Mort Sahl were brilliant satirists. Coulter is not only in their league but she takes them one step further by blurring the line between satire and pompous political commentary.

You Lefties that find her the virago from hell, and you righties that find her the Voice of Truth...you've all been had.

I find her simply vile and destructive, on par with Joe McCarthy or the Klan or Pravda. In style and in content, she moves your social discourse towards the very worst of tabloid fare and authoritarianism.

What utter hyperbolic nonsense. On a par with Joe McCarthy and the Klan? You can't be serious!

All of the examples of satirists you've given above (add Will Rogers, Twain, Mencken, Monty Python, Trudeau, and SNL or Jon Stewart) could and did laugh at themselves too - and at whomever was in the position of power or priviledge. Think of the skits SNL did on American presidents...party affiliation was not important. Take Stewart's show where guests Mehlman or McCain are treated with the same respect as anyone else and where no one escapes jabs, regardless of party. Saul and Bruce set out to violate taboos and to put fixed and unreflected social ideas and values up to investigation and, often, to ridicule. But their own families and social strata and political affiliates were targets as well.

None of those characteristics holds true with Coulter. You ought to get clear on why that is so.

Can you imagine Will Rogers, Twain, Sahl, Monty Python, Jon Stewart or Swift or C and C or Carlin or anyone else in our list who would ever have suggested that criticism of a President or of one Party was treasonous?

And you ought to take a step back, take a clearing breath and regain your perspective. You are putting this women on a par with the KKK. You should be embarrassed.

She hasn't suggested that criticism of the President or a Party, alone, is treasonous, but so what if she did? She is a pundit. Katrina Van Der Houvel is forever making outrageous statements about Republicans and Conservatives. Do you see conservatives calling for her head?

Coulter has no connection to McCarthy?


Haw Haw.

So how did THIS picture got on her very own website?

She was grieving for McCarthy's demise. He picked up the dead flowers from a neighboring grave.