Mugged and Ann Coulter Derangement Syndrome, Part 2
We’re often informed that Ann Coulter’s public image (supposedly) prevents many people from actually reading her columns and books.
If so, then surely the fault is with those closed-minded liberal idiots, not Coulter.
(These are the same geniuses who’ve turned “Rush Limbaugh” into a convenient curse word but will, when pressed, usually have the decency to admit that they’ve never listened to his show. The worst of them have the indecency to brag about it.)
Then we have those conservative snobs who complain that our side has too many polemicists already; that the troops occasionally need to be educated, not just entertained.
Both groups miss the point.
Coulter’s consistent placement on the bestseller lists proves that thousands of people do read her books, many of whom might have remained otherwise ignorant of conservative philosophy and long-buried historical facts.
Come on: Do we honestly expect the average 21st century American to curl up with Russell Kirk for an evening? I’m not stupid, but dutifully making it to the last page of The Conservative Mind — in the early days of my conversion — gave me a new appreciation for the Frozen Chosin.
Arguing with all these Coulter-haters is futile, however, because their reaction to her is visceral, not logical.
I would have a hard time conceiving any violent act between people of different races as non-racial. Pace the Utopians, race, or “race”, remains unavoidably (always already) significant in human relations, so that you can never separate the racial markers from any “normal” crime. If you don’t want to be a racist don’t do the crime.
…WHAT? *laughs madly*
I tend to like Coulter’s writing and TV appearances because she drives the lieberals nuts. It’s always funny when they bag on her for being thin, ugly, crazy, or mannish. As if they’re perfect specimens. I guess they can’t argue the points Ann makes.
Yeah, I always find it funny how liberals will launch viscous personal attacks on any woman or minority who becomes a proponent for the other side. It messes with their world view. Just look at what they did to Sarah Palin, the thought of a conservative potentially being the first female president instead of someone like Hillary made them loose their collective marbles. I remember them calling her a “c*nt” all the while preaching how sexist conservatives supposedly are for not supporting state funded birth control and abortions.
I’m a recent Coulter convert.
I started appreciating her on RED EYE, which keeps guests for a full hour, rather than say, a three minute struggle for airtime on O’Reilly. She seemed quick-witted and likeable and she started to remind me of John Waters, if that doesn’t sound too weird.
So I got a copy of DEMONIC – loved the quasi-Ira Levin cover – and was impressed by her discussion of The French Revolution and modern Democrats: Sloganeering, use of mobs, anti-clerical stuff, etc. A light but enjoyable read, not unhinged, but informative and enjoyable.
Did this column really require two parts? It seemed a little strung out. And obsessing on one aspect of the Yusef Hawkins incident, so what?
Well said truepeers.
The fact is: we “enlightened” (cough) folks can balk all we want about race, and whether or not it is biological or a social construct, but for millions of people around the word, it DOES matter.
We have to accept that fact of life then go from there, if we expect to truly understand their conflicts and “beefs” with each other.
To my mind, culture and biology co- evolve in the human. Once you have language, the ethical, and esthetic you get all kinds of sexual selection going on in tandem with cultural evolution. While we all share a common origin, groups isolated for long periods will develop their own traits. Liberals are afraid of thinking along these lines but i don’t see how they must lead to illiberal thoughts on humanity and politics. But what i really don’t get is how any of this has anything to do with the frozen Chosin.
Neither to I. I had the honor of being with my marine husband in Seoul for the 60th anniversary commemoration. Reading a book, no matter how dull, & comparing it to the hardships & perserverence at the Frozen Chosin was beyond odd
Ahem!
Make that “billions”, please, for accuracy’s sake.
After all, I wouldn’t want the TRUTH POLICE calling you a liar.
Racism IS the default setting for mankind, athough to white Americans (who are the least racist people in the world, indeed to a fault), the concept is sort of squishy, those billions are DEAD serious about it. As in KILL!
Unless they still kill with tribe or famiy as the lowest level. They can’t be racist. They don’t even know what racist is, yet. Don’t worry. There’s hardly a billion or two of them around any more.
So, I guess we’re safe.
You nailed it. It is pointless to reason with the Coulter-haters, or Palin-haters, because their reaction is visceral – not rational. In the case of Palin, one British commentator (sorry, don’t remember the name) put his finger on the source of the Left’s hatred: “She is a strong woman in the American pioneer mold – not the feminist mold.”
True. The feminists want the government daddy/husband to replace having real men in their lives all while claiming to be independent and liberated. The pioneer spirited women just reaches for it. If the metaphorical wood needs to be chopped, she just grabs the axe and goes for it. The modern day “feminist” stands there screaming and bitching that her neighbors should figure out a way to chop wood for her.
Totally correct. The liberal men who physically attack Coulter would never attack a man – they couldn’t be sure they’d be able to run away from a man fast enough to avoid getting their ass kicked.
Come on: Do we honestly expect the average 21st century American to curl up with Russell Kirk for an evening? I’m not stupid, but dutifully making it to the last page of The Conservative Mind …
I’m doing the same thing. Coulter – 3 books… Kirk, chapter one – but my guess at the end of the day Edmund Burke will matter most. Stay tuned… on the journey…
I was always a long-time Coulter fan, mostly through her columns. I also loved the way she answered questions on the spot on Hannity’s radio show. My wife, who is quite left-wing, also likes her stuff (not to mention being impressed at how she looks at our age).
But I really am troubled by what appears to be a bit of borderline anti-semitism, mostly from the blurbs on her web site (which it appears she writes herself). (No, not that silly interview; people have the right to state their religious beliefs, or at least should.)
I doubt that Coulter has ever written, spoken, or even thought anything as buoyantly offensive as P.J. O’Rourke’s “Foreigners Around the World”.
Truepeers:
Try getting through Kirk’s “Conservative Mind” and you’ll get my Frozen Chosin reference — unless you happen to be one of those noble odd ducks who actually likes reading Kirk!
Wow, MZK1 I’m not picking up the anti-Semitism at all. Hmm.
After the Civil War, the steady northward movement of freed slaves, seeking more opportunity than was offered by the agrarian South, brought them into an ongoing clash: the Irish dominance of the political structures in the Northern cities versus the rising Italian challenge to them. The Irish were first to get here in significant numbers, and their upward path was concentrated in the political and municipal (e.g., police and firefighting) areas. The later wave of Italian immigrants sought to emulate them, which, coupled to the importation of traditional Italian patterns in organized crime, put them directly at odds with the existing Irish power base. That struggle went on for decades before an accommodation was reached.
Enter the freed slaves. Despite the North’s successful war to end slavery, there wasn’t a lot of interest in Northern cities in accommodating large waves of Negro migrants. Both the Irish and the Italians moved reflexively to impede them, with the first zoning, anti-gun, and commercial-requirements laws the nation had ever seen.
Psychologist Peter Breggin once compared the immigrant ghetto of the late 19th century to the Negro ghetto of the 20th: The former was a place of tremendous activity, while the latter was stagnant. The reason wasn’t race or ethnicity, except indirectly; it was because of stiff political opposition to the sort of individual enterprise among Negroes that had allowed previous waves of immigrants to get their feet on the bottom rung of the ladder of capitalism!
It’s one of the saddest and least discussed of all the tragedies of our history.
That’s so great, thank you.
Have the Irish and Italians settled on whether or not they are “white” or “black” yet (especially the Italains)? It seems to depend on how much they’ve had to drink…
My mother’s family is Calabraise. They settled in the Hudson Valley around Kingston, NY. My Great-grandfather, born in Calabria in 1858 was a stone cutter (earned his citizenship while working on the Ashokan Reservoir. He cut stone that would end up in buildings all over southern New York. He was also a gifted gardener and even managed to figure out how to grow fresh dates in upstate New York.
His eldest son by my great grandmother (his second wife), my grandfather, worked every day of his life from the age of 10. He and his brothers eventually owned their own brand of ice cream, and a relatively successful lunch counter business in Kingston.
That’s biography. Now for reality. They went to St. Coleman’s in East Kingston because the Irish went to St. Mary’s on Broadway. The German and English Catholics had their own church around the corner. That all ended over time, like it always seems to end… Mario O’Malley, and Sean Costello sort of fixed the problem.
By the early 1940′s the Italian-Irish ethnic blend had become pretty much standard. My mother’s (and her sister’s and brother’s as well) First Communion and Confirmation were performed at St. Mary’s.
My cousins are as Irish as they are Italian. (Don’t look at me.. My dad was a genuine convert, mutt – of German Jew, Cherokee, and Welsh…)
There were external differences, in the dark side of shady sort of way – for some folks, not mine… no wise guys in my family. The Irish ran the booze… worked the gambling rackets… the Italians (mostly Sicilians) ran the “insurance” business… The intermarriage settled out the civil servant pecking order, and the tendency to form family businesses (particularly service businesses). One side was the Restaurant business, while my grandmother’s family ran a laundry, dry-cleaning, and cold storage business.
It started out badly, and ended up being family. America is weird that way.
As to the Black/White thing, my father’s mother never liked my mother much, my mother returned the favor, and yes my Welsh double strict predestinationist Presbyterian paternal grandmother thought that my mother was er um… African – a mud race as she called it. Of course consistency is a matter of personal opinion I suppose… she married the son of a fallen away immigrant German Jew who married a Cherokee. Go figure.
My grandfather’s name was Francis, so’s my confirmation name, and my father’s. My mother’s name was Frances. And before the Irish New Jersey National Guard Recruiter anglicized the surname, it ended in a low vowel, too.
Ain’t the melting pot grand?
R/John – The Mighty Fahvaag
As I’ve said before (and will say again), I adore Ann Coulter and her detractors come up with the most moronic, vile, pathetic lies that it’s unconscionable any of it ever gets aired while she has to even deny some of the crap that she valiantly puts down without barely a bat of her long eyelashes.
My only little pet peeve I have with Ann is that when she gets nervous, she plays with her hair almost obsessively compulsively (touching it, running her fingers through it, swinging it side to side). It’s her version of a ‘nervous twitch’. Other than that, she’s usually cool as a cucumber and the sharpest knife in the box.
Dittos, Delia — I wish I had an “Ann Coulter Sound-alike” T-shirt! Lib women are just jealous that they can’t compete with her brains/beauty.
Perhaps I am misreading it but the way I took the passage is that thrre were white boys looking for a romantic rival, someone they knew was either black or mexican. The issue was more a jealously that would lead to murder not race that would lead to murder. The overriding issue was the idea some other guy was messing with this girl in the mind of the person or perdons willing to commit murder. The reason to be looking for someone who was not white was that was the identifying factor, not the only factor. Had the rival been a white red headed boy as an identifying feature, it would have been a white red headed boy who ended up dead whether he was the actual target or not. Someone willing to kill over a dating situation has issues beyond perceived racism. It might well have been racism but perhaps it was, I just think it is worth considering.
I may be reading the issue wrong as I stated but I do believe that was Coulters meaning.
Sicilians and blacks were both considered black, in the south. they were fighting for the same scraps off the table.
They were both dock-workers, too. Not at the top of the chain- always at the bottom. So, plenty of room for seeing graft happen right in front of their eyes, plenty of hard work, and plenty of chances to end up starved, beaten or drowned.
it’s a crab-pot thing.
Oh, I left out the best part. The Bourbon royal family was based out of southern and eastern europe. They were swarthy, at best. When they immigrated to America, they were classified as black. At least one guy crossed the color line, married down, because he just couldn’t help himself, and found himself related to half the royalty in Europe. I met the grandson. He vacations at his aunts’ house in Rome, across the street from the Colosseum, in a house that hasn’t been on the market, ever, even though it’s centuries old. He’s not a fan of American racism- it can turn a well-bred princess into a hod-carrier. That’s only supposed to happen in fairy-tales, not to his own beloved grandmother.
The Bourbons ended up doing things in the Americas like, running a post office, being a school principal, harbor master. It’s hard to think of them being God’s favorite chosen regal sun-shining out their backside, subject of artistic genius, after that.
I can’t get past Ann Coulter’s smug attitude, and “Basic Instinct” like tactics in interviews. Yes, my reaction to her is visceral. The Time cover….Do you see her brain? No, All you see is her LEGS! This is the way Ann Coulter likes it.
Sorry if I can’t respect you when you act and dress in a manner demeaning to women.
How is being hot demeaning to women? She might be the subject of John J’s reverie, but I don’t think we have video tapes of a successful John J and Ann Coulter.
She’s completely dressed in a black dress and high heels. Is she only supposed to wear polyester pants, or dresses to her ankles, or something?
I like it that she’s beautiful, modern, and apparently, somewhat terrifying perfect. I’ve never seen her on tv, I’ve just read her books. I’ve even checked her source cites. She’s always been accurate.
I think being sexually loose or predatory would be demeaning. I would think dressing up in a floppy pink vagina costume would be demeaning. I would think writing about getting crotch massages would be demeaning.
Ann Coulter’s dress stays zipped, her private life stays private, and she speaks well of her parents and siblings. What’s to be ashamed of?
[I think being sexually loose or predatory would be demeaning]
She gives the appearance in both her dress and manner that she’s “available”.
[Ann Coulter’s dress stays zipped]
but she shows a lot of cleavage for a woman who professes to be conservative.
Do a google image search for “Ann Coulter”.
And I’m not talking about stupid photo-shopped pictures.
Look; and than reconsider my opinion
I think, then, that you would find me not conservative, even though I attended and cheered at Bush 41′s convention. I think you would not find me conservative enough, even though I was a debater in high school, in suits that had been made for me, or tailored for me. I think you’d find me trampy, in a tailored Donna Karan suit. They all had miniskirts, and I still am fond of high heels, although I can’t wear them often, anymore. I think the shoes I’m obliged to wear are a crime against fashion.
For that matter, you’d think I was a slutty tramp while married and pregnant- miniskirts and tight v-neck tee-shirts, for baby one.
1940′s pin-up girls were considered alluring, despite wearing belly-bearing short shirts and little shorts b/c they were alluring. They were healthy, young, and happy. The muscle-bound young men in the US army would marry them, and they would have 4 children each. They weren’t behaving atrociously. Ann Coulter is in that sort of realm- alluring, healthy, private. Grim’n'modest oldskool only goes so far. Ann Coulter looks like a very pulled together New York denizen. She’s up against all the other businesswomen in that city. I’m a little more freeped out by the editor in long, sweeping circle skirts talking on national tv about having sex with strangers on a first hook-up date.
It might be a style thing? Smokin’ hot cheerleaders are usually the most religious ones, at least in my neighborhood. The dance-squad for the school, the captains are usually tall, blonde, fit, religious. The life-guard crew at the local pool look like a Barbie and Ken and friends convention, but each of them is deeply involved in their church, planning on military careers, or headed to nursing or medical school- not just plans, real acceptance letters. These kids really do reasonably expect to fall in love, then get married and have the first-time be their honeymoon. They get to enjoy being beautiful and young and happy.
The more liberal kids are the ones that look like shambling wrecks in baggy clothes and ill-fitting tee-shirts.
How is being “hot” relevant to a discussion about Ann Coulter????
You do realize that the photographer used a special fish-eye lens for that picture, and that the subject had no say over which one was selected by the liberal magazine, don’t you?
The legs thing on the Time cover was Time’s way of humiliating a woman who showed them up as mental-midgets. It was not her choice. Coulter has the interesting quality of being often maligned but rarely refuted.
“Coulter’s consistent placement on the bestseller lists proves that thousands of people do read her books…”
Which separates her from many liberal authors whose books are meant to be seen on the coffee table but never read. Liberals buy the new “Bill Clinton” tome to show how superior they are, Conservatives buy the new Coulter to learn something. Odd how class conscious the group who claims to be unconcerned about class actually is.
Why do libs insist on callng her ugly?
I always found her kinda hot.
I know she’d be a big pain to get in bed, but I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts you’d never, ever forget it in a million years!
Besides, she’s got that great big, smart brain in there. That’s always been a huge turn on for me. How many hours a day can you schtupp? Try spending a day by the pool with Lindsay Lohan. You’d drown yourself after ten minutes.
Noone argues facts or logic with her because I don’t belive I’ve ever known her to be the slightest bit inaccurate. She knows she’s a target, so she is very careful to source everything. She writes breezily, but if you go into her footnotes, it’s all there, and it’s airtight.
Her early support for Romney made me angry and sad. Day by day, though, I’m beginning to suspect that, once again, as usual, she was right all along.
“I always found her kinda hot”
I rest my case!
I’ve read exactly this sort of reverie about the Duggar young women, and also, the Mormon cult in Texas. People dearly wish to have sex with people who aren’t sacks of rice. Men like conservative, healthy women. Ann Coulter is pretty. If Mr John J proposed marriage to Ms Coulter, and she accepted, he’d get to be a happy man. Just because he isn’t saying marriage, you’re thinking her character is to blame.
She’d be a rape victim in any Muslim country, but you can cover a woman with a tablecloth in a Muslim country, and she’s still a rape target. You don’t even have to be a woman, to get raped. Even then, these don’t sound like happy people, in any way, shape or form.
Sorry for jumping down your throat on this one. I’ve heard it all my life, despite all evidence to the contrary. It’s really quite surreal being called trampy while wearing over-size Karl Rove giant circle glasses, no makeup, a baggy suit, and pimples. I just could talk to other people, when my debate teammates wouldn’t. I’ve been called trampy-looking in catholic school uniforms, with saddle oxford shoes. I’m thinking it’s not me, it’s the person looking.
Ann Coulter wears cocktail party dresses during the day for her media appearances. I’m guessing that maybe she grocery shops in more day to day clothes. I’m glad she does it, b/c Gloria Steinem tried to rehabilitate leftist womens’ images by wearing miniskirts. Before that, they were most famous for, well, read Wodehouse- smelliness, slovenliness, obesity, gold teeth- that sort of thing. Since most of the mothers I attend church with look more like Ann Coulter than Phyllis Schlafly, I’m really happy she’s representing accurately.
I think she wore the dress for success uniform until she decided there was more to life than working for the government, or for a think-tank. So she built a glamourous, formidable stage presence, and, totally, more power to her.
She’s kind of a benchmark for me. I was size naught before kids. In my neighborhood, most mothers look shabby and fat, or are teens. The women at church are fit, but not necessarily glamorous ( what is it with brown lipstick, anyway?) I want to go back to big hair (finally!!! finally!!! It’s grown back!!)(and I’ve got the blowdryer and brushes to master it!!) good makeup (BB cream, greatest stuff, ever) red lipstick, and heels ( chromatic gallery) and I’m getting fit, now, courtesy of Mr Reynold’s posts on fitness. So I feel very protective of her, even though she probably doesn’t need it.
“Ann Coulter wears cocktail party dresses during the day for her media appearances.”
I’m not usually one who always has to have the last word or prove my point – but please Check out what Ann wore on “The View”
An all woman interview with a viewer demographic of women ages 18–49
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/view-whoopi-goldberg-confronts-ann-coulter-race-17339061
Wow. She’s amazingly gorgeous in person. Wow.
Okay, so she’s in a teeshirt, and this is a problem how? I am really not seeing what you are seeing, and I’d like to know what upsets you, since I can’t see it.
Really, honestly, I can’t see the problem. I’ll freely admit I’m not seeing what other women see- again, I really do not get the brown lipstick look. I don’t get wrinkles, like Kathy Griffin’s clothes are disturbing in how completely awfully they fit. But the taste level, what am I missing?
So, your case is that women found to be attractive to men are somehow declasse, or trampy, or sluttish, or just what? Coulter is the sort of woman that only a VERY confident (or self-deceived) man would find attractive beyond first glance, and only some men find tall, thin women attractive at all; I do, but my tastes run to tall, thin brunettes with high cheekbones and narrow hips – never got over a fascination with Lauren Bacall and that look back over her shoulder, but then I think Coulter is really a bleach so she might actually qualify.
I think Coulter tramps it up a bit deliberately. She’s reasonably pretty, striking when fixed up, conservative, smart, and willing to be vicious; none of those things are what conservative women are supposed to be. The key to dealing with leftists, especially Alinsky-school leftists, is to never be what they expect you to be and never do what they expect you to do. Coulter is superb at, to borrow a bit of Gen. N.B. Forrest, bein’ where they ain’t.
Smart, pretty, and mean women have tremendous competitive advantage in any adversarial situation. Some men can’t bring themselves to hit a pretty girl even if she’s stabbing them with a butcher knife, other men simply can’t act on what their eyes and ears are telling them and since Coulter doesn’t behave at all like the “nice” conservative woman is supposed to behave, they don’t have clue how to deal with her. I used to manage a staff of advocates; most of them were smart, pretty, and mean women.
I don’t think any of us have a clue what the real Coulter is about: She puts on the face she keeps in a jar by the door and goes out to influence opinion and make money. When that face, and those clothes, comes off, I think there is a very different person in that skin. She can’t be a tramp. What do you think Larry Flynt would pay some guy for a credible story of shagging Ann Coulter? That’s like all the crap about Sarah Palin, at least the adult, political Sarah Palin, not the young star-struck sports reporter, as many people as there were in Alaska alone, not to speak of the rest of Country, who hated Sarah Palin, don’t you think something credible would have come out?
A woman like Ann Coulter either has to have the most incredibly discrete private life or spend a LOT of nights home alone. If you have a public life and are a conservative/Republican you have to be either Caesar’s Wife, or be totally brazen. Coulter kinda works both; she has a totally brazen public life, but nobody knows nothin’ about her private life. That tells me that she’d damned good at controlling that private life.
“Then we have those conservative snobs who complain that our side has too many polemicists already; that the troops occasionally need to be educated, not just entertained.”
I read Ann Coulter because she isn’t just another wonk. Good grief, the worlds is filled with wonks and their stats, studies, and pounderous prose (reality can only absorb so many Charles Murrays). Yes, the blogesphere is full of conservative polemecists. That is why I only read a few. And one of my first conditions upon reading a columnist is humor. The second is orginality. Coulter wins on both counts.
Satire and ridicule are potent weapons in debate. True, you never really debate leftists, they stick to fantasy and character attacks, particularly true with the utter collapse of Obama’s policies. What else can the poor crazies do? But at least Normal People can have fun sticking it to them. Coulter is tops at this.
The Bensonhurst thing wasn’t ‘racial’. They weren’t going after the guy because he was black–black was just an identifier–you know, if you’re picking someone up at the airport, being told what they look like helps.
It was a neighborhood thing. The guy they wanted to beat up was ‘in the wrong neighborhood’. In New York, that’s something that can, and does, happen to everyone, regardless of race.
Your neighborhood takes on a quasi-gang aspect. Even adults do it. Insularism. It may be a way to cope with the dense population.
I’m not a fan of Ann Coulter only because of her aggressive style. Rush has a similar style, but he is often wrong (like back when he tried claiming that black quarterbacks in the NFL got a free pass for being black) and his bombast seems only designed to draw listeners, not necessarily to get at the truth. Coulter comes off as cruel for the sport of it, but accurate anyway. Maybe I’ll buy one of her books to see if it’s more manageable in written form.
The difference between the two is twofold:
Intellect.
Education.
Rush is a half-baked conservative, and, while he’s not stupid, he’s certainly not in Coulter’s intellectual league. He may be above average intelligence, but not by much.
He’s also not well-read. Coulter is. His conservatism is honest, but not well educated. He’s got the big picture, mostly, but he’s not aware of some very important principles. Thus, he often makes major mistakes. (Like once suggesting there’s nothing particularly desirable about a balanced budget.)
Ann Coulter dares to be beautiful, fearsomely intelligent, and witty. The best part about reading an Ann Coulter book is that I know I can believe every citation and every fact she cites. If she were wrong in the tiniest detail the liberals would scream it from the rooftops.
When she started supporting Romney, I gave him a second look. As usual, long tall Annie is right. Romney is going to make a terrific President. Now if he’d only tap Ann Coulter as White House Press Secretary…
Katie, I agree that sometimes I’m also jarred in the middle of a brilliant, serious point Coulter is making with “speed-bumping…sarcastic, and sometimes obtuse, jokes.” But I’m also a (once-too-snobbish-to-read-Ann) conservative who, after forcing myself to read one of her books, now reads every one and looks forward to each new one. I especially recommend “Demonic.” Maybe she’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but she’s brilliant, entertaining, and indispensable. Liberals are going to hate any effective conservative, so there’s no point in wishing she would tone it down so they would read something she writes. Her voice is what makes her prose sparkle. Conservatives should read her for the incredible amount of factual material she musters in support of her arguments and for the laugh out loud moments that help the medicine go down.
Ah, yes, just what the doctor ordered! Dr. Marx, that is.
Anybody who doesn’t agree with Queen Coulter’s views or even her style is a hater.
No discussion needed. Dismissed.
It’s very convenient. No need for any thinking, no need for any substantial debate.
Label, and dismiss. Done.
The left uses it constantly.
We should know better.
Some of us do.
Liberal progressives have been pushing revisionist history for so long that they actually believe their own lies. All of them should check out Alfonzo Rachael, a black conservative on par with Ann Coulter. But wait….he’s….BLACK!? And CONSERVATIVE!? Well now, according to the left he’s (a) insane, (b) a race traitor, (c) Uncle Tom (which he’s proud of by the way!), (d) or a myriad of many other vile, vicious descriptions. All this from the so-called “tolerant and enlightened socially responsible, educated” left-wing. Give me a break. Ann speaks the truth vociferously and they’re all wee wee’d up because they can’t get her and many, many others to “sit down, shut up and do what you’re told” anymore.
Tavis Smiley is just dreadful. Larry Elder makes me delighted that I am on his side.
I shelled out $75(which is alot for me) to attend a dinner where Coulter was speaking. I thought it would be fun to see her in person.
I was disappointed. She reminded me of a stand-up comedian spewing a steam of one-liners. We were allowed to ask questions at the end and she completely avoided answering a very serious question from one audience member.
She’s a smart woman with a schtick. Nothing wrong with that. But the country is fighting for its very existence. I went to my tea party meeting a few days later and heard a woman speak about the Solidarity movement in Poland. She lived in Poland until 1992 and it was riveting. I couldn’t help thinking to myself if Hannity had someone like her on every night we could defeat Obama. And she spoke for free.
What I think Ann Coulter’s occasional lapses show is that she’s human. We all make mistakes, and we all have some element of bias based in visceral feelings (aka, ‘your gut’). It’s actually a bit refreshing to me to find that even Iron Ann shares some (not all, surely) of the same sorts of flaws and character defects as me.