Ann Coulter: The blonde assassin (The Independent Interviews Ann)

[Khephra]

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Not that she would care. Her next book, due out in October, is called How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must). And even this relatively emollient title is a concession. "They pushed this title on me," Coulter says when we meet at Orsay, a brasserie on the Upper East Side of New York. "All my titles were much more vicious. What I didn't like about How to Talk to a Liberal is that I really think the best way to talk to one is to hit them in the head with a baseball bat. So I threw in the parenthetical If You Must."

So far, one may be inclined to agree with Franken's description of her as a "nutcase". And that she may well be. But what makes Coulter different and - from a liberal point of view - deeply dangerous is that her remarks are so outrageously off-the-planet that you can't quite believe she is genuine. When this attractive, smartly dressed woman delivers a line like a dash of iced water across the face, the listener gasps and laughs, because she sounds like a comedy caricature of a right-winger. Surely she can't mean that, you think. Her appalling fascination lies in the fact that she does.

Within minutes of our sitting down, the conversation turns to the position of expat Pakistanis in the social hierarchies of the Middle East. "They're never very high in anyone's caste system, are they," Ann volunteers. "Poor little Pakis." The photographer and I look at each other. Did she really say that? But it's just an amuse-bouche to prepare us for what is to come.

We move on to education. "To get into university without achievement or grades, you wanna have a name like Shafiqua, Jeffrika or Leroy," says Ann, who is not a fan of racial quotas. Learning difficulties are a cover for "rich parents with dumb kids". "That's why 'Pinch' Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, is alleged to have dyslexia - because he's retarded. Do you guys even have dyslexia?"

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=551959

[slutticus]

1. "Attractive"?

Ummmm....NO.

[colonel odis]

2. "racist"?

um, yes.

[Rich Hunt]

16. love those names

Umm....isn't 'Leroy' a little out of date? She needs to update her database of stereotypically 'Black' names.

[bogey18]

3. Somethng about this woman really scares me

Maybe it is the fact that she is listened to at all. It is as if you took the most venal skinhead and dressed him up in a blonde wig he would suddenly be considered intelligent and witty and start appearing on talk shows.

[kskiska]

4. I would think she'd want to stay far away from the subject

of learning difficulties/dyslexia. Considering the figurehead of the administration she's promoting…

[Tim4319]

5. She really need some therapy!

She must have been abused or something in her younger years. She need to revisit some of those demons and talk about some of her issues. She is completely out of line!

[Skittles]

10. I agree

she is one sick, hateful wench

[hatrack]

6. Already passe and pointless, soon Little Annie will be old and ugly

And when she arrives at the point where other guests at the cocktail party wonder what the hell she's doing in a miniskirt, by the admittedly low standards of her "journalistic" profession, her last remaining shreds of marketability will evaporate.

I foresee a future for her in which makeup is applied with increasing indifference over time, in which chain-smoking no longer produces a sexy Bacall-esque huskiness but only increased phlegm-horching, and a luxury condominium strewn with Lean Cuisine cartons and reeking of cat urine.

[The Icon Painter]

15. Cat-Urine?

No self-respecting (and there are no other) cat would live with her.

[hatrack]

22. This is true - even felines have standards!

I just have this image of her as an agoraphobic.

Many years from now she'll be discovered by the local fire department, her skin fused with the fabric of the couch she dare not leave for fear that the liberals will "get" her, the channel on her dusty analog television set permanently on Fox News.

[Bundbuster]

21. Thanks for the vision, hatrack

Too funny at 5 a.m.

[carlvs]

7. My solution to the Coulter "Problem..."

Bring back dueling.

If she had defend her opinions with her life, I could forsee one of two outcomes:

1. She would suddenly become a lot more circumspect in what comes out her mouth, or (more likely :7 )

2. She wouldn't live long enough to write anything else.

Either option would be fine with me! :evilgrin:

[newyawker99]

11. Hi carlvs!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Liberal Gramma]

14. If only!

I love your solution. She acts the way she does because she gets so much reinforcement from the RW media: they love her "refreshing candor." I see her as just a little worse than Eva Braun.

[justgamma]

8. Wasn't she talking about Shrub? (sarcasm off)

We move on to education. "To get into university without achievement or grades, you wanna have a name like Shafiqua, Jeffrika or Leroy," says Ann, who is not a fan of racial quotas. Learning difficulties are a cover for "rich parents with dumb kids". "That's why 'Pinch' Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, is alleged to have dyslexia - because he's retarded. Do you guys even have dyslexia?"

[smirkymonkey]

9. "Rich Parents With Dumb Kids"?

She must be speaking of the Bushes.

She needs to put in a strait-jacket and locked away for good.

[Jack Rabbit]

12. Salzberger is retarded?

Or for that matter dumb? That's news to me.

I was unaware that Mr. Salzberger is dyslexic. Perhaps he is. That doesn't make him dumb, let alone retarded. It certainly doesn't make him retarded. Neither does disagreeing with Ms. Coulter, although it Ms. Coulter would dispute that.

Of course, I didn't know she think liberals are retarded. I thought that she thinks liberals are treacherous.

Either way, we'll just dismiss it tasteless hyperbole and nonsense. The remarks are, after all, from the mouth of Ann Coulter.

[colonel odis]

13. seems like she can only get herself booked on hannity and comes

and joe scarborough. the bottom of the television barrel.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

17. Holy shit..

Utterly scary.

How is she not in a mental asylum yet? She's quite literally insane.

Great read, by the way.

[Xipe Totec]

18. Ya know, In Texas Her Language Is Fighting Words

And you are entitled to use deadly force to defend yourself against loss of life, loss of property, or threat of injury.

"I really think the best way to talk to one is to hit them in the head with a baseball bat."

You can get away with that kind of mouthing off in New York, but even liberals have gun racks in Texas.

I know. I lived there for most of my life.


:grr:

[Logansquare]

19. Well, UK *does* have people like Ann Coulter

but they are relegated to ranting on street corners. Only in this country can she elevated to the level of a commentator.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. She MUST be a liberal plant

The one redeeming quality of Soviets is that they were... white. Wow.

She's an asset to us, people. Let's not squander it. Spread articles like these, accompanied by praises she gets at freerepublic and the like.

Wow.

[Rey Pygsterio]

23. The only person suitable to debate Coulter is Vince McMahon

Ann Coulter is straight pro wrestling. The only person she should be allowed to debate on television is someone who is equally out there -- someone like Vince McMahon. Otherwise, these shows that put her on are doing us all an injustice to even enter her into the marketplace of ideas. We all can thank Geraldo for giving her this celebrity, and all probably just because he wanted to sleep with her (and I would say he probably did but I really think Coulter is a repressed lesbian).

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