The Madness of Ann Coulter

[Akoto]

Does anyone else think this lady is completely off her rocker? I responded to a thread earlier about her plagiarism, and this got me thinking about all the crazy stuff she's said. Is she messed up, or expressing the true Republican thought process, or both? Here's a few quotes for your enjoyment, taken from AntiCoulter.com and other websites.

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."

"When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors."

"There are no good Democrats."

COULTER: I take the biblical idea. God gave us the earth.
PETER FENN (Democratic strategist): Oh, OK.
COULTER: We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees.
FENN: This is a great idea.
COULTER: God says, "Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours."
FENN: Terrific. We're Americans, so we should consume as much of the earth's resources...
COULTER: Yes! Yes.
FENN: ... as fast as we possibly can.
COULTER: As opposed to living like the Indians.

"Cheney is my ideal man. Because he's solid. He's funny. He's very handsome. He was a football player. People don't think about him as the glamour type because he's a serious person, he wears glasses, he's lost his hair. But he's a very handsome man. And you cannot imagine him losing his temper, which I find extremely sexy. Men who get upset and lose their tempers and claim to be sensitive males: talk about girly boys. No, there's a reason hurricanes are named after women and homosexual men, it's one of our little methods of social control. We're supposed to fly off the handle.

"Liberals don't try to win arguments, they seek to destroy their opponents and silence dissident opinions." (Slander, p. 91)

"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building." (Ann Coulter in a New York Observer interview, 8/20/2002)

[rodeodance]

1. She is greedy--interested in making $$--and she is suceeding-whether

she is truely mad or not--it does not matter. There are stupid people ready to listen to her vile-and believe.

[HockeyMom]

2. Coulter was born too late and in the wrong country

[BrklynLiberal]

3. She is in need of intense therapy, heavy duty drugs, and time away from

other people. If she did not have the background she has, and/or she was less "attractive", she would have been locked away in some attic or basement long ago...or more likely, just totally ignored by everyone.

[4 t 4]

4. YUCK!!

She is Vile and completely insane.

[sakabatou]

5. Yeah.

She fell off her rocker when she was born out of the ugly tree and hit quite a few branches on the way down.

[GeekMonkey]

14. then she rolled out into ugly street and

got run over by the ugly truck

[acmejack]

6. I think she is more like a professional wrestler

A showperson. She is unquestionably very bright. Magna cum laude at Michigan and Michigan Law, editor of college bar review.

She is playing a role. Irresponsible to be sure, but lucrative without doubt.

edited for style.

[4 t 4]

7. ugly tree

hee hee hee

[Lannes]

17. I agree.Like Ron Reagan told her once

Its just shtick.Dangerous and backwards but in the end just shtick.

[OrlandoGator]

8. She's not insane, she just intentionally appeals to a specific segment.

She's a very saavy businesswoman. It's all about money and fame.

[quiet.american]

9. Her comments about Cheney seal it: verdict -- she's BONKERS! n/t

[mnmoderatedem]

10. Cheney does not lose his temper?!?

go fuck yourself Ann. :evilgrin:

[insane_cratic_gal]

11. She's completely Psychotic!

she's also an complete and total idiot if you listen to her. I don't know who she stuffed to get where she is, maybe Limbaugh or O'Lielly, but it wasn't her well manners and articulate manner of speaking that won her anything.

Come on! "The earth is yours rape it it's yours." She also wants to bomb the entire Arab nation.

[yurbud]

12. maximal conservatisim--in a fundamentalist movement, furthest out wins

any argument.

An Oxford don, James Barr, wrote this about christian fundamentalists.

So if someone says the Bible is God's inspired mistake-free word and better than all other books,they can be trumped by someone who says the Bible is the only book you should read. If you disagree, you sound like a theological liberal.

Ann Coulter essentially does that for the right. In the political realm, it has the added advantage of pulling the debate further right, and desensitizing people to threats and hatred as acceptable means of political discourse.

What has scared me the most about this right wing movement is that the gap between their hateful rhetoric and actual actions has closed. First you heard this nutty out there stuff only from Rush, Ann, O'Reilly, and Mike Savage. Then it became acceptable for congressmen and senators to talk like that, even on the floor of Congress. And it is being enacted into law. The last step they have to go is to tell their followers to go Hutu on us. Their invasion of a vote counting location in 2000 was the first hint of direct violence.

That seems a little less likely now that they are significantly below 50% in the polls and not all would heed the call anyway, but with their back against the wall and Bush and/or Cheney looking at prison as well as impeachment (impeachment at least is likely if they lose control of one of the houses of Congress), they could ratchet up the rhetoric a notch, add a terrorist attack, and send the religious right and paranoid schizophrenics out to protect the rule of their dear leader from his enemies.

Hillbilly Hitler art:



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[Dulcinea]

13. She's nothing but a right-wing shock jock.

She'll do anything for attention. Pathetic.

[NoSheep]

15. Agreed. Shock Jock (that could use a tranquilizer dart)

[NewJeffCT]

16. She is a big asset to the RW

She puts 'opinions' out there that are so far right that they are insanely ludicrous and way out of the mainstream. However, whenever a Republican comes along that is slightly more sane than her, it makes said Republican look moderate by comparison - "oh, at least he's not as whacky as that Coulter woman..." Coulter & Free Republican blast Roberts for the Supreme Court, and that makes radical cleric Jerry Falwell look more moderate when he said he was pleased with Roberts.

It's how the RW has kept slowly moving the debate further & further right where centrists from 30-40 years ago are now "liberals"

Look at it this way:
Barry Goldwater in 1964 - radical conservative extremist so far out of the mainstream that he lost in an historic landslide.
John McCain in 2005 - respected maverick "moderate" Republican that even some on DU seem to like.

On the issues:
Goldwater: pro-choice; McCain: anti-choice
Goldwater: pro-environment; McCain: not the best ally of the environment
Goldwater: pro gays in the military; McCain: against gays in the military, not sure on "don't ask, don't tell"

Who is more of a moderate?

[ComerPerro]

18. Not that I needed further evidence that she was insane, but...

DAMN

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. What a horrible, hateful person she is.

[applegrove]

20. She has her scripted role to play. She teaches the humor of anti-empathy

which kids get over in school but that sociopaths use their whole lives (not having the ability to self reflect). She also plays the fridge to make nutty freepers feel at home with the GOP and moderates feel like most Repukes are not as bad as her.

She is part of the team.

Right now she is calling Roberts too liberal. That is to make him look better to Democrats.

IMHO - she is just there to help frame at the fringe end of the Repuke message.