How do otherwise intelligent progressives get so worked up over an anorexic bimbo harpy like Coulter

[Casablanca]

It's not like it's difficult to see that she becomes more bankable every time she spews some mindless, venomous comment against someone she's been programmed to attack.

So how does it benefit the liberal/progressive cause when they give her the amount of media bandwidth she's enjoyed over the last couple of weeks?

I dream of the day when Dennis Kucinich can give an entire speech that gets half of the attention one spiteful little remark from Coulter gets.

[kimmerspixelated]

1. I know!

The best thing to do to that bitch(and that's too complimenary), is to ignore her completely. She 's just being outrageous to sell,sell, sell!

[SharonAnn]

12. She hasn't aged well. She's no longer the 29 year old blond, conservative lawyer.

She's now a 40+ year old, ignorant, bitter, loser.

[Flarney]

2. I hear you, but...

...her behavior pisses me off because she's propped up by the right wing of this country and given a voice on Fox News. As long as the right accepts her as one of their spokesmen/women I think it's critical for us to raise hell.

Her ugly mug should always be relegated to "below the fold" in favor of someone like Kucinich, however. And I would appreciate never having to see her face anywhere on DU. :-)

[Casablanca]

20. "And I would appreciate never having to see her face anywhere on DU."

Right on. Any oasis of sanity in this world must be defended against the influence of raving lunatic harpies.

[Webster Green]

3. She speaks for the fascist junta..

She (and they) need to be condemned at every opportunity.

You can't simply ignore fascism and expect it to go away.

[Casablanca]

18. I can turn off the T.V. or refuse to click on a link to make her go away.

Apart from her persistent media presence, she really has no relevance to my life whatsoever. Some of her political sugar-daddies do, but that's another matter.

It's just not healthy to obsess over someone who is on the 20th+ degree of separation. It's says much more about the obsessor than the obsessee.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Maybe they're not so intelligent after all...

Coulter is a rightwing insult comic. She's not running for office or setting policy. She's not even a symbol for anything. Just a mouth who has to constantly top herself to keep her 15 minutes going.

She feeds off of the controversy and hysteria, so the best way to get rid of her is to just ignore her.

But, just like we can't easily ignore Paris Hilton or that other blonde either, we still get all het up about the latest Coulterism.

And play right into her hand, giving her more publicity.

[frankenforpres]

5. she is an attention whore

and DU is her list of johns

[JeffR]

7. Speaking just for myself

I could never be that desperate. If it came to that, I'd self-Bobbitt first.

[FiveGoodMen]

6. Every time she says something terrible...

...and no one objects, the whole country decides that maybe that kind of talk is okay.

Opposing her is the right thing to do.

[Casablanca]

16. You're right, but is raising her profile really opposing her?

Fascists absolutely must be opposed at all times, but she's the alien in the Star Trek's "The Day of the Dove" episode. The more hate you fire back at her, the richer and more powerful she gets.

My suggestion is - if you must pay attention to her, laugh at her. No matter what her response is, at least you've gotten a good laugh out of it.

Easier said than done I know, but maybe with practice it gets easier.

[FiveGoodMen]

21. You can't really tell the public that you oppose what she said...

...without calling attention to who it was that said it.

Privately laughing at her doesn't tell the world that you think she's wrong, and publicly laughing at her is still calling attention to her.

I say we call bullshit every time she opens her damned mouth. That not only calls attention to her, it also calls attention to us saying, "Bullshit!"

[Casablanca]

23. I don't believe the world needs to be told that she's full of it.

She's been around long enough for people to have figured it out one way or the other. Either they're invested in her bullshit, in which case they'll never agree with you, or they're not and you don't have to convince them.

If it's somebody who matters, someone with real power like Romney or Inhofe I'd agree with you. But the end of the day, Coulter is nothing more than a blowhard buffoon - cheap entertainment, and calling her on the bullshit that she doesn't even believe herself is just futile. To me, her and people like her are just good for a laugh, and that's about it.

[Madspirit]

25. Exactly

It probably does pump her up every time we respond but not responding would send a bad message and would be worse, imo, in the long run.
Lee

[pnwmom]

8. In my case, it's because I know that some people --

including some of my (more distant) relatives -- actually enjoy listening to her.

It is sickening to know that it isn't just Ann -- that she speaks for others.

[Casablanca]

19. Good thing they're distant relatives. nt

[Crunchy Frog]

9. I'm bothered because the mainstream media gives her such a large platform.

She wouldn't bother me at all if she were just some whack job screeching on a street corner. It's the fact that the media, and major figures in the Repubic party give her a platform to spew from that's the problem. I'm really alot more upset with them than I am with her.

It would be great if progressives got even a fraction of the media access that fascists like Coulter are given.

[Irreverend IX]

13. They give her a platform, but they don't give her any respect.

Coulter is a political freak show who's good for an occasional ratings boost. Nothing more. She's too vulgar to be held up as a real conservative mouthpiece, and chances are she does more harm than good for the Repubs. I haven't heard of any prominent GOP politicians supporting her.

[Beaverhausen]

10. She was introduced by a republic front-runner for President

What she says at official republican events is very important. It very much matters - especially if they don't denounce her once and for all.

[Casablanca]

17. If she's standing with the current Republican frontrunners for credibility ...

... she really isn't someone to worry about. It looks like they're all seriously lacking in the cred dept. to me.

[GreenInNC]

11. Don't call her a bimbo

You are giving bimbos a bad name.

[Parisle]

14. "Intelligent progressives?"

--- It doesn't matter whether it's Britney, or Anna Nicole, or Coulter. The WWF and Entertainment Tonight crowd can't resist. The DU has 100,000 members,.... which is approximately the same number of "intelligent progressives" as may be found in the entire United States. Democratic party affiliation is good,...... well, better than republican affiliation, anyway.... but it ain't magic.

[opihimoimoi]

15. How old is she??? Looks like 57 and a bag of shit....

[Bake]

22. Can't we agree not to make jokes about anorexia?

It's a terrible disease that can kill, and does in fact kill a lot of people who are almost exclusively women. Surely we can do better than to make jokes about it.

While we're at it, "bimbo" and "harpy" are pejorative terms that are used almost to demean people. Can't we as progressives/liberals agree not to use such terms even about our worst enemies? Aren't we better than that?

Really!

Bake

[Trajan]

24. If you have to ask this question ....

Plastering her mean-ass face, spewing her awful hatred, day after day, on TV screens everywhere; drills home the point with the public at large ..... Strike while the iron is hot, they say, and so we should whack on poor annie whem she is down .....

Whack her hard, and dont stop ....

I dont understand WHY the apoplexy of a few seems reason enough to STOP attacking that ugly-hearted neanderthal ..... WHY let up on her ? ..... WHY go easy on her ? .....

She makes them look bad, and the more the middle sees of her, the more they will associate her ugliness with her party .....

Dont just refuse to look this gift horse in the mouth .... take that horse to dinner, and mill it's oats with cold hard rock ..... That is one damned FINE horse .....