Ok, stop hating, sit down and clear your mind. You may want to skip this interview if you are already on drugs.
As much as I'd like to slap every ugly thing right out of that turd launcher she calls a mouth, Ann apparently has a human side.
She's a Deadhead!!? (67 shows qualifies in my book.)
http://www.jambands.com/Features/content_2006_06_23.06.phtml"Deadheads Are What Liberals Claim to Be But Aren't":
An Interview with Ann Coulter
Taylor Hill
2006-06-23
When I called the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute, whose chairwoman gives speeches on topics with titles like "The Failures of Feminism", and told the gatekeeper there that I wanted to do an interview with Ann Coulter solely about the Grateful Dead, there was a small pause. Then she recovered and politely told me to send her an e-mail, which she would forward to Ann. That, I expected, would be the end of it.
When I got home that night, and saw an e-mail in my box from Ann Coulter, I thought "how polite of her to send a rejection letter rather than simply ignoring my proposal." Instead, I found that she had somehow written "I'd love to! Good website!" While she was delayed by a round of speeches to make up due to strep throat, and other events life throws out, we kept shooting e-mails back and forth and I discovered a secret that I will reveal despite the damage to her reputation that it may cause: Ann is really cool and really funny. The few friends I talked with about this said "What? You of all people are getting along with Ann Coulter?!" It was easy and simple to do: we never talked policy. It was a joy talking with her, even if we don't agree on everything (most politics, and "Alabama Getaway" sucks).
What followed was the most surreal interview I have ever done in my life. It involves smearing oneself with purple Crisco, Kanye (Ann's a fan), slews of Reagan and Bush appointees leaving the Justice Department to go to Dead shows, lamentation for the neglected "Pride of Cucamonga," getting inside info on the Monica Lewinsky scandal by being a Deadhead, and saying goodbye to Jerry in Golden Gate Park. Some of her answers WILL piss people off, but there's no doubting her tie-dyed credentials – even if the dye is much more red than blue. Her latest book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, was published earlier this month.
Taylor Hill: When and how was your first Dead show?
Ann Coulter: I have no recollection of it whatsoever, other than that it was awesome.
TH: When and how was your last Dead show?
AC: I have no recollection of it whatsoever, other than that it was awesome. Actually, my last Dead show wasn't quite a Dead show since Jerry wasn't there, but I flew out to the Jerry Garcia memorial in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco with a fellow Deadhead from D.C. the weekend after Jerry went to the great psychedelic rock concert in the sky. The rest of the band played and it was great to be with my fellow Deadheads. It was very sad after Jerry died, not because I felt like I had a psychic connection to him or anything, but only because something really fun I liked to do, I couldn't do anymore. It would be as if all ski resorts just shut down one day. So the Golden Gate Park memorial was a good way to end it.
TH: How many Dead shows did you see?
AC: I used to keep all my ticket stubs from Dead shows – it was just something Deadheads did, like keeping lists of songs – but I didn't know why. So, in a lunatic cleaning frenzy around 1990, I threw them all out – as if a small section of a drawer devoted to Dead ticket stubs was messing up the whole place. After Jerry died, I said, “Eureka! That's why we keep ticket stubs!” These are usually the sort of factual minutiae Deadheads excel at, but I failed because of my OCD cleaning obsession. So I'm not exactly, precisely 100 percent sure. I frantically tried to figure it out by checking with some of my fellow Deadheads after Jerry died and adding up the number of shows we had been to together, and I estimated it was about 67 shows. And they were awesome.
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Ugh, ok, you can go back to hating her now. God, how I would love to deliver a pie right at that man's face, but her adam's apple would probably block it. See? It's fun to hate! (hehehe) She sure asks for it!!
More on this from Wonkette:
http://www.wonkette.com/Pelosi's party yesterday opened with GD/Phish/Allman Bros. jam band
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/85320/What_A_Long_Strange_Trip_It_s_BeenGuess This Is What They Mean By San Francisco Values (Pelosi is a big GD fan.)
http://www.sfist.com/archives/2007/01/05/guess_this_is_what_they_mean_by_san_francisco_values.phpWashington Post article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/05/AR2007010500066.htmlSometimes I have to wonder if people like O'Liely and MAnn just act like idiots because their shtick is making them lots of money.
How could any sensible person possibly believe the vile nonsense that they spew??? I don't get it. What happened to poor Ann?
SR
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