Why I love Ann Coulter

January 13, 2009 · Posted in People in the news, Personal Blogs, Political Figures, Politics, RNC 

Yep, I enjoy her existence. I don’t particularly care for her persona, her constant desire to be in the limelight or the depths to which she will stoop to be the center of attention, and I certainly don’t agree with a thing she says. So why do I love her?

She’s a constant reminder of why I love my country.

I’m not sure that Ann Coulter has even made a point without bending and stretching the truth as if facts were one of those stress relieving items that just have no purpose in life unless they are twisted and crunched into an unrecognizable mess, but my point is that she can. Her credibility seems to be directly related to the size of her big brass balls. She’s like a bull in the china-shop of truth who after her Tasmanian-devil style rant, comes out with perfectly coiffed hair – no worse for the wear.

She has an audience, her books sell. I’m not sure if anyone actually believes the crap she spews out, but thanks to good ol’ American capitalism, she’s a success.

Not surprising, she has a new book out and she she’s on a press tour for it. Sometimes I think she churns out the books not so much to educate anyone on a particular subject, but merely for the fact of having something to talk about so can go on these press tours. She revels in the arguments she gets into with the liberal media and she tosses her blond tresses in a manner that shows she’s not really listening to the interviewer but knows that her points are crap so she expects the questions and has canned answers ready when she hears key words from the host. But again, she has an audience. Those who love her for her big cojones , and those who hate her existence. She thrives off both.

Truth be told, I can’t watch an interview with her without yelling at the TV. But I watch anyway for a few reasons:

1. Makes me appreciate the fact I’m not in a political group for whom she is a talking head. I couldn’t fathom being a part of an organization or movement that relied on her to get any message across. Her fact-tangling approach to most issues removes any credibility she may have on any relevant agenda item.

2. Gives me things to think about when I’m in a political discussion. Her mannerisms and approach are so polarizing that it’s almost like a “what not to do when trying to make a point and be taken seriously’ seminar.

3. Her confidence. We can learn from her ability to look you straight in the eyes and tell you the sun is bitterly cold and scoff at you when you point out scientific proof that it is, in fact hot, you liberal idiot.

4. I’m rubber and you’re glue whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you, you liberal idiot.

5. She is taking full advantage of her American rights and I hope she truly appreciates it. Nevermind the fact that she’s the two steps back for each step forward good, smart female political pundits  have made (on both sides, thank you) I really hope that she appreciates and thanks whatever god her close-minded little heart worships that someone decided to give  Republican Barbie a microphone and there are people who believe her outrageousness, just because it sounds so far out there, it must be true.

A few of her wonderfully classy quotes:

“I was going to have a few comments about John Edwards but you have to go into rehab if you use the word faggot.” –at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference

“These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by griefparrazies. I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s deaths so much.” -on 9/11 widows who have been critical of the Bush administration (note: nobody, except of course her, who is cashing in on slamming them)

“We need to execute people like (John Walker Lindh) in order to physically intimidate liberals.” (note: she calls Obama ‘B. Hussein Obama’ because of the fear that name instills but you notice she’ll use Walker Lindh and not refer to Bush as ‘G. Walker Bush’”)

“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.”  – Days after September 11 attacks

“Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots.”
“Press passes can’t be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the President.” (note: I find this particularly nasty, its because of women like Ms. Thomas who helped pave the way for women in political reporting)

Seriously Ann, stay classy. And thanks for reminding me how free this country still is.

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6 Responses to “Why I love Ann Coulter”

  1. they on January 13th, 2009 9:38 pm

    I know exactly what you mean. I think you hit the nail right on the head. She is like a train wreck, you do not want to look, but you just can’t help but stare and hope there is something you can do to help. The great thing about statistics is you can make them say virtually anything you want, and Ann has perfected using stats to make her points seem valid.

    I remember walking into an acquaintances home after playing golf one day, and on his book shelves were several Ann Coulter books. I pointed out that he had quite a few books by her (expecting him to say he reads them for fun or something like that) and he goes into a rant about how great she is and how brilliant she is. I knew at that moment we would not have a strong social relationship going forward if I let politics become a topic of conversation, so I specifically avoided letting it ever come up again.

    I can understand reading her books to hear what she has to say, but I can not understand reading her books, and then coming to the conclusion that she is a social and moral leader, or thinking her rhetoric is somehow enlightened.

  2. we on January 14th, 2009 7:22 am

    She is the Republican Arianna Huffington. If the Dems will get rid of Huffington, we will get rid of Coulter. Fair trade.

  3. they on January 14th, 2009 7:27 am

    Hold your horses there brother. You already gave the Democrats Arianna Huffington, remember she used to be a Republican. I have heard through the grapevine they are willing to give up any Kennedy, current or future. No seriously, take them please.

  4. we on January 14th, 2009 7:33 am

    Can we trade Bush’s for Kennedy’s?

  5. She on January 14th, 2009 7:57 am

    It is my opinion that Coulter is purposefully more polarizing and extreme in her tactics than Huffington (and well, just about everyone) and when someone needs to resort to some of the levels to which Coulter has stooped just to get attention, it makes me question their point to begin with.

  6. Oakleaf Mold on January 14th, 2009 8:25 am

    I admire Ann Coulter and enjoy her immensely. She’s as brilliant and effective an entertainer as we have here in America, a wildly gifted performer who, as the other commentators have pointed out, possesses a deep understanding of her audience and the buttons she needs to push to clean out their wallets.

    I’ve noted on a few recent interviews that her routine has evolved, following Barack Obama’s election. While the right was clinging to power her bluster was all about anger and active vengeance on the myriad forces at work to destroy the lives and undermine the values of good, hardworking, clean, white, christian americans–god bless her. In short, she was the voice of power, of the new sheriff here to clean up town once and for all.

    Lately, she has returned to the politics of victimization. In interviews on The View (look on youtube) and the morning show with Meredith Vierra (nbc?) she immediately and repeatedly guided the discussion to how shabbily she was treated, how disrespectful the hosts were, how they wouldn’t let her make her points. It was brilliant. She would interupt herself and say “if you’d just let me finish” etc, even though no one else was speaking, giving the impression that she was struggling against mighty forces of censorship focused on repressing her bold and selfless message. This followed on the heels of her manufactured claims that NBC had banned her from it’s show.

    Of course it is a calculated tack. The winds have changed, and she knows it. The Obama administration will be a gold mine for Coulter and her ilk. After all, it’s difficult to make a living as an outraged right wing commentator when it’s your side in the driver’s seat. Remember back in the 90’s when the right whipped up the issue of alienated, disenfranchised working class white men? Now that we have a President who is only half white, we’ll see that again. She is once again positioning herself as the bitter, repressed outsider desperately trying to communicate the truth.

    Should be fun.

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