I just started reading Ann Coulter’s newest book, Guilty. Coincidentally I ran across a couple related items, so here they are. First are the videos of her at CPAC this year. She was fairly tame, no huge gaffes that I noticed, just a few jokes that fell flat. I think part of that is just her delivery.
And lest people think this was just an Obama bash, she actually slammed McCain more.
Her best line might be where she notes that the media constantly compares Obama to Lincoln and Reagan, and observes that they can’t seem to find a Democrat to compare him to…that or her young and pretty remark about the View…
Then I found this review of her book, and discovered that someone else appreciates Coulter’s cander.
Ann Coulter’s new book Guilty, has been my bedside reading lately. So far, it’s terrific.
You know, it’s funny. When a mainstream critic calls a book or movie outrageous, daring, shocking, or revolutionary, it usually means it’s the same old boring stuff: someone bares his ass or curses out Jesus or attacks some vestige of decency or honor that’s managed to survive the cultural locusts. It’s all so groundbreaking you can hardly keep from snoring.
Whether it’s Tony Snow’s cancer, the comparative good intentions of Hitler and Stalin, or the urgent need for a military coup, no one does “satire” like HuffPo. How bad is this one? So bad that even the blogosphere’s most notorious comment section is put off by it, although stick with the debate long enough and you’ll see it ends up where all progressive line-crossing eventually does, in a contest between the self-congratulatory “I’m tired of being morally superior to the wingnuts” and the equally self-congratulatory “we must remain morally superior to the wingnuts.” I didn’t read to the end but I’m pretty sure it ends in a draw.
Ann Coulter versus Alan Colmes on her Comments about Jews. I post this not because Ann is a great theologian, but because Ann is a fighter.
Ann was pressed by Alan on her anti Semitic comments and he attempted to toss off a an underhanded insult about 4 minutes into this.
What I like is that Ann will have none of his condescension. About 1 minute left in the clips she reverses the attack, and pins him to the wall.
In other words, she fought back instead of accepting the insult.
Whether she is on sound doctrinal footing or not in the classic Christian v Judaism debate is not relevant, what is relevant is that she believes what she does and defends it.
In a world where many Christians defer to political correctness and soft sell, I find anyone who stands firm somewhat invigorating. I may not always agree with her, but I have to respect her passion.
And I wish more conservatives would take a page from her book (no pun intended) and stop making nice and fight for their beliefs. Too often the liberals win by default when the conservatives fall back on sensibility and politeness.
One of my all time favorite TV shows is the 80’s and 90’s sitcom Roseanne.
Roseanne when it came out could have been a portrait of my life. At the time I was not well off financially, and was dealing with a lot of stress and unhappiness with laughter and sarcasm.
It was one of the first sitcoms to portray what life for most working class people was like: A struggle with highs and lows. It also, as Roseanne Barr notes in her DVD commentary, clearly showcases the disconnect in class in America.
But. One of the things I do struggle with is Roseanne herself, the actress, the comedienne and the activist.
I perused her blog and was shocked at how she can flip from crazy to wacky in no time at all.
Here are some examples from Roseanne World. WARNING: EXTREME LANGUAGE AHEAD
Those who read here often know I like Ann Coulter. She is frank and harsh but more often then not, right on the mark when she goes after the liberals in America.
But not infallible, as this piece shows. In this article she attacks people who dislike the front runners (Guliani and Romney) for not being conservative enough and are gravitating to Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson.
I admit that neither of these two are flashy and they are certainly not neo cons, but they are often solid and sensible, and do reflect conservative values. I think that she is missing that in her desire to promote a hardline conservative candidate.
And in Thompson’s case, her dislike of him is centrally based on his vote in the Clinton impeachment, and in my opinion, she is cutting off her nose to spite her face.
Conservatives unhappy with our Republican presidential candidates seem to be drifting aimlessly toward Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee in the misguided belief that these candidates are more conservative than Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney. This is like breaking up with Bobby Brown so you can date Phil Spector.
From the halls of Malibu tto the shores of Kennedy
Democrats claim Gen. David Petraeus’ report to Congress on the surge was a put-up job with a pre-ordained conclusion. As if their response wasn’t.
Democrats yearn for America to be defeated on the battlefield and oppose any use of the military – except when they ccan find individual malcontents in the military willing to denounce the war aand call for a humiliating retreat.
It’s been the same naysaying from these people since before we even invaded Iraq – despite the fact that their representatives in Congress voted in favor of that war.
Mark Bowden, author of “Black Hawk Down,” warned Americans in the Aug. 330, 2002, Los Angeles Times of 60,000 to 100,000 dead American troops if we invaded Iraq – comparing an Iraq war to Vietnam and a Russian battlee in Chechnya.
The Ann and Liz show continues and as usual people spend most of the time accusing Ann of saying things she did not say. Take this link for example, where they gleefully chortle that:
Yes, she is upset, and when the left continually misrepresents you it has to be frustrating. But she did not call any specific person a harridan, she made a unspecific reference to being attacked by Harridans. No where did she point a finger, and Liz is not the only female to challenge her, so this is more grandstanding.
An obviously angry Ann Coulter this morning ripped into critics who deliberately distorted her comments about former senator and presidential hopeful John Edwards.
After a relentless 24-hour firestorm during which much of the mainstream media used selective quotes to mangle the meaning of several of Ann’s comments about Edwards, Coulter set the record straight while talking with Joe Scarborough host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program.
I hate saying I told you so, but I did. In all my posts, comments and responses to Ann faggot joke, I have consistently maintained she was making an attempted joke using the Greys Anatomy star Isaiah Washington’s rehab for saying fag as her barb against political correctness. I understood the context, even if it was so obscure it fell flat and bombed.
Ann appeared and defended her remarks on Hannity and Colmes tonight and validated my analysis. Democrat Pat Caddell even got it. He also gets the money quote by noting that people take this stuff too seriously.
Ann’s only disconnect is that she just didn’t think it (her joke) bombed, but what comedian likes to admit they bombed?
Video is at Hot Air. Here is a poor quality You Tube version. The video is shakey, but the audio is clear.
A summary:
Ann Coulter appeared on Hannity & Colmes tonight, her first television presence since making her infamous “faggot” remark at CPAC last week. Coulter said she used “faggot” in the context of “wuss” and added it was a “schoolyard taunt” and a “sophomoric” joke. Hannity brought up all the names Ann has been called over the years. One of the left’s favorites seems to be “Man Coulter.” Haha, get it?
Whenever I see a post on Memeorandum, and I see equal numbers of liberal and conservative bloggers referenced, I get nervous. Seeing such unity should be a good thing, but while I trust the motives of many conservatives to be at least marginally altruistic, I do not trust the likes of HuffPo or Wonkette to be anything of the sort, and if they team up with conservatives, it is because they see a way to slap the conservatives down.
Such is the case of Ann Coulter. Leaving the content of her remarks aside, and if you are curious, I blogged my thoughts several times previously, the big issue now is what to do about what she said.
As she spoke only for herself, I have no need to do anything but blog and behave in a manner that represents my true values. Neither does any other blogger on the face of the earth, including Ann.
And I appreciate how so many conservatives took time to condemn her remarks. But it should end there, end with her rebuke by her peers. Instead the conservatives are planning a boycott of Ann from speaking at the next CPAC:
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