<p>“It was really nice how Coulter called the wives of the 9/11 victims “witches”. A class act, that woMAN. A real class act.”</p>
<p>I think you may have missed the point. It is SATIRE. Coulter is a left-liberal, tweaking the noses of the Republican Right, and they are paying her well to do it. And everytime her satire is adopted by the RRs as real, she pushes the envelope a little bit further. I think she’s GREAT! and wish her political compatriot Michael Moore was as astute as she is.</p>
<p>I have listened to Coulter’s hysterical bigoted blather. I don’t find it in the slightest satirical. I think it is out and out xenophobia…and worse.</p>
<p>Lizschup, is your husband working for Ned Lamont? I made a donation to his campaign a couple of months ago. It’s great that he’s doing so well! And the lunch must have been interesting.</p>
<p>I haven’t read CTG - I feel that I know exactly what’s in it, so I haven’t felt any urge to. But I guess I should one of these days.</p>
<p>NYmomof2,</p>
<p>You are correct - it is Ned Lamont but I didn’t want to say because the commercial wasn’t my husband’s idea - he got brought in on the tail end to produce it but is now working on several new ones. He’s working with the guy that did the famous Wellstone commercials - some of the best political commercials ever done in my opinion and half the reason Wellstone got noticed way back when. H was very impressed with Ned Lamont - thought he was smart, sincere, humble and hard working.</p>
<p>Mini,
Are you kidding about Anne Coulter or writing a little satire yourself? She appeals to a segment of the Angry Right that Rush misses - educated, uptight, upwardly mobiles who define success in terms of how much money they made and who they stepped on to get it.</p>
<p>No, I think her goal (as a liberal) is to caricature the Right, and take money off them at the same time. And I think she is very gifted at it.</p>
<p>In that case, she sure is putting herself through hell to make a buck - assuming she even needs another buck.</p>
<p>Side note: I don’t ordinarily think much of intraparty challenges, e.g., I thought Marcy Winograd challenging Jane Harman was the height of idiocy. I’ve made two exceptions: Ciro Rodriquez over Henry Cuellar and Ned Lamont over Joe Lieberman. The latter is this cycle’s Zell Miller and I’m only slightly surprised he hasn’t gotten a hickey from Bush.</p>
<p>Ann Coulter is secretly a liberal?
I suppose that would be why she contribvuted to Pat Buchanans campaign?
rthat would be why she called Muslims “ragheads” and said she would rather beat a liberal with a basball bat than talk to them?
That her only regret with Timothy McVeigh is that he didn’t go to the NYT building?
The learning disabilties is a cover for rich parents with dumb kids?
I thought a caricature was supposed to be funny?
When does she start to get amusing?</p>
<p>Coulter’s whole shtick is to be just outreagous enough to get on TV. If she conducted herself as a clear, level-headed commentator willing to engage people with opposing viewpoints in a civil manner, she wouldn’t be in such demand.</p>
<p>she does go out on her limbs,…</p>
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<p>Yup, rorosen. Notice how she showcases them so frequently. ;)</p>
<p>Ann Coulter is–secretly (keeping to mini’s theme)–the answer to the question posed to all earnest-liberals by comical-conservatives, to wit: </p>
<p>*whos your daddy?* </p>
<p>[of course, only in keeping to Kluges high-steppin’ transgender theme.]</p>
<p>I think everyone is funny on this thread - rorosen, TheDad, FS, marite, others.</p>
<p>Lizschup and TheDad, I have high hopes for Ned Lamont. If he manages to win Lieberman’s Senate seat - and it’s looking more likely by the day - he’ll bring some sorely needed new ideas to Washington. Not many Senators have a background of successful entrepreneurship (awful word, isn’t it?) as well as experience teaching HS students in what must be one of the worst inner cities in the country. </p>
<p>I agree with you, TheDad, about Ciro.</p>
<p>“In that case, she sure is putting herself through hell to make a buck - assuming she even needs another buck.”</p>
<p>There’s a sucker born every minute.</p>
<p>“Ann Coulter is secretly a liberal?
I suppose that would be why she contribvuted to Pat Buchanans campaign?
rthat would be why she called Muslims “ragheads” and said she would rather beat a liberal with a basball bat than talk to them?
That her only regret with Timothy McVeigh is that he didn’t go to the NYT building?
The learning disabilties is a cover for rich parents with dumb kids?”</p>
<p>Not so secret. I think you’ve outed her pretty well.</p>
<p>well I pretty much have the opposite stance of Ms COulter on everything I have ever heard- if she is a liberal - what does that make me?</p>
<p>“well I pretty much have the opposite stance of Ms COulter on everything I have ever heard- if she is a liberal - what does that make me?”</p>
<p>That’s because you take her seriously, and if you had money and were a rightee, she’d fleece you as well. </p>
<p>What does she need to say for you to get it: that American soldiers need to eat live Iraqi babies in order to protect the U.S. in the next generation? (Or simply to kill them a la Bill Clinton/Madeleine Albright?)</p>
<p>But to answer your question: it makes you humorless. ;)</p>
<p>Well, I sat down and read Chapter 6 in the bookstore: “The Liberal Priesthood: Spare the Rod, Spoil the Teacher.” It is really eerie because I feel like she invaded my mind and put my thoughts of the last three years into words. I have no idea about the rest of the book, but if you have doubts about our public school system, read this chapter and make up your own mind. (I voted for Clinton twice, and Bush twice; I’ve also been employed by public schools.) She definitely uses over-the-top humor and biting sarcasm to make her points. I guess some people can’t take that (although when Al Franken does it, it doesn’t garner much attention for some reason :)).</p>
<p>I don’t think I am humourless- but I will admit that I am much more sensitive than some.
I don’t like “sick” humour- while some black humor is funny ( Eating Raoul), most of it to me is too over the top ( I never even liked Roadrunner cartoons because it was so clearly a mismatch 
)
And while I would agree that many of the “conservative” pundits are so over the top you could argue that they are acutally working for the other side- I am glad that I could never imagine behaving in such a mean spirited , negative way.</p>
<p>I can pretty much guess what Coulter has to say about the public schools because public schools are to conservatives what three-legged cats are to coyotes.</p>
<p>However, for those of us unlikley to get to her book anytime soon, would you summarize the important points of the chapter?</p>