I only led you to the water…The drinking was your own choice.
Sure, hippy…we all knew you needed one before…
carrot regarding your quotes from the article: You do understand that it’s supposed to be comedy, right?
I know I’ll get slammed for daring to defend at any level something that Ann Coulter does, but here goes… She isn’t trying to be taken literally and seriously, IMHO. She is being funny, outragious, and hyperbolic. Nobody is taking her seriously. Posting quotes of her like people do on the SDMB is like posting quotes from Lewis Black on the Daily Show and being outraged at them. It’s a joke, people. Sheesh. YMMV, MHO, etc, etc.
Coulter is using an automotive metaphor. A “pie wagon” is an antique box truck. You know-- squat, ungainly, loud, and stinky. Coulter has a recurring theme of being on the side with the fun, sexy sports cars. Big red ones.
And yeah, they dropped a “C” there.
Funny, the copy now on anncouler.com contains none of the following: “pretty-girl”, “make-up”, “natural fiber”, “no-bra needing”, “sandal-wearing”, “hirsute”, “somewhat fragrant hippie hick pie wagons”, “they call “women”.”
Remember kids, the best thing to do when you talk crap and get called on it is to change what you said.
I think whoever came up with the idea of getting Coulter to cover the DNC had exactly this in mind. They contract for a series of articles. She submits one, which they pay for, but do not publish. They say they want out of the contract. Coulter agrees and the contract is dissolved. The result is a lot of free publicity as other papers, and programs discuss what’s happening at USA Today. Consumers wait expectantly for Moore’s coverage of the RNC.
The person who thought this up hasn’t been fired. They’ll be promoted.
Huh? It hasn’t been revised. Are you looking at another column?
I invite you to read more closely:
Ann takes herself seriously. Attempted humor or not, she really doesn’t recognize the hypocrisy (and, indeed, the irony) engendered by her diatribes.
Also, she’s not funny.
. . . From the woman who opens her article by comparing Democrats to Satan . . .
As an over the top, valueless, content-free rant, I thought it had its humorous moments. I actually kind of laughed at the Gore/brown shirt line. I do believe that was the first full Coulter article I’ve ever read, maybe I should go wash up.
Damn it, there’s already a thread about Ann Coulter on the front page of the Pit… the one started by Oblong.
What you need to realize with her writings is that she is not completely serious. She intentionally uses sarcasm and hyperbole, think a bit like Andy Kaufman. To take the attacks literally is silly.
Once this thing dies down and anncoulter.com stops being slammed by millions of Drudge readers, you should go and take a read. I can’t make it through any of her columns whole without laughing at least a couple of times.
Spoken like a true corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie hick pie wagon. 
Seriously, how do you know what she does or does not recognize? Do you really think that if I “read more closely” I will suddenly agree with you?
Do you read the onion? Have you ever seen the Daily Show, or any of the late night talk shows? Like I said, Lewis Black is a great example. Any of these, if taken literally, could be quoted and be enough to be outraged about.
That’s a LIE! a LIE! You’re DISHONEST! and a LIAR! I will start a website called evelies.com to expose your DISHONEST LYING LIES! How dare you refer to your post as a documentary when it LIES and is nothing more than anti-American PROPOGANDA and LIES! LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES!!!
She didn’t compare them to Satan, she compared them to the Spawn of Satan.
“We Republican girls are, like, sooooo pretty and fashionable and those Dem chicks are like total slobs. I mean, slingbacks? So last season?! As if.”
It would be less perplexing if it actually made any sense. Lots of “pretty,” makeup-wearing, fashion conscious girls in fuck-me shoes and perfect coifs wearing Dolce & Gabbana perfume [as if any of this really matters, though] happen to be Democrats. I’m sure there were at least a couple at the con. Maybe Ann was too pre-occupied with Froth Control that she just assumed they were all Republicans without getting a chance to talk to them.
I’ve always completely ignored Ann Coulter, so this is really the first of her writings I’ve experienced and I may have missed this before, but… I have to say, the idea that Ugly People (who may or may not be stinky) are exclusive to the Democratic party made me laugh for a really, really long time.
I get that she’s going for shock and amusement (hopefully), but there’s a part of me that really just can’t process insulting a political party for being ugly. Ha!
The difference being, taken as a joke, Ann Coulter’s rabidity doesn’t make any sense. If she’s really not serious about “liberal name-calling,” then she has got the best delivery I’ve ever seen. I mean, Lewis Black tends to break up during his rants once in a while. When have you ever seen Ann Coulter soften her delivery, and actually act like her brain hasn’t been eaten by fleas? I’ve never seen anything that indicates “joke” to me. If you’ve got something like that, I think I’d feel much better about her particular brand of insanity.
I wonder, was she planning on castigating the Hollywood Liberal Elite in the same series that she mocked the ugliness of Democrats?
Daniel
Who reads USA Today besides disc jockeys and people in airports?
A.C. is print’s version of a shock jock. Her intent is to get people riled up and it appears to have worked.
I read Ann, I don’t usually watch her. However, the times I have seen her have been on Bill Maher’s show “Politically Incorrect”. Her delivery and manerisms was about what I would expect. She wasn’t ranting the same way she does in her columns. But, she seemed fully able to grasp the concept of humor. I really don’t remember too much about it, I haven’t seen her on TV in quite some time.