# Ann Coulter...Why?? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 11, 2002, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425 "2002-07-11T14:58:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/61 "2002-07-12T15:18:15Z")
Why do I get myself into this shit? She’s a counterbalance to the Dershowitzs and Sharptons and even the Krugmans of the left. Her research is fairly careful, and complete and I stand behind my earlier statement, re: Slander. The main task of the book is to catalog lies and misrepresentations perpetrated by the the left. Most of what I’ve seen thrown up to refute her has nothing to do with that, but rather her tangential rants, and love affair with Reagan/Bush et al. Honest Conservative commentators like George Will, and William F. Buckley who are willing to be openly critical about about their party and their leaders just seem to be steadfastly ignored by the mainstream and the left. Where do yo think Anne gets her shit anyway? ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/62 "2002-07-12T15:30:36Z")
> [@](#): > > Where do yo think Anne gets her shit anyway? Um, is this heroin joke another cruel reference to the fact that Ann’s skinny as a junkie? _Leave the poor thing alone, **Scylla**!!_ (You keep lobbing those straightlines, we’ll keep smacking 'em over the fence.) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ace_of_Swords)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/63 "2002-07-12T15:38:57Z")
Ann gets her shit from her internal factory – and her genetically modified salivary glands. Here’s what Jonathan Alterman has to say on Anthrax, and I couldn’t agree more: > [@](#): > > ``` > COUNTER-COULTER > > And yes, on the topic of Ms. Coulter, I do not think it impossible — or necessarily unlikely — that were she a leftist, Mr. Ashcroft would seek to imprison her for regular endorsements of mass violence and even political assassination. (She may be joking, but I can’t tell and I doubt Ashcroft could either.) Were she an immigrant, there is no question that she would be jailed and probably held incommunicado and in solitary confinement. That she is taken seriously by anyone with access to a television camera or a printing press is one of the most shaming scandals of American public life in recent memory. > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/64 "2002-07-12T16:00:00Z")
> [@](#): > > She’s a counterbalance to the Dershowitzs and Sharptons and even the Krugmans of the left. Isn’t that like saying that Gene Ray is a counterbalance to Jack Chick? ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/65 "2002-07-12T16:08:19Z")
Ace: That quote of yours seems to me about as hateful, extreme, and reactionary as Coulter is accused of being. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ace_of_Swords)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/66 "2002-07-12T16:33:52Z")
Whatever you say, January. Have you been wandering around without your tinfoil hat again? ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/67 "2002-07-12T17:45:16Z")
> [@](#): > > January. Have you been wandering around without your tinfoil hat again? Nyahhh. I’ve been here all day fucking your Mom, why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![peasea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@peasea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peasea)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/68 "2002-07-12T18:10:18Z")
I’m almost sorry I started this thread now. It’s gone from heated debate to schoolyard bullying. Dangers of the Pit, I suppose, but, Ace, I’ve heard more mature arguments from middle-schoolers. Proving that Coulter is a prejudiced, raving lunatic by being one yourself just doesn’t work. Thanks for the link you posted earlier, but you’re malice just isn’t helping. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/69 "2002-07-12T18:25:00Z")
I apologize for my comment. I don’t like being called names or belittled for no reason. I thought to throw it back in the ultimate expression of childish insults, to show its inappropriateness. But it’s still innapropriate of me. I’m better than that. Not by much, but a little bit. ---
**Author:** ![taggert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@taggert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taggert)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/70 "2002-07-12T18:55:57Z")
How about this? Each side picks out one argument that Ann “love of my life” Coulter has made as an example of greatness of either logic or sophistry, and then the other side comments? Till then, ride her like a bomb all the way to Moscow! ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/71 "2002-07-12T19:29:14Z")
If Coulter is joking when she says that liberals aren’t real Americans, then she’s showing poor judgment and insensitivity to others. If she isn’t joking, then SHE isn’t a real American, because it means she doesn’t believe that every citizen is entitled to free speech. ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@Belowjob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/72 "2002-07-12T20:22:50Z")
Anne does the hysterical white chick schtick really well. Of course she knows better - she graduated from Cornell and Michigan law school, and is quite capable of rational discourse. But rational discourse doesn’t sell. Hysteria sells. That, and really, really short skirts. She’ll ride it for as long as it lasts, and then it’ll be “Anne who?” Shortly after she passes forty she’ll hook up with an aging right wing billionaire, and start living the To the Manor Born life she’s always dreamt of. ---
**Author:** ![taggert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@taggert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taggert)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/73 "2002-07-12T20:53:39Z")
She isn’t joking. Liberals aren’t real Americans, they are pinko softie bleeding hearts who put their own twisted ideas of justice in place of good business judgment. Like the great conservative Calvin Coolidge, I firmly believe that what is good for General Motors and other big corporations, is good for America. And those who believe otherwise, like lil’ Annie says, should be put in fear for their lives by the lethal injections of people like John Walker Lindh so that they shut up and go home. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/74 "2002-07-12T22:20:09Z")
I’m hoping that was satire. ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/75 "2002-07-12T22:33:27Z")
The way I figure it, if **Taggert** meant that as satire, then it’s plenty funny and I don’t think I can top it. If **Taggert** was serious, then he or she is a moron and isn’t worth responding to. I’ll figure it out after he or she posts more. For now, I have something to add to my shtick I use when making fun of nutball conservatives. That’s good stuff. But for what it’s worth, it was Dwight Eisenhower who held that what’s good for General Motors is good for America. (I don’t think he actually said that, but his administration certainly acted in step with that belief.) I think the Coolidge quote that **Taggert** is looking for is “The business of America is business.” **Taggert** : is your name an Ayn Rand reference? ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/76 "2002-07-13T00:13:49Z")
I hate to bag on anyones looks, even if they are pure evil, but how can anyone say that Ann Coulter is attractive in any way, shape or form? She is far too skinny, and has an insectoid appearance- I’m sure she doesn’t actually _have_ an exoskeleton, but she sure ass hell appears to. She is a brittle, skanky ho with morally repugnant views. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/77 "2002-07-13T00:27:00Z")
I’ll bet she’s frigid too. With smoker’s breath and teeth. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/78 "2002-07-13T01:12:30Z")
God! I think **Chance** hit on it. Ayn Rand! Of course! See, here’s the thing…Ayn Rand gets an injection of monkey glands, fakes her death, goes into hiding and comes out later as Ann Coulter! Or the undead walk amongst us, and she still feeds on socially inept undergraduates, draining thier blood in the night (and perhaps other bodily fluids as gender permits), dooming thier drained husks to the Young Americans for Freedom, and using thier stolen vitality to keep the corpse typing, typing, typing… ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/79 "2002-07-13T03:17:40Z")
::Ahem:: I came into this thinking Ann Coulter was a little bit nutty and outlandish (but not anything unusual for a pundit.) I’d read her two books, and thought them worth reading, and a couple of her columns. I enjoyed her writing, thought she sometimes made some good points, and you know what? Her legs are cute. However, after reading this thread, I’ve examined her columns more carefully, reviewed her fall out with the National review, and what have you. My opinion has changed thanks to this thread. I still think she says some interesting things, and makes some interesting points, and as a whole I think her research as it applies to specific points is pretty good. On the other hand, she is really truly an evil, hateful, egotistical, nut isn’t she? I know she lost a friend on Sept 11. Because of that I can forgive and understand her column of the 12th. What’s despicable to me is that she seems to be using that as a deliberate license to consistently spew hate about arabs. Political stuff is fair game, that’s just evil. ---
**Author:** ![taggert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@taggert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taggert)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425/80 "2002-07-13T07:41:01Z")
Ayn Rand was a goddess! And taggert is a baby t. You’ll have to look at my signature (assuming I can get it to work right) to figure out where it came from. As for satire, what is satirical about it? It’s called “moral clarity”. All those without “moral clarity”, get 'em up against The Wall. (Was Roger Waters being satirical, or “morally clear”.) It’s a New World Order. You are with us or against us. Those against us belong to the Axis of Evil. (I do hope I’m in the right forum.) They are Evil Doers. The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur. This is fully vetted. Are you? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-why/118425.md?page=5)