She is trying to point out the flaws she sees in liberalism.
Not one? Odd, 'cause I’m not a fan, and I remember quite a few things she’s said, like how 9/11 widows were shrill harpies whose husbands were probably planning on divorcing them, or that it was a shame terrorists didn’t bomb the NY Times. No jokes, though.
Talking about “taking voting rights away from women” does not equal pointing out the flaws in liberalism.
What effect was she trying to achieve by saying what she said?
She’s a screeching harpy.
Right…see, sometimes you can’t express the humor in the same way if you aren’t quoting directly. I could say “she wants to take the vote away from women,” and I agree that’s not funny. Which doesn’t mean that the way SHE said it wasn’t funny. That’s why I’m not going to try to quote her, because I would have to have it exactly word for word to get the same effect.
I’m also not saying that I find every single thing she says funny. Sometimes she is, sometimes she misses the mark.
Do you know why women shouldn’t have the right to vote?
OK, here’s A list of quotes. Please point out the ones that are funny.
To extremists, it’s more important that you say the right things than do the right things. Isn’t it the same people who decry the moral decay represented by Married, With Children, Temptation Island and Family Guy who will happily watch Fox News?
I was going for “dart board manufacturers”, but yours is better.
Well played, sir. Well played.
I don’t think I’m going to play that game with you. If I point out the ones that I think are funny, you will ask me to explain why, and I will have to try to explain a joke to someone who doesn’t get it in the first place, which never turns out well, and then you will think that I take everything the woman says literally because you don’t understand the joke, which I don’t, and that I am a racist and a homophobe, just like you think she is, which I’m not, and it’s just not worth it.
Hey, I’ll play. I detest Ann Coulter with all the fury of a thousand SDMB cliches, but this one made me snicker: “Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats.”
Here’s another. Pretty snappy: “In fairness to [John] Edwards, asking a trial lawyer to name his favorite moral leader is like asking the president of Iran to name his favorite Jew.”
I thought this one:
Was quite witty.
I second OneCentStamp. There are some funny quotes.
This one here is both amusing and wtf:
“The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man’s dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet — it’s yours. That’s our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars — that’s the Biblical view.”
What’s going on? Is she satirizing herself?
I like this one:
That is kinda funny.
I thought it was a real laff riot when she called John Edwards a “faggot.” What a kneeslapper.
In addition to some of those quoted above, I chuckled at these:
“If Gore had been elected president, right now he would just be finding that last lesbian quadriplegic for the Special Forces team.”
“I’d build a wall. In fact, I’d hire illegal immigrants to build the wall. And throw out the illegals who are here. […] It’s cheap labor.”
“After an Egyptian ferry capsized recently, killing hundreds of passengers, a whole braying mob of passengers’ relatives staged an organized attack on the company, throwing furniture out the window and burning the building to the ground. Witnesses say it was the most violent ocean liner-related incident since Carnival Cruise Lines fired Kathie Lee Gifford.”
“We’ll drive off the side of that bridge when we come to it, Senator Kennedy.”
“Finally, all the candidates are willing to sell out any of these other issues in service of the one burning desire of all Democrats: abortion on demand. If they could just figure out a way to abort babies using solar power, that’s all we’d ever hear about.”
“After all the carpiing about how little teachers are paid, if someone enters the teaching procession for the big bucks, aren’t they too stupid to be teaching our kids?”
That’s a weak reply, but as somebody who doesn’t like Coulter I admit that there are times she is obviously kidding. You can be a jerk without being serious all the time.
That’s the thing. I do think she’s funny on occasion, but only in the same way Stephen Colbert is funny (though he’s a helluva lot more talented than her). As a parody. Which was the gist of the message those hackers left on her site a week or so ago.
Maybe the same people who just know when she’s kidding are the same sort who also understand which parts of the Bible God really meant.
I’m sorry you think it’s weak…I just didn’t see the point in getting into a fight about what I consider funny vs. what someone else considers funny. If Larry Borgia read all those quotes, and didn’t find any of them funny, what good will it do for me to tell him which ones are supposed to be humorous and which ones aren’t?
It’s pointless to argue about what’s funny, but he was asking about which remarks were made in jest. Some of them aren’t that funny - the “have illegals build a wall” joke has been done to death - but it’s clear that she doesn’t mean it. I think she’s a jerk and more into demeaning political opponents than anything as high-minded as “pointing out flaws in liberalism,” but like I said, she can be a jerk without being straight-faced.
ETA: She does it while being horse-faced! A-hey hey!
I don’t mean to nitpick, but Larry Borgia asked me “which ones are funny,” not “which ones are meant to be funny,” which I think are two different questions. If he looks at that list and can’t see that some of them are meant to be jokes (the Al Gore/Janet Reno crack, for instance), then he’s being a bit obtuse, I think. If he looks at the list and thinks “well, I see that she is trying to crack a joke, but I personally don’t find it funny,” then that’s a matter of taste in humor, and I don’t see how I can explain it to him.