Right, exactly! Because she applies "logic" in ways so brain-bending that I find it hard to believe that she believes what she says. I mean, there she is, all the time: Calling the Democratic National Convention the "Spawn of Satan convention;" Saying liberals are "trying to fake a belief in God;" Letting us know that "the safest place for Osama bin Laden isn't in Afghanistan or Pakistan; it's in The New York Times building;" Claiming that liberals "encourage every form of polymorphous perversity, which, by the way, does have public health consequences -- but no, no, no, no. That -- that -- you know, anal sex and fisting, that's part of our deepest privacy rights;" Writing "I prefer a firing squad [for NYTimes executive editor Keller], but I'm open to a debate on the method of execution."
And every time, I stand there with my mouth gaping open. How can she possible believe that? Liberals think fisting is one of our deepest privacy rights? Who huh what now?
OTOH, she's right: it gets her tons of media attention. And it means that I can't just dismiss her as a total fruitcake, because she does get media attention, and because people actually believe her.
(I include, as a postscript, one of my favorite Ann Coulter quotes ever: "You have a debate with the most Bible-thumping, fundamentalist, born-again Jesus freak Christian, i.e., someone like myself, about anything. Darwinism, gay marriage, abortion. Anything. You'll have a perfectly pleasant argument. Try talking with a liberal about a lit cigarette in a nonsmoking section, if you want to see fanaticism.")
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Date: 2006-07-26 08:00 pm (UTC)Calling the Democratic National Convention the "Spawn of Satan convention;"
Saying liberals are "trying to fake a belief in God;"
Letting us know that "the safest place for Osama bin Laden isn't in Afghanistan or Pakistan; it's in The New York Times building;"
Claiming that liberals "encourage every form of polymorphous perversity, which, by the way, does have public health consequences -- but no, no, no, no. That -- that -- you know, anal sex and fisting, that's part of our deepest privacy rights;"
Writing "I prefer a firing squad [for NYTimes executive editor Keller], but I'm open to a debate on the method of execution."
And every time, I stand there with my mouth gaping open. How can she possible believe that? Liberals think fisting is one of our deepest privacy rights? Who huh what now?
OTOH, she's right: it gets her tons of media attention. And it means that I can't just dismiss her as a total fruitcake, because she does get media attention, and because people actually believe her.
(I include, as a postscript, one of my favorite Ann Coulter quotes ever: "You have a debate with the most Bible-thumping, fundamentalist, born-again Jesus freak Christian, i.e., someone like myself, about anything. Darwinism, gay marriage, abortion. Anything. You'll have a perfectly pleasant argument. Try talking with a liberal about a lit cigarette in a nonsmoking section, if you want to see fanaticism.")