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The Book Party

A Friend Stopped By | 01/05/2009 8:00 am

Coulter on Caroline Kennedy: 'Every Time She Opens Her Mouth It Gets Worse'

(and other gentle musings from the irritatingly leggy author of Guilty: Liberal ‘Victims’ and Their Assault on America)
By Myrna Blyth
Amazon

Ann Coulter is at it again. Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America (Crown Forum), the newest book from the leggy, blonde, irritatingly slender liberal-basher hits bookstores this week and is already climbing Amazon’s bestseller list. And so the usual media Ann-a-rama has begun with Coulter launching the book on her pal Sean Hannity’s radio and TV shows. She’ll be on “Today” on Tuesday and will follow that with countless interviews. UPDATE: She was supposed to be on "Today" on Tuesday but was abruptly cancelled.   "Today" claims it was because of "breaking news." Coulter isn’t buying that.   The "Today" cancellation just adds to the controversy she is the master at creating.    Undoubtedly she will do countless other interviews. -Myrna

Coulter’s publicist says she never turns down an interview, even on radio talk shows that sound as if they emanate from someone’s garage. She knows her people are listening and buying thousands of copies of her books. She has already had six New York Times mega-bestsellers. Yes, there is a vast right-wing book-buying public who loves a girl who can call JFK “a venereal-disease-ridden sexual profligate and drug addict”; who never forget that “Sen. Ted Kennedy drove Mary Jo Kopechne off the Chappaquiddick Bridge”; who can recall that “President Clinton walked to and from church every Sunday carrying a ten-pound bible for the cameras – and then returned from church on Palm Sunday, 1996, to use a cigar as a sexual aid on Monica Lewinsky”; who can document, in footnote after footnote, that the Swift Boat Veterans were correct in their condemnation of the war record of “the mountebank Kerry.”

Judging by his Cabinet choices, Obama may not be as crazy as I thought he was. That may be worse for my career but better for the country.

I talked to Coulter about Guilty as she was about to embark on her media tour. The book is (no surprise) another in her attacks against liberals. Her thesis this time is that liberals always act like they are being victimized, primarily by the Republican Attack Machine. While in fact, they, with the help of a very biased media, tend to victimize all who disagree with them. She has written about media bias before. “I really didn’t intend to make the book so much about the media,” she told me, "but I just couldn’t help it because the media has so much power. They like to act as if they are powerless, but everything today is about the media. I just had to point out all their dirty little tricks. If you are Paul Revere you have to sound the alarm.”

Now, let’s get one thing straight. I’m a member of the media who is about as unbiased in my political leanings as, say, The New York Times. In general, I think Ann is often more right than wrong, no pun intended. Oh, sure, she goes over the top once in a while, but when she does she is no more unfair or unbalanced then, say, Frank Rich or Keith Olbermann. And she is a lot funnier. In fact, she is often laugh-out-loud funny. And as for being a judge of the true character of some of our political leaders, do remember it was Ann who appraised John Edwards correctly long before his supporters and, unfortunately, Elizabeth Edwards ever did.

Guilty is full of interesting set-pieces such as her report on how the Media Attack Machine turned, during primary season, on their longtime dearly beloved Bill Clinton. She writes, “Obama emerged from the clouds, and at long last, liberals were finished with the Clintons … It took a decade but journalists finally noticed that Clinton getting serviced by a White House intern whose name he couldn’t recall may not have been the equivalent of the Gettysburg Address.” She points out that journalists acted as if Clinton had changed, rather than as if they were no longer covering up for him. Todd Purdum in Vanity Fair said Clinton’s “cavernous narcissism” was related to his triple-bypass surgery. Coulter writes, “Yes, who doesn’t know someone who, after open-heart surgery, becomes an egomaniacal, pathologically lying horndog?”

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Ann Coulter Crazy, Souless, Evil B*tch
Mugys….Very true….the whole thing,.,,so true,
By Ann Coulter Crazy, Souless, Evil B*tch on 01/08/2009 10:06 pm
MS Veteran
FIRST TIME POSTER! Thank you…. em jem24…. you articulated your points very well with with a focus on data and less on hype. I agree with being informed on both sides of an issue over just my own side. As a writer I must be factual and knowledgeable. Which is a standard that has slipped right off the side of the mountain in the far left media and far left politicians. I think you slammed many on this site who don’t want facts to get in the way of their prima donna media and rogue political elites. You’re welcome to come to Team Sarah and articulate away with us. We don’t mind opposition we just prefer them to get beyond delusion and into reality. It’s awfully hard to dialog with who are not humble enough to admit their in need of an “honest” debate. MS VET on Team Sarah.
By MS Veteran on 01/06/2009 6:24 pm
Donald Duck
Keep up the good work Ann. Somone needs to keep the Liberal Socialist morons in check.
By Donald Duck on 01/08/2009 12:14 am
Ann Coulter Crazy, Souless, Evil B*tch
Duck, No one is a bigger socialist moron than Bush. Not only did he destroy three nations, let one major US city die, read a children’s book while NYC and WDC were under attack, allow the total deregulation of derivatives that destroyed our economy and on and on and on…he SOCIALIZED the banks that gamed the system and wiped out so many pensions. He also created a phony and illegal war that socialized billions in no-bid contacts to his cronies like Halliburton, Blackwater, Exxon, etc. Oh, speaking of morons you have three grammatical and punctuation errors in two short sentence—-quack.
Dona Howlett
Just curious……………. If you are a first time poster………..how do you know so much about Carmel’s posting’s? It just seemed strange to read your first line……………….. “First off, first time poster. Just caught this website and it looked interesting. I’m one of those conservatives that apparently Carmel has so much disdain for.”
By Dona Howlett on 01/10/2009 8:52 pm
Carole Rabbett
Fantastic post! I don’t have to write one now - em jem24 said it all.
By Carole Rabbett on 01/13/2009 11:53 am
Andy C
Though rarely, if ever, agreeing with Coulter; her comments this time may be right on the mark.
By Andy C on 01/05/2009 8:53 am
Ann Coulter Crazy, Souless, Evil B*tch
Bill Clinton’s Response to Coulter’s Claim that he is Gay. He’s only ‘gay’ when it come to “evil, crazy, b*itches”. Way to go Bill!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7NcfDOL71o&feature=related
phyllis Doyle Pepe
Hmmmmm––what can I, as one of those liberals who don’t read and if I do wouldn’t be liberal, say what hasn’t been said before about Ms Coulter by us liberals that according to her have our heads in the sand? What indeed! Maybe just one piece of advice: (I’m trying really hard to be nice) Try mixing a little molasses in that venom stew you brew, it would make your spewing much more digestible––for us liberals, I mean.
By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 01/05/2009 9:01 am
EKA -
Oh yes ! ( Happy New Year, Phyllis, by the way) I remember a while ago, during an interesting dinner party conversation, when one of our conservative friends said to me ” you wouldn’t think that if you knew more ” …. after calling him a condescending SOB I cut his argument down with the facts. The problem here is that, and she may have a point here, we tend to read sources that reinforce the point of view we already have. Now she may be right about Clinton and Kennedy, but she uses one fact to tear down an entire life while totally dismissing the same facts that may bring down someone on her side. I really try to ignore her because I see her as a pathetic, divisive, self-serving shrew who has learned how to spew just the right amount of venom to allow her to laugh all the way to the bank. I also see her as a very sad woman.
By EKA - on 01/05/2009 11:19 am
Ann Coulter Crazy, Souless, Evil B*tch
EKA- What is sure is that she will have a sad end. That is for sure. In the meantime, Betty Bowers: “The Best Christian in the World” and her review of Ann Slanders’ “Godless”; “Ann Coulter is either a very devious, liberal performance artist or mentally ill. There is no middle ground. The real Jesus forgives your Jesus for being a greedy Republican warmonger” “The. Worst. Ever. This week…Coulter released her latest in a series of pre-rehab books, entitled Godless. Naturally, the title led me to believe that it was an unexpectedly candid autobiography. Alas, she may be saving that book until after she’s been strapped to a bed at Hazelden for a month. Instead of using this book to dabble in the bracing novelty of introspection, Miss Coulter turns her two-setting mind (“off” and “off her rocker”) to hector us about religion. Let’s be honest: Reading a book about religion from Ann Coulter is tantamount to reading a book about dieting from Michael Moore. After all, who wants to be lectured about not being Christian enough by an almost-50 year-old BOOZEHOUND in a black leather miniskirt who has never been married? Count me as having a healthy skepticism over whether Miss Coulter has saved herself for marriage. Or anything, for that matter…. In Godless, Miss (oh, how it pains me to refer to that serially-rejected spinster as “Miss,” but something Miss Coulter usually eschews — accuracy — compels me) Coulter turns her shrill furnace of brayed invective, fueled by a bottomless quarry of prickly psychological damage, at the most despicable people in the world. No, not the maniacal murderers who flew planes into the World Trade Center towers, but the blameless Americans who had their flesh burned off of their bodies in those buildings — and the inconsolable spouses they left behind. Yes, she directs an anger that shirks all management on women whose husbands were murdered on 9/11. Apparently, in Miss Coulter’s religion, the meek may inherit the Earth, but not before she’s had a shot at making them cry first. With a mouth so busy frothing it apparently has no time to eat, Miss Coulter claims to be livid at these opportunistic widows for being crass enough to remember the event that killed the father of their children. She is also angry at them for being people difficult to hate more publicly. While it is wonderfully entertaining to watch Miss Coulter disingenuously complain that she is somehow unable to criticize people she not only criticizes, but savagely impugns, it is important to remember that this smoke and mirrors Persecution Complex is every bit as important to the theater of right wing punditry as the chandelier is to Phantom of the Opera. Miss Coulter gets prickly — well, stays prickly — about 9/11 widows being compensated as a result of the catastrophe. Frankly, I think she is simply exhibiting a fierce territoriality on behalf of herself and other Republicans who have used 9/11 to win elections and sell books. Her attitude seems to be: Exploiting 9/11 is our shtick — find your own way to make money! This must account for why she doesn’t take Lisa Beamer to task for registering “Let’s Roll!™” as a trademark and slapping it on the trinkets she sold on the Internet. Of course, Ann’s every utterance is a carefully choreographed gambit to convert sensationalistic bad taste into sensationally good sales. In this way she is like another rapidly aging blond sex kitten, Madonna, someone else with no discernable talent other than getting people to ask, “Did she really do that?” Miss Coulter mocking the widows of men incinerated by burning jet fuel in the World Trade Center is just her competitive one-upmanship of Madonna showing up on a mirrored crucifix, all but screaming “Look at me! Isn’t this SHOCKING?” And you have to give credit where it is due: Miss Coulter could squeeze ink out of a tombstone. But in her mercantile zeal to say what sells, Miss Coulter endeavors to create an image that has apparently had a nasty falling out with reality, leaving them no longer on speaking terms. Indeed, to hear Miss Coulter speak (in that wound up Martha Stewart-on-helium Connecticut lockjaw voice of hers), you’d think she is someone who actually embraces heartland, Christian, American values. In reality, however, she is less like June Cleaver baking pot-roast than she is like Samantha Jones baked on pot. Indeed, this is no piously serene Christian wife, but a braying loud mouth who wears super-slutty clothes, powders her bony nose more often than Lindsay Lohan (if you know what I mean), knocks back scotch with an alacrity that eludes Ted Kennedy since the advent of rheumatoid arthritis, lives only in cities filled with homos and screws anything willing to bang an anorexic skeleton. This brings me to Miss Coulter’s teen tramp wardrobe. Miss Coulter showed up to the Today show this week wearing a black cocktail dress three sizes too small. At seven in the morning, mind you. No woman in New York wears a little black dress that early in the day unless she is burying someone dead, or looks like someone dead, as she makes a Whore of Babylon predawn retreat from the previous night’s licentious debauchery. This may account for why Matt Lauer told me that the poor thing smelled like an ashtray. But it wasn’t the color of the dress that was so telling. No, it was the “Look! I got myself one of those Brazilian waxes!” length that spoke more to a Jackie Stallone determination to hang on to youth with knuckles no longer white but bleeding. Indeed, it seems that Miss Coulter’s whole sense of self comes from thinking she is a “hot young babe” who drives, presumably myopic, men wild with a sexual desire so ardent they no longer hear the nonsense she is saying. Goodness me, who would have ever guessed that the Achilles heel for most Republican men would be the sight of pre-operative transsexuals in dresses made for someone 20 years younger? Miss Coulter suffers from an affliction I like to call Mariah Carey by Proxy. Celebrities who suffer from this debilitating disease so seldom seek help before some ruthless person takes a photograph of them. Mariah Carey by Proxy afflicts menopausal woman who think they would break the hearts of teenage boys throughout America if they ever showed up in public with a nipple-baring “Love Waits” tube-top. NOTE: Call your doctor if you find yourself wearing clothes that flash undernourished, middle-age legs and surgically-levitated bosoms, particularly when such revealing clothing is not appropriate for the occasion. Side effects may include wearing your hair like a junior high school cheerleader even though you are rapidly approaching 50. For those of you pressed for time, but still don’t wish to miss out on the tedium of being regaled by one recycled thought spread out over 300-odd pages: You can finish any Coulter book in less than15 minutes by simply skipping over the word “liberals.” Try it! This time saving technique is even more effective with anything typed by Sean Hannity, who has shown the bracing resourcefulness it takes to parlay basically two thoughts into an entire career.’
By Ann Coulter Crazy, Souless, Evil B*tch on 01/06/2009 12:03 am
Diana T
Carmel, you are priceless! I tell you—Coulter, Limbaugh, Hannity—they are all cut from the same cloth. Loudmouth delivery, a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing, as my dear Bill would have said..
By Diana T on 01/06/2009 12:40 am
Mugsy Peabody
Actually, they aren’t going to “end badly,” they are living badly. Each one is a beautiful example of making our own reality, you know? Who would want to get close to that?
By Mugsy Peabody on 01/07/2009 12:44 am
Ann Coulter Crazy, Souless, Evil B*tch
MP, So true.
David Kam
Carmel you really are priceless. You seem to be obsessed with Coulter’s sexuality, making claims about debauchery and brazilian waxes. What dark fantasies reside by-the-Sea? The funniest thing is that although Coulter is being sarcastic when she says that “liberals don’t read” you sort of proved her point by not reading her books or “anything … by Sean Hannity.” As I mentioned in my previous post, let’s ignore her abrasive delivery for a moment, and let’s ignore personal attacks on her for the moment (or is it part of liberal “tolerance” and “inclusiveness” to only be tolerant of fat and ugly people without a hint of sexuality), and just answer one simple question: What exactly are her factual assertions with which you disagree, and what is your support? If you read her books in 15 minutes, then you probably don’t bother to read the back up material contained in all of those footnotes. What you might want to try arguing is that she either mis-quotes or mis-interprets those sources, but you cannot, can you? That’s her point, and I thank you for proving it!
By David Kam on 01/06/2009 8:20 am