Meow House Theatre

So by now everyone who isn’t living in a cave has heard Ann Coulter’s latest.

From CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/04/coulter.edwards/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Prominent politicians from both parties and a gay-rights group on Saturday condemned right-wing commentator Ann Coulter for her reference Friday to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as a “faggot.”

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“I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I’m - so, kind of at an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards, so I think I’ll just conclude here and take your questions,” said Coulter, whose comment was followed by applause.

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But the New York Times reported that she responded, in an e-mail, “C’mon, it was a joke. I would never insult gays by suggesting that they are like John Edwards. That would be mean.”

Boy that chica knows how to yuck it up. She’s a laugh riot. Besides the fact that Edwards is almost certainly not gay - which wouldn’t matter anyway - this was very low on her usual scale of “quality” commentary. Couldn’t she think of anything more interesting and perhaps relevant to say? A “faggot” comment is so 1999. Does she do her own writing? (Can you imagine a more embarrassing job to have to tell people you have - “I write Ann Coulter’s spew for her.”) I ran into someone recently whose job used to be autographing 8 x 10s for Sally Jessy Raphael - he had to sign them with her name and draw a heart over the A in Sally. Not even that is as bad as being forced to admit you write for Ann Coulter. Although she’s such an egomaniac that she might not want anyone to even edit her material, let alone write it. She must be someone’s dream client, oh yeah baby.

Now let’s get catty. I believe we’ve established the fact that I’m straight as an arrow. But I can look at a beautiful woman and appreciate that she’s beautiful. I like to look at Cosmo covers as much as the next guy. Girl. But Ann Coulter has all the allure and beauty of a man in bad drag. Get that girl a sandwich while we’re talking. I’ve seen better man-disguised-as-woman getups in the back of the free weekly. And that’s right scary, considering she is, I’m pretty sure, an actual biological woman. Her neck is HUGE. She and Stone Phillips could make a kid whose neck would reach World Record proportions. Assuming Phillips would ever stoop so low, and I don’t think he would.

Anyhoo, she’s one of the most skankified man/wo-man creations I’ve ever seen. So when her vitriol comes spoojing out of her mouth, I, frankly, can’t even listen to all of it because I’m fascinated/horrified at this apparent genetic abnormality that walks, that talks, that breathes just like you and me.

She might want to work on that. And get some new material. She’s really dumbing it down for herself lately. The “Those 9/11 widows are in glee over their husbands’ deaths” remarks made it a lot easier to get past her “I’m the walking dead, now with a giant neck” look. “Faggot” comments make her look like she’s losing her touch. Awwwww.

EDIT Mon. 03/05/07:
A friend has told me that my remarks about Coulter’s seeming manliness could be construed as offensive to the transgender community. Specifically, the term “genetic abnormality.” This was absolutely not my intent at all. Although it is true, she does have a rather manly look but that doesn’t mean she’s anything except what she appears to be. Her appearance is, of course, largely the product of her genes and she had no choice in that. Her ideas, on the other hand, are all her own, and are far more unusual (to put it kindly) than anyone could ever say her “look” is. I also would never insult transgendered persons by equating them in any way with Ann Coulter, unless they have a similar mindset, which is very doubtful. Any abnormality in her genetics resides in the synapses of her brain, in a manner of speaking. Nowhere else.

I honestly - kidding aside - think her neck is either a goiter or on the way to becoming one. I hope she’s aware of thyroid meds. She is certainly aware of disparaging other women, having referred to female attendees at the 2004 DNC in Boston as “corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie chick pie wagons.” I was there and I definitely am not “corn-fed,” nor hairy, fragrant, or anything else she was implying.  Frankly from watching the RNC on TV, I’d much rather be associated with the women who participated in Boston. Those Republicans were some of the stiffest walking dead I’ve ever seen. Loosen up, for pete’s sake. You’re supposed to be having fun.