Disco Ann Coulter

Puked up some more flying monkeys...

This from Media Matters

Coulter on Sen. Chafee: "They Shot the Wrong Lincoln"

Right-wing pundit Ann Coulter titled her August 30 syndicated column on the Rhode Island Senate race: "They Shot the Wrong Lincoln." The headline is a reference to Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), whom she excoriated throughout the piece -- calling him a "half-wit" and a "silver-spooned moron[] -- while expressing her support for his challenger in the September 12 Republican primary, Stephen Laffey.

This is not the first time Coulter has alluded to killing those she disagrees with:

· Commenting on radio host Melanie Morgan's assertion that if New York Times executive editor Bill Keller were convicted of treason she "would have no problem with him being sent to the gas chamber," Coulter said, "I prefer a firing squad, but I'm open to a debate on the method of execution." She later suggested that Times staff members should be "executed."

· Coulter said of the media: "Would that it were so! ... That the American military were targeting journalists."

· Coulter suggested that Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) is "the reason soldiers invented fragging," -- military slang meaning the intentional killing of a member of one's own unit.

· Coulter argued that the national debate during the Monica Lewinsky controversy should not have focused on whether former President Bill Clinton "did it," but rather "whether to impeach or assassinate" him.

· Coulter said of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens: "We need somebody to put rat poison in Justice Stevens's créme brulée.''

I chose the pic of Morton Downey, Jr. in bad drag because that is clearly the sharp arc Coulter’s career is taking. From Bill Maher’s favorite talentless slutty wingnut, she has chased fame, fortune and power deeper and deeper into the feculent mire of the Right, and always to the thunderous applause of the pig people.

She become a Golem of a kind.

A thing, so desperately and wholly dependent on the spotlight for identity and her daily bread, that she will literally say anything to keep attention focused on her twitching corpse.

On the one hand, it is weirdly fascinating to see this powerful Republican Spokesperson implode as she scuttles from termagant to shrike to raving subway Jim Jones to a waterhead sideshow geek who will gladly used her own watery shit as cream rinse and lip gloss so long as people don’t stop paying attention.

On the other hand, attention to Coulter qua Coulter is probably a bad idea. Primary attention should be focused on the anchorweasels who keep giving her air time. Anyone who gives her and her murderous shrieking one minute of camera or one inch of bandwidth needs to be blogswarmed into early retirement.

Ann Coulter is not “provocative”. She is not “controversial”. She is ebola in pointy shoes. She is Bull Connor with a bonier ass and a bigger man-apple. Do you let your kids play with medical waste and call it “My Little Pony”? No? Then why do you dump poison like Coulter into the public well and call it “news”?”

However, on the other, other hand, I would argue that Coulter the phenomenon -- and not Coulter the desiccated rind of slunkmeat jerky -- does not get nearly enough attention. What she represents is extraordinarily dangerous and profoundly anti-democratic, and I’ll write more about that very subject at a later date.

For now, a message for Ann herself:

Just relax, Ann. Don’t give me or the other liberals a moment’s though.

You need to just keep on keepin’ on.

Just let all that succulent hate



and delicious crazy wash over you.




Bathe in it, and don't forget to let your dietary "helpers"

do their work too.

Just keep on being you.

And you will finally get

everything that’s coming to you.

Best wishes,

driftglass