Lethally blonde (UK Observer on Ann Coulter)

[T_i_B]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1794552,00.html

Ann Coulter has a stalker. She doesn't like to dignify his actions by talking about him, but she'll tell you, if you ask, that he's what the FBI class as the most dangerous kind - John Lennon's assassin was one of these. They're the sort that start out as fans and turn into your worst enemy. Feelings about Ann Coulter run high and extreme. Often described as 'the Republican Michael Moore', Coulter is possibly even better equipped than Moore to offend people, because, it seems, she is 100 per cent shameless. Actually, make that 99 per cent. 'I've always told my friends,' she says, 'if only I could be a black Jewish homosexual - then we could really have some fun! Then I could say anything!'

Luckily, she is a woman, which puts her in a so-called minority and gives her considerable ammo (literally - she is very much in favour of guns, partly on account of the stalker). James Wolcott described her in Vanity Fair as 'the Paris Hilton of post-modern politics'. Eric Alterman, columnist for the Nation, calls her 'Rush Limbaugh in a miniskirt' (Limbaugh is a popular right-wing talk radio host). Sean Penn has an Ann Coulter action figure on his desk - which he uses to put out his cigarettes. Press a button and the doll speaks: 'Why not go to war for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?'

Coulter's weekly column is published in Human Events, once Ronald Reagan's favourite paper. It is read by few outside the conservative heartland, yet she has achieved a notoriety that suggests a far greater circulation. Liberals love to hate her, some conservatives hate her, but every time she writes a book - and Godless, published this week, is her fifth - it's an instant bestseller.

She's a little like Batman, or the Joker. You don't hear from her for a while then suddenly you can't miss her. This is a can't-miss-her moment. On Tuesday she went on the Today Show, NBC's morning programme, defending the passage of Godless that concerns the 11 September widows who lobbied for the creation of the 9/11 commission. She describes them as 'witches' who have cashed in on their husbands' deaths. On Wednesday she took up the entire front page of the New York Daily News: 'Coulter the Cruel', it blared, next to a picture of Coulter smiling as if she'd just been crowned Miss World. On Thursday Hillary Clinton fought back against what she called a 'vicious, mean-spirited attack'. Perhaps, Clinton suggested, Coulter's book should have been called 'Heartless'. At a public reading in Long Island a town councilman presented Coulter with a letter requesting an apology. Triumphantly, she tore it up. Ah! The book tour had begun.

[GCP]

1. Yet again I think the article misses her sheer evilness

Every article I read about her goes into great detail about what a sense of humor she has, how tall, how blonde, how thin, yada yada yada - even this one says it of other correspondents, but she (I think it's a she) still fails to point out the sheer bloody-minded viciousness that spews from Coulters maw every time she opens it.
I hope she does have a stalker, and goddess forgive me, I hope he meets up with her one night in some dark corner of Manhattan.

[T_i_B]

2. Well I can't see the humour in her writing

Whenever I read her articles all I can see is a load of rambling, incoherent badly written bile. I can't see where some people get the idea that she is supposed to be a comedienne from. :shrug:

[GCP]

3. But Jay Leno thinks she's funny!

Have you seen him over there? He does a late night talk show, he used to be a vaguely-amusing stand-up comedian.

[T_i_B]

7. Unfortunatly yes

I've seen Leno's show once or twice and did not think much of it.

And as to articles that address how awful she is, I've found the following from May 2003 in the Guardian. Don't know how well this fits what you would want to see.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,957670,00.html

[classysassy]

12. "The lady(bitch) is simply crazy

about money and the more people discuss the skank, the more money she'll rake in,she is todays Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose combined to create the Evil Earthanimal.

[opihimoimoi]

4. She is a FREAK of Nature and should be Banned from having off spring

[area51]

5. Anthrax Coulter said: "I've always told my friends..."

Anthrax Coulter has friends? Who would've thunk it?

(Wonder how much she pays them?) :evilgrin:

[yurbud]

6. Goebbels was more subtle and nuanced than Ann--and probably

more accurate even.

[bumblebee1]

11. I remember reading a discription of Ann Coulter somewhere.

She was described as "Joseph Goebbels with t*ts." I forget where I read that one.

[underpants]

8. There was a time in my life when all my stories started out the same

"we were really wasted and...."

So she went directly to a bar on 9/11 and sat there all day (no one to call or worry about apparently), all here boyfriends have come from meetings in a bar (or on the street), this interview featured her drinking in the midst of it.

Look I'm no saint but then again all my stories don't start the same way anymore because I realized that all my stories started the same way.

Step back honey. It might be keeping you thin on the outside but inside it sounds like it is tearing you up.

[katty]

9. Rumors of Ann's sex change have popped up for yrs-she

actually reminds of a Ken doll with a string-pull it and locusts fly out.

[katty]

10. Annie's astro-shadow

excerpt: http://www.stariq.com/Main/Articles/P0007179.HTM

NewsScope for June 13, 2006


Ann Coulter's Shadow

A NewsScope reader requests a peek into Ann Coulter's chart "to see how it fits in with the U.S. chart considering her remarks and book just released." Coulter is a right-wing pundit, best known for creating controversy over her outrageous comments. Last week, some of the inflammatory statements about 9/11 widows from Godless, The Church of Liberalism were read on The Today Show, and created an immediate uproar.

Ann Coulter was born with her Sun conjunct Mercury and Mars in expressive Sagittarius (December 8, 1961; Darien, CT; time unknown). From this combination, we can see that Coulter's identity or ego (Sun) is closely allied with her opinions (Mercury), which are fueled by aggressive Mars. Sagittarians naturally seek meaning in life, but when the Sun is afflicted, the tendency is to turn preachy or self-righteous.

Coulter's Mercury squares Pluto on one side and Pallas, the political asteroid, on the other. This t-square defines her relentless needling of her political adversaries. Mercury is also precisely octile (45º) Saturn in Capricorn, which points to how her opinions were shaped by her formal Catholic, Republican roots. Saturn here defines her interest in American politics since it's exactly conjunct the U.S. Pluto, the nation's ruling planet.

However, her Venus in Sagittarius square Uranus wants a great deal of sexual freedom, while the square to Chiron can make her feel unattractive or inadequate. Coulter's short skirts help compensate for these feelings, as did her more youthful phase as a Deadhead. But as a professional, the strong Saturn influence limits her personal urges toward sexual quirkiness, and she's left criticizing that in other women.