Does Ann Coulter suffer from Marfans Syndrome?

[Doosh]

just looking at her, she exhibits may characteristics of this disease.

long limbs, extremely long fingers, toes, incredibly long armspan, stretch marks on her body

tall, thin, narrow face,

[Gothic Sponge]

1. Around these parts we call that a sex change.

;)

[Hobarticus]

36. LOL!!!!!!!!

She's a man, baby!

[sans qualia]

37. That's not funny.

Seriously, that's really offensive, ;) notwithstanding. Don't do it.

[jobycom]

53. What an insult

to men!

[commander bunnypants]

2. probably

It will hurt the eyes to look, But is her chest concave or convex.

DDQM

[joefree1]

3. Or from the toxic mix of cigarettes, cold whine, and hot hate

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. Dunno, none of my relatives with Marfans look like that.

[skypilot]

5. I think it's just that she's so skinny.

She might very well have an eating disorder. And I think it was David Brock who said that she seems to survive on white wine and cigarettes.

[opihimoimoi]

8. She got a dose of the Ed Zachery Syndrome...the condition where her face

looks ed zachery like her ASS

[skypilot]

11. It took me a minute...

...but I finally got it.

Oh, and it was really lame.:evilgrin:

[ProfessorPlum]

6. As long as she suffers

Damn, I'm feeling mean today.

[fishface]

7. You mean the masturbatory fantasy of every rightwing thug?

They get erect watching her Adams' Apple move when she talks.

[opihimoimoi]

9. Please!!! some warning if you will.....MY EYES......arrrrghhhhh

LOL

[Bluebear]

10. I just don't get why she is a "babe" to these people

[mark11727]

21. Separated at birth?

John Zacherle

[Straight Shooter]

38. Just slap on some fishnet stockings, give her a whip and enjoy

Repubs -- image is everything

Edit: The pic that makes * hot:

[rockymountaindem]

54. That has *got* to be the scariest thing I've seen in a long while.

[Worst Username Ever]

12. Man Coulter

[chookie]

32. OMG look at her hands!

Some time ago I saw a photo of her which showed her feet, wearing pumps, and I was ASTONISHED at how long they were. I would conservatively estimate she wears a shoe size approx 11, if not larger.

I used to think she is simply an elongate body type, and generally does not exhibit pathology (physical, that is) HOWEVER -- look at her hands! Now, THAT is way off the charts! I have NEVER seen such elongation of the fifth metacarpals (bones between wrist and knuckles)! She is an elongate type, but even so, those metacarpals are way out of proportion, suggesting pathology. I think Marfan's is a poss.

Another explanation: some species of lizards have this kind of elongated metacarpals, which lends some credence to the theories of David Ickes. :-)

[Cleita]

13. The stretch marks could be from gaining and losing weight,

over and over. This can stretch the skin causing the marks.

[Lex]

14. Doosh, I think so.

I've been thinking so for a while that she has Marfans Syndrome. A friend who is a doctor brought it up and then I looked up the disease and I think that may be right.

[Bertha Venation]

15. some questions

Not directed at you specifically, but at anyone who criticizes anyone because of their appearance:

Why do people harp on Ann Coulter's looks?

Does calling her a man honestly add anything good, any validity at all, to our position?

Does calling her "ugly" make our responses to her talking points any stronger?

How does bashing someone's appearance help us?

[Mike Daniels]

16. I would hazard that she's chosen as a spokesperson because of her looks

The only reason she's gotten the attention she has is because some faction had decreed that she can sell the Republican POV because of her looks.

Because TV cameras supposedly add 5 pounds or so to the subject I can only presume that she comes across better on TV than most still shots would imply.

[mitchum]

45. She WAS chosen as a spokesperson because of both her "looks"...

and her gender. She was thrown out there as a barking head during the Clinton witch hunt- "How dare he treat women like that!"
See also:
Laura Ingraham
Barbara Olson (Rest In...NO FREAKING WAY!)

[elehhhhna]

17. docs tested me for marfans

nope--don't have it. turns out i'm just tall & thin (Dutch). She needs to gain 25 lbs. at least. She's at the age when she must choose between her butt & her face; fluff up or look drawn.

she HAS got some dang big hands, though...

[Bertha Venation]

28. people of Dutch heritage have a tendency to be very thin

and very long-limbed? Who knew? :) Thanks for the info.

[NoodleBoy]

19. it's all psychology

taking shots at her appearance takes some of the sting out of the ridiculous things she says about us.


That said, anyone want to wake up next to THIS?

[Bertha Venation]

24. that whooshing sound you just heard

was my point flying over your head.

[NoodleBoy]

26. Ok then, Mr. Smarty-pants, educate me.

[Bertha Venation]

27. I can't.

You have to be interested in opening your mind. If you seriously want to try, read post # 15 again, and try to give serious answers to the questions therein. If you can't -- you have completed your lesson.

BTW, I'm not Mr. Smarty-Pants. I'm Miss Smarty-Pants.

[NoodleBoy]

30. dude...

what's your problem?

Do you ACTUALLY think I'd say "Yeah, well she's ugly!" if someone brought up a point Coulter ever made?

Ah yes... the old "you're too closed-minded to get it" argument. How quaint.

[Bertha Venation]

42. You're still missing the point, lady.

I will spell it out: IMO it is not right to blast ANYONE ANYWHERE for their looks. And when we "liberals" and "progressives" do so on DU, we make ourselves look like flaming fucking assholes -- and the lurking freepers eat it up. (Of course, they eat it up without a sprinkling of irony -- but I don't care if they miss the irony. WE seem to miss that we sound just like them :eyes:.)

I don't know if you would retort "yeah, well she's ugly." How can I know what anyone would do in reality? This is a message board.

I honestly don't want to beat a dead horse, and I can't see you & me making any progress. So I'll say so long for now.

[NoodleBoy]

49. son,

stop patronizing me.

we're making fun of the way she looks, on a discussion board for left-of-center people, the kind of people she's made her living blaming and insulting in several different mediums.

Does that make talking shit about the way she looks on here the right thing? I don't care, after being exposed to the vitriol she's spewed. Like I said before, it takes the sting out of some of that crap.

[Susang]

58. This is why you should care

Because virulently insulting her looks sounds exactly like her article describing the women attending the Democratic convention.

Only its worse because as a Democrat and a liberal, we're supposed to be against that kind of shit. Sexism is sexism, no matter what side is spewing it.

[Scorpious_Maximus]

51. Maybe

With what they say about Hillary Clinton, who cares what Freeptards think?

[Susang]

59. If you don't care what they think

Then why the burning need to insult Coulter based on her looks rather than her ideology? Especially when her stated views are such an easy target for ridicule?

[Scorpious_Maximus]

50. YIKKES!!!

Makes you want to gnaw off your own arm.

[donco6]

20. It is juvenile and tired.

I suppose people don't want to even begin to deal with her on a serious level, so they fall back on funny pictures and epithets.

But really, it's hard to treat her seriously. I mean, how do you combat calling DNC attendees the "Spawn of Satan?" Where do you even start? Maybe people just feel that, since she cannot rise above the juvenile either, the "ugly" comments are just fighting fire with fire?

I don't know. What I do know is she's just not worth the effort.

[Bertha Venation]

25. It's hard to combat the things she says because they're so absurd -- but

it's even harder to believe that right wing nutbags actually seem to agree with her on all her absurdities.

No matter; attacking the woman's looks doesn't do anything valid for our cause.

I want to know if the radical right has any hideously ugly men spinning their crap, and, if so, why aren't they constantly blasted here at DU for being ugly?

[jmowreader]

35. The Pigboy's no jewel

but we spend so much time blasting him for being a 400-pound hypocritical drug addict, we haven't had time to ride on the fact that he's so fucking ugly his mom had to tie a pork chop around his neck to get the dogs to play with him.

[Bertha Venation]

41. Okay. So why not blast Ann Coulter for being a blistering idiot?

I don't care if Limbaugh does drugs. Blast him for his "message."

Blast Coulter for being a blistering idiot and a liar. Shouldn't that be enough to take time away from getting on her because "she's ugly"?

Maybe I am the only one who sees a double standard.

[jmowreader]

62. I haven't exactly noticed a reticence to do exactly that

"Ann Coulter is a lying sack of shit"

and

"Rush Limbaugh is a lying sack of shit,"

while demeaning to sacks of shit everywhere, are popular topics here at the old DU.

[Love Bug]

63. I agree with you

I've complained about this before. DU is not immune to the double standard in slamming a woman on their looks or weight (look at some of the comments here about Candy Crowley). You don't fight them by becoming them. Just because Coulter insults women on their looks doesn't mean we have to sink to her level. Aren't we supposed to be better than that?

[Bertha Venation]

65. "Aren't we supposed to be better than that?"

My point exactly. One would certainly hope so.

[mitchum]

46. Sean Hannity looks like a frat house rapist

Joe Scarborough (R-Murderer) has tiny pig eyes
Drudge should wear a full bondage mask instead of that stupid fedora
Bill Kristol has the nervous whipped look of the guilty masturbator

Doing my part to vanquish the double standard :)

[Bertha Venation]

47. okay

Thank you for helping me to take myself a little less seriously. I needed that. :D

[mitchum]

48. You do have a valid concern, but I agree with donco6 that...

Coulter's "ideas" are just so insane and absurd that it is damn near impossible to argue with them. The only recourse is to meet them with playground invective. They warrant nothing more.

[mark11727]

31. I understand your point...

...much of what happens here is IMHO borne of frustration and anger, riling against someone unjustly given such a nationwide venue, and abusing it with vicious, slanderous lies (ironically, Slander is IIRC one of here books' titles.

Meaningful dialog is hopeless against one so mean, so all we are sometimes left with is the opportunity to call her STOOPID, etc.

And for what it's worth, whatever happens here is but a fraction of what spews out over at Freerepublic concerning Teresa Kerry, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, etc.

[Bertha Venation]

43. Yes. I know. A fraction.

I don't much care what happens on FR.

But I understand your points, too.

[Swede]

18. Anne walks into a bar.

The bartender asks "So,why the long face?"

[louis-t]

22. Haaarrrrrrr!

Still giggling about that one. Funny.

[TNDemo]

23. Maybe MorphMan's syndrome.

She keeps morphing into a man.

[Pathwalker]

29. Never heard of it - do the symptoms include the hatefulness

she exhibits? The symptoms of Anorexia include violent outbursts, which fits. Wouldn't you need to know family history of height/weight to know something like this? If her parents were tall, then likely she would be too....

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

33. just checking in

i'm contractually obligated with all threads of this nature

[DoctorWeird]

34. Ann Coulter's Side Job, Folks

[hlthe2b]

39. My first reaction was "We can only hope..." but...

since Dems strive to be better than the assholes we face, I'll retract the thought and the comment. But, she certainly could, but unfortunately so, to could Kerry. Lincoln was believed to suffer from Marfan's as well, as I recall.

[sans qualia]

40. As Ann Coulter clearly has no heart

it wouldn't matter much if she did.

[Bluebear]

44. Look at her in this photo, other-worldly

If she has some disease, I'm sorry, but how do the RWers think of her as a "babe"? She looks gruesome!

[Aftershock]

52. Oh holy hell...

thanks for posting that. Now I have to go to the bathroom and puke. :puke:

[shanti]

56. she's thin and (bottle) blonde

apparently, that's all it takes for them.

[Susang]

60. There are quite a few thin, bottle blond Democratic women too

Are they evil because of it?

Wouldn't it be better if we attacked Coulter's ideology rather than her physiology?

[shanti]

64. did i make a value judgment?

no. i said that's what they like. geez, are you taking it personally?

[tblue37]

57. Cocaine addiction

has that effect.

[Sugarbleus]

55. Perhaps she is not of this world...neener neener...

Your description sounds an awful lot like ET. LOL

[fortyfeetunder]

61. Ask her to do a marathon game of basketball or volleyball

As I recall correctly a couple of athletes with Marfan's syndrome passed away while competing in b-ball or volleyball. Surely a marathon event will get her...