Letters to the Editor
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Come out...Come out....
Come on, Ann. You can do it. Lance Bass, formerly of N'Synch, just did and he said it was liberating. It will be easier for you. You already have the adam's apple and the masculine deep voice. You have the body of a teenage boy, albeit a malnourished and pituitary-impaired boy. And I bet under that sexy short black dress you are so fond of dangles an appendage that can put Johh Holmes to shame. So admit it. You are a dude!
Trust Rosie, Ellen, and now Lance: Only by coming out can you feel better about yourself so you don't have to put down other people to build yourself up.
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I only eat meat.
Does this mean I'm a latent vegetarian?
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It actually makes perfect sense!
Ann hit on Bill. Bill said ‘no way.’ No red-blooded, hetero man would turn down Ann. Right?
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Ann Coulter
When several conservative newspapers decided to drop Ann Coulter's column, they used the 9-11 widows' comment she made as a reason they felt she had gone over the top.
In Ann"s evidence that Bill Clinton is a homosexual because he is so narcisistic, she helps to psychoanalyse herself and give us an inside view of someone who makes themself the message instead of the news or the column.
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Don't Look Over Here... Look Over There
This is the latest effort among many, albeit one of sheer desperation, to shape public perception that Democrats are "effete," "emasculated," or even "effeminate." I remember one photographic incident in particular where the heads of Clinton and Gore were placed on buffed and toned shirtless torsos, with the explanation by Republicans that these two were too "pretty" -- or even possibly, gasp, "gay!" -- to be effective leaders of the world's superpower.
It is so bizarre that these same Republicans perversely overlook the sexual picadilloes of members of their own party. In a strange defense of Jeff Gannon's presence in the White House as a gay prostitute posing as a journalist, it was Ann Coulter who actually attacked liberals as being homophobic for even bringing up the issue. One wonders what she would have said about Clinton had Mr. Gannon entered his White House 168 times in two years... with 12 visits lacking sign-outs that could be interpreted as overnight stays.
I won't even dissect the bizarre duet between George W. Bush and Junichero Koizumi... involving the lyrics "I want you... I need you... I love you."
I believe Coulter's incendiary comments like this are a form of Bushco tourette's. Another sip of the Kool-Aid and one more remark to distract us from atrocities committed by an administration that William Rivers Pitt so eloquently describes as one of "incompetent design." Don't look over here, look over there.
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Ann Coulter: a sideshow of opportunistic dementia
Ann Coulter is a parody of the right. Her behavior is the embodiment of the idea that people will say or believe anything, so long as it's convenient for them. The lunacy in her communications is a representation of the psychology of cognitive dissonance.
For those of you, like "flip", who feel it's fun to bash gay people by promoting the idea that a woman who offends you must be a homosexual because "homosexuals are crazy", I hope you will realize, at some point, that homosexuality is not a disorder; prejudice against gay people is not "what's wrong with homosexuality", but instead what's wrong with society. It may seem fun to you to promote the idea that "bad people are gay", but it's not based in reality.
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Does Salon have something against gay people, or is it just amazing ignorance?
First, there was the letter from "Straightman", written in response to the APA-interrogation story, that got a star for promoting the lie that the APA removed homosexuality from its list of disorders solely because the APA is politically biased toward homosexuals and that homosexuality is a disorder. Both charges are patently false and easily exposed, yet Salon chose to give this person's prejudicial rubbish a star.
Now, in this article, we have a starred letter the suggests Coulter must be a homosexual, with the typical underlying "all bad people are gay" message. The accusation that Coulter is a lesbian is no more credible than her accusation concerning Bill Clinton. Doesn't Salon see how ironic it is for such a letter to get a star, not to mention, sad?
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Psychowitch from OZ
Oh, right, and George Bush is a "latent" Rhodes Scholar!
Can the flying monkeys be far behind?....throw water on her, posthaste!
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The Artist known as Ann Coulter
That's it -- I've pondered this possibility for some time, but now I am CONVINCED that "Ann Coulter" has to be the greatest Performance Artist of our time. She's created this Andy Kauffman-esqe Persona who has managed to gain access to the highest level of punditry by making declarations of the most inflamatory and blatantly unsubstantiated nature. Really, people -- how can this NOT be some kind of stunt? She's realized that once one has achieved the golden state of celebrity, you can say or do practically anything without consequence. Now that pundits who are labeled "Liberal" are frequently simply providing the blandest voice of reason, it has become necessary to have someone who can spout pithy right-wing bat-shit craziness to have a necessarily "fair and balanced" response. The mainstream news media has absolutely no standards of literal truth (as it might be ascertained by scientific methods, historical data, or common logic) when it comes to this area of "opinion." The logic is that all opinions are equally valid, so someone like Ann Coulter has managed to make herself a position of virtual credibility by telling, well, LIES. (See the "Ann Coulter: Nutcase" chapter of Al Franken's book for details). It's evilly brilliant. Now she's so deeply entrenched, she has to keep upping the ante just to make it interesting for herself. This "Clinton is gay" thing -- come on! It's HILARIOUS! She's clearly just seeing how far she can go with this. She's like Marcel Duchamp, giving us a urinal and telling us it's "art", and the joke is on us if we believe it.
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Following up
Reader Leslie Howard argues below that a letter suggesting that Coulter is gay shouldn't have received an "Editors' Choice" star. "The accusation that Coulter is a lesbian is no more credible than her accusation concerning Bill Clinton," Howard writes. "Doesn't Salon see how ironic it is for such a letter to get a star, not to mention, sad?"
I think Howard is right. "Editors' Choice" designations shouldn't be construed as meaning that anyone at Salon agrees with the sentiments expressed in a letter; indeed, when I make the picks, I often highlight views contrary to my own in the interest of balancing out the rather large megaphone I've been given. That said, I do think we should be aiming for a high level of discourse here, even when the subject of it is someone who doesn't.
I've reversed the "Editors' Choice" designation that was given to the letter in question.