{"id":79,"date":"2006-06-10T18:08:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T02:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/archives\/2006\/06\/why-did-god-make-ann-coulter"},"modified":"2007-08-07T17:01:35","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T01:01:35","slug":"why-did-god-make-ann-coulter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/why-did-god-make-ann-coulter\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did God Make Ann Coulter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEven though I\u2019m a devout atheist, I sometimes wonder what the hell He is thinking. Ann Coulter! That is some fucked up shit. Up to now, I have just thought of her as a horse-faced anorexic with a strange turn of mind. But considering her recent statements, I see she is a real problem. I don\u2019t think there are enough pies in the world to throw at this woman. Although, perhaps she is just hungry, and not really unhinged! If she could just sit down and eat one of those pies, perhaps she would stop hallucinating.<\/p>\n

Now, to promote her new book, she is going around badmouthing the \u201c9\/11 Widows”, a group of women who lost their husbands in the attacks and have been vocal about various political issues. Ann wants them to shut up, and accuses them of taking undue pleasure in their widowhood. I don\u2019t know what else to say besides, What a fucking cunt! Is there some other position a sane person can take here? Even Bill O\u2019Reilly isn\u2019t thrilled.<\/p>\n

I am no authority on Ann Coulter. I don\u2019t know how she has achieved credibility as a pundit, but I assume she has some level of scholarship in her background. The more I hear about her, the more I am reminded of Camille Paglia, who used a similar method of shock and awe to achieve notoriety. Camille Paglia would, and did, say anything that would get her on a TV talk show. But there was something endearing about her; maybe it was her sheer neediness, which always seemed to temper her arrogance and ridiculous pronouncements. Ann Coulter, though, is really a bitter pill. She\u2019s like an old- fashioned Disney villainess! Too malevolent to be real, but still scary.<\/p>\n

I guess we live in an age where if you look like a Barbie gone bad and have a preposterous point of view, the whole world will look up and pay at attention to you. It would be too hypocritical for me, of all people, to denounce someone just for being a provocateur. Getting a reaction is sometimes even more fun than eating, and I think I can speak for Ann in that regard. But this woman is so egregious, in every way, that it reflects poorly on all of us if she is given one more second of serious thought by \u201cthe media”or anyone else. One of my kids used to love to be shocking, and he is still good at it. His favorite statement was: \u201cI eat my own shit!” He devised a perfect piece of theater: it\u2019s stupid, disgusting, pathetic, but always gets a pissed off response. Just like Ann Coulter. Next time she announces that she eats her own shit, let\u2019s all just ignore her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"