Ann Coulter Loses It

I have very low tolerance for Basic Cable News discussion shows. 'Cause, frankly, it's all about people shouting over each other and talking over each other and not listening. A huge pet peeve of mine is when people don't listen, and those shows are all about not listening. It's all posturing and spin and blah-blah-blah. But part of doing these shows is dealing with this with a smile on your face and not losing your cool. A lot of pundits do this, which is one of the reasons I don't like them in the first place. But, it's a convention that they have set up: yell over each other while smiling the whole time. So, when someone actually loses their composure, it's notable. Especially when it's Ann Coulter.

For the unintiated, Ann Coulter is a best-selling author and conservative pundit who specializes in books demonizing liberals and saying horrible, nasty things to get attention. Based on principle, I will not link to any articles about the comments she's made 'cause frankly, she doesn't need any more attention for those.

Thanks to the wonderful people at Crooks And Liars, we can now see how Ann loses her cool. Ann was on "Hannity and Colmes" and the fill-in for Alan Colmes is a blonde woman I've never met but I now really like. The clip starts with how most of these shows go: a guest (Democratic strategist Michael Brown) is defending his point while the host (Sean Hannity) completely talks over him. Typical for this kind of show. It then goes to the Blonde Host doing the same thing to Ann Coulter, after Ann insists that things are going "swimmingly" in Afganistan. Which is just not the case. Blonde Host then says it completely isn't true and says how the Administration has ignored going after Osama bin Laden, and then Ann just can't take it anymore. Ann talks over other people but suddenly people talk over her?Awwwwwwww, poor widdle lamb.

I've honestly wanted to blog about Ann Coulter for a while now, but I haven't had the right opportunity until now. The fact that I even have an opinion on her means that she's accomplishing part of her job. She says horrible, nasty things on television to get attention for herself, in the self-cast role as a pop culture villian. You know who else does this? Omarosa. The only real difference between the two is that Ann has a better literary agent.

I hope this is the beginning of the end of her popularity. This incident, on Fox News I might add, shows she's not the cool, collected ice princess she pretends to be. Ann Coulter is a bully who can't take out what she dishes and her hypocritical nature has been shown. In the immortal words of Blondie, don't go away mad, Ann, just go away.

Comments

[katie d]

You should hotlink Ann's name to that clip. If enough people do that, that will be the thing that pops up at the top of the google list when people google her name. Hee. :) That's a beautiful clip, btw. It completely illustrates what a whiny freaking baby Ann Coulter is and how pathetically inept she is at thinking on her feet. All she ever does is spout out the same, pre-packaged pablum: Democrats bad, everything going great under the Pubs. The thing that pisses me off most about it is the glib way she dismisses OBL as "irrelevant." And she deserved to be jumped on for that, so I don't know who that blonde chick is, but she rawks. Thanks for posting about it, Jon. I was unaware of it. Merci! kd