Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Note to Chris Matthews: Don’t feed the troll
Ann Coulter without "her" makeup
Okay, maybe I should make myself clear on that title. Chris Matthews needs to stop feeding the troll’s ego, cause "her" body could definitely use a few sammiches. Alright, enough lookism. Let’s get to the substance of Coulter’s appearance on Hardball Soft, Chocolate Salty Balls.
So the Queen of Slime is at it again. She’s been making the rounds of the TV talk shows in an effort to stretch out her nineteenth minute of fame infamy as long as possible. And judging from the lackluster sales of her latest "kill all the libruls" screed (now available in paperback!), she needs it. Though writing is most definitely not her strong suit (how can it be, if one must constantly resort to plagiarism and deceptive endnotes?), she gets the ratings that makes TV execs drool precisely because of her propensity to spew pea soup at anyone with the temerity to hold an opinion to the left of Ted Bundy in ways that make people say "WTF?!"
And, true to form, the narcissist with the protruding adam’s apple (oh, there I go engaging in lookism again!) was only too happy to supply the following mal mots about certain Dem presidential candidates:
COLMES: Oh, it’s only — only Republicans can talk in churches, right?
COULTER: No, but I do think anyone named B. Hussein Obama should avoid using "hijack" and "religion" in the same sentence.
On dropping the other f-bomb on John Edwards at CPAC earlier this year:
CUOMO: You say you were — you were joking.
COULTER: Oh yeah, I wouldn’t insult gays by comparing them to John Edwards. That would be mean. But about the same time — you know — Bill Maher was not joking and saying he wished Dick Cheney had been killed in a terrorist attack. So I’ve learned my lesson. If I’m going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.
Because in Coulter’s Bizarro World, "libruls" never joke when using over-the-top language, whereas that’s her sole intent in using such rhetoric. Riiiight. That’s such a relief to the folks at Edwards’ campaign headquarters that got hit with a hoax anthrax attack shortly after she laid the homophobic slur on Edwards.
And things got worse when she made her actual appearance, particularly when Elizabeth Edwards called in to complain about Coulter’s rhetoric. Coulter’s response? A cross between strawman argument and playing the victim card.
And what of Chris Matthews’ role in all of this? Well, for one thing, the freak show and the media shitstorm over it relieves him of the obligation of covering more important matters like Bush and Cheney’s utter contempt for the very concepts of “rule of law” and “democracy” for two days. Plus it gives him another chance to verbally fellate Coulter, who he’s called “a brilliant brain” and defended her participation in the public discourse by lamely saying that she “sells books.” Sure. If you count Richard Mellon-Scaife-funded bulk buys as “selling books.”
And speaking of book sales, while doing research for this post, I happened upon a (Librul)FreiRepublikkk post about Coulter’s Hardball appearance when I saw something that made me say “Get the Brain Bleach™ - STAT!”
The stupid - it burns!!!!
