Does anyone else think that Ann Coulter is putting us all on?

[Poiuyt]

I think that she goes out of her way to say the most outrageous things possible just to get a rise out of the liberals. All the publicity that she is getting from what she says is just helping her to sell more books. I don't really believe that she thinks that Bill Clinton is gay or that the 911 widows are celebrating their husbands' deaths. But when she makes these outlandish statements, it creates such a ruckus that everyone wants to see what she'll say next or how badly she'll get shot down. I'm sure that she's very conservative, but I don't think she believes half of what she says. She's laughing all the way to the bank.

[meisje]

1. She's the Howard Stern of the right

The more people hate her, the more they listen

[RebelOne]

3. My thoughts, exactly. You beat me to it.

[FUGW]

8. Your crazy, Howard Stern tells fart jokes this bitch is evil.

[StellaBlue]

2. I've been saying this all along

nt

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. I Mean This Kindly: No Shit.

[Cocoa]

5. yes

my outrage is directed toward the media outlets that help her do it.

[blue cat]

6. Keep talking Ann

Non-political people are starting to really dislike her, and she represents there party. I hope she alienates everyone.

[prairie populist]

30. Bingo. She is turning off a lot of Indies and moderate repugs.

If they're smart, repug candidates will start to distance themselves from her instead of giggling.

[Ignoramus]

7. Andy Kaufman

[Warren DeMontague]

12. That's been in the back of my head, too.

Like it's some kind of massive post-modern joke she dreamed up on too many hits of blotter at a Dead show in the 1980s.

[ReverendDeuce]

9. Obviously, she's a real character and I think that's her point...

I seriously doubt she believes 90% of what she rants about. It sells books. It puts food on the table and chardonnay in her gullet. She must have an amazing metabolism to drink that heavily and remain skinny. I would gladly give up my principles for evenings with Ann. Someone has to love the skinny girls! I'd maybe abandon DU for a while for a one-nighter, even. Maybe a few rounds at some heady DC bars. I bet I can out-drink her, though... :D

But seriously, that level of vitriol has to be a gag. There's no way anybody can hate THAT much and remain sane.

However, there are stories about FBI agents (true ones) that infiltrate the mafia only to change sides due to the allure of it all. There's a name for this, but it escapes me.

[yourout]

10. The only way I would buy one of her books.....

is if it was the only scap of paper on the earth and I really had to take a number 2.

[FantasticFlan]

11. More like desperate for attention

The Clinton is gay thing just screams "hey look at me, I'm saying something you won't believe, again!"

[petronius]

13. I think that's been increasingly obvious for years, now

Even a significant number of freepers seem to be catching on to the act...

[CrownPrinceBandar]

14. Thought that for a while now........

There's no way she's for real.

[LiberalPartisan]

15. What she ought to put on is some weight! n/t

[guinivere]

18. Yup. Quit talking stupid for a little while and have something to eat.

[fearthem]

16. No, Republicans ARE that STUPID!

[C_U_L8R]

17. Now that would be kinda funny

if all along she's been punking repukes and freeps
a la Colbert or Andy Kauffman. Hmmmmm.

It would be funny.. but somehow... i think we are
seeing the real Ann.. and it ain't pretty

[durrrty libby]

19. She/he is such a useless tool

A complete waste of skin.

:freak:

[Truthiness Inspector]

20. I think it's both

I think she believes most of what she says, but she says these things in such a crude way to get a rise out of us. Her saying Bill Clinton is gay is one thing I don't think she really believes, and said it just for shock value. She is quickly re-defining trash, I'll give her that much.

[Warpy]

21. I think she may have started out that way

when she realized trashing her betters was a much easier gig than corporate law.

I honestly think she's gone around the bend now. Instead of the cruelty parading as wit that exemplified her first book, her writing has gone all the way over the top and she's degenerated into a caricature of herself.

Consider the disorganization of thought and laughably inaccurate footnotes in the book before this one. Now consider the vicious prose that has even her most rabid fans trying to back away from her even as they all secretly agree with it. This is not the writing of a healthy human being.

Whether or not she believes this stuff is beside the point.

[Vidar]

22. Hate sells.

[pinto]

23. Yes. I think she's taking her side show all the way to the bank.

There's no "there, there" imo. She's eminently ignorable.

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. Yea and the "Liberal" media hasn't a clue. Or do they? If they would

just stop giving her air time, she would have no option but to go away. Seems simple enough. :shrug:

[burythehatchet]

25. Nope

If you look at the most outrageous statements she's made, she has correctly foreshadowed every Republican initiative, right down to the track down every muslim and convert him to christianity.

Ignore her at your own peril.

[greendog]

26. She's pullin' our chain...

...with her parody of neo-con fundy extremists. It's a big joke, it's making her rich, and we go for it every time.

Instead of reacting with horror(and becoming her unpaid assistants), we should egg her on. "C'mon Annie, that all you got? What else do you and your conservative friends think? Is that the best you can do? Yaaawwn."

Let's push her to be REALLY crazy and then hold her up as a "conservative icon".

[calico1]

27. I am not sure if it is all or part a put on but

I do know there are people who live with that much hate, day in and day out. Anger and misery is what feeds them. But regardless of how much she believes or not I think that as time has gone by people have kind of gotten used to her antics so she has to keep taking it up a notch so that she will continue to shock people or at least hope to do so. That is where the Clinton/Gore being gay comes from.

[Arkham House]

28. She's a secret agent of "Project X"--

--working as a leftist mole in the conservative movement, to discredit it in the eyes of the world...

[dionysus]

29. you were told not to mention the project dammit!!!!!!!

AAAARGHHH