Annie, are you okay?
Ann Coulter is leading the charge in defending Herman Cain from the librul sexual harassment allegations smear job, and hoo boy! She’s really digging in.
Yesterday morning she popped over to Fox News to call the Cain Situation “another high-tech lynching.” (I thought Cain would be the one to make that comparison, but I guess it’s better when you get the nice white lady to do it for you.)
Then later in the day, she appeared on Sean Hannity to double down on her idiocy and whine that it’s hard out there for a black Republican because Democrats always pick on them — or something.
From Mediaite:
“They harangue blacks and tell them ‘you can’t be a Republican, you can’t be a Republican,’ it is so hard for a black to be a Republican,” and then complain when conservative events are mostly white-attended, Coulter argued. “Maybe you shouldn’t harangue them so much!” Coulter also told Hannity the source of why liberals “detest conservative blacks” is that “it is ironic in a cruel, vicious, horrible way… that civil rights laws were designed to protect blacks from Democrats,” and now there are “liberal wimen using laws to protest blacks in order to attack conservative blacks with these vicious, outrageous charges.”
Hannity then turned to the absurdity of the charges as he saw them, and alluded to something Coulter seems to call him that would count as harassment in some environments, outraged. “People are humorless!” he exclaimed. Coulter saw something more sinister: “they don’t care about real sexual harassment.” Coulter compared the Cain reaction to that prompted by allegations against Bill Clinton, who got a defense from Gloria Steinem that Coulter described as “the boss gets one free grope.”
With that as a framework, Coulter once again praised the conservative black people she had known, arguing that “our blacks are so much better than their blacks” because “you have fought against probably your family, probably your neighbors… that’s why we have very impressive blacks.” She went on to compare conservative black Americans to the family of the President, arguing that “Obama… is not a descendant of the blacks that suffered these Jim Crow laws,” that he was “not the son of American blacks that went through the American experience,” but the “son of a Kenyan” (a point she made with the caveat that she fully believed the President was an American citizen).
Whatever you say, Annie. You’re totally right! Of course the reason there aren’t more black Republicans is because Democrats harangue them so much and make it so difficult to emerge from the closet post-racial and ready to pander.
It couldn’t possibly be that Republican policies have failed this country, and the black community specifically. It couldn’t be that Republicans are the party of Jim Crow and segregation (despite Republicans’ best efforts to ignore history and make such historically myopic claims as “Lincoln was a Republican! MLK was a Republican!”, as if these Republicans are the same as those Republicans. Southern strategy, anyone?!).
It couldn’t be that the Tea Party is the party of this guy, Warren Grady, — who referred to black politicians as “niggra race pimps.”
It couldn’t be that the Tea Party is the party of Jesse Lee Owens, the black Tea Party guru and King Panderer who thinks that most blacks lack moral character, and who, at the “South Central” Tea Party rally I attended, had children holding signs accusing the NAACP of being racist, immoral, and unAmerican.
It couldn’t be that we’re not stupid enough to believe that Republicans have been on the forefront of the civil rights movement, anti-racism, and other racial equality efforts.
Oh no. It’s because Democrats “harangue” black people into being Democrats. You’re a real out-of-the-box thinker, aren’t you, Annie?
Look, I generally ignore Ann Coulter. She’s a sensationalist who will say anything to sell books. She’s not worth the energy it would take to summon contempt for her. I’m only writing about her now because her silly comments bolster a point that I have made before, and that is: Republicans see black people as tokens. The Democrats have “their blacks.” So Republicans needed to go out and find “better blacks.” “More impressive” blacks. Blacks who are willing to pander and make white Republicans feel good about themselves.
Herman Cain is nothing more than a token to the Teapublicans. He is their “See we’re not racist” shield to ward off what they (and only they) see as unfair accusations of racism. Ann Coulter’s latest verbal diarrhea proves the point.
So thank you, Ann.
Oh, and tell Jimmie Walker I said DYNO-MITE!
Existential Update: Here’s the video from Media Matters:
[cross-posted at Angry Black Lady Chronicles]
MattF
I liked her better when her jaws were wired shut.
blondie
Did she actually say, “we have very impressive blacks”? Good grief, Charlie Brown.
harlana
No, she’s not okay. She needs to eat a frickin sandwich.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
I’m shocked, shocked to learn that.
This wins this week’s Claude Rains Memorial Gambling Awareness Award.
Remember, she’s dog whistling to the 27 Percenters who all wholeheartedly agree with what she’s saying. Okay, we might not see it as a dog whistle but given her audience, that’s about a subtle as she can get and still figure they’ll get the point.
Zifnab
Comforting to know conservatives – in their race to embrace minorities – haven’t accidentally stopped being racist.
Linda Featheringill
I’m sure that if Anita would only apologize to Clarence’s wife, everything would be okay.
BGinCHI
Michael Steele must be wondering where the love is about now.
singfoom
Wait, we’re listening to what Ann Coulter says now? ABL, delete the post, scrub your eyes with bleach and pretend you never read or heard any of that.
What’s the point? (I mean, your blog, post what you want, but Anne Coulter?)
Should we start listening to Mark Levin just to get our outrage/blood pressure up?
All you need to know about Anne Coulter is the following:
1)She’s crazy
2)She is a master of self-deception and projection
3)See #1.
Hoodie
They have much the same attitudes about women and, to some degree, everyone else. “Joe the Plumber” is neither a Joe nor a plumber. Herman Cain sings a pop song by a white evangelical, not a historic spiritual hymn. Sarah Palin is a no-talent grifter, not a caribou hunter.
Scott
I’m always a bit surprised the candidates don’t emulate her more. Being a horrific monster gets her lots of attention, and isn’t that what really matters?
existential fish
mediaite? really?
That hurts.
Hunter Gathers
I’m pretty sure that Bill Maher will come to her defense, in order to further his quest of getting into her panties.
Trurl
It’s a shame that Cain won’t win the nomination – and thereby the election. Obama losing to another African-American would cause ABL’s race-baiting circuitry to overload and explode in a shower of pretty sparks.
Linda Featheringill
Our blacks and their blacks?
Uh . . . property?
eemom
@Hunter Gathers:
Thought he’d been there already.
Also, eeeeeew.
Thoughtcrime
How much more black could it be?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx6fwfBKCIQ
Nothing More To It
Too bad their blonde is as dumb as shit.
Xecky Gilchrist
Ann who?
And what’s with the “our blacks” stuff? They outlawed possession of black people a long time ago.
ABL
@existential fish: hahaha. sorry fish! it was what was on my reader from last night. :)
Special Patrol Group
I still can’t figure out why such a large percentage of black people don’t vote for (modern) Republicans. What a mystery that is.
tri it
I think this whole “liberal media is attacking Cain with this sexual harassment” meme is absurd on its face. Why would Dems or liberals be trying to kneecap Cain right now, when many liberals feel that Obama would have an easier time beating Cain, then say, Romney? Why would they try to kneecap Cains candidacy now and let it be easier for Romney to win, who would be a much tougher opponent? It makes no sense, and hence, why it was probably a republican leak.
But I know that conservatives must stick to the narrative no matter the reality, so the media will forever and always be “liberal”.
beltane
Ann Coulter has that hardened, hungry, debauched look of an aging madam, the type who will still be turning the occasional trick herself when she’s in her 80’s. It’s hard to hate someone who has so openly embraced all that is dirty and shameful in this world.
Thoughtcrime
I’m withholding judgement until I hear P.K Winsome’s opinion:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/281750/april-20-2010/p-k–winsome—tea-party-consulting
The Dangerman
Yawn; she’s Sam Kinnison in a skirt. She’s a shock jock that has to come up with increasingly shocking shocks in order to keep the cash register ringing. Eventually, we’ll read about her flaming out (not necessarily in the same way Sam flamed out) when even “her crowd” think she’s gone too far (and apparently “her crowd” has given her a very long leash, no pun necessarily intended).
Brachiator
@singfoom:
It’s not that anyone is listening to what she is saying. This has been an odd week for conservatives, and Coulter has upped the crazification factor enormously.
@Hunter Gathers:
I can’t help but think that he would be surprised, shocked or bemused at what he found once he got there. She doesn’t even seem quite human.
But yeah, I would bet that she’s already been booked for his show.
RSA
ABL, Halloween is over. There’s no need to put a picture of someone in a praying mantis costume on the front page.
harlana
Not sure how much longer she’ll have this gig since, and I hate to break it to her, anorexics do not age well.
harlana
@Brachiator:
fixt
Legalize
None. None more black.
bemused
@Hunter Gathers:
I did enjoy watching Coulter tittering very nervously when she was on a Bill Maher show not along ago. It’s not often she is knocked off her nasty rhetoric, speechless and reduced to uncomfortable laughing.
williamc
@Hunter Gathers: From what I understand, ABL is more up Bill Maher’s ally than Coultergeist. Bill likes ’em chocolatey and big-boobed. I hope that he knows her well enough to know that Ann’s a man, baby…
Brachiator
@Trurl:
Are you a real poster? Or did someone pay you to post this?
I don’t usually reply to stuff like this, but in a thread about crazy and stupid (Ann Coulter), even your little nubbin of dumb stands out.
cleek
professional troll is trolling.
boss bitch
Hilarious. Herman Cain telling Blacks to get off the plantation while Miss Ann over here is saying “Our Blacks” as if the GOP owns him.
scav
@Linda Featheringill: That’s what I heard. yoikes.
Why am I suddenly inspired to ask if they like the bubble gum they must get as they work their way to collecting the full set? My mind. No wonder I’m out of it so very often: it looks really weird in there some days.
Linda Featheringill
@beltane:
Fixed it.
existential fish
@ABL: Appreciated.
To comment on Coulter for a moment, I’m in favor of ignoring her, but when she’s put on Fox News prime time and says something this stupid, it’s worth pointing out. This shit was seen by millions. This isn’t a small backwards cable channel that no one watches, like, say Fox Business.
Brachiator
PS: Love the thread subtitle.
Phoenician in a time of Romans
Look, I generally ignore Ann Coulter. She’s a sensationalist who will say anything to sell books. She’s not worth the energy it would take to summon contempt for her. I’m only writing about her now because her silly comments bolster a point that I have made before, and that is: Republicans see black people as tokens.
Dear me. Republicans see everyone not of The Tribe as tokens.
cleek
just so i’m clear, Coulter never actually used the phrase “our blacks” anywhere, right ?
ant
Your picture reminded me of a funny story Maddow told back when she was on the radio, and no one had heard of her yet.
She was at some function that Coulter was at as well. Maddow went and ordered a double bacon cheese burger, and had it delivered to Coulter.
“She looked hungry” Maddow said.
lol
Villago Delenda Est
Ann Coulter’s greatest regret: born about 50 years too late to be the Bitch of Buchenwald.
karen marie
I know what somebody wants for Christmas!
FlipYrWhig
Oh yeah, Ann Coulter exists. I had pretty much forgotten about that.
Bubblegum Tate
@singfoom:
It’s not even as complex as that. She figured out a while ago that she could make a nice chunk of change saying crazy-ass right-wing shit to an audience that will lap it up. It’s an act with her–she’s more akin to a heel wrestler than anything else.
The Moar You Know
@boss bitch: The Democrats are one big tent, the GOP is one big plantation.
Menzies
@cleek:
As Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw said:
Brachiator
@cleek:
Let’s see. About 5:08 in, “our blacks are better than their blacks.”
cleek
@cleek:
nevermind. i can read better than Firefox can search, apparently.
DLew On Roids
What makes this so great is that you KNOW that when Turdblossom & Co were spitballing how this was going to play out if they fed Politico the story, someone in the room made a wisecrack about how Coulter would make an ass of herself on Fox News in defense of Cain. Everything about this story has been 100% predictable.
StevenDS
Please ignore Ann Coulter. All she craves is attention.
The Moar You Know
@cleek: 35 seconds into the Media Matters clip. On camera.
Now you’re clear.
Zifnab
@StevenDS: Don’t forget the money that comes with that attention.
lacp
Yes, their strapping young bucks are better ’cause they chow down on free-market T-bones!
harlana
@RSA:
That was really bugging me (no pun intended), thanks. The resemblance is uncanny.
Brachiator
@Bubblegum Tate:
No, I think that there is clearly something wrong with her.
When she was younger, I think a lot of male conservative media people were … pleased… to have her own. Now, she is getting by on the last wisps of whatever strange appeal she might have.
But there is a strange thing in media, that can be seen as well with someone like Charlie Sheen. No matter how disturbed Sheen and Coulter clearly are, as long as people can make money or get ratings out of them, they will find a place in front of a camera or a microphone.
ABL
@Trurl: that’s a weak attempt, even for you, my dear.
Gravenstone
As one of the wags over at TPM commented, “of course theirs are better, they’re only 3/5ths of the trouble.”
ABL
@Gravenstone: that’s brilliant.
Bubblegum Tate
@Brachiator:
Sure–her act has diminishing returns because it’s predicated on being “outrageous,” which becomes more difficult to do over time. I remember reading this hilarious article from The Onion and thinking that it could just as easily apply to Coulter, and that’s pretty much where she is now.
Paris
We have very impressive illegal immigrants. They have fought against probably their family, probably their neighbors, traveled many miles avoiding detection, experiencing adverse conditions, all for a stinking, physically hard, low wage job. Just to feed their families back home. I admire their dedication and loyalty to their loved ones and communities back home. I’m sure Ann would agree.
tkogrumpy
@Nothing More To It: Ann Coulter is a lot of things, but dumb isn’t one of them.
licensed to kill time
hahahaha Ann Coulter. That foolatron will say ANYTHING to get noticed.
Her sad quest for relevance flounders on.
tkogrumpy
@Brachiator: Ya, you get to# 13 and it’s like CLANG!
Svensker
Saw this this morning and immediately was hoping ABL would post on it. It’s just so frigging amazing that conservatives are THAT clueless. “Our blacks”? WTF?
Remind me again why Repubs frequently get accused of racism? What could it be?
geg6
I, personally, don’t own any blacks so I don’t know what blacks she’s talking about on our side. But she sure thinks she owns the ones on her side, doesn’t she?
Joe Lisboa
@Trurl: Let it go, Joe Beese. Let it go.
JCT
I was at a meeting a few years ago with one of my crazy right-wing colleagues (the one we all thought would jump out his window when Obama was elected). And he was going on and on about how “hawt” Coulter was unlike all of the ugly “lieberal” women.
Since I refuse to talk to this asshole I never got the chance to ask him what was so attractive about Anne the Harridan, but it was really something else.
And hah, about “Annie are you alright — straight from basic life support training and the old resusi-Annie doll. Yuck.
Villago Delenda Est
@licensed to kill time:
Not her quest for relevance. Her quest for dollars.
This is all part of the entire wingtard grifting world.
Lysana
I have nothing to add beyond this video to make the “Smooth Criminal” earworm even more awesome. 2Cellos, AKA two hawt Eastern European guys doing a cover version on graphite cellos. It’s flown around the ‘tubes for a long time, but someone may not have seen it yet.
Rathskeller
Implicit in Coulter’s thinking is that black people have to be told whose opinions they should have. As if being a Democrat was just one long chain of peer pressure, not a rational decision based on N decades of evidence.
Also, in terms of “our blacks”, I’m actually hard-pressed to think of any African-American in the GOP is not a joke or a nobody. JC Watts was quite smart. But at some point during the Bush administration, he decided to fade away from politics and focus on business. Gee, why is that? Condi Rice was brilliant, but to what end? She allied herself with a moron, and did all of his bidding.
I think that being black and Republican is just going to make you a little bit crazy, just like being gay and Republican.
trollhattan
Ole tubbo can’t let the harpie have all the fun.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/11/everything_is_working_out_for.html
licensed to kill time
@Villago Delenda Est:
I probably should have said her quest for notoriety, which translates into dollars in the RW Grift-o-sphere.
More eyeballs, more book sales.
rikryah
Cain breaking out in song.
he looked like a MINSTREL.
A MINSTREL.
I cringed.
As a Black person, this shufflin’ and jigglin’ for Mr. Charlie Negro made me CRINGE.
Howlin Wolfe
@Trurl: Asshole.
ABL
@Lysana: oh, i LOVE that video.
gocart mozart
Our whites are better than their whites.
kc
Ann Coulter’s still around? Shit . . .
greenergood
Additional grist from the Coulter mill: from Huff Post post (sorry can’t link, but go look for ‘Our blacks are better than their blacks’ (ewwww):
‘Coulter brought things back to race, saying that some women had been quick to forgive Bill Clinton for his sexual transgressions, but were attacking Herman Cain. “If you are a conservative black, they will believe the most horrible sexualized fantasies of these uptight white feminists,” she said.’
I’m sure there’s a psychological term for what this quote demonstrates, like ‘displacement’, or ‘role reversal’ or even ‘denial’ but I don’t know what it is (can someone please enlighten me?); I just know that Coulter citing ‘the most horrible sexualized fantasies of these uptight white feminists’ has an original home in the archives of the KKK, via the backroads of Faux ‘News’, with dollops of ‘Feminazi Update’.
The Other Chuck
There’s nothing psychologically wrong with Ann Coulter: she says hateful things, she is rewarded for it by her peers. Every single time. Without fail. It’s merely operant conditioning in action.
Why? Because the Very Serious People in our Very Serious Press are always Very Seriously Polite when hatemongers like Coulter and Malkin and Buchanan and Hannity open their traps. They must always be treated with Very Serious Respect, otherwise that’s a sign of not being a Very Serious Person. No matter what they say, scream, or fling, their every utterance must be treated with Very Serious Consideration.
It doesn’t help that those who actually do call out bullshit tend to be Very Unserious People, outright clowns who only engage in shouting matches so they can invite the same people on again to shout at them again. They’re only interested in the shouting, which itself is only a form of reinforcement to these aggressively nasty people like Coulter.
Paul in KY
@Hunter Gathers: Ick.
Paul in KY
@The Dangerman: Dude, you libel the late great Sam Kinison by comparing it to him.