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Grew up in Jackson Heights, New York, but now live in Jersey. Married and the proud owner (servant?) of 4 cats, including a little blind guy named Quincy. Jobs have included: English teacher in U.S. and abroad, cabaret performer and member of a NYC sketch comedy troupe; now a full-time legal secretary and freelance writer. Other jobs: canvasser for NYPIRG/cannery worker in Naknek, Alaska (a fisherman told me it was "the ugliest part of Alaska")/dog kennel cleaner/member of the swine and poultry crew on a California farm. This year a memoir piece will be published in Telling Our Stories Press and poems in The Awakenings Review. Currently working on a one-woman show. "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett

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Salon.com
Editor’s Pick
DECEMBER 15, 2011 12:27PM

My Favorite Bimbo: Ann Coulter

Rate: 43 Flag

The tall leggy blonde’s favorite phrase is “douche bag” and she’s “all for” public floggings.  She’s a good friend of Bill Maher; rumor has it they were once lovers. 

 

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Maher has called her a “witty, fun drinking companion.”  During the debates they engaged in across the country in 2009, he said, “Unlike so many people in America, she was not afraid to be booed.”

 

She’s cornered the market on bombast and cojones.  A self-described “pot stirrer,” she admits to being neither fair nor balanced on her views.  I see her as a circus performer, a trained seal, incendiary, but nonetheless, an entertainer.  I believe she epitomizes “hack,” and flamboyantly so.

 

Her latest cause was Herman Cain, maligned for alleged sexual harassment of former female employees. 

 

During an interview with Sean Hannity, she said, “Liberals detest, detest, detest conservative blacks,” and. “. . . This is now the second time a conservative black has had outrageous and what appear to be false allegations leveled against him.”  The first, she believed, was Clarence Thomas.

 

Hannity asked why Cain threatened liberals, she said, “Our [conservative] blacks are so much better than their blacks.”  “To become a black Republican, you don’t just roll into it.  You’re not going with the flow . . . and that’s why we have very impressive blacks in the Republican party.”

 

On John Walker Lindh:  “We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.”  I thought if we stopped shopping, the terrorists won.  Huh?

 

Another Coulterism:  “God said, ‘Earth is yours.  Take it.  Rape it. It’s yours.’ ” 

 

If God condones rape, I guess Ann can hack.  She does it so well.

 

 

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Delightful. I do consider her a performer first, one who uses politics as a schtick, pretty much as Lamebaugh and Beck. But whereas the two men are predictable in what they say and how they say it, Coulter seems to be more impish, going for the shock of audacity in what she says. She, too, is predictable in her ideological interpretation and factual distortions, and such predictability for me is the hallmark of the hack, but it's as an entertainer, her forte, that she keeps us guessing, i.e. just how outrageous will she be? She belongs on the list, of course, but I would qualify her hackness as having an interesting style. Probly makes her all the more dangerous. Great choice, Erica.
true nuff' - a niche is a niche - and she takes that to the bank - and some.
At first, I thought she was ballsy or something. Now, I just find her tiresome and insincere.
“God said, ‘Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.’ ” That God character is such a card.
We see the first subtle warning sign here that Bill Maher probably should give up alcohol.
She is my least favorite bimbo. ~r
Chicken Maaan, yes, a buffoon and snakeoil saleswoman she is and surprisingly, a bestselling author of about 7 books. Who reads this stuff??? She is a shock jock, no?

snowden, you got that right. She's laughing all the way to the bank.

fernsy, I hear you. I used to think she was insane, but now I think she is deliberately crafty and manipulative.

Charlie, Yes, isn't he? Thanks for stopping by.

Joan, I know, I was being facetious.
And here I thought Coulter was a virgin.
I'd personally like to punch her in her great big Adams apple. Maybe that will stop some of her "hate for profit" spewing.
Brass, good point! Too much drinking and pot on Bill's part.

Amy, good idea! Thanks for stopping by.
Bernadine, really? Ha ha.
What distresses me is that more liberals have started to use her hair brained demonizing tactics against the right. (Joe McGuiness (Sp?) is a good example and I'm not going to begin with the talk show hosts.)

It's like reaching down in the cess pool to throw the shit back at them but it gets your hands awful stinky in the process.
Horrible woman. Certainly a hack.
Ben, thanks for stopping by. yes, playing catch in the cesspool can do that to one!

Lea, Indeed. A manipulative puppet.
Jon, Yay for Ann! (gag me)
Usually, I can't listen long enough to hear her over my own groans and swearing.
God told me that he only says that to dick-heads...

...we shared a laugh.

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What she really wants to be, but isn't, is a Nazi cabaret singer in fishnet stockings, spreading fascism and bullying via what she perceives to be her alpha girl looks. I can appreciate a ballsy pundit but now is not the time to be endeared by her crap politics and unintelligent views.
@Bernardine - Many people doubt she's even a woman.
she's hot, in a favorite horse kina way
@ Tr ig: Which end???? (of the horse, not Ann).
Lydieth, I know, she can be trying.

Good one, spumey!

Chiller, nazi cabaret singer would suit her perfectly! What a visual!

Bee Gee, that might be true. My husband says she suffers from a disease called "Marfan syndrome" that results in those incredibly, excessively long limbs of hers. Check it out.

I agree, tr ig.
Yeah. She'd look great in one of those black and white 1930s photos standing beside her SS officer man. Fascist bitch.

:-) / R
Toritto, another great visual. Thanks for stopping by.
So much crap comes out of her mouth, I gotta wonder how much of it she believes. And then I get afraid cause I think I know the answer!

Good choice!
What a waste of human flesh!
I don't understand the Maher connection. You'd think they would be the anti- of each other and would cancel each other out (creating a small rupture in the space-time continuum). A rather livelier version of the Carville/Matalin duo.
I absolutely can't stand Ann Coulter. She has ridiculous opinions, if she even means anything she says (I actually think she does). What's more, she clearly considers herself to be a sex bomb. I just don't there's anything serious about her.
I thought she was a lesbian. She always looks like she showed up the in the dress she left on your floor last night.
I think people don't get that she has a sarcastic sense of humor and that is part of what is going on with what you too seem to not get. (See the "rape" comments above.) I doubt Ann Coulter is favoring the rape of women.

I wish she wrote with the humor in which she often speaks, but, alas, she does not.

It is important to recall that Mr. Thomas was accused of talking about porn and making a joke about something on a coke can. This is tacky, crass, and stupid. It is not leaving a woman in the water to fend for herself, nor is it groping her in the office or trying to get her to service you in your hotel room after she has been escorted there by a state official. (BTW, that is not harassment either. It is boorish and dumb, but not a "sleep with me or else" situation.)

I think Cain is a playboy. I suspect Thomas is a boorish flirt. I think Clinton is a serial adulterer and playboy. I also believe he had a long-term affair. Ditto for Cain. Ditto on the playboy for JFK, etc., etc., etc. I don't care.

And Coulter is right about her core point - which I think you don't get - and that is that "blacks", conservative ones, are attacked so viciously by the left because they have gone off the "liberal" track and that is not allowed.
Apparently I need to update my Bible.
Thanks for calling her out Erica. She is truly despicable and poor Maher must have been desperate for sex if there's any truth to that rumor. I can't take more than a minute of her but since I seldom watch Fox i never have to.

And wasn't her remedy for peace in the Middle East to assassinate their leaders and convert the rest to Christianity?
I'm just gonna be honest: I think she's kind of funny. I've actually laughed at her jokes quite a few times. She's just sooooooo absurd, I half expect her to turn around one day and go "PUNK'D!!!"
Yuck. Do people actually find her hot? I mean, other than as a horse? I can't see the entertainment value. I'm sorry--if "our blacks are better than their blacks" is comedy, then let's please have tragedy. Congrats on the EP!
You sure got her number, Erica. She does exploit the worst American traits--especially the famous American respect for contempt--to the limit, and she is loved for it. Ann Coulter needs to be attacked continuously, mercilessly, objectively and ad hominem. Unfortunately, we don't have people on the liberal side who have that kind of brass. You always hear the famous liberal quote, "Oh, we should not stoop to her level." Excellent post. R
Erica, I knew you were being facetious. I just have such a visceral reaction to her...
Since when do abs add to a political argument?
I wish we could stop talking about her. I think she gets off on any discussion of her, especially if it's negative.
Thanks for the comments, everyone. She truly is a freak, but a very successful one at that with about 7 bestselling books with titles like "Treason" and "Heresy". I often find it hard to take her seriously but she has certainly carved out quite the career for herself, as grotesque as it may be.
why is it the left is congenitally uable to discuss issues without name calling?

i guess putting "bimbo" and "ann coulter" together in the same line is just what the open salon editors feel is the height of political humor, eh?
I'm with Safe Bet's.
Coulter is the bitter lemon that you whipped into this nice frothy lemonade. Yum.
Baltimore Aureole, Coulter does plenty of name calling herself, so I feel it's deserved to dish it back to her.

dirndl skirt, Thanks for stopping by.
Much deserved EP for a really excellent hack choice. Have often wondered, as have many others, why she feels the need to go on morning television in a dress that makes her look as if she never went home from whatever she was trying to do the night before.
Mary, I think it's part of her schtick/persona. Thanks for reading.
She's at the tippity-top of my hack list - you saved me both effort and blood-pressure elevation by writing this. And you did it much better than I would have! Thank you!
Thanks, Jennifer. I wrote a post about her in October and have been observing her for years. Quite a psychological experiment.
Well done. The problem like with most Fox Folks is that they talk without facts, and swear to it also. The real shame is that People take there word for FACT.
Right you are, Cheffer. Thanks for reading.
wow....great summary, I didn't know the depths, or lackthereof, of Coulter. I say give her a bigger stage. She drowns herself. Any who agree look very foolish.
Heidi, I had to keep the post short for the open call, but if you look her up, she has some amazing (bizarre and off the wall) things to say. Thanks for stopping by. -E
I don't see her on the tube that often but when I do I usually listen for a little while if only because she doesn't bray on and on about being a mommy
Not that I'm keeping track of such things, but I don't notice Ann's name coming up much in the MSM anymore. Certainly not like it did during W's first term. I think she painted herself into a corner by needing to top her last bombastic statement/book each time out. So that by the time she wrote a book claiming all liberals to be traitors, the reaction was a shrug of shoulders.
She would have been great at the court of Berlusconi.....bunga bunga et al
You're right, noah, she has not been in the limelight for a while but she still makes appearances on Fox News.

Stim, I believe a large chunk of the conservative base divorced themselves from her after some of the outlandish statements she's come out with.

Roberto, Absolutely! Thanks for reading.
All legs and hair and little else. Bimbo.
Memoirs of a douche bag...
JT and Miguela, right on!

RT, great title, maybe you can ghost write it.
I saw her on joy behar's show. Kind of a yawn then.
To call her a bimbo is an insult to bimbos everywhere.

Unfortunately, she's laughing all the way to the bank.
Cranky, ha, ha, yes, guess i've insulted myself here-according to most, anyone working as a secretary for as long as I have is either stupid or a bimbo.
My biggest pleasure was seeing her squirm after hearing of Obama's win. And looking forward to seeing it again! R
Marilyn, touche! Thanks for stopping by. -erica
I remember the first time I ever heard of Ann Coulter shortly after I first heard of Bill Maher when he was still doing politically Incorrect in the nineties. someone mentioned her and he responded by saying, with self righteous indignation, "Ann Coulter is a Skank!"

I though that this was extremely shallow and my first thought was maybe your the one that is a skank. Eventually I actually heard Coulter talk and the first thought that went through my head was something like, "damn she really is a skank; Maher was right!"

Since then I've heard her more than I care to and can't see how or why anyone would take her seriously.
Exactly, Zachery. Hard to take anything she says seriously, she is a clown, laughing all the way to the bank.
I think she has a serious screw loose. I could see her landing in a super posh asylum some day.
No doubt, Margie. Those crazy eyes are a dead giveaway.
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