James Dewey Watson, the co-discoverer of DNA, recently resigned as chancellor of Long Island's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for making racially insensitive remarks. But don't expect Ann Coulter to step down from the public spotlight anytime soon.
Especially as Islamo fascism tours take off on college campuses.
Even though the conservative pundit called former Vice President Al Gore and Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards the "f" word for gay, ridiculed 9/11 widows, claimed Ambassador to France Pamela Harriman "slept her way to the top," told disabled Vietnam veteran and former Georgia Senator Max Cleland, "People like you caused us to lose that war," recommended poisoning Supreme Court Justice Stevens, called reporter Helen Thomas an "old Arab," called Senator John Kerry a kept spouse and claimed she suffered more listening to Abu Ghraib stories than did the inmates, Coulter is not big on self correction.
In fact she felt so ashamed about the lapses she says she "couldn't stop laughing."
Still there are signs Coulter's career might be on decrescendo judging from the melodramatic and dated tone to her new bestseller, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd be Republicans. (Coulter doesn't write books; she writes "bestsellers.")
"True, it was heartless of me to question whether al Qaeda had specifically targeted the Jersey Girls' husbands and whether the other 2,994 victims were just collateral damage. I should have just told them to 'put some ice on that,' as Juanita Broaddrick says Hillary's husband did after raping her."
Got that?
"Liberals are racked by self-loathing as the result of some traumatic incident--say, driving drunk off a bridge with your mistress passed out in the back seat and letting the poor girl drown because you're a married man and a U.S. Senator, just to take one utterly random, hypothetical example off the top of my head."
And that?
Coulter doesn't seem to realize Chappaquiddick and Bill Clinton's infidelities are not high on the public's indignation scale anymore. Same with "[Clinton's] groping Kathleen Willey simultaneously with her own spouse committing suicide."
And what is a proponent of family values doing naming chapters, Bill Clinton: He Left a Mark on History That May Never Come Out--wink wink--and making Moby Dick jokes anyway?
Also dated is Coulter's polarizing "us and them" language.
"How about attacks on gays? Maybe gay-bashers are just tired of being told they have no sense of style."
"It's always the same people who characterize puncturing a baby's skull and sucking the brains out a 'constitutional right' who rise in self-righteous moral condemnation over some harmless little joke I've told."
Don't think joke one is funny? You're probably in category two!
May I share a few thoughts regarding Ms C. (Around here we try to avoid speaking her name, so we say: "that big mouth, bottle-blonde with the mental disorder.")
1. DON'T "buy" her book: if you "must" read it, check it out at some public library - whatever you do, do not circulate money to satisfy your curiosity. The reason: authors like AC don't care what you think about the crap they write... they just want you to BUY their book. So they write the most outrageous crap they can get away with to create a buzz about it hoping that will increase sales.
2. AC suffers from a mental disorder (which is probably listed in the DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or Mental Disorders somewhere) which causes her to feel a constant need for a certain type of attention and validation to such a degree that "she" is willing to do or say the most outrageous things to get that attention. The "disordered" component of her illness is that there is no satisfaction level which can be reached that will calm her desire for attention. i.e. no amount of attention will ever be enough to calm her attention-seeking compulsion. Consequently she is condemned to forever repeating those behaviors which, in her deranged state, she believes will produce a return on investment in the form of more attention and more approval. Other public figures who suffer with this illness - since many are driven by their attention & approval seeking behaviors into professions where they will get just that - are O'Reilly and Limbaugh who also engage in outrageous monologues to pique the attention of the public. They are stuck in a juvenile loop of needing gratification in the form of (parental) attention and approval: "Look at me. NO, Mommie, LOOK at ME! Me! Me! ME!" Forever.
Seeking after attention and approval is not in and of itself the aberration, rather it is the fact that in some (deranged) personalities there is no level of satisfaction that can turn off the need for ever more and more attention. AC suffers this in an extreme form. She has found her niche in that the most suitable method for "her" is making outrageous political accusations regarding her fellow citizens. She is both unable to quit and equally unable to assess the inappropriate nature of some of her more bizarre utterances. To her, anything which results in the attention she is needs is appropriate.
3. A parallel point regarding the "Democrats:" make a slight twist to the premise of her book - we could ask the rhetorical question: "With Democrats like these who needs Republicans?"
As long as we are on the subject of personality disorders in public figurines, let's turn to Dick C. who also lacks the ability to achieve satisfaction, except for him it is a need for power. This little man has felt so powerless and unattractive all his life that it has driven him to become a political figure and then a fascist political figure . No amount of power will ever fill his need to feel powerful, so he is compelled to engage in behaviors which he believes, in his deranged state, will somehow deliver the satisfaction he cannot experience. One part of his need for power comes from doing "that which is forbidden." He believes if he has the ability to do what others say must not do - "that" is the ultimate power. His problem lies in the simple fact the "the switch" at the top of his "needs reservoir" which should tell him when he has had enough: that switch is broken. He is driven by strong internal needs to seek more and more power because no amount of power will ever tip that balance. For him the ultimate power is doing those things which are forbidden such as, committing mass murder on a grand scale. The rest of us are doomed to watch this play out unless some brave individual is willing to step up and say: "You've had enough, Dick...That's quite enough!" Because he is certainly incapable of doing that himself.
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on Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 12:45:41 PM
