The Conservative Pin-Up Girl

[rodeodance]

the question is-why is she whorthy of this?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A208-2005Apr19.html?referrer=email

The Conservative Pin-Up Girl

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 19, 2005; 7:47 AM

Yes, those are Ann Coulter's legs on the cover of Time magazine (along with the rest of her, but the legs take up half the page).

Why is "Ms. Right," as Time dubs her, worthy of such prominence?......



She was pretty incendiary then, as well as funny, but became more shrill during the Bush administration, churning out books accusing liberals of being treasonous and worse. I always wondered, since Coulter is an obviously intelligent lawyer, whether she was just developing an outlandish shtick that worked from a marketing point of view.

In the fall of 2001, her response to the terrorist attacks was: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." When she wrote that airport security should devote special scrutiny to "suspicious-looking swarthy males," National Review dropped Coulter as a contributing editor, prompting her to call Editor Rich Lowry and his deputies "girly boys."

When USA Today sent Coulter to last year's Democratic convention, she filed a column about "the corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie-chick pie wagons they call 'women' at the Democratic National Convention." When the paper refused to run the column, she quit.

So why exactly is Time profiling her now, other than the chance to feature a woman in a short dress?
.........

[sugapablo]

1. Because

Because people like you obvously are paying attention and mentioning Time magazine three times in your post to this heavily trafficed website. :)

[qanda]

2. The rest of that was almost totally unreadable

Howard Kurtz is terrible.

[jojo54]

3. I think the more she gets talked about, the less

people will like her. Situations' such as this one really show her true colors:

<One personal quibble. In 1997, as an MSBNC commentator, Coulter was debating a disabled Vietnam veteran. She says she told him, "No wonder you guys lost." This, says Time, was "oft-misreported" by the likes of The Washington Post, which turned the line into a more personal attack: "People like you caused us to lose that war."

I can now reveal my source for that quote. It was: Ann Coulter, recounting the incident in explaining why MSNBC dropped her. I did note that, according to Coulter, the vet was appearing by satellite and she didn't know he was disabled.>

She is a disgusting, hopeless fanatic who thinks she can get away with anything. It doesn't matter that she didn't know this vet was disabled, she had no right saying that. Let's see her "step and fetch" an apology to all Vietnam vets, and this one in particular.

[derby378]

8. Not necessarily true - remember Aimee Semple McPherson

"I don't care what they say about me - as long as they spell my name right!"

[bryant69]

4. I have to admit I am at a loss as to why now

She doesn't have a new book coming out, I don't think, and I don't know of any other reason seh is more interesting now than she was several months ago.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Jaybird]

6. it's obvious.....

I would reckon someone at the top of the Time magazine food chain is more than likely a money grubbing riech wing idiot who in some sick way thinks Ann is sexy and smart. He threw his/her weight around and forced some poor "journalist" to write a story about Sir Adam Apple. It's as simple as that.

[Heidi]

5. She'd fall completely off of the radar . . .

is only the liberals in this country stopped talking about her, responding to her BS and buying the media products that keep her in the spotlight.

[DemBeans]

7. a better take on it ---

From James Wolcott's blog:

It's not worth wasting any more outrage on the subject of Ann Coulter. We all know what she is, and can hear in the brief quiets between her brash pronouncements the squeal and squeak of mice running wild in the messy hayloft of her mind. She's an empty uproar with long legs and long shiny hair and a reputation for extending the cocktail hour indefinitely that casts her with what Paddy Chayevsky emphemistically "an aura of availability." Middle-aged men and younger can daydream that if they met her under under auspicious circs, as they say in Bertie Wooster novels, they might have a shot, a reverie harder to entertain about Wonkette, whose wedding ring is powered with a special wolf-repellent ray. Coulter may have female fans, I wouldn't know, but her media stardom is primarily a male fantasy that is both sexist and racist. She is the pinup pundit of White Prerogative, her arrogant vanity perfect for a country and a media-political culture that refuse to recognize its postindustrial decline and decay. A country that still thinks it can whip the world into obeying its will.

<snip>

No, it's the editors of Time who should hide and hang their heads as they perp-walk from corporate HQ to a rented bus. They should go off on a corporate retreat and stay there. Just not come back. Let the junior staffers and interns and messengers put out the magazine--it would probably be an improvement, and even if it weren't, the end-result probably wouldn't gleam with jaded calculation. It might have a smidgen of honest conviction.

http://jameswolcott.com

[crispini]

9. Wow!

That's quite the smackdown! :thumbsup:

[DinahMoeHum]

10. The NY Daily News tore her a new one today. . .

Link:
http://www.nydailynews.com/04-19-2005/news/story/301150p-257819c.html

(snip)
Human Uzi Ann Coulter is on the cover of this week's Time magazine, and author John Cloud's profile of "Ms. Right" is largely sympathetic.

But yesterday, the best-selling conservative firebrand had blood in her eyes and venom on her tongue over cover photographer Platon's off-putting wideangle-lens portrait.

"Kim Jong Il was treated better," Coulter raged in an E-mail. "A CURVED-LENS PHOTO ON THE COVER? Just amazing. My feet are the size of the Atlantic Ocean and my head the size of a pea."

Time executive editor Priscilla Painton replied: "There are a lot of women who would kill for those legs."
(snip)

:silly::rofl::silly:

[Stinky The Clown]

14. "My feet are the size of the Atlantic Ocean ......... "

"My feet are the size of the Atlantic Ocean and my head the size of a pea."

Yeah, that's about right .... you fucking peabrain.

[KlatooBNikto]

11. I think one of her attractions is that the outrageous views she spouts

makes men think that she may be into kinky, uninhibited sex. To fundies and Reps, that is the ticket.

[Brewman_Jax]

12. Has anyone noticed

that "Ms. Right" is doing everything (working, writing, public speaking) and exercising her rights brought about by her LIBERAL counterparts. To add, she's doing nothing that her CONSERVATIVE counterparts are doing, like getting married, staying home, raising a family, baking cookies, etc.

I don't know whether to :puke: or :rofl:

[Stinky The Clown]

13. Fuck You, Howie Kurtz

You're totally irrelevant, you fuckwad. What you say is worthless. What you think is menaingless, what you say is useless.

Why don't you just suck AnnTheMan's schlong and call it a day. Why not? :shrug: ..... her Adam's appple is bigger'n yours.

Were you hoping those would have been *your* legs on the cover of time .... you worthless fucking whore.