Thursday, June 08, 2006

Coulter = 10(Colbert + Finley) - Heart ?

As always, Andrew Sullivan finds the good in people (or the closest to good that can be found in this case)

... But the problem with Coulter is that she is a form of camp, is she not? The minute you take her seriously, you lose grip on her reality. She's not a social or political commentator. She's a drag queen impersonating a fascist. I don't even begin to believe she actually believes this stuff. It's post-modern performance-art. I think of Coulter in that sense as more at home on the pomo-left than the Christianist right (which is why the joke, ultimately, is on the Republicans who like her). Devoid of sincerity, detached from any value but performance, juggling rhetoric for its own sake, she is Stanley Fish's model student. Half the time, I tend to think that a Hannity or O'Reilly or Malkin actually believes their own rhetoric. With Coulter, I don't believe it for a second. And so her vileness cannot be taken seriously. She is worse than vile. She is just empty.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Exactly...she's either a total fake or a complete sociopath. I've actually started to entertain the notion that she may be secretly working for the Left, but then I realize I'm giving this c*** way too much credit. She wants and craves attention in the same way that a Michael Savage or a Pat Robertson does, and she'll say anything to get it. The watch reads 14 minutes, 58 seconds and counting...

Anonymous said...

"She's a drag queen impersonating a fascist." Thank you, Andrew ... thank you Jeff - missed that...