In a column about the recent sexual harassment claims against Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, New York Times pundit Maureen Dowd writes:
Ann Coulter has a point when she says that feminists rewrote their own rules on sexual harassment to support Bill Clinton. It is never right for any boss, especially the president of the United States, to mess with an intern, even if she's the aggressor.But Coulter falters when she charges that, like Clarence Thomas, Cain is the victim of a high-tech lynching, that "if you are a conservative black, they will believe the most horrible sexualized fantasies of these white women feminists."
What, one must ask, could Dowd have been thinking? In the first place, she is forcing us to remember her own heartless and obsessive treatment of young Monica Lewinsky, who was helpless to fight back against Dowd's nasty comments about her imperfect body and other human shortcomings.
But for goodness' sake. Ann Coulter? That's who Dowd felt a need to quote so respectfully on this topic? The same woman who said, "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building"?
No need to personalize this, however. If Dowd doesn't mind treating as a sensible and respectful source a woman who joked about the mass murder of her friends and colleagues, how about these other Coulter quotes:
On Bill Clinton: "In this recurring nightmare of a presidency, we have a national debate about whether he 'did it.' ... otherwise there would be debates only about whether to impeach or assassinate."
On executing conservatives: "We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate conservatives, by making them realize that they can be killed too. Otherwise they will turn out to be outright traitors."
On women's suffrage: "I think [women] should be armed but should not vote. ... women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it. ... it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care."
On women's suffrage, again: "It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 -- except Goldwater in '64 -- the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted."
On homosexuality in the Clinton administration: "I don't know if [former President Bill Clinton is] gay. But [former Vice President] Al Gore -- total fag."
I actually got to know Coulter before anyone had ever heard of her. We were both hired by MSNBC when the station first began, back in 1996, to fill up airtime with our arguments while the station figured out what it was going to do with itself. Just a congressional aide at the time -- to an Arab American no less -- Coulter would say some of the craziest things ever said on American television up until that time -- and then top herself by saying something crazier. Coulter was eventually fired by MSNBC for attacking a legless Vietnam vet on the air, but by then, conservatives, with the help of a mindless mainstream media, had already made her into a star.
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On another note: she's kind of sexy. : ))))))))
On another note: There are feminists and there are other feminists -- some didn't condemn President Clinton as they might've partly because of the caliber of his ever present on TV enemies, like the loathsome Ken Starr.
We lost so much during that time, when the Supreme Court decided President Clinton had enough time to do his job and to also attend to matters of a lawsuit. No, he didn't.
A lot of it was well researched and reasoned justifiable derision, exasperation, astonishment, dismay, regret, anger, despair, horror, and disbelief.
Yeah there was a lot of hate directed towards GWB's administration. Some of it was mindless. Most of it was not.
She is a caricature.
No one with a functioning mind wishes to emulate her.
People do not reach for her books, they receive them as joke gifts.