Ann Coulter Needs Perfecting

Full disclosure: I am mentioned 10 times -- more than even Jane Fonda or Betty Friedan -- by the anti-feminist Kate O'Beirne in her book, Women Who Make the World Worse: and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports. From my perspective, this means I must be doing something right. With those credentials as well as being an aficionada of Keith Olberman's nightly "Worst Person in the World" shtick, I recently decided to start my own list of the Stupidest Women in America (SWIAA ™).

My first SWIAA™ award went hands down to Harriet Miers, the former White House Counsel who was George W. Bush's obviously under-qualified and clearly doomed token female nominee for U. S. Supreme Court before he got to pick the white male Justice he really wanted. She continued to stand by her man while Congress slapped her around and W. let her swing in the wind with her frozen I'm-a-good-little-girl smile on her face. Even after the House Judiciary Committee ruled her in contempt of Congress for failing to respond to their subpoena for information on the now-confirmed political influence in the firing of a slew of U.S. attorneys general who wouldn't tow the administration's line, Miers, the Tower-in-Chief, continued seeking the big boys' approval. She meekly does as asked when George W. Bush or his minions do the asking. She's the unmarried woman who so needs to be part of the hierarchical rightwing male bastion of power that she subordinates herself to males to whom she is not married but is clearly tethered in unholy alliance. These, not incidentally, are men for whom abrogating women's Constitutional rights to equality in everything from salaries to sports to reproductive self-determination is just their breakfast cereal before they go on to launch wars for profit and political control.

But let me not stoop to stereotype. Ann Coulter, my second SWIAA™ is anything but meek. And she certainly doesn't look prim and proper. "I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't," she once told TV Guide.

Rather than take on the good little girl persona, Coulter brandishes her come-hither attractiveness like an S and M whip, and oh how the boys love it.

Indeed, she even entrances her "good friend" Bill Maher, who invited her to appear on his previous talk show, Politically Incorrect, regularly, where she had the opportunity to make such outrageous statements as "I think [women] should be armed but should not [be allowed to] vote." Still, her hyper-sexualized fashion style with its short-tight skirts, stilettos, and blonde mane dripping over one eye notwithstanding, she is equally tethered to the same right-wing male power and fiercely intent on doing its bidding for her own benefit. The anti-woman woman gets lots of bennies in that world -- a syndicated column, lots of on-camera time, and the full force of the right-wing book promotion machine for starters, to help her feather her nest egg.

In a New York Observer blog post featuring excerpts of an interview, she proposed the following solution to her own woman problem:

"If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat [sic] president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women...the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it's the party of women..?"

Oh, I see. If you regard women as full citizens, that makes you a sissy. I guess I missed that in my civics class.

It should go without saying then that she would regard Jews, who also trend toward the Democrats, as in need of "perfecting," which she recently told Donny Deutsch -- another liberal, and a Jewish one to boot, who gives her way too much airtime. Here's the video:

The transcript is here, courtesy of Media Matters -- you couldn't make this stuff up:

DEUTSCH: We should all be Christian?

COULTER: Yes. Would you like to come to church with me, Donny?

...

DEUTSCH: That isn't what I said, but you said I should not -- we should just throw Judaism away and we should all be Christians, then, or --

COULTER: Yeah.

DEUTSCH: Really?

COULTER: Well, it's a lot easier. It's kind of a fast track.

DEUTSCH: Really?

COULTER: Yeah. You have to obey.

DEUTSCH: You can't possibly believe that.

COULTER: Yes.

...

DEUTSCH: Why don't I put you with the head of Iran? I mean, come on. You can't believe that.

COULTER: The head of Iran is not a Christian.

DEUTSCH: No, but in fact, "Let's wipe Israel" --

COULTER: I don't know if you've been paying attention.

DEUTSCH: "Let's wipe Israel off the earth." I mean, what, no Jews?

COULTER: No, we think -- we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.

DEUTSCH: Wow, you didn't really say that, did you?

COULTER: Yes. That is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws. We know we're all sinners --

DEUTSCH: In my old days, I would have argued -- when you say something absurd like that, there's no --

COULTER: What's absurd?

DEUTSCH: Jews are going to be perfected. I'm going to go off and try to perfect myself --

COULTER: Well, that's what the New Testament says.

DEUTSCH: Ann Coulter, author of If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, and if Ann Coulter had any brains, she would not say Jews need to be perfected. I'm offended by that personally. And we'll have more Big Idea when we come back.

High intelligence doesn't necessarily prevent stupidity, let alone cupidity.

Maybe someday I'll expand the SWIAA ™ award to men (SMIAA ™), but as long as there are women like Miers and Coulter, I'm going to stick with those of my own gender who have no sense of their own best interest. Or perhaps they have concluded their best interest lies in identifying with their oppressors.

Send nominations to me in the comment section below.

Comments

[commonsenselives]

I vote for that air-head Elisabeth Hasselbeck from the view. I mean any woman who says "Life begins at penetration" has my vote for stupidest woman in America.

Yes, she really did say that. Un-freakin believable.

[JimR]

I am continually amazed at how people still get upset over what Ann Coulter says. Before you rip me a new one, please hear me out.

Ann says outrageous things to make people angry and get herself on talk show after talk show. This is no secret, it's been her modus operandi for years.

Ann says something outrageous. It spreads through the media and sparks outrage. Ann appears on other shows to talk about what she said THIS TIME. And around and around and around we go.

Getting angry plays into her game. That's exactly what she wants, is for people to get outraged.

I, for one, am bored with this game, and I'm not going to play anymore.

[bethinCary]

If Coulter wants to be perfected-then she should learn to shut her mouth and not let her own ego takeover her persona.

[barackoblogger]

She's not well.

[LanceThruster]

This is a new level of cluelessness, even for her. The sad fact is that at least according to Xian endtimes mythology, she is correct.

[Chris210]

Ann Coulter is very smart. And very wealthy. I don't believe for one second she believes a fraction of what she is saying. She has, instead, cleverly marketed herself to a target audience she knows very well and gives them exactly what they want to hear. She's an act. She goes one better than O'Reilly and Limbaugh put together in a physically more appealing package. She knows what she's doing. It's a very successful career for her.

[arethabaez]

Exactly!

[mgloraine]

I have to nominate Nancy Reagan for that all-time favorite "Just Say No!" Wow! What a concept! And so effective, too!

We can't leave out Laura Bush, whose intelligence is drawn into question by the mere fact that she married little George.

We need also to include Barbara Bush for saying about all those Katrina refugees being temporarily housed at the Astrodome: "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

And Dana Perino, the new BushCo mouthpiece, deserves a resounding slap across the face for her recent pontification about the proposed war tax: "We"ve always known that Democrats seem to revert to type, and they are willing to raise taxes on just about anything." Whereas BushCo prefers to spend like a drunken sailor on credit and leave the difficult task of fiscal responsibility to the Democrats, as usual.

[gtsagan]

No, I think with Miers and Coulter you've pretty much covered the turf.

Any chance you could just keep awarding it to them? You know, in rotation?

[magen]

Wow!
As a fellow Jew that offends me as well. Wear it as a badge of honor. Very Naziesque. (A word I've coined and unfortunately been using a lot lately. It's already copyrighted so if you use it you have to pay me royalties!) I am proud to have been denounced by the Monsignor of LA county when I was dating his niece who told her not to marry me because I was "not as enlightened" as her. Monsignor is one step before Cardinal, which is one step before Pope ya, know. He's up there. People don't get promoted to these positions without many accomplices.

COULTER: Yes. That is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws. We know we're all sinners --

LAWS?????? Has Coulter ever read Leviticus, or Numbers????? What laws do right wingnut psuedo-christians have???????

On a funny note. (or embarrassing depending on how you look at it) I once saw an episode of "The Man Show" where Adam and Jimmy were on the beach in CA asking women to sign a petition to get rid of women's suffrage. I'm sure the episode was edited, but most women wanted to sign it.

Shows you how smart typical Americans are.

[Dadoftwins]

Every time I see Ann Coulter, I imagine her in a black SS uniform with jack boots. I am not kidding. I have even tried to block that image but I can't. Coulter, like Limbaugh and the rest of the talking head Republicans, is just a carnival huckster selling her titilating product to a very unsophisticated electorate. The more she is attacked by the left, the more money she rakes in. Ignore her.

[RobertaInCT]

You are being too kind in calling them "talking heads". I see them as "moving lips", talking heads would imply a working brain is involved, which is clearly not the case.

[Sephirothii13]

Connie Rice, for standing my her man and no believing in talking to other nations, yet her job is to be the chief depomate.
Laura Bush; for not jumping "king" george for putting up meirs when he had promised her he would put a woman in the place of Sandra Day O'Connor spot. (forgive my spelling I am down with the flu and can't see very well)
Cheney's Daughter for not only standing up against her fathers party attacks on women but on gays as well.

[Thorn]

"Connie Rice," by the way.

[MzShare]

Gloria, I have to disagree with you. Ann Coulter is not stupid. She's an irritating idiot-there is a difference. Plenty of smart idiots out there, unfortunately. She says moronic things but she's very shrewd. She figured out that there's a huge audience of idiots like her who agree with her imbecilic beliefs so she puts this ridiculous crap on paper, sells books, makes appearances and gets more money than the average smart person. She does say things that are mean and irrational, dumb and idiotic. She is lots of negative things but she's not stupid. Anyone who actually gives thought to what she says is stupid because her opinions are not even coherent, let alone interesting.

[snaggster]

Oh, come on. Ann is outrageous and toxic, but he isn't stupid. The flat earth lady on The View. Now, that's stupid!

[genmalia]

Ann Coulter should be at the top of the list for SWIAA. She often contradicts herself, and apart from being about the most disgusting, obnoxious, despicable (dare I say?) woman on the planet, she has nothing to contribute ever except for hatred.

Honestly, if she didn't have long blonde hair, most wouldn't give her the time of day. I can't believe there are people alive who would give her any venue from which to speak.

[stlrfan]

Catherine Harris and Fran Townsend immediately jump to my mind.