Ann Coulter: On the Gay Circuit in West Hollywood

We had dinner last night at Murano, a new West Hollywood restaurant, owned by gay circuit party promoter Jeffrey Sanker, and lesbian night club owners Robin Gans and Sandy Sachs. It's a visually stunning space, straight lines, whites and reds accented by brilliant Murano glass chandeliers (hence the name of the restaurant). It's right at home within eyeshot of West Hollywood's Pacific Design Center, clearly appealing in a neighborhood of gay clubs, bars and restaurants.

Toward the end of dinner, one of my companions insisted that the painfully thin, emotive, long blond haired thing in a small black dress with nearly exposed bosoms was none other than Ann Coulter. I did not believe him. Why would Ann Coulter, who hates homosexuals, go to dinner at gay ground zero? Why would she spend her hard earned gay-bashing royalties to enrich Jeffrey Sanker and otherwise support gay-owned businesses?

But sure enough, he was right. I could not tell if she was dining with people she hates or just demonstrating that she's a fraud who says whatever she must to sell books so that she can live the gay urban lifestyle. Based on her behavior last night, I am sure it is the latter, although based on her table mates, it could be both.

Remember Ann Coulter on John Edwards and homosexuals?

"I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I'm - so, kind of at an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards, so I think I'll just conclude here and take your questions."

Now, the last I checked, most gay people, including me, do not think the term "faggot" is endearing.

Notorious people have the right to dine where they please. I also think that they have to eat their own cooking. It's quite simple, really. If a person makes her money by being famous and that person has an addiction problem, she has the right to privacy to solve that problem. But if she proclaims her sobriety to get out of jail and then shows up at a bar, she has to expect that her public might inquire as to her truth. You can't have it both ways: sober for the police and the press; publicly drunk for real. In time, you are caught in the lie. It's one or the other, fame or privacy.

Clearly, Ann Coulter was caught in a lie. There she was, burbling like a fountain about her interview on Donny Deutsch's show in which she says Jews should be Christians, completely at ease in the heart of the gayest city on the planet. She was a natural with the gay men who surrounded her. She enjoyed the fawning attention by her two not so masculine male escorts, clearly in her milieu.

I was therefore shocked that when we tried to engage her in conversation, she became embarrassed, turned away, nestling her head inside her long, blond hair, much as would an embarrassed school girl caught stealing the answers to an exam.

We wondered if she was comfortable in West Hollywood, in a restaurant where a large number of the patrons are gay, and where the gay owners make money off of her dining bill. Her response (physically, because she would not speak): "I am too embarrassed to talk to you." Had we been able to see her high cheek bones, then averted and clutched in her hands to hide her shame, we'd have seen a red-faced hypocrite, caught living a lie. Think Britney Spears or Paris Hilton or others who make money simply for being famous and then have no clue how to respond when they are caught lying.

Ann Coulter loves the camera, so we snapped a few with a cell phone. Her sturdy female minder said we were "molesting" her. Ann Coulter molested by having her picture taken? I guess she's molested every day, then. She might want to check into rehab to deal with her addiction to such molestation.

When the manager came by with our check, he said, "Look, I'm sorry she's here, but I have to serve her." The staff were clearly appalled when they realized who was in their midst. Did Hitler eat kosher food even as he worked out the final solution?

Remember those "we reserve the right to serve anyone" signs? I assume they are for real. Had it been my restaurant, I would have sent her away, not allowed her to enjoy the life she craves. On the other hand, we have to wonder why Ann Coulter feels so comfortable among the gay men she hates. Clearly, she's just a hypocrite, saying outrageous, inflammatory, dangerous, un-Christian words simply to make enough money to pay for dinner in, well, West Hollywood.

Ann Coulter had nothing to say last night because anything she could conjure would have been too absurd. So she ducked her head, embarrassed at being caught where she most likes to be, hoping to disappear. Ann Coulter is a coward who uses evil speech in the safety of a studio to make money. She obviously does not even believe the obscenities she hurls at America, a country she says she hates.

How many adolescents in mid-America have heard Ms. Coulter saying they are "faggots," subhumans who should die, just so she could eat dinner at a gay-owned establishment and pay with blood money? How many lives have ended so that Ms. Coulter can giggle and guzzle in West Hollywood?

I do not believe in bothering famous people when they are out in public. But Ann Coulter created her fame and fortune by cultivating a persona of hate. She has to be called to account. Next time, I hope the folks at Murano or any other public establishment will just say no to the Ann Coulters of the world. Let Ann Coulter eat her own cooking. I doubt she can stand the taste of what she dishes, but it's worth letting her try.

Comments

[who]

Plagiarist, hypocrite, hate monger -- Coulter has earned and deserves the contempt of millions of people. How does she face herself in the mirror each day?

[hypnotoad72]

There are only so many reasons her presence could be explained. But for every one of those, there's one answered question:

With her fame, which she has had for some time, how come she's never been - forgive me - outed in a gay bar before?

Usually, most people who don't like homosexuals stay away from them.

What next, Fred Phelps caught in a bathroom with Larry Craig and a professional tap dancing vaudeville troupe?

[indigowatcher]

I would never EVER just stand there and let Ann Coulter walk by me. I'd yell "MONSTER!" at the top of my lungs. Fuck giving these Bush Era assholes any semblance of a normal life after what they've done to us as a nation! And after what Coulter has spewed about gay people she deserves to have her earrings snatched by a giant hulking drag queen.

[schmuckwithearlaps]

This post has 455 comments as I write this. That says a lot about Ann's success in getting under our skin. I include myself in this group because I often comment when her name comes up. Recently I have come to realize that she scares us on a level deeper than Rush, Sean and Savage put together. She is the witch in our childhood nightmares, the evil beyond what we want to be frightened by. She can mock the Holocaust in several successive columns on her web site and no one stops her. She can stick her finger in the eye of the 80% of Americans who do not accept her sick views. Nothing can stop her. She is all powerful, and I think she is coming for me now. Wait, Ann, stop-get back! Where is my Buffy stake? It is too late...AAA­AAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAHHHH­HHHHHHHHHH­!

[wayoutleft]

coulter's deal is to sell clever self-affirming hate books to little redneck boys; then taking the money and crashing the blue, expensive, hip, gay coastal scenes. she thinks this is ironic and clever, which it is. the real values question is: does the advent of ann coulter on any particular blue, expensive, hip gay coastal scene make it more fashionable-or less so?

[Dougfbn]

I guess I must not be gay. I thought Ann Coulter's remark about "faggot" - in conjunction with John Edwards - was an observation about what gets you into rehab these days. I have read her books, with much enjoyment - the left has nothing like her. Well, like her I suppose, but not based on facts. Perhaps this is my problem with gay culture - they like to tell me what to think. Ms Coulter likes to point out irony. And hypocrisy. If she is anti-gay, I have never seen any indication of it. Perhaps I am not sensitive enough .....

[research]

So Coulter was complimenting Edwards?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/01/perfected-the-ann-coulte_n_70746.html

[LeftAngelWing]

I hope everyone, from the bus boys to the server spit in her food...

[ErnestineBass]

Or worse...

[CJCalgirl]

Let's try a bit more sophistication and ask the restaurant to put a sign in the window, or an ad in the local paper saying ANN COULTER EATS HERE! A great endorsement, from someone who just couldn't stay away.

[Harrier]

When she is on TV, all she is trying to do is get more money with what she says so she can keep coming back. She does what she can to draw attention to herself. Other than that, I'm sure she's quite normal.

[sockman]

I wouldn't have the heart to turn away someone as bony as Ann Coulter....politics aside. Come on people.....let her eat.

[Kenefer]

I agree. It's clear that Rick doesn't appreciate that Coulter, like many ultraright tastemakers, knows perfectly well that when the balloon goes up in January and the saucer comes to save The Remnant HER NAME IS ON THE LIST! She's even been to the staging area in Neptune orbit. When she looks at regular people all she can see are clusters of burning leaves exploding in slow motion --pretty much what Linda Hamilton saw in "T2". Even so, when she craves a coutelette and has a chance to spare Conchita the clean-up, she goes out. I ask you, is that a crime? She could just as easily have been accosted by an outraged rainbowboy at Buckingham Palace, the Vatican, or a Republican fundraiser --they're EVERYWHERE.

[ramal]

Coulter certainly has the right to dine where she chooses and the owners of the restaurant were right in dealing with her the way they did. Refusing to serve her would only have bought her more of the publicity she brazenly craves and would, doubtless, sell a few more of her books. However, I wonder if dear Ann has gone so far as to think about her own physical health when dining in an establishment that probably employs a goodly number of gay cooks and waitstaff? I am not saying I approve, but people can be very vindictive especially when their only way of striking back is passive-ag­gresively. I worked as a waiter in a very upscale restaurant in the 80' and believe me, you really don't want to piss off some waiters. A nasty case of C-diff or E.coli might be in her future.

Concerning her appearance, she is not an unattractive woman but at 46 she is dressing as if she were 20 years younger, which only serves to makes one look older than they actually are. Perhaps her Gay dinner companions can give her a few fashion tips?

[Pneumaticus]

Just desserts, oh, so delicious!

[Beaux510]

Interesting.

Most of the comments I've read here are of the "Why didn't they refuse to serve her or kick that BITCH OUT" variety, which I guess isn't surprising.

But how about another tack on the subject?

What if the owners we're simply living by THEIR code of tolerance, and not hers? Displaying the tolerance she so clearly lacks. Being the example, instead of small minded,petty and vindictive. In doing so, they showed someone who professes to be a Christian, how exactly her personal savior, who's example she supposedly follows, would behave.

Don't hate the haters, pity them and show them kindness.

[boddhisatva66]

I was just wondering what horrible things would be posted in the comments section. Then I scrolled down, enough said. Thank you for saying what I felt.

[bowserbois]

Give me a fucking break!!!! I guess it would have been the right thing to do for the Jews to invite Hitler in for supper just before they were gassed?

[Beaux510]

So, hatred is the answer then? How open minded and enlightened you are.

A point of clarification: Jews don't publicly profess to adhering to the teachings of Jesus(which teaches love for all and leaving judgment to God), Ann Coulter does on a regular basis. By the way, I'm not a Christian.

Coulter = Hitler ?

You need to go on meds.

I'm fuckin sick of the haters on both sides.

[Levittown]

Why give her more publicity. If she liked the food and service and recomended the place and it helped their business why make a deal out of it. If the owners want to allow only their followers then make it private club.
I do not understand why am I reading this drivel. I
don't like her so I don't read her. I wish I could think up a name for her as the one that is sometimes used for Rash Loblow, the other slime person.

[ArchiesBoy]

Why didn't they kick here out? Knowing what a nasty bitch she can be, they probably wisely let her stay because of the possible national-coverage gay-bashing she could/would have done had they given her the bounce. My 2¢.

[arethabaez]

I think you were courageous to confront her. She never has said anything about gays being "subhuman". In fact I've seen the clip right before (or after) she called Edwards a faggot where she said she did'nt dislike gays and thought that they should become republicans. I think she's a joke though,and she deserved the little heat that you gave her.

[research]

Why call Edwards a faggot if you don't think it will hurt him?

[polysci101]

I so wish someone would send this to Keith Olbermann! He really should see this!

[HermesDC]

Here's what I don't understand: who are the assholes having dinner with her? If they are gay, and of course you can't judge a book by its cover, are they so self-loathing that they don't object to that hag's in-the-media gay bashing? Or if they do disagree with her, haven't they said to her, "Listen bitch, what's with the hate?" Or if they know her so well that they know she's just doing it to be provocative and doesn't really mean it, then don't they have other better friends to hang out with than that slimeball?

Nothing that bitch does should surprise any of us anymore. It's that she gets other people to befriend her (or at least be seen with her in public) that amazes me.

[research]

Maybe Coulter is TG.

[devilyousay]

Murano is now on my list of collaborators. They should not have served her and no self respecting LGBT Person should eat there. If those with money and presstige won't stand up for the community, then the community shouldn't hand them their hard earned dollars.

And yes, you should have left. Staying, made you an accomplice to the atrocity. The buzz should ahve gone around the room and everyone should have stood up, and left.

Lets see how Murano likes an empty restaurant.

[TopLips]

The following are e-mail exchanges I had with the Murono restaurant.

Me: Well, now that many of us know that MURANO caters to the likes of Ann Coulter, we will reserve our temptation to patronize your restaurant and JUST SAY NO!

Restaurant: That's what is great about this country, it's free and you are free to do as you choose. Just as we are. Our hunch is prior to this you most likely had no intention on patronizing us anyway so it is no loss to us.

Me: Is your hunch also that people like Ann Coulter are the protectors of your freedom and that they support the struggle of the GLBT community? The real loss to you isn't about patronage it's about morality and having integrity to make the right choice!

Restaurant: It appears that you and Ann have something in common..hatred. We prefer to take the high road!

So there it is folks...don't ya just gotta
wonder if the rest of the restaurant staff is as brainless?