The Republican ‘Joan of Snark’ Betrays Her Elitist White Bigotry

Watch the video below and take a shot every time Ann gets it wrong. You’ll be soused in no time.

Wall Street Protests: The Turning of the Screwed

Dr. Laura's New Book: 'Proud to Be a Redneck Piece of White Trash'

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After 85 Years, Little Orphan Annie Creaks to an End

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The Who Said What? Quiz

The Tattlesnake – Who Said What? Edition

Time for a quiz? I thought so. Grab your paper and pencil and no cheating with the Google machine. As you read, you'll catch on to the theme of this baker's dozen of questionable quotes:

1. "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."

A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama

2. "Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."

A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama

3. "War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it."

A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama

4. "We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary."

A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama

5. "The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction."

A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama

6. "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."

A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama

7. "The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building."

A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama

8. "Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken."

A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama

9. "Direct threats require decisive action."

A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama

10. "I cannot be mistaken – what I say and do is historical."

A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama

11. "When we have won the war, who will question our methods?"

A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Ann Coulter
D. Barack Obama

12. "While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines [the nation's] security."

A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Ann Coulter
D. Barack Obama

13. "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep repeating it, and eventually they will believe it."

A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Ann Coulter
D. Barack Obama

And here are the answers:

1. A. Benito Mussolini

2. A. Benny again!

3. A. Still Il Duce.

4. C. This one's from Dick.

5. A. Benito is back!

6. B. Der Fuhrer said this.

7. A. Back to Benny.

8. B. Hitler again.

9. C. Dick at his finest.

10. B. That Paperhangin' SOB said this.

11. B. Hitler again.

12. C. Ann Coultergeist.

13. B. Back to Adolf.

Contact the author at Editor@ltsaloon.org

© 2009 R.S. Janes. LTSaloon.org.

You Might Be a Neocon If...

With a hat tip to Jeff Foxworthy, it's time to play:

You Might Be a Neocon If...

... you believe Bush and Cheney are moral men with your best interests at heart.

... you believe Bush's press secretary Dana Perino (or any Bush press secretary in the past) is actually telling you the unvarnished truth.

... you don't want to pay a dime for national health care, yet expect a taxpayer-funded emergency room to treat you immediately after you've had an accident.

... you think Bush is right even when he's proven wrong, again and again.

... you think Karl Rove is a great historian.

... you think there actually is a War on Christmas outside of Bill O'Reilly's head.

... you think Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 911" is a pack of lies from start to finish, yet you've never seen it and have vowed you never will.

... you've ever rendered a strong opinion on ANY book, magazine article, website, film, TV show or play you've never actually read or seen.

... you think waterboarding is a new sport for teenagers.

... you think any government program that helps ordinary people is horrible socialism, but when our tax money is spent to pay contractors for shoddy work and overcharges, that's free market capitalism at work.

... you think questions surrounding the events of 9/11 are ridiculous, but firmly believe that the Clintons had something to do with the death of Vince Foster.

... you think Bush ignoring the August 6, 2001 CIA brief entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in United States" was understandable, since he was on vacation.

... you think Rudy Giuliani is a hero for making a few speeches and posing for some photo-ops after the 9/11 attack.

... you think Osama bin Laden is a lying terrorist sack of crap, yet he was telling the truth when said he wanted John Kerry as president in 2004, right before Election Day.

... you think every problem America has can be traced to liberals and/or Democrats.

... you've ever called anyone a 'pinko' or 'commie,' especially someone who demonstrably isn't either.

...you don't know the difference between socialism and communism and you don't really care either.

... you think a) Saddam Hussein had WMD and hid them somewhere outside of the country right before the US invaded, or b) you think we found WMD in Iraq.

... you think the torturing of prisoners at Abu Ghraib was no worse than a fraternity initiation.

... you think former CIA covert agent Valerie Plame 'deserved' to be outed because her husband is a 'traitor' who revealed the truth about Bush's phony claims that Iraq tried to buy Niger uranium.

... you think junkies should spend long sentences in jail but Rush Limbaugh should be forgiven for his human frailty.

... you think Ann Coulter is hilariously funny.

... you think talk show blabber Dennis Prager is either a religious expert, conservative intellectual, political philosopher, entirely sane, or all four.-- you are a Christian who experiences temporary blindness whenever you read the Sermon on the Mount.

... you think every word in the Bible was written by God in English, even the letters to the Greeks by Paul.

... you are waiting for Armageddon and believe you will be taken up into heaven during 'The Rapture,' even though you lie to your customers, sell products that are made by slave labor overseas, or own a private mercenary company that murders people in other countries.

... you think individual people need strong laws and strict enforcement to keep them in line, but corporations should be able to make their own rules without government interference.

... you think no-bid contracts are a smart way for the government to do business.

... you think Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney are 'good Christian men.'

... you think Richard Nixon was brought down by the 'liberal media.'

... you think 'habeas corpus' has something to do with hamsters, so what's the big deal?

... you hate the theory of evolution even though you've never read it.

... you've ever read a rant by Michelle Malkin without laughing out loud at its sheer rancorous stupidity.

... you think Charles Krauthammer is sane.

... you think Norman Podhoretz should be the Secretary of Defense.

... you can't find anything that Don Rumsfeld did wrong as Secretary of Defense.

... you watch "24" and believe if we only had a guy like the fictional Jack Bauer in charge of our intelligence operations, we could lick the terrorists in a month or two.

... you are a self-hating closeted gay male politician.

Whatever Happened to Ann Coulter? Edition

Her Influence Nearly Gone, She's Still Out There Slipping Further Into Inconsequence as Reality Proves Her Wrong -- Even to Many Conservatives

"Facts are stupid things."
-- Ronald Reagan, at the Republican National Convention in 1988.

On Dec. 3, 2007, C-SPAN aired a speech Ann Coulter gave at the National Press Club in Washington on Nov. 28th, sponsored by the neocon Young America's Foundation and it's Orwellian adjunct, something called the National Journalism Center, which has as much a relationship to real journalism as Ann's Christianity has to the principles expressed by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. The NJC is very proud that Coulter herself went through their program twenty years ago -- which gives you a good idea of its journalistic worth -- and invited her to address its 30th anniversary dinner.

Appearing a tad raccoonish in her heavy black eye make-up, Coulter's negligible grasp of fact and logic has now exited stage right completely, leaving her resembling nothing so much as a piece of smirking Swiss cheese framed by long blonde hair, shakily babbling with intermittent coherence into a microphone.

Plowing the same rut she has turned into a muddy grave by sheer repetition, and sketching the typical Coulter cartoon portrait with a house painter's brush, Ann attacked her usual enemies; all of those horrid 'liberals and Democrats,' the amorphous grab-bag target for her hate; an evil entity with one mind who, in Ann's hilarious political psychosis, run the country with an iron hand suppressing poor brave conservatives like herself, while simultaneously meekly surrendering to 'Islamofacist' terrorists and anything larger than a bedbug everywhere else. If you detect a little 'cognitive dissonance' here, congratulations and welcome to Coulter's home planet where the mental landscape is a continual funhouse ride requiring a 'memory hole' to forget what you just said every three paces.One example of this would be Ann's baffling delirium that liberals and Democrats started demanding "Where's Osama?" after Saddam Hussein was captured, and only then because former Iraq War supporter and sporadic Bush apologist Peter Beinhart chiseled the embarrassing question on a tablet and handed it down to the rest of us. In the earth-orbits-sun cosmos Coulter shuns, 'Ls & Ds' were asking this long before the Iraq War even started, and it had nothing to do with Beinhart, as a few minutes at 'the Google' will reveal.

But in her hasty slide to media oblivion, fast-and-frothing Ann has no time for Googling or fact-checking -- that sort of thing is strictly for the wimpy liberals who dwell in the fringe moonbat minority, loathed by 'real Americans,' yet are powerful enough to destroy our country.

Included among the other lowlights of Coulter's addled presentation was a swipe at New York Times columnist Paul Krugman alleging that "no one reads him," although this may have been mere literary envy: Krugman appears regularly in one of America's highest-circulation newspapers and his columns are seen by millions; Ann's flaky diatribes are buried amid the 59 other conservative columnists at TownHall.com and surrounded by the tasteful 'Liberal Hunting Permit' and '3 books for a buck' Conservative Book Club ads at her own website.

She also made the bizarre statement that no one listens to Air America Radio or watches MSNBC and asserted that, to cover its embarrassment, MSNBC will not disclose its ratings. In fact, AAR's ratings are up, as are MSNBC's, especially in Keith Olbermann's time slot vs. Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, and the ratings information is easy to obtain -- Olbermann himself has talked about MSNBC's ratings several times on his program. But, then, that would require doing a little research before you open your mouth and pick up your foot, not, as we've seen, Ann's strong point.

She riffed on classic Coulter standards as well, and with as much underwhelming logic: Hillary Clinton is a 'whiny feminist' who, if elected president, will put every American woman in a burqa, which should induce a double-take even in those who don't like the New York Senator and, once again, places Ann at odds with her own expressed doubts about women having the vote in this country.

Then she moved on to her strong support for the Second Amendment, but a smirking dismissal of the First as "highly overrated" -- you know, the same constitutional amendment guaranteeing free speech and a free press that Ann and her colleagues in the right-wing media habitually abuse to 'get their message out.'

And Good Christian Ann wants to kill more "moo-slims" (that's how she pronounced it), not in the name of defense, but for revenge, and it doesn't seem to matter to her if they're actual terrorists or not. After all, she did want to bomb their countries, kill all of their leaders, and convert them to Christianity, apparently just for following Islam. On Coulter World, the thought never intrudes that this might be a very poor way to introduce people to your religion, but Ann figures that it worked so well on Native Americans and Filipinos that it should be tried again. That many of them had to be massacred in the process of being rendered safe for Jesus doesn't enter Ann's mind. Oh, I forgot -- to a neocon, this is a 'funny' remark, and not in an ironic sense.

She also briefly engaged in the fringe right-wing lunatic history myths that have become her trademark: the drunken Sen. Joe McCarthy was a Great American whose demise came solely at the hands of the 'liberal media' and not anything he did to himself; the Democrats have always been the pro-slavery, pro-segregation party since Lincoln was president in the 1860s, ignoring a large chunk of the 1940s thorough the 1960s when Lyndon Johnson finally passed the various civil rights acts that legally ended segregation in the Old South, leading to 'integrationists' such as Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and other Dixiecrats becoming Republicans, and ushering in Nixon's tacitly racist Southern Strategy in 1968. But then, this is all in a day's work for the historically-challenged Coulter.

However, to be fair, let's give Ann credit where it's due: She did freely confess that she's "not a builder," she's "a destroyer," and she just loves to "tear people down."

Reflecting the utter ideological chaos that is the current Republican Party, she also admitted she doesn't much like Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, John McCain or Mike Huckabee, although she previously spoke highly of Romney at the CPAC 2007 convention. (A flip-flop?) These days her favorite candidate is the troglodytic Rep. Duncan Hunter, under investigation in a 'Duke Cunningham'-style bribery scandal and listed by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) as one of the "22 Most Corrupt Members of Congress." However, she did allow as how she'd vote for "any idiot the Republicans nominate."

Well, I won't belabor this topic further; suffice it to say that her speeches and ideas are mired in the moldy "I'm a victim" neocon carping of two decades ago and her enemies and attacks are always the same, except now she's donned the mantle of Christianity to try and gull the faithful into buying her books. If you want to know what else she said in her speech, all you need do is read a dozen of Coulter's columns at random, then make sure to cross-check her 'facts' with 'the Google,' so you won't be misinformed; and her crimes against common sense and logic will be apparent to those who possess an average amount of either one.

Times have changed and most Americans want to dump the neocon Republican failures in the nearest trash heap, but Coulter's still playing her pathetic one-note samba that's now turned into a whiny funeral dirge.

During her talk, the C-SPAN camera occasionally panned the room and the faces were revealing; Coulter's well-worn lines were greeted with tepid applause or subdued laughter and some of the conservative Republican audience, heeding the reality of the last six years under Bush and the anger of the citizenry at the GOP, simply stared at Coulter as Rupert Murdoch might stare at a speech by an avowed Marxist. It's said by those who managed to escape the mass suicide at Jim Jones' People's Temple in Guyana that, while some fanatics willingly drank the cyanide-laced Kool-Aid, others had to be forced at gunpoint to pour it down. A feeling similar to that of the latter faction was in evidence here -- Ann was the crazed Jones, bleating blabber to the end, while some of her acolytes were scheming ways to save themselves and their party from the sure doom ahead. To use a dreaded sports analogy, the team was getting a pep talk at the two-minute warning, but the smarter players had faced the reality that the score is 63 to 3 against them, and their eyes had glazed over in anticipation of defeat.

Coulter was ironically followed on C-SPAN by Bill Clinton; considering her ongoing obsession with his sex life, perhaps that's Ann's secret desire as well.

At least Ann admitted she "didn't really have a job."

Observing the weak reaction of this supposedly Coulter-friendly crowd, she might soon have to find one.

The Virginia Tech Killer: Who Does It Sound Like? Edition

"It would be a gross deception to admit power intoxication only for the individual psyche. The mass also is guided by this goal and the effect of this is the more devastating as in the mass psyche the feeling of personal responsibility is essentially reduced."
-- Alfred Adler, "The Psychology of Power," 1928.

"The close relationship between politics and power has always been recognized. In the world of politics, Lassalles' expression still has currency: 'Constitutional struggles are struggles for power.' ..... Masaryk's expression, 'There will be no peace in the world as long as individual ethics do not also apply to the state,' is as much a criticism of the present as a challenge for the future."
-- Alexander Mueller, "The Principles of Individual Psychology."

April 19, 2007 -- On MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night, the subject, as it has been on most of the cable news shows recently, was once again the Virginia Tech killer, Cho Seung-Hui.

Keith's been better at plowing this gutted field for new information than most of the news media, but what caught my attention were the words and phrases uttered by his guest experts.

Former FBI profiler Gregg McCrary described Cho Seung-Hui as full of "paranoid delusions," addicted to his own "grandiosity,"and someone who wanted to gain "power through violence."

Later in the show Keith welcomed Dr. Susan Lipkins, a psychologist, who gave her professional perspective on the crazed murderer, depicting him as "operating outside of reality" and exhibiting "extreme behavior" as a result. She added that, typically, psychotic killers "think that they are god" at which time they should be "removed from society" when they are "found to be incompetent."

This morning Melissa Segrest had an article up at MSN, "Getting Inside the Mind of a Killer." She also consulted experts who rendered their opinions on the Virginia Tech maniac.

Dr. James Alan Fox, a professor of criminal justice at Boston's Northeastern University who has spent 25 years studying mass murderers, said, "Typically you have someone who has a long history of frustration and failure..." and "They have a diminished capacity to cope with disappointment." He added, "they are people who blame others for those failures, they externalize blame, they never see themselves as responsible, ... and they're angry, they're full of blame and resentment."

Dr. Robert R. Butterworth, a Los Angeles psychologist who works with violent criminals and heads International Trauma Associates, told Segrest, "A lot of times these people are somewhat aloof from people. They're very sensitive to slights," and summed up, "They're not friendly, they're usually socially inept, they have problems a lot of times with females and sometimes they have a fascination with guns."

Dr. Stanton Samenow, a clinical psychologist who has been has been studying killers since 1970 and wrote the book "Inside the Criminal Mind," added, "These men interpret any affront or adversity very personally. It threatens their very sense of who they are. They think in extremes... They are constantly angry at a world that, from their perspective, does not give them what they are due."

Samenow also said, "These are people who know right from wrong. They also know the potential consequences to themselves if they are caught .... When they commit the crime, they are certain about their course of action. They are deliberate and purposeful. They may have planned the crime well in advance. At the time they commit the crime, they are calm -- having shut off all fear."

Dr. Butterworth put in, "We're developing a narcissistic, angry culture that, when crossed, are prone to attack."

And Dr. Fox concluded, "We've become much more of a competitive society. We admire the winners and we pity the losers. We have no tolerance for them. We ridicule them and vote them off the island." Later, he said, "The more people they kill, the greater the level of satisfaction they feel and derive from the crime."

Read through these quotes and what picture emerges -- who does it sound like?

"[P]aranoid delusions," "grandiosity" gaining "power through violence."
"operating outside of reality" "extreme behavior" "think that they are god."

Just look at the history of the Bush Administration; paranoid delusions about the power of Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations; obvious grandiosity and god-like thinking in Bush believing he was installed as president by the Creator of the Universe; gaining power through violence is in progress in the Middle East, if not in this country; some might consider invading another country on false pretenses and killing innocent civilians was extreme behavior; and operating outside of reality is the modus operandi of the Bushies and their neocon supporters.

"[They have] a long history of frustration and failure...They have a diminished capacity to cope with disappointment. [T]hey are people who blame others for those failures, they externalize blame, they never see themselves as responsible, ... and they're angry, they're full of blame and resentment."

The Bush neocon 'experiment' has been one long trail of frustration and failure, and the Bush neocons pathologically evade responsibility and blame others for their failures. The media neocons -- O'Reilly, Hannity, Boortz, et al -- are hair-triggers seething with anger, blame and resentment and appeal to an audience similarly ill-disposed.

"These men interpret any affront or adversity very personally. It threatens their very sense of who they are. They think in extremes ... They are constantly angry at a world that, from their perspective, does not give them what they are due."

Both the neocons and the Bushies are prime examples of this: political disagreements are always personal, and they can't deal with adversity maturely. Every slight or failure is a challenge to their manhood. Thinking in extremes and angry at the world? Read Ann Coulter, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweilers, Little Green Footballs, Charles Krauthammer or listen to Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz or Rush Limbaugh.

"These are people who know right from wrong. They also know the potential consequences to themselves if they are caught.... When they commit the crime, they are certain about their course of action. They are deliberate and purposeful. They may have planned the crime well in advance."

Isn't this a pretty good description of the Bush Administration? From using false intelligence to invade Iraq, to leaking Valerie Plame's name, to Alberto Gonzales' blatant lies, to the current fiasco over Rove's emails, ad nauseum, they knew what they were doing was wrong, but were deliberate and purposeful in their planning to accomplish their treacherous and illegal goals.

"They're very sensitive to slights,...They're not friendly, they're usually socially inept, they have problems a lot of times with females and sometimes they have a fascination with guns."

Check out who advertises on neocon websites, and the fascination with guns, general unfriendliness, problems with females and social ineptitude should be clear. Sensitivity to slights -- have you ever known anyone as thin-skinned as a neocon?

"We're developing a narcissistic, angry culture that, when crossed, are prone to attack."

Read the neocon blogs -- it doesn't get more angry, narcissistic and prone to attack than that.

"We've become much more of a competitive society. We admire the winners and we pity the losers. We have no tolerance for them. We ridicule them and vote them off the island. ... The more people they kill, the greater the level of satisfaction they feel and derive from the crime."

The entire greedy, demented consumer culture, the one advertised and promoted every day by the six big US media conglomerates and global corporations, and wallowed in by the Bush neocons, has no tolerance or pity for losers. "The good calls are for winners." Losers -- usually defined as minorities, Democrats, women and liberals -- are mercilessly derided by right-wing sites, who, steeped in their fervid delusions and contrary to harsh reality, think they are winners with all the answers. They don't realize the only winners are the corporations and their political and media shills making a buck off them and conning them for votes. At some point, they will have a rude awakening as they are 'voted off the island' by those they idolized when they lose their job, their pension or their house. (It's happening every day.) Then, they might be enlightened by reality but, more likely, they'll just crawl further back in the cave, alternately bellowing and whimpering. And, yes, they do seem to derive great satisfaction from the deaths of those they've deemed the enemy -- Iraqi insurgents, Afghanis, Muslims in general, Spanish-speaking immigrants, poor blacks and, of course, the Devil's minions who are the fount of all the world's problems, liberals and Democrats.

They should be "removed from society [when they are] "found to be incompetent."

I don't think this government's monumental incompetence is even an issue for reasonable debate any longer. In the case of the Bushies, impeachment is the obvious answer to remove them from doing further harm. In the case of the neocons, they have, and should have, freedom of speech, so they can say or write whatever they want, but I'd keep them away from the Glock 9mm's just in case.

Most of them are only courageous when hiding behind a screen name or a microphone -- hence the paltry number of neocon frothers who've signed up to fight in Bush's Global War on Terror -- but you never know when one of them might take some Viagra and go off half-cocked.

"To prevail through violence appears to many as an obvious thought. And we admit: the simplest way to attain everything that is good and promises happiness, or even only what is in the line of a continuous evolution seems to be by means of power. But where in the life of men or in the history of mankind has such an attempt ever succeeded? As far as we can see, even the use of mild violence awakens opposition everywhere, even where the welfare of the subjugated is obviously intended."
-- Alfred Adler, "The Psychology of Power," 1928.

So Goes Coulter, So Goes the Neocons Edition

Notorious 'Flag Hag' Coulter Has Really Put Her Spike Heels in It Now As Her 'Faggot' Flap Keeps Flapping

Sorry for concentrating on Ann Coulter so much lately, but her downfall is emblematic of the dissolution of the neocon movement in America, largely brought on by their obnoxious insistence on always being right even when wrong, their support of an ideology that has repeatedly been proven a failure, their virulent hatred of any political opposition, and their comfort at continuing to lie long after the truth has been revealed.

After six years of Bush blundering, the public presence of the neocons is roughly that of the cranky crazy aunt who believes the TV is talking to her and tapes over outlets so that electricity can't jump out and 'get at her.'

"Plame was not covert. She worked at CIA headquarters and had not been stationed abroad within five years of the date of Novak's column."
-- Victoria Toensing, from the Washington Post, Feb. 18, 2007, as quoted at Think Progress.

"If Valerie had been an overt employee or a covert employee not covered by IIPA [Intelligence Identities Protection Act] then Scooter Libby would not have had to lie to FBI agents because there would not have been an investigation. But Valerie was a covert agent. Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, Ari Fleischer, and Richard Armitage, among others, put her name in circulation with members of the press. They harmed a covert agent and in the process did serious damage to our nation's security."
-- Larry C. Johnson, a former CIA agent, in "Was She Covert?" Feb. 20, 2007.

Case in point is this week's Valerie Plame testimony before Congress. Many neocons in the media questioned whether Plame was ever a CIA covert agent at all, from Mona Charen to 'former federal prosecutor' and reliable Bush shill Victoria Toensing, who stated this belief in the same Congressional hearing. As former CIA agent Larry C. Johnson, who attended CIA training with Plame, has noted, Plame's covert status was confirmed by other CIA agents in 2003, after Bob Novak's column outing her was printed. Beyond that, CIA Director Michael Hayden, a Bush appointee, also officially confirmed her classified covert status; she was a NOC (Non Official Cover) covert agent who acted overseas in the vital area of nuclear non-proliferation. In other words, she and her networks would be the people who would find out if terrorists had obtained a nuclear device. Seems pretty important in this post-9/11 era. Outing Plame not only potentially endangered her and her family, it also outed her contacts overseas. This would seem to qualify as a very high crime, and imagine what Charen, Toensing and Co. would have said if Al Gore, when he was Clinton's VP, had done the same thing Cheney has done -- leaked a covert CIA agent's name for political purposes and to avoid the public knowing the White House used forged evidence to get us into a war in Iraq. The roaring from the right for impeachment would have made a tsunami look like a bathtub splash.

Apparently, Charen, Toensing, et al, are merely trying to provide talking points for what remains of the neocon base; their denial of the reality of Plame's status, and the treasonous actions that made it public, is indicative of their lack of character and preference for their party over their country's safety.

But back to the declining fortunes of Coulter.

Here's one aspect of her 'appeal' that has always given the Tattlesnake a belly laugh: Young Republicans drooling over mean-mouthed harpy Ann Coulter as the epitome of sexy womanhood; a stick-thin pop-eyed Olive Oyl who may have the long blonde hair of the seductive siren but is in every other respect a degenerate Mannish Boy straight out of Fellini's Satyricon -- sharp-tongued, angular, coarse, cruel, unloving, thoroughly unfeminine. It's a testament to their cluelessness as to what this says about their own sexuality: they want to be screwed by a nasty dyke (or perhaps an unflattering peek into their relationship with their mothers). Is this the kind of good Christian woman virile Wonder-Bread Republican men want to settle down with -- or just slum up with at the No-Tel Motel for a little adulterous 'side of Newt' action while the Church Lady Missus sits at home knitting booties for their fifth child in five years?

Since her speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference March 2, 2007, where she sarcastically made a reference to John Edwards as a 'faggot,' all three top GOP presidential contenders have denounced her remarks, nine newspapers (and counting) have dropped her column, and Verizon, NetBank and Sallie Mae have pulled ads from her website.

Could we be seeing the ultimate meltdown of the Queen of Neocon Mean -- a fall from gracelessness that Marie Slanderette has deserved for years? This flap is also giving impetus to the general slide of the GOP neocon hate squad, likely to be replaced in the party hierarchy by libertarian and moderate Republicans who have been shunted to the sidelines by such babbling freak shows as Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and their bilious ilk.

After vicious attacks on 9-11 widows, calling for the execution of John Walker Lindh to 'intimidate' liberals, advocating poisoning a Supreme Court Justice as 'just a joke,' asserting that all Democrats are 'no good,' claiming we should invade Muslim countries and kill their leaders, regretting that Timothy McVeigh didn't blow up the New York Times building, and repeatedly calling her political opposition 'traitors,' is it possible that the word that will bring her down, the one that will convince the MSM not to book her as a guest anymore, is 'faggot'? Oh, the irony.

"[The word 'faggot'] It isn't offensive to gays. It has nothing to do with gays."
-- Ann Coulter on Fox News, March 5, 2007, as quoted by AlterNet.

"People die, lose their jobs, are beaten and harassed because of homophobia. Is this what the GOP and the conservative movement stands for? That's fine with me, just don't try to pretend that's not what Coulter is saying."
-- Pam Spaulding, "'Faggot' is dangerous," AlterNet, March 6, 2007.

"Let's be clear -- I'm not advocating that anyone should censor this harridan of hate. But for her own sake (as well as that of the rest of us) if any friends or family do remain, will they please take Ms. Coulter to the rehab that even she is hinting -- in her profoundly Freudian way -- is now necessary?"
-- Rory O'Connor, "Ann Coulter Should 'Go Into Rehab'," AlterNet, March 8, 2007.

Of course, being a good Republican, Ann Coulter will never take responsibility for any harm her flapping jaw causes as she continually ups the ante to get publicity.

"The Americans who are fighting and dying in Iraq were sent there on false pretenses. [Ann] Coulter has contributed greatly to the grotesque disfigurement of our politics. Her political freak show helped render us incapable of sorting out the lies prior to the war. Her loudmouthed jingoism still rules the day, and Coulter, whether she knows it or not, has blood on [her] hands."
-- Joseph A. Palermo, "Ann Coulter Hates the Troops," Common Dreams.org, March 5, 2007.

"Ann Coulter's bigotry and hostility, her public fantasies about violence against Democrats, progressives, and journalists -- and those of countless others like her -- demand more attention, not less. They illustrate the irrational anger that has long driven and sustained the conservative movement. (Those who insist on believing, against all available evidence, that the left is driven more by anger than the right would do well to remember that, during the 2000 Florida recount fiasco, it was the Republicans who rioted, not the Democrats.) But those who applaud Coulter can't win or hold power on their own -- there just aren't enough angry, hate-filled voters in the country. They need the support of more rational and reasonable people, many of whom would be appalled -- and no longer supportive -- if the media showed them the true nature of the extremists they support."
-- Jamison Foser, Media Matters, March 10, 2007.

"Coulter is somewhat desperate so she's articulating this stuff in a crude and obvious fashion in order to keep her stale shtick going. But this concept is so ingrained in the political culture by now that the only thing that really stands out about it is the fact that she used an obvious epithet that is out of public fashion, even at a rightwing event. Suppose she had used the silly word 'girlyman'? Nobody would be calling for the smelling salts. In fact, I would imagine the press corps would have told us all to 'get over it.'"
-- Digby's blog, March, 2007.

Here's a good idea:

"Is there now any doubt that the Republican Party is wholly familiar with Ann's other hysterical schoolyard jokes, like 9/11 widows being "self-obsessed women... enjoying their husbands' deaths" or her "raghead" reference at previous CPAC conference? Yet they still invite her to pump up the CPAC crowd. And she is still guest-staple throughout the FOX News [sic] Network.
"They love the girl and her "schoolyard" jokes." It's time to remind the voter that they do. Everyday. Every way.

"From now on, when talking about the Republican Party or their candidates, let's call them like they are...

"THE PARTY OF ANN COULTER.

"They deserve each other."
-- Steve Young, "The Party of Ann" APJ, March 6, 2007.

I agree with Steve Young, hang Coulter and her hate speech around the GOP like a millstone, it's only what they deserve.
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It's Confirmed by Bush's CIA Director: Plame Was a Covert Agent

At the time in 2003 the slimemeisters in the White House were trying to leak her name to the media, Valerie Plame was an active covert agent for the CIA , even Bush's CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledges it. Case closed on all the right-wing fulminating to the contrary.

Leaking a CIA agent's name is a treasonous act; when are the impeachment papers for Dick Cheney going to be readied?

"Yesterday the CIA came out of the closet. CIA Director Michael Hayden approved a statement that contained the following language:

During her employment at the CIA, Ms. Wilson was under cover.

Her employment status with the CIA was classified information prohibited from disclosure under Executive Order 12958.

At the time of the publication of Robert Novak's column on July 14,2003, Ms. Wilson's CIA employment status was covert.

This was classified information.

"Got it? The Director of the CIA confirmed in public for the first time that Valerie Plame Wilson was undercover, was covert and that this information was classified. What is it about English that goober Congressman Westmoreland and ditzy Vicky Toensing don't understand?"
-- Larry C. Johnson, a former CIA agent, "Undercover, Covert, and Classified (Also Hush Hush)," March 17, 2007.

Ann Coulter: Amazon Woman of the Loons Edition

The 'Heart and Soul' of the Fading Neoconservative GOP, She Just Announced the Bush Choice for the Party's Next Presidential Nominee

"I am happy to hear that after you hear from me, you will hear from Ann Coulter. That is a good thing. Oh yeah!"
-- Mitt Romney at the CPAC convention, March 2, 2007, as quoted by Jamison Foser at Media Matters.

"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 kind of at an impasse."
-- Ann Coulter in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, March 2, 2007. From Salon.com.

March 5, 2007 -- While the mainstream media have been grudgingly covering Coulter's using the offensive word 'faggot' in connection with John Edwards, and leading Republican presidential candidates Giuliani, McCain and Romney have belatedly denounced her 'witty' speech-closer at the Conservative Political Action Conference last Friday, other notable news connected to her appearance at the event missed their attention.

First off, as CPAC attendee Andrew Sullivan has said: "When you see her in such a context, you realize that she truly represents the heart and soul of contemporary conservative activism, especially among the young." Not only that, but she is the voice of the Bush family -- the ugly, dark side of elitist authoritarianism, rancorous homophobia, country club racism and vengeful bile that runs deep beneath the genteel political surface of the Bush clan.

Followers of Ann's fetid public career know that she never criticizes any Bush, at least not with the vituperation she reserves for Dems, liberals, Muslims, and Republicans who don't toe the neocon line. She has consistently been the shrill hateful voice of the far right, which has gained her what Glenn Greenwald calls "rock star-adoration by the party faithful." He also noted that "She is the face of what the hard-core Republican Party has become, particularly during the Bush presidency. That is why she holds the position she holds in that movement." Greenwald added:

"The more Ann Coulter says these things, the more popular she becomes in this movement. What this is about is that she reflects exactly what sort of political movement this is. She reflects its true impulses and core beliefs."

But she also represents the core beliefs of the Bush family and the Money Men of the GOP, which is why she's backing ersatz 'moderate' Mitt Romney:

"What do I think of Governor Romney's candidacy for presidency? I think he's probably our best candidate." [...] "And you have to say about Romney, he tricked liberals into voting for him. I like a guy -- I like a guy who hoodwinks liberals so easily."
-- Ann Coulter, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference March 2, 2007, as quoted by Media Matters.

(Sure she does. She also likes people who hoodwink conservatives, as she's been doing for years.)

In Florida, Bush operatives have lately been pumping state party insiders for Mitt and even though Jeb himself has aristocratically stayed out of the fray, it's obvious he's behind Romney's coronation. Coulter, still popular among the dwindling seethers of the neocon GOP, got her Bush-stamped marching orders and delivered her endorsement speech to CPAC -- watch now as the former Massachusetts Governor's numbers start moving up. The Bushes could never back that 'nasty little man' McCain who has said so many terrible things about President Junior, and Giuliani's much too liberal to be nominated by the party faithful, so the nominee's victory sash is awarded to plucked-from-near-obscurity Romney, a monkey who will gladly dance to the Bush corporatist tune.

Another incident involving the woman who thinks a 'little local facism' is a good thing was the unceremonious removal of Dan Borchers from the CPAC convention hall by Ann's goon squad, as reported at the Lydia Cornell website. Four burly men shoved and wrestled Borchers out of the place, cutting his hand while they tried to rip the convention credentials from around his neck, with a camera tagging along to record the gory details. (At what neo-American Bundt conclave will that video be shown?) When Borchers asked the thugs why they were doing this to him, they replied, "You are not permitted to be here."

Borchers is a conservative Christian military veteran and lifelong Republican, reportedly a humble and mild-mannered man who has written articles critical of Coulter's penchant for plagiarism and believes the bilious hate-speech typified by the amoral Coulter is ruining the Republican Party. His apparent crime against Ann that night was asking another conservative author what he knew regarding Coulter's connection to the Paula Jones lawsuit against Bill Clinton, the case that first brought her to national attention.

Coulter's been fairly quiet since the November 2006 election, and her audience is shrinking along with Bush's popularity as the nation rejects the failed neocon ideology. She can still draw a crowd, but the crowds are smaller and less enthusiastic. Like Britney Spears, she is now reduced to staging increasingly outrageous publicity stunts to spark up her dying career and sell her remaindered books.

What's she going to do next to attract headlines? Maybe she'll shave her head and go into rehab for using the 'N' word to describe Barack Obama.

Will Fox News chuckle about her 'outrageous' behavior then, I wonder -- and will NBC welcome her on The Today Show to trade quips with Matt Lauer?