I'm easily disgusted by just about any news coverage of Ann Coulter. But Shakespeare's Sister links to this exchange from Hardball with Chris Matthews, which is nauseating-- but not for the usual reasons:
MATTHEWS: Do you find her physically attractive, Tucker?CARLSON: I‘m not going to answer that, because the answer, I don‘t want to hurt anybody‘s feelings. That‘s not the point.
MATTHEWS: Positively.
COSBY: Don‘t ask me that question.
MATTHEWS: Mike, do you want to weigh in here as an older fellow. Do you find her to be a physically attractive woman?
BARNICLE: I‘m too old to be doing that. I had enough fights in my life.
MATTHEWS: OK, Rita, do you find her to be a physically attractive woman?
COSBY: I‘ll throw it back to you, Chris, do you find her attractive.
MATTHEWS: You guys are all afraid to answer. No, I find her—I wouldn‘t put her—well, she doesn‘t pass the Chris Matthews test.
Wow. Just.... wow. Click here to tell Chris Matthews what is truly unattractive about Ann Coulter-- namely, her inflammatory ranting.
Shakes writes, "Tune in tonight when Chris asks his panelists to address the perplexing conundrum of whether Rush Limbaugh is sponge-worthy."
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I'm so glad the quality of a woman's ideas is still backseat the the all-important question "Is she hot?"
EJ, not really. Have you heard of this survey?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/13/ap/entertainment/mainD8I72N880.shtml
I guess guys really do like women with a high IQ.
while this annoys me, perhaps it speaks to the idea that the only left to say you find attractive about ann coulter is her looks and even that doesnt pass the test bc shes so heinous.
i guess maybe i hate ann coulter so much that i like to see anything negative said about her.
Hate? Why hate? I can understand disagreement and maybe even throwing out some four-lettered words.
But hate? Save that for people that saw off heads in front of cameras.
Heh. Fortunately, I have infinite resources of hate, so I can hate Ann Coulter without fear of running short of hate for beheaders, on-camera or off-. It's like the opposite of what parents tell their children: "Just because I hate your new baby sister doesn't mean I hate you any less."
I find it hard to get too exercised about this, though. She's foul, and yeah, they should talk about that rather than her looks, but, seeing as she's made a career of bashing feminism and pretending as though she hasn't benefitted from it, it seems to me like she's made her bed and now she can lie in it. She doesn't want feminism? Fine. This is what it's like without feminism.
I think he was rebutting the notion that she is selling her books with her looks.