it's the ann coulter doll!

December 29, 2003 11:20 AM

ann coulter action figure i only wish i had seen this prior to christmas. it talks, too! sound samples included
posted by bliss322 (43 comments total)

*checks his watch, and then realizing just how out of date this link is, decides to check his calendar instead*
posted by Ryvar at 11:23 AM on December 29, 2003

that would my fault...

i did a search, though. apparently, not too good of one.
posted by bliss322 at 11:46 AM on December 29, 2003

Comes complete with empty plastic head!
posted by Shane at 12:20 PM on December 29, 2003

Ugh, what a sickly emaciated girl. Someone get her a milk shake and a gym membership, stat.


posted by psmealey at 12:31 PM on December 29, 2003

That pic is NSFAnyone.
posted by punishinglemur at 12:36 PM on December 29, 2003

this ann coulter, she vibrates?
posted by pxe2000 at 12:38 PM on December 29, 2003

this ann coulter, she vibrates eats ?
posted by thomcatspike at 12:58 PM on December 29, 2003

Oh...my head is filled with a plastic porno set...Ms. Coulter surrounded by the war makers she loves so much...there's so a stop-action film just dying to be made here...
posted by dejah420 at 1:07 PM on December 29, 2003

Bliss322, Ryvar wasn't saying it was a doublepost, but that Coulter is yesterday's news.

Which may be the case, but we can still shudder at the thought of all the twisted Republigeeks stripping their Coulter dolls like they did their little sisters' Barbies.
posted by me3dia at 1:27 PM on December 29, 2003

Yeah right. Poor Ann Coulter: she's blonde, slim, well-read, successful and conservative!!!
Some of you people are so pathetically enslaved by envy and resentment that you sound like certified lunatics sometimes. I wonder how you would react if anyone cared to make Michael Moore or Susan Sontag dolls.
posted by 111 at 1:31 PM on December 29, 2003

"Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like Liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now."
— Ann Coulter

hehe
posted by tirade at 1:39 PM on December 29, 2003

Well, I'm successful, well-read, and I'm not a shrill, factually-challenged, ignorant hatemonger.
posted by Vidiot at 1:39 PM on December 29, 2003

Susan Sontag dolls

Ooh! Cool!
posted by scody at 1:40 PM on December 29, 2003

You know Vidiot, I wouldn't want to derail an otherwise harmless, sour grapes thread, but perhaps will enlighten us all presently in your own blog with facts regarding Ann Coulter's "ignorance". Since you're successful and well-read, I'm sure it will be an easy task for you.
posted by 111 at 1:52 PM on December 29, 2003

I wonder how you would react if anyone cared to make Michael Moore or Susan Sontag dolls.

Oh, I would cream in my little liberal pants! Or, uh, not. I would belittle them, of course. And come on, defending Ann Coulter? Really? I wasn't aware anyone was still doing that.

Just for kicks, read these two Spinsanity pieces, and this piece in the Columbia Journalism Review.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 2:00 PM on December 29, 2003

Okay. A brief and partial Fisking of this column produces the following unsourced allegations:

--aging liberals view sodomy with a chubby intern in the back office as "having fun." Really? All of them?
--It's the blue states that are constantly sending lawyers to the red states to bother everyone. Really? Do tell.
--Americans in the red states look at a place like New York City -- where, this year, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade featured a gay transvestite as Mrs. Claus -- and say, Well, I guess some people like it, but it's not for me. Well, the "gay transvestite" was Harvey Fierstein, who's currently playing a female character on Broadway. Less of a tempest in a teapot than Ms. Coulter is making of it. And all Americans in "the red states" look askance at NYC? The states that I was born in, grew up in, and lived in last all were "red states" and went for Bush in the last election. And I jumped at the chance to move to New York.

I also love how in this column, she advocates FIRST getting information from Saddam, and THEN torturing him.

You get the drift. (And on preview, what monju_bosatsu said.)
posted by Vidiot at 2:06 PM on December 29, 2003

What's up with the Cute Young Republicans in the editorial pages these days?
Coulter, Kathleen Parker, and Michelle Malkin (both better writers than Coulter) seem to be in my daily paper daily.
posted by sonofsamiam at 2:09 PM on December 29, 2003

Monju, compared to Michael Moore's outright fabrications in that Columbine documentary, I'll take Coulter anyday.
Vidiot, I won't even start with the Alexandria-like library denouncing lies told by authors from the left (not errors, mind you; not rhetoric devices and generalizations either, but deliberate lies to misguide readers), starting with Karl Marx's statistics from The Capital. Attempts have been made to discredit conservative authors (Michelet, Gibbon, James Frazer; more recently, check out the recent aldaily entry on the Bjorn Lomborg controversy) on accounts of inaccuracy and so on, but the same standards rarely apply when liberals judge liberal authors.
As to Saddam, she's only guilty of saying out loud what many people actually think. Given the opportunity, what would most Jews do with Hitler?
posted by 111 at 2:17 PM on December 29, 2003

Monju, compared to Michael Moore's outright fabrications in that Columbine documentary, I'll take Coulter anyday.

I am in no way defending Moore. My only point is that you don't have to choose. Moore and Coulter are each bleating nonsensical mouthpieces for the most extreme fringe on each end of the political spectrum. You can, and indeed should, reject both.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 2:22 PM on December 29, 2003

Big deal. Let me know when they come out with an inflatable Ann Coulter doll, with holes. That I would be in the market for.
posted by vito90 at 2:22 PM on December 29, 2003

doublepost, doublediscussion.
posted by Keyser Soze at 2:31 PM on December 29, 2003

double plus ungood.
posted by Mayor Curley at 2:36 PM on December 29, 2003

But I wasn't defending authors on the left. Authors on either side can misrepresent things, as m_b says above.

And you're worried about people sounding like certified lunatics?
posted by Vidiot at 2:36 PM on December 29, 2003

Ann Coulter has carried fascism into the mainstream political debate and in effect unmasked the fascist element that has been lingering in American society for decades. The only problem is that an unmasked fascist is more likely to behave like one.
posted by Eloquence at 2:46 PM on December 29, 2003

Yeah right. Poor Ann Coulter: she's blonde, slim, well-read, successful and conservative!!!

Who's expressing pity for her? Mostly people are making fun of her rather disgusting anorexia. Well read? I don't get the impression she reads at all. It seems like she mostly just spews invective.

Some of you people are so pathetically enslaved by envy and resentment that you sound like certified lunatics sometimes.

I merely prefer that people who are paid to be part of the news media to be important for their ideas and logical analysis of fact. If she weren't a fraud she'd never be caught dead having a doll.

I wonder how you would react if anyone cared to make Michael Moore or Susan Sontag dolls.

Neither Moore or Sontag take on the same role. Coulter is a news columnist and political analyst. Moore is a filmmaker. Check out Errol Morris' work if you believe Moore is perversing his medium. He's clearly not. The reports of his "fabrications" in "Columbine" are greatly exaggerated.

facts regarding Ann Coulter's "ignorance"

They have been widely and extensively documented. If you were really interested in finding them it wouldn't take you long.
posted by McBain at 2:48 PM on December 29, 2003

"Yeah right. Poor Ann Coulter: she's blonde, slim, well-read, successful and conservative!!!"

You left out "sane", 111.

I'm guessing that was intentional.

Very clever.

Kudos.
posted by Blue Stone at 2:53 PM on December 29, 2003

And you're worried about people sounding like certified lunatics?

What's wrong with automatically rejecting communists? Their flawed ideal of a social construct is a failed, immoral and blood-soaked lie. Show me one, and I'll reject him. Or her.

Coulter is one of the most talented, outspoken and genuinely funny columnists working today.

To say nothing of her doll, which does not, in fact, say what got her booted from the National Review, unfortunately, which is some her best. (see previous post for additional comments)
posted by hama7 at 3:03 PM on December 29, 2003

Any chance of these folks manufacturing a Dittohead Ken Doll and a Heritage Foundation Coulter Dream House? Why not go for broke?
posted by ed at 3:07 PM on December 29, 2003

STOP FEEDING THE FUCKING TROLL.
posted by jpoulos at 3:28 PM on December 29, 2003

What's wrong with automatically rejecting communists?

Where the hell did "communists" come into play in this discussion? I know that Coulter has been declaring McCarthy as a latter-day saint for a while now, but our particular discussion has not moved into that realm. I assume by "communist" you are referring either to individuals who follow the work of Marx and Englels, or alternatively, those who lived in or supported the USSR, Vietnamese, Cubans, etc. If you're not referring to either of these groups, then you're using it as an invective word. In that case, didn't you get the memo that we're calling pinko liberal scum "terrorists" now?

And yes, Coulter is outspoken in her attempts to stir the bucket. However, that particular talent doesn't necessarily mean she's a good journalist, only an entertaining columnist. She complains about the slanted media and uses other opinion editorials as a basis for complaint, while using petty slander to belittle individuals. Rather than speak to issues or the real politics, she reduces her work to ad hominem attacks and quickly shifts the focus of any retort.

I respect Ann Coulter in the same way I respect klerck and several other widely known trolls on the internet; her ability to have her work seen as legitimate by anyone who gives it a cursory glance amazes me. You have my respect, 111 and hama7. At least, I hope you do, for if you're not trolling, you're scaring the hell out of me.
posted by mikeh at 3:59 PM on December 29, 2003

As to Saddam, she's only guilty of saying out loud what many people actually think. Given the opportunity, what would most Jews do with Hitler?

This Ann Coulter is an Iraqi?
posted by meech at 4:48 PM on December 29, 2003

what would most Jews do with Hitler?

The only Nazi that was caught and tried by Israel, Adolf Eichman, received at worst a show trial that involved Israel paying for the defense attorney of his choice, and judges who tried to be fair.
There were no allegations of torture or anything of the sort. (unless you consider hanging torture, which, you have me there...) See this book for more details

But good use of nazi germany to prove your point.
posted by goneill at 5:12 PM on December 29, 2003

Some of you people are so pathetically enslaved by envy and resentment...

And others just despise her for saying things like 'we should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to christianity'. She's a doll, but I wonder why you support her so strongly. A little Coulter-lust on the burner perhaps? You can tell us...
posted by holycola at 6:06 PM on December 29, 2003

But good use of nazi germany to prove your point.

Actually it's a lousy point. Of course people think these things but we use restraint, judgment and discipline to avoid doing what our base, visceral instincts tell us and instead strive for a more high minded approach.

When the kid at McDonald's fucks up my order and gives me the wrong change, I want to swear at him and call him a dumbass but I have this thing we call self-control.

It's called taking the high road. We strive to carefully and judiciously carry out government and foriegn policy, not kick everyone's ass because we can and them sand niggers had it coming anyway. That Ann Coulter is put on a pedastal for appealing to the most base eye for an eye instincts because, by golly, that's good ole Old Testament justice, lowers us all.
posted by McBain at 7:25 PM on December 29, 2003

Ryvar wasn't saying it was a doublepost

Well he should have.

i only wish i had seen this prior to christmas.

October 24?
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 8:32 PM on December 29, 2003

111: Franken does a good job of starting to address Coulter's problems in his latest book.

I've read both the better part of that and Treason. Can you say the same? Or were the "liberal lies" just too much for you and you had to quit early?
posted by namespan at 8:46 PM on December 29, 2003

I think it's clear that 111 is just showing loving Christian compassion in his defense of Coulter, following in the steps of Jesus who showed compassion for even for the whore. I respect that strength of 111's commitment to traditional Christian values by walking in the path of tolerance and righteousness.
posted by Jimbob at 11:08 PM on December 29, 2003

* mr100percent thinks that Ann Coulter really does want him dead

MALTP: DED FRUM BEES

loquacious: Coulter is already filled with angry, angry bees. They shoot out of her poonani and propel her across the sky like some sort of insane blond sky octopus angry bee-squirting kind of thing.

* MALTP gives loq The Hairy Eyeball
posted by loquacious at 1:03 AM on December 30, 2003

I'm sorry, Jimbob: I forgot about 111's tolerance. Just like I forgot about Coulter's. And like I forgot about "compassionate conservatism."
posted by Vidiot at 6:48 AM on December 30, 2003

Yeah right. Poor Ann Coulter: she's blonde, slim, well-read, successful and conservative!!!

And she's single-handedly lowered the level of discourse in this country!!!

I disagree with many mainstream liberals on many issues, but I think it's ridiculous to accuse liberals of treason because we don't agree. Edmund Burke must be spinning in his grave, being lumped in with people like her.
posted by me & my monkey at 7:08 AM on December 30, 2003

Especially when she decries the lack of civilized political debate.

In Slander (via Franken's new book):

Political 'debate' in this country has become insufferable. . .Instead of actual debate about ideas and issues with real consequences, the country is trapped in a political discourse that resembles professional wrestling.

posted by Vidiot at 7:14 AM on December 30, 2003

STOP FEEDING THE FUCKING TROLL.
posted by Satapher at 7:58 PM on December 30, 2003

Vidiot: ...a shrill, factually-challenged, ignorant hatemonger.

111 ...facts regarding Ann Coulter's "ignorance"

by his vigorous protest of the ignorance allegation alone, it would appear 111 is silently affirming "shrill", "factually-challenged", and "hatemonger".
posted by quonsar at 4:28 AM on December 31, 2003