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Herman smiles and Lilly drinks the blood of the 9/11 widows as the Kingdom of the Dead glitters below them.
Today the roles of Herman and Lilly will be played by right-wing blowhard Bill O’Reilly and the Funniest Ghoul to ever pollute the national dialog, the “beautiful” Ann Coulter. Is this your first meeting with The Munsters? Are you really that young, pumpkin?
Take our hand, child, and we will lead you to the Wikipedia. “The Munsters was a late 1960s American television sitcom, depicting the home life of a family of horror movie monsters.” Herman was modeled on Frankenstein and he towered above his weeds-dripping wife, Lily, modeled on Vampira. “Much of the humor,” continues the Wiki, “derived from the fact that they did not have the slightest idea that they were in any way different from their neighbors.”
Is this not a perfect description of Bill-o and the Sweetheart of Transylvania?
Latest outrage from Ann: Speaking a weekend ago at the the Conservative Political Action Conference: “I was going to have a few comments about John Edwards, but these days you have to go into rehab if you say the word faggot.”
Isn’t she lovely, all laid out like that? Too bad the stake through her heart didn’t do the trick. On moonless nights, they say, when the wolves howl and a new book need promoting — her last one advocated Creationism — she still walks!
This is an unwarranted attack on two cultural figures who champion all that is wholesome in American Life and Family Values.
As I recall from teenage viewing habits: Herman and Lily were kindly, concerned monsters who always did their best for their kids. To compare them to a compulsive phone-sex addict (Billo) and a gratuitous face-time attention whore (Coulter) reveals a disturbingly monster-phobic bias. Whilst you may disagree with the Monster Lifestyle, please respect their right to make this lifestyle choice: Without slurring them by association with leprous, lizardous off-the-scale pseudo-political whackos. Cease and desist.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, AndyM.
You have helped us get our head on straight about this issue.
Apologies and a fruit basket are being sent to Herman and Lilly Munster.
And to you, Andy M!
You guys haven’t got a lick of humor. Ann is so terrific at skewering the cancer of “political correctness” dumped like manure upon all of us by the exaulted leftists of this country. She didn’t attack gays. Most gays aren’t faggots. The term “faggot” fits Edwards like one of his custom Armani suit. He’s nothing but a whiney, self-absorbed narcissist and a supreme Socialist who preaches the mantra of good leftists everywhere while living like Warren Buffet. He never saw a tax or an entitlement he didn’t like. Why would he? He’s an ambulance-chasing robot who would appease our enemies and slice the ideal of American exceptionalism to ribbons. He is FAR scarier than anything President Bush could be accused of. I don’t regard responsible, hard-working gays as “faggots.” But demogogues like Edwards wear the term like cheap cologne. They wreak of it. Coulter is spot-on. Now go be good guys, and for God sakes, laugh a little. It sure beats trying to talk yourself into liking dithering “head cases” like Nancy Pelosi, Jesse Jackson and Al Gore.
I don’t know what Kool-Aid Dan in LA is drinking, but don’t pass it around.
Clearly, the Coultergeist felt the need to make a swipe at Edwards for what she perceived to be his lack of masculinity because of his looks. As we all know from watching her over the years, Ann loves to go for the non-issue when Edwards keeps talking about the destruction of the middle class and the working class (the real issue). You think Edwards is scarier than Bush? Have you just woke up from an 8 year coma? Thanks for confirming that you are as insane as Ann Coulter.
Dan, speaking of masculinity - have you checked out Coulter’s adams apple?
I remember the Munsters. As I recall, they thought they were the norm and that the rest of society were deformed monsters, including their own relative Marilyn (a typical mid-20s blonde).
I think that the comparison on that level only between the Munsters and the duo pictured above is appropriate. Beyond that, no.
From what I’ve seen of John Edwards, I believe he would make a much better president then the one sitting in our White House now, who I think is the worst president ever. W even beats out Hoover.
It seems to me that Coulter is using an old trick of the sort used successfully (unfortunately) on John Kerry in the last presidential election. If the Democratic candidate looks like a serious threat, promulgate a whopper of a lie designed to marshal hatred against him (or her). In Kerry’s case, he was a war hero who’d correctly opposed the war in Vietnam, running against an incumbent who had joined the National Guard in order to get out of fighting in the war. So the Swift Boat Veterans for “Truth” were formed to attempt to discredit Kerry’s war record by asserting that he had gotten his medals by fraud (as if the Navy brass were so stupid they could be fooled to the tune of three Purple Hearts). The Republican leadership later disavowed the story…once hundreds of thousands or millions of voters had been convinced it was true.
It would be no surprise if Coulter sees Edwards as more likely to get the Democratic nomination than Clinton or Obama, since he’s a more traditional, middle-of-the-road candidate. The Republicans have been hit hard lately — they’ve lost control of Congress and their President has nosedived in the polls. Isn’t it likely that Coulter, herself a member of the press, knew exactly how widely her remarks would be reported? Couldn’t she have figured that McCain, Romney, Giuliani, et al would quickly denounce her statements, and look statesman-like for taking the high road? And haven’t we all seen that she is enough of an idealogue not to mind doing the dirty work, planting her Big Lie and getting the job done of damaging Edwards with the part of the voting public that would be inclined to believe her?
Yeah, it is rather unfair to compare those two to the Munsters, who really were just a lovable family of misfits.
Her 911-widows comments were inexcusable but I think that she may have finally gone too far w/her off-the-cuff dismissal of Edwards. What an evil, nasty, shrewish gorgon.
Nightcharmers, you may enjoy this grass-root response to Coulter’s rehab remark, from gaypod
Nice try with the tired old Kool-Aid refrain, Drub. (Actually, it’s a nice aged scotch I prefer). As to being in an eight year coma… wrong again. The only coma I can imagine is the one that you would have been in while the nation’s ranks of home owners, business start-ups and real wealth reached historic highs. Oh, and it all happened under this President that so many of you have decided to hate more than you hate the most radical Islamic throat-slitter. What world do you fellas dwell in that leads you to believe the ranks of the middle-class are shrinking? And you think THAT’S the issue?? That’s your big front-line cause? Look, I’m not saying any President brings all the answers to the table. How could they? But this one (despite galactic, unceasing pummeling in the press) at least has his eyes on the ball. The only issue that concerns me is one preached hourly to millions of extremists that our side needs to be wiped out. Because “our side” means me, you and every other person we care about. These monsters don’t care about our sexuality, our income or our deeds. They just want us dead. And despite the ease of dismissing pundits like Ann Coulter with your bumper-sticker responses, she is calling the Dems for what they are… false-issue idealists who’s biggest fear is being disliked in the UN. Edwards is a fraud parading himself as the “common man” while he lives in a 20,000 sq ft plantation mansion. He can’t stand that he lost, so he’s going to whine for two more years (and lose again). On second thought, that coma may not be such a bad idea. David… wake me when it’s over, will ya buddy?
Hey Dan, we don’t have to wait for Islamic nutjobs to come here and slit our throats, we have the fucking Republican party to do that.
No health care. No unions. No Social Security. No medical maintenance for the cannon-fodder they cheer on to fight their wars. And, oh yeah, no gay people.
Ann Coulter is the comedian and poster girl for the bigoted and reactionary Republican head-trip. This is why her faggot remark got such a big and surprised laugh. It’s the kind of laugh you hear when a comic says something people believe but are too embarrassed to admit in public.
The comments on the “gaypod” Youtube are, however, telling as to the state of thinking in the good ole USA of Coulter et al.
memo to “I Got…” The reason people laughed at Ann was because she was funny. Because she is willing to fire back at the blathering babies (think: Edwards) who haven’t proposed ONE SINGLE ORIGINAL IDEA as to how to make things better. No health care? No unions? No Social Security? I don’t know what you do for a living, but I buy my own health care (and prefer to compared to having it become a division of the post office), and Social Security is still out there, likely paying your folks a check every month. I get it. You hate the President or the Party or your life or whatever. That’s your deal. But for God’s sake, suck it up a little. We’ve got Ann Coulter and Dennis Miller, and of course, the brilliant Ben Stein. You’ve got Bill Maher, Michael Moore, Sean Penn, Cindy Sheehan, Matt Damon, Barbra Streisand, and of course Rosie, Baw-bra and that whole team of brain surgeons. Oh… and by the way… there are plenty of Gay Republicans. They just choose to work hard, build businesses, volunteer for community organizations and live life. No time for bitching and moaning. I know plenty of ‘em. A pity you don’t.
So, Dan, a few zingers at the expense of the faggots are okay. It all evens out, right? The candidate can be dismissed out of hand, because he’s a faggot and, hey, they don’t count for squat in Ann’s United States. Ha ha ha.
And btw, you think Republicans are the only ones who work hard, build businesses and volunteer? How far up you ass is that noggin of yours?
Gay Republicans. Man, they’re a joke! Who are you thinking of, those handful of Washington “gay Republicans,” who work in nice offices and have to always look over their shoulder for fear of being exposed? Who work night and day to help their right-wing employers pass laws and bans and prohibitions that get, among other things, gay kids beat up and killed in high school.
Lovely group, that. All community volunteer types.
Hey issues guy.
Can’t you get what Dan is saying. Republicans are just MORE RESPONSIBLE than Democrats.
That why they did such a great job at Walter Reed. And New Orleans. And Iraq.
And Republicans are MORE HONEST. They don’t live on “million-dollar plantations” and pretend to care about the poor. They live on million-dollar plantations and make no bones about hating the poor, and the blue-collar workers whose jobs they auction off to factories in Mexico.
Get it now, issues guy?
Kos over at Daily Kos has a great blog entry on the Coulter flap that we’d like to share with our readers:
The Coulter mess is not about Coulter
Tue Mar 06, 2007 at 09:35:36 AM PST
It’s about Conservatism itself. Glen Greenwald explains [in his Salon piece]:
What Coulter said is itself quite irrelevant. She probably just sold another million books, booked another dozen speaking gigs, and pocketed several million more. Controversy is good for her bottom line, so much so that one gets the sense she doesn’t even believe 2/3rds of what comes out of her mouth. Rather, she works hard to be even more outrageous to garner more headlines and sell more books. It’s outrageousness not for ideological reasons, but for capitalist ones.
Rather than Coulter herself, who has proven to be a savvy businesswoman, this whole mess says more about Coulter’s huge fan base in the conservative movement. She is feeding their desire for hate. There is nothing remotely like it on the Left. Have liberals said hateful things? Sure. But none have made a cottage industry out of it. The fact she exists, and continues to command so much attention from her fan base, is an indictment not on her, but on conservatism itself.
Ann Coulter exists because the conservative movement craves her brand of hatred, and she delivers the goods.
Yay, AndyM! Even before I became a geek (way back when I was a kid in grade school and watched The Munsters and The Addams Family religiously on their first-runs), everyone in my class thought there’d be nothing better than to live next door to either family (Nirvana would be to live between them!).
At that age, I don’t think I’d've known anything about the likes of O’Reilly and Coulter, probably because I had good parents that didn’t want their kid to worry (too much) about the truly bad people in the world.
So as long as you can afford to buy a house, it’s okay to sytematically ostracise any “leftist” minority you find distasteful, promote an ideology that reminds me of Germany in the late 1930’s, and place thousands of impressionable young men into harm’s way? “Working hard, building businesses, and volunteering for community organisations” sure comes with lots of perks, doesn’t it, Dan?
Dan in LA: “…while the nation’s ranks of home owners, business start-ups and real wealth reached historic highs.”
The nation’s ranks of homeowners and business start-ups have been backed solely by head-spinning new records of debt. Debt upon debt upon debt. NOT real wealth. The US economy has become principally one that exists on paper–all imaginary. Get your head out of your ass, you pedantic, pretentionus, pseudo-intellectual self-righteous ass.
Dan, you can goosestep with the rightwing nuts all you like, I’ll march to my own drumbeat. Thanks.
Re-read my comment and try to not leave out what I said. I said AND the working class. I know hard working people who have lost their jobs to cheap labor overseas. Good, hardworking American people. And the President and his cronies all let it go overseas. I never thought I’d agree with Lou Dobbs, but it’s ridiculous and shameful to see this happen to our workforce with over 30% of all our goods now come from China. Everything from factories to white collar jobs have been hemorrhaging from the US since this President took office. Do you remember what happened in France when the ruling class had their heads handed to them? Go ahead, have some more cake.
You seem to jump from Anne being a pundit and a comedian when it suits your argument. That sounds like waffling to me. A real flip-flopper who tries to hold his talking points in a sieve. You’ll excuse me while I point and laugh.
And that flap about Edwards having a “plantation”? I’m sorry, when did slavery get reinstated? Furthermore, name one of the presidential hopefuls (any stripe - Democrat, Republican, Whig, Libertarian, Green, Socialist, etc.) who doesn’t have some swank pad and the capital to pursue a campaign AND has a snowball’s chance in hell? Not one. You’ve given us a false argument. The sad state of politics is that only the rich and well connected could ever hope to become president.
So go right ahead and hug your bosom buddy, Anne. Hold her close. Every time she opens her mouth, irrational crap comes flying out. This is the same woman who thinks everyone should be converted by force to Christianity or die, that we should rape and plunder the earth of it’s riches because “God provides”, from one side of her mouth condemns Muslim extremists and then out the other side comes the regret that Timothy McVeigh didn’t go blow up New York Times Building, calls Helen Thomas an “old Arab”, thinks that there should be public corporal punishment to keep people who don’t agree with her kind quiet and scared, and that liberals have joyless sex.
You and her are stone cold retarded.
I can never understand right wing republicans like Dan. Isn’t that contradictory? To belong to a party that despises you? Maybe you like playing the game a little too well. You like your creepy paycheck, your closeted life, and little winks and nods with your straight repub friends about things you have “in common” with them. Yeah, you both hate those feminist witches don’t you? And those immigrants and welfare queens, who needs them? Health care, who needs it? If god intended for man to have health care he would have sewn ID cards to our ribs. You bought your own, haven’t you? And hell, if the others can’t afford it too bad, let them pull themselves up by their bootstraps just like you did.
Oh and yeah, gays aren’t faggots, so there’s no foul. That’s like a black businessman saying blacks aren’t niggers, niggers are those lowlifes on the street, not me. Dan, you’re the Clarence Thomas of the black community. And they like him about as well as anybody here likes you.
OK, guys. Hold your fire. My white flag is up. I’m honestly a good guy who (sometimes) lets an underlying optimism cloud the uglier realities of the day. Drub, I share your concern about jobs moving overseas, although I do see where we’re insourcing many others. I have met a good number of Indian and Asian gents that moved here for pretty high-level engineering and technical positions. Where the balance is, I’m not sure, but I stand with you on matters of border control and protecting our economic job base. You’re certainly right that national politics is now the domain of multi-millionaires. And, I struggle with determining whether or not it necessarily matters. It’s true I’m a political conservative who favors free market forces over government control, mandate and entitlements. I just don’t see the proof that Washington can manage things better than our best “for profit” business minds. Look at the waste and fraud in so many programs. But, it’s clear I am not going to win any popularity contests here, and that there is a refreshing wealth of well-read, informed guys who have responded. Can we at least agree that our goals are aligned…? Fullfilled lives, growth and challenge in careers, happiness for friends and family, and some sense that American exceptionalism will prevail. We probably disagree on some of the paths to get there, but aren’t the desired results pretty similar? As to Ann, I’m just an easy mark. She’s brassy and brash and yes, over the top at times. I enjoy her barbs toward liberals in the same way I enjoy someone like Stephanie Miller lambasting the right. Neither of them clearly mean everything literally, and shouldn’t be taken that way. They’re satirists and pundits. Thanks for the spirited exchange, though. Here’s to sharing a “virtual” Starbucks for your time… most I’m around are just not that interested. Be well.
*long exhale*
I’m all for protecting our economic base, but I do believe building a fence to keep out Mexicans is a canard. We aren’t building a fence to keep out Canadians, so what gives? The real truth here is America is and will always be a land of hope, where people come to make better lives for themselves. We are a country built on immigration so whenever I hear that spectre brought up I think of what people used to say about Italians, the Irish, Polish, the Chinese, etc. It’s an irrational fear that some new group will upset the applecart. What I’m speaking of is how businesses think it’s perfectly fine to close down a factory, phone technical support, production line and open up one in a “cheaper” *country* only to find out they didn’t plan on the training, building a new place and the rising demand for those people to demand more pay from their jobs forcing that company to repeat the process in a new place leaving those people in the dirt. It’s corporate irresponsibility and I wish the very worst on businesses who participate in this.
Personally, I love how brown this country is becoming.
But back to Anne. Nothing about her says “satirist” to me. She obfuscates the truth, which is the opposite of bringing something to light for all to see. That’s satire. She’s a crackpot with no joy and nothing clever to say and in doing so, she lowers the IQ of all who have to listen to her. She utters the same kind of stupidity that the caustic rantings of Randy Rhodes on Air America spews forth - just at two ends of the spectrum. It’s vitriol and anyone with a shred of intelligence would see that.
“Cheaper” company should read: “cheaper” country. This is what happens when my blood is set to boil, I don’t re-read. I’m so tired of all these false arguments and red herrings and the great unwashed who running after them with mouths agape, begging for another morsel of crap.
Ugh. It makes me sick.
And if you honestly laugh at anything that comes out of that woman’s mouth, I really don’t think there’s anything else to say, is there? It’s all in good fun….
Just a joke, huh. Maybe to you, Dan. And maybe to Ann. But not to her audience, who actively want to outlaw the “f*****s”
And would people be bad sports if they didn’t laugh had she phrased her remark:
“I was going to have a few comments about Barak Obama, but these days you have to go into rehab if you say the word n****r.”
or
“I was going to have a few comments about Hillary, but these days you have to go into rehab if you say the word c**t.”
Why is it just a good natured joke when it’s aimed at gay folk, but an outrage when aimed at any other group of people?
The answer to all this mess is simple, guys…it’s all about power.
He’s a former low-rent TV entertainment reporter and closet kinko, while she’s a willing carnival act in need of sandwich.
Despite all their pretensions (the Culture Warrior and the Mantis in black), both have all the class and gravitas of warmed-over Tang.
I believe Joy B. from The View said it best when she said that from now on instead of using the word bitch, we should just say Ann Coulter!