Sometimes, I forget why I am proud to be from a culture in which freedom of expression is valued by some to the point that even my boundaries are pushed. Even though I'm way late to the party, this excerpt from the first episode of the "Real Time" show with Bill Maher on HBO has some of the most lively tongues I'd seen in a long time, and such frank speech, from such figures as the genius-boy academic Mike Dyson, ever-moronic Ann Coulter, fast-talking Bill Maher, a guest rant from Chris Rock himself, topped off with Sara Silverman's brave, unique, and socially transgressive comedy – the Holocaust, jabs at black oversensitivity about race, and even poking fun at ignorance by role-playing the racist – wow.
I'd heard that Sara Silverman's standup routines were truly off-the-hook and one-of-a-kind, and I'm glad I'd finally got to see one myself. I was also happy to see Mike Dyson again, who was briefly at Brown while I was a freshman, but got stolen away from us. Boo hoo.
This is the kind of show I like, where stupid people can just be called fucking stupid, but smart commentary can still happen. Ann Coulter is fucking stupid, as I don't need to remind anyone with half a cerebral cortex, a basic education through high school, and who's been keeping up with the news these days, or has ever seen her speak.
How did she get on TV again, besides the fact that she's got slim and blonde and probably got her knees dirty for it? Because it certainly isn't her intellect, not is it her skills at journalism. Yeah, you can ask the question of whether I would be so mean if she were a man, and the answer is – "yeah." Fuck Ann Coulter. Watch the slur.
Hey – she has the right to say what she wants, but she'll pay for her sheer stupidity soon. Really. Where did she come from? I've never seen someone so stupid be on TV so much, especially as a political "pundit."
Pro-choice people "celebrate" the death of babies? 9/11 widows were "reveling" in and "enjoying their husbands' deaths?" Wow. And as for simple questions about politics, she keeps saying "I don't know" and can't even answer simple questions! She sounds like she doesn't even watch the news. She sounds like she didn't even read her own book! The "liberal doctrine of infallibility?" Wow.
Ann, answer the question!
Canada sent troops to Vietnam? News to me.
This is my ode to you, Ann, conveyed through another person's poetry. Hat tip to Where the Hell Am I? for steering me to this video.
Ah, America.
Stuff like this really makes me homesick. But on a personal note, Ann Coulter just makes me sick.
