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roachboy · 05-08-2007, 08:23 AM

ace, ace, ace: you're being disengenuous again. coulter is not a satirist. her writing is not smart enough to be satire.
do you read any actual satirists?
i'd suggest that you try out nathaniel west.
satire requires finesse. it requires a certain distance between the author, the narrator and the storyline. it also requires that the reader do a little work to sort out what is going on.
so the key to satire from this little potted summary of genre markers is the assumption that the reader is (a) not stupid and (b) is willing to work a bit to decipher what is happening.
you cannot possibly imagine that ann coulter does not assume her readership is stupid.
the outlets that publish her certainly assume that her readership is not made up of the shed's sharpest tools, or the chandelier's brightest bulbs.
maybe that's her appeal though: she is able to participate in a kind of circle jerk, the effect of which is to enable her one-dimensional readership to imagine itself superior to those whom they oppose politically.
she achieves this lofty literary function by a unique combination of bad style, bad concept, bad jokes, bigotry and smugness.

quite the poster girl for your politics in ann coulter, ace.

what i find ironic in any defense from the right of an idiot the level of ann coulter comes up when you link this to the views harbored by conservatives on education---you know, the emphasis on "quality", on "standards" and all that. apparently, the right has a very particular understanding of what these terms mean---no wait, it is the same understanding that the right has of "personal responsibility": both only apply to other people.

it follows then: if you disagree with a writer's politics, no grammar mistake is too small..but when you agree with the writer's politics, it hardly matters whether that writer is a fucking cretin or not. all bets are off--(in this case) she is one of "us" so anything goes. besides, coulter serves an important function in legitimating the populist conservative embrace of their inner nimrod, their inner frat boy, their inner bigot. it must be a relief to be able to check thinking at the door when you encounter one of coulter's pieces....if i wanted to do that. i'd have stayed in school..."reality" shouldn't require that much work...phew, all this thinking i have to do....it makes me tired.

05-08-2007, 08:23 AM	#49 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	ace, ace, ace: you're being disengenuous again. coulter is not a satirist. her writing is not smart enough to be satire. do you read any actual satirists? i'd suggest that you try out nathaniel west. satire requires finesse. it requires a certain distance between the author, the narrator and the storyline. it also requires that the reader do a little work to sort out what is going on. so the key to satire from this little potted summary of genre markers is the assumption that the reader is (a) not stupid and (b) is willing to work a bit to decipher what is happening. you cannot possibly imagine that ann coulter does not assume her readership is stupid. the outlets that publish her certainly assume that her readership is not made up of the shed's sharpest tools, or the chandelier's brightest bulbs. maybe that's her appeal though: she is able to participate in a kind of circle jerk, the effect of which is to enable her one-dimensional readership to imagine itself superior to those whom they oppose politically. she achieves this lofty literary function by a unique combination of bad style, bad concept, bad jokes, bigotry and smugness. quite the poster girl for your politics in ann coulter, ace. what i find ironic in any defense from the right of an idiot the level of ann coulter comes up when you link this to the views harbored by conservatives on education---you know, the emphasis on "quality", on "standards" and all that. apparently, the right has a very particular understanding of what these terms mean---no wait, it is the same understanding that the right has of "personal responsibility": both only apply to other people. it follows then: if you disagree with a writer's politics, no grammar mistake is too small..but when you agree with the writer's politics, it hardly matters whether that writer is a fucking cretin or not. all bets are off--(in this case) she is one of "us" so anything goes. besides, coulter serves an important function in legitimating the populist conservative embrace of their inner nimrod, their inner frat boy, their inner bigot. it must be a relief to be able to check thinking at the door when you encounter one of coulter's pieces....if i wanted to do that. i'd have stayed in school..."reality" shouldn't require that much work...phew, all this thinking i have to do....it makes me tired. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 05-08-2007 at 08:26 AM..