Out pushing her book Coulter continues to provide us with amusing crap but that's not why I am posting this here.

Posting because of the great point made in this article about the direction of the republican party.

On Watching Ann Coulter on Lou Dobbs Tonight
by Turing
Wed Jan 07, 2009 at 05:26:48 PM PST

So Lou Dobbs says to Ann Coulter tonight on his show: "You are the sharpest witted and sharpest tongued Republican around these days."

"Thank you very much," she said.

"Sometimes it seems like you are the only..." He paused.

"Man in the party?" she said. "I am."

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I watched astonished as Lou Dobbs fawned over her. I stared at her her porcelain face and tried to give her some benefit of the doubt. But watching her repeatedly paw through her own silky blonde hair, talking fast like and loud a con man, as self glorifying as some over-the-hill movie star...there was no beneficial side to her that I could discern.

Of course there are a lot of repulsive figures on the Right, Karl Rove, for example, or **** Cheney, or Doug Feith, or Richard Perle, and so on, all with a chillingly cold Machiavellian cast to their ugly pugs, a mechanical certainty in their discourse. But to watch this Paris Hilton of political "intercourse" reveal herself in the altogether on TV is truly pornographic and disturbing.

As for Lou Dobbs, he seems like the crazy aunt in the basement that Ross Perot used to talk about (or was she in the attic?). Anyway, you go down to see Uncle Lou one day and he’s all pissed off about these corporations shipping jobs overseas and you go, yeah, man, cool, thanks for mentioning it. And the next day he’s buttering up the kewpie doll with the komodo dragon tongue. Ah, well, we should still bring him tea and crackers.

David Brooks noted recently in the New York Times that conservatives' "disdain for liberal intellectuals" had slipped into "disdain for the educated class as a whole," and he worried that the Republican Party was alienating educated voters.

Writing last year in the Wall Street Journal Mark Lilla put the beginnings of anti-intellectualism in the Republican party starting in about 1976 with Irving Kristol’s columns about "populist paranoia" affecting the organs of government. Writes Lilla:

Over the next 25 years there grew up a new generation of conservative writers who cultivated none of their elders' intellectual virtues -- indeed, who saw themselves as counter-intellectuals. Most are well-educated and many have attended Ivy League universities; in fact, one of the masterminds of the Palin nomination was once a Harvard professor. But their function within the conservative movement is no longer to educate and ennoble a populist political tendency, it is to defend that tendency against the supposedly monolithic and uniformly hostile educated classes. They mock the advice of Nobel Prize-winning economists and praise the financial acumen of plumbers and builders. They ridicule ambassadors and diplomats while promoting jingoistic journalists who have never lived abroad and speak no foreign languages. And with the rise of shock radio and television, they have found a large, popular audience that eagerly absorbs their contempt for intellectual elites. They hoped to shape that audience, but the truth is that their audience has now shaped them.

Verily, Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin are two sides of the same Freedom Medal. Together they represent the furthest development of the anti-intellectual tendencies in the Republican party, the lady from Alaska who develops foreign policy experience by peering into Russia from her porch, and the other one, the Paris Hilton of political intercourse, whose syntax and diction could be confused with that of an intellectual but whose semantics cleary spring from the reptilian brain.

I agree

anti-intellectual tendencies

A perfect title when the subject is Ann Coulter!!

Lou Dobbs has gone crazy in the past couple of years. I can't even stand to listen to him anymore. He has changed drastically. All he does anymore is shout. I used to agree with him on some issues but he got so uptight I could not longer stomach the nightly whining and shouting.

Ann Coulter and Lou Dobbs, now I know he has gone off the deep end. Who is her audience really?