Sooooo glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read this

[dianeduane]

I can't often be bothered to blog about the antic caperings of the various political punditti and pundettes in my native land, but every now and then something comes up that's just so, so ...!!!

I was browsing through Wonkette, as I sometimes do, and ran into this in the midst of a transcript of a recent "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch" show. Ann Coulter was a guest, and Bill Clinton's name came up --

Ms. COULTER: I think that sort of rampant promiscuity does show some level of latent homosexuality.

DEUTSCH: OK, I think you need to say that again. That Bill Clinton, you think on some level, has — is a latent homosexual, is that what you’re saying?

Ms. COULTER: Yeah.

(snort) But wait, there's more! Get this:

Ms. COULTER: No. I think anyone with that level of promiscuity where, you know, you — I mean, he didn’t know Monica’s name until their sixth sexual encounter. There is something that is — that is of the bathhouse about that.

DEUTSCH: But what is the homosexual — that’s — you could say somebody who maybe doesn’t celebrate women the way he should or just is that he’s a hound dog?

Ms. COULTER: No. It’s just random, is this obsession with his…

DEUTSCH: But where’s the — but where’s the homosexual part of that? I’m — once again, I’m speechless here.

Ms. COULTER: It’s reminiscent of a bathhouse. It’s just this obsession with your own — with your own essence.

DEUTSCH: But why is that homosexual? You could say narcissistic.

Ms. COULTER: Right.

DEUTSCH: You could say nymphomaniac.

Ms. COULTER: Well, there is something narcissistic about homosexuality. Right? Because you’re in love with someone who looks like you. I’m not breaking new territory here, why are you looking at me like that?

(eyeroll) That poor woman really needs to stay out of the psychological mode.  (chuckle)

(And since when is nymphomaniac a term one applies to a male? [bemusement...])

 

Comments

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

It's the "Why are you looking at me like that?" that makes it.

[conuly]

Definitely.

[wolf-moonshadow.livejournal.com]

CNN has been replaying that clip; it’s quite interesting. One has to wonder just what she was on during that interview. I suspect that Fox News is one of the few places where she wouldn’t have been given a strange look.

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

And since when is nymphomaniac a term one applies to a male?
Because "satyriasis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyriasis)" is hard to say?

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

Damn! Beat me to it!

[sesquipedeviant.livejournal.com]

And me! I can expand a bit, though: "Satyriasis" is the condition, "Satyriast" the equivalent to 'male slut', IIRC.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

and sounds like a skin condition, which is doubly unfortunate. :-)

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

"I hate homosexuals. I hate Bill Clinton. Therefore, Bill Clinton must be a homosexual. I learned that in school, ya know."

-The Gneech

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Ah, sounds like the sort of logic that appeals to looney right wing nutters.

[shirenomad]

Looney left wing nutters too.

(Not you, but tell me if you've heard this one:
"I hate Bush. Bush is in support of something. It must be evil. No, I don't care that the Democrats supported it before he did.")

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

By George, I think you've got it!

[mistwolf.livejournal.com]

I saw this a few days ago, and try to ignore it. The woman is a blight on the earth. And I say that as a transsexual in a polyamorous lesbian triad (And, incidentally, Dduane helped form most of those poly views in me! Yay Door series! ;)

[keristor.livejournal.com]

"a transsexual in a polyamorous lesbian triad"

Bet you can't say that when you're drunk *g*. Heck, I have enough trouble saying it when I'm sober. Oh, and D. helped form some of my Weltanschauung as well, especially the Door series...

[mistwolf.livejournal.com]

Hee. I can't say she formed all of it, considering I was already open to it and the friends who gave me _The Door Into Fire_ were very open, but it did influence me a lot. :)

[madfilkentist]

D. convinced me that hortas can be valuable bridge crew members. Does that count?

[redlily.livejournal.com]

Well, "nymphomaniac" wasn't typically assigned to males, but now that the psychiatric community has realized that wanting too much sex can also be a bad thing for males, they've bridged that gender gap. As well they should have.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Well, there is something narcissistic about homosexuality. Right? Because you’re in love with someone who looks like you.

*head explodes*

[kitty-foxglove.livejournal.com]

Everyone who has tits and a hoo-ha looks the same! My bony, bespectacled, black ex-girlfriend looks just like my rounded, glasses-loving-but-not-needing, extremely white self.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

I can never decide if she's that stupid on purpose, or if she was born that way.

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

I just love that she keeps putting her foot in her mouth. The whackier she is, the better for the rest of us. Sooner or later, people will have to stop listening to her (she says hopefully).

[reianaangel.livejournal.com]

Unfortunetly we need people like that. They stretch the truth so much it becomes caracture and we can see the stupidity more clearly in what others are saying far more eloquently.

The same was said about Jack Thompson. Everyone stops listening, and we forget their names until another crops up.

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

If there was ever a political poster child for heterosexuality, it has to be Bill Clinton.

As for Ann Coulter, well, I'm not sure I can say what she's a poster child for. The best I can think of is that she'd fit right in at N.I.C.E in That Hideous Strength.

[zhagtin.livejournal.com]

Regardless of what you might personally think of Bill Clinton, I don't think anyone can deny that far from being a latent homosexual, the man is a certified card-carrying PIMP.

And hoorays for poly! Oh, and Horta on the Enterprise crew!

Much love for Diane!

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty much what I was saying regarding Clinton. Or as Clinton's interviewer put it, he's a hound dog.

[zhagtin.livejournal.com]

Yep, that nails it.

As for Ann Coulter's raving, I was immediately put in mind of this quote from the Adam Sandler movie 'Billy Madison':

"...what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

Truer words, Ms. Coulter, truer words.

[ateji.livejournal.com]

You got metaquoted (http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/5353488.html).

[ponygirl118.livejournal.com]

But...
If yer homosexual, wouldn't ye stay AWAY from the opposite sex? I wonder what she thinks of us bis...

[zhagtin.livejournal.com]

To think of bis, first she'd have to /think/. I'd wager you're safe, since whatever synaptic misfire she had regarding your inclinations would come out as inarticulate nonsense. No worries.

[kitty-foxglove.livejournal.com]

Anyway, if you're bi, you aren't gay. You're bi.

[cleverthylacine]

So that's the logic behind K/S...

[schaezen.livejournal.com]

I'm truly at a stage where I wonder why anyone on the whole planet can even take her seriously. How on EARTH does she sell any books?

[kitty-foxglove.livejournal.com]

Because there are people like my grandmother.

W, as they say, TF?

[murphys-lawyer.livejournal.com]

I've always thought I should dislike her writing, but I have forbade, as I am not an American and should therefore keep realitively keep quiet about US political nutjobs. The UK, after all, has plenty of its own.

This changes everything. Bwahahahahaha!!!

And DD, thanks for the warning. I put my drink down before reading.

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

As late as the early 1960s, it was Scientific Fact that Casanova and others like him were latent homosexuals. That is, they were denying their homosexual impulses.

Less widely believed, but believed by at least one head doctor: bisexuality and amidextrousness are signs of psychopathology. Anyone so antisocial as to refuse making choices in such matters is obviously sick.

Ann Coulter is just a bit behind the times.

[raisedbymoogles.livejournal.com]

You keep using that word.

I do not think it means what you think it means.





*runs!*

[wetdryvac.livejournal.com]

Note to self: When title of post says, "Sooooo glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read this," Put the coffee down.

Ach.

[cousinshelley.livejournal.com]

It's Jerry Springer syndrome. She went from a barely known pundit to the object of horrified conversation. The more of that shit she spouts, the more outraged and yes, entertained, some people are, the more she gets invited to appear because she's so 'controversial,' the more books she'll sell because some people just can't believe she actually says those things.

I think Anne Coulter laughs all the way to the bank.