Chillin', Not Trillin (No. 5) - "Ann of Arc"

I was going to have a few comments on Ann Coulter, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you compare an American conservative to anything French.

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Ann Coulter these days reminds me of Joan of Arc, to wit:
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Ann of Arc

In a land overrun by foreign enemies ... divided within ...
she's the bravest warrior to appear in generations ...
inspiring thousands to battle ...
and victory.

Then she's betrayed by her own people ...
put on trial for heresy ...
convicted ... condemned ...
and publicly executed on a pile of faggots.

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And now, a public service announcement and station identification politics....

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It's a subject "polite" people don't talk about, but every 11 seconds in America a woman thinks Well-behaved women rarely make history. A woman can think about making history anywhere, anytime: at home, work or school ... in a back alley or bedroom ... behind closed doors or in the great outdoors.

Often a woman thinks about making history in the presence of a man she knows intimately. It can be her husband, boyfriend or even another family member. Only a fraction of the times after a woman thinks about making history does she ever tell anyone about it. A woman who thinks about making history might spend the rest of her life burdened or even consumed by intense feelings of shame, inadequacy, and rage. And studies show that thinking about making history damages not just the woman who thinks, but all her relationships. Everyone is affected when a woman thinks about making history.

But there's hope. Thanks to the courageous efforts of many women (and men), today all across America women are no longer just thinking about making history. Women are talking about and women are making history. Now. More than ever.

The next time a woman thinks about making history in America -- the next time a woman makes history in America -- what are you going to do about it?

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I have pre-dated this post for March 8 in honor of International Women's Day Ann Coulter.

Fox News Channel recently rolled out the 1/2 Hour News Hour featuring her as vice president. So far, so good. I dare Fox and the Rightosphere to take it to the next level by declaring

March 2: "International Ann Coulter Day"

Lenny Bruce was reincarnated as a shicksa Republican goddess and career conservatives can't deal with it. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, George Will.

Ann, you are right, it was an excellent joke. Thanks for beginning "the conversation"!

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Rehab "a total indulgence," says American Idol judge.

From George Bernard Shaw's introduction to his play Saint Joan (which I read in high school and out of which copied the following into my diary): The test of sanity lies not in the normality of the methods, but in the reasonableness of the discovery.

Edwards "kind of cute." -- Barack Obama

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Oh, and I was going to have a few comments about the other Democratic presidential candidate, Ms. Rodham Clinton, but it turns out that under a Hillary Administration you could be audited by the IRS if you use the word "dyke."
-- JMK

Comments

[Ralph Zig Tyko]

Woman like Valerie Plame?

[Pamela]

Bravo !!!! Brilliant

[Deb]

Ahhh, Jeremaya, I expected a feast, and you serve it up on the finest silver. Kudos, sir!

Praises to Ann Coulter and to Jeremaya!

[Wild Bill]

I stand with Ann of Arc! Great post.

[GM Roper]

I'm one of those folks that thinks that Ann of Arc can be, often is, and plans to be pretty vile in her comments. The word Faggot was meant the way it was said, despite the fact that it was indeed a joke. Too, we are way too think skinned about this. Having said all of the above, being on both sides of this particular fence, I can say.... GREAT post JMK, Ann remains funny, sharp, witty. I just wish she would tone down the rhetoric some. But, that's me.

[Red Square]

This is good. I'd also say "I was going to have a few comments on Ann Coulter, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you say anything positive about a conservative Republican."

About women who make history - Ayn Rand was one. Wasn't always well-behaved, but it's not how she made history. She made it by her ability to think rationally at the writing desk.

Besides, any mother by bringing up a child who makes history, thereby also makes history.

[Jeremayakovka]

Red,
Thanks much for visiting.
This time I'm going after conservatives, too.

[Black Belt mama]

There's a t-shirt with that statement on it that I have been eyeing up at my vacation spot every summer. This year, I'm buying it. You're so right.

[Mary-Beth]

Actually, Joan of Arc was captured by the English and burned at the stake. The King of France did nothing to save her. So, it twas not "her own people" as your witticism wrongly described.

Sorry to be an arse but I just can't fathom the parallel between the gifted war strategist St. Joan of Arc who led from the FRONT LINE of the battlefield (she killed none and only took one soldier captive) and the contrarian authoress & word warrioress Ann Coulter.

Anyway, I'll cease and desist.

I for an I,
MaryBeth

[Jeremayakovka]

Obviously, I applaud Coulter for being so discriminating and so intelligent about her use of "faggot". I'm proud to run with the concept.

So what statement, exactly, is on that t-shirt?

Here's an idea: t-shirts with her entire controversial sentence printed on them and worn to the next Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco. Hmm ... maybe.

[Mary-Beth]

NOW you are in your element!

[Jeremayakovka]

The one time I attended the Gay Pride Parade I marched in it.

The one time I went to a civil disobedience demonstration I got arrested.

The one time I wore a suicide bomber costume for Halloween I brought along a real Koran. (See the post of last Nov. 1.)

The one time I went to an "antiwar" demonstration (the last left or liberal event I ever attended, in '04) the sign I made was so provocative - so calculated, so daring - that it got over 7,000,000 hits on the sites that posted it. The conservative commenters were so riled up they wanted to hurt or even kill me.

I'm no stranger to putting my money where my mouth is, or to calculated provocation. I consider Ann Coulter a colleague, not an idol.

Wherever I aim my satire is my "element".

[Ralph Zig Tyko]

J, not an idol? A goddess? A maven?...What, prey tell, what?

[Jeremayakovka]

You loved the "antiwar" sign, Ralph. For months you begged me for a copy of it. So shut the fuck up already with your ankle-biting. Can you come up with anything original in your humor?

[Obi's Sister]

"...and publicly executed on a pile of faggots".
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You made me spit my tea out!

[Ralph Zig Tyko]

Loved it? I helped YOU write it... back in the day.

[Jeremayakovka]

And what a team we were, Ralph! So why aren't you proud of me now? -:)

[Jeremayakovka]

Welcome to the show, Obi's Sis. One of the things that motivated this post was that the day after Coulter's appearance I saw Jon Lovitz (frmr SNL actor) live. He was pretty funny but when he got around to political humor it was kind of stale (and partisan -- he said, "I'm a Democrat"), old Bush = dumb jokes, etc.

Coulter's routine was fresher and more funny by far. On that basis alone, she deserves recognition, even from her ideological enemies.

[Ralph Zig Tyko]

I am proud of YOU and the way you play the devil's advocate for the ideals that I KNOW you and I hold near and dear. I'm not proud of the people's side you take for the sake of argument or sensationalism or hits on your fine site or all, or any combination of the above...over.

[Jeremayakovka]

Ralph, what do I have to do to convince you that this isn't "for the sake of argument" but out of conviction?

[Ralph Zig Tyko]

A line from Draft Dodger Blues by Phil Ochs, comes to mind. "...so I wish you well, sarge, give'em hell. Yah, kill me a thousand or more. If you ever find a war without blood and gore, I'll be the first to go..."

[Jeremayakovka]

Phil Ochs was a suicide. Who cares how many songs he wrote or sung protesting war, by committing suicide he showed that he protested LIFE even more than war. Suicide was his most strident and final note. But enough about a loser.

In the iconic "antiwar" protest song (anti-draft, really), "Alice's Restaurant", Arlo Guthrie says loud and clear "faggots". And when he said it he meant, well, faggots, gay men. As the live recording proves, it elicited a wave of laughter.

Arlo Guthrie: antiwar and antigay
Ann Coulter: prowar and progay

[Ralph Zig Tyko]

"Antiestablishment" was what Arlo's song. "ALICE" was about and he satirized the Army's not taking gays by using the term "faggot"...Now, spin Libby/Rowe/Cheney for us, meister...Still luv ya, bubala.

[Jeremayakovka]

Tolerating gays is not a liberal virtue, whereas accomodating a radical gay agenda is a liberal vice.

Through the 60s and 70s liberal entertainers freely displayed their distaste or disgust at gays: e.g., Norman Mailer and Al Franken in print, Jim Morrison in music.

[Ralph Zig Tyko]

"The times they are a chagining", yet again.