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Is Anne Coulter just satire?
She follows the tenants of Poe's Law of Satire pretty closely.
From Wiki:
"Poe's Law relates to fundamentalism, and the difficulty of identifying actual parodies thereof. It suggests that, in general, it is hard to tell fake fundamentalism from the real thing, since they may both espouse equally extreme beliefs. Poe's law also works in reverse: real fundamentalism can also be indistinguishable from parody fundamentalism."
Coulter often says over-the-top things like:
"Jews need to be completed" Donny Deustch interview (CNBC), 10/11/2007
"The answer to terrorism is to invade the terrorist's countries, kill their leaders and convert their people to Christianity" Chris Matthews interview on Hardball, MSNBC 6/26/2007
"Bill Clinton is gay." July 28, 2006 CNBC interview
And there are literally dozens and dozens of other such comments out there... Is she doing this for shock value? Is she really a deep cover liberal holding as closely to Poe's Law of Satire as possible?
Baby Poots: You're doing schtick, right?
Radio Morticia: You are correct, madame, she did say "perfected".
11 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Actually what Coulter said to Donnie Deustch was that "Jews need to be perfected".....
She has made a lot of money off of that schick! She is a well educated woman, and a lawyer. She saw an opening and took it! I suppose you could call her "satire".
But I don't find her particularly funny nor is any of her stuff very well researched. I guess she knows who her base (and I do mean base) audience is and she acts accordingly.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
She's an over-the-top persona created to help her make alot of money, get face time on TV, move books and command high fees to speak. Being a nutcase has made her wealthy. Incidentally, I've read from people who've known her in real life that she's actually much more nice and reasonable.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Yes, I think that Ann Coulter is Al Franken's automated sock-puppet that he pulls out of his a$$ when he wants to make people laugh.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
To me, she's like a Howard Stern for the Republican Party. She uses shock value to keep an audience.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Ann Coulter rocks my socks!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Anne Coulter is a satyr, yes, indeed.
- Baby PootsLv 61 decade ago
I think Anne Coulter is a very intelligent woman whose goal is to keep people thinking about local, state, and global issues. Anne Coulter is Barbara Walters, Rush Limbaugh, and Imus rolled into one.
As for satire? What do you think?
- Anonymous1 decade ago
it may have started out that way... but then a bunch of Republicans though she was serious... and she was like "I can make money doing this"
trying to satirize Republicans is a very tricky business...
- ICH8TELv 71 decade ago
Not to the Repubs. They take him/her serious and hang on to his/her every word. I really think that he/she is a big fat anorexic joke.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
the entire political under current is just satire, and we are the punch line
