Ann Coulter's a (night of the) living (dead) doll

Continuing the Ann Coulter theme, here's some footage of the talking Ann Coulter doll being demonstrated at a Conservative book convention. The second best bit is when the representative manages to put her finger on the pulse of the American nation, succinctly summing up the reason why Hillary Clinton would be a bad president:

"I have a full time job with a Conservative publishing company so it would be bad for me if Hillary was president".

I'm sure almost everyone who works full time for a Conservative publishing company will be able to identify with that one.

The best bit is that the doll, which is supposed to have 30 sayings, doesn't even remotely work - it manages one saying, before repeating garbled bits of the same saying like a confused ideological mantra. Actually, I suppose that does captures Ann pretty well.

I'm sorry to attack Coulter for her gaunt, dead-eyed looks and her risible action figures, but it's far too easy to take her to task over the spiteful polemic she relentlessly spouts.

"Poor little Pakis. They're never very high in anyone's caste system, are they?"

"Liberals support the Taliban and Al Qaeda the same as they supported Stalin."

"Canada is lucky the US allows it to exist."

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."

"Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. Liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security."

"I don't know if Clinton is gay. But Al Gore - total fag."

And let's not forget her kind words for the widows of American men who died on 9/11:

"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis... These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them... I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths so much."

Of course, I love Ann really. Her attacks on the left might get the Republican knuckleheads whooping along, but they're are so ridiculously extreme that they just inspire bemusement in normal people, who will then be less likely to take more reasonable criticism of liberals seriously. There's a real danger of all right wing punditry being tainted by association with Coulter and Limbaugh's brand of hyperbole. Perhaps only PJ O'Rourke can save them...

Better yet, she pisses off liberals, which can only be a good thing. It'll be even more fun to watch when the liberals are in power again.