Watching Coulter on the Late, Late Show
Tue May 24, 2005 at 12:15:09 AM PDT
Crawling out of the shadows where her ilk lurks, Ann Coulter showed up on the
Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson tonight. I've been crushing on Ferguson (it's the accent) for a couple weeks and staying up late to watch the show. Imagine my displeasure to hear his guest list tonight and my utter
horror as they hugged and
kissed (on the cheek) when she appeared on stage. Squick! Where would this interview lead?
Well, it led to Coulter making an ass of herself. Did you expect anything else?
Ferguson (or Craig, as I call him in my fantasies ;) announced that he didn't want to talk politics, he wanted to talk about her and began to ask questions about her upbringing. She talked about her "minority" (being raised in a stable, white, Christian family--though I'd ask, if it was so stable, why's she so anorexic?) childhood in Connecticut then Craig asked what led her to be so angry. "Who said I was angry?" What followed was a typical Coulter scree on liberals and Bill Clinton. "Ooh, do you know Bill Clinton?" Craig asked excitedly. More scree and disgusting innuendo. She was much better behaved on Leno's show a few weeks ago and I wonder if she thought this being late, late night that she could get away with more--"Bill Clinton's interested in anything with a mouth," she kept remarking. Sick girl. Later, Craig asked her why she was so interested in Clinton. She feigned surprise that he would think that. "Well, you brought him up," he said. She denied it. "I didn't want to talk politics, I wanted to talk about you," he reminded her. She claimed he had said something that made it pertinent, which of course is pure Coulter delusion. I'm not sure what he was expecting but you could tell it was dawning on him that he had a nut job on stage with him.
Next, Craig expressed his surprise that she was a Grateful Dead fan and she got riled about stereotyping conservatives. Her accusations were hard to follow, but she condemned Craig as a liberal because he was on CBS. "I'm from another country," he explained. "I'm just trying to be a good American. I'm taking the test." Again, attempting to turn the conversation away from politics, he asked her if she ever smoked marijuana while following the Dead. She said only passively. He asked her if she thought it should be legalized. She said not. What about the Dead? They obviously were smoking; where would their music have been without it? Apparently, it was fine with her to do it as long as you don't get caught but if you were then you should be prosecuted. Isn't this moral relativism?
Craig asked her if she'd thought about running for office. "Oh, no," she sneered. "I don't care for that false congressional collegiality." What's that, Craig wondered? "Oh, you know--'my esteemed friend, Senator Kennedy!'" "Ooh, you're friends with Senator Kennedy?" Craig asked.
I'm happy to say the interview didn't end as cordially as it began, a brisk handshake replacing the cozy hello. Craig sat back and let Coulter hang herself with her own self-importance, only adding a jab of wry wit where needed.
Sigh.
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