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Commentary: Coulter’s Take on Berry’s ‘Mau-Mauing’ Reveals Her Own Insecurities (Slams Ann)
BAW ^ | 1/26/05 | Gregory Kane

Posted on 01/27/2005 12:03:46 PM PST by pissant

In those rare moments where I’m actually embarrassed, I have a standard quip that eases the burden: “I’m used to being embarrassed. I’m a black conservative.”

Well, it’s pull-the-paper-bag-down-over-my-head time again, courtesy of Ann Coulter, who for the purposes of this column is Miss Ann Coulter, and I give not a tinker’s dam whether she pardons the pun.

Coulter is the conservative author and columnist who can match wits and words with the best of them. She’s fairly good-looking, but she’s no Halle Berry (More on that later.)

I pondered whether I should pick up Coulter’s latest work — How To Talk To A Liberal (If You Must) — when I saw it in a local bookstore recently. I’ll have to admit, I hesitated. As a black conservative, I do indeed have trouble talking to liberals. It’s almost as vexing as talking to white conservatives who are totally clueless on the matter of race.

In How To Talk To A Liberal, Coulter unleashes her inner clueless white girl, and lets her run buck wild for well over 300 pages. Oh, it’s not all bad. Her pieces on the 2000 presidential election, and how the U.S. Supreme Court got it right while the Florida Supreme Court got it wrong, are classic. So much for President George W. Bush “stealing” that election.

But on matters of race, Coulter couldn’t get a clue if it pimp slapped her.

“(Halle) Berry successfully mau-maued her way to a Best Actress Award … ” Coulter wrote of Berry’s winning the Oscar in 2002 for Monster’s Ball. Then, after that gratuitous bit of race-baiting, Coulter accused Berry of some race-baiting of her own to win the Oscar when the sultry actress pointed out — correctly — that black actors and actresses still have trouble getting some roles.

You see what’s going on here, don’t you? Coulter had no problem with Denzel Washington winning an Oscar the same year. His was “deserved,” according to Coulter. It was Berry — despite a near unanimous consensus that she did indeed turn in the best performance by an actress that year — who “mau-maued” her way to an Academy Award.

This is nothing but catty hater-ation. What bothers Coulter is not Berry’s “mau-mauing,” but the knowledge that she’ll never even come close to being as fine as Berry is. Memo to Miss Ann: put your claws back in, dear.

Coulter really got buck wild on the issue of the Confederate battle flag, which still bugs a lot of black folks. It doesn’t bug me as much. I’m more concerned that Coulter all but accused Berry of terrorism, probably the better to increase her street cred with the David Duke wing of American conservatives (How this slight escaped those black folks who vigilantly ferret out every offense to the race is beyond me.). But Coulter said enough things wrong in defending the Confederate battle flag that are worthy of correction.

“Man for man,” Coulter wrote, “the Confederate army was the greatest army the world had ever seen.”

That would actually be the Zulus under Shaka, and any military historian worthy of being called one would tell Coulter that.

Southerners fly the Confederate battle flag, Coulter contended, to commemorate their glorious military heritage, not because of racism. But then she slipped and let in a little truth.

“The Ku Klux Klan did not begin using the Confederate flag until the fifties,” Coulter wrote. That’s true, but the total truth is that it wasn’t just the KKK. Southern state legislatures, schools and plenty of non-KKK folks found new love for the Confederate battle flag in the 1950s. If Coulter wanted to be honest, she could have given the precise date.

May 17, 1954.

Yes, the Confederate battle flag flew highly and proudly after the Supreme Court ruled segregated schools unconstitutional. Wherever the forces of integration clashed with those of segregation there were good ol’ Bubbas waving the Confederate flag and yelling about how they’d die before they let nigger boys into their schools and rub up against white gals like, well, like Ann Coulter, for example.

That was the battle the neo-Confederates wanted to wage when their precious flag made its reappearance in the 1950s. It would be refreshingly honest if they — and Coulter — would simply admit that.


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To: Tokra

"3 white grandparents and 1 black grandparent. This means she is black?"
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Only if it works to your advantage, such as being selected for undeserved awards by a bunch of liberal panty-waists.


101 posted on 01/27/2005 1:21:34 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

Whew. Thanks, you two. I would have understood if her name had been 'Ann Thrope'.


102 posted on 01/27/2005 1:21:55 PM PST by MisterKnowItAll
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To: Tribune7
She has a right to her opinion.

That is, like, SOOOOOOO last millennium.

This is the 21st century. Everyone has a right to my opinion. If I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you.

Shalom.

103 posted on 01/27/2005 1:23:38 PM PST by ArGee (After 517, the abolition of man is complete)
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To: annyokie

Damn, I hope your husband ain't a woman. Either that or put your eye out is already missing an eyeball and can't tell the diff.


104 posted on 01/27/2005 1:23:38 PM PST by pissant
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To: rcocean

I have immense respect for Shelby Foote, the best commentator on Ken Burns' Civil War documentary. I see your point.


105 posted on 01/27/2005 1:24:33 PM PST by ariamne (reformed liberal-Shieldmaiden of the Infidel)
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To: Tokra
Halle's father was biracial - white & black - and her mother was white. That means she had 3 white grandparents and 1 black grandparent. This means she is black?

If you saw her on the street, not knowing who she was, would you say she was black or white? The term "biracial" is relatively new, before that anyone with any visible black ancestry was considered black period.

106 posted on 01/27/2005 1:24:37 PM PST by LWalk18
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To: pissant

My husband is a USA Major(retired) who did 3 tours in VietNam. He is slim, but he is all man. Look at those shoulders!


107 posted on 01/27/2005 1:28:10 PM PST by annyokie (If the shoe fits, put 'em both on!)
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To: pissant

The fact that Berry, who is half-black, made such a big fuss about getting an award from her peers is the issue. It's not society, hell, the top people in government are black. It's the liberal entertainment industry she should have clearly aimed her attack at. But her speech made it sound like it was society, which is ridiculous. This makes me want to keep reading Anne's book. I started reading and the, for some reason put it aside and forgot about it. I think I'll pick it up again!


108 posted on 01/27/2005 1:28:57 PM PST by Hildy ( To work is to dance, to live is to worship, to breathe is to love.)
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To: pissant

YassMaaaaam, Miss Ann


109 posted on 01/27/2005 1:29:34 PM PST by pageonetoo (I could name them, but you'll spot their posts soon enough.)
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To: Darkwolf377

I thought all the acting in Monster's ball was incredible. I love Billy Bob Thorton. I can watch anything he's in. If you want a real treat, rent the movie BANDITS with Billy Bob, Bruce Willis and Cate Blanchett (Who is the best actress of our time). It's such a fun movie and Billy Bob's performance is INCREDIBLE!!!!


110 posted on 01/27/2005 1:30:40 PM PST by Hildy ( To work is to dance, to live is to worship, to breathe is to love.)
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To: LWalk18
Reminds me of Archie bunkers comment on harry belefonte:

"He's not a black guy - meathead. Harry Belefonte is a white guy dipped in chocolate."
111 posted on 01/27/2005 1:32:43 PM PST by rcocean
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To: Hildy; All

Here's Ann's original column. In my Opinion, a bullseye, in addition to being hilarious.
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Ann Coulter March 29, 2002

I Like Black People Too, Julia!

I tuned in late and consequently can speak only to the last three hours of Halle Berry's acceptance speech at the Academy Awards last Sunday. But inasmuch as she engaged in wild race-baiting to get her Oscar, her expressions of shock were not very believable. She had spent weeks complaining about one time she did not get a role because of her color. It was the part of a forest ranger. Arnold Schwarzenegger probably has trouble getting cast as a ballet dancer, too.

And yet still, somehow, white guilt worked on Hollywood liberals! Berry had successfully mau-maued her way to a best actress award and then acted surprised.

It's interesting that Berry makes such a big deal about being black. She was raised by her white mother who was beaten and abandoned by her black father. Clearly, Berry has calculated that it is more advantageous for her acting career to identify with the man who abandoned her rather than the woman who raised her.

Demanding that everyone marvel at her accomplishment, Berry gushed: "This moment is so much bigger than me." Whenever people say something is not about them it's always just about them. This is a turn of phrase meant to remind the audience of the importance and beauty of them. Berry said her triumph was a victory "for every nameless, faceless woman of color who now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened."

Yes, at long last, the "glass ceiling" had been broken. Large-breasted, slightly cocoa women with idealized Caucasian features finally have a chance in Hollywood! They will, however, still be required to display their large breasts for the camera and to discuss their large breasts at some length with reporters.

Thus, Berry has explained her philosophy on nude scenes, saying: "(I)f it's what the character would do, then I'd use my body in any way that would best serve that character." This, she said, is her "strong belief." But what does it mean, exactly? Don't all people undress sometimes? All people pick their noses, but vapid Hollywood actresses don't insist on showing us that in every movie on the grounds that it is "what the character would do."

In fact, Berry's unseemly enthusiasm for displaying "these babies," as she genteelly refers to her breasts, reduces roles for any women who lack Berry's beauty queen features. If movies must include soft porn scenes, the audience is entitled to demand performers with sexual characteristics they would like to see in a soft porn movie. Somehow, characters played by Whoopi Goldberg are never the sorts of characters who would do things in real life like undress or have sex. And by the way, Billy Bob Thorton isn't cutting it for the female audience.

When they are young, nubile Hollywood actresses all utter the same idiotic cliches about the artistic value of nudity in movies. Then they expect us to feel sorry for them when parts dry up after they become old and start to sag. Live by the breast, die by the breast.

But Berry's self-aggrandizing pap was merely a footnote to the main theme of the awards ceremony, which was: Julia Roberts loves all the black brothers! It was a point she felt could not be made too often or with too much condescension. Her presentation of the best actor award began with the exciting revelation that she had just kissed Sidney Poitier!

Having once famously proclaimed she did not want to live in a world in which Denzel Washington had not won an Oscar for best actor, she preceded her announcement of his award saying, "I love my life!" This was about her, not him. It was her personal triumph over racism. The only patronizing remark Roberts skipped was to note that Washington and Poitier were "articulate."

After Washington accepted his award, Roberts leapt on him and would not let go. It was as if he had grown some sort of exotic Julia Roberts wart. Not only Washington, but, more urgently, his wife deserves great credit for their forbearance. Whatever indignities Hollywood has visited on blacks in the past, it would be hard to top this.

Whenever white liberals are in trouble, they always run to the blacks. Immediately after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, Monica went to a Washington Wizards game where she hoisted some poor unsuspecting black girl onto her lap in full view of the cameras. Bill Clinton dropped the subtlety and dashed off to Africa. After his abomination of a presidency, Jimmy Carter built housing in Harlem.

Apparently, Oscars night was Hollywood's shot at patronizing blacks to generate goodwill -- perhaps as wartime penance for its long-standing hatred of America.

It's too bad Denzel Washington's Oscar was tainted by Hollywood's self-serving night of condescension. He deserved that award. And he deserves a special award for not punching Julia Roberts in the mouth.


112 posted on 01/27/2005 1:35:01 PM PST by pissant
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To: Hildy

I dunno, Bandits was a kind of watered down Jules and Jim. Cate Blanchett made the movie for me, though--she's a good redhead. She's not the type of woman I usually go for but there is something really, REALLY attractive about her.


113 posted on 01/27/2005 1:36:13 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (It can't be said enough: Ted Kennedy left a woman to die while saving himself)
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To: pissant

comedian wannabe - Jack Black. he thinks he is a John belusihi reincarnate.


114 posted on 01/27/2005 1:38:26 PM PST by llevrok (Don't blame me, I voted for Pedro!)
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To: mhking

Ok, I'm the dumb one. What does "mau-mauing" mean?


115 posted on 01/27/2005 1:39:06 PM PST by peacebaby ("...please refrain from impugning my integrity." Dr. Condoleezza Rice, 1/18/05)
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To: llevrok

Well if he is a John Belushi wannabe, then he should be pushing daisies in the next couple of years. Like John & Chris Farley.


116 posted on 01/27/2005 1:41:00 PM PST by pissant
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To: peacebaby
Ok, I'm the dumb one. What does "mau-mauing" mean?

'Mau Mau' was a secret anti-white society in Kenya. 'Mau-mauing' means employing race-based intimidation against whites. Ann's use of that expression is what Kane has in mind when he says Ann 'all but' accused Berry of terrorism.

117 posted on 01/27/2005 1:41:49 PM PST by MisterKnowItAll
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To: pissant

Halle had a nose job. I recall that much. Denzel is a closet republican I'm convinced.


118 posted on 01/27/2005 1:44:18 PM PST by cyborg
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To: MisterKnowItAll

well, thank you very much, MisterKnowItAll.

Ann Coulter does travel over the line sometimes. Don't get me wrong: I get a kick out of her columns and her books, and love to listen to her speak....most times.

She's pretty and smart (her taste in clothes could use a little help, but I guess you guys don't notice that).


119 posted on 01/27/2005 1:47:24 PM PST by peacebaby ("...please refrain from impugning my integrity." Dr. Condoleezza Rice, 1/18/05)
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To: peacebaby

We do notice her clothes. It's the type we want our wives to wear, but they never do. Wife has a full drawer of sexy lingerie, but only wears her flannel PJs. Such is life.


120 posted on 01/27/2005 1:50:03 PM PST by pissant
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