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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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Sounds like this guy may have been spurned by Annie. Sounds a little bitter to me. And her column on Halle Berry were spot on!


1 posted on 01/27/2005 12:03:46 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

And don't let the press forget to tell us that Clinton's statehouse in Arkansas flew the Confederate flag for ALL the years of he was governor. Yet neither the left nor the African American population made a fuss. 'Course, he was a Democrat and that made all the difference.


2 posted on 01/27/2005 12:09:21 PM PST by Peach
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To: 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.”

Never heard of this guy. Is he really conservative, or does he just call himself conservative because he actually kind of disagrees with Ted Kennedy on a couple of minor points? He writes like a liberal.

3 posted on 01/27/2005 12:10:09 PM PST by CFC__VRWC
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To: pissant

I for one refuse to make a choice between Halle and Ann.

They both can have me.

Repeatedly.


4 posted on 01/27/2005 12:10:31 PM PST by Husker8877
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To: pissant
Coulter unleashes her inner clueless white girl, and lets her run buck wild

Saw the movie. Coulter wasn't in it.

5 posted on 01/27/2005 12:11:21 PM PST by peyton randolph (CAIR supports TROP terrorists)
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To: pissant

The last couple of paragraphs in the article, something I confess I did not know, honestly have changed my perception of the issue quite a bit.


6 posted on 01/27/2005 12:11:35 PM PST by ruiner
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To: pissant
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.

The problem with Berry's race based babbling is that Berry is White. Just ask her mom.

7 posted on 01/27/2005 12:12:44 PM PST by An American In Dairyland
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Yes if I remember correctly her point about Berry was, her mother is white and her father is black. Her father was not part of her upbringing and her mother basically raised her as a single parent. Mom's thanks of course is that Berry considers herself black. After all, if she was to consider herself white or half white her being to first black actress to win an Oscar wouldn't be an option.

Regardless, I love Ann's brain but I'll take Halle's body any day!

8 posted on 01/27/2005 12:12:52 PM PST by marlon
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To: pissant
Sounds like this guy has a thing for Halle Barry
9 posted on 01/27/2005 12:12:57 PM PST by MJY1288
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To: pissant

"“(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."


Help me - how is this race-baiting?

And what the hell is that movie?

Esp. in lite of her liking (obviously liberal) Denzel Wash?


10 posted on 01/27/2005 12:13:03 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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IMHO: I think she is a loudmouth with little substance. Weren't it for the hank of hair and leggy-ness, we'd never know who she is (and Gosh that photo of her shows her gauntness! Start eating Big Macs, Ann!!! Yikes!).


11 posted on 01/27/2005 12:13:27 PM PST by llevrok (Don't blame me, I voted for Pedro!)
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To: Husker8877
Sorry, Ann & Halle are spoken for. You get the consulation prize though:
12 posted on 01/27/2005 12:14:24 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

Right on, Annie! Ya got the wimps after ya. Ya know you did something right.


13 posted on 01/27/2005 12:15:03 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: marlon

She's not the 1st black of any kind to win an Oscar.

I'm sure she's just using her black side to win sympathy and be able to whine unfettered.


14 posted on 01/27/2005 12:15:47 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: pissant

"...but she’s no Halle Berry..."

More accurately, she's no Anne Coulter.


15 posted on 01/27/2005 12:16:24 PM PST by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: marlon
Yes if I remember correctly her point about Berry was, her mother is white and her father is black. Her father was not part of her upbringing and her mother basically raised her as a single parent. Mom's thanks of course is that Berry considers herself black. After all, if she was to consider herself white or half white her being to first black actress to win an Oscar wouldn't be an option.

It was her mother told her to think of herself as black when she was a child.

16 posted on 01/27/2005 12:18:13 PM PST by LWalk18
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To: pissant; stainlessbanner; stand watie; onyx; dixiechick2000
“Man for man,” Coulter wrote, “the Confederate army was the greatest army the world had ever seen.”

I love you dear Annie.....and she's a Yankee isn't she?...a willowy WASP i think. (and I happen to agree with her assessment of my kin) so go tell the Spartans and all that.

17 posted on 01/27/2005 12:18:14 PM PST by wardaddy (I don't think Muslims are good for America....just a gut instinct thing.)
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To: pissant
I think that he's right. I think that he's right about Halle Berry, and I know that he's right about that losers' rag that the idgits, neo-Nazis and Ku Kluxers keep waving around like it was the underwear of Jesus himself.

A dazzling smile and a nice set of gams does not an informed opinion make.

18 posted on 01/27/2005 12:18:16 PM PST by Zeroisanumber
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To: pissant

Your cruel!


20 posted on 01/27/2005 12:19:00 PM PST by investigateworld (Babies= A sure sign He hasn't given up on mankind!)
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