Ann Coulter Just Brought Down the House With More Hillary Comments on Barbara Walters 'The View'

ABC News ^ | June 25, 2003 | Barbara Walters-Exec Producer

[ewing]

The panel of gals was discussing the hot topics/issue of the day regarding the goverment funded study on womens sexuality with Ann Coulter as the co-host.

Ann was arguing that the study was bogus and was asked by the panel (thinking they were backing Conservative Coulter into a corner) if she had ever seen two women 'getting it on.'

Ann took a deep breath, thought about the question and then said 'Yes, the Hillary [VRWC] interview wth Katie Couric. '

The audience was stopping the show they were laughing so hard, even the liberal hosts were smiling.

[mvpel]

http://www.well.com/user/bubbles/SS0005.html

Not A Limerick?

There's a bookstore not too far away that has Friday night poetry readings. And this year (1995) National Limerick Day (May 12), which for some reason happens to coincide with Edward Lear's birthday (May 12), falls on a Friday. So for this Friday's reading they'd like people to read limericks.

What I'd been thinking I might read is not the usual five-liner about the young or old man or woman from Fort This or Saint That. No. Instead of that, I was thinking I might read War and Peace. Problem is, there's a sort f time limit of around five to ten minutes per person, and War and Peace is almost certain to run over. Way over. So they'd probably grump at me for running overtime, even if I read it in English rather than Russian.

But if they tried to grump at me on the grounds that War and Peace wasn't a limerick, I'd have this as an answer:

The limerick is unique among types of verse in that it can depart from the standard form provided it contains an excuse for doing so. If a supposed sonnet has the wrong number of lines and the meter varies wildly and it doesn't rhyme, you have good grounds for saying it's not a sonnet. If something purporting to be a sestina has no repeated words, then it's not a sestina. But a limerick can still be a limerick even if it doesn't have exactly five lines in the traditional limerick meter rhyming A,A,B,B,A.

Consider:

A young meter-reader named Peter
While looking around for a meter
By a leak struck a light,
Then he rose out of sight.
And as anyone who knows anything about poetry can plainly see, the
explosion also destroyed the meter.

Or

A certain young man from St. Louis
At rhyming was no good at all.
He tried and he tried
But he had to give up
'Cause this was the best he could do.

Or

There was a young man from Ft. Bend
Whose limericks tended to end
Suddenly.


These are all generally accepted as limericks, even though each breaks at least one rule of the form.

Why does the limerick have this privilege? I suspect it's a sort of comedic license, since the limerick traditionally deals with humorous subjects. If breaking the rules is part of the gag, then it's OK for a limerick to break the rules.

Let me close with three more examples of variant forms, partly drawn from my memory of something from Scientific American some years back.

First the antepenultimate:

There was a young man from St. Loo
Whose limericks would end with line two.

Then the penultimate:

There was a young man from Verdun.


Of those three, my favorite is the rare and elusive Zen Limerick about the unfortunate writer from Vero.

[later]

As it turned out, I read this treatise on non-standard limericks instead of War and Peace. But National Limerick Day will be a Friday again in just five years. That's plenty of time to learn enough Russian to read War and Peace in that language. If I do that, people may grump at me for running over the time limit. But they won't be able to grump at me on grounds that War and Peace isn't a limerick.

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[TC Rider]

They were trying to get her off her game by askig her if she had ever taken drugs (she hasnt) only a contact high when she went to a Grateful Dead concert in the 1970s

Must have been sitting next to Al and Tipper.

[Rummyfan]

How could Peter Boyle have been involved with the McCarthy era 'stuff'? The hearings took place in the early fifties. Is Boyle that old?

[AmishDude]

For the record, since the Admins pulled the post, the format was exactly the same, including the triple dash between the quote and the source.

[New Horizon]

Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

[wjcsux]

Bump for later enjoyment.

[lindagirl]

Hey DEAREST and Best Friend I am right here

[Sam's Army]

Yep, I saw it before the pull.

[skinkinthegrass]

For an extremely well-written account of that period from one who took a whole bunch of arrows in the back, I highly recommend Witness, by Whitaker Chambers.

As did Radical Son , David Horowitz

[RedWhiteBlue]

"Star was surpisingly calm..."

Yeah, but I also noticed that she avoided looking Anne in the eye. What is that a sign of? Either being elitist, or feeling inadequate?

[utahagen]

I think Star Jones is a better person than Viera or Behar. Jones generally responds positively to people who seem sincere and stand firm in their beliefs, the way Ann Coulter does, even if those beliefs aren't Jones's. I saw the View once when Jones made a point to note that it was National Prayer Week and how prayer was such a big part of her own life. Can you imagine Behar saying something like that?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Too bad that interview was w/ Matt Lauer.

True. I wonder why she didn't refer to the interview with Hillary and Babba Wawwa? Wasn't that interview shown recently?

[johnb838]

Coulter and the Affable Eva Braun of Morning Television.

[SoDak]

Ha! Very good.

[RedWhiteBlue]

I found him to be almost incoherent, as if he was either stoned or had alzheimer's.

[Rummyfan]

ROTFLMAO!!!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...I wonder WHY an AP "Story" about BUSH not getting OSAMA 3 Times...

...had to come out within days of DICK MORRIS coughing up about CLINTON's Refusing 2 "OSAMA Who?" Offers in 1996, while MORRIS ducted anwering the part of my question about a 3rd OSAMA Extradition Offer being made to CLINTON in Year 2000..?

NEVER FORGET that it was the AP that reported, during the CLINTON Administration, that there was a Massacre of Korean Civilians by our U.S. 7th Cavalry at the Bridge of NO GUN RI during the Korean War

...when there wasn't one.

On http://wwwAmazon.com ..See Book:

'NO GUN RI: A Military History of the Korean War Incident'.. by Major ROBERT L. BATEMAN

[buccaneer81]

IIRC, he suffered a stroke in the past couple of years.

[TomGuy]

He was born 18 October 1933. That put him in his early 20's during the McCarthy era. "...he is more often recalled for his critically-acclaimed turn as Senator Joseph McCarthy in "Tail Gunner Joe" (NBC, 1977)." [movie database webside info]