the filth that spews from that woman's mouth with George Carlin.

She is sickening.

if bill and joy can stomach annie more power to them.

-Laelth

Interesting thought. Thanks for the post.

Look at the rubes that comprise her audience. A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.

. . .a famous/notorious performance artist.

http://books.google.com/books?id=aKsNzmZ-amsC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=karen+finley+unspeakable+practices+unnatural+acts&source=bl&ots=Y9OtLFbmfh&sig=lW4Rm3MVehWfAiryj6d5XoKBAwU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=h4xqUtW1OPbJ4APnoIGgCw&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=karen%20finley%20unspeakable%20practices%20unnatural%20acts&f=false

(Cynthia Carr's article in the Village Voice June 1986)

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I actually read Carr's article on Finley all those years ago; and the most indelible memory I have of it was a photo of Karen Finley with the caption: "I Like To Smell The Gas Passed Up Your Ass" (I'm not joking, folks, that was the actual caption! Trust me!)

So now, I can't read Salon's story about Ann Coulter and the words "performance artist" without thinking about Karen Finley, that infamous Village Voice piece, and that picture/caption. Coulter matches that to a T.

Just my 2 cents.

Nothing she says is genuine. Whether it's for money or some Colbert-esque performance is up in the air.

In his "Boondocks" cartoon in the episode where Huey teams up with a publicity hound Black minister (another favorite target of McGruder's) over a racist incident, and he and Ann Coulter go on show after show to debate each other. Finally, they all meet in the green room of another talk show, and she greets the reverend warmly, and she's relatively sweet and hoping that everything turns out right for Huey, which surprises him, to which she explains that if she can't sell books, she might have to start stripping.

And look, there's a clip of it on YouTube. Not for the faint of heart, but that's always been McGruder's style.

however she is an elitist. Her father was a union buster lawyer and I am from a union family. She came from wealth and she grew up in CT. If you know anything about the pecking order in the NY area it is people of CT. look down at NY who in turn look down at people from NJ. She is performing but deep down she believes that she is better than you.

and, based on what she said, you're right.

I believed what she said. This person was just as elitist as Coulter, came from very powerful political/conservative circles in NY, and was every bit as unlikable as I find Coulter.

I literally danced in the halls when I heard she quit her job where I worked.

"Taking THE Piss", not "Taking A Piss"

As in;

"He took the piss right out of him"
"Is he serious?" "No, He's taking the piss out of you."

I don't care who her friends are and who she finds stupid beyond repair. I'm always up for a challenge, so I read this article and then tried to view what Coulter does as performance art/satire. Just can't do it.

Annie Coulter believes the following:

CHRISTIANITY: the belief that a cosmic Jewish zobmie who is his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and drink his blood while telepathically telling him that you accept him as your master so that he can remove and evil force from your soul which is present in humanity because a woman made out of one rib bone and the mound of dirt was tricked into eating fruit from a magical tree by a talking snake.

and we take her seriously?? Coulter's ability to upset us thus is entirely due to our fear of being frank about the absurdity of religious belief. And that is due to the power of organized religion to undermine the secular basis of our country.

I suggest that we inform the public about her beliefs every time we write about her. I also suggest we call her "Annie" to confirm that we consider her views juvenile based on silliness.