Sunday afternoon:
I watched Ann Coulter on CSPAN in a tape of her Friday speech to the Young Americans for Freedom, held at the same time that CPAC was having its meeting.
About half-way through it occurred to me that Coulter comes across like a Joan Rivers-wannabee, but without the talent or the timing.
Coulter can be very funny on paper, but when you have to listen to her, she is a series of one-liners, most of which receive polite applause or none. She is actively looking for laughs and for someone who has had considerable success as a conservative pundit, she comes across as trying too hard.
She's like the smartest girl in the classroom who also wants to be the prom queen or head of the cheerleader squad. The two just don't go together.
It's a good thing she was addressing a room full of young people because I suspect that adults just don't buy this kind of thing. Perhaps that's why people keep saying she seems silly when she's on TV. It's because she is silly.
I watched Ann Coulter on CSPAN in a tape of her Friday speech to the Young Americans for Freedom, held at the same time that CPAC was having its meeting.
About half-way through it occurred to me that Coulter comes across like a Joan Rivers-wannabee, but without the talent or the timing.
Coulter can be very funny on paper, but when you have to listen to her, she is a series of one-liners, most of which receive polite applause or none. She is actively looking for laughs and for someone who has had considerable success as a conservative pundit, she comes across as trying too hard.
She's like the smartest girl in the classroom who also wants to be the prom queen or head of the cheerleader squad. The two just don't go together.
It's a good thing she was addressing a room full of young people because I suspect that adults just don't buy this kind of thing. Perhaps that's why people keep saying she seems silly when she's on TV. It's because she is silly.

