Ann Coulter -- Big old lesbo

Fred Phelps and his relatives are suddenly raising the ire of everyone -- even those who probably agree with his "God hates fags" message -- now that he's targeting military funerals with his protests. Frankly, however, I can't even find the energy to get that worked up about him anymore. They're inconsequential fringe figures who have about as much bearing on my life as Lyndon LaRouche supporters.

Ann Coulter's just about fallen into that category for me as well. Each time she so obviously tries to outdo her previous outrageous statement, I care a little less. While watching her in an interview used to put my blood pressure at Yosemite Sam levels, it now just bores me. But I've noticed a strange pattern with her the last few days.

First, in an interview with Donny Deutsch, she says that Bill Clinton has a "latent level of homosexuality," later clarifying on Hardball that promiscuous men have a "whiff of the bathhouse about them." In other words, the more women a guy has sex with, the more likely he might be gay. I'll be sure to tell Wilt Chamberlain and Bob Packwood. At any rate, it seems like the perfectly logical conclusion for someone who devotes a chapter in a book arguing on the side of those who think people and dinosaurs once lived side by side.

On that same Hardball interview, she joked that Al Gore is a "total fag." I'll admit that one did piss me off a bit, but it wasn't so much that she said it as it was that Chris Matthews and MSNBC just let it slide. I'm guessing if she or any other guess used a racial slur, that wouldn't have been the case. But I digress.

Now, today in her column (God forgive me for linking to WorldNetDaily), listing some cut quotes from a recent Baltimore Sun interview, she says the following:

Q: Does Hillary Clinton have a good chance in 2008? What are her strengths and weaknesses? What did her reaction to your "Jersey girls" comments tell you about her as a potential candidate?

A: Good chance of what? Coming out of the closet? I'd say that's about even money. Her strength is her first name; her weakness is her last.

Now HILLARY is gay. So there we have it. Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Hillary Clinton: all gay. Ann Coulter's latest offensive is to call everyone gay, something she probably picked up from a seventh grader. People are getting worked up over this? Why? Stop scratching the rash.

It is funny, however, that these gay, gay, gay accusations come out the same time that Wonkette reports that Coulter was spotted at a WeHo lesbian bar with out-and-proud conservative Tammy Baldwin. Is it all projection? The reasoning a lot more conclusive than any evidence saying the planet is 6,000 years old, that's for sure.

Were it true, would she ever admit it? Well, it seems even the hardest of heads can be penetrated. Our miserable heat wave has convinced even Pat Robertson that maybe we really should do something about that pesky global warming problem.

And if you're giggling at the second sentence in that last paragraph? Grow up!