Ann Coulter To Mediaite: Jon Stewart’s Audience Is ‘A Bunch Of Losers’ And Other Enlightening Bon Mots
I did catch you on Piers Morgan and you’re very much adamantly against answering personal questions. I don’t have a personal question, just a meta-personal one: why? Is that the nature of what you do as a female conservative writer, or is it just you don’t care to? Do you recommend it to others?
I think I just like to keep my private life private. I never talk about it, I never write about it. I put my ideas out there. That’s what I think is interesting about me, what I say. I remember hearing somebody saying once about acting something to the effect of: “if you want to an actor to be famous, it’ll never happen, but if you want to be an actor to be an actor, you’ll be a great actor and be famous.” If I could go out and have no one recognize me on the street, life would be grand. I think most people are like that– that’s why Matt Drudge stopped doing TV. He saw what it was like for me. And it’s not opponents all the time, sometimes it’s fans. But it’s nice to just be able to walk. Obama said it recently– and was made fun of it by conservatives– about how he wished he could walk through a park anonymously. It is normal that a public figure does not enjoy the public figure aspect of being a public figure. If it makes people more likely to pick up my book or stop channel surfing when they see me, then that’s great. But when I go out to buy a diet coke, it would be great if I could be the invisible man at that point.
Do think that by not answering these questions you’re more likely to be able to go out and not be recognized?
I don’t like it. I don’t like having my life being out there. I want private to be private.
“If it makes people more likely to pick up my book or stop channel surfing when they see me, then that’s great. But when I go out to buy a diet coke, it would be great if I could be the invisible man at that point.”
In the aftermath of Weinergate, it seems that every time the privacy issue comes up, this tragic tale of a man with a public life tweeting something very private. Is this the sort of thing in the back of your mind when you’re up at 4 AM and you want to tell the world that your washing machine just broke, or some other innocuous but private thing?
If you’ve noticed, I do not tweet private things at all. The thing about Weiner is that everything I just told you about how normal people want to keep their private lives private– Anthony Weiner is not normal. He is the molecular opposite of me in that regard. Even more sociopathic than him twittering his naked pecker around the web is the way he in the last week he has gone to pick up dry cleaning every day. He is constantly running to the corner market to get a quart of milk. He gives an interview to Fox News. He has a press conference to resign. What–? I think most public figures, even when they’re not in the middle of a scandal, would rather wear a baseball cap to go to the deli. This guy– he’s in the middle a humiliating scandal and he can’t get away from the camera. Have you ever seen that movie Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
No…?
She was this child star, like Shirley Temple. She’s gone completely insane, she’s torturing her sister– it’s a horror movie. And at the very end, she brings her half dead sister– because they’re on the run, she’s murdered all these people now– to the beach, and she has way too much makeup on, lipstick all over her face. So the people start gathering on the beach because she’s a freak and they’re all looking at her. And she starts smiling and dancing like she’s the little child star again, and she’s so happy. Everyone’s looking at her. That’s Anthony Weiner. We’re looking at him because he’s a freak and he’s so happy because we’re looking at him.
