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Newsbusters' Tim Graham doesn't understand why Ann Coulter is a bad role model

April 21, 2010 12:28 pm ET by Jamison Foser

Newsbuster Tim Graham has no idea why someone might refer to Ann Coulter as a poor role model:

Fox's musical/drama show Glee aired a Madonna-themed episode about female empowerment Tuesday night -- complete with an Ann Coulter joke.

The female guidance counselor was fretting about the poor role models for girls today -- she mentioned Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and Ann Coulter. There was no verbal explanation for Ann's inclusion -- just a wide-eyed pause.

Really?  Tim Graham really doesn't understand why Ann Coulter might not make the dial role model?  Maybe because she's a nasty, hateful person who runs around calling people "fag" and "queers" and says the military should kill journalists and encourages people to beat liberals with baseball bats and talks about assassinating the president and says she wished Tim McVeigh blew up the New York Times building and says women are "not as bright" as men.

Gee, why would anyone suggest Ann Coulter -- who says women are not as smart as men -- might not be a good role model for women?

Graham also dismissed the "usual feminist complaint" that women make less than men:

The show also contained the usual feminist complaint about unequal pay for equal work. Quinn, the pregnant teen on the show, proclaimed "The fact is that women still earn 70 cents for every dollar for doing the same job. It starts in high school."

I guess we shouldn't be surprised that someone who thinks Ann Coulter is a good role model would dismiss the wage gap.

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    • Author by goesto11 (April 21, 2010 12:37 pm ET)
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      On the plus side, Ann Counter is a wonderful role model for giraffes.

      Although it's awfully embarrassing to watch her try to drink from a watering hole.
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    • Author by alienofwar (April 21, 2010 12:49 pm ET)
         
      I would rather argue that she is a bad role-model for transgendered people.
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    • Author by nerzog (April 21, 2010 1:12 pm ET)
         
      Of course... we all want our daughters to grow up to be dishonest, rude, snarky a$$holes, don't we?
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    • Author by archae (April 21, 2010 2:00 pm ET)
         
      First off, quit calling Coulter a transvestite or transgender.
      She's not either.

      Coulter is a McCarthy-worshipping rabble-rousing harpy with no credibility, no sense of decency and NO CLASS.

      But drop the "She's really a man" crap.
      I know a transgender. And Coulter is no transgender.
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    • Author by tim graham (April 21, 2010 5:27 pm ET)
         
      The point was that the snarky Fox screenwriters didn't actually dump invective on Ann Coulter, when they certainly had every opportunity. It could be because the person talking was the wide-eyed guidance counselor, not sassy Sue Sylvester, who usually makes the anti-Palin quips.

      Or it could be because many Glee viewers don't watch a lot of prime-time cable chat shows and may not know who she is.
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      • Author by the7sticks3363 (April 22, 2010 2:22 am ET)
           
        Funny, you didn't get too upset when Fox aired the Family Guy episode where Lois goes to work for Fox News. They made an even more sexist joke about Ann Coulter regarding how her... well, as Jerry Seifeld would say, the female body part that rhymes with "Mulva". Basically, it's supposed to be the freezer where all the Fox News staff stores their frozen foods and such. I'm detecting a bit of selective outrage here.
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