The Horse and the Hippo

I don't like Ann Coulter or Hillary Clinton.  I don't like what they say.  I don't like what they stand for.  I don't like what they look like.  The main difference between them is that Ann Coulter is on the right and Hillary Clinton is on the left (also, one is a criminal running for President and the other is a political pundit not running for President).  If you say something insulting about a prominent person on the right, it's typically accepted as free speech.  It's rare that someone tries to classify it as hate speech, a definition which has startlingly broadened over the years in the minds of many, notably on the left.  Most of the time, no one is yelling that it's sexist or racist if it's said about someone on the right though.  It might be wrong, and it might be in bad taste, but you don't often see people up in arms that you shouldn't be able to say it or that you're a bad person for saying it.  Not so on the left.  Comment on Hillary's hideous appearance?  Sexism.  Her health?  You're sexist.  Heck, Madeline Albright even said there's a special place in hell for women who don't support Hillary Clinton.

It's not just women who are off limits either.  It's minorities.  If you look at the field of Democratic Presidential candidates and the field of Republican Presidential candidates from the primaries this year, you may notice something striking.  For one party, all of the candidates were old white people, of which Hillary was the only female.  For the other party, we had White, Black, Hispanic, young, old, male, female...  Believe it or not, that party was the Republicans.  Yet the oft-repeated narrative is that the Democrats are the party of diversity and Republicans are racists.  The Democrats, of course, were the party in favor of continuing slavery.  The most poor urban cities in America are that way largely because they've been under control of Democratic leadership non-stop for decades.  Our President came out of the shithole that is Chicago, where he was a community organizer, and Chicago has somehow gotten even worse and more dangerous since he's been in office.  But criticize Obama and you're racist.  Criticize Ben Carson, twist his words, make a brilliant surgeon out to look like an idiot, or lazy, and you're not a racist, but rather just stating the truth, because he doesn't fit the Liberal definition of what a black man should be.  Of course, I would say that anyone who has a definition of that may actually be racist, and also that Liberals were scared of Ben Carson because he would be our next President had he gotten the Republican nomination.

All that being said, I'm pretty firmly in the category of "Other" at this point politically, because I don't like the Democratic or Republican parties or their nominees for President.  I identify most as a Libertarian.  But the hypocrisy on the left is just too astounding to ignore.  I understand that this post and the accompanying picture are going to be offensive, and unnecessary, and it wasn't even something I was going to write about until I stumbled upon a short (under two minutes) video clip on YouTube with highlights of people roasting Ann Coulter at last week's roast of Rob Lowe.  I clicked on it, and it made me think.  How outraged would the left be if people said these sorts of things about Hillary Clinton?

Peyton Manning had what I thought was the funniest quip about her, saying that Ann Coulter won the Kentucky Derby.  It's funny, because she kind of looks like a horse.  I laughed at that a bit.  And the other stuff?  Well, some of it was probably in bad taste and went a bit far, but I don't have a problem with it being said.  But the reason I'm writing this post isn't because I take issue with what was said, but rather because I want to picture the backlash if it was said about Hillary Clinton.

There were some quips in there about Coulter hating black people and being part of the Klan, cutting eye holes in sheets, and David Spade even saying that she's "wild in the sheets--just ask the Klan."  Can we say that about Hillary?  Just ask Senator Robert Byrd and her other Klan friends.  Oh, then there was the one saying they "haven't seen [Ann] laugh this hard since Trayvon Martin got shot."  I wonder if she was laughing as hard as Hillary when she successfully defended a child rapist.  Oh wait, that actually happened.  And she actually laughed about it in an interview years after it happened.  Too real.  Can't make a joke about that.  Let's just imply she laughed when a 17-year-old black kid got shot instead.  Or does that miss the mark because only Republicans can possibly be racist?

Then there was the joke about Ann being against gay marriage because, "if I can't get a husband, they shouldn't either!"  I wonder how Hillary's marriage is doing...  Bill is just the portrait of a loyal husband--as long as the portrait is taken from the waist up while he's sitting at his desk.  Maybe Hillary should be against all marriage since hers is a sham anyway.

While some of these quips about Ann had some level of comedic value, there were some that were in no way funny, but actually just mean-spirited. Again, I have no problem with people saying these things.  That's their right.  And I'm not defending Ann Coulter, nor do I even like her.  But rather than try to make a joke tailored for Hillary out of these Ann Coulter jokes (if that's what they're supposed to be), I simply ask that you picture these things being said about Hillary Clinton instead of Ann Coulter.  How would that go over?

"Looks like a truck stop transvestite whore."

"The right-to-lifers wanted everyone to see what an abortion looks like up close."

"One of the most repugnant, hateful, hatchet-faced bitches alive, but it's not too late to change...  You could kill yourself."

Wow, and to think, Donald Trump just made a dumb statement about the Second Amendment people stopping Hillary.  He should have just quoted that last one word for word and all the Liberals would have just laughed instead.

Stay classy, America.