As if we didn’t already have enough reason to marvel at the twisted, tortured reason of Ann Coulter’s mind, there’s this commentary on the Oscars: I Like Black People Too, Julia! Not content to share her loathing for the cult of narcissism, vacuity and superficiality that is Hollywood (which I can get behind…), she hoists herself by her own bigoted narrow-minded petard, both with an absurd race-baiting analysis of Julia Roberts’ adulation of Denzel Washington —

” Whenever white liberals are in trouble, they always run to the blacks… Apparently, Oscars night was Hollywood’s shot at patronizing blacks to generate goodwill — perhaps as wartime penance for its long-standing hatred of America…”

— and with her emphatic belief that Halle Berry only won her Oscar because of affirmative action. Oh, sorry, not just her race; Coulter is also obsessed with Berry’s large breasts. And she seems to have trouble with thefact that Berry has light skin, as if she would be a more genuine African American if truly black.

But she does attempt to ingratiate herself to us with the opinion that Washington, at least deserved his award. Town Hall [Might she even, one day, tell us that “some of my best friends are African American?” –FmH] Others have commented as well that the Oscars did not seem colorblind and that the dual awards, as well as Poitier’s honorary one, seemed tokenizing. I don’t know, I didn’t watch and don’t really find the Academy Awards significant enough to think much about.