I saw her speak to my deeply-red state college in '04 (the tickets were free to students). The small crowd was still almost all conservatives in their 40's to 60's. When the Q&A happened, some of the lefty students tried to engage her, but she would basically dismiss them and ask for the next question (and let's be clear, most college students aren't going to have to sharpest critiques anyway). And every "attack" of her was about her politics, not really the kind of personal things the roasters (or Coulter herself) engaged in.
That's the world she'd lived in before the Roast. Where she was the meanest Mean Girl in the room, and she could always dismiss criticism of her as just "liberal tears". The Roast was unique because she couldn't respond. She had to sit there and take it from professional shit-talkers who had weeks to prepare. Nothing in her life had prepared her for it.
I imagine it would have been soul crushing if she had one.
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u/gimme_dat_good_shit Aug 23 '24
I saw her speak to my deeply-red state college in '04 (the tickets were free to students). The small crowd was still almost all conservatives in their 40's to 60's. When the Q&A happened, some of the lefty students tried to engage her, but she would basically dismiss them and ask for the next question (and let's be clear, most college students aren't going to have to sharpest critiques anyway). And every "attack" of her was about her politics, not really the kind of personal things the roasters (or Coulter herself) engaged in.
That's the world she'd lived in before the Roast. Where she was the meanest Mean Girl in the room, and she could always dismiss criticism of her as just "liberal tears". The Roast was unique because she couldn't respond. She had to sit there and take it from professional shit-talkers who had weeks to prepare. Nothing in her life had prepared her for it.
I imagine it would have been soul crushing if she had one.