Ann is popular, it's true. But she is becoming increasingly popular with the left because she's a loose cannon; although they can't stand her, liberals like that she is around to prove their criticism of conservatives. It's in the same way that conservatives dislike Howard Dean, but are happy to see him dig himself holes every time he opens his yapper.
Look, as long as there are conservatives, there will always be a place for Ann. But with that post-9/11 column, she lost a lot of mainstream readership. I don't think reducing your influence is a wise move if you really want to effect change, not just sell books.
She explained this very well many times in the Media, and also in her book. You should read her book, it will answer many questions for you and pare down your defense of your uninformed comments considerably.
In the transcript of the Katie Couric interview, she had a chance to explain herself, and attempted to change the subject. Couric had to ask her two more times before Coulter finally gave her this, from a post earlier in this thread:
Ann Coulter: Point one and point two [We should invade their countries, kill their leaders] by the end of the week had become official government policy.As for converting them to Christianity, I think it might be a good idea to get them on some sort of hobby other than slaughtering infidels. I mean perhaps that's the Peace Corps, perhaps it's working for Planned Parenthood, but I've never seen the transforming effect of anything like that Christianity.
As I wrote in a subsequent post in reference to that answer, "This is exactly my problem with Ann nowadays. She simultaneously complains about being taken out of context, but makes cartoonishly outrageous statements that beg to be misinterpreted by her opponents."
Now, I realize that in another post, there is a reference to the way that MacArthur fostered Christianity in Japan in post-World War II, and Coulter claims that was the basis of her "convert them to Christianity" statement. Why couldn't she have said something about that to Katie Couric before an national audience of millions of people who will never crack open any of her books, instead of calling Christianity "some sort of hobby"? What would it have cost Coulter to say what she supposedly really meant instead of making yet another flippant, easily misinterpreted comment?
Ann loves criticism...in fact thrives on it as she has an answer to it.
Ann loves criticism she has answers to. When she doesn't have an answer, and doesn't show the courage to admit she may have been unclear or imprecise, that's when I find her agonizing.
I have been flamed since last night for saying that she wasn't very good. I was embarrassed at her behavior.
He tried to just talk about HER. Not politics or anything. But she managed to talk about Bill Clinton hitting on anything with a mouth, and that Ferguson must be leftist since he works for CBS, otherwise they would fire him, among other equally unnecessary things.
It was awful.