Even if she was lying her pretty little tail end off, and I am sure that she is not, then that would merely put her on a level playing field with the libs. She has generated enough foam from the left to extinguish an Oregon forest fire started by liberal policies. Kudos to Miss Coulter (I hope she would prefer Miss to Ms).
Lost in all of this is the central point of Coulter's book.
It is not that Liberals are nasty and engage in ad hominem argument. It is that this intellectual laziness has grown to a point that almost all serious intellectual policy debate exists on the Right.
That's where the serious policy formulations are being germinated. Welfare Reform came out of the Republican Governor's Conference and the Republican House, not out of Bill Clinton's fertid mind.
Coulter is dead on. The lefties know it. That's why they're going through this St. Vitus' Dance routine.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
In all fairness, Miss Coulter probably interpreted the quotes she found in the Big Media as harshly as she possibly could -- perhaps too harshly now and then. She's angry about the treatment the right has received from them over the years. So am I. Even though it's grown subtler in the past couple of years, television and newspaper journalism still floats on an undercurrent of disdain for conservative and libertarian thought.
The antidote to Big Media's bias is the development of alternatives. That's happening now, on the talk radio circuit and the Internet. People who thought they were isolated in their convictions, and were therefore afraid to speak, are gradually discovering that they're a majority of ordinary persons in private life. Books like Slander don't directly contribute to the growth of that new, grass-roots right wing community, but they do assist its coalescence by reinforcing its belief that it's been unfairly treated.
As for "Miss" versus "Ms.", my Fiction Editor Pat tells me that, whereas "Mrs." is an abbrevation for a French term that means "the wife of," and "Miss" is the English contraction of "Mademoiselle," "Ms." means nothing, is an abbreviation for nothing, and should not be used. Ever. Since Pat is a highly-rated Aikido player and could probably toss me into geosynchronous orbit, I tend to take her advice.
Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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