Coulter: She's tall, blonde and nasty

Miami Herald ^ | Thursday, June 15, 2006 | LEONARD PITTS JR.

[presidio9]

Apparently, it's news that Ann Coulter is a nasty piece of work.

I had rather thought that was the attraction, at least for those people who find her attractive. So forgive me for being mildly mystified by last week's headlines about her most recent spasm of trash mouth, i.e., her attack on four women who lost their husbands in the Sept. 11 attacks. But then, the attack is vicious even by Coulter's standards: In her latest book, whose title you won't read here, she savages the widows as "self-obsessed" and "witches."

"These broads are millionaires," she writes, "lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much."

Evidently, the widows' sins are that they pushed for an independent commission to investigate 9/11 intelligence failures, they are critical of the Bush administration, and they endorsed John Kerry for president.

The nerve of them.

Coulter's tirade has drawn bipartisan condemnation -- New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton called it "vicious," while the state's Republican governor, George Pataki, declared Coulter "far worse than insensitive" -- but c'mon. This is all part of the shtick for this chick. I mean, we're talking about the woman who said Timothy McVeigh's only mistake was in not blowing up the New York Times building and that we should invade Muslim countries, kill their leaders and convert the people to Christianity.

Frankly, it's easy to do what Coulter does. Just say the most outrageous thing in the most inflammatory way. Just give moral and mental cover to that small-minded, anti-intellectual strain of the electorate that recoils like Superman in the face of Kryptonite from complexity and incertitude. And when people call you on it, just wrap yourself in the flag

[theDentist]

[dmz]

well, she is tall. the other 2, well certainly not blonde, and nasty is in the eye of the beholder.

[JustaCowgirl]

Just give moral and mental cover to that small-minded, anti-intellectual strain of the electorate that recoils like Superman in the face of Kryptonite from complexity and incertitude.

As a fan of Ann's, I know I recoil like Superman in the face of Kryptonite from complexity and incertitude.

[i_dont_chat]

Frankly, it's easy to do what Coulter does. Just say the most outrageous thing in the most inflammatory way. Just give moral and mental cover to that small-minded, anti-intellectual strain of the electorate that recoils like Superman in the face of Kryptonite from complexity and incertitude. And when people call you on it, just wrap yourself in the flag.

This author is saying EXACTLY the same thing about Coulter as she is saying about the 4 widows of 9/11 victims.

I guess he proves her point!

[Clara Lou]

At least Leonard got the number right--she's talking about four 9/11 widows, not all of them.

[goldstategop]

I love it when a liberal gets upset at Ann Coulter. Actually, I could care less what this one thinks except to know it got under his skin.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[raybbr]

Jealousy is a terrible thing.

[IronJack]

Just give moral and mental cover to that small-minded, anti-intellectual strain of the electorate that recoils like Superman in the face of Kryptonite from complexity and incertitude.

HAHAHAH! This coming from a LIBERAL! A man who hasn't had any thought deeper than a parking lot puddle in the last 20 years! A man who accepts as dogma the anti-American screeds of every half-baked fellow traveler from Che Guevara to Barbra Streisand. And a man Ann Coulter could eviscerate in a public forum.

Yeah, Lenny. Keep talkin'. Maybe Ann will let you keep whatever passes for your balls.

[SmithL]

Another pittsiful waste-of-time column.

[Disambiguator]

Just give moral and mental cover to that small-minded, anti-intellectual strain of the electorate that recoils like Superman in the face of Kryptonite from complexity and incertitude.

Here it is! It didn't take long for the "liberals are smarter than everyone else" mentality to manifest itself.

Yes, everything is complicated, and only the liberals can interpret it for the unwashed, poorly "edumacated" masses.

[Psalm 73]

"...the state's Republican governor, George Pataki,..."

Pataki a Republican? Really? Come on.....

[jonascord]

Miss Pitts has got her knickers is a twist. Did she hit on Anne and get turned down? Perhaps it's time for some hormone therapy.

Oh, sorry, Miss Pitts has gone all butch.

[rawcatslyentist]

Ann... tall, blonde and nasty????

Only in my dreams!!!

Well 2 outta 3 aint bad!

[mtbopfuyn]

Oh, I missed the part where by mere association with someone killed on 9/11 one is exalted to unquestionable holiness and glory.

[Unicorn]

Ann rocks.

[EQAndyBuzz]

She set the liberals up. Every time one of them hammer her they prove her point. And they are too stupid to read her book so they don't even have a clue what they are doing.

I love this woman.

[bushfamfan]

You've got to give Ann credit. The liberals are in a panic over her style because it fights back. They have no credibility and Ann scares the hell out of them.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Barf alert?