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

[The Wizard]

She has more guts and brains than any senator

[IamConservative]

The sum of his argument is that it is OK for someone on the left to have an opinion and not be challenged because of an aggrieved status, but it is not OK for Ann to counter from the right.

Being from the right, I know my intellectual powers are not up to the liberal standard, but I believe our op-ed boy wonder has proven the point Ann was making. The most entertaining thing is he doesn't even realize it.

[The Wizard]

is this a real picture or photoshop

[Letaka]

I think Ann speaks for more Americans than anyone would want to admit.

[bannie]

Those "liberal minded" people just can't stand it when a REALLY smart woman speaks out.

I'd love to see a face-off between "the smartestwomanintheworld" and The Smartest Woman Speaking Up.

:-) There'd be NO contest.

[presidio9]

Didn't that sort of happen when Clinton publically called Ann on this last week, and Ann responded by bringing up the First Rapist. I'm still waiting for Clinton's response, but I'm not holding my breath.

[bannie]

You're right.

:-)

Still, I'd like to see the blood of an actual, "within ashtray range" confrontation.

With cameras and microphones.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

anti-intellectual strain of the electorate that recoils like Superman in the face of Kryptonite from complexity and incertitude.

Calls to mind words of Thomas Sowell, about self-designated intellectuals who mistake confusion in their own minds for complexity in the real world.

[trebb]

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

I guess Lenny just showed his true colors. He doesn't think people should blow up institutions that try to destroy the Nation and he doesn't think it's OK to use your enemies' procedures against your enemies. I guess all them poor Islamofacsists would suffer from low self-esteem if we decided to treat them like they treat us...

[R.W.Ratikal]

It would be impossible to talk about, refer to, argue with or think about liberals without being nasty. Cesspools are just not nice.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

we're talking about the woman who said ... that we should invade Muslim countries, kill their leaders and convert the people to Christianity.

Only two of three of which have been adopted as official U.S. Government policy, unfortunately.

[R.W.Ratikal]

I must admit that news junkie that I am, I never heard ot Leonard Pitts. but he fits the liberal pattern. When you can't debate the issue cover it with mud.

He is not even a clever critic. What rag does he write for?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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

Buy the book and Ann will 'splain it to you.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

they are too stupid to read her book so they don't even have a clue what they are doing.

Kinda like "The Bell Curve". Very few reviews even came close to conveying the central message and tone of the book.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You call that reply "snarky"?

[MNJohnnie]

Simply amazing to me that have decades of the most extremist gutter political discourse by the Left various "Editorial boards" think ANN is nasty. Hey hypocrites. Clean up the utter gutter conduct ON YOUR SIDE before having the childish arrogance to lecture Ann for FIRING back at you people. Utterly absurd nonsense as usual. Just another example of the Democrats Culture of Hypocrisy.

[dayglored]

> is this a real picture or photoshop

I don't honestly know. Ann has posed in some pretty sexy pics (that's part of her outrageousness), though nothing -really- racy (e.g. nekkid) that I'm aware of. It's not impossible that it's real, though unlikely.

If I were betting, I'd bet it's photoshopped. It's not that Ann is too straight-laced (she is, after all, a major Grateful Dead fan), but the site (http://www.fantasylingerie.com) is probably a little too sexy for many of Ann's social-conservative fans, and I don't think she would want to offend them.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

What rag does he write for?

He's a liberal syndicated columnist, nothing more. A Bob Herbert wanna-be.

[presidio9]

Note to hrondogs: Ann is pretty flat-chested.

Anorexia will do that.

[phillyfanatic]

The Left hates the truth and especially truths that go back some 50 years when they are exposed with their anti-American politics and policies and statements they made during the Cold War, and on domestic as well as other foreign policies. Ann, Sean, Rush, and others skew them with these reminders and it rattles their cages. Of course, Kos and others can call Bush Hitler,Cheney facist and other slanders but that is just fine!