So true. TV journalism is entertainment, not truth. It was not until the Internet that I had any inkling of what the truth was. God bless America, the Internet and FreeRepublic.com.
Why do you choose to use a hyperbolic baseball bat?Ann Coulter uses no such thing as a baseball bat, she uses rhetoric. Her rhetoric has a sting to it, but it is only rhetoric. And the people she uses her rhetoric on are far from innocents in the use of rhetoric with a sting to it.
The actual targets of her rhetoric are not the thousands of widowed spouses of 911 sneak-attack victims but the liberal Establishment consisting of not only the Democratic Party of the "Wellstone Memorial" but the "objective journalism" establishment which selects out from among those thousands of widows four liberal activist women and anoints them the "Jersey Girls." And, of course, selects the liberal activist Cindy Sheehan out of all the thousands of bereaved mothers of fallen troops and announces her - and only her - "absolute moral authority."
Ann's stinging rhetoric falls directly on the Jersey Girls and Mother Sheehan, but only because they are the adopted human shields behind which arrogant "objective" journalism presumes to protect its self-serving political agenda. A role for which they themselves volunteered. And Ann has likewise volunteered to be the skunk at that garden party, making herself "COULTER THE CRUEL" as the front page of yesterday's NY Daily News had it. Armed with her stinging rhetoric, and only that, she has launched a one-person Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign.
Ann must be part Mexican, because she has volunteered to do a job American men won't do. The truth is that the Republican Party has been in desperate need of vice presidential candidates with that sort of elan. Jack Kemp, for example, took exactly the opposite demeanor into the 1996 debate with VP Gore - and got his head handed to him. Kemp redefined the Republican Party with his Kemp-Roth bill, and on that basis should have had the presidential nomination in '96. But if he will not defend the (white, male dominated) middle class which is the base of the Republican Party, he is nonetheless disqualified for national office.