A great article from "Slate.com" on Republican bimbo Ann Coulter

[devin79]

A Vast Right-Wing Cry of Treason
In her new book, Ann Coulter gets McCarthy right—and makes conservatives mad.
By Sam Tanenhaus
Posted Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 11:13 AM PT



Ann Coulter, the right wing's dial-900 girl—a rail-thin, chain-smoking, hard-drinking, big-eyed leggy blonde who winkingly serves up X-rated ideological smut on liberals—is at it again. "Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy," Coulter writes—or sneers—in Treason, her follow-up effort to the best-selling Slander. Like its predecessor, Treason sits atop the best-seller charts, riding higher than one of Coulter's signature miniskirts.

But this time around, it isn't the liberals who are up in arms; it's the conservatives. Coulter's slurring of Democrats—from Harry Truman (soft on communism) to Tom Daschle (soft on Iraq) —has set off a howling chorus on the right. David Horowitz, Andrew Sullivan, and Dorothy Rabinowitz, among others, have been sternly giving Coulter history lessons, dredging up (once more) the anti-Communist credentials of Cold War liberals like Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Hubert Humphrey.


Horowitz et al. are right, of course. But why are they so worked up? And why reach back so far to single out a few "good" liberals? This just reinforces Coulter's argument that today's breed can be dismissed as a single lumpen mass. In other words, they agree with her. So, why the outrage? Here's a guess: Coulter's conservative critics fear that her legions of fans—and lots of others, too—see no appreciable difference between her ill-informed comic diatribes and their high-brow ultraserious ones, particularly since Coulter's previous performances were praised by some now on the attack.

But this is yet another case where the dumb public is right. Coulter's shocking book is not shocking at all. Nor is it novel. It is merely the latest in a long line of name-calling, right-wing conspiracist tracts, a successor to Elizabeth Dilling's Red Network, Fred C. Schwarz's You Can Trust the Communists (To Be Communists), and—a personal favorite—John A. Stormer's None Dare Call It Treason. This last, which sold 2 million copies in 1964, "explained" how the U.S. military had consciously served "the long-range political advantage of the communist conspiracy" in World War II. You can laugh, but by the time the 25th-anniversary updated edition was published, it had sold 7 million copies and Stormer was holding weekly Bible meetings for Missouri state legislators.

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[Christian73]

1. She is the personification of the term

"mediawhore."

[chookie]

2. whore is just part of it

When I witness one of her ever escalating tirades, I am reminded of the water-deprived lab rats that are used in behavioral studies -- the way they learn to rapidly strike a lever to get a drop of water. Her "reinforcement" is attention, and she keeps needing/wanting more, and thus keep getting wackier by the day to sustain her image of herself as the acerbic crusader.

I would even venture to suggest that she has an obsessional personality disorder, and is pathological in character.

[JackSwift]

3. She is the real Republican viewpoint

The rest are "politically correct" so as not to offend the swing vote, but they all think the way Coulter does. Hang out at a Republican bar anonymously sometime. She is actually toning it down just a wee bit: her racism is not quite so open.

[IDUDOYOU]

4. Why do people even listen to Anthrax?

I guess she is the political personification of a car wreck.
You just cannot help but look and secretly hope to see blood.

[Terran]

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