Yeah, I know — I try not to talk about Ann Coulter much because there's the distinct impression that she just says insanely outrageous things to drive her fame and fortune and book deals and speaking engagements.
But there are times when it's worth lifting that rock to see what's crawling beneath, and hear what sort of stuff is being said (and applauded) at places like CPAC. Because talking about death squads, even assuming she's being hyperbolic and "amusing," is just plain not funny. Really. (Let alone all the other plain-not-funny stuff she's spewing.)
And by normalizing that kind of talk, honestly, she makes it less hyperbolic and less outrageous and more okay for others to talk that way, too. And when it stops being outrageous to talk that way, it only encourages the dolts who think that acting that way might not be so outrageous an idea …
Reshared post from +Media Matters for America
Uhhh
Ann Coulter claims, “I am totally pro-life” but her record says otherwise. Her obsessive employment of elimination rhetoric is highlighted in The Gospel According to Ann Coulter at http://www.coulterwatch.com/gospel.pdf.
I still don't understand why anyone pays attention to her.
Because the Right loves to hear her say things they're scared to say aloud, and the Left doesn't want her assertions of unreality to go unanswered.
Hate monger. Just look at her book titles.
Coulter mentioned “death squads” twice – once at CPAC, and once earlier in the day at a Bloggers meeting. It was not a mistake. Everything she says and does is calculated to garner her the maximum amount of attention. See Vanity: Ann Coulter’s Quest for Glory for more details, available at http://www.coulterwatch.com/vanity.pdf.