And isn’t she more of a hard kiprc? Isn’t it you, JollyRoger, JollyRoger, JollyRoger, a bit of a c, a c, a c, a c, a c?

Obviously I don’t like Coulter, but we’re trying to keep this blog free from hackery and invective on both sides. Respect that please.

I don’t like this woman at all, but I find your language to be very offensive. It also makes this blog look bad. Please stop it.

The nazi bitch claimed to be a member of a church that never heard of her.

Then she claimed to be a registered voter in a place that had no record of her.

Does the cunt even exist? Seriously, is she some kind of amalgam of the fanatical right wing conjured up in our heads to give evil a face and a (stick man) body?

Point taken. Let me ammend my comment by saying: it’s a waste of time to engage anyone who agrees with her on a consistent basis.

Or maybe: it’s a waste of time to engage anyone who considers her a wise source of opinion.

Alan, don’t be so quick to dismiss “anyone who agrees with her”. None of us have any control over showboats like AC, and I’m not going to back away from something just because she happens to endorse it.

Heck, whether hack or ideologue, there are “better� ones out there, and always have been.

Agreed. But “better” doesn’t necessarily mean “ratings”, and that’s what Coulter is good at. She’s a sideshow at best, and that’s what kills me about today’s punidtry. It’s so damn hacktastic it hurts.

But still, I’ll hold off on posting something about Ann until she REALLY makes news.

Heck, whether hack or ideologue, there are “better” ones out there, and always have been.

I promise.

(Seriously, she’s looking pretty sickly. Maybe we should start a fund – “Aw, Ann.”)

Coulter is an interesting character, the sad case of an individual caught in her homemade death spiral and unable to leave. I’ve got a gut feeling that she believes only about a quarter of what she says. Her relevance and identity is based on being confrontational and controversial. However, in a society that grows ever desensitized by the day, in order for her to maintain that relevance she has to keep ratcheting up the rhetoric. To her, popularity and attention (and therefore the opportunity to rankle moderates and librals) are what counts, so she has to do whatever she can in order to keep getting media
attention.

Alas, such actions are only going to ever decrease one’s base of support. There are very few people who think that Coulter is not extreme enough for their tastes. By moving to further extremes, Coulter is not going to capture any additional supporters. However, she will continue to lose people who once supported her.

After all, quotes like, “[Liberals] hate God and they hate America,” and that Jesus would bomb abortion clinics are by their very nature decrease her overall fan base. There’s just nothing left to capture in the “I wish someone would agree with me that Jesus would lead military strikes against social issues” crowd that she doesn’t already have.

The parallels with Fr. Charles Coughlin are amazing. Coughlin, the “Radio Priest” had a nationally broadcast radio show in the 1930s. At his peak, he had millions and millions of listeners, but he had to keep moving to the extremes to keep getting attention. As time when on, he
got more and more anti-Semetic, and his overall popularity began to wane. Eventually, the Catholic Church told him to shut up (like most else in the Church, they get to the right answer eventually; it just takes a while).

This is the future of Coulter. The only difference is that her ire is directed to Mulims and liberals, not Jews and socialists. Do not worry, she will not win. It’ll just take a while as her pillar crumbles beneath her.

All that said, these kind of blowhards are the ones that fan the extremism we now see in politics. Disappointing, but there it is.

Thank “God” for that.