No More Mr. Nice Guy!

Lies and the lying liars who shriek them

Take the outrageous falsehoods of Rush Limbo (how low can you go) but take away his affability and wit. Stir in the raw, out-of-control anger of Michael Sewage (oops, I mean Michael Savage) and the priggishness of Bill O'Reilly. Soak in bile overnight, then pour into a tight black miniskirt and you've got Ann Coulter.

This hideous harridan has been exciting the lust of pimply-faced neocon geeks for several years now, while riling up every red-blooded, god-fearin', gun totin' member of the repugs' useful idiots with hatred and loathing for everyone who isn't on the extreme right-hand edge of the political spectrum. She saturates the airwaves, popping up with everyone from Sean Hannity to Bill Maher, to whine about the evil liberal media shutting out reactionaries. Whole forests bite the dust so that her shrill, vituperative screeds can fill the column inches normally reserved for something resembling coherent thought.

Everyone has heard Coulter's advice on international diplomacy: "We should invade [oil-rich] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." Then there's her thoughtful remarks on how to deal with those who don't share her politics: "We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too." (See link.) Not having received the memo from the White House, she continues to insist on a Saddam-Al Qaeda-Democrats axis of evil: "On the basis of their recent pronouncements, the position of the Democratic Party seems to be that Saddam Hussein did not hit us on 9-11, but Halliburton did."

Other websites have done an exemplary job in cataloguing Coulter's lies and distortions. (See this link and this one. Also note that she's either lying about her age - while excoriating reporters rash enough to suggest she's no longer in her thirties - or else she illegally registered to vote when she was 16.)

My feeling is: why bother? The enfant terrible  of the extreme RRR adores the attention, like a four-year-old that keeps swearing because of its mother's shocked reaction. But behind all the acid attacks and flat-out falsehoods, there is a total lack of substance. Coulter is just a sideshow in the RRR's three-ring circus. She serves no purpose except as a distraction (though we could perhaps use her nose as a ski jump).

Let's just ignore this strident, screeching harpy of hatred and pay more attention to the man behind the curtain!