She�s the Golden Girl, the Blonde Bombshell of the radical
right. Review some of Ann Coulter�s shining moments.
She was fired from MSNBC
when she told a disabled Vietnam veteran, �People like you caused us to lose
that war.� She was fired from the conservative National Review when she turned in a column offering a final
solution to the Muslim problem: �We should invade their countries, kill their
leaders and convert them to Christianity.�
Among her other numerous rants: �I think we ought to nuke
North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning. . . . They�re
a major threat. I just think it would be fun to nuke them and have it be a
warning to the rest of the world.�
Ms. Coulter thinks it would be �fun� to launch a preemptive
nuclear attack.
Not surprisingly, her book, Treason, defended
and praised Joseph McCarthy, one of the darkest figures in American history.
Arnold Beichman, a conservative from the Hoover Institution, reviewed Treason for the conservative Washington Times. His assessment: �[I]
tried to read Miss Coulter�s book and failed. Life is too short to read pages
and pages of rant.�
One of the issues at hand is related to another of Coulter�s
idiotic statement, �I take the Biblical idea. God gave us the earth. We have
dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God says, �Earth is yours.
Take it. Rape it. It�s yours.��
How strange -- not to mention truly sick and demented --
that a woman would approve of and encourage rape, especially of Mother Earth.
Coulter expanded on her �let�s rape Mother Earth� ideology
in a recent article, �Let them
eat tofu!,� that appeared in a most appropriate venue, WorldNetDaily,
otherwise known as WingNutDaily which, according
to its founder, editor and CEO, was conceived as ��an Internet newspaper�
committed to the
highest ideals of American journalism� [link added].
In her diatribe, Coulter wrote, �There are more reputable
scientists defending astrology than defending �global warming� . . .�
No doubt the pixie was trying to be funny in her usual
demented way. But maybe not. So please, Ms. Coulter, would you be so kind as to
produce a list of �reputable scientists defending astrology� longer than the
list of reputable scientists worldwide
who are defending global warming? Perhaps you can begin by surveying the 50,000
international scientists involved in the polar
project:
More than 50,000 researchers hope to
find an answer during a massive study of how global warming and other phenomena
are changing the coldest parts of the Earth -- and what that means for the rest
of it.
Scientists formally kicked off the
International Polar Year on Thursday, the biggest such project in 50 years. It
is unifying researchers from 63 nations in 228 studies to monitor the health of
the polar regions, using icebreakers, satellites and submarines.
But Coulter was only getting warmed up: �Global warming� is
the left�s pagan rage against mankind. . . . To say we need to reduce our
energy consumption is like saying we need to reduce our oxygen consumption.
Liberals have always had a thing about eliminating humans. Stalin wanted to
eliminate the Kulaks and Ukrainians, vegetarian atheist Adolf Hitler wanted to
eliminate the Jews . . .
Aside from the cutesy rhetoric and glaring stupidity -- Stalin
and Hitler as �liberals� -- wasn�t it Ms. Coulter who thought it would be �fun�
to nuke non-Christian countries? No doubt she delights in the fact that,
according to
the Pentagon,
Climate change over the next 20 years
could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and
natural disasters.
A secret report, suppressed by US
defense chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities
will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a �Siberian�
climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict,
mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.
The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet
to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and
secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. . . .
�Disruption and conflict will be
endemic features of life,� concludes the Pentagon analysis. �Once again,
warfare would define human life.� . . . [italics added]
Coulter�s �Let them eat tofu!� article, like so much of what
she says and writes, is exceeding short on substance in relation to the issues
addressed and far too long on childish sniping and character assassinations of
those with whom she disagrees politically. Witness her latest:
Finishing up a presentation on Friday
[February 2, 2007] at the Conservative Political Action Convention, right-wing
pundit Ann Coulter referred to Democratic Party presidential nominee John
Edwards as a �faggot.�
�I was going to have a few comments
about the other Democratic nominee, John Edwards, but it turns out that you
have to go into rehab if you use the word �faggot,�� she said to a crowd,
eliciting uncomfortable groans, then cheers and applause. �So I�m kind of at an
impasse. Can�t really talk about Edwards, so I�ll just conclude here and take
your questions. Thank you.�
The convention participants included several 2008 Republican
presidential hopefuls -- former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, former New
York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, Colorado
representative Tom Tancredo, and Kansas senator Sam Brownback -- as well as Vice
President Dick Cheney who, of course, has a lesbian daughter.
Some GOP presidential wannabes -- John McCain, Rudy
Giuliani, Mitt Romney -- quickly denounced Coulter�s remarks, after Democratic
National Committee Chairman Howard Dean demanded all the Republican candidates
apologize. How telling that Brownback,
Huckabee, Tancredo and Cheney did not.
Actually, Coulter should be thanked for her stupid
statements and hateful remarks. Such odious comments do nothing but hurt the
radical right. They make it clear to everyone what self-centered,
hate-mongering bigots they really are.
As Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign,
said in commenting on Coulter�s remarks, �It is clear that some in the
Republican Party plan to run in 2008 the same way they did in 2004, by using
discrimination to divide the country and rally their base. . . . But, 2008 is
not 2004, and this time the politics of fear and smear will not work. The
American people are tired of those who would rather divide than unite.�
Coulter�s ad hominem
attacks also point out that she and her ilk have no ideas, nothing new to say.
All they can do is make
fun of others:
�What�s Al Gore up to these days?�
Coulter rhetorically asked, before answering, �Four hundred pounds.�
Coulter asked, �Did Al Gore actually
swallow Michael Moore?�
�Obama is half-white and half-black,�
Coulter said, before comparing the Illinois senator to former President Bill
Clinton. �Clinton was half-white, half-trash.�
But perhaps there�s something else -- something
psychologically telling -- in Ann Coulter�s fondness for calling people �fags�
(and, no doubt, �dykes�):
This wouldn�t mark the first time that
Coulter has �gay-baited� a Democrat. Coulter used the �other f-word� in a
joking reference to Gore in a television interview last June, and on various
occasions has claimed that Bill Clinton could be a �latent homosexual.�
�I think that sort of rampant
promiscuity does show some level of latent homosexuality,� Coulter said of
Clinton on The Big Idea with Donny
Deutsch on CNBC. (Crooks
and Liars has video of the CNBC comments.)
Given
that Ms. Coulter probably deems Shakespeare a liberal faggot, she may never
have bothered to read him. But one of the bard�s most famous lines could easily
be applied to Ann Coulter, with a latent wink and a nod: �The
lady doth protest too much, methinks� (Hamlet, III, ii, 239).