Why do so many people despise Ann Coulter? Could it be that the media is dominated by liberals like Katie Couric who have absolutely no sense of humor?
However, conservatives like Mssrs. Hannity and Colmes can see through the charade and recognize the subtle difference between mad and sublime.
Mr. Beck also shares Ann's sense of humor and her concerns about the double standard that discriminates against outspoken conservative commentators.
And besides being seriously funny as well as an excellent conversationalist, Ann also makes great parody material.
Christopher penned a review of Ann's Godless: The Church of Liberalism for a UK magazine named, appropriately enough The Liberal. He provides the sort of analysis that most liberal readers will comfortably assent to and he does it extremely well. Although of course, identifying Ann's more obvious flaws is a good deal easier than defending US policy in Iraq, Iran or Afghanistan, but let's give him his due. In a nutshell:
I have the distinct feeling that people do not buy Ann Coulter’s creed-screeds and speed-reads in order to enhance their knowledge of history or their command of syllogism. She has emerged as a persona because she has mastered the politics of resentment, and because she can combine the ideology of Human Events (the obscure ‘Joe McCarthy was right’ magazine) with the demand of the chat-show bookers for a tall blonde with a very rapid delivery on a wide range of subjects.
But Hitch, who meets the equivalent media demand for a short, fat, and permanently dishevelled slime artist with a posh British accent and a flair for the grotesque, fails completely to see the funny side of Ann as he puts on his po-iest of po-faces in summing her up as follows:
"Coulter, the super-patriot and flag-waver, is a true reactionary in that she yearns for the time when the keyword of her title, as in ‘Godless Communism’, was a mantra for the simple-minded. In a world where the true enemies of civilization are much, much more godly than the blonde goddess of the hard Right, Coulter is reduced to a blitzing of soft civilian targets – one redeemed only by its built-in tendency to fall so wide of the mark.
And yet, the biggest joke of all — I will not go as far as calling it an "irony" — is that Christopher and Ann are on exactly the same side on the one big issue that really separates the boy scouts from the girl guides: the need for America to keep carrying the white man's burden in an endless war against people who hate us for our freedoms. And that I find ridiculously funny.
“The enemies of intolerance cannot be tolerant." • "If it is an offense to justice to hold people who may have been victims of mistaken identity or of vendettas by other factions, then it is also an offense to justice to release psychopathic killers who believe that they have divine permission to throw acid in the faces of girls who want to attend school." • "Don't be such a lesbian!
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