Time Magazine sinks to new low-excuses Coulter...again

Viewpoint: Why Ann Coulter Matters

Coulter's new book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, has just been published by Crown Forum. With predictable celerity, it has inspired another multiplatform media conflagration between her admirers and her opponents, some of whom don't seem to understand that controversy doesn't hurt book sales.

I had resolved never to write about Coulter again, after my cover story on her from last year received 6,360 letters — most of them not warmly positive, to say the least. So I figured I had done my part to get people thinking about how someone as divisive as Coulter had become, as I wrote then, "such a totem of this particular moment. Coulter epitomizes the way politics is now discussed on the airwaves, where opinions must come violently fast and cause as much friction as possible. No one, right or left, delivers the required apothegmatic commentary on the world with as much glee or effectiveness as Coulter. It is almost impossible to watch her and not be sluiced into rage or elation, depending on your views."

I think now that I was actually understating the case. America’s obsession with loving or hating Coulter is a psychological phenomenon almost unique in our culture. Her various epigones on Fox News can't quite match her ability to induce people to take deeply seriously what is obvious satire. I'm not saying Coulter doesn't believe what she says — if you talk with her mother, who’s even more conservative, you’ll know that she does — but she knows that outrage is the blunt cousin of argument, that irony is more accessible than a thousand position papers. She knows that saying what no one else would dare to say will get her attention. It works every time, as it did this week when Coulter attacked one of America's most hallowed, untouchable figures — the 9/11 victim.
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I don't agree with much of what Coulter says, but I find it bracing to read, for example, her cold-eyed assessments of Bill Clinton's treatment of the women in his life.He neglects to metion that she always calls President Clinton 'a rapist' as if it were an undisputable, verified fact I find her slurs against Muslims offensive, but I do laugh every time she refers to Islam as "the Religion of Peace." In the new book, she is right to belittle the ridiculous overreaction in the press after the mother of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito stated something obvious: "Of course he's against abortion," Mrs. Alito said of her son. Coulter unearths 25 years of public statements by abortion-rights supporters who stipulated that, as a Planned Parenthood official said in 1978, “Strictly speaking, no one is for abortion... We are pro-choice.” But apparently Mrs. Alito shouldn't be allowed to say her son is against abortion, which everyone knows anyway.

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Typical elitist pundit take. if you don't likle her, you're thin-skinned. Never mind the fact that she's dihonest and prints untruth after untruth, offers nothing to public discourse other than racial and personal epithets and that the media, not the public, is obsessed with proting her

his last graph: a sputtering mad woman shouts an obscenity in Coulter's face. he's saying anybody who can get that strong a reaction is worth listening to.
using that logic, should be we listening to Osama Bin Laden? Charlie Starkweather? Charlie Manson, perhaps?

I wonder if he found Ward Churchill's opinions bracing. Or, I wonder if he's just full of shit.

They are nazi enablers.

Who reads Time anyway?

and when it does people will spit on her grave

and anyone who likes Coulter enjoys watching america fall into failure under their guidance.

night, courtesy of Olbemann

there was a FLY buzzing about her head as she spewed her garBAZGHE. that was the funniest thing I've ever seen. talk about symbolism

it doesn't show up on the teenytiny vid clips



hope somebody on TV shows it again, so I can tape it

He admits to it and he is at it again, probably because he feels lonely. He goes back and forth and praises her for the things she says that is an easy attack and then says he doesn't agree with things she says that is considered truly disgusting.

Cloud is just a hack who is looking for a little excitement in his life.

it's beyond imagining that creeps like this guy let her skate on her MYRIAD, unending lies!

forget about all the rest; she's almost never disingenuous, misleading, not to say outright mendacious.

lord knows what Time's stake in her is. could this lying loser have done the unmentionable with her?

when something doesn't make sense, it's got to be about the Presidents

I'll bet that cover of hers sold a lot of issues, just because of those long, skanky legs, and the "come hither" image they presented to the unknowing, sex-crazed clods who frequent airports and train stations

just trying to drum up some extra cash for mother Time/Warner

that's about it, I'll guess

oh really?

You know damn well if progressives spoke the way psychotic blowhards like Coulter speaks that they'd be having daily visits from the SS or any number of gestapo agencies.

Think of the Howard Dean scream. That's a textbook case.

Liberal media my ass. :grr:

I'm sick of people yelling & screaming & being horrible, and all in the name of politics. Ann & the other neocon freaks are the cause of it, & I hate it. Why can't we have political discussion these days without all the venom? If that guy at Time thinks that Coulter's style is actually a good thing, he needs his head examined.

Tammy

...the head with a cast iron pot. Give me a break!!!

to see a lunatic FREAK and call her that. What's with his referring to everybody's mother.

saying that Samuel Alito is against abortion.

The point was that we don't need more anti-abortion Justice on the Supreme Court.

So which is it then you stupid joornalest? Is everything this female hitler spews satire or is she serious about eradicating all liberals with mass violence? I've CRAPPED better articles! :eyes:

Madonna poses on a cross to sell tour tickets and Coulter slams the 9/11 widows. Why don't people wise up. Madonna gets her free publicity from the right and Coulter gets it from the MSM and the left. They are both incredibly shrewd. I think half the fascination with these women is that people don't want to believe a blonde could play them this way. Even Jessica Simpson does it. People need to wise up and stop being manipulated.