The Expansionist

Saturday, January 28, 2006

Ann Who? Radical Rightwing commentator Ann Coulter made a little joke yesterday:

speaking at a traditionally black college, [she] joked that Justice John Paul Stevens should be poisoned [because] Stevens is one of the court's most liberal members.

"We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee," Coulter said. "That's just a joke, for you in the media."

Isn't she amusing? No, actually, she's not.

Coulter has made a career of writing and lecturing on her strongly conservative views.

At one point during her address, which was part of a lecture series, some audience members booed when she cut off two questioners. "I'm not going to be lectured to," Coulter told one man in a raised voice.

Oh? It's alrite for her to lecture others, but not for others to lecture her. I see. I didn't know that was the way it worked.
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Who, after all, is Ann Coulter? She's just some nut off the street who somehow got a Radical Rightwing book published and then became the darling of the loonytunes Right.
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How is it that some people get to be famous pundits and commentators, sought out for paid speaking appearances, while other people, far their superior in every significant regard, who actually have constructive things to say, cannot get 2 seconds of exposure in major media? Is a puzzlement.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 2,241.)

- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 6:15 PM

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