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When I saw the advertisements announcing Ann Coulter's new book, Treason, several months ago, I initially thought it was a joke. I thought somebody had taken the ludicrous concept behind her earlier book Slander and driven it ad absurdum. Your opponents are not usually evil, they just see things differently than you do. And that's normal, even healthy. Coulter's dinner guest, John Lott, recognizes this. Elsewhere in Coulter's essay he tells her that liberals simply believe in 'different facts' than he does, and that makes them neither evil nor stupid. But Coulter doesn't get it.In all fairness, it should pointed out this failing is not unique to Coulter, or limited to any particular part of the political spectrum. But she is a particularly illustrative example of this tendency. Incidentally, Coulter's apparently going to start a blog. There goes the neighbourhood. Interestingly, the title—"CoulterGeist"—seems to be lifted from an article of the same name which appeared in the New York Observer in August 2002. Yes, she might think American journalists are "retarded" to a man (see same article), but that evidently won't stop her from appropriating their ideas. (Kudos to the folks at the Fametracker fora for digging up the latter stuff.) I have to admit I harbour suspicions that Coulter doesn't write all, if any, of the stuff published under her name herself. It would certainly explain how she was able to put out two doorstops less than a year apart (though, of course, Treason shows no signs of any research whatsoever, which would cut down on the amount of time required) while also producing newspaper columns and making numerous television appearances. It might also go some way to explaining the mind-boggling amount of misogynism that goes into her material. In any given column, it is standard practice to cast aspersions on the masculinity of male subjects (usually involving the use of the adjective "girly," e.g. as in "girly-boy") while curiously, female subjects are ridiculed for being insufficiently "feminine" for displaying behaviour similar to that of the "girly-boys." (You work out the internal logic in that one.) So maybe Coulter does need other people to make her look absurd after all. If so, they're probably the same people who are writing Sean Hannity's stuff, which sounds suspiciously similar. |
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