Coulter Shock

Ann Coulter is a second-rate psuedo intellectual who is the darling of hardcore Christo-facists who read her hate-filled invective that masquerades itself as policital analysis. She is the flaxen-haired, anorexic-thin sex symbol for asshats like Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the rest of the gorging swine. She is a political porn star. Hers is not a centrist or even remotely moderate agenda, but a radical one fertilized in fundamentalist, jingoist dogma. She is the Extremist Imam of the Neo-Con Mob. She also might very well be a genius.

She's enjoying quite a bit of controversy these days for her comments in her new book regarding the 4 widows who lost their husbands in 9/11 and became activists who pushed for the independent investigations into the governments role in handling the attacks. "These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much," she writes in "Godless."

Want to read a page ripped right from the playbook of our religious right taliban, a virtual manifesto of their agenda? Go here. It's so bad you wonder if it's all a joke. Even if it is, and she's just making a buck off the gullible idiots who wank to her drivel (like an artist that craps in a can and sells it for thousands), there are still people out there who swallow it whole! Which makes me think.....if this is a joke, she's a muthafuckin' genius of Dominique Francon proportions, a Stephen Colbert of a more insidious nature. Show the monsters their ugliness in the mirror and maybe they'll be destroyed. Or, maybe just buy more of her books.

Here's a funny article by the Washington Monthly that has a slew of her more ribald and tasty "Coultisms". Also, an opinion piece by James Love on the Huffington Post that makes the "joke" argument. It's just gotta be, right? Right????

If so, then it is effective. While everyone knows Colbert is a brilliant satirist, he is still just making jokes. Coulter, on the other hand, does not appear to be on a lark. She in fact appears to be dead serious. Whether she is or isn't doesn't really matter because she is such a polarizing figure that all conservatives except for the staunchest of the extreme will not want to be associated with her. The monster is ugly as she has shown us whether she intended to or not, and that monster is the ogre of mean-spirited politics, not "godless" Liberals. If she in fact means what she says, her books will backfire on her and cause the Neo-Conservative movement to lose ground. Most Americans don't go for this sort of ugliness, and if conservatives embrace her rhetoric, they will alienate those Americans, who will then gravitate to more centrist and moderate levels, which is what I hope.

So either way, it does no good for Democrats and Liberals to get their Dockers in a wad over what big bad Coulter says. Don't go banning her, fercrissakes, like they're trying to in New Jersey. Let her blather on, let her get even worse if she wants. The uglier she gets, the more that everyday, working-class folks who feel the GOP has fucked them over and who find no more solace in a Democrat solution will want...and hopefully demand....a balanced administration.