Please lord jesus send her to prison.

Ms. Coulter may have raised the possibility that she was soliciting the first-degree murder of an officer of the United States, in violation of 18 USC secs. 2, 1111, and 1114. Inasmuch as she is a member of the New York bar, it would also seem that such conduct could be seen as “prejudicial to the administration of justice.” (Sec. 1200.3 (a)(5).)

Further, even if one were to accept her claim that it was just a joke, it is doubtful that the U.S. Marshal would simply ignore such a comment or just “laugh it off.”

Finally, assuming it was a joke, it seems hardly an appropriate joke for a public figure, political commentator and member of the NY Bar to make under virtually any circumstance, and it may give one reason to question her fitness as a lawyer. (Sec. 1200.3(a)(7). While there are some 1st Amendment concerns here, the comments to the rules point out that an attorney can be disciplined under DR 1-102(A)(7) even if the conduct was not illegal and even if the lawyer was not acting in his or her capacity as a lawyer.

Just kidding. Just a joke, for you in the media.

..since nobody's posted for a day or so, and it's about to be put in the archives. Pity, I thought we were getting somewhere.

Suppose it's time to get back to the business of passively watching our society decay around us.

Oh, sorry, just kidding.

Henry II says "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?" and Thomas a Becket gets whacked. Thankfully, our Annie has no such clout. Her comment probably doesn't rise to the level of a criminal act, but it is vile slime masquerading as political discourse and it does brand Annie and all those who believe she speaks for them as low-grade fascist thugs. It's not the first time she has engaged in "comic" allusions to political violence. It's sadly typical. This, as has been pointed out, is how it starts.

The fact that Annie has any sort of public forum at all and is not simply ranting outside a bus station somewhere is an indicator of just how rancid and debased our public discourse has become.

... is that quite a few normal conservatives -- and by "normal", I mean reasonably thoughtful people, not knee-jerk wingnuts -- take her ravings seriously. By design or intuition, Coulter goes straight for the scaly reptile brain, below the level where logic applies. A conservative former co-worker used to quote Coulter's rantings about Christians being persecuted in the US as support for her own feelings of victimization. This woman was hardly a victim of anything and was normally pretty open to other points of view, yet I could not convince her by reason or example that Coulter was just trying rile people up and that there was little or no substance to her ravings.

I still can't decide whether her repulsive public persona is the real thing, or just her schtick. Either way, it's kind of pathetic.

Let's face it folks, Coulter is an idiot. One only has to refer to all the times she's said factually inaccurate things in interviews, etc. When the host points out her misstatements she will still argue with them. And I'm not talking about opinion here. I'm talking about facts of law and history, which she's supposed to know something about since apparently some university gave her a law degree.

Combine her dimness with a severe eating disorder, and her emotional/mental instability, and you get a tragic figure that just talks nonsense. If you've ever had interaction with an anorexic, you know that there are some very strange things going on inside their head. Ann's world is completely screwed up because of lack of adequate calories, her compulsion to control the uncontrollable, and her self-loathing masked as high self-esteem. Not to mention that she is obviously struggling with her sexual identity, so that only adds to the mix. Again, she's a tragic figure without the motivation to get herself help.

She's a very strange person. She says very strange things. I'm not offended by what she says. It's more of a tilt-my-head-and-say awwwwwwwww kind of reaction because she is so frustrated with herself. It's sad.

BTW, you would think with all that money she would be able to get an updated haircut and help with the wardrobe. Ann, listen up: IT'S CALLED A PANTSUIT. Try to find a nice Armani or Jil Sander two-piece. Not only are the distasteful miniskirts very unflattering on you, especially at your age, but they're OVER.

Years ago, (more than I would care to admit, really) I was in junior high school. I think maybe we had a good football team that year (don't remember; never bothered much with sports). Before one of the many Big Games (TM), there was a pep rally planned, with a poster contest as well. Students hung their posters on the walls of the school, and we fellow students would vote for the one we liked best.

One of the posters featured a drawing of a washtub and clothesline with the other team's players hung upon it, and the slogan, "Wash 'em up, wring 'em out, hang 'em up to DIE!!!" It might bear mentioning that references to "killing 'em," "making 'em die," and so forth were common among junior-high "cheers" of the era. Nobody thought much of it when 12 nubile girls chanted "K-I-double L, Kill 'em, Kill em!" and the crowd joined in. Terribly wholesome, that. Not.

Some teachers objected to the poster, and the principal caused it to be censored. The "DIE" was overwritten with "DRY." You could see the original text; it was just crossed out. The thing had been made with crayons, after all.

Many of us 12-to-14-year-olds sneered at the censorship. The teachers were silly. Of course we didn't really mean for the other team to be actually murdered. Didn't they "get" that? We were just being "hip," they were obviously overreacting and were just a bunch of old fogies, anyway. After all, everybody did it, right? What was the harm?

I came home from school and went on at my folks about how ridiculous the teachers were being. My parents told me that I was wrong; that it was never funny to joke about killing someone, no matter the context. How would I feel if a group of people were "joking" about killing me? OK, Mom & Dad won that one. Begrudgingly, I had to admit they were right.

Now of course I am older, much older. And I see why the sentiment was so abhorrent to the teachers, however "innocently" expressed, no matter how many "everybodies" were doing it. After all, the teachers were supposed to be the adults here--and they were, unashamedly.

This Ann Coulter business reminded me so vividly of that incident, it made my head spin. Yes, her "speech" is probably legal, but it is nonetheless disturbing and embarrassing. The fact that so many alleged adults find her humorous speaks volumes about what now passes for "public discourse;" apparently, the mental state of the average 12-to-14-year-old is now the norm.

Given Coulter's craving for attention of any kind, I don't think that calls for her to retract her ugly words will achieve anything other than to give her more attention. If any of her "fans" had any degree of decency, they would shun her. Deny her the attention she craves. Stop reading her hateful, ugly words. Stop watching her on TV. Stop buying her books. Express disapproval through withholding the only thing that makes her relevant at all--money. And in so doing, prove to the rest of us that you are not all a bunch of morally bankrupt troglodytes, and that there are, in fact, limits to what you will accept from quasi-public figures.

Where are the right-wing adults?