Letters to the Editor
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just wait
Ann Coulter is just a season or two away from appearing on The Sureal World.
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Is Coulter REALLY a lawyer?
Any lawyer can tell you that it's no defense to a charge of threatening someone else that it was "just a joke." The point of the crime is the fear that the "joke" causes and not that it's like legal conspiracy that you're preparing to really carry out the threat. I don't suppose that federal prosecutors will really want to take the time to prosecute her. However, her "joke" is something for everyone to remember the next time someone says that Coulter must really know what she's talking about since she's a lawyer. Coulter is a BS artist who long ago lost any right to try to impress anyone with her legal credentials.
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Suggest a Better \Response to Colulter
The best thing to do when Coulter utters outlandish pronouncements is to IGNORE HER - - TOTALLY. Rather than her playing a "joke" on the media, SHE is a joke - - and the only reason she achieves notoriety is throrough responses she ellicits from the media. Let her babble on, trying to get attention and IGNORE her. Maybe she will eventually realize no one is listening any longer.
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Brilliant!
"Ann Coulter is just a season or two away from appearing on The Surreal World."
Maybe she and Smitin' Pat Robertson will be the next hot twosome, like Flava Flav & Brigitte!
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what if ...
What if somebody on the left of similar prominence had made such a comment about Bush? Imagine the uproar. In these days when we're constantly told that people should be careful what they say, it's clear that will never apply to Coulter.
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Arrest her
Let her explain the humor to a judge. She can be a patriot and defend her rights in court. Everyone will be a winner.
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Ann Coulter is scum, but not criminal scum.
Justice Stevens is a gem of a human being, in addition to being one of the most brilliant and thoughtful jurists ever to grace the Supreme Court. Ann Coulter barely qualifies as a human being at all, and her latest eruption of toxic bile should convince anyone who ever gave her the benefit of the doubt that she belongs alongside Pat Robertson, Dick Armey, and Alan Keyes on the scrap-heap of serious public discourse.
But one of the key themes in Justice Stevens' writings is that public discourse, serious or otherwise, is too precious to censor. To suggest Coulter's words violated the law is grossly irresponsible, especially when the suggestion comes from people with a high professional stake in the First Amendment. Coulter didn't threaten to kill Justice Stevens; she said someone "should" kill him. That's a huge difference -- the difference between a verbal act and the mere expression of an idea. No matter how grotesque or vile ideas become, we're all better off when everyone gets to express and hear them. Not that Ann "liberals are traitors" Coulter cares about such high principles, but hey, that's one of about 10,000 reasons why we're better than she is.
Incidentally, when I saw Justice Stevens speak last September, he looked and sounded like the heartiest octogenarian who ever lived. With a little luck he'll still be enriching our constitutional law long after we've cleared Ann Coulter from our collective intestinal tract.
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Wrong reality show
Ann Coulter is just a season or two away from appearing on The Sureal World.
I wish she'd go on Starting Over. Seriously, she reminds me of the SO cast member Denise, who said horribly hurtful and damaging things to people under the guise of humor, because she was enraged about her own deficient childhood at the hands of a merciless bully of a father.
It's sad to see her in operation. She can cover up all she wants, but inside she has to be a screaming mess. She never wants to connect with people. She just wants to gain attention by enraging them and pushing them away.
At some point she stops being an entertainer and starts being a sorry sideshow of human dysfunction and a lesson to everyone that laughter isn't always a force of healing. Sometimes it's a way to keep the wounds open so that nobody can heal.
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give 'er enough rope
Every time Coulter, or O'Reilly, or Pat Robertson issues another jihad against a respected public figure, they lose even more credibility. Some people like Coulter; some thing she's nuts. But I'd say the "nuts" crowd gets bigger every time she opens her mouth.
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Ann Coulter
Who are these Universities who keep paying this obviously, mentally ill woman to speak to their students? This University president should be locked up right along with Ann for suggesting that a SCOTUS justice should be killed.
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Speechless
The right has its share of vile "pundits," but Coulter's crude pronouncements are so revolting and offensive to any reasonable notion of debate in a civil society that I simply can't understand why she is given a forum. Her speech is pathological in its lack of judgement.
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Speechless
The right has its share of vile "pundits," but Coulter's crude pronouncements are so revolting and offensive to any reasonable notion of debate in a civil society that I simply can't understand why she is given a forum. Her speech is pathological in its lack of judgement.
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"Rat poison"
...is the sort of phrase Hitler would have loved and understood.
If we tolerate this sort of rhetoric, then what is it that we won't tolerate? If Justice Stevens is a rat, then which liberal isn't a rat?
This isn't the sort of rhetoric that ends in 'ha ha,' it's the sort that ends in a gas chamber. And it needs to be stopped now.
Democrats should go nuclear on this if Bush's Justice Department refuses to prosecute her. There are some things that just can't be tolerated.
This is no joke.
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OK, It's Time
Normally, I'd suggest ignoring a pathetic, unhinged attention slut like Ann Coulter.
But now I'm thinking, since the media still loves to trot her out every so often to, shall we say, inflame viewers' passions...maybe it's time we finally made her put her mouth where her money is. Arrest her. Make her appear before a judge. Let her spend a little time behind bars. Let her find out that there are limits to how far she can run her mouth.
Maybe it'll make her and some of her fellow hatemongers think twice before unleashing the verbal diarrhea they've become accustomed to spewing without forethought. Dare I dream?