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Just think, if everybody wasn't responding with their reflexive outrage over Ann's latest public projectile vomiting, no one would have even heard about her appearance on TODAY.
And it's not important that we do. She decides no policy. She's nothing, a distraction used only because the terrifying Canada terror plot isn't moving our attention away fast enough from...Haditha, for instance.
So they toss her in our faces like flak, or like sand in a referee's eyes. And just by exposure to the curious she manages to sell more books. Why, I'll bet some of my fellow liberals are going to buy the damn book just to attack it. Which is fine because, either way, it sells; it doesn't matter why. Ironic money is still green.
Coulter is a cluster bomb of toxic memes. She picks the ones as pointy as her skin, scatters them all over the place during whatever time she has on the air, and runs. Some don't stick. Some stick in the craws of liberals and they then waste time expelling them, wondering why they're so out of breath and energy once they've retched 'em up. And some stick in the spacious skulls of the ignorant and rattle down till they drop from their mouths.
That is all she's for. Well, and the wank fantasies of closeted young Republicans.
It is not necessary to pay any attention to her; in fact it's destructive. She is a screeching siren who lures intelligent people to intertia. And she counts, ultimately, for nothing. Every time you argue with her she just laughs.
As they said on the Simpsons: Just don't look.
