How about providing some summary of the article, rather than a link that serves to increase the New Republic's web traffic. Also you can't read the damn thing unless you register with the mag. Give my info to Coulter lovers? Tempting, but no thanks.

There is no defense of Ann Coulter, and none of her America-hating Red ways should be encouraged by anyone.

Yeah, I read the excerpts. I remember when I used to read the New Republic, before it turned into such trash. Sorry to say it's pretty much bird cage liner now.

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This dude really wants to bone her.

The article's defense only makes sense if you assume Coulter is making those remarks in an ironic context.

The thing that's wrong with her is that she's absolutely serious.

Yeah, the article's no defense of what Coulder does. But it's pretty good critique of those sink to her level. If they weren't there already.

I'll throw the bullshit flag on the accusation that she's being serious. As a longtime Coulter observer, I know she ramps up her crazy when the books come out, and people who actually talk to her without the cameras tend to agree that she's much less abrasive. I think she's cashing in with a bigoted nation, which for as smart as I think she is, I think is worse.

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No, it doesn't work. This is the most ridiculous defense of Coulter. She challenges our comfort, man, and she's a tough girl who won't be boxed in. She's not heroic in the least, she's bat-shit insane. It doesn't take some special courage to routinely go beyond the pale with insults and slander.

And this TNR writer cites all of these examples and then defends them with things like "I have to admit, I giggled" and "What can I say, she has great timing." Wow, what a brilliant defense of a misunderstood genius.

Yeah, it sucks that people like Chris Matthews and Al Franken obsess about her looks. Apparently because it's impossible to engage her on her ideas (because they are ridiculous and outrageous), some people resort to childish insults about her looks. Others, more wisely, ignore her.

The more I think about this TNR piece, it reveals itself to be more and more of a trainwreck. Take this:

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity." Wow, that's pretty indefensible. The United States could never--would never--do such a thing. Instead, we've invaded their countries, killed their leaders, and are desperately trying to convert them to secularism. (It's not like mullahs appreciate the difference.)

So, Coulter's dangerous and misguided proposal is validated by our government's dangerous and misguided war? So what she said is defensible after all?

And take this:

On the BBC show "Newsnight," Jeremy Paxman asked Coulter if she'd like to withdraw her infamous statements about the September 11 widows. (If you've been living in a spiderhole, she called the more politically inclined among them "broads".)

Actually, the most controversial remarks were that the 9/11 widows seemed to be enjoying their husbands' deaths, but Reeve doesn't mention that. Does she believe that that claim is "a little bit true" as well?

Coulter is really not all that attractive. Face of no distinction and too skinny. And anyway I like women with brains.

Now if you want to talk about female pulchritude, Van de Heuvel of The Nation maybe all wet politically but she is a fox.

You're not helping, SM.

Also, I really doubt that Andrew Sullivan is mean to her because he entertains bad thoughts about wanting to sleep with her.

She's nothing but a Judas goat, a shrieking distraction to keep the masses distracted, amused or enraged as per their individual inclinations. The Judas goat will distract people with hot-button culture-war horseshit so they don't notice the erosion of their civil liberties, the picking of their pockets, and creeping fascism. She is not herself anyone's idea of a policymaker; her purpose is to distract us from what the policymakers are actually doing.

Anal-cyst-boy and prominent Viagra and narcotic popper Limbaugh serves exactly the same function. Distract, distract, distract. Keep the masses all riled up about something totally irrelevant to most of them so they don't notice they haven't had a raise in five years, they can't afford to buy a house, there's no longer any social safety net, and Big Brother is peeping in their underwear drawer.

I give Shrieking Harpy Coulter precisely the amount of attention she deserves. *yawn*

Oh, and for those unfamiliar with the term - a Judas goat is an animal used to lead other herd animals into a slaughter pen. The Judas goat does not suffer the same fate itself, but leads the docile sheep into the killing ground with ease.

Ann Coulter is a diversionary tactic, and you are all falling for it.

Ann, puts the truth in a humorous way and thank God she is Red

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