Is Ann Coulter a bigot?
I'm afraid I can no longer answer that question "no." Until now I have always defended Ann Coulter against her detractors, many of them my own (often conservative) friends. I find her writing style crisp, original, and not to mention hilarious. I especially love her acerbic barbs at Ted Kennedy.
But I'm afraid in the last two weeks she's crossed the boundaries of good fun and good taste to the land of the indefensible/despicable. What really put me over the edge was this line from her column last week on The Passion:
Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity (as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of "kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed").
I mean, that is just unbelivable. It is beyond the pale. It crosses the line. She was always pushing the limits before, but she seems to have kicked it up yet another notch -- and her column this week, also on The Passion and tearing a strip off New York Times columnist William Safire, isn't much better. Maybe this is due to the fact that she isn't getting the same level of attention she did in the last two years, and she feels she needs to go overboard to generate buzz?
I guess most people have their tipping point with a rabid polemicist like Coulter, and I've just hit mine.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 12:35 AM
