I've been following the (no doubt intentionally-planned) controversy surrounding Ann Coulter and her new book, Godless. I wasn't going to write about it, because I know even the mention of Coulter tends to provoke irrational, wild-eyed responses and name-calling. But then I realized that's the point. Throughout all this controversy I have not heard a single cogent argument put forward to counter the Coulter claim that the Democrats stifle debate by throwing victims out to speak for their causes -- the 9/11 widows (or so-called "Jersey Girls") to speak out against Bush, Cindy Sheehan and amputated war vet Max Cleland to criticize the Iraq war, etc... The result is the other side is unable to criticize these people. This is true!
Coulter may not have the most finessed way of making a point, but she is making a point nonetheless and it stands up to scrutiny.
Mark Steyn weighs in on the matter in his books column in this week's Macleans.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 9:12 AM
