I just finished reading Ann Coulter's latest book, Guilty. As usual, it's acidic, ruthless and over the top hilarious. Like her previous books, she uses the left's rhetoric against them and demonstrates repeatedly that they themselves are the only real perpetrators of what they considered the worst crimes; offensiveness and hypocrisy.
Ann is one of the few on the right who dares to use the same incendiary language as the most hysterical on the left. I'm thinking James Carville here. Wow. There's a political commentary show I might actually watch; Ann on one side, James on the other. The show could be called "You Ignorant Slut!" They could actually settle debates with a target competition; hers could have Bill Clinton's image on it, his could have George W. Bush.
You saw the idea here first!
Anyway. There's a huge difference between Ann and the lefties. Many differences, actually but the most important is that Ann can cite page after page of examples of the abuse and hypocrisy she sees and the left never, ever offers examples in the real world. Remember Howard Dean, telling stories of his teen aged patient who needed a secret abortion so her father, who had knocked her up, wouldn't find out? Turns out she was imaginary, but the point is
it could happen! The fact that it never did happen is irrelevant.
Ann doesn't tell apocryphal fictions. She doesn't need to. The Duke LaCross rape case actually happened. Linda Tripp and Colleen Rowley are really out there.
Guilty is not an indictment of left politics, so if that's how you lean, fear not! You can still appreciate this book because it's an indictment of the media who cover politics. She picks up the theme that Bernie Goldberg first exposed in Bias, expanded on in Arrogance and which John Stossel added to with Give Me A Break.
We have freedom of the press ostensibly so that the corruption, abuse and wrong doing of politicians could be exposed to the public who put them in power. Freedom of the press is supposed to keep the public informed on what's going on in the halls of power, how policies are supposed to work and whether and which policies are successful in addressing the problems they are designed to solve.
Instead, our mainstream media has morphed into an organ of one particular ideology, which happens to be leftist. They shill for one side, demonize the other, hide the truth when it suits their purposes and lie whenever necessary. The sad thing isn't that Ann Coulter is a (rhetorical) bomb throwing extremist , which she cheerfully admits to, but that we need people like her to point out what should be obvious. She will continue to do so until her targets find a way to claim the first amendment allows the ruling party to throw her in jail. Can't happen here? Canada tried to do it to
Mark Steyne for quoting an Islamic Imam and now Dutch politician
Geert Wilders is facing prosecution for voicing an opinion. Isn't our new political mandate to ape Canada and Europe whenever possible?
Another thing that separates Ann Coulter from the chattering left is that she's funny. I don't mean funny like Joe Biden, Ann is intentionally funny .
And you can tell just how affective she is by how much the other side hates her.
A lot of folks on the right got really mad at her when she endorsed Hillary over McCain last year, but I knew exactly what she meant. Heck, in the week since pres Obama's inauguration, McCain has said three or four things that have made me glad he lost. If our federal gov. is going to drive the ship of state off a cliff, I'd just as soon not be responsible for the drunk behind the wheel.
