Ann Coulter: Charlatan or Terrorist?

Muslim clerics say it’s OK to kill Americans in the name of Allah. We call them hate mongers and purveyors of terrorism.

Christian activist Ann Coulter says that Timothy McVeigh should have made a visit to the New York Times building. We call her an unapologetic voice of her faith.

Muslim leaders say President Bush should die. We ask, “Where is the moral outrage from the Muslim community?”

Coulter says that we should put poison in the dessert of U. S. Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens as retribution for his Liberal votes. We ask, “Where can I get a copy of her new book?”

What’s wrong here?

Coulter is a political Chappelle – a gifted orator who calculatingly crosses the border of good taste to drop rhetorical bombs into the gaping maws of hungry Christian and Right Wing extremists. Like frenzied fans at a WWE Smackdown, they drool and cheer over every verbal suplex she lands on the “Godless” political Left. She’s the goon on their righteous team.

Coulter is cashing in big time. Her comments are caractures of honest pundits who transcend political correctness in an effort to reach the truth. She’s become a sick nightclub act, doing vile stand-up for an audience drunk on her contrived cocktail of sanctimonious sermonizing.

Coulter panders to the lowest of our emotions, but to my knowledge she’s never hurt anyone, so comparing her to a terrorist isn’t fair.

However, her doting fans don’t get off that easy.

When word of the 9/11 bombings reached the Middle East, people danced in the streets. When Coulter speaks of bombing journalists and killing Supreme Court Justices, her faithful minions run out to by her books and sing her praise.

Coulter is a charlatan, selling pious snake oil to the intellectually challenged. She is harmless, but her followers should be feared.

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