So I imagine most by now have heard about Coulter's recent comments about the widows of the 9/11 victims.
These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by griefparrazies. I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s death so much."
The words remind me a little of Ward Churchill's comments about those killed in the World Trade Center being "little Eichmanns." So what do Coulter and Churchill have in common besides a talent to spout off loathsome garbage?
It was the right wing that made both of their names well-known.
Of course there is one major difference. While Churchill only had his ten seconds of fame, Coulter is a prominent Republican, a regular on national TV, a best-selling "author" and recently soiled the cover of Time magazine. Churchill (a complete fraud as the evidence more and more indicates) was an obscure college professor until the right decided to nonsensically point to him as some sort of representative of the left.
So even after her recent vile comments, it seems Coulter can do no wrong for the majority on the right side of the blogosphere. Take for example this post by someone who believes the Democrats were buying votes with crack cocaine in the last election. As Crook and Liars notes,this guy actually distances himself from Coulter. But check out the comments and how Coulter is defended.
You can be certain that she will continue to appear on television and throughout the print media regardless of how debauched she becomes. Yeah, liberal media my ass.
American society faces very serious problems when absolute nutjobs like Coulter can be popular and have such a following. Unfortunately due to its military might and polluting ways, the rest of the world is greatly influenced as well. It is an eternal shame a nation like this has so much power while the world faces previously unknown challenges, especially regarding the environment and the destructive capacity of today's military weapons. Kinda hard to be optimistic. (Not that I would put any more faith in, say, China)
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