In the midst of it all… October 16, 2007

While Ann Coulter is steadily proving herself to be an embarrassment and a disgrace to conservatives and the Republican Party — if not to America itself, one has to remember, in the midst of it all, that this is not only not a new development with Ms. Coulter, it’s her modus operandi, her “MO”.

One can not forget one of her most famous quotes:

Remember, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism are tightly knit first cousins. Whether or not Ms. Coulter is anti-Semitic herself is actually, at this point, beside the point. This woman considers herself licensed to inflame anyone and everyone she sees fit — debasing herself like a harlot with language so inflammatory as to make even the most callous clod wince, as the Canada Post’s Jonathan Kay notices:

Ann Coulter is an embarrassment. And the people who should be most embarrassed are self-described conservatives. Whenever liberals want to make us look like bigots and mental cases, all they have to do is trot out one of Coulter’s whoppers, and the job is done.

This is an 800-word column, so I don’t have space to rehash every appalling thing Coulter has written or said. But the highlights include her description of Al Gore (”total fag”), John Edwards (”faggot”), Muslims (”ragheads,” “camel jockeys,” “jihad monkeys”), her suggestion that said monkeys should stick to “flying carpets” instead of travelling on commercial airlines, and her next-day reaction to 9/11: “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”

She also had this charming riff on four women who became activists after losing their husbands in the 9/11 attacks: “I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths so much? How do we know their husbands weren’t planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they’d better hurry up and appear in Playboy.”

Could the Republican party wish for a friend more disgusting and lewd?

Oh, wait a second…