by Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
She’s the Golden Girl, the Blonde Bombshell of the radical right. Review some of Ms. Coulter’s
shining moments. She was fired from
MSNBC when she told a disabled Vietnam veteran, “people like you caused us to lose that war.”
She was fired from the conservative
National Review when she turned in a column offering a final solution to the Muslim problem: “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”
Among her other numerous rants:
“I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning. ... They’re a major threat. I just think it would be fun to nuke them and have it be a warning to the rest of the world.”
Ms. Coulter thinks it would be “fun” to launch a preemptive nuclear attack.
Not surprisingly, her book
Treason defended and praised Joseph McCarthy, one of the darkest figures in American history. Arnold Beichman, a conservative from the Hoover Institution, reviewed
Treason for the conservative
Washington Times. His assessment: “[I] tried to read Miss Coulter’s book and failed. Life is too short to read pages and pages of rant.”
The issue at hand is related to another of Coulter’s idiotic statement, “I take the Biblical idea. God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God says, ‘Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.’”
How strange – not to mention truly sick and demented – that a woman
would approve of and encourage rape, especially of Mother Earth.
Coulter expanded on her “let’s rape Mother Earth” ideology in a recent article – “
Let them eat tofu!” – that appeared in a most appropriate venue, WorldNetDaily, otherwise known as WingNutDaily which,
according to its founder, editor and CEO, was conceived as “‘an Internet newspaper’ committed to
the highest ideals of American journalism” [link added].
In her diatribe Coulter wrote that “There are more reputable scientists defending astrology than defending ‘global warming’…”
No doubt the pixie was trying to be funny in her usual demented way.
But maybe not. So please, Ms. Coulter, would you be so kind as to
produce a list of “reputable scientists defending astrology” longer
than the list of reputable scientists
worldwide who are defending global warming? Perhaps you can begin by surveying the 50,000 international scientists involved in the
polar project:
More than 50,000 researchers hope to find an answer during a massive
study of how global warming and other phenomena are changing the
coldest parts of the Earth -- and what that means for the rest of it.
Scientists formally kicked off the International Polar Year on
Thursday, the biggest such project in 50 years. It is unifying
researchers from 63 nations in 228 studies to monitor the health of the
polar regions, using icebreakers, satellites and submarines.
But Coulter was only getting warmed up:
“Global warming” is the left’s pagan rage against mankind. … To say we
need to reduce our energy consumption is like saying we need to reduce
our oxygen consumption. Liberals have always had a thing about
eliminating humans. Stalin wanted to eliminate the kulaks and
Ukrainians, vegetarian atheist Adolf Hitler wanted to eliminate the
Jews …
Aside from the cutesy rhetoric and glaring stupidity – Stalin and
Hitler as “liberals” – wasn’t it Ms. Coulter who thought it would be
“fun” to nuke non-Christian countries? No doubt she delights in the
fact that, according to
the Pentagon,
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global
catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters.
A secret report, suppressed by US defense chiefs and obtained by The
Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising
seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020.
Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.
The document predicts that
abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. …
‘Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,’ concludes
the Pentagon analysis. ‘Once again, warfare would define human life.’ …
[italics added]
Coulter’s “Let them eat tofu!” article, like so much of what she says
and writes, is exceeding short on substance in relation to the issues
addressed and far too long on childish sniping and character
assassinations of those with whom she disagrees politically. Witness
her latest:
Finishing up a presentation on Friday [February 2, 2007] at the
Conservative Political Action Convention, right-wing pundit Ann Coulter
referred to Democratic Party presidential nominee John Edwards as a
“faggot.”
“I was going to have a few comments about the other Democratic nominee,
John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you
use the word ‘faggot,’” she said to a crowd, eliciting uncomfortable
groans, then cheers and applause. “So I’m kind of at an impasse. Can’t
really talk about Edwards, so I’ll just conclude here and take your
questions. Thank you.”
Her audience at the convention included several 2008 Republican
presidential hopefuls – former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney,
former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Arkansas governor Mike
Huckabee, Colorado representative Tom Tancredo, and Kansas senator Sam
Brownback – as well as Vice President Dick Cheney who, of course, has a
lesbian daughter.
Actually, Coulter should be thanked for her stupid statements and
hateful remarks. Such odious comments do nothing but hurt the radical
right. They make it clear to everyone what self-centered,
hate-mongering bigots they really are. Coulter’s
ad hominem attacks also point out that she and her ilk have no ideas, nothing new to say. All they can do is
make fun of others:
“What’s Al Gore up to these days?” Coulter rhetorically asked, before answering, “Four hundred pounds.”
Coulter asked, “Did Al Gore actually swallow Michael Moore?”
“Obama is half-white and half-black,” Coulter said, before comparing
the Illinois senator to former President Bill Clinton. “Clinton was
half-white, half-trash.”
But perhaps there’s something else – something psychologically telling
– in Ann Coulter’s diverting fondness for calling people “fags” (and,
no doubt, “dykes”):
This wouldn’t mark the first time that Coulter has “gay-baited” a
Democrat. Coulter used the “other f-word” in a joking reference to Gore
in a television interview last June, and on various occasions has
claimed that Bill Clinton could be a “latent homosexual.”
“I think that sort of rampant promiscuity does show some level of latent homosexuality,” Coulter said of Clinton on
The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch on CNBC. (
Crooks and Liars has video of the CNBC comments.)
Given that Ms. Coulter probably deems Shakespeare a liberal faggot, she
may never have bothered to read him. But one of the bard’s most famous
lines could easily be applied to Ann Coulter, with a latent wink and a
nod: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks” (
Hamlet,III, ii, 239).