Changing The Tone

by digby

It was only two and a half years ago that Time Magazine put Ann Coulter on the cover saying: "the officialdom of punditry, so full of phonies and dullards, would suffer without her humor and fire." And thank goodness, it looks like the mainstream media is planning to keep this woman's humor and fire accessible to the masses.

In preparation for the media blitz, the good folks at Media Matters have read her new book "Guilty" so you don't have to. Evidently, she hilariously posits that liberals are assaulting America with their victimization (the conservatives are busy fighting the war on Christmas, no doubt.) She asks "who's the biggest pussy? Barack or Hillary?" and claims that Republican turncoats, male and female, are nothing but a bunch of ... women, which is the worst epithet Coulter can think of. (She calls John McCain a pussy too.) Fun stuff.

But I wonder if she's going to find a friendly audience even among the neanderthals with her attack on divorced people and single mothers:

In any event, divorced mothers should be called "divorced mothers," not "single mothers." We also have a term for the youngsters involved: "the children of divorce," or as I call them, "future strippers." It is a mark of how attractive it is to be a phony victim that divorcées will often claim to belong to the more disreputable category of "single mothers." [Page 36]

Later in the chapter, Coulter writes: "Single motherhood is like a farm team for future criminals and social outcasts." [Page 38]

So Coulter is not only attacking liberals these days, but Republicans, war heroes, single mothers, divorcées and their children as well. At some point there is going to be nobody left to buy her books --- except for media figures, who apparently continue to believe that she's just rollicking good fun. But then they love nothing more than kissing up to those who abuse them.


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