I get mail from 'the voice of reason'...

...who, misreading scripture, thinks we should split the difference on the Coulter kerfuffle just like ol' King Solomon was gonna do to that baby of yore.

First, I must say I hate the whole Anonymous family; men, women, children, and pets. (Also any hot Anonymous babes this family may have spawned.) I know you folks are from hearty Greek stock (by way of Italy) but honestly, you are nothing more than cowards.

That being said, I think it is prudent to post the following comment on my unconditional defense of Ann Coulter's intellectual beat down of the Guernsey Churls. (Also here.) Note how this sounds oh-so-reasonable the first couple of times you read it:


Bullwinkle J. Anonymous said...

I don't think anyone is saying these women should be immune from attack. The problem people on both the left and right have with Coulter is that she equates attacking their positions with attacking them.

For example, if Coulter (or anyone else) disagreed with these women's call for a commission investigating how and why the 9/11 attacks happened, she could easily say, "While these women suffered a terrible loss, I disagree with their position on the necessity of a 9/11 commission for the following reasons . . ."

There's no necessary incongruity between disagreeing with someone and being respectful of that person as an individual. Unfortunately, Coulter doesn't understand and/or acknowledge this, which is what leads her to claim that no one is allowed to disagree with these women, and to make the sorts of personal attacks, rather than disagreeing with them on the issues.


This would indeed be appropriate if the Guernsey Churls were agitating for cleaner parks or perhaps cutting school administrators' salaries and using the money saved to buy more books for the libraries. I'd even give the Churls a pass if they were pressing for an ugly 9/11 memorial instead of a beautiful and inspiring one.

Sadly, but not surprisingly, the Guernsey Churls are engaged in left-fascist agitprop and politicking. This puts them in another league entirely.

I know average Americans don't like to think badly about their fellow citizens. Most of us tend to treat leftists as if they were a quirky social club, like the Rotarians or the Oddfellows. Heck, fifty years on, Alger Hiss is still considered to be some kind of victim of bloodthirsty nativist McCarthyism instead of the Soviet agent he was.

I tend to agree with our Founding Fathers. Political speech is sacrosanct. (This does not include pornography. But that's another battle for another day.) Miss Coulter is an expert political polemicist. She is only hated because she uses her superpowers in defense of Truth, Justice, and the American Way. If she spent her time bleating about the vagaries of the weather like The Gorehound, she'd be the pants-wearing US Senator from New York.

The truth is scary, kiddies. Not everyone believes in the Rule of Law. Not everybody believes in Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Not everybody thinks you should be allowed to worship God. Not everybody believes a man should be able to keep what he earns for an honest day's work. Not everybody believes children shouldn't be used for sex. Not everybody believes children shouldn't be murdered.

I think we should rejoice we live in a country where such people are regularly reduced to a stuttering, drooling rage by the mere words of a woman who stands five-foot nothin' and weighs a hundred and nothin'.

It is possible that someday (perhaps sooner rather than later) we may have to fight the fascist left with our Second Amendment-protected firearms instead of sarcasm, humor, and truth. Until that day comes, may God bless and protect Ann Coulter.