Generally speaking, I can and do ignore most of the trolls, including Ann Coulter. She is Exhibit A for everything that is wrong with the state of political discourse in this country. Rude, insensitive, hateful, mean-spirited, and self-righteous, Coulter seems to think that anyone or anything that she finds objectionable is evil and stupid. This, of course, makes her no different than your average, garden-variety ignoramus. The fact that she has a forum and gets paid handsomely to spew her bile is what I find so objectionable. Her latest column is so thoroughly putrid that not even US Today would run it.
Apparently, the nuts at the Democratic National Convention are going to be put in cages outside the convention hall. Sadly, they won't be fighting to the death as is done in W.W.F. caged matches. They're calling this the "protestor's area," although I suppose a better name would be the "truth-free zone."
I thought this was a great idea until I realized the "nut" category did not include Sharpton, Al Gore, Bill Clinton and Teddy Kennedy – all featured speakers at the convention. I'd say the actual policy is only untelegenic nuts get the cages, but little Dennis Kucinich is speaking at the Convention, too. So it must be cages for "nuts who have not run for president as serious candidates for the Democratic Party."....
With any luck, Gore will uncork his speech comparing Republicans to Nazis. Just a few weeks ago, Gore gave a speech accusing the Bush administration of deploying "digital Brown Shirts" to intimidate journalists and pressure the media into writing good things about Bush – in case you were wondering where all those glowing articles about Bush were coming from.
She is only one person, and yet she is one person with a national forum. Anyone with a conscience and a sense of decency would find a way to at least offer something constructive as an alternative. The problem with Coulter is that, while she is ready, willing, and able to degrade, insult, and tear down, she has nothing to offer as anything resembling an alternative.
Insults may gain you headlines and inflate your bank balance, but if that is all you are after, well, that's a pretty shallow existence. Then again, it seems very clear that Coulter cares for nothing except her own self-aggrandizement. Clearly, someone never learned how to play well with others. This more than qualifies her as a DUMB@$$. Personally, I'd like to see her stick her DUMB@$$ AWARD somewhere where it won't get a sunburn. If her intellectually bankrupt and morally repulsice arguments are the best that Conservatives have to offer, well, let's just say that the Democrats are looking pretty good.
