Ann Coulter, You're No Sister Souljah

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Ann Coulter, You're No Sister Souljah

By: Jennifer Rubin
March 3, 2007 05:26 PM EST


Ann Coulter is not African-American, does not sing and never said “If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?” However, she is the closest the Republicans will get to Sister Souljah.

Coulter has made a career of interspersing insightful and cutting political criticism with outrageous and morally repugnant remarks. She attracted considerable attention with her crack about the group of 9/11 widows dubbed the “Jersey girls,” with a line in one of her books, “These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them. ... I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much.”

Then, there was her crack about Muslims at last year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC): “I think our motto should be post-9-11, ‘rag head talks tough, rag head faces consequences.’” At CPAC on Thursday, in endorsing Republican presidential aspirant Mitt Romney, who needs more bad press like a hole in the head, she piped up with this one: “I was going to say something about John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot.’”

It's about time for a presidential contender, perhaps all of them in the spirit of Newt Gingrich’s crusade for improving public discourse, to say “enough.” Coulter’s never-ending stream of venom is not amusing, unhelpful to Republicans, and not in keeping with the ideals of a party that fancies itself as the proponent of a colorblind society and heir to Lincoln.

It is not “caving” into political correctness to distance and indeed condemn such remarks as unworthy of a political event like CPAC. To the contrary, it is altogether fitting that a group that ostensibly searches for the best in conservative ideas, rewards political courage and encourages intellectual debate, should be able to differentiate the amusing from the offensive, and the clever from the vile.


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[Erika]

1. Ann's lke Brittany Spears in meltdown

I keep asking, has she ever been married or had children?

[Phredicles]

2. What I heard is: Never married, three broken engagements.

To know her is to run screaming away from her, is what I'd guess the explanation is.

[blonndee]

3. Respectfully, I really don't understand this question, Erika.

*I've* never married or had children, but I object both to every freaking thing she says AND just about every sexist slur that's been made about her here. I guess I just don't get what being married or having children has to do with her?

[Erika]

5. She seems blind to any empathy or recognition of families

John and Elizabeth Edwards are close and survived the horrible death of their oldest son and her fight against breast cancer.

I just wondered where her shallowness came from.

[grytpype]

4. It would be so funny if the Repugs Soljahed her!

If they want to Sista Soljah her then they had better distance themselves from her and be quick about it. I'll die laughing!