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Ann Coulter: She-Wolf of the Far Right
Truly a monstrous excuse for a human being, far-right columnist Ann Coulter—aka The Coultergeist—is one whom future generations should feel fortunate not to have in their midst. Coulter's filth has included calls in interviews and speeches for the public flogging of juvenile offenders, a poll tax to exclude low-income voters, and the execution of "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh "in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too." In 1997, Coulter was fired from the MSNBC network after telling a disabled Vietnam veteran on the air that "people like you caused us to lose that war." Her syndicated column, truly a joy to read, is full of vicious attacks not only on such home-grown enemies as liberals, the poor, and disabled veterans, but also on "the adulterous French" and "terrorist-cheering Muslims." Doing her best to hide the fact that she is an adult who has been to college—perhaps because many of her readers are teenage boys who link to her articles and columns from guns-and-ammo websites, and who think she’s hot—Coulter calls in one magazine article for the United States to launch a military assault on France, asking: "What are they going to do? Fight us?" A sampling of her columns from the weeks following the 9/11 attacks should suffice to provide the reader with more than a lifetime's worth of true-blue American bigotry, bloodthirst, and a twisted version of Christianity familiar to all us from the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the Salem Witch Trials, not to mention any religious pogrom or "cleansing" of the modern era one might care to recall:
"Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.... We should require passports to fly domestically. Passports can be forged, but they can also be checked with the home country in case of any suspicious-looking swarthy males.... Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims—at least all terrorists capable of assembling a murderous plot against America that leaves 7,000 people dead in under two hours…. How are we to distinguish the peaceful Muslims from the fanatical, homicidal Muslims about to murder thousands of our fellow citizens...? The only thing we know about them—other than that they live among us—is that they are foreign-born and they are Muslims.... We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war...."
Like a true yuppie ice-queen from the Reagan era of which she is obviously the horrifying product, Coulter shows up for television interviews wearing a mini-skirt in an attempt to be sexy and malignant at the same time which I personally find rather creepy, something akin to the title character of that great '70s cult film, Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS, as others have likewise observed. Indeed, Coulter is the she-wolf of the far-right in America today, and I can easily imagine her painting the town red, so to speak, in a faux SS uniform cut to the same style as the mini-skirts she presently wears—more than fitting attire, I would offer, for one who is such a close spiritual kid-sister to Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels.
In another heartwarming magazine article, Coulter writes on concern among liberals that the "barbarians" and "angry primitives" of other countries might be unhappy with America's actions abroad. Here, Coulter takes the liberty of speaking for what all Americans supposedly want, and succeeds in insulting not only the Arabs but the Japanese as well:
"Good. They should be worried. They hate us? We hate them. Americans don't want to make Islamic fanatics love us. We want to make them die. There's nothing like horrendous physical pain to quell angry fanatics. So sorry they’re angry—wait until they see American anger. Japanese kamikaze pilots hated us once too. A couple of well-aimed nuclear weapons, and now they are gentle little lambs. That got their attention."
Coulter eagerly panders to the Christian far-right, as in her April 2004 description of Islam in contrast to Christianity as a religion "whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed'." Indeed a contemporary Dante rewriting the Inferno would likely place her in that circle of Hell reserved for hypocrites, where Caiaphas lies crucified to the ground with stakes. In October 2004 Coulter had the following exchange with interviewer Alan Colmes on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes regarding her earlier call to "invade [Muslims'] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity":
COLMES: "Would you like to convert these people all to Christianity?"
COULTER: "The ones that we haven't killed, yes."
COLMES: "So no one should be Muslim. They should all be Christian?"
COULTER: "That would be a good start, yes.... Yes, that would be terrific."
Coulter's bile is not reserved only for the "the adulterous French" and "terrorist-cheering Muslims." For Canada she had the following to say with Hannity & Colmes in November 2004: "They better hope the United States doesn't roll over one night and crush them. They are lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent." In January 2005 she told Alex Jones of the New York Observer: "I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.... I just think it would be fun to nuke them and have it be a warning to the rest of the world." In December 2005 she wrote in her column, "I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo." Most recently at time of this writing, Coulter had the following to offer in a February 2006 address to the Conservative Action Political Conference (CPAC) as a motto for post-911 America in its dealings with the Arab world: "Raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences."
Beyond the realm of international relations and the question of whom America should bomb next, Coulter has also written diatribes against any and all forms of environmentalism. For example, she wrote back in October 2000 against calls from Al Gore and other liberals for Americans to conserve resources, again injecting her own inimitable brand of decadent Christian conservatism; and this time choosing to insult, not the Arabs, the French, or the Japanese, but the Swedes:
"What does [Gore] think we are – Swedes? We're Americans. This is a prosperous country. We will not live like Swedes. We want 18-ton Ford Exploro-cruisers, cell phones, CDs, hot showers, blow dryers, DVD players and jet skis.... The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man's dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet – it's yours. That's our job: drilling, mining and stripping.... Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars – that's the Biblical view.... You couldn't get rid of the environment if you tried. Alaska is immense, caribou love the Alaskan pipeline, they've grouped there, frolicking and leaping over the pipeline ... but I'm lost in an irrelevancy. The point is: We need oil for our CAT scan machines, airplanes, computers and refrigerators...."
Simply astonishing, that so much of what is wrong with the world today could be contained within a single individual.
See also: Ann Coulter, Miserable Hag.

Mark C. Eades
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