Coulter... Controversial?! Say it isn't so!

OK. Personally, I don't much care for Ann Coulter. I understand what she is saying, and why she is saying it. Sometimes, I appreciate that she says some of the things she does. I have no problem with her speaking impassionately. For the most part, I think she is politically correct (although not necessarily in the contemporary context of that term). I guess I should rather say I think she is correct, politically. But sometimes, I wish she would just shutup. I would say that about several of the conservative commentators, as well. I know what it is like to try to make a point on the fly. You begin talking before your thoughts are complete and in order. Consequently, the way you word those thoughts can sound very immature or reactionary. I am afraid that Coulter suffers from many such unfortunate moments. But I appreciate what one writer said... something to the effect that she shocks us into dialogue over some important, but often taboo, subjects.

Unfortunately, she is also victim of editorial privilege. He who writes the news gets to shape it in whatever way he wishes. Without going directly to the source of her comments, particularly this last one about wishing John Edwards was killed by a terrorist assassination plot, many editors are allowing the comment to be understood as a personal wish of hers.

One in particular specifically states that she wished he was killed by assassins. Talk about fodder, Edward's campaign jumped all over it and raised millions of dollars. But what she really said was basically that if Bill Maher could publicly state his personal and sincere opinion that the world would be a better place if terrorists had killed our Vice President while he was in Afghanistan, to which there was very little public discussion, then maybe she can get away with saying that she hopes Edwards is killed in an assassination plot. This cannot seriously be taken as any sincere desire of hers, but only as an illustration of the hypocrisy of the left and those who determine what is to be public discourse. The current outrage certainly illustrates her point much better even than she did. Liberal Maher announces that he would have appreciated terrorists killing our VP, and nothing is said, while Conservative Coulter says what do you think would happen if I said I wish a presidential nobody candidate was assassinated, and the sh** hits the fan (as my mother used to say). I'd like someone to please justify this one to me.

Yeah, right.