I have to wonder why someone like Bill Maher calls Ann Coulter a friend. I heard this from his own lips, on his show, with her there and she agreed with him. He was trying to be polite in confronting her about her more incendiary remarks but that part of the panel conversation didn't go very far. They went back into joking about dating each other.

It *does* make me wonder how much of that is "Ann Coulter (tm)" and how much is Mrs. Coulter's baby girl all grown up. How much of that is the image she's portraying in order to sell books and keep her income stream healthy?

But when it comes to that kind of political humor? I'll take P. J. O'Rourke over her any day (I have several of his books and his essay "Terror of the Euroweenies" reprinted in his "Holidays in Hell" book is probably my favorite of all time).