I enjoy listening to Coulter. I usually agree with her and I have a high sense of appreciation for her witty sarcasm. I think it's only the ones she skewers, and those who admire her ideological targets that call it hate. I find it a bit ludicrous, and even mendacious.

She is probably the consistently highest selling politically conservative author in the country. She's irreverent and funny and smarter than most all who interview her or review her.

Me insult? When have I insulted anyone. I think Ms. Coulter and I have this in common. People who don't like their views and thoughts disparaged internalize a feeling of profound hurt, and then feel victimized. It's an "occupational" hazard, I guess.

Richie, you actually posted. "I enjoy listening to Coulter. I usually agree with her and I have a high sense of appreciation for her witty sarcasm. I think it's only the ones she skewers, and those who admire her ideological targets that call it hate."

You do not call quotes # 2 and 3 "HATE"? I really hope you do not agree with her on those topics. Her quote #1 shows stupidity.

1. "There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer." -Ann Coulter, on fears over the fallout from Japan's nuclear crisis, Bill O'Reilly interview, March 18, 2011

2. "I don't really like to think of it as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester. ... I am personally opposed to shooting abortionists, but I don't want to impose my moral values on others." --on the murder of Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller, FOX News interview, June 22, 2009

3. "We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee."

These are the remarks of a sane person? No, they are not! These are real quotes and are even taken from Fox Noise itself.
Even scarier are the number of people who think that Coulter speaks the truth.

These and dozens of other quotes that Coulter has put on the record, are not witty sarcasm, they are outrageous and incediary. I disagree about her sanity, unfortunately I think she is perfectly sane, but vicious, and intelligent enough to know that her horribly mean-spirited rhetoric will make her millions of dollars pandering to the basest of intincts in her relatively small audience. Richie, I really cannot beleive you find these kind of statements to be witty or in any way helpful to anyone's cause - if you do I am disappointed.

If she was not a very attractive woman I doubt she would be as successful as she is.....I can rarely read more then a paragraph or two of her stuff before she says something so "odd" ( I am being kind here) that I don't waste any more time to finish it...

Number 1.?

I won't answer this. I'll just link her column which I'd bet almost anything you never read, but are just posting a soundbite. She cites much documentation. Read it; maybe you'll actually learn something.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=42347

Number 2 ?

Abortion doctors have the protection of the law in their murder of innocents. I say this as a firm believer in the sanctity of life. Ms. Coulter is making a point. It's a good one. Why is one life worth more than another? She skewered your belief and you call it hate. Thank you for making my point and hers. You couldn't have been more helpful.

Number 3 ?

In making a point about the need for more conservative justices on the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, Ms. Coulter made a bad joke in wishing for the elimination from the court of the most knee-jerk liberal judge on the court at the time. She immediately at the time she made this remark to the students at Philander Smith College said "That's just a joke, for you in the media." She also made other off color jokes about Supreme Court judges to howls of laughter from her audience. It was a bit over the top and a stupid thing to say, but when people are killing innocent life, sometimes you fantasize about the ones enabling this horror.

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).

While folks like Coulter & Limbaugh & Beck & Olbermann & Schultz may actually have some belief in what they are communicating, it is my belief that, in truth, they know what they do earns them their considerable income. Disciples of theirs are probably more vehement in adopting their beliefs that they are themselves...and that is what is scary. :doh:

I have heard Bill say that she was a friend as well. Never made any sense, but what you say is a good explaination. I think MOST of what she says is for shock value and maintaining a persona to rake in the big bucks. Feels kind of like the TV preachers who wind up being pretty scummy and/or in it for the bucks.

:agree:

Ann Coulter and liberal N.Y. Congressman Andrew Stein dated for a while. Who knows what attracts one person to another. Maybe Ann Coulter appreciates Bill Maher's caustic humor which is much in the same vein as hers, albeit from the opposite perspective. Most likely, despite all this political turmoil, they've interacted in a human way and found each other to be caring people.

(Full disclosure: I loathe Bill Maher and cannot tolerate what he calls humor. So, I guess that put me in an intellectual quandary on this topic)

My ultra conservative brother is married to the most left wing radical vegan woman I know. They don't discuss politics. She is also one of the most loving caring involved parent I've ever seen, who dotes on her children, and now their children and always has youngster vying for her lap.

Spot on Dale! And it is scary, something about worshiping graven idols.......