My journal includes several negative letters-to-the-editor blasting Coulter. But I hadn't posted these yet:
(both excerpted)
Deep-six Coulter, Moore--Dec. 6, 2006If you can’t beat them, call them terrorists. It’s a tactic that earned a lot of House and Senate Republicans abject concession speeches last month, but commentators like Ann Coulter and Carl Moore continue to stay the course.
To the editors of Stars and Stripes: Deep-six their commentaries and replace them with intelligent arguments from intelligent commentators.
Don’t pander to stupidityA big round of applause for the writer of
“Drop hateful Coulter column” (letter, Nov. 30) for having the courage to say what is always on my mind when I see or hear the nonsense that comes out of that woman’s mouth.
She is a racist and an elitist. I never saw her in uniform, I do not know if she is married with children, but I will bet that her kids will never wear a uniform either.
Stars and Stripes should not pander to that kind of stupidity. And speaking of stupidity, while you are getting rid of undesirable print — I won’t even call it news — get rid of that moronic comic strip “State of the Union” that is an insult to my intelligence.
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And then, this letter, below, which was printed the same day Stripes reported 10 soldiers killed.
Ann's sarcasm and "humor," not even thinly veiling her racism directed at Muslims, was likely lost on the Iraqis who killed those soldiers. The DoD is always worried about OpSec. Shouldn't it also be worried about commentators' racist spittle being splashed about the base paper in Iraq/Afghanistan?
A ‘master of satire’Ann Coulter continues to stir controversy because she is a master of satire. The American Heritage Dictionary describes satire as “irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity.” In other words, she’s trying to be funny.