If Ann Coulter Didnt Exist - Road to the Middle Class

The flap over Ann Coulter and her new book, Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America is par for the course. Liberals cannot help getting all riled up when Coulter comes into the room.

Did NBC “ban” Coulter from its airwaves? Or did they put her off for a day because of the important Gaza conflict? Who knows; who cares?

But we do know that liberals hate everything about Ann Coulter and everything she writes.

Oh yes, of course. Her humor is “sophomoric.” No doubt that’s why she is so popular with college conservatives. Someone has to do the sophomoric humor. There’s a market for that sort of stuff, you know. With liberals it involves a lot of f-words and s-words. For conservatives it makes much more sense to make fun of liberals.

You have to say that Harry Smith’s pompous interview of Coulter on CBS was iconic, as media critic Brent Bosell demonstrates.

Harry Smith hosted Maher on CBS just months ago on his faith-mocking movie "Religulous" and didn’t say one discouraging word to him about his caustic remarks about Cheney or his hateful anti-Christian bigotry. Not one word.

But with Coulter, it’s another tone completely.

[Smith] called her "goofy," "simplistic," "sophomoric" and a "whiner." "You should have a cross," he said dismissively. "You should put yourself up on a cross."

And on Hannity and Colmes when Coulter indicted liberals for attacking the nuclear family and encouraging single-parent families, Alan Colmes asked her why she wasn’t married.

Warning to conservatives: Don’t you try that. Conservatives aren’t allowed to make sexist comments like that: “Why aren’t you married?” It could be career ending for you. And not just in the liberal media.

While we are at it, let’s put up Ellwood and Jencks 2004. It tells you what liberals have done to America.

Never forget. Liberals did that. Liberals deprived millions of children of the right to have a mother and a father. At home. With them where they live.

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Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.

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