Listen. I know this has been diaried, but I came across an op-ed in Haaretz about the Coulter "perfected" Jews diatribe that just nails it.
Until recently, I failed to take Ann Coulter seriously. I was wrong.
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I was wrong to write off as scattershot shtick her comments against women's right to vote, her suggestion that John Edwards was a "faggot" who should have been assassinated by terrorists, her depiction of Islam as a religion whose whose tenets are "along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed.'"
I was wrong to see her as some highly intelligent, well-educated, perversely gifted panderer to the lower common denominator. I was wrong to see her as some overqualified infotainment shock jock. I should have taken her seriously.
Ann Coulter is my enemy.
Ann Coulter is the kind of patriotic, persuasive, powerful American who is precisely what is wrong with America.
I'll never underestimate her again. Ann Coulter has a plan for the Jews. She has one for Muslims as well. And it's her people who are exactly the kind of Americans who could find the way to try to carry it out.
I know people write her off as a publicity hound. I know people use derogatory terms and make fun of her looks. I know people write her off as a buffoon.
But, folks, consider the possibility that she a hate-spewing, violence-inciting, racist. The fact that she is afforded plenty of TV airtime only allows her to present her viscious vitriol as the new normal.
Take her, please. But, please take her seriously.
Ann Coulter is my enemy.