{"id":6469,"date":"2006-01-28T10:43:16","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T15:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6469"},"modified":"2006-01-28T10:43:16","modified_gmt":"2006-01-28T15:43:16","slug":"that-ann-coulter-what-a-kidder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/that-ann-coulter-what-a-kidder\/","title":{"rendered":"That Ann Coulter, what a kidder"},"content":{"rendered":"

I generally just ignore Ann Coulter’s lunacy because it’s so terribly irrelevant. When circus clowns go on some tirades about liberals, it’s hard to get too worked up about it.<\/p>\n

But I nevertheless thought yesterday’s Coulter flap<\/a> was a little more interesting than most.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a Little Rock college, conservative commentator Ann Coulter joked that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens should be poisoned.<\/p>\n

Coulter told the Philander Smith College audience that more conservative justices were needed on the Supreme Court to change the current law on abortion. Stevens is one of the court’s more liberal members.<\/p>\n

“We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens’ creme brulee,” Coulter said. “That’s just a joke, for you in the media.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I consider myself someone with a fairly good sense of humor, but joking about assassinating 85-year-old justices on the Supreme Court strikes me as a little over the top. Maybe more than a little.<\/p>\n

What’s more, as Paul Waldman noted<\/a>, Coulter seems to call for the deaths of people she doesn’t all the time.<\/p>\n

[T]he point is, the next time somebody on the left – and I’m not talking about some commenter on Kos, but someone equivalent to Coulter, who gets put on the cover of Time magazine, has a syndicated column, and gets on a cable chat show nearly every day – the next time somebody on the left with one tenth the prominence of Coulter starts advocating the murder of his or her political opponents, you can tell me how “angry” liberals are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last week, Tim Russert asked Barack Obama to comment on the recent remarks of Harry Belafonte, whose political significance is practically non-existent. Bill Frist will be on Meet the Press tomorrow. Any chance Russert will ask him for his thoughts on Coulter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I generally just ignore Ann Coulter’s lunacy because it’s so terribly irrelevant. When circus clowns go on some tirades about liberals, it’s hard to get too worked up about it. But I nevertheless thought yesterday’s Coulter flap was a little more interesting than most. Speaking at a Little Rock college, conservative commentator Ann Coulter joked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}