{"id":7706,"date":"2006-06-16T12:31:10","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7706"},"modified":"2006-06-16T12:31:10","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T16:31:10","slug":"maybe-she-missed-the-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/maybe-she-missed-the-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe she missed the headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 10 days ago, [tag]Ann Coulter[\/tag] generated national attention by lashing out<\/a> at [tag]9\/11[\/tag] [tag]widows[\/tag]. The ensuing controversy lasted about a week and, aside from some support from the sanity<\/a>–impaired<\/a> wing of the GOP, the political world had largely moved on.<\/p>\n

So, naturally, [tag]Coulter[\/tag] had to kick things back up again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an email interview with John Hawkins at the [tag]Right Wing News[\/tag] web site, Coulter was asked, among other things, to offer short comments on several individuals. After harmlessly dismissing former Ambassador Joseph Wilson as the “World’s most intensely private exhibitionist,” she said of Rep. [tag]John Murtha[\/tag], the hawkish ex-Marine and now antiwar congressman: “The reason soldiers invented [tag]’fragging[\/tag].'”<\/p>\n

Fragging, which became a well-known expression –and occurrence — during the Vietnam war, means soldiers attempting to kill their own officers for one reason or another.<\/p>\n

This was so over the top that conservative Mike Krempasky at RedState.org posted, “I’ve said before that’s its kind of ironic that just about every phrase Stewie from Family Guy uses to describe Lois could easily be applied to Ann Coulter. Well – once again, Ann proves us right.” He went on to call her “fragging” remark absolutely “disgusting….there’s no excuse – NONE – for the allusion to soldiers who kill other soldiers. It’s despicable – and frankly, so is Coulter.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, Coulter seems to believe — and was willing to put in print — that Murtha should be shot<\/strike> killed. Given the timing, it’s my strong belief that Coulter missed the dimming limelight, so she intentionally came up with another comment she knew would disgust anyone with a shred of decency. And sure enough, Coulter created another round of headlines for herself.<\/p>\n

It prompts an interesting question: is the political world, particularly the progressive community, just better off ignoring Coulter’s existence? Do we help generate attention for her, which is what she wants? It’s tempting, but my friend Peter Daou believes<\/a> it would be a mistake.<\/p>\n

He makes a good case, but I’m still torn on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About 10 days ago, [tag]Ann Coulter[\/tag] generated national attention by lashing out at [tag]9\/11[\/tag] [tag]widows[\/tag]. The ensuing controversy lasted about a week and, aside from some support from the sanity–impaired wing of the GOP, the political world had largely moved on. So, naturally, [tag]Coulter[\/tag] had to kick things back up again. In an email interview […]<\/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-7706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706","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=7706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}