ann coulter It would make sense -- and I'd be bound to agree with her -- if it weren't for the very fact that she is a public figure. Public figure. Not private figure. She is out there. More to the point, she puts herself on television, including last night in the hot seat on Piers Morgan's TV show. She's benefiting from the press coverage for her book, which means she needs to take the hard end too, the questions. Besides, Coulter herself uses the excuse of public vs. private to attack political figures at will. Take Obama. A devout Christian, she For example, creating messiahs, a crowd very quickly goes to extremes, they're simple-minded, they will create messiahs and I have a hilarious chapter because I quote liberals on what they say about FDR, JFK, about Clinton, about Obama, fainting at his speeches, they're pledging their loyalty to him.
Same thing with Clinton, go back to him and meanwhile, Ronald Reagan wasn't even the most popular conservative his first year in office. My newspaper "Human Events," which was Ronald Reagan's favorite newspaper was attacking him so much. The Washington Post reported at one point that Reagan said and I'm still reading you guys, but I'm liking you a lot less. And I've got headlines throughout all late years of the Reagan administration. We don't worship our leaders. We don't turn them into idols, probably because we have a real savior. We certainly don't demonize the opponents that way we do. We may ridicule them, make jokes about them. But the way they turned George Bush into the enemy, a Nazi. George Soros and Al Gore have all compared him to Hitler. He was compared to Usama bin Laden by a New York Times op-ed writer. William Raspberry, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, a liberal, called him the devil.
has come out to say that he's an atheist, probing the depths of his supposed faith. Is religion not a portion of one's private life? Years before, she was attacking President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore for promoting gay rights, alleging that they themselves must be gay. Again, private lives. In a perfect world, the private and the public world would remain separate at all times. But in rebuffing Morgan that way, Coulter came across less as a sympathetic figure and more as a hypocrite, one who can "dish it out" but not take the heat even when she puts herself out there. When the going gets tough -- and the questions come around to her own scandals -- it's suddenly mighty convenient to hide behind being "private." You be the judge:
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