Coulter up to old tricks

Ann Coulter took jibes at
Hillary Clinton yesterday morning. That’s to be expected, since Coulter
is a conservative columnist and Mrs. Clinton is a liberal senator. But
Coulter — acting true to form — made a personal attack that only
lessens the strength of any intellectual argument she might have made.

/ THE RIGHT-WING PUNDIT was on ABC?s ?Good Morning America? Tuesday,
discussing her new book ?Treason? ? which argues, among other
things, that commie witch-hunting Sen. Joe McCarthy was right.
?You?re going to be on the New York Times best-seller list, slugging
it out against Hillary Clinton,? Sawyer commented, according to the
GMA official transcript.
?I hope so,? replied Coulter.
?Who is going to win??
?I think she has a three-to-one pound advantage over me,? said
Coulter, ?but we?ll see.? /

Note: I tried to find a transcript, but ABC charges for them.

Some male conservatives also stoop to personal attacks against the
Clintons, just as males liberals take pot shots at conservatives. Look
at Al Franken’s attacks on Rush Limbaugh, and Limbaugh’s personal
attacks on Democrats and any Republicans he considers insufficiently
conservative.

But the Coulter/Clinton book sales competition allows the media to frame
the issue as a catfight between blondes.

As an aside, I consider it silly that so many people — especially
bloggers — report on the sales figures for Coulter’s and Mrs. Clinton’s
books to be some sort of half-assed referendum on their ideas. They are
both shrill shills for flawed philosphies who attack their enemies
rather than present valuable ideas. I don’t care how many books either
one sells.