IN MY SHOES: What It’s Like To Be Ann Coulter
An excerpt from Ann Coulter's new book, “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”:
Uttering lines that send liberals into paroxysms of rage, otherwise known as “citing facts,” is the spice of life. When I see the hot spittle flying from their mouths and the veins bulging and pulsing above their eyes, well, that’s when I feel truly alive. …
About twice a year for nearly a decade, I have upset the little darlings with some public statement, and yet they manage to summon fresh outrage for each new offense. Each time they think I can’t “sink any lower” - I proceed to do so! And by the way, if they’re going to keep using the tired formulation “This time, she’s gone too far!”—can I get an admission that the last sixteen times were, therefore, not “too far”? …
Liberal hysteria about conservative speech always follows the same pattern; I call it “The Five Stages of Conservative Enlightenment.” There are public denunciations, demands for apologies, letter-writing campaigns, attacks on the sources of your income, and calls for censorship. There will be lots of wailing, but no facts refuting the point behind your hysteria-inducing statement. Liberals prefer denouncing people with idioms—over the top, gone too far, crossed the line, beyond the pale - not substance. Whose line? Whose pale? It almost makes you think they don’t want to talk about the substance. …
In the midst of the hysteria over my having “gone too far,” it will be announced that the target of my cruel joke has emerged triumphant, whereas I have finally been vanquished. And then you will never hear from my human punch line again, but I will return to utter another allegedly career-ending statement another day.
Coulter writes that of all the reviews of her 1998 book, “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” – the first in a string of five New York Times bestsellers – her favorite was The Economist’s. The liberal British publication said the book “reads like the closing argument of a long trial by a prosecutor who plainly hates the guilty bastard at the defence [sic] table.”
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