The Anti-American Right II

Via Atrios, a predictably sad exercise in vicious fiction from the predictably sad Ann Coulter. No surprise that she joins the ranks of the anti-American right with the very first paragraph of this vile and mendacious screed:

The Howard Dean campaign was forced to cancel events this week in response to events in Iraq. Donations to the Uday and Qusay Hussein Memorial Fund can be submitted directly to the Dean campaign.

Implying that your political opponents are in league with murderous scum because they did not support the war that resulted in the deaths of said scum is anti-American. Is Bush a follower of bin Laden because he derided Clinton’s attempt to kill the elusive terrorist as “firing missiles at a camel’s butt”? Is Tom DeLay complicit in the crimes of Slobodan Milosevic because he didn’t support the NATO action in Kosovo? No—and you won’t see honest, decent people on either side of the political aisle making those kinds of accusations; honest, decent people understand that in a democracy, politics, like society, ought to be civil.

Once again, Ann Coulter has proven herself to be a dishonest polemicist who oozes hated for the American ideal.

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