Reply #51: Chicago Tribune agrees with me

[warrens]

More like Fred Phelps. From Neil Steinberg's column today (sorry, got it on Nexis, so no link)...

"How do you write about someone if you can't bring yourself to utter her name? I'm staring at a news photo of a certain loathsome bottle-blond Republican writer, her horsy face somehow thought to pass for pretty in political circles, which is like being the thinnest person at fat camp.

You've probably read about this venomous doxy, mocking the widows of victims of Sept. 11 for daring to lobby for a political end she opposes. "I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much," she writes in her latest bucket of bile between hard covers.

That's not just mean, it's crazy. Grieving activists certainly may be criticized -- anti-war mom Cindy Sheehan clearly liked the spotlight way too much, lingered there way too long, and said many jarringly stupid things in the process. That does not, however, translate into her being glad her son is dead.

This is the obvious latest chapter of Newt Gingrich's "call them traitors" approach to the Democrats that has so polarized and poisoned debate in this country for the last 10 years.

We have enough enemies vilifying our nation, and the fact that -- oh heck, gird our loins, hawk lustily onto the floor, and just say it -- Ann Coulter is only damning half of our beloved nation does not excuse her from the realm of mullahs and shrieking foreign mobs. She has earned herself a spot alongside Fred "God Hates Fags'' Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church, well outside the pale of human decency."