I've come to the conclusion that Ann Coulter is the Andy Kaufman of conservatism; you never know if she's serious, or tongue in cheek, but you do know she is trying to grab attention in the slyest manner possible.From last year's TIME magazine cover story about Ann:At least Rush has always been upfront about being primarily a performer ("demonstrating absurdity by being absurd");
I'm never quite sure about Coulter.
...But as Coulter herself points out in Is It True What They Say About Ann?, "I think the way to convert people is to make them laugh or to make them enraged ... Even if I could be convinced that if I had gone through 17 on-the-one-hand-on-the-other-hands, I might convince one more liberal out there, I think I’d still write the way I write, because it gives me laughs."Coulter told me that when her editor suggests cutting a line from a column to save space, "I’ll ask him, ‘But is it funny?’ And if he says it’s funny, I’ll cut an actual fact [instead]."
Aha, thank you.