Oh, for goodness sake, I'll bet dollars to donuts Ann said that sarcastically, as wry 'gotcha' humor, meaning to deride the concept and criticize them for hypocrisy at the same time..... especially if she said this after Hillary won the election over the "issue" of Rick Lasio invading her personal space in their debate.
I admire your scruples. Yet her punchline from that column shouldn't be forgotten by those worshipers who are touting the savage, abusive Coulter as (may the gods forgive them) the next Mencken:
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity."
As for the article heading this thread, I haven't read it in full, and I refuse to do so. I retched when I saw enough of the first few paragraphs to recognize the absurd destination of her viewpoint: She sees the news media as orchestrating the shuttle-disaster coverage, in its scope and emotion, to divert supposedly needed attention from the Iraq Crusade.
I am as annoyed by the excess media bathos as anyone who dislikes wallowing in cheap theatrics. Yet what terminal cynics such as Coulter are forgetting is that the chord of emotion that the space program touches is that of RESPECT FOR ACHIEVEMENT. Soldiers perform an essential task, without which we could not live, but they achieve nothing on net beyond the prevention of calamity or tyranny.
Scientists do achieve, even those who don't succeed in their original objectives ... or who die trying. They advance a cultural respect for seeking truth, if nothing else. Those on the shuttle died -- yes, ignoring their tax-funded context for a moment -- for the sake of advancement of knowledge. Just how many times has this happened since Giordano Bruno, Galileo's inspiration, was burned at the stake?
This is what Americans are responding to with, yes, the occurrence of this tragedy. Except for Coulter and her ilk, who don't care about tearing the striving toward values into shreds, if they can become rhetorical meat for her grinder.
LOL I think that would have been hilarious. Sounds like a reference to Hillary's suggestion that what's his name threatened her when he waved that sheet of paper in her general direction.
I believe that history will prove her right on that one. In the end, it will be the only way to bring about lasting peace.
Plus there was one other instance when I heard her use the phrase, "You're invading my personal space!" during some interview, which...for some strange reason really made me not like her so much as I had (I think it was the PC quality of the remark coming from someone I don't associated with PC *at all*).
First, I agree with others who feel that you're missing the satirical point on that one -- Hillary had recently made "personal space" famously a topic, and ludicrously so.
Second, a recognition of "personal space" predates political correctness by several decades. There have been articles about it in the psychological literature since at least 1965. The recognition that people get reflexively uncomfortable if someone else "gets in their face" is in no way founded on PC, and despite sharing a word in common is not synonymous with the liberal touchy-feely "I need my space".
Finally, even if she had been serious, chastising someone for violating your personal space seems perfectly compatible with conservative values to me -- it's reminding them to stop being unacceptably rude and to show a little basic respect and manners.