Statecraft Informer

Sparxafire! The blogs are all a-flappin’ about Elizabeth Edward’s on-air phone call to Ann Coulter on MSNBC’s “Hardball.”
I googled, “agree with Ann Coulter” and got about 10,400 responses. But upon closer scrutiny, I found a rather large percentage of those to be, “While I can’t agree with Ann Coulter…” or “I used to agree with Ann Coulter…” or “Do you agree with Ann Coulter that the 9/11 widows are witches and harpies? …

I would still like to troll these responses to see if I could find a single, authentic fan of Ann Coulter who is not in it for the shock value.

So, off to her website to read the top post, dated a week ago, where I think she accuses Durham prosecutor Mike (”half-wit”) Nifong of falsely trying to grab some kind Hollywood-style publicity in his mishandling of the Duke lacrosse players? As a professional writer, I have to admit, Coulter’s writing is a bit clangy and circuitous.

Here we go again! Coulter is on the long list of people who are famous for treating the American public as if we are all morons.

Here’s a partial list:
1. Dick Cheney thinks we are so stupid, he apparently thought he could get away with denying membership in the executive branch of the government. What have we done to make him think we would just nod, and murmur, “Oh, yeah, right. Sure, of course, that’s right…”

2. Paris Hilton is so stupid that she honestly believes that we are stupid enough to believe she deserves to be breathlessly photographed, doing absolutely nothing, around the clock. What did we do to the media to make them believe we want this coverage? Do everybody’s ratings soar when they cover Paris Hilton, Anna Nichole Smith, Brittany Spears, Jon Benet Ramsey and such?

3. Rupert Murdoch thinks we are stupid enough to allow him to buy Dow-Jones and the Wall Street Journal, and let them continue to succeed under his famously anti-journalistic stance? We are not that stupid, are we?

4. Rudy Guiliani seems to think we are pretty stupid with his one-note “9/11 Fear Campaign.” I don’t know what he did that was so great on Sept. 11. He was the mayor. He was there. He felt bad. Was the city on the verge of some nervous breakdown only he could vanquish? He is now saying 9/11 was President Clinton’s fault for not taking the 1993 attack on the Trade Center more seriously? Huh? It was Guiliani’s city. He put the city’s emergency response center where? In the WTC! Did he ask Clinton if that was a good idea? Ba-dee, ba-dee, ba-deeee….

Sigh. I have a hard time keeping track of who’s stupid.