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Ann Coulter and Joe McCarthy, sittin' in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g

If you find conservative pundit Ann Coulter to be shrill and irrational, then this article should provide you with reassurance that you weren't jumping to false conclusions. If you're a fan, I suggest reading this and other dissections of her books. It really sounds like she's playing fast and loose with the facts (on top of the shrillness and irrationality.)

Salon.com Books | Has she no shame?

Of course not, and now we know why: In her new book "Treason," Ann Coulter reveals that her role model is Joe McCarthy. And her grasp of facts is even worse than her judgment..

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By Joe Conason

July 4, 2003 | "Slander" is defined in Bouvier's Law Dictionary as "a false defamation (expressed in spoken words, signs, or gestures) which injures the character or reputation of the person defamed." The venerable American legal lexicon goes on to note that such defamatory words are sometimes "actionable in themselves, without proof of special damages," particularly when they impute "guilt of some offence for which the party, if guilty, might be indicted and punished by the criminal courts; as to call a person a 'traitor.'"

"Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America," according to her demonology. "They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant. Fifty years of treason hasn't slowed them down." And: "Liberals relentlessly attack their country, but we can't call them traitors, which they manifestly are, because that would be 'McCarthyism,' which never existed." (Never existed? Her idol gave his 1952 book that very word as its title.)

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Read It Rating: 9
Left/Right Rating: L4/R9
Freedom Rating: 1 (for exposing Coulter)
Learning Percentage: 95%