The real Coulter, if you can bear it

Ron already did a review of Jame's Wolcott's beautiful roasting of the Toxic Twig, following her nauseating appearance on the cover of Time. (Any thoughts I ever had of starting a new subscription to Time have evaporated.) Taking a less artistic and more fact driven analysis of the shortcomings of the Time piece, Media Matters for America sets the record straight.

[A]fter reading the magazine's nearly 6,000-word profile of Coulter, readers still don't know the real Ann Coulter. They don't know the real Ann Coulter because Time carefully hid her from view, glorifying her legal work, whitewashing her habitual lies, and downplaying her -- at best -- grossly inappropriate rhetoric.

After quoting her "friend" Miguel Estrada saing that the twig could be "a little bit of a polemicist" and "occasionally coarse", the Media Matters article opens up a barage of links showing exactly how much of a right wing, whore-mongering sellout this article actually was.

"Occasionally" coarse? A "little bit" of a polemicist? This about a "commentator" who claimed that the Democratic Party "supports killing, lying, adultery, thievery, envy"; who said of the idea that the American military were targeting journalists, "Would that it were so!"; who said President Clinton "was a very good rapist"; who insisted that "[l]iberals love America like O.J. loved Nicole"; who said that "I think a baseball bat is the most effective way these days" to talk to liberals; who said it was lucky for former senator Max Cleland's political career that he lost an arm and two legs in Vietnam; who has said her "only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building"; and who wrote that the only real question about Bill Clinton was "whether to impeach or assassinate."

What, exactly, would it take for Time to declare that someone is "frequently" coarse?

One excellent example which Media Matters points out is this Coulter quote taken from the Time article.

When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that [American Taliban supporter] John Walker [Lindh] is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals

What they forgot to do was include the entire quote, which looks a bit different when put correctly in context.

When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that [American Taliban supporter] John Walker [Lindh] is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too. Otherwise they will turn out to be outright traitors.

This was a pile of trash of the worst sort. Any credibility that the once great magazine still had has folded up over the last two weeks in their flurry to curry favor with the administration and the right wing.