Editor & Publisher spares us the pain of having to search out Ann Coulter's latest excretion. Her increasingly childish and overwrought ravings suggest that she is hearing footsteps, and feels the need to crank up her hysteria:
Ann Coulter periodically "jokes" about the deaths of certain liberals and other enemies but this week the killing reference appears right in the headline of her column.
The head is "They Shot the Wrong Lincoln," and the column -- posted today on Coulter's Web site -- refers to U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee, now in a tough Republican primary fight in Rhode Island.
I assume Coulter would prefer that we keep comparisons between her attacks on the impure Republican incumbent in Rhode Island and our attacks on the impure (pseudo) Democratic incumbent in the slightly larger state to its immediate left to ourselves.
The Universal Press Syndicate columnist wrote that Chafee is a "half-wit" who "made his living shoeing horses for seven years. In fact, I've often wondered if an errant kick to the head by one of his charges would account for Chafee's rudimentary cognitive abilities."
She added: "When the farrier business proved too taxing for Chafee's intellect, he went into the family business -- politics. His father died in office, and Lincoln was appointed by the governor to serve out the remainder of Pop's term in the U.S. Senate. I know Rhode Island is small, but couldn't they find someone who reads books right side up to fill the seat?"
Chafee and various other Democrats, continued Coulter, are "silver-spoon morons."
Perhaps someone should acquaint Coulter with the record of one George W. Bush, and the well-known psychological concept of projection.