The Wall Street Journal attempts to explain the appeal of Ann Coulter in a recent article. (I guess we’re on an Ann Coulter kick today at words mean things.) Along the way, they call her outrageous and hateful statements “flights of fancy” and “raillery.” Yeah, it’s hard to imagine why anyone would have a problem with her statement that she wished Timothy McVeigh would have stopped by the New York Times building.
As one MetaFilter commenter wrote, much more succinctly than I could have:
I can’t help but wonder if the WSJ would have been so accomodating if someone like Michael Moore had said something like, “My only regret is that W wasn’t breakfasting at Windows on the World that day.”
Words. mean. things.
Flights of fancy? By that definition I guess Hitler was just “artistic.”
well that kills *that* thread.
Oh come on Mig, I’ve never known you to be a quitter.
don’t get me started on Hitler, man.
Ann is on my list. She bugs me.