Notes on the Democratic Convention:

Day Two

Ann Coulter is crazy.

USA Today, in lockstep with most major media today, felt compelled to respond to the never ending drumbeat of right wingnuts to "include" more conservative voices in tv and newspapers by hiring Ann Coulter to write a humorous column from the convention. There are plenty of conservative writers who possess at least a passing relationship to reality, never mind the truth. The dominatrix of wingnut-ism is not one of them. Coulter made some shocking remarks in a column after 9/11 suggesting "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." Later, she produced this gem, probably my favorite: "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."

Her inaugural column was killed when ediitors found it had "basic weaknesses in clarity and readability that we found unacceptable." Coulter ran to Faux News to spin a story about conservative voices being stifled, blah blah blah. Her main complaint is that the editors were incapable of understanding her brand of humor. I've read a number of her columns, and seen her on television enough to tell you she is as funny as a steel bar jammed up the ass.

USA Today ought to be bitch slapped for being stupid enough to think they could hire someone as batshit crazy as Coulter and get something resembling usable journalism in return. This ranks right up there with ESPN hiring Rush Limbaugh expecting sophisticated football analysis.