Evil Brian's Evil Thoughts...it's a MotherFucker

Meet Ann Coulter. In her opinion, "liberals are racists", the French
are "a bunch of faggots", only property owners should be allowed to vote, and
anyone who disagrees with her is a "fatuous idiot" or "evil". In liberal Europe,
such propositions are seldom aired, even in the most right-wing salons. In
America, however, Coulter - blonde, fortysomething - is a regular guest
commentator on news and talk shows such as Good Morning America, Hannity and
Colmes, At Large with Geraldo Rivera and The O'Reilly Factor.

Within minutes of our sitting down, the conversation turns to the
position of expat Pakistanis in the social hierarchies of the Middle East.
"They're never very high in anyone's caste system, are they," Ann volunteers.
"Poor little Pakis." The photographer and I look at each other. Did she really
say that? But it's just an amuse-bouche to prepare us for what is to come.
We
move on to education. "To get into university without achievement or grades, you
wanna have a name like Shafiqua, Jeffrika or Leroy," says Ann, who is not a fan
of racial quotas. Learning difficulties are a cover for "rich parents with dumb
kids". "That's why 'Pinch' Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, is
alleged to have dyslexia - because he's retarded. Do you guys even have
dyslexia?"

One thing can be said for Coulter: she does not worry about causing
offence. When we talk about the "war on terror", she sounds almost nostalgic for
the Cold War. "When we were fighting communism, OK, they had mass murderers and
gulags, but they were white men and they were sane. Now we're up against
absolutely insane savages." The insouciance with which she drops race into the
mix is so astonishing that it's disarming.
How do you begin to argue with
someone who operates so far outside the generally accepted confines of political
debate?

Next up for discussion are Muslims. She reckons they are going to "take
over" France. "It's going to be Morocco in 10 years." Why is she so worried
about Muslims? "Er, because they fly planes into our skyscrapers?" But those
terrorists are not representative of all Muslims, are they?

"That's not the question. The question is not, 'Are all Muslims
terrorists?' The question is, 'Are all terrorists Muslims?' And the answer is
yes - every one I have to worry about."
Why can't she say extremist Muslims
rather than just Muslims? "If that'll make you happy. They slaughtered 3,000
people and I'm making unfair generalisations. I think we're even." Well, no, I
don't think we're even, I begin to reply - and at this point I see a side of Ann
Coulter that goes beyond the ludicrous opinions. I see someone who is not afraid
to twist, distort, bully and lie in order to "win" her
argument

Before I can elaborate or finish my sentence, she's off again. "Oh no,
you're right, a generalisation is so much worse than slaughtering 3,000 people."
I'm not saying that, I say. "I can't go beyond that, an ethnic generalisation is
worse than slaughter. That is the essence of liberalism, you really do believe
that. You get a glass of wine in you and you spit it out. You heard it. Making
an un-PC generalisation is worse than the attack of 9/11." I'm not saying that,
I repeat. "Yes, you are, you just said it." Of course I don't think that, I
start, before I'm cut off again. "Liar!"

"We are talking about who is most likely to fly planes into our
skyscrapers. It's a time-waster to say, 'Well, who's to say, it could be
Chinamen next time?'" Why not qualify her terms by saying "extremist Muslim
terrorists"? "This is the essence of PC. It's just more syllables." In a last,
vain attempt to ask her if she can sympathise with the point of view of those
she is maligning, I ask her to imagine what she would feel if she had been
brought up a Muslim. "In that case, I would like a steak knife, please, so I can
cut your throat and disembowel you. And then I shall kill all the
Jews!"

Surely, I say, hoping she will concede that she sometimes provokes to
amuse, she doesn't believe everything she comes out with. "This is the shocking
thing for your readers," she replies. "I believe everything I say."