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Ann Coulter, Redacted

I'm of mixed minds about Ann Coulter. While I think she is intelligent, and quick witted, and obviously of a similar political stripe as me, I also find her grating, and bombastic, and given to over-the-top generalizations.

Her syndicated column comes out on Thursdays, and appears in my paper on Fridays, opposite the Kelp Creature Molly Ivins. They actually started them off with Coulter's column on the, ah, right of the page, and Molly Pitcher (or Catcher, I suppose) on the left, but the obviousness of this was too much even for the local unwashed, so they reversed it.

To get to my point, should you decide to accept the fact I have one, I read Coulter's column on line last night, wherein, in an effort to expand on the Rather/CBS meme that If I Say It's True I Don't Have To Prove It, You Have To Disprove It, she went off on a tangent about Kitty Kelley having syphylis. And not the tertiary stuff, Advanced Stage Syphylis.

Suffice it to say that particular section was edited out of this morning's paper. I don't think there will be any blowback on Coulter for saying it, either. And while I thought it was funny, and the point was well taken, Jesus Christos. How does she get a pass on stuff like that? Maybe Colmes will ask her the next time she's on the Hannity & The Other Guy Show.

I believe we should stick to the facts, like how John Kerry shot a teenaged loincloth-clad yellow heathen with a .50 caliber round through his leg in the back, and won a Silver Star for it. But maybe I'm being a stickler here.