Ann Coulter, cut-up
http://www.wwd.com/issue/article/107729
If you falsely yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater and everyone
tramples each other to death, you get sent to jail. So what should be
done with Ann Coulter, who has argued that The New York Times should
have been blown up by Timothy McVeigh and that Times executive editor
Bill Keller should be executed by firing squad?
This was the question one Times source asked on Friday after an
employee at the paper of record received an envelope with an X
scrawled through it and a suspicious powder inside. “This thing makes
all of Ann Coulter’s comments a little less funny,” said the source.
“I wonder if she considers herself at all responsible when lunatics
read her columns and she says that we should be killed.”
So Memo Pad went and asked her, sending an e-mail to her AOL account.
And guess what? She not only responded, but claimed to be the sender
of the mysterious powder.
“So glad to hear that The New York Times got my letter and that your
friend at the Times thinks I’m funny,” she wrote back. “Good luck in
journalism and please send me your home address so we can stay in
touch, too.
“P.S. If we get hit again, don’t forget to ask the NYT if they
consider themselves responsible since they have repeatedly exposed
classified government programs designed to prevent another terrorist
attack.”
Thankfully, the powder at the Times turned out to be cornstarch. Memo
Pad declined to send Coulter its home address.
— Jacob Bernstein