When I was in the 4th grade my class went on a field trip to the San Francisco Zoo, and I don’t mean we attended a meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

The chimp exhibit was a big hit with the children; we enjoyed making faces and taunting them until one chimp and then another retaliated by flinging feces.

The gross behavior of the chimps reminds me of Ann Coulter; you can’t engage her in dialogue without leaving the encounter feeling like you are smeared with excrement. Ann Coulter could give chimps a few pointers on the fine art of flinging crap.

Ann Coulter is a provocateur without equal; she will stoop as low as possible to get a rise out of liberals and to sell her books. Coulter called Muslims “ragheads” at the 2006 Conservative Political Action Conference, and John Edwards a “faggot” at the following year’s conference.

And in Coulter’s latest outrage against humanity she seemed to yearn for the possibility of John Edwards being killed by terrorists.

Should the victims of Coulter’s acid tongue ignore or confront the Wicked Witch? Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, choose the latter course.

From The New York Times:

“Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, keeps making headlines.

She took on Ann Coulter yesterday, calling in to MSNBC’s ‘Hardball’ to criticize the conservative commentator for ‘debasing’ the political dialogue in the country and to demand that she stop making personal attacks on her husband and other candidates.”

In the aftermath of the Edwards/Coulter confrontation, the evil pundit has made the rounds of all the interview talk shows, where she never fails to hawk her book.

The wiser course of action would be to ignore Coulter — don’t give her what she craves the most, publicity.

It’s conservatives who should condemn Coulter; she makes conservatives look very bad.

In the few times that I’ve returned to the zoo since my childhood field trip, I’ve given the chimp cage a wide berth. When I’m watching one of the cable news programs and Coulter comes on, I make a sign of the cross and change the channel.

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