There is a certain value in being a partisan bomb thrower. It stirs things up. It gets people talking. It helps you sell books. There is a certain danger in it as well.

The danger is that the bombs become expected. When people go to hear someone like conservative bomb thrower Ann Coulter speak, they know they are going to hear her use some fairly provocative rhetoric. It's her thing. It's what she does. It's what they go there to hear.

The thing is, that after a while the outrageous becomes ordinary and expected. If you keep throwing the same old bombs they have less and less effect. The only recourse for the bomb thrower is to rely on the strength of their intellect or throw bigger bombs.

Coulter decided throw bigger bombs and went too far. Her comments at CPAC were well beyond the line of what's acceptable.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 07:33 AM | No Comments | Add Comment