Civility at EO? Not from the intellectually clumsy

EO's proprietor has again demonstrated that his aim is better than his judgment with Civility and the Coulterization of Conservatism. Not only does he reveal an apparent inability to grasp hyperbole, sarcasm, and other forms of figurative language, he also persists in refusing to target the real danger to our well-being, instead preferring to attack a woman whose most lethal weapon is her laptop.

And Carter's a hypocrite. In criticizing Ann Coulter for over-the-top, unnecessarily personal attacks, he uses graceful language like:

Conservatism is dead and Ann Coulter is its corpse.

...though she possesses the same pallor and stench, Coulter isn’t exactly a corpse.

Coulter has been serving up such excrement for years....

...Coulter has the politically guaranteed freedom to spew her bile.

Perhaps if she possessed intelligence and a rapier wit, her cutting barbs might be endurable. But Coulter’s...remarks leave jagged gashs that grow infected and fester with pus, infecting all of us in the process.

Finally Carter concludes his misguided tirade with:

Unfortunately, there are some conservatives who confuse a right with an obligation. They believe that since all speech must be protected it must also be defended...There is also no question, at least in my mind, that we conservatives should exercise our own freedom of speech by telling her to shut her yap.

Carter doesn't mind criticizing and insulting Ann, but when it comes to identifying the West's actual enemy in our current armed conflict, he'll do all he can to bend over and excuse, justify, and obfuscate Islam's War Against the Infidel, as he did when participating recently in a roundtable discussion on Hugh Hewitt's program.

How 'bout serving up some of that condemnation and name-calling for those who execute (pun intended) Allah's commands to fight against, subdue and humiliate, and kill non-Muslims? You're right, it's a whole lot safer attacking a delicate blonde whose most threatening move is avoiding flying pie.

In her defense, Ann Coulter has traditionally used hyperbole to accentuate for the morally-blind on both sides of the ideological spectrum the obvious immorality and absurdity of the Left (and others who work for America's downfall) and the frequent impotence and slavish obedience to political correctness on the Right. I have always enjoyed her commentary, though she is sometimes overly sardonic.

Regrettably, in a recent column Ann did make a comment that was unnecessarily race-focused; it was inappropriate because it was false. The issue in the GWoT is not race (though I've heard some of the President's supporters--and Islam's defenders--claim that we who criticize either are at least closet racists), it is ideology, the death cult of Islam.