Is it any wonder I reject you first?
Oliver Willis on making a stand against Ann Coulter and all the other lightning rods of hate:
“I’ve been told many times that the left needs to be more accommodating to the right, that it just has to sit down and chat with them in order to come to some consensus about how best to go about the business of America. The problem is that this Pollyanna view of things has no basis in reality. The conservative movement controls all three branches of government, it dominates the media, and daily increases its grip on our nation’s cultural values. Yet, these people consistently see themselves under siege by a vast network of largely ineffectual liberals. This siege mentality has led them to one conclusion: liberalism must be destroyed. That has created an atmosphere in which the press is no longer simply held in scorn for being “liberal”, but is now hounded if it isn’t suitably deferential towards the President and his party. They no longer agitate for a place at the table, they want to control the entire table.”
