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the question is-why is she whorthy of this?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A208-2005Apr19.html?referrer=email

The Conservative Pin-Up Girl

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 19, 2005; 7:47 AM

Yes, those are Ann Coulter's legs on the cover of Time magazine (along with the rest of her, but the legs take up half the page).

Why is "Ms. Right," as Time dubs her, worthy of such prominence?......



She was pretty incendiary then, as well as funny, but became more shrill during the Bush administration, churning out books accusing liberals of being treasonous and worse. I always wondered, since Coulter is an obviously intelligent lawyer, whether she was just developing an outlandish shtick that worked from a marketing point of view.

In the fall of 2001, her response to the terrorist attacks was: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." When she wrote that airport security should devote special scrutiny to "suspicious-looking swarthy males," National Review dropped Coulter as a contributing editor, prompting her to call Editor Rich Lowry and his deputies "girly boys."

When USA Today sent Coulter to last year's Democratic convention, she filed a column about "the corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie-chick pie wagons they call 'women' at the Democratic National Convention." When the paper refused to run the column, she quit.

So why exactly is Time profiling her now, other than the chance to feature a woman in a short dress?
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