I can't stand Ann Coulter either. I do think that she uses shock value to get attention though. She creates attention to get on tv and sell books.

What I don't like about her is her prejudiced and ethnocentric comments. I have seen her make negative comments about Native Americans. And if you have ever seen her on a program she tends to make very negative comments about Muslims and Arabs that border on racism.

This is why I also hate Bill Maher. He also makes racist and ethnocentrics comments about Arabs, Muslims, and Arab culture. Just like Coulter he has referred to Arabs and Muslims as "barbarians".

He pretty much views western culture as the pinnacle of cultural evolution (a notion many social scientists rejected in the 19th and 20th centuries). I saw him on Larry King (I think it was) once where he talked about Arabs as barbarians and talked about their culture being "behind" America and the West and as being similar to 1950s America and how they need to be brought up to our level. As if history and cultural evolution was a linear unilineal process.

Coulter and her ilk have similar views on culture.

I realize that all people and cultures are ethnocentric to some extent. Most people think that the way they do things are the best way to do them.

But educated people in our modern age should not be calling entire groups of people barbarians. Calling the acts of the terrorists barbaric is fine, imo, but labeling entire cultures barbaric is not, imho.