Whether she is just an act or the real deal, there are enough people out there who are going to accept her views at face value, and are angry/sick/demented enough to act on her views, and she plays particularly well in some of the more backwards of our people.

She is no different than a Goebbels or his corn-fed counterpart, Father Coughlin of the 1930s. Live or Memorex, she is just as dangerous.

She wasn't on the national scene in the early '90s like she is now, but it was people like her that led guys like Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols (of whom both I personally had phone conversations with, how about that for degrees of separation) to believe the best course of action was to blow up the federal building in Oklahoma City, and 168 innocent people died. Say something outrageous, a big lie, a big hate, keep putting it out there, and people (especially people sick in the mind and soul) eventually begin to believe it.

Still, as Roger Baldwin, the founder of the ACLU, said in 20/20 interview I watched as kid in 1980, "how can you find out a son-of-a-#$#$# is a son-of-a-#$#$# unless you hear what he has to say," obviously referring to the First Amendment.

She has her rights, certainly. It is also up to us as citizens to not enable the Ann Coulters of this world, either not simply buy their stuff, nor to let her allegations go unchecked. How to do that without building it up even more is probably more of a challenge at this time.

I'm in love with the little red-headed girl!