Ann Coulter is up to her usual polarizing shenanigans, this time targeting the New York Times and the recent criticism it has taken over the leak of a story dealing with excessive oversight into financial records. Some excerpts:

Today, Times editors and columnists are doing what liberals always do when they’re caught red-handed committing treason: They scream that they’re being “intimidated” before hurling more invective. This is getting to be like listening to the Soviet Union complaining about the intimidation coming from Finland.

Liberals are always play-acting that they are under some monstrous attack from the right wing as they insouciantly place all Americans in danger. Their default position is umbrage, bordering on high dudgeon.

We’ve had to listen to them whine for 50 years about the brute Joe McCarthy, whose name liberals blackened while sheltering Soviet spies.

I absolutely love how Ms. Coulter simply imagines liberals “screaming” about attacks upon our liberty while Republicans sit back and actively fight for our own security. And “whining” about Joe McCarthy? Since when did standing up for our rights amidst an encroaching overlord become “treason”? And who exactly is Ms. Coulter speaking on behalf of? Conservatives or neo-fascists? Coulter’s messages are unintelligible and alienating, even to the party she supposedly speaks for.

You can read the rest of her post here if you feel like it.

I know I’m not the only person who thinks this article, like the author, is demented. Extremism, I suppose, is like tequila: its good, but only in occasional small quantities and on the right occasion. If this is the case, then Ann Coulter is throwing a party and is taking body shots off of every person in the room.

Ann Coulter’s mouth (and its manifestation in text form) is an anus spitting out untold buckets of shit. The fact that she proposes the NY Times building should have been targeted by terrorists and her desire to “execute” traitors shows that in her pursuit of the destruction of liberalism she has lost what heart and soul she might have once had. She is the manifestation of what America should not become: loathing paranoid entities bent on establishing an illusion of security.

Her recent criticism of 9/11 widows and Arab-Americans simply reinforces a past point: just because you have the right to free speech does not mean you should exploit it for disgusting means.

Extremism is an inevitable result of passion, and no doubt Coulter is passionate. But her response is to instigate, not enlighten. She is quick to condemn, but seldomly prescribes any solutions. She’s like the ex-girlfriend we have all had: attractive (yes, I am strangely attracted to the anti-Christ in svelte female form, I do not know why nor can I help it) no doubt, but extraordinarily able to push every single button we have. Yet we constantly put up with her incessant ranting and absorb it with open ears. Why?

I’m convinced that she, like the aforementioned ex-girlfriend, gets a rise out of it. Well, congrats Ms. Coulter, because you once again succeeded at what you do best: piss me off.