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Zone: How Our Online Outrage Keeps Ann Coulter in Business
Posted: Updated:  Another day, another flamboyantly ignorant and
hate-filled diatribe from some ultra-conservative pundit.
Whether it's Pat Robertson blaming natural disasters on LGBTQ-
friendly theme park days or Glenn Beck accusing the nation's
first African American President of being a racist, there never
seems to be a shortage of cargo on that particular coo-coo
banana panties freight train. This is precisely the reason that
I was not shocked when Ann Coulter made headlines recently over
her ridiculous statements regarding the FIFA World Cup and
alienated pretty much the entire globe in the process. What I do
find surprising (and more than a little bit frustrating) is the
overwhelming amount of reasonable and intelligent people that I
know who reposted her drivel in order to express their disgust
at her ignorance.  Because as blood boiling as Coulter's rant
was, as blatantly bigoted