Ann Coulter, please get out of the gutter

Can this woman do any more damage to our collective sense of decency and class? Hasn’t she reached the bottom yet?

Before you start jumping on me for defending anyone she has attacked, I want to tell you right up front that I do not support John Edwards, I do not support any candidate that she has attacked. I support common decency. I also support the idea that everyone has the right to say what they want to say but I believe there is a line that you do not cross. When you cross that line you show the world how little you respect yourself and others. Attacking someone in the mean-spirited manner in which Ann Coulter attacked Al Gore, Bill Clinton, and John Edwards and his family crossed that line.

In my opinion, any person who wants to become a public personality is representing the rest of us. A public personality represents America’s educational system and our collective moral and ethical standards. As a self-appointed spokesperson for all Americans, Ann Coulter should have the common decency to maintain a level of class and decorum and shun ‘hate-speech’. If she wants to talk street trash then she should stay out of the camera’s eye where the rest of the world cannot see her and we don’t have to be subjected to her low opinion of us as American’s. To resort to name calling and character assassination degrades herself and panders to the under-educated citizens who eat this stuff up in the super market tabloids.

I know this woman is better educated than this. I’ve heard her speak and I used to value her opinion, I did not always agree with her but now I won’t even listen to what she has to say. This woman can show some class, as we all can, she chooses not to. Why, only she knows. I have to wonder if she is suffering from some sort of psychological break-down. Is she lowering her standards as an educated person for the pursuit of dollars and notoriety and the hell with what people think?

On a larger scale, the world’s view of Americans is that we are a bunch of uncouth, lower-classed, violent, thugs and lately every time this woman opens her mouth this opinion of us is further substantiated.

Please Ms Coulter, pick yourself up out of the gutter and show some class.

And now for the media’s role in all of this. The media loves controversy and drama. They love outrageous behavior. They love it to the point that they will seek out and support this activity in an attempt to gain something as fleeting and myopic as ratings and ad dollars. The media, in general, and television in particular, is just as guilty of portraying America as a bunch of short-sighted, untrustworthy, self-indulgent, spoiled, brats and as long as it brings money in for the studios it will never stop.

America, we need to raise our standards. Please, think outside yourselves and start looking at a bigger picture. Stop playing the role of fools and show the world that we are not as they think we are.