"Why can't they just photograph conservatives straight?!" blasted this week's TIME magazine covergirl Ann Coulter. … The photographer, Platon, appears to have used a wide "Fisheye" lense for the cover snap, stretching Coulter's legs and feet – while shrinking the rest of her body.
The TIME distortion that irks Most Liberal Bloggers:
Coulter has a reputation for carelessness with facts, and if you Google the words "Ann Coulter lies," you will drown in results. But I didn’t find many outright Coulter errors.
My favorite "outright Coulter error" was her Nexis search on the name "Selma".
She claimed that the NYTs(?) had run hundreds of stories on the anniversary of the Selma Civil Rights march, when in fact all but a few were obituaries for women named, you guessed it, Selma. My favorite Coulter smear was when she said Cleland was on a drinking binge with his buddies when that grenade exploded and he lost three limbs.
You're ignoring her charming asides on Christianity, International Relations, and more. A personal favorite: her Christmas message
To The People Of Islam:
Just think: If we'd invaded your countries, killed your leaders and converted you to Christianity YOU'D ALL BE OPENING CHRISTMAS PRESENTS RIGHT ABOUT NOW!
Merry Christmas
What a joke. Below are just a few of Ann's most recent outright errors, distortions, and lies from Think Progress:
Just try dealing with the ugly truth. The political and cultural discourse has shifted so much, Ann’s becoming increasingly mainstream.
04/19/05 UPDATE: From BAGnewsNotes As an adult, Ms. Coulter's pose couldn't be more guarded, more defensive (in which the best defense is a good offense). The other way to understand this image, though, is if "Ms. Right" is simply a little girl. The bow on the shoes suggests that. The stockings that seem like tights also say so. The overall posture reflects it as well. As opposed to an adult who sits back and lets the camera take them in, young Ann looks like the little girl who comes into the photography studio and doesn't know how to sit, or needs to know what she should do. To this end, the gaze can also be an intense search for direction. The awkward scale reflects it also. All legs and head, arched forward with her feet hanging down into white space, she might as well be perched in a high chair.