Digby: Superiority Theory

An allegedly liberal writer at the New Republican has made her bones as a beltway contrarian today with a stirring defense of Ann Coulter. She writes about how she used to work on an assembly line in a red state and had to engage in rude polemics to win political arguments --- at which point stupid men would invariably be flummoxed by her brilliance and start talking about her ass. Now, darn it all, she finds that all the ever-so-smart DC types are just the same way --- when you "bitch slap" them out of their "robotic-pundit" routines with what I assume must be Coulteresque dialog, they go all assembly line on her and start talking about her looks.