"A PHENOMENON"

(Via Atrios)

BTC News reports on a discussion about Coulter. Karen Tumulty is TIME's national political correspondent, Cottle works for Joe Lieberman Weekly.

KURTZ: Why do you think that — why give Ann Coulter that kind of prominence, a cover story usually reserved for, let’s say more important people.

TUMULTY: Well, again —

COTTLE: It sells.

TUMULTY: And she’s, you know, she’s a phenomenon. I mean we do cover stories on all sorts of phenomenons and like I said, most recently on the Dixie Chicks, same kind of reaction.


Hate has now become part of the mainstream political discourse as a "phenomenon."