I Don’t Know Whether Ann Coulter is Out of Her Mind…

…but she sure writes like it. This just in from Editor & Publisher:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today asked newspapers to consider dropping Ann Coulter after her March 3 column that implied Muslims “smell bad.”

None of Coulter’s approximately 50 clients have complained about the column so far, according to Universal Press Syndicate Director of Communications Kathie Kerr.

In the column, Coulter wrote: “Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity (as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of ‘kill everyone who doesn’t smell bad and doesn’t answer to the name Mohammed’).”

This is hardly the most outrageous thing Coulter has written, but CAIR’s response–to call for economic censorship of her work–is a call for the same kind of rancid right-wing tactics we rightly deplore when it comes, say, courtesy of the New York Times or Clear Channel Communications. Shutting each other up will only makes our currently polarized nation more so.