Ann of a Thousand Slays...

I look forward to Thursdays, and not just because it's almost Friday (although that does have a lot to do with it). Thursday is when Ann Coulter launches her weekly missiles at the media, liberals and assorted other targets of opportunity. This week, her take on the Rathergate report, now-fired producer Mary Mapes and her "source" for the forged documents, Bill Burkett:

Curiously, though Mapes trusted Burkett implicitly, she was very careful not to reveal his name to anyone at CBS, probably because she would have been laughed out of the room.

Instead, Mapes described Burkett in the abstract as: "solid," "without bias," "credible," "a Texas Republican of a different chromosome," a "John McCain supporter," "reliable" and "a maverick" – leaving out only "Burkett is convinced he can communicate with caterpillars" and "his best friend is a coffee table." His name was not important. It's not as if he was the sole source for a highly damaging story about the president eight weeks before the election or anything. Oh wait ...

At a meeting with CBS lawyers the day the story would air, Mapes "did not reveal the source's name or anything negative about the source," but "expressed 'enormous confidence' in her source's reliability and said that he was solid with no bias or credibility issues." She described Burkett as a "moralistic stickler." The subject of UFOs simply never came up.

Give this woman a sword, and she could give Uma Thurman a run for her money!