The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
My sister and her friends were getting really cheesed off by it on Facebook. I found it funny. If she wrote it as satire, she's a comedy genius. Well maybe not a genius. Replace genius with competent. If not, who cares about soccer anyway?
Nearly everything Coulter writes contains satire. Even when she's making a serious point, she'll always include a sarcastic over the top comment because she loves to wait for the media to quote that one sarcastic comment, paint it as the entirety of what she said, and then watch as all the liberals, who know nothing except that one quote, go frothing at the mouth nuts. She does this because it gets her book sales, and appearances on TV, where she can make fun of all the liberals who so obviously failed to read the part where she said "It's not like we conservatives actually think <insert portion that will be quoted by the media here>".
In this case though, the whole thing is just satire. Not that she doesn't make a couple decent points though. I mean, it's hard not to get the sense that there's a segment of the media that really really really wants the US population to love soccer, no matter how much it hasn't happened. Complete with pretty blatant push-coverage (if we cover it a lot and talk about how popular it's becoming, maybe people will actually start watching it!). And let's be honest, the whole score thing is pretty accurate. We've had world cup games on in the break room at work every day. There's always a few people sitting there watching it, and the common joke is that I'll ask "so what's the score", look up and see that it's 0-0. Every. Single. Time. Not really, but close enough.