Who Did More Damage: Ann or Al?

Tom Bevan of RCP Blog makes a good point:

Who's comments were more inflammatory? Ann's "raghead" remark or Al's assertion that after 9/11 muslims in America were "indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in proper order, and held in conditions that were just unforgivable."

Who has done more damage to America?

Tom Bevan's opinion:

Now ask yourself: between the asinine comments of Gore and Coulter, who's done more harm to the cause of the United States? Clearly Coulter's comments are more "offensive" in the traditional sense in that they are bigoted and inflammatory. But ultimately, she's just a rhetorical bomb-throwing pundit (though a best-selling one) who thought she was being funny.  Al Gore is the former Vice President of the United States and potentially a candidate for president in 2008 standing up at a major forum in the Middle East accusing his own country of "indiscriminately" rounding up Muslims and locking them up in "unforgivable" conditions.

It doesn't take a genius to know that Gore's accusations of abuse will get much more play - and be taken much more seriously - throughout the Muslim world than Coulter's unfortunate slur.

Absolutely right. A former VP's comments simply carry more weight, yet why hasn't the left
expressed outrage about Al Gore's anti-American statements?  Because they agree with him.

Update: Michelle Malkin has much more about Al Gore's slandering of America:

Let's cut through Gore's disgraceful slander and pander. The immediate post-9/11 detention of illegal aliens from suspect countries netted 762 aliens -- nearly all of them here illegally -- who were held while being investigated for possible ties to terrorism.

Read all of Michelle's post. This topic is her specialty.