They're unhinged:

Let's imagine that the members of Rage Against The Machine are anarchists. They're actually socialists, but whatever, it doesn't mater.

Their listeners are coffee-shop slumming white trust fund kids who wear Che t-shirts to comp lit classes that their parents pay 30K+ a year to send them to. Of course the Kos Kidz see their own pathetic, thuggish armchair activism in Rage's lyrics. Of course they do. It's like talking about how Ward Churchill is being persecuted for speaking out against tyranny, except with better bass. Hannity is right: the environment of contemporary liberal (activism) has grown positively toxic. Righteous indignation has become a proud justification for physical brutality.

For the record: we believe that they meant it. In their mind, they're as brave as the oh-so-silenced academics who risk their academic career every time they criticize Israel on college campuses. They want to be martyrs? Let's have the Secret Service investigate them for threatening to assassinate the President of the United States. Then they can be martyrs. Everybody wins.

References:
* Coulter Complains About Hate Speech [newshoundsblog / YouTube]

Previously:
* Video: Rush and Ms. Coulter On the THHNH
* Coulter vs. Clark, Coulter Funny, Clark Not
* Early Morning Chuckle - Coulter On the Dem Debate Edition