In the past it’s been called a “public square” in terms of its relationship to free speech and discourse. More recently I’ve heard it described as a gladiator arena, which I think is a better description.
She’s not even consistent about it. While on Fox News she tried multiple times to take a more moderate stance than her coworkers. See here where she took the governor of NC to task for anti-LGBTQ legislation.
And she had this exchange earlier in the year with an anti-gay marriage activist:
So you think, all right. I guess she’s not a monster after all and can be a reasonable person.
But then just a year later, after she moves to NBC, she does this kind of shit.
And then…
Which forced NBC to take action, and tried to balance it with…
She’s just playing a role on TV. Whatever she thinks the audience will want. And she shifts back and forth like a rainbow flag in the wind. When she says bigoted things, I don’t even think she’s a bigot, she’s just pandering to a bigoted audience which to me is even worse.
She may be personally a bigot. Or may not be. Doesn’t much matter in the end. We are who we pretend to be. And she pretends to be a terrible human being who peddles to the worst impulses of bigots.
I wonder if she has any acting experience. Well… other than the ‘news’.
Not from what’s described in her Wikipedia article. As noted upthread, she was originally a lawyer, and worked at a couple of law firms for about eight years before moving into TV journalism. She worked at a “normal” TV station in D.C. for a year as a reporter, before being hired by Fox News.
She’s nasty because she’s stupid. Ph DS will tell you they are the ones who teach the MDs
The issue with Twitter as I see it is that it more or less gamifies the idea of public messaging by making it about likes and re-tweets, and aimed at the general public. And the general public is not known for its discernment; this is a group that in the aggregate tends to elect political candidates based on their height as much as anything else.
So of course the more lurid, combative, sexy, and generally attention-grabbing tweets are going to get most of the attention and get re-tweeted. I mean, I imagine there are twitter circles where reasonable and well considered tweets are the order of the day, but that’s not the way the popular stuff works.
They really should. 
On a related tangent, what about dentists calling themselves “doctor”? Guess I am a bit of an anti-dentite 
Oh, that Dr. McDonald. He’s a funny guy.
Well done. How’s the Captain?
Isn’t this generally referred to as an “Ann Coulter?”
Yeah, same product pretty much the same customer base.
She wants to be a MAGA hero, like the chick that coined the phrase “terrorist fist bump”.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
-Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night