FULL TEXT of Ann Coulter's TIME mag cover story now posted online (for FREE!) at www.TIMEcanada.com

www.TIMEcanada.com ^ | April 24, 2005 | John Cloud

[RonDog]

Thanks to a tip from ann coulter official chat...

...here's a link to the FULL TEXT of Ann's TIME cover story, posted online (for FREE!) here:

http://www.timecanada.com/story.adp?storyid=001

April 24 2005
COVER STORY Ms. Right

She is quite possibly the most divisive figure in the public eye. But love her or hate her, you do not know the real Ann Coulter

By John Cloud

Anne Coulter and I were well into a bottle of white Bordeaux—and I believe she was chewing her fourth piece of Nicorette—when it happened. From what little I knew of her—mainly her propensity for declamations such as “liberals love America like O.J. loved Nicole”—I thought it impossible for Coulter to blush. Many of her fans would later tell me it was her fearlessness they admired, her fully unburdened sense of outrage against liberalism, against anyone left of Joseph McCarthy (whom Coulter flattered in her best-selling book Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism).

But in person, Coulter is more likely to offer jokes than fury. For instance, you might ask her to name her historical antecedents in the conservative movement, and she’ll burst forth, “I’m Attila the Hun,” and then break into gales of laughter so forceful you smell the Nicorette. “Genghis Khan!”

So finally, I asked that she be serious...

[visualops]

I actually enjoyed that article, amazing!
Interesting in that it's obvious the author likes Coulter quite a bit, and it shows in his rather favorable treatment of her. Makes up for the cover pic! lol

[Clemenza]

Except for a brief stint in Missouri, where she clerked for a federal judge, Coulter has never lived in a so-called red (Republican) state; in fact she obliterates the overcooked red-blue, Republican-Democrat distinction. Although beloved in Bush country, Coulter lives in a New York City apartment, loves expensive Manhattan restaurants, chews Nicorette in church and hardly ever misses the drag queens’ Halloween parade in Greenwich Village.

Aside from the Nicorette (I'll never give up the Partagas), the NYC apartment (I am in exile in Seattle) and the fact that I carry a Y Chromosome, I am very much like Ann as described here.

[RonDog]

From a previous thread:

To: killjoy

As a photographer, I like the shot a lot.

I don't see anything wrong with the picture other than I think they could have used warmer lighting.

94 posted on 04/18/2005 10:04:59 AM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)

As a photographer, I like the shot a lot.

I don't see anything wrong with the picture other than I think they could have used warmer lighting.

[vetvetdoug]

Ain't me. I asked her out publicly twice the last four years and she never replied to either request. I know a long shot when I see one. I got more of a chance to be hit by lightening while holding the winning powerball lottery ticket.

I read the Time article which reminded me of what I would have expected in Rolling Stone or some other lightweight publication that wanted to write a hit piece but held back because they were too inept to do so.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Ain't me. I asked her out publicly twice the last four years and she never replied to either request. I know a long shot when I see one. I got more of a chance to be hit by lightening while holding the winning powerball lottery ticket.

Do me a favor, and hand me the ticket - I'll have more use for it than you will after you get struck by lightning.

[Don Corleone]

Coulter told me her most persistent stalker “is the one who will kill me someday.”

CIGARETTES!

[vetvetdoug]

I'll be the corpse at the body farm wrapped in baling wire and the ticket will be in my left hand.

[ValerieUSA]

The cold light is intentional, and along with the angle, is used to portray her as skeletal and cadaverish. It is not a flattering photo at all, nor is it technically good. It is just a propaganda hit piece.

[Tennessee_Bob]

I'll be the corpse at the body farm wrapped in baling wire and the ticket will be in my left hand.

Errr...that's ok - you can keep it. I'll just have to make do...

[RonDog]

The good news is, while the COVER PHOTO on the outside is bad...

...the 6000-word ARTICLE INSIDE is actually fairly positive.

[RonDog]

Indexing related threads:

The FULL TIME COVER ARTICLE on ANN COULTER -- Ms. Right -- Available at Time Canada
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FULL TEXT of Ann Coulter's TIME mag cover story now posted online (for FREE!) at www.TIMEcanada.com
	Posted by RonDog On News/Activism 04/19/2005 6:06:48 AM PDT · 29 replies · 1,779+ views www.TIMEcanada.com ^ | April 24, 2005 | John Cloud

[One_American]

Gee, I wonder why Time decided not to show Hillary's legs?

Because they can best be described as 'beef curtains'.

[Cheryllynn]

I was surprised upon reading it.

On H&C Ann said she wont even read it.

[lady lawyer]

How can they call her the most "divisive" when you have people like James Carville going around yelling their heads off, being every bit as inflammatory as Ann, and much less honest.

[onedoug]

As are they all.

[onedoug]

Her logic makes her beautiful.

[harpo11]

Gosh, Ann is so elegantly naturally beautiful. Too bad she feels upset by Time Magazines fear and apprehension over showing Ann as she truly is robustly intelligent, witty, charmingly provacative, and absolutely gorgeous..

Mrs. Clinton's cover picture on the other hand, must have surely been airbrushed, altered, dewrinkle-ized and slenderized before printing. And furthermore, was Mrs. Clinton trying to imitate President Ronald Reagan's healthy pink cheeked glow? While she's wearing an outfit befitting Chairman Mao she tries to look so innocent.

It very easy to see who is all woman.

[zipper]

Hillary looks like she's wearing those Vietnamese black pajamas the VC were so fond of

[US_MilitaryRules]

hitlery looks like a moaist follower.

[Yosemitest]

PIES, LIES & VIDEOTAPE
by Ann Coulter
April 20, 2005

After my column last week, in which I noted that there had been a spate of food attacks on conservative speakers on college campuses within weeks of charges being dismissed against the "Deliverance" boys who threw pies at me at the University of Arizona, the prosecutor said it was my fault. (This column gets results!) David Berkman, chief criminal deputy in the office of Democrat Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall, told The Arizona Daily Star that charges had to be dismissed because I didn't show up for the trial.

Of course it's hard to know what anyone said in this country based on newspaper accounts. The actual statements people make are filtered through reporters, who, as we know, are generally unexecutable in this country under Atkins v. Virginia (holding the death penalty for mentally retarded persons unconstitutional).

Is the prosecutor a phony or the reporter a moron? In other words, is this a "Jeffrey Toobin situation" or a "Dan Rather situation"? We report, you decide.

In an article titled "Writer Coulter, arresting officer missed 1st trial," reporter Kim Smith writes in the April 16 Arizona Daily Star:

---- "Pima County prosecutors plan to take another shot at two men accused of throwing pies at political writer Ann Coulter, even though she didn't show up at their first trial last month."

---- "Smith and Wolff were scheduled to go to trial March 18, but neither Coulter nor the arresting officer showed up, Berkman said."

---- "Coulter was sent repeated notices of the court date" (all of which were apparently sent telepathically) "and she will be notified of the new court date as well, Berkman said. He said it should also be noted that Coulter never contacted prosecutors to find out the resolution of the case."

In fact, my verbatim reply in an e-mail dated Feb. 15, 2005, to the only notice I ever received about my appearing at the trial was the following, preserved through the miracle of computers:

"I remain very committed to pressing charges. What is the date of the trial? I do not live in AZ and it may be difficult for me to get there for the trial. Does the prosecutor believe he will have to call me as a witness? I believe there is videotape of the entire event and it is evident thereon that I apprehended the attack and ran away."

I was never asked to attend any trial. Are crime victims in Pima County typically required to pester prosecutors with endless "When's the trial?" phone calls? This trial received even less publicity than my recent speaking engagement at the school. I didn't even get one of those "haven't heard from you lately" postcards the publisher sends after you let a magazine subscription lapse.

The need for a prosecutor to call me as a witness still seems completely absurd in light of the in-living-color videotape of the entire assault, vividly showing each element of the crime. But if called by the prosecutor, I would attend the trial with relish. I can't wait to see if the defendants will try the novel "guy who throws like a girl" defense.

Maybe I'll even give another speech while I'm there.

The only other notice I ever received about the trial was a postcard informing me that the case had been dismissed a few weeks ago. Contrary to the above news account, I called the number on the postcard after getting the notice, got an answering machine, and left a message. Since then, I've been on a whirlwind speaking tour, giving a lot more college speeches and creating many more frustrated liberals deprived of the ability to mount a logical counter-argument.

In Berkman's defense, his office is shorthanded, having been bleeding prosecutors in the last several months. That includes the departure of at least four female prosecutors, two of whom expressly said they were leaving because of the way Berkman treats women. So on the bright side, maybe Berkman allowed charges to be dismissed against my assailants not because I'm a conservative but because I'm a female.

But there still remains the devilish issue of the accuracy of the reporter's account. Daily Star reporter Smith also wrote: "Coulter couldn't be reached for comment late Friday" (as a result of our not trying to reach Coulter for comment late Friday). Tip to aspiring reporters: If you want a comment ... try asking!

I'll even type out my comment for you, Kim: "In a prepared statement, Coulter darkly hinted that prosecutors who fail to bring the pie assailants to justice will be held accountable for their actions — a charge that was tantamount to Coulter calling for a pie-throwing attack on the county attorney." Reporting like that could earn you a coveted position covering Tom DeLay for The New York Times!

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Ann Coulter is always great, and she has my respect.