Defying Ann Coulter

http://www.intellectualconservative.com ^ | Thursday, 19 September 2002 | Brian S. Wise

[RAT Patrol]

Okay, I enjoyed your column, but Ann is right on target and hilarious to read. I don't want her to change one iota!

[TLBSHOW]

Ann Coulter: Laughing at the Left

"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon," writes leftist agitator Saul Alinsky in Rules for Radicals "… it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."
Super-pundit Ann Coulter has turned the left’s own tactics against them. Her new book, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right makes laughingstocks of the media. It is paralyzingly funny.

Predictably, the media have attacked like rabid wolverines – proving, with each snap of their drooling jaws, that they are every inch the totalitarian fiends Coulter says they are.

Even before the book was published, leftist editors tried to strangle it in its cradle.

When her editor died of cancer, HarperCollins deep-sixed the book. Coulter’s agent shopped it around for two months, getting rejection after rejection.

"This book does not move the national dialogue forward," sniffed one Doubleday editor.

"That’s funny," Coulter responded. "I thought book publishers made money on the basis of how many books they sold."

Crown Publishing finally picked it up. With over 400,000 copies sold, Slander has topped the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list for eight weeks straight.

"The American people like me; editors don’t…" Coulter remarks to The New York Observer. "If I were Rupert Murdoch, I think I’d fire some of the people at HarperCollins for turning down the No. 1 best-selling book of the summer for purely ideological reasons."

http://www.richardpoe.com/column.cgi?story=114

[BrianS.Wise]

By the way, I recommend "Slander" highly. At the AnnCoulter.org site, you can send away for autographed copies of the book.

[brat]

That should make an interesting book. Keep us informed please. :o) I suspect the New Right will be a force to be reckoned with. I am delighted to watch Conservatives come out of the PC closet taking visible stances for what they believe. It truly is a war and PC just doesn't cut it.

[BrianS.Wise]

I envy a few writers for their ability, and Ann Coulter isn't one of them. I think she's great; but as I've said in this thread, I have a concern she'll spectacularly burn out someday, and I don't think anyone here wants to see that.

[Cautor]

You obviously have no idea how effective Coulter is as a conservative spokesman...or may be you do, and that makes you uncomfortable. The truth is, Ann makes the leftist/liberals screech by telling the truth. OTOH, Liberals lie through their teeth when they're not launching personal attacks for lack of anything logical or factual to say. You seem unable to grasp that. This is Coulter county. Perhaps you should confine your poorly written vanity to DU or some place other place where it will truly be appreciated.

[RAT Patrol]

Are you mentioning things in the buff again? (post 8, hahahaha)

[who knows what evil?]

Thanks. Yes, the columns are mailed to those on my mailing list as soon as they are completed, then my affiliates, then here at Free Republic.

Good...keep them coming.

[RightOnline]

Ann is an "acquired taste" (oh..........the images that inspires............but I digress.....) ONLY due to the diet that America has been fed for so long by the droolingly liberal, sycophantic, mass media. Her style is much more worthy of a discussion of "contrast" in that context than implying she's simply too harsh or "mean".

Ann, baby....you keep it up.

[habs4ever]

You're quite correct about her.She will flame out.The pugilists become caricatures in time, and she will be no different, and I already think she's at that point.

[Irwin Corey PhD]

The Centre Daily Times, a State College, Pennsylvania newspaper, took that as the last straw and dropped Coulter’s column from its pages

My, my--what an indictment of Coulter. A college newspaper dropped her column. What enlightened readers we have at State College. I hope they enjoy their stead diet of pseudo-intellectual liberal dribble. Coulter tells it like it is. She has nothing in common with the leftist set and that is great with me. I hear they're looking for a cub report at the Daily Blab. I'm sure you're just the writer they're looking for.

[TLBSHOW]

lolrof

[Ragin1]

LOL! "I wonder what she was thinking when she posed for them."

You hit the nail on the head.

Someone give that waif a burger.

[BrianS.Wise]

Oh, well, thanks for the heads up.

[NeoCaveman]

Ann gives the right much needed red-meat. If there is any benefit to others (centrists et al)...I'm skeptical.

[TLBSHOW]

I have a concern she'll spectacularly burn out someday


I bet you do!

[BrianS.Wise]

I know, I know ... and I read it twice before posting it ...

[Jumper]

In war, killing is appropriate even if one finds it distasteful.

The Clinton's brought war to politics in America by misappropriating power, and it became fashionable. The Liberals have already declared war and Ann is defending the ideals of a society under siege.

To paraphrase a great quote from another generation, "And they came for the gypsies, then it was the Jews, then it was the... and when they came for me there was no body left" - so, I am assuming that you are on this type list and of the same mindset as all those individuals who failed to stand together and then allowed a society such as Germany’s between the 1932 and 1945 to be purged of VOCIAL dissent, while the VOCIAL dissent that was distasteful from a government or political party which you inherently feared was destroying everything good and decent - for Germany those people who held that power was the National Socialist Party....

At least Ann is allowed to speak out with a dry wit, an ironic sense of both humor and duty, and with truth’s exposure mired in the lines so eloquently blunt.

[DakotaGator]

Anyone who openly defies or opposes Ann Coulter is her enemy...

Brian, that is precisely the point! Ann Coulter tells the truth in a direct style. Those opposing her can't stand the truth or can't stomach her style. Both are really her enemies.

Ann is carrying the conservative fight directly back into the liberal enemy's camp. And it's about time somebody did it. We conservatives have too long hid behind politeness as a shield for not refuting liberals' outrageous behavior and lies.

Ann's arena is not a social gathering, it's a philosophical battleground. Until we understand this, and act on it, liberals will always have the advantage. Thank goodness we now have the Ann Coulters and Rush Limbaughs speaking up.

Brian, I'm glad you shared your opinions on this. You are doing your bit. And so are Ann & Rush.

[No Income Tax]

She will flame out.

Just like Rush Limbaugh did?? Oh, that's right; Rush is still heard all over the country.

I don't see much difference between the things Ann Coulter writes and the things Rush says and does on his program. They are both entertaining and are very effective at making their point.

My wife is just about to finish 'Slander' and loves it. I cannot wait to read it myself. It seems to me some people cannot deal with an outspoken, conservative woman who happens to be an outstanding writer.