Defying Ann Coulter

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

[BrianS.Wise]

Please take a minute to read my other posts on this thread; I adore Coulter, there were just thoughts for and against I decided to write about.

[No Income Tax]

Amen DakotaGator

By the way, are you a Florida fan?? Too bad if you are but at least we agree on the more important things.

[ladyinred]

X$?¬, he says that what she says about the Kennedy's is truth.
This paper that won't print her will print that Molly person, who writes nothing about hate about Pubbies, and without a sense of humor. But her brand of "hate" seems to be fine with them.

[habs4ever]

Very poor comparison, as Coulter is one brittle writer.Her tone never changes, and though it gives her fans all the red meat they need, it also makes her...boring :-)

I don't find her all that clever, humourous, or original.You're welcome to her.

[BrianS.Wise]

"Slander" really is a great book. As mentioned previously, you can get autographed copies at AnnCoulter.org ...

[BrianS.Wise]

I hadn't even thought of Molly Ivans. Nice job, and you're right.

[cactusSharp]

ditto all your points and Ann has more balls
than O'Reilly.

[Kay Ludlow]

He claims that his paper has gotten thousands of message about their cancelling Coulters column, and the vast majority were in favor of it.

I also question this, especially since he said in his editorial a couple days after the "firing" piece that he got so many e-mails - hundreds - that he couldn't possibly read them all. He followed that up with "90% were in agreement with me" So in the couple weeks since then he got time to read and tabulate around 6,000 messages? They DON'T have the staff to do that. It's a small paper that has trouble keeping staff anyway.

[BrianS.Wise]

I wondered about this, as well, but didn't think to address it in the column, for obvious format reasons. But thanks for posting it here, it's god to know.

[Kay Ludlow]

The guy was a wimp who showed the classic traits of many so called Republican Conservative - a Backbone of Jello!

Having read the paper since his arrival, I am confidant he's not a republican. The CDT only endorses republicans if they're obviously going to win anyway, and they constantly write in favor of any program that expands government at any level. Seems like a classic democrat journalist to me...

[DakotaGator]

Brian, I've read your other posts & fully understand you support Ann.

My comments weren't meant to attack you but to applaud the "in your face" tactics that Ann is using.

I thank you for posting your thoughtful piece that started this fun thread!

[willyone]

Red meat? You must be a liberal. All you goofs parrot the same line. Can't think for yourself? We better realize the gravitas involved here. You people make me sick.

[BluesDuke]

Take a bow, Trent Lott. How I miss Newt.

Which Newt - Gingrich the Representative, who was so well prepared and well spoken, the grand balance between intellect and punch; or, Gingrich the Speaker of the House, who sold a political soul for bowls of pork porridge, fumed at those unwilling to join the sellout ("they don't see the Big Picture"), and then couldn't understand why enough of the sold out ganged up on him and forced his sorry behind out of chair and Congress after his sellout (and not the Clinton impeachment hoopla) translated to lost House seats - not to mention his habit of turning around, bending over, and leading his alleged revolutionaries in bleating Thank you, thir, and may I have another whenever the Clintonista was about to drive another one up his (our) you-know-what?

The road to Damnocratic hell is paved with Republican't good intentions.

[DakotaGator]

By the way, are you a Florida fan??

LOL! Who could not be a Florida Fan?!

BTW, love your freepname!

[BrianS.Wise]

Not half as happy as I am!

[TC Rider]

When Ann's newspaper column circulation drops to the level of Ted Rall's, she can back off a little.

Till then, You Go Girl!

(I've noticed that Jonah Goldberg, online editor at National Review Online seems to tone it down when he does his newspaper columns. I generally like his writing, but I consider it wimping out.)

[The Great Satan]

Deifying Ann Coulter? Sounds like a plan. We could build a new Parthenon at Ground Zero to worship her, and sacrifice Mohammedans there in her honor. I'm game.

[Imal]

Good article. As far as Ann Coulter is concerned, though, I am not at all worried. If she truly becomes so vitriolic that she finds herself alone in the lunatic fringe, she's smart enough to change her tune. And she's also smart enough not to wait until it gets to that point.

In the meantime, she has the courage to say what she means, and mean what she says. By taking unequivocal stands on issues, and not letting the Marxists back her down, she shows the rest of us that it can be done. I am reminded of our President, who is doing exactly the same thing.

[jraven]

I definitely see that a lot of people who post here therefore ENJOY demonization. So I assume I will not see complaints when the liberals do it to our candidates if we think it is just wonderful when Ann Coulter does the same thing. In other words, there are two standards: if THEY do it they are demonizing...if WE do it we are exercising free speech. We might save space for all the complaints about Tommy D's distortions, anything Hillary or Bill says in the future that is off the wall -- because we are applauding Ann Coulter to do the same exact thing, in the same style...only she's going after OUR enemies.
National Review, the Weekly Standard, etc....those make our case; Coulter gives our foes ammunition.
She speaks their language....So if you have a kid who swears a blue streak at school and comes home it must be correct to talk the same way to them and that way at home...after all...you're just talking their language.

[Kay Ludlow]

This paper that won't print her will print that Molly person

That's been the subject of some discussion on local radio, but Molly doesn't seem to bother the editor. Neither does local columnist Deb McMurtrie - she's written about conservatives wanting to starve children and old people. This week McMurtrie started to try to make amends to the readers - she said when she says conservatives she means the extreme right wing. Unfortunately by the end of her column she says "the pendulum has swung to the extreme right", which is pretty much back to slamming mainstream republicans. I know they've had complaints about her and Molly (they've even published some of the letters of complaint, but I don't see him firing them!