Andrew Sullivan: It’s all getting a little hysterical (Ann Coulter = Michael Moore)

The Sunday Times (U.K.) ^ | 07/06/03 | Andrew Sullivan

[tsmith130]

The left, in turn, has learnt the lesson, which is why the attack dog Michael Moore has done so well.

He's joking, right? Right?

[Endeavor]

I'm afraid Andrew's got Ann's number. I'm trying to read "Treason" right now and find it poorly edited, poorly written, and extremely tedious. And that doesn't even cover what I think about her main tenet.

I've been a Coulter fan, but I have to wonder what she's smoking these days.

Could it be that Jonah Goldberg was right?

(ok, flame suit is on)

[Zeroisanumber]

Uh.. comparing the scruples of Coulter and Moore is like comparing apples to a**holes.

Well then, let's compare apples to a**holes.

Let's see...Moore works by pandering to the left, spicing his generalizations with enough distorted facts & figures to make them sound credible, and shamelessly tars the other side as heartless, cruel, and possibly fascist.

Coulter works by pandering to the right, spicing her generalizations with enough distorted facts & figures to make them sound credible, an shamelessly tars the other side as stupid, unpatriotic and possibly traitorous.

They're both two sides of the same coin, so don't assume that just because Ann's telling you what you want to hear that it's the unvarnished truth.

[Tax-chick]

Screw him.

Only if you're suicidal.

[Mr. Mojo]

many on the far left today are essentially anti-American and hope for the defeat of their country in foreign wars.

Only during Republican administrations.

[Patriotic Bostonian]

Sullivan and others should be reminded that Ann has a degree in Constitutional law! Go Ann!

[habs4ever]

It is amusing when one shameless, ambitious and ubiquitous PR hound excoriates another shameless, ambitious and ubiquitous PR hound for being themselves ;-)

[freebilly]

her flights of fancy go back a long way. No punches are pulled. Ted Kennedy is an “adulterous drunk”

Sounds like a reality based comment to me....

[AgThorn]

Sullivan cannot put Ann and Dumbo (Moore)in the same bag, as he has attempted to do.

The reason is that while they both draw the ire of the other side, Dumbo does it by lying and Ann does it with the cold hard facts.

What YOU Said!!! (Love it when good minds think alike!!!)

[cardinal4]

The left, in turn, has learnt the lesson, which is why the attack dog Michael Moore has done so well.

I would respectfully disagree; even the lefties I know think moore is a disgusting pig..

Comparing Coulter to Moore is like comparing the Vatican with the Clinton LIEbrary..

[Prodigal Son]

Screw him!

[habs4ever]

Florence King she isn't...but made for TV, yes indeed she is.She does run the risk of over-exposure as a combative partisan.

[Tax-chick]

And all the other Republican Babes!

Why, thank you! And you haven't even seen my pictures!

FReegards,

Xy

[YaYa123]

Happy Fifth, tet.

"Andrew, if you don't want her, I'll take her.", you wrote.

"Looks like you win Ann by default. Andrew is gay, (Aids too), he's devoutly Catholic, and he's Conservative. So don't fret that he's not too fond of Ann's slash and burn style. He's in total agreement with Ann's main points:

Ann " is absolutely right to insist that many on the left are in denial about the complicity of some Americans in Soviet evil, the guilt of true traitors such as Alger Hiss or the Rosenbergs, who helped Stalin and his heirs in their murderous pursuits.

... her basic causes are the right ones: the American media truly is biased to the left; some liberals and Democrats were bona fide traitors during the cold war; many on the far left today are essentially anti-American and hope for the defeat of their country in foreign wars."

[freebilly]

BLOATED MURDERING ADULTEROUS DRUNK

That's bloated, murderous, adulterous, socialist drunk....

[Endeavor]

Flo King is a tough act to follow. No one's been able to do that, yet (NR keeps trying and failing on the back page).

[Prodigal Son]

And you haven't even seen my pictures!

Don't tease us!

[tet68]

Hi dear, you and dean doing ok?
Haven't been freepin on the streets in a long while but
elections are coming so hope to see you guys before long.

[habs4ever]

There is one man who can rescue that back page...Mark Steyn.

[Cicero]

As Brendan Nyhan, the media critic, has documented, her flights of fancy go back a long way. No punches are pulled. Ted Kennedy is an “adulterous drunk”. President Clinton had “crack pipes on the White House Christmas tree”. You get the idea.

Why is it extremist to report the facts?