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Posted on 07/11/2003 6:06:56 PM PDT by JustPiper
Four columns for the price of one: Many readers have been asking if I'm going to tackle Ann Coulter's new book Treason, in which the far-right screecher recasts Joe McCarthy as an American hero and spews her venom at all liberals.
I'd say she's worth about a third of a column this time around. Sure, Treason is filled with howlers--Coulter has an uncanny ability to contradict herself, and she makes cartoonishly unfair generalizations, in the process trivializing the very definition of treason--but she would be a whole lot more interesting if she weren't so predictable and one-dimensional. Try some flexible thought, Annie!
For those looking for ammo against Coulter, Spinsanity.org has given Treason a nice solid trashing, and Joe Conason at Salon.com has also weighed in with a scathing analysis that notes, "[Coulter's] grasp of facts is even worse than her judgment."
Here's one choice example: Coulter: "[I]n March 1946, Truman ostentatiously rebuffed Winston Churchill after his famous Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri. . . . [He] instructed Secretary of State Dean Acheson not to attend a reception for Churchill a week later in New York."
Conason points out a few minor errors. First, Acheson wasn't appointed secretary of state until 1949. Second, it was the secretary of state at the time, James Byrnes, who actually urged Acheson not to attend the New York event. (Conason notes that Acheson had a "cordial" lunch with Churchill shortly thereafter.)
Furthermore, Truman was the one who invited Churchill to his home state of Missouri--and he read Churchill's speech in advance, telling him the warning about communism would "do nothing but good."
Of course, Coulter's army will gobble up every word of her book, and if you dare disagree with anything she says, they'll respond by sending you hate e-mails, unsigned of course.
Meanwhile, in the world of the rational, we wonder if this woman will ever love anything as much as she hates liberals.
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"Gloria" Originally by Laura Branigan
"Ann Coulter" Parody by Mark Hoolihan
Ann Coulter, you're not quite making sense now
Always after Clinton, you gotta get him somehow
I think you've got to slow down, before you start to blow it
I think you're headed for a breakdown, so be careful not to show it
You really don't remember, was it something Clinton said
Are the voices in your head calling Ann Coulter?
Ann Coulter, don't you think you're foolish?
If Joe McCarthy was right, why couldn't anybody prove it?
You don't have to answer
Just attack them all the time, oh-oh-oh calling them traitors
Ann Coulter (Ann Coulter) I think you just get dumber (Ann Coulter)
I think you're getting more bitter (Ann Coulter)
Cause you're not getting younger (Ann Coulter)
But you really don't remember, was it something Clinton said?
Are the voices in your head calling Ann Coulter?
A-ha-ha, A-ha-ha, Ann Coulter, How's it gonna go down?
Will you find him with Kim Jong-Il, or will you catch him with Bin Laden?
Will you blame him cause you're lonely
Say that Clnton caused your empty womb?
Feel you sanity slipping away, don't believe it's coming back soon
You really don't remember, was it someting clinton said?
Are the voices in your head, calling Ann Coulter?
Ann Coulter, don't you think you're foolish?
If McCarthy was right, why couldn't anybody prove it?
You don't have to answer
Just attack them all the time, oh-oh-oh, calling them traitors
Ann Coulter (Ann Coulter) I think you just get dumber (Ann Coulter)
I think you're getting more bitter (Ann Coulter)
Cause you're not getting any younger (Ann Coulter)
But you really don't remember, was it something Clinton said
Are the voices in your head, calling Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter, Ann Coulter, Ann Coulter...
There's a lefty columnist in my lefty hometown newspaper that pulls this same stunt. He'll go off on something like gun control, then print some hand-selected letters from morons and claim they're representative of the whole lot.
At least he did >10 years ago, when I still read the local paper.
Dick (May I call you DICK?), I can assure you, I won't be sending you any emails over this. You have to have said something to actually raise my blood pressure before I'd do that. This little burp of yours doesn't even annoy me; I only find it vaguely amusing in that typical "You Liberal Idiot Columnists Just Don't GET It, Do You?" kind of way.
(said to the sound of Homer Simpson's "Hmmm Donuts")
I liked it too. It was good fun for a movie.
Since this libelous tome was made available to the public, I suspected that it was filled with lies. The above statement confirms it!
There's supposed to be a thing at the end but I don't see it so please don't flame me.....
I notice this jerkweed columnist doesn't dispute the facts of Ann's book--he just asks us to believe someone else.
Ann's book is meticulously footnoted...obviously this clown hasn't read the book--he's just read what other people who haven't read the book said about it.
Give it up, Jackass. America can judge for themselves.
So, Dickie Roeper, since when is hating liberals and liberalism a bad thing?
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