A feminist success story (Coulter)

Boston Globe ^ | June 16, 2006 | Caryl Rivers

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

IF ANN COULTER didn't exist, someone would have to invent her. She's the perfect creature for the ethereal planet of Infotainment, a realm where fact hardly exists, compassion is a yawn, civility is a bore, and the national anthem is "another opening, another show."

Coulter's comments criticizing the 9/11 widows were everywhere in the media recently. But it's sometimes hard to figure out whether she's a spoof segment on "The Daily Show," a sitcom character too caricatured to exist in the world that isn't composed of electrons dashing to and fro, or a latter-day Father Coughlin, who spreads hate like hair spray. She's miniskirted, bottle-blonde, and mean as a warthog, a fascist fashionista.

Coulter is the perfect icon of the way in which the values of infotainment now have almost completely taken over what we used to call news and comment. As "Godless," her latest book about dreaded liberals, was to roll off the presses, Coulter took out after the widows, to wit: "These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities, and stalked by grief-arazzis. I have never seen people enjoying their husband's death so much." She also called them "harpies" whose husbands were probably about to divorce them before the Twin Towers fell.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I'm not sure if this had to be excerpted or not, as it's not from the Boston Globe but from my college's newspaper database. I decided to play it safe and excerpt it, however.

[Graybeard58]

Can't read it with the link provided.

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[downtownconservative]

Intersting that your link doesn't go to the Boston Globe but to tech-school web page that requires a password??? Wierd.

[Graybeard58]

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/06/16/a_feminist_success_story/?p1=MEWell_Pos4

[frankiep]

She's the perfect creature for the ethereal planet of Infotainment, a realm where fact hardly exists

I'm sorry, I could not get past this part. I wonder if this 'journalist' has bothered to read any of Coulter's work. If she were to read it she would see that much of it consists of actual quotes and events by liberals followed by her own commentary. I find myself hating the disgusting media more and more every single day.

[Lori675]

Did she say this in her book about Jersey girls.
I have never seen people enjoying their husband's death so much.
Because on H and C she said that Newsweek lied when she claims she said that.

[RushCrush]

Hey everyone- buy your Dad the new Ann Coulter book for Father's Day! My dad got his today and loves it!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Thanks.

Sorry about that Mods, my bad.

[martin_fierro]

She's had her own Time magazine cover, something akin to beatification on planet Infotainment.

Oh please, Caryn. It's not like she's been given an Oscar or anything.

[Navy Patriot]

Coulter is a feminist success story

Poor Caryl, Ann is a female that is successful. Feminazis had nothing to do with it.

[SAJ]

The more interesting question is ''Can this collegiate putz even read, never mind whether he/she/it **bothered** to read?''

[SamuraiScot]

I was a little shocked by the distortions, plagiarism, factual sloppiness, ignorance of 20th-century history, and poor rhetoric of this piece. For example, she takes a quote of Ann's about the world not needing one more lawyer and makes it her own.

Then I saw the bio, which explained everything: The writer is a professor of journalism.

[sageb1]

No, she said Newsweek distorted what she said. Unfortunately, most have done the same. It was a reference to how much attention the Jersey Girls have received and gone after and how much they seemed to like that attention because it gave them a reason to spout off about President Bush.

[Enterprise]

Here is the exact quote from her book, page 103:

"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much."

What the G/D bastards on the left are trying to spread is that she is supposed to have said that they were glad their husbands died. I have heard that statement on talk radio, and it is false, it is filthy, and it is typically leftist. And that is what she denied saying on H & C. She has never denied the quote I posted from the book.

[bpjam]

Her whole article is hearsay. She just regurgitates and responds to things other idiots in the MSM have written. The author automatically assumes that anything in print (in the MSM at least) is true and therefore worthy of repeating. A common mistake by people who call themselves professionals but have no idea what makes one a professional at any trade.

I would bet money that this harpie is ugly as hell and resents Ann Coulter being described as attractive. Its Rush Limbaugh Undeniable Truths of Life '24. Feminism was established as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society'. Ann Coulter doesn't need feminisms' help.

[Echo Talon]

She's the perfect creature for the ethereal planet of Infotainment, a realm where fact hardly exists

you said:
I'm sorry, I could not get past this part. I wonder if this 'journalist' has bothered to read any of Coulter's work. If she were to read it she would see that much of it consists of actual quotes and events by liberals followed by her own commentary. I find myself hating the disgusting media more and more every single day.

My thoughts and reaction exactly...

[Nateman]

Ann knows the RATS are the party of evil and treats them like the Clinton suckers they are. Little wonder she gets slimed with anything but the truth. ( Her take on evolution would seem to be a better target, why are they passing that up, I wonder?)