Fired Conservative Columnist Anne Coulter Getting 'Great Publicity'

CNS News ^ | 10/2/01

[be-baw]

Count me among those who think that if NR had problems with Coulter's column they should have addressed them before putting it/them on their web site.

I've wondered for months now how National Review could stoop so low as to hire some no-talent hack like Jonah Goldberg. He does not write well. I've yet to see from him a single example of original thinking. Heck, I get embarassed for NR every time I read his column.

Nevertheless, they still have many excellent articles by top-notch writers, and I consider it a must-read publication. I'll just choose to ignore Jonah.

[malakhi]

Where is that suggested? I see this stated again and again by posters, but I don't see it in the text. As I assume Miss Coulter has a Christian aversion to coerced conversion, I see no reason to insinuate such an idea.

Let me quote her again:

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity"

How can you read this to suggest something other than forced conversion? She didn't say "preach them the gospel". She said "convert them". If you see anything in her words which suggests she favors allowing them a choice, please explain it to me.

[let freedom sing]

He should be the center of attention, not Anne. His writing is entirely derivative--

DERIVATIVE? or devisive? Stick to your guns and bombs, Anne. Turn all Islam toward Christianity.

[Beep]

A little more clear? I got it immediately. Certainly, the entire NR editorial staff aren't collectively less intelligent than I am?!

[editor-surveyor]

"Your self-righteousness is breathtaking."

Kool, - - It's about that you took a breath! - (and read a dictionary or two)

[TLBSHOW]

Harry Bowman, a graduate student at Cornell, stood up and began to speak. For a few moments he rattled on about how his ancestors were white slaves, and then discussed, an a Cosmo-Kramer-like, incoherent manner how Ann Coulter was destroying the Republican party. After lunging at Coulter, in what appeared to be an attempt to attack her, Bowman was ejected from the room by members of the College Republicans.

[Publius6961]

You've got to admit, that's a bit on the extreme side. The first two comments are OK, but I'm sure a lot of people would have a problem with the last remark. Many people believe in God, but not all of them are Christians.

You're not one to believe that hyperbole has a place in creative writing?

Being a Christian, I would no more want those people in my religion as I would hyenas.

[malakhi]

No, he doesn't understand enough about the Gospel to disagree with it; his fear has prevented him from studying it. - This thread is a perfect textbook example.

You obviously don't know OWK very well. Also, have the courtesy to flag a person when you are talking about them.

[Publius6961]

assorted idiots who took this situation as an opportunity to set their hair on fire and run about in circles screaming "look at me, LOOK AT ME!!".
Coulter, Browne, Falwell, Robertson, Maher, and counting.

Small correction:

"Coulter, Browne, Falwell, Robertson, Maher, Owk... and counting."

[malakhi]

Force is clearly implied by the fact that it immediately follows, "Invade their countries" and "kill their leaders". I somehow don't get the impression that she's inviting them to a Promise Keeper's rally and hoping they'll see the light.

Thanks, Physicist. You said it better than I did.

[Aurelius]

You and others subsequently have suggested that the article was satire. I only skimmed it, when it was first posted on FR and didn't catch on. Do you by any chance know the link? I tried Drudge's link, but it only gives you her most recent article.

[LarryLied]

They hired Jonah Goldberg as an editor. That says everything about the standards NR wants to maintain. On-line, off-line, doesn't matter. Their name is at stake.

[malakhi]

I believe it is because we are hooked up to the Creator. Just look at Moslem or Buddist or Hindu and pagan god societies. Have they contributed anything comparable in inventions to humanity?

By gosh, you're right. Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Albert Einstein were all devout Christians.

[RobbyS]

Ironically, NRO has run an article by Paul Johnson that agrees with you. Islam materially diminishes every civilization in which it becomes dominant.

[Uriel1975]

What Anne said was no different than what Jonah said.

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity," --Ann Coulter

Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, "Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you." So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days' walk. Then Jonah began to go through the city one day's walk; and he cried out and said, "Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown." Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them. When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes. He issued a proclamation and it said, "In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let man, beast, herd, or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat or drink water. But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands. Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish." When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it. -- Book of the Prophet Jonah, Chapter 3, NASB

Question #1: Do you contend that there is no ethical distinction whatsoever between Jonah warning Nineveh of God's impending judgment (leaving their response thereunto in their own hands), and Ann Coulter's advocacy of forced conversion?

Question #2: Do you contend that God specifically told Ann Coulter what to say, as He told Jonah?

Conversion by the Sword:
1.) Is unBiblical; and
2.) Doesn't work.

"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life... And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father." -- John 6: 63, 65 KJV

[Publius6961]

Anne Coulter's suggestion was to revoke the freedom of Moslems

Muslims have freedoms?
Care to list which countries?

You wouldn't be parsing your words would you?

[TLBSHOW]

Ann attacked by the leftist of Cornell.

either you are with us or against us......boycott national review here at FR freep anyone that puts up some spew from them here. Their phones are ringing off the hook today LOL

[let freedom sing]

Right on. Don't apologize, Anne. Stick to your guns. We don't need any more flacid apologies for thin-skinned, politically correct liberals.

[Critter]

It's ok to joke about burying them in pig shit, bombing them with pig urine, shooting them with bullets dipped in pig fat, vaporizing them with neutron bombs, incinerating them with napalm (or the modern day, new and improved versions) but it's not ok to joke about converting them to Christianity. Didn't you know this? Didn't you get your FR PC handbook when you registered?