Coulter's 'Slander' a lazy mix of errors, invective (Roeper continues his slander)

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 23, 2002 | RICHARD ROEPER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

[Chi-townChief]

Roeper's latest whine about Ann Coulter that started here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/720396/posts

[areafiftyone]

Amazing - all the liberal whining about Ann's book and it soars to the NY Times BestSeller List. HMMMMMM! Looks like America wants to hear the truth!

[dead]

He should stick to reviewing Adam Sandler movies.

Not the relatively challenging ones like "The Wedding Singer" but the "simplier" ones, like that one where Adam is the devil's retarded son.

That's more his speed.

[UB355]

I don't normally buy this type of book, but did so because of the way it was footnoted. Of great help when I need to slap down a liberal. I read it in two days on a short vacation last week in Northern Wisconsin, loved it.

[DallasMike]

Of course, the primary reason ABC considered dropping "Nightline" wasn't ratings--it was the chance to hire David Letterman.

Not that hiring David Letterman would have anything to do with ratings!

[Chi-townChief]

Sorry, I see this is already here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/720932/posts

[Tacis]

Speaking of ugly women, has anyone taken a look at Chelsea Clinton lately? Every day, she looks more and more like her father, Webb Hubbel. Just look at the jowels! There can be no question.

[an amused spectator]

Welcome to your first day on Free Republic, you liberal puke.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Has Roeper ever heard of...H.L. Mencken or Punch?

[goldstategop]

Richard Roeper still doesn't refute any of what Ann Coulter wrote. Sure he nitpicks and says made a few mistakes of attribution and that sort of thing by way of criticism but he still hasn't undermined the substance of her charges about liberals. Heck if this is the worst attack Ann's gonna face from a liberal reviewer, she doesn't have anything to worry about. Roeper's faint damnation actually counts as praise. No wonder Slander is a runaway best-seller the infuriates liberals to no end.

[goldstategop]

Yup.... much of what Ann says is satire and sarcasm. Then again humor is beneath liberals. They take everything so very seriously.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Libs have short memories as well. Some liberal had said of Reagan (back in '80) that if he were elected "it would be legal to shoot black people." He was a "war monger" who would get us into a nuclear war. He was described as a religious extremist, devotee of crank apocalypticism who would welcome Armageddon, etc., etc. They were not exactly moderate in descriptive discourse when it came to Reagan. Ms. Coulter may get a tad colorful in her imaginative rhetorical gymnastics, but...uh...the targets are rather extreme in their own ways. Would it be possible to engage in hyberbole in lampooning, say, Hillary or Bill? They're beyond words.

[goldstategop]

Liberals think conservatives are everything they feared under the bed that they can't see in the light of day... and more. No wonder they're so extreme in their rhetoric against the right.

[zoyd]

Hey, if this is all Roeper can come up with, fine. Just spell her name correctly, and she won't mind.

Her book has literally hundreds of footnotes, and if Jesse's son not quite making the TV show he was floated is an example of how erroneous her book is, then it's a testament to the fact that the hundreds of other footnotes detailing liberal bias do NOT get banged around as 'bogus'.

If you're delusional enough to believe that there is no liberal bias in the media, then you've got a long way to go before you can qualify as an even remotely rational thinker.

[Ramius]

Thanks for letting me know I pushed the right buttons.

You're free to push buttons, if that's all you can do. Most of us prefer to actually discuss issues around here. Please also feel free to do that at any time. We'll wait.

[stands2reason]

We don't like to waste bandwidth on liberal disruptors around here, so,

BUH-BYE!!!!

[facedown]

The old fashioned way:

riggs2002

Disruptor  since July 33, 2002

Back to DU for you, Bub.