Little Annie Fanny (Gene Lyons Attacks Ann Coulter)BIG BARF ALERT

members ^ | 8/28/2002 | Gene Lyons

[TLBSHOW]

Gene is a left winger and columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Must be a friend of Hillary's.

[Corin Stormhands]

Something certainly got his panties in a twist...

[What Is Ain't]

that makes ex-Atlanta Brave John Rocker's foolish remarks about queers, weirdos and foreigners in New York sound benign by comparison.

They were benign to most, you buffoon.

[Russell Scott]

Gene Gene the Lyons Machine, and Phil DonaWho, are twins. Gene wrote a book once. I don't know if it cracked the best seller list, but it was cracked.

[martin_fierro]

On TV, Coulter conveys all the feminine warmth of a water mocassin, if you can imagine a pit viper with silicone implants.

When Lyons writes like this, I can almost confuse him with a man.

[jwalsh07]

Apparently he still hasn't sobered up from that devastating defeat at the hands of George W. Bush.

[SEGUET]

"They were benign to most, you buffoon."

You don't want me to believe that you really meant to say that do you???

[Kermit]

He comes up with one mistake by Coulter, if and that's a big if, I take Gene Lyons word for it. Coulter doesn't criticize liberals for name-calling, she criticizes liberals for ONLY name-calling, they never back it up with substance. Coulter's name-calling gets backed up with substance.

Eva Braun married Adolf Hitler, right before they committed suicide. I believe Eva Braun was apolitical. She didn't have any political opinions, so it's wrong to call her a 'nazi slut'.

[TLBSHOW]

Gene must be drinking heavy! I think he wishes he was Ann, you know a #1 Bestseller instead he knows he is a bottom of the fish bowl cleaner!

[gusopol3]

didn't he do all the "great reporting" on the "Arkansas Project" that led to Patrick Leahy's inquisition of the American Spectator--while the dog (leftist press) didn't bark about First Amendment rights?

[boris]

"her book 'Slander' is simply made up—780 often phony footnotes and all."

This from a guy who thinks Michael Bellesiles the epitome of scholarly research and detailed painstaking historicity.

--Boris

[PhilDragoo]

Must be a friend of Hillary's.

So much so he did this interview defending her in Salon. The final sentence has a subtle Freudian slip which signals Gene's subliminal desire:

It's frightening to me as a believer in our system that you've got what is essentially the unchecked power of the media to destroy. It's shocking to me that people don't know better. But don't you think people are becoming more aware? I'm alternately exhilarated and depressed. Some days I feel like I'm going to expose them all; it will all come out. Other times I feel like the Dutch boy with one finger in the dike.

Other than this snippet from Lyons on Lesbos, he's as funny as Al Francken's Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot. And as accurate.

He's Maureen Dowd without the well-turned phrase: all bile and no style.

If body part nicknames are the mark of wit, his Little Annie Fanny falls flat. I did enjoy George W. Bush's reference to the Large Adam Fanny as a major-league a**hole.

Gene Lyons with his finger in the dyke.

That's what burbles up from his oblongatal swamp.

[goldstategop]

Either that or our beautiful conservative women get him biting his nails everytime he sees 'em!

[Cindy]

I've never heard of Mr. Lyons nor do I believe I have read a commentary by him before. After reading this commentary twice and looking at Mr. Lyon's choice of words; I wonder if he doesn't like women and/or he doesn't like Ms. Coulter and/or he doesn't like conservatives.

[goldstategop]

LOL! You got it right. With the doubtable exception of Michael Moore I can't think of a liberal political author who was on the NYT best-seller list for longer than a few weeks.

[RandallFlagg]

I'm doing my part. Just bought "Let Freedom Ring" and "Shooting Straight". I wish I could read 'em both at the same time!!!

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--The judge smiled at the D.A., but it was entirely without humor. "Mr. Barry," he said in a resonant voice, "there is no mention made in the Constitution about making whiskey. There is a very clear mention made of the right to keep and bear arms. You may be entirely right that our government does not issue our soldiers shotguns of the exact type that Mr. Miller had in his truck. However, you are forgetting everything you were taught in grade school civics class." The District Attorney turned crimson at this barb.--UC

[TC Rider]

Other times I feel like the Dutch boy with one finger in the dike.

So maybe Gene is a lesbian trapped in a gay man's body.

He must really hate himself.

No wonder they have all those conferences on gender. This gets confusing.

[thegreatbeast]

I was thinking that this was the movie reviewer guy! But now I place this cur.
A few weeks ago when the book came out, Coulter was indeed ubiquitous on small screens everywhere but I distinctly remember her talking about how her publisher asked her to scale back on the footnotes. I know they were numerous but 780? Is this correct?
" So when Coulter calls Couric, in effect, a Nazi slut,"... is as fine an example of mischaracterization as you will find. Mr. Lyons, were he to read his history, would know that the allusion would pertain to a certain comeliness, a general cotton-headedness and specifically a lack of intellectual depth that Ms. Couric is thought to share with the late mistress of the Fuerher. Eva Braun, incidentally, was no more of a slut than Ms. Couric is thought to be. Again, any knowledge of the historical personage and this fact would have been apparent to Mr. Lyons.
Lyons' worse serpentine affront though is his dull equation of Ann Coulter being an anti-semite.
Trash.

[TC Rider]

And I wouldn't put it past Moore to gin the game either.

Just wait, when the fat finally clogs his last artery, they'll find 60,000 copies of his books in his garage.