[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.

[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'.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[ChadGore]

In strict occordance with the Free Republic law (article 7, section 2, paragraph 3) saying that any story about Ann Coulter must be acompanied by her photo, I proffer the following images:

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Frustrate a liberal a day, that's all we ask.
Give em' hell Ann !

[dighton]

Oooh, 'e sounds like a bleedin' fairy.

[Revolting cat!]

Gene baby, you're preaching to the choir which is made up of your fellow travellers in the media. Face it, down in the pews, real people are reading Ms Coulter's book! Next book she writes, she ought to include in it future reviews of it like this one written by herself - you guys on the Holy Left are so easy to predict, imitate and mock!

[Rome2000]

Instead, she's a Republican attack-blonde,

GOP attack blondes are certainly preferable to preposterous looking Democrat attack yentas with whiny voices and bad manners.

[Consort]

Lyon's a liar

[Rome2000]

atheism, cosmopolitanism, sexual license, moral relativism, communism, disloyalty and treason

Add perverted, arrogant, dishonest, murderer, and evil to that and you have the definition of liberal democrats in a nutshell.

No wonder they hate anybody that has the guts to tell them what they are.

Thats when they try to play the Nazi/ Jew card.

It isn't working.

[isthisnickcool]

Aim a bit lower Ann.

[doug from upland]

Buttboy Gene Lyons, perhaps only eclipsed in buttboyocity by Joe Conason, has a wife who was given a cushy hospital administration job by the Sinkmaster. There is your answer.

[flushed with pride]

Lyin' Gene Lyons' ONE AND ONLY job for eight years was to be a Clinton syncophant and p.r. vomiter. When continually confronted with the truth about Bill and Hill, his predictable response was to call it all a bunch of made-up lies by 'the Clinton Haters', whom Hillary renamed 'the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy'. Most journalists, even those on the left, saw him for what he was and still don't take him seriously or even consider him relevant.