The Maureen Dowd of Conservatives
Monday, July 7th, 2003Dorothy Rabinowitz’s characterization of Ann Coulter is spot-on.
I’m jealous I didn’t think of it first.
Dorothy Rabinowitz’s characterization of Ann Coulter is spot-on.
I’m jealous I didn’t think of it first.
So, can we begin referring to Coulter as MoDoCon?
Radley, are you kidding me?
That characterization suggests that MoDo is somehow the liberal counterpart to Coulter. That is absurd on its face. I would reference MoDo’s thrashing of Clinton and Gore over the past 8 years, in addition to her thinly-veiled adoration of Bush, Sr. Some liberal pundit indeed. Also, even when MoDo takes on conservatives, I don’t recall here ever employing the same murderous invective that Coulter thrives on.
The sad fact is that any criticism of the right results in conservative pundits missapplying the ‘liberal’ label to the offending speaker. The sad fact is that the majority of those pundits wouldn’t recoginze a true liberal pundit if they hit them in the face.
Where’s Maureen Dowd’s equivalent of “My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building”?
“The Michael Moore of the right” seems far more accurate. Never worries about facts, makes statements implying that blowing up political enemies would have been OK, blindingly partisan, incredibly overrated, …..