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Tuesday, July 27th, 2004Here’s the Ann Coulter column that got her dropped as the voice of dissent in USA Today’s DNC coverage.
As most of you know, I’ve never really understood Coulter’s appeal, so take my esitmation of her column with a shovel of salt.
But I find it almost unreadable. Granted, some of the USA Today editor’s questions were head-scratchers. But were I editing, I’d have dropped the thing for being over the top, self-congratulatory, and just plain unfunny. I’d fisk it, but that would be a little like standing near a barrel.
And someone needs to tell the ghoulish pundit to stop celebrating how attractive she is in her columns.
Because, um, she isn’t.
Ann, the fact that Bill Maher wants to get in your pants, or that you may play the occasional starring role in some sex-starved College Republican or YAFer’s wet dream doesn’t give you license to continue to refer to yourself as “one of the pretty girls.”
Isn’t it time for the whole “Ann Coulter is a serious person” thing to be over?
This comes back to Rush Limbaugh and Whoopi Goldberg too: Don’t these organizations KNOW who they are hiring? What makes USA Today all the more ridiculous is that they are going to have Michael Moore comment on the Republican convention. You think Ann Coulter is inflamatory …. just wait.
âSupport the troops,â the signs say, âbring them home.â Thatâs my new position on all government workers, except the 5% who arenât useless, which is to say cops, prosecutors, firemen and U.S. servicemen. I love bureaucrats at the National Endowment of the Arts funding crucifixes submerged in urine so much — I think they should go home. I love public school teachers punishing any mention of God and banning Christmas songs so much — I think they should go home.
Yes, yes, beyond Coulter’s imbicile, childish, “my team is better than your team” ramblings, we see that, deep down, her political philosophy is…libertarian? Funny, how she says all this stuff, which I pretty much agree with (while the whole “teachers punishing any mention of god” thing is a bit far, I do think we should “send them home”, as she says), but at the same time, she supports Bush, the biggest welfare-entitlement president of the past, what, 30 or 40 years? 25% rise in discretionary spending. Never vetoed a spending bill. Lied in order to push through his medicare welfare extravaganza. Ummm…if Coulter is such a fucking libertarian CONSERVATIVE (outside of her seething bloodlust and craving for killing), as it seems from her statement, then, why does she support a president who is more liberal than Clin-ton? Who has increased nonmilitary federal spending more than twice as much as clinton did, in half the time?
Ugh, she really is a disgusting person. And an unprincipled hypocrite too.
Who takes her seriously? Not me. I visit World of Crap for regular bashing of her rantings…
Her regular appearances are the reason I stopped watching Maher’s show. She’s not eloquent, not knowledgable, not interesting and not funny. I often just felt so embarrassed for her that I had to change the channel. Then I just quit watching entirely.
Ann Coulter? She’s hot, in a it’s the 3am last call and I’ve got beer goggles sort of way.
Coulter is to Republicans as (insert putrid Dem talking head here) is to Democrats.
I always thought her and Monica Crowley could do a pay-per-view…of course after a Monkey butler ThunderDome thing and a 12 pack of Corona.
darnit ev, beat me to the best quote. my second favorite, “yen for earth tones in a man’s wardrobe.” sorry radster. i have to disagree. that IS humorous. and even i, who despite my best efforts lean toward some of the basic tenets of pre-modern feminism, had to chuckle at “hippie chick pie wagons.” come on now, tell me you didn’t crack a smile? maybe just a little one?
i find her absolutely awesome. she is very funny, and really smart. michelle
I can’t stand Ann Coulter or her style of setting up strawmen arguments and knocking them down in unfair ways.
But her column was one of the funniest things I’ve read in months.
I never laugh out loud, but a few of those lines were AWESOME.
Also, the USAT editor’s marks (”Not funny. I don’t get it.”) made the column that much better.
She’s not serious and no one should take her seriously, obviously . . . but that’s probably why she’s occassionally enjoyable.
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I find it particularly ironic that my credentials be questioned by such a notorious ‘french party’ apologist as ‘the Balko’.
Maybe she calls herself one of “the pretty girls” as a way of poking fun at schauvanists who wouldn’t normally give her writing the time of day but do just because she is prettier than most female journalists? I’m not saying that she is pretty, or not pretty, just prettIER then say, Greta Van Suwsjsladfjlastenaiqch. Guess you’d have to be a conservative pretty girl to understand, (wink).
She sure gets a lot of attention, doesn’t she? Does that mean that her evil ploy is working? I mean, we are all talking about her right now, and we all read her column (if you clicked on Radley’s link).
Who told Michelle Malkin about Radley’s post?
Radley forced me to find a picture of Ann Coulter. My train of thought:
Yeah, I’d do her.
…
Hang on, she looks strangely familiar.
…
Is that John Kerry in drag?
…
I’d still do her.
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Ann Coulter is a good looking woman. Those of you who don’t think so fall into three categories:
Too young.
Too gay.
Too blind.
Another thing . . . that USAT editor is being an ass. What did they think they were getting when they signed her? All of the “I don’t get it.” comments. Please. If this moron doesn’t get any of what she wrote then said moron needs to look for a job proofing cereal boxes. Perhaps that might be too much, though.
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I don’t get it.
Doorknob or partisan asswipe? You be the judge.
Political content aside, Coulter’s column is just badly written. I would’ve spiked it from my campus newspaper in college.
Amen Radley.
Best part is when she tongue in cheeck says that Carter’s peace attitudes is what got all of us in the “middle east mess” in the first place.
I did not know that. I did not really that the middle east was not a mess before he screwed it up, the jerk.
radley, as for the “someone needs to tell…to stop celebrating how attractive she is in her columns.” i’d like to see some evidence pls. i’ve never interpreted anything she has said or written as even moderately self-flattering. i think coulter is generally good at staying on topic and with the issues being discussed in both her appearances and writings.
and yes, i think she is an attractive lady for 30+ too, although i hardly think that relevant to her insight and intelligence and wit on political commentary.
one day radley, dear young chap, you may even have a wrinkle or 2 on that sweetly boyish face. or maybe an inch to pinch on your little belly? we won’t like or dislike you any less for it. not me anyway, i will still think you a softie lib. a nice one, but a softie lib nonetheless. michelle
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t see where she refers to herself as “one of the pretty girls.” She says “the pretty girls . . . are on my side” and later refers to “[m]y pretty-girl allies,” but that’s not the same as her saying she’s a pretty girl.
To answer your question joel; some of us feel that Carter’s ‘less than tough’ policies (specifically when dealing with Iran) when it comes to the Middle East extremists are what allowed those sentiments to grow. He was still naive enough to think you could use diplomacy with terrorists. Most of the rest of us know that just plain destroying them is the only answer.
She is pretty in an anorexic sort of way.
I don’t think she is all that smart. When I found out that she clerked for the supreme court (or was it an appeals court?), it made me think that she is the poster boy for the Peter Principle.
I find her humorous because of her hyperbole. But, then again, liberals are easy targets.
I sure don’t expect any perspicacious political philosophy to drool from her mouth.
Does anyone think she would have gotten to where she is she wasn’t an allegedly “hot woman”? I haven’t taken her seriously for years.
Andrew, the only problem with your analysis is that Michael Moore is even less cogent, stable or well-informed and as good as he looks in a g-string (I hear) I don’t think that it’s his rugged attractiveness which got him where he is.
Bernard:
What’s your number, sailor?
Ann Coulter is a horse-face skelton, whose own bitterness and irrational anger is eating her from the inside.
Mikey babey: not during office hours.
Richard: the rest of us just have to make do with tapeworm.
Ann Coulter would be taken more seriously if she didnt do the oneliners (even though they do make me laugh) but she does do her research. Sure she’s biased, but she has all her footnotes. TREASON was a gem. Never knew how all that Hiss and Rosenberg stuff turned out after we got access to the USSR archives….
Actuallty to whoever is talking about Ann coulter being a libertarian, she tried to become the libertarian candiate for some house seat, but the libertarian party flat-out rejected her.
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