Posted on 03/09/2014 7:44:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On September 26, 2012, book publisher Penguin Group sued Cox for the return of a $81,250 advance and $50,000 in interest, payment for a humorous book Cox agreed in 2006 to produce and never provided to the publisher. Penguin cancelled the book in 2007 when Cox did not forward a manuscript.
In 2004 Cox wrote, “OK, we were basically kidding about Bush being gay. Sure, he likes to play dress-up and hug shut-ins and he seems to have a daddy fixation, but we didn’t believe he had actually f—ked anyone in the ass.”
Once Cox sensed the tide was turning against Imus, she hammered him in a column in Time Magazine. Cox wrote that she “succumbed” to the boy’s club “potty-mouth” talk when going on Imus.
Cox’s column did not mention that long before Imus ever put her on the air, her blog The Wonkette was far trashier than anything ever said on Imus.
http://imustruth.typepad.com/index/2007/07/queen-of-hearts.html
Self described “pretend journalist” Ana Marie Cox is no stranger to the media world she regularly savages, having put in time at publications like Suck, Mother Jones, and The American Prospect. Nor is she unfamiliar with journalistic backbiting, having been fired from or asked to leave most of them. But as Wonkette—her sex-obsessed, hard-drinking, foul-mouthed internet persona—Cox managed to turn the ready sarcasm that made her unpopular in the office into a skill that has earned her notoriety on and off the Web. With the launch of Wonkette, Cox found a loyal following of readers who like their political coverage superficial, mean, and gratuitously profane. No less impressively, she managed to place herself at the center of a D.C. sex scandal without being a politician or having to sleep with one.
http://reason.com/archives/2005/01/06/wonking-off
My sister-in-law answered that question trenchantly:
"To run everything -- and shoes."
“The daughter of liberal academics from Lincoln, Neb., Ms. Cox moved to Washington from New York in May 2000 with her husband, Chris Lehmann, an editor at The Washington Post Book World. She was writing her own satirical blog, theanticmuse.com, after bouncing from editing jobs at The Chronicle of Higher Education, America Online and National Geographic. She was fired from The American Prospect magazine after six weeks (during which she playfully called its co-editor, Robert Kuttner, ‘Crazy Bob’ behind his back) and was required to sign a confidentiality agreement about the terms of her dismissal.”
Ana Marie Cox built her career on blogging jokes about anal sex at the reprehensible guttersnipe site Wonkette. She presented herself as a rambunctious youngster, but it turned out she was already pushing 30 and just naturally behaves like a annoying, hyperactive juvenile. Both Time and later the Guardian hired her in full knowledge of this colorful journalistic career.
The Guardian, for one, hires full-blown, out-and-out communists such as Gary Younge. What’s a little potty mouth compared to that? LOL
I look at the caliber of woman the Democrats are pushing for president these days and I say I don’t want to hear another word about how the GOP doesn’t respect women.
Is this a trick?
You may be right at that!
I think that in a pop culture where women can get away with murder, literally, figures like Palin are a God-sent blessing. Example: HW Bush silenced by pinhead Katie Couric, who scolded him condescendingly on her show once for his involvement or support, I don't remember which, of tobacco farming. A World War II veteran! And her, a brat young enough to be his daughter! I like to think I'd have yanked her off that set poste haste if I'd been on the scene, and slapped her silly.
Bush was a gentleman, he could not swat down the miserable gnat Couric because she was female. Had she tried such a trick with Thatcher, or Palin in a live forum, she'd have been sliced to ribbons. Girls fight dirty. Hillary would do the same thing, take advantage of a gentleman's honor. My dream 2016 ticket would be Palin vs Hillary. It would be hilarious.
My version of "women's issues" is this: I once interviewed for a write-up a woman architect who had made it to the top of the hierarchy in her field, long before woman architects were much seen in the industry. I had been instructed to ask her by my editor (the question wouldn't have occurred to me) about her involvement in women's business and women's architect groups, which ones, etc. Her answer: she didn't belong to any women's professional organizations. She belonged to architectural organizations. The only important thing was: are you a professional?
I could have hugged her.
You have a sister-in-law of rare character.
Good for the architect! She didn’t fall for the B.S. That’s the way it should be everywhere but that would defeat the rats who survive by pitting us against each other.
They’re so disgusting.
GOP doesn’t understand women? Hell, who does? This writer is so far gone there is no reaching her.
If the Gelded old PANSIES keep listening to these LOSER moderates, they will continue to LOSE.
The GOP doesn’t understand Women because they’re Men. Actual Men.
The Guardian.......best fish wrapper you can get....excepting the NYT!!!!
Always.....always.....put the lid down!!!!
Well said/written.
Too much talk about this group or that group, and not enough talk about our basic freedoms and liberties.
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