Here's a nice one.
Posted on 08/11/2002 3:28:41 PM PDT by aculeus
POUND RIDGE, N.Y. SO," says Anne Heche, petite, waif-thin blonde and star of the play "Proof," sidling up to Ann Coulter, towering, waif-thin blonde and star of the conservative talk-show circuit. "Do you do recruiting?"
Miss Coulter looks as if she can't believe it — From the left! A Hollywood convert? — but quickly recovers: "Absolutely!"
"I want to know what the pitch is," Ms. Heche continues. "I want to know, because I think it's . . . I think it's really interesting, and I'm not kidding."
"Well, I don't really have a recruiting pitch," Miss Coulter explains, "I wait for you to say something — and then I pounce."
Ms. Heche persists. "I'm curious, because I'm curious about politics."
Another party guest sits watching. "One of those two," he says, "is the hardest-working woman in show business."
That would be Ann Coulter, and the work is paying off. On this Sunday evening in early August, her book "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right" (Crown, $25.95) is No. 1 on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list.
For those who, like Ms. Heche, have not read "Slander," the book opens, "At the risk of giving away the ending: It's all liberals' fault," and concludes by defining liberals, more precisely, as "savagely cruel bigots who hate ordinary Americans and lie for sport." In between, it argues that conservatives are the ones who want to talk about ideas and that liberals engage only in name-calling and invective.
The occasion on this Sunday is the annual summer party at the weekend home of Miss Coulter's agent, Joni Evans, here in Westchester County, a setting Miss Coulter sums up as "enemy territory," full of people her book calls the East Coast liberal media elite.
"Did you see the cars outside?" Miss Coulter asks. "Rich liberals. Queens, baseball games — those are my people. American people."
But the evening seems to refute one argument Miss Coulter makes in "Slander": that liberals refuse to mingle with conservatives — if they know any.
Richard Blow, the former executive editor of George magazine, who is just back from a book tour promoting his book on John F. Kennedy Jr., comes over to ask how Miss Coulter is holding up, where she's been on her book tour.
"I told my publicist I'm an aspiring agoraphobic," she says. "So I've been to L.A., Washington and New York. It just gets overwhelming, all those crazy people out there."
Another guest greets her, saying, "I hear you're a very happy young lady."
Ms. Coulter responds with a joke about how often she checks her book's ranking at Amazon.com in a day.
"I'm falling," she adds. "I'm worried."
Miss Coulter, dressed in a black strapless mini-dress, laughs as she recounts her recent television appearances, her sparring match with Katie Couric on "Today."
Floyd Abrams, a First Amendment lawyer and a former boss of Miss Coulter's at the New York law firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel, where she worked as an associate, is explaining why the news media might editorialize that there was "no evidence" to conclude that there was wrongdoing in a case like Whitewater.
"Of course, you have to distinguish between legal evidence and real-life evidence on which we all base our lives," he says. "So I don't think people ought to use legal terminology ——"
"It's a liberal problem!" Miss Coulter interjects.
"There's a substantive . . . " Mr. Abrams begins in response, then stops. "Eeuuw, Ann. Ann. I miss you. Were you this way when you were with us?"
Miss Coulter responds with a throaty, regal laugh.
I really wish these people could decide on a story and stick to it; first he is too stupid to get out of bed; next, he is so crafty and cunning, he is going to take over the world; next, he is too stupid to pronounce big words; next, he is so sly, he was pulling the wool over everyone's eyes with complex business dealings; next, he is the goofy frat-boy, not ready for complex issues; now, he is the elitist, trying to make himself seem one of the guys.
22 posted on 8/11/02 3:46 PM Eastern by Paul Atreides
I'd pay money to see THAT ....
I'd pay money to see THAT ....
It's in the print edition but, alas, not on line.
Going conservative???
Let's see: Going from B grade actress to lesbian to walking around stoned out of her mind to being abducted by flying saucers.
I think she is just jealous
I'd pay money to see THAT ....
Why?? Haven't you ever seen Olive Oyle in a Popeye cartoon?
Like me, an X chromosome carnivore. Ruuff!
Help me, Katy, as your column has confused me! First you say....
"Another party guest sits watching. "One of those two," he says, "is the hardest-working woman in show business."
That would be Ann Coulter, and the work is paying off. On this Sunday evening in early August, her book "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right" (Crown, $25.95) is No. 1 on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list."
But then later......
Ann:"I told my publicist I'm an aspiring agoraphobic," she says. "So I've been to L.A., Washington and New York. It just gets overwhelming, all those crazy people out there."
Seeing as LA, Washington, and NY are not bastions of conservatism, how would a NY Times writer explain the fact that Coulter's book tops the NY Times best seller list? Could it be that it isn't show business at all, but that the American market is demanding more conservative writers?
LOL I'm changing my political affiliation to Contrarion!!!
Here's a nice one.
you know the post Coulter drill: photos-PHOTOS-PHOTOS!From;
Ann Coulter on C-SPAN: SUNDAY (8/11/02) - 8pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific
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Posted on 08/11/2002 2:14 PM Pacific by RonDog
63 posted on 8/11/02 5:07 PM Pacific by hole_n_one
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