Tailgunner Ann

Claremont Institure ^ | December 1, 2003 | William F. Buckley, Jr.

[Timocrat]

I believe Ms Coulters polemical attitude comes from her exasperation that the left has got away with so many lies and errant positions that she feels free to use hyperbole. Sorry I don't have the obligatory picture on file.

[JusPasenThru]

This is an outrage!

[ChadGore]

ANN COULTER IS RIGHT !

[donozark]

Allende shot himself with an AK-47 presented to him by Fidel Castro. Appropriate use of an AK if ever there was one...

[Timocrat]

This is an outrage!

I know, I really should get one or two.

[BartMan1]

When Bill Buckley gets to bloviating, one never knows quite where he might end up. Do we yet know where he ended up , after this essay ? Did he like the Coulter book, or not ?

[Jonah Johansen]

I see the left often compare Ann Coulter on the right to
Franken and Moore on the left.

I think the key difference is that Coulter is willing and capable of defending her ideas in front of a hostile audience.

Both Franken and Moore would be intelectually shreded if they tried to defend their books in front of a conservative audience. Which is obviously why they don't.

[Gritty]

"I resisted the persistent, illiterate request that I name traitors. With a great deal of charity—and suspension of disbelief—I was willing to concede that many liberals were merely fatuous idiots."--Ann C.

Apparently, Buckley read Coulter's book and determined, um, uh, Harrumpf, ....

[WilliamofCarmichael]

[Liberals] are enemies of the United States and of American freedom.

I believe it. Foremost they, in general, oppose our sovereignty, it's best for America and the world many believe. "They" want to entrust our inalienable rights to international police and courts. Many of them feeeeeeeeeeeel our military is the biggest threat to world peace.

If it ain't treason what is it?

[RaceBannon]

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[aynrandfreak]

This goes back to Coulter's falling out with Buckley's baby, "National Review" after 9/11 when she called for converting Muslims to Christianity & calling NR's staff "girlie men". It sounds like Buckley may also be jealous that her book on McCarthy is a bigger commercial success than his. It's a difficult issue because I respect them both, though Coulter does go a little over the top even for me sometimes.

[luvbach1]

The soft focus and texture of the top photo evokes a Dutch master.

[Bullish]

A fairly blurry review if you ask me.

He runs her down one way and runs her up the other.

[Jimmy Valentine]

I admire Buckley very much, but I suggest he is grinding his intellectual gears a little here.

Ann Coulter says what others on the right have typically been too squeamish, or too reticent to say. As such, to those more modest in their use of the english language, she sometimes reads and sounds like a tire iron applied smartly to the back of an unsuspecting head.

I for one find her prose and polemic refreshing in this P.C. driven world we now inhabit.

She calls a rat a rat. And she has not been caught out on her research like the hysterical twits Franken and Moore who peddle outright lies as truth.

Regards,

[gcruse]

One never strays far off the beam in agreeing with the WFB. And I do here, too. If Ann Coulter were operating from enemy's side of the lines, we would deride her as a skankous harradin substituting clever libel for concrete persuasion.

But, she's ours, she's clever, she'd be an authoritarian in a minute, but did I mention, she's ours?

[Scenic Sounds]

But, she's ours, she's clever, she'd be an authoritarian in a minute, but did I mention, she's ours?

I agree completely.

I think that the political book market nowadays is like the pop music business. Ann just gets up there and screams!!

These books are hot for a couple of months and then you can't even give them away. ;-)

[gcruse]

Indeed. I made a cassette for listening on the road a few years back. It included some stuff from another gust in the wind that was instantly forgotten but was hoopla squared for a while. Do you remember Patty Duke in the series Hail to the Chief?

[Scenic Sounds]

I do sorta remember Patty Duke in a White House setting, but I have to confess that 95% of movies pass right through me - I can love them and leave them, you know. It's embarrassing at times to tell someone that I went to the movies the other night, but have so much difficulty remembering even the name of the movie. It's one of my weaknesses. ;-)

[Kenny Bunk]

I'd really like to help, but, still no luck cracking the Buckley code. Maybe if I had an Enigma machine?

I am reasonably convinced that the column has something to do with or about Ann Coulter. Did you know WFB once wrote a very good video presentation on how to do celestial navigation? I think I'll review the tape now in an attempt to navigate my way through his column. Should I come out on the other end with some sort of better idea of what the lux et tenebrae are all about, I'll post. Don't stay up.