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Posted on 10/08/2004 11:23:10 AM PDT by FrontPageMag.com
The Most Unpublished Writer
By David Horowitz
I've taken to reading Ann Coulter's new book How To Talk To A Liberal (If You Must) whenever I need respite from the cacophonies of the current campaign. After Tuesday's Vice Presidential debate it was salutary to read her chapter on "Kerry's Puppy" about his pick of ambulance chaser (and not to be corrected fibber) John Edwards for the second spot. I have to say I am getting physically ill watching a rabidly partisan press blow up a war policy that has kept 300 million Americans safe for over three years. Take a look at the actual Duelfer Report on WMDs and how Saddam was a month away from producing biological weapons for example and then compare this one fact to any account in the mainstream press and get a glimpse of how a rabid left is conspiring to mislead the public and elect a team with no position and no policy and no conviction on a war that may one day costs tens of thousands of American lives.
While reading the introduction to Ann's book, I came across her surprising comment that she is "the most unpublished writer in America." Hyperbole is Ann's métier, but there is always a heavy dose of reality in any of her claims and this was no exception. Yes, her books make her one of the best-selling authors in America today. But Ann is a columnist first and foremost and to this day, despite her prominence as a public intellectual, her biting wit and colorful prose, not a single major newspaper will carry her column. To read her you need to pick up a copy of Human Events, or go to the Internet, the media outlet the left doesn't control. This is a media which syndicates such waterflies, incompetents, gutter journalists and ideologues as Bob Herbert, Molly Ivins, Joe Conason, Julianne Malveaux, Bob Scheer, Paul Krugman, Harold Meyerson and Maureen Dowd after all. Maureen Dowd, whose base is the New York Times, is the perfect Coulter analogue -- witty, biting, and hyperbolic. The difference is that she (and all the others) is a raving leftist, hence adoptable by a leftwing press.
All this is by way of explaining an article I wrote which ran as the lead feature in my Internet magazine FrontPage on Friday. I am often asked by people why I don't write op-ed pieces for the print media -- the L.A. Times for example, which is my home town paper. Actually I have done so, but I have found that the Times for example takes so long to consider my work (dating it and making it seem stale), so often edits my columns politically and more often than not rejects them, that I have for all intents and purposes given up trying. Every few months or so I still submit a piece however. I submitted the lead FrontPage story to the Times the previous Sunday. I kept it for a week on the off chance the Times might print it if it didn't appear first in FrontPage. The piece was written in part to draw attention to my new book Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and The American Left -- a common practice of authors, like appearing on Talk Radio Shows. So it was also sent to the New York Times, the Washington Post and other major papers to no avail. The fact is, I have never had a column printed in the aforesaid papers or most of the other major papers, all edited by leftists who simply hate my views. Of course this will cut down the sales of my book, but will not cut down the number of times leftists will accuse me of becoming a conservative to make money.
These observations are just another small way of looking at the phenomenon of this election campaign where the American media has become an adjunct of the DNC's Big Lie campaign designed to spin the President out of office and replace him with a man who no one is really for -- they're just against George Bush. This is a mentality asking for disaster, and unfortunately if they succeed they will probably not be disappointed.
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"David Horowitz on Ann Coulter
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Youre sick!
...and you beat me to it!
"These observations are just another small way of looking at the phenomenon of this election campaign where the American media has become an adjunct of the DNC's Big Lie campaign designed to spin the President out of office and replace him with a man who no one is really for -- they're just against George Bush. This is a mentality asking for disaster, and unfortunately if they succeed they will probably not be disappointed."
I think this has always been the case, we just notice it more now because we have something to compare it to, talk radio and fox. A good example of this bias is Bob woodward during the clinton administration the only thing he could find to write about in a book was bill clintons economic plan in his book the agenda.
You are SOOOOO bad!
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Welcome!
But rules are in place for a reason.
My hatred for the RATmedia cannot be measured.
My wife gave How to Talk to A Liberal to me yesterday. Its a very good read, as is all of Coulter's work.
What I find facinating is reading her columns from 2000 forward, and noting how things actually played out in the primaries, how the media reported it...and where we are today, a couple of weeks before the elections, and on the day of the final debate.
Its a great reference for bloggers like myself, if for no other reason than she chronicles the shifting positions of writers like Kristof and the like.
That was the first thought that came to my mind as well
I like her a lot. I just wish she would eat a cheeseburger or enjoy a fat, juicy steak every now and then.
I hear a bell tolling, and it's tolling for leftist rags.
Rules, rules rules!
I've seen her eat. She likes meat.
Politics aside, Maureen Dowd has a lot less going for her than Ann Coulter. She's far more 'biting and hyperbolic' than she is witty. Much like the crazy aunt in the attic.
1. Jarring, discordant sound; dissonance: heard a cacophony of horns during the traffic jam.
2. The use of harsh or discordant sounds in literary composition, as for poetic effect.
Always a learning experience on FR.
"..not a single major newspaper will carry her column. "
They are alll liberalrun and Democrat directed.
She's put on a few pounds and looks much better and healthier.
Chilling and accurate. It's up to the New Media to ensure the message gets out.
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