Ask and ye shall receive!
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The Most Unpublished Writer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While reading the introduction to Ann's book, I came across her surprising comment that she is "the most unpublished writer in America."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.
AHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
The perfect woman!!!
unlucky girl. i doubt she would date that pro-abort neo-con-artist.
"I like her a lot. I just wish she would eat a cheeseburger or enjoy a fat, juicy steak every now and then."
I like her as she is, but you should look on the bright side, in a few years she will no doubt start to gain weight due to age.
I wonder if Ann has tried or wants her own radio show?
Ask and ye shall receive!
In his dreams
Since you mentioned Laura...... I doubt Ann Coulter wants a daily radio show... too much of a grind and would tie her down. I think I once-weekly one hour type show, whether radio or TV, a la Drudge for instance.
I heard her fill in for - I think it was Dennis Praeger - a few years ago and she was very good. I was hoping that would be the beginning of a talk radio career for her, but so far not so much.
-thank you-
THE HILLARY TRAP and
SHUT UP AND SING
Same here in Houston with our NYTimes lookalike rag.
You both beat me to it.
I actually think she's one of the lucky ones that can (within reason) eat what she wants and not gain an ounce.
No matter how much I cut off, it's still too short!
When I saw the title, I thought, what a lucky guy!
Mark
I finished "Unfit for Command", I'm now halfway through "American Soldier" by Ret. Gen. Tommy Franks.
I find this statement stangely appealing!
Mark
Me too. I hate those vegan-tree-hugger chicks, I also don't like when all they will eat is a salad because they might gain 14 ounces.
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