The FULL TIME COVER ARTICLE on ANN COULTER -- Ms. Right --
Available at Time Canada
Time Canada ^ | April 18, 2005 | John Cloud
Posted on 04/20/2005 11:52:18 AM PDT by hinterlander
Anne Coulter and I were well into a bottle of white Bordeauxand I believe she was chewing her fourth piece of Nicorettewhen it happened. From what little I knew of hermainly her propensity for declamations such as liberals love America like O.J. loved NicoleI thought it impossible for Coulter to blush. Many of her fans would later tell me it was her fearlessness they admired, her fully unburdened sense of outrage against liberalism, against anyone left of Joseph McCarthy (whom Coulter flattered in her best-selling book Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism).
But in person, Coulter is more likely to offer jokes than fury. For instance, you might ask her to name her historical antecedents in the conservative movement, and shell burst forth, Im Attila the Hun, and then break into gales of laughter so forceful you smell the Nicorette. Genghis Khan!
So finally, I asked that she be serious. I wanted to see the rancor that allegedly is her sole contribution to public discourse (that and being a lying liar, in Al Frankens estimation, as well as a telebimbo [Salon] and a skank, according to a blog kept by Vanity Fairs James Wolcott). Why, I asked, did she enjoy attacking others and being attacked?
She composed herself and offered a very Ann Coulter answer. Theyre terrible people, liberals. They believethis can really summarize it allthese are people who believe, she said, now raising her voice, you can deliver a baby entirely except for the head, puncture the skull, suck the brains out and pronounce that a constitutional right has just been exercised. That really says it all. You dont want such people to like you!
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Although it drives Coulter crazy, even friends sometimes say her public and private personas differ. Kent Brownridge, 63, general manager of Wenner Media and a longtime Democrat who used to work for George McGovern, says, You couldnt find a nicer friend than Coulter. But, he adds, I think she has a professional point of view or a shtick or whatever ... Ann has perfected a thing she does on TV because she is outrageous and funny. Thats her business, public commentator.
But Im not sure the public and private Anns are so different. On TV or in person, you can trust that Coulter will speak from her heart. The officialdom of punditry, so full of phonies and dullards, would suffer without her humor and fire. Which is not to say you dont want to shut her up occasionally. Not long ago, I went to church with CoulterRedeemer Presbyterian, an evangelical congregation in Manhattan.
The actor Ron Silver had also tagged alongCoulter brings lots of people to church...CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
Ann is a real person, who refuses to voice platitudes such as "choice" and "my body is my right."
I wish we had 10,000 more like her.
Thats says it all right there