Ann Coulter's cynical swindle (bunched panties alert)

Scripps Howard ^ | 6/20/06 | Paul Campos

[hosepipe]

Ann Coulter the meanest leanest RINO exposer of all time..
They just cannot help themselves.. Wishing to appear intelligent they become moderate and banal..

[monkeybrau]

Haha, maybe Rush got this too, he mentioned it today, or someone reads FR. I got it from break.com a few weeks ago.

[Ichneumon]

[On page 206, she wrote, in regards to an article by biologist Jerry Coyne, "But, curiously, Coyne never got around to addressing Behe's argument for intelligent design —the centerpiece of the subject Coyne claimed to be discussing." This is a blatant and transparent lie. Coulter claims that "Coyne never got around to addressing Behe's argument for intelligent design", but Coyne actually spent FIFTEEN PARAGRAPHS of that article doing exactly that, starting at the sentence which begins, "IDers make one claim that they tout as truly novel..." Ann even quoted from Coyne's discussion of Behe's argument later in her book, so she can't claim not to have seen it. So why does she tell a blatant falsehood to her readers?]

I hope you mercifully won't consider this as a ping to join your "eventual" list...

It was impossible for Mr. Coyne to spend 15 paragraphs on countering Behe's intelligent design arguments. The entire article contains only 11 of them.

A wise man once said, "never argue with a fool, bet him money". I hereby challenge you to accept my wager of $1000 that the article by Jerry Coyne which Ann Coulter was talking about consists of many more than eleven paragraphs.

Please, oh please, take me up on this.

Until then, run along and learn to count, son. Hell, Coyne's article used up most of FOURTEEN PAGES in the New Republic (pages 21-33). Even Coulter's own mention of it described it as a "13,000-word" article. So where did you come up with this nonsense about it being only 11 paragraphs long in total?

I don't appreciate the implication that I was telling falsehoods, especially coming from someone who can't even get the most basic facts right himself. Perhaps you'd care to explain your behavior? Or just take me up on the wager -- I could always use $1000. Or maybe you'll choose to do the honorable thing and retract your false claim -- but I'm not holding my breath.

[alecqss]

That's the original review: http://pondside.uchicago.edu/cluster/pdf/coyne/Behe_review.pdf

Count all the paragraphs of this nonsense.

May I also ask you hold your breath, please. Would be most appreciated.