Ann Coulter: America's fiery, blond commentatrix [MARK STEYN on ANN COULTER!]

www.macleans.ca ^ | June 21, 2006 | Mark Steyn

[Minnesocold]

(From Pookie's Toons today.)

[karnage]

Yeah - absolutely beautiful. Smackdown!

[veronica]

Coulter is terrifc, but Mark Steyn is in a class by himself. Not only is he a superb writer, but he writes superbly on very diverse topics, including theatre and film. His pieces on the theatre and theatre folk are fantastic.

[RonDog]

:o)

[GOPJ]

Mark Steyn is that man.

If Steyn's not married, we need to arrange a meeting with Ann.

[Tanniker Smith]

[MARK STEYN on ANN COULTER!]

Yeah, sure.
But I'd prefer

[TANNIKER SMITH on ANN COULTER!]

[Tanniker Smith]

...meaning that I have plenty to say on the subject, of course.

[bfree]

they are in hiding, just like soccermom and nijada!!!

[bfree]

they are in hiding, just like soccermom and nijada!!!

[George W. Bush]

Ann's posture is exemplary...

Very perceptive.

[JustaCowgirl]

That was an absolutely brilliant column by Mark Steyn. I loved the part about Edwards and Kerry. Their 'Elmer Gantry moment.' LOL!

Numerous people on FR (including me) have tried to make Mark's point that he makes so well about Ann's 'over the top' style. Her statements that some see as excessively harsh toward the Jersey Girls provide the required bludgeon to get the mules' attention. Polite PC statements would just be ignored, as Mark's were. But he correctly sees that the spotlight she put on this despicable practice of victim trotting-out has changed the landscape for the Democrat/MSM/designated victim coalition.

Ann knows exactly what she's doing when she makes these statements the way she does.

[Lee'sGhost]

Best response yet! Excellent perspective on Ann's dead-on comments.

[RonDog]

(Even Leno commented about that... she is supremely funny.)

Love her, love her, love her.

As I posted on the "Tonight show" PHOTO thread:

See also, from an EXCELLENT (but rather LONG) interview with Ann called Lethally blonde :

...Coulter tells me that she once went on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Leno came into the green room holding a copy of her book.

'You know,' he said to her, 'I've heard some of these jokes before, but now that I'm reading your book, I see that they kept dropping the punch line - this is very funny.'

THAT is impressive; having a professional comedian like Jay Leno compliment your work -- IF you get to hear the whole thing.

Perhaps THAT is why Jay let her answer COMPLETELY -- most of the time. :o)

[redgolum]

Got to love Steyn.

[outlawcam]

Having legally admitted to the country the men who killed her husband, the U.S. government's first act after having enabled his murder is to further traumatize the bereaved.

...along with providing sensitivity training to airport screeners to ensure they actually look for characteristics that 100% describe the terrorists who attacked us.

We are going to die by being subjected to a thousand papercuts of bureaucracy.

[Taliesan]

not in chapters eight and nine, it isn't

Oh, I know. Another lawyer with the temerity to opine that the evolutionary biologists SUCK as logicians. She has no training in evolutionary logic. It's special logic, peer-reviewed, and she's not a peer. Who's a peer, you say? We'll let you know.

[talleyman]

When Abu Musab al-Zarqawi winds up pushing up daisy cutters, the media don't go to Paul Bigley, who rejoiced that the man who decapitated his brother would now "rot in hell," nor the splendid Aussie Douglas Wood, who called his kidnappers "arseholes," nor his fellow hostage Ulf Hjertstrom, a Swede who's invested 50,000 bucks or so in trying to track down the men who kidnapped him and visit a little reciprocal justice on them. No, instead, the media rush to get the reaction of Michael Berg, who thinks Bush is "the real terrorist" rather than the man who beheaded his son.

Thank you, Mark Steyn.

Mega-bump that!

[Pukin Dog]

I am not surprised that Mark Steyn, in his wisdom, agrees with me.

[oh8eleven]

Read his lips: no new crutches.
ROTFLMAO

[Alkhin]

But he correctly sees that the spotlight she put on this despicable practice of victim trotting-out has changed the landscape for the Democrat/MSM/designated victim coalition.

Ann knows exactly what she's doing when she makes these statements the way she does.

Absolutely correct - which is why I suspect Steyn's observation : "But nobody paid the slightest heed to this line. For all the impact my column had, I might as well have done house calls. Then Coulter comes in and yuks it up with the Playboy-spread gags, and suddenly the Jersey Girls only want to do the super-extra-fluffy puffball interviews. So two paragraphs in Ann Coulter's book have succeeded in repositioning these ladies: they may still be effective Democrat hackettes, but I think TV shows will have a harder time passing them off as non-partisan representatives of the 9/11 dead." is the REAL reason why the Leftards are in such a twitter.