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

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

[canuck_conservative]

"I am frightened to sit again"

BWAHAHAHAHA!

[shield]

bttt

[AnnaZ]

Take those paragraphs on the 9/11 widows out of the book and what is left is, as Steyn recognized, a tightly argued and FUNNY book.

For Coulter's other secret is that she is the ONLY pundit we have who sees just how absurd the left is, and she never stops just flat out MAKING FUN OF THEM.

It is a phenomenal gift that Coulter (and Steyn, of course) has. She takes these serious topics -- slander, treason, statism -- and all the while she's expounding on the dangers of them, the reader is rolling.

It's phenomenal. It's not like, oh, there are a few yuks in the intro... the punchlines never stop coming at you. (Even Leno commented about that... she is supremely funny.)

Love her, love her, love her.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

He has a really great way of cutting everything down to its core.

[jla]

Ann's posture is exemplary, more women should emulate her.

[GOPJ]

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.

[Steve_Seattle]

I've often been a Coulter critic, but one thing is almost certainly true: she never would have been on Leno if she hadn't made that comment about the Jersey Girls. If she had stuck to rational argument, without the zingers, the libs would have ignored the book. So I concede that point to her defenders.

[Steve_Seattle]

Michael Berg

It was disgusting - almost unbelievable - the way CNN made Michael Berg the centerpiece of their post-Zarqawi-death coverage.

[veronica]

So, on balance, hooray for Miss Coulter. If I were to go all sanctimonious and priggish, I might add that, in rendering their "human shield" strategy more problematic, she may be doing Democrats a favour. There's no evidence the American people fall for this shtick: in 2002, the party's star Senate candidates all ran on biography -- Max Cleland, Jean Carnahan (the widow of a deceased governor), and Walter Mondale (the old lion pressed into service after Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash). All lost. Using "messengers whom we're not allowed to reply to" doesn't solve the Democrats' biggest problem: their message. The Dems, says the author, have "become the 'Lifetime' TV network of political parties." But, except within the Democrat-media self-reinforcing cocoon, it's not that popular. A political party with a statistically improbable reliance on the bereaved shouldn't be surprised that it spends a lot of time in mourning -- especially on Wednesday mornings every other November.

Hah! Great piece by the always brilliant Steyn.

[GOPJ]

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. Thank you for saying so beautifully what the rest of us feel.

[righteousindignation]

Ann is totally rational as you would realize if you were a conservative reader, and hooray for Mark Steyn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Biblebelter]

Reading Steyn's commentary on anything he chooses to comment on, is becoming one of my greatest pleasures. It is healthy food for the independent of spirit.

[adorno]

Ann will be up shorty on Dayside.

[wideawake]

I think it hearkens back to that AIDS-infected harpy who shilled onstage for Clinton. The way people fawned over that nasty, nasty woman really opened my eyes to what the Democrats are.

[MortMan]

Kinky! ;-P

[Ranxerox]

...Senator John Edwards ...cut straight to the Second Coming. "We will stop juvenile diabetes...people like Christopher Reeve are going to get up out of that wheelchair and walk again." Mr. Reeve had died the previous weekend, but he wouldn't have had Kerry and Edwards been in the White House.

...The healing balm of the Massachusetts Messiah will bring the crippled and stricken to their feet, which is more than Kerry's speeches ever do for the able-bodied.

As the author remarks, "If one wanted to cure the lame, one could reasonably start with John Edwards."

The sad realization that this isn't even exaggerated makes it even funnier.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Steyn should win the Pulitzer Prize, just for inventing the word "commentatrix"!

[Rocky]

Great column. Thanks for posting it.