I guess paint means a lot to you! I think she is a good-looking woman. She also articulates enough information and propaganda, that she is an extremely valuable card-carrying member of the VRWC...
Posted on 07/28/2006 2:46:39 PM PDT by jwalburg
Florence King does make a point. Not so much about Ann as about today's American audience. Many of them are not well read, and cleverness is not their strong suit. Look at Leno's crowd or Letterman's crowd. What appeals to people is brash confrontation, boorish insults and crude and childish humor.
Ann is doing a public service, and in a way that most people will listen. Florence King may lament the loss of more refined humor, but she can't single-handedly change the world. It may not be great, but it's where we are. You won't get on CNN with references to Boudicca.
(Boudicca: "tradition tells that all of south east Britain came to her side, ready to die for the Queen who was fierce enough to take on the Roman Empire." AD 62, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/boudicca.shtml)
My, the check-pants Republicans at NR don't like playing second fiddle to Ann Coulter. After they fired her they thought she would just go away.
If Ms. King is so smart why did the "affable Eva Braun" bit go right over her head? Ann did not call Couric a Hitler, a Nazi, or Brunhilda for good reason. She chose her words carefully and they are brilliant. Katie is not inherently an evil person, but she is the smiling face that stands next to evil and tells everyone it is OK.
It's also a cheap shot to take the two or three best things a person said in their entire life and compare it with Ann's efforts from the past week. Mark my words, by the end of her life Ann Coulter will have many more quotable quotes than Dorothy Parker. Or Florence King.
The "posts" on this thread illustrate Ms King's point re La Coulter's fans.
No, the duplicitous mainstream media (which celebrates Couric as one of its brightest stars) and its Goebbels-like twisting of truth is the modern-day equivalent of the Nazi regime.
But you knew that.
Wow.. What an unflattering photo! That one DOES make her look like a man. Usually she looks damn fine, but sheesh!
Both of your comments were quite insightful. Well done.
Sorry Mr. Bow, I wasn't kidding. It would appear that you know more about her than I do but if this is how she writes, I think she's a bore.
Maybe you know, does she really think the 'horticulture' joke was that funny and witty?
I don't know what Ann decides will play but she seems to be genuine to me, and tells it like it is. I admire that, though it may put me in the fence post category.
I'll stick with Ann and Sobran.
I haven't read her books. I have read enough of her columns to decide not to read her books.
Liberals won't be stopped by a stiletto. That's like using a .38 on a gorilla - just enough to make him mad.
Nor is Ann like a sledgehammer. She's more like a shotgun blast to the face - which WILL stop a liberal gorilla in its tracks.
Although, when I read this article on NRO, I only thought, "Meow!"
I guess paint means a lot to you! I think she is a good-looking woman. She also articulates enough information and propaganda, that she is an extremely valuable card-carrying member of the VRWC...
Florence King is a Virginia lady of very mature years, a lesbian, a humorist, and a professional curmudgeon in the style of a female Andy Rooney who has written with incising humor about her Southern heritage, among other things. She is not in competition with Ann because she's not principally a political writer (though her columns are carried by NR) and because she's twice Ann's age and semi-retired. She quotes Dorothy Parker because Dorothy was the reigning wit of her youth, and was unquestionably very sharp in her use of the English language to make her points.
I admire Ann Coulter very much. Dorothy Parker unquestionably came up with some zingers, but only occasionally in her career. But unlike Ann Parker was not required to produce them on TV on the spur of the moment, rebutting for an hour the uninformed and unfair hysterics of spitty Chrissy Matthews and similar louts.
Gotcha. When I read the article I envisioned her as Rush Limbaugh describes the Feminazi's.
In general, I'll take the people on this site over the snotty, self-important, arrogant fans of King and her ilk.
'spitty Chris Matthews and similar louts'
That got a good laugh out of me. You should write a column.
I can't agree, but that's what makes horseraces.
"Twiggy with Tourette's" is a kinda funny.
Florence King is one of the most esteemed contributors to NATIONAL REVIEW who retired a few years ago. I've personally never appreciated her as much as many other readers, I find her writing a bit too nuanced (dense) for my enjoyment. I think she used to always have her articles inside the back cover.
Thank you. I find my fellow FReepers to be very insightful and witty. I dropped NR years ago.
That's exactly right. Ann knows how to wield a stiletto, and does it frequently. But she also knows what Florence doesn't: how to use a sledgehammer when it is called for, and she uses it masterfully!
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All I know is that I eagerly read all of Ann's columns right through to the end, laughing all the way. While this particular analysis, left me bored at the second paragraph, where upon I quickly skipped to the comments.
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