[jwalburg]

King, using the tired stiletto v. sledgehammer metaphor, seems to find Coulter boring because she's not another Dorothy Parker. Why, I wonder, haven't I noticed the name Florence King before? Too nuanced to make the best seller list, I imagine. Anyone who could suggest that Ann is as "dumb as a post" needs a little help from the Poynter Institute.

[TChad]

I enjoyed reading Florence King's columns in NR before she retired a few years ago. She was a perceptive, clever, amusing writer, but I doubt that she converted a single liberal to conservatism. She seemed more focused on writing for its own sake than on politics. With Ann, politics comes first.

I have cringed a bit at some of Ann's outrageous statements, but her sledgehammer polemics are appropriate for the current concrete-brained media environment. Dorothy Parker would be ignored, but Ann gets noticed. Ann's ideas reach liberals, and I bet she changes minds.

Long live Ann.

[uncitizen]

1) Florence King is a crappy writer judging by this article

2) Florence King is jealous of Ann Coulter

3) Somebody needs some attention (say in baby talk voice)

[DocRock]

My kids brought a movie home one day titled "Napoleon Dynamite". It was so boring and nondescript that you keep watching it to see if anything is ever going to happen. After a while it becomes apparent that you have wasted a lot of time, but you can't seem to stop watching. You say to yourself..."Something has to happen, I'll just watch 5 more minutes", but it doesn't. This article was just like watching Napoleon Dynamite all over again.

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[AwesomePossum]

Coulter creates literary vignettes that are informative and funny..........King draws mental pictures using a push broom dipped in paint........

[ADemocratNoMore]

I've never seen Florence King's name come up in my readings over the course of the past several years, Ann, on the other hand seems to pop up everywhere. In my local, very liberal newspaper (the Cleveland Plain Dealer) there have been several nasty editorials along with four or five editorial cartoons, the two that I remember off the top of my head compared her to the Alien Queen from "Alien" and the Wicked Witch from Oz. She certainly seems to have hit a major liberal nerve, judging by the amount of pure hate and vitriol directed at her.

Consider the members of the public who have no clue who Ann Coulter is, exposed to all the drive by attacks from the Fifth Column of the Fourth Estate... "Ann Coulter is going to be on Leno, isn't she the one they are doing all the name calling about?". When Joe Public gets a chance to see the REAL Ann in action, polite, witty, intelligent and not at all the drooling monster she was made out to be, Joe has become aware that the reality of Ann is something completely different, something to follow up on. Enough have done so to put her on the N.Y. Slimes best seller list.

Florence King, on the other hand has been ignored by most people.

[Phsstpok]

Oooooo

This was close to being insightful.

It is still full of funny bits, though. Of course, none of them are original with the author, but then, I never expect much of liberals.

"and in the morning, you will still be ugly."

[maine-iac7]

As a writer, editor, I read this screed entire. It was painful.

Fathoming the purpose became increasingly simple - the green-eyed monster.

Here is a wannabe writer who evidently hopes that if she WRITES about someone as well known for her books, her popularity, expertise, and wit - and her striking looks, etc., then she, (King), might, by some metaphysical transference, pick up some of those attributes by thrashing them out of her victim.

What a nothing...

[GVnana]

Dorothy Parker -- before the age of television -- only had to make, what, 100 memorable remarks in her lifetime with enough time to write them beforehand. Mrs. Churchill made one or two? Ann must make, what? 25 a night for a television audience?

Context is the heart of comparison.

[Getready]

Look, fine nuanced elite humor is fine, but if most people
don't know what a "barrister" is, they won't get the
joke. Your comments have to speak to the people.
Right now, unfortunately, people don't know a lot of history,
their vocabulary is limited, and their fine literature
library is empty. But they understand baloney when they
see it, and Ann can talk to them, and to the MENSA crowd
also.
So Florence King...nice try...maybe we will someday be
as well finished as you are...and we can enjoy stiletto
commentary. Nay?

[balch3]

Never heard of Florence King or Dorothy Parker.

[The Red Zone]

Florence does capture the vapidity of network news rather well. Whoosh; whoosh; whoosh.

[Navy Patriot]

Flo's problem is that she made a pass at Ann and got turned down flat, it felt like a sledgehammer, how could Ann have been so insensitive.

I'd post a picture of Flo here, but it would probably get me banned.

[MNJohnnie]

I think Ms King misses the point. The verbal stiletto requires the recipient to have the wit to recognize the stiletto. The modern Political Left lacks the intellect for the stiletto.

Ann merely reduces the her commentary to a level the Leftists can comprehend. If Ann addressed her bon mots in the approved Victorian style of Ms King, they would simply sail completely over the head of the current collection of Leftists. Ann "uses a sledgehammer" because there simply is no other way to actually communicate with our current crop of Political Leftists. They lack the wit and intellect to recognize the stiletto

[WashingtonSource]

Is Florence King still living? I thought she had died.

So, this nobody 'conservative' Lesbian comes back to weave this tiresome web just so she can call Ann a "b*tch" without having the courage to actually say it?

And, by the way, Florence King is no Dorothy Parker. Could Florence's attack on Ann be motivated by ENVY?