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To: Cap'n Crunch
I'll stick with Ann and Sobran.

Florence King is okay.

She's a good writer who never has anything good to say about and hardly much more than that that's good about anything. She actually says more good things about Ann here than she does about most of her subjects.

Ann and Florence do different types of writing--- Florence writes to be funny whereas Ann writes to make an impact, and usually a political one.

So even though I've enjoyed reading Florence King, I can understand your comment that you like Ann Coulter much more than her.

But Joe Sobran? Maybe he was okay back when he (along with Florence King) wrote for National Review. I have to disagree there. Sure, he still writes good columns from time to time on literature, culture, maybe sometimes even on political issues. But today the guy is an anti-American, anti-Israel clod:

"The 9/11 attacks would never have occurred except for the U.S. Government's Middle East policies [support for Israeli defense] which are pretty much dictated by the Jewish-Zionist powers that be in the United States. The Zionists boast privately of their power, but they don't want the gentiles talking about it."

http://www.sobran.com/issuetexts/2002-04.htm
http://www.sobran.com/fearofjews.shtml

In "Fear of the Jews" the guy even twists Abraham Lincoln's desire to free slaves and send them to Africa before he was elected President. Sobran claims this means that Lincoln, far from being a humanitarian, simply wanted an all white nation... But in point of fact, the idea that blacks should be helped to re-colonize Africa was held by many fighters against slavery. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h59.html

I agree Ann is great. But Joe Sobran stands against, rather than with her--- at best he is a "September tenth" columnist.

91 posted on 07/29/2006 7:47:12 AM PDT by mjolnir ("All great change in America begins at the dinner table.")
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To: mjolnir

Well, yeah I can see your point about Joe. I still like his writing though, I guess it's a catholic thing.

And, Sept. 10th's my birthday. :-)


93 posted on 07/29/2006 12:29:58 PM PDT by Cap'n Crunch
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To: mjolnir

Gotta agree. I used to like Sobran, but he did make me nervous whenever broaching Israel or the Middle East. Didn't he have a plagiarism problem once, also, or am I confusing him with someone else?


94 posted on 07/29/2006 1:47:20 PM PDT by jwalburg (It wasn't the Executive that Thomas Jefferson referred to as "the Despotic Branch.")
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