Posted on 07/29/2006 8:49:36 AM PDT by keat
I may disagree with what Ann Coulter says but I will defend to the death Oscar Wilde’s right to say it. Describing the same kind of widow that set Coulter off, he quipped: “Her hair turned quite gold from grief.”
Wondering what life in America would be like if Coulter used a stiletto instead of a sledgehammer is a tempting but futile excursion into dreamland. Suppose, for example, she was confronted, like Jennie Churchill, with a pompous young man who boasted that his financée’s virtue was “priced above rubies.” Without missing a beat, Jennie said, “Try diamonds.” But if the young man said the same thing to Coulter?
“The godless liberals are trying to link Pat Robertson to Charles Taylor’s diamond-smuggling cartel in Liberia while they cry crocodile tears over the poor starving Africans they’re helping to starve by conniving with radical ANC goons trained by Winnie Mandela who controls every mine in South Africa, all because they hate Robertson’s Christian beliefs so much they’ll be cheering and dancing in the streets if Taylor and the God-hating Marxists succeed in smearing him!”
If Coulter lacks Jennie Churchill’s sophisticated wit, neither does she show any trace of Dorothy Parker’s lethal impishness. Parker’s assessment of her dependent husband — “Alan will always land on somebody’s feet” — would probably leave her cold. Not because she didn’t get it, but because it is so perfectly epigrammatic that there is no way to “mischaracterize” it, to use Coulter’s favorite fighting word; it can be quoted in context, out of context, or out of the blue without losing a thing.
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Florence King writes witty little essays in National Review.
When it comes to defending the free world, I think I'll stick with Ann.
I'll take the "neither of the above" option.
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
Was this a cat fight? If so, put my money on Ann.
If our job as proud conservatives is to frustrate liberals at every turn, Ann Coulter has done enough for all of us, and THANK G_D.
Posted over and over again over the last week.
king is a jealous wannabe with very little talent, IMHO!
Ann is delicious and knows how to kick the crap out of lib wussies!
LLS
RRReeeeeaaarrrrrhhhhhh! Cat Fight.
The majority of King’s works under her own name have been non-fiction essays. She wrote the historical romance novel Barbarian Princess under the pseudonym of Laura Buchanan. King has also admitted to having written numerous pornographic stories and pulp paperback books and erotica under various pseudonyms. Wikipedia.
Oh please
There is no comparison between the expertise of being able to debate "on your feet in the present" with wit and honor and knowledge, than sitting quietly looking up all the big words before you jot them down.
I don't get the point of this at all.
There is no need to compare anyone with Ann Coulter - there is none like her.
Perfect!
Mark Steyn, for my money, is wittier and smarter than Ann. But as he himself acknowledged, his commentary never makes headlines. Seems to me that the fight against Leftism needs every weapon we can bring to the fight--stilettos and sledgehammers.
>>Posted over and over again over the last week.<<
I'm starting to think somebody just wants to see Sam Hill explode. But that would just be messy and pointless. We really shoud just accept that there is a difference of opinion about Ann.
I believe that Ann got lots of invites because of her controversial remarks about the widows "enjoying" their husbands' deaths. She was then able to make her main point about how the left uses as message bearers people who are victims and can therefore not be debated with. She got her point across to many people who never would have heard it otherwise. No one ever countered her main point, either.
Crap, sorry.
I guess when I searched, individually, for every word in the title and came up blank I felt safe.
Someday, somone's going to have to let me in on the secret of how FR search works.
Or does it just suck as bad as it appears to?
Sometimes some of us here at FR just cannot accept differences of opinion.
Coulter's over the top often,but let's be honest,even those who hate her, love her.Howard Dean on his best day can't get the response positive\negative that our girl Annie can.Her observation\rantings at the end of the day are harmless when compared to the wars and terrorist attacks going on all over the world !!!
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