[MikeA]

"She was magical in her writing," said Mike Blackman, a former Star-Telegram executive editor who hired Ms. Ivins at the newspaper’s Austin bureau in 1992, a few months after the Times-Herald ceased publication. "She could turn a phrase in such a way that a pretty hard-hitting point didn’t hurt so bad."

She was as mean-spirited as it is claimed Ann Coulter is by the same type of media punks as the one quoted above, yet being a liberal and fellow Bush hater as the rest of the media gets her writing labeled "magical" by the MSM and her turn of phrase so deft that no one could possibly be hurt by her invective, while the far more talented witicist and writer Ann Coulter is just considered a rotten benighted hag. The double standards and hypocrisy of the Alice in Wonderland media never fails to amaze me.

[Albion Wilde]

What you said. Plus, Ann actually has real credentials -- a law degree.