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gcruse: “She’s bombastic and clownish. You want brilliant, read Mark Steyn.”

fr_freak: “One of the things that I really like about Coulter is how her writings separate the men from the boys around here. Those who don’t have the guts for a down and dirty fight, which politics is, at its heart, can’t help but cringe and wince as she steamrolls over the kinder, gentler, tone.

Mark Steyn is brilliant, though.”

We need them both—the brilliant satirist Mark Steyn, and the hilarious, dirty street fighter, Ann Coulter. The best comment I read on the difference between them was by—of course—Mark Steyn. He said after “Godless” came out and the big blow up over the 9/11 widows, and I’m paraphrasing,”I wrote an article about them in 2001, pointing out they were using their husbands’ deaths for political purposes. No one paid attention and the article was forgotten. Now Ann bludgeoned them with the fact of their hypocrisy and no one can stop talking about it.”

He said it more elegantly than that, of course. I think I got the quote from a Hugh Hewitt transcript.

Oh, one more thing—in her book, “How to Talk to a Liberal if you have to” she describes exactly what she does. She uses facts, but she doesn’t reason with them. “If they aren’t spluttering in complete apoplexy, you haven’t been tough enough with them.”

She uses loaded, emotional terms (I never saw two women enjoying their husband’s death so much) to penetrate their lack of logic. (I was going to talk about John Edwards, but I don’t want to be sent to re-education camp for using the word “fagot”.) This gets her air time on TV for both her and her opponents, blog time, lots of comments, so that the facts eventually penetrate. The 9/11 widows DID get millions of dollars. They DID use their time and money to campaign against Pres. George Bush. There is something slimy about using your husbands’ death that way.

We need them both—the brilliant satirist Mark Steyn, and the hilarious, dirty street fighter, Ann Coulter.

You and I are on the same wavelength. I was just explaining that idea to someone on my post #66. I didn't realize, though, that Steyn, himself, had commented about Coulter and the 9/11 widows. Thanks for sharing that.