Posted on 02/04/2009 2:26:31 PM PST by pissant
It's been weeks since the last one, so on Sunday, The New York Times Magazine featured yet another cheery, upbeat article on single mothers. As with all its other promotional pieces on single motherhood over the years, the Times followed a specific formula to make this social disaster sound normal, blameless and harmless -- even brave.
These single motherhood advertisements include lots of conclusory statements to the effect that this is simply the way things are -- so get used to it, bourgeois America! "(A)n increasing number of unmarried mothers," the article explained, "look a lot more like Fran McElhill and Nancy Clark -- they are college-educated, and they are in their 30s, 40s and 50s."
Why isn't the number of smokers treated as a fait accompli that the rest of us just have to accept? Smoking causes a lot less damage and the harm befalls the person who chooses to smoke, not innocent children.
The Times' single motherhood endorsements always describe single mothers as the very picture of middle-class normality: "She grew up in blue-collar Chester County, Pa., outside Philadelphia, and talks like a local girl (long O's). Her father was a World War II vet who worked for a union and took his kids to Mass most Sundays." Even as a girl she dreamed of raising a baby with a 50 percent greater chance of growing up in poverty.
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
For the record... I met Anne for a minute or two at Fox. She is TALL! Tall and thin is genetic guys. My daughter heard her speak in D.C. for Clare Boothe Luce the other day, and was amazed at how tall and beautiful she was. But most of all, how intelligent and articulate she is, c’mon guys, she is so incredibly brilliant, I cannot even tell you how much I appreciate her for all that she is doing for conservative women. I support you’re: “Anne is hot”.
But thin or fat? She’s smokin’ SMART!
As always, Ann is a treat. As always, I sure wish someone would give the poor girl a sandwich.
Tall and thin is genetic guys.And, Ann has been "tall and thin" AT LEAST since her college days:
COURTESY ANN COULTER | ||
College Girl Coulter attended college at Cornell |
Anne could indeed be very voluptuous. Somehow though, I have a feeling that she prefers to stay lean and mean.
I think she could kill someone with a knee or elbow.
I could but I’m afraid she might hunt me down and shoot me.
Anne is a hot tomato, any way you cut it.
I am sure she would get a laugh out of it.
“Ann looks up over the trench, and sees a liberal fortification, bristling with defenses,in this case labeled “single moms”. She jumps up, takes her flamethrower and heads right for it. She immolates everyone in the bunker.”
“Meanwhile, all the other pundits cower back in trenches, some clucking with disapproval over Ann's audacity. Now some of them feel safe to leave the trench as it were, and write and speak about single moms, but only because Ann identified and reduced the libs fortification.”
Magnificent metaphor, Plutarch.
I like what Mark Steyn the Great said about Ann when she got into the controversy over the 9/11 widows who were actively campaigning against President Bush and the War on terror. Mark said he had said that a few months after 9/11, but no one paid attention. Ann not only got the whole US talking about this (and her book!), but no one will defend them anymore and their political influence is over.
I didn’t know she smoked.
While I agree with her points re:secondhand children, I disagree that smoking looks ‘cool’. I think smokers look like jackasses!
LOL, you liberal fat chicks always say something like that on these threads.
Yes, let’s elevate tradional family disasters and encourage MORE of it!!!!!
Yes, let’s elevate tradional family disasters and encourage MORE of it!!!!!
He’s appealing to the dysfunctional!
He RELATES to that.
He exploiting the tragedy of the traditional family and elevating it as something GOOD.
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