[Ann Coulter] NOT YOUR AVERAGE JOE (R.I.P., Joseph Sobran)

AnnCoulter.com ^ | October 6, 2010 | Ann Coulter

[RonDog]

Syncro is currently away from the Internet, so he asked me to post Ann's column this week.

I hope that Ann lives long enough to write MY obituary, someday.

[sageb1]

The link comes back to this post.

[RonDog]

Ooops!

Here is the CORRECT link:

click here for the REST of Ann's column this week

[jessduntno]

His most current piece from his website. RIP.

http://www.sobran.com/columns/index.shtml

[RonDog]

ping

[RonDog]

From anncoulter.com:

...After I made some point to Joe once, he paid me a compliment that describes exactly why it was so fun to be around him. He said, "Your mind is always going."

His body is gone, but I'm sure his mind is still going like gangbusters.

And I'm insanely jealous that he's giving God all the good belly laughs now. - Ann Coulter

[onyx]

Syncro is still up north in Alaska?

I’m glad Ann included Sobran’s description of Clinton, because I don’t recall reading it and it’s a delight!

Slow posting. Sorry if this posts twice (or more).

[EveningStar]

Sobran, again.

[Tax-chick]

I didn’t know Joe Sobran had died. He was a terrifically sharp writer, a real pleasure to read.

Rest in peace, bud.

[RonDog]

His body is gone, but I'm sure his mind is still going like gangbusters.

And I'm insanely jealous that he's giving God all the good belly laughs now. - Ann Coulter

From a happier time, here is a nice picture of Ann enjoying a "good belly laugh" --

-- perhpas recalling something funny that her friend Joe Sobran wrote:

[RonDog]

I hope that Ann lives long enough to write MY obituary, someday.

Among her many gifts, Ann is the MASTER of the heartfelt obituary.

For those of you who did not know this, check out these powerful eulogies, from her archives:

April 22, 2009 - NELL HUSBANDS MARTIN COULTER - her mother

January 9, 2008 - JOHN VINCENT COULTER - her father

March 18, 2009 - SILVER'S BRAVERY NOT AN ACT - actor/friend Ron Silver

February 27, 2008 - WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY: R.I.P., ENFANT TERRIBLE

[SJackson]

He has his fans

[RonDog]

I’m glad Ann included Sobran’s description of Clinton, because I don’t recall reading it and it’s a delight!

That would be, from anncoulter.com:

-- On Clinton:

"Once again, his defenders, furiously attacking the prosecution and equating opposition with 'conspiracy,' don't dare mount the best defense: 'He's not that sort of man.'

It's because Clinton is, supremely, 'that sort of man' that this whole thing has happened.

He's a lying lecher, a prevaricating pervert, an utterly slimy crook, without a trace of honor or loyalty, desperately trying to save his own skin one last time."

ZING!

I guess that I should have been reading Joseph Sobran more often than I did.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Here's the rest of the column:

-- On our democracy: "Your chances of meeting an IRS agent are far greater than your chances of meeting anyone you voted for."

-- On Clinton: "Once again, his defenders, furiously attacking the prosecution and equating opposition with 'conspiracy,' don't dare mount the best defense: 'He's not that sort of man.' It's because Clinton is, supremely, 'that sort of man' that this whole thing has happened. He's a lying lecher, a prevaricating pervert, an utterly slimy crook, without a trace of honor or loyalty, desperately trying to save his own skin one last time."

-- On big government: "Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do."

-- On Obama: "Nor has he said anything memorable -- not even a single aphorism over this long campaign. And the title of his book 'The Audacity of Hope' -- what on earth does that mean? He is always hinting at a substance that is never disclosed to us. He seems to live by raising vague aspirations he never fulfills."

-- On Buckley's book "In Search of Anti-Semitism": "Its real message is not that we should like or respect Jews; only that we should try not to hate them. But this implies that anti-Semitism is the natural reaction to them: If it's a universal sin, after all, it must be a universal temptation. ... When he defends Jews, I sometimes feel like saying: 'Bill! Bill! It's all right! They're not that bad!'"

-- On evolution: "If our furry and scaly friends were still evolving, none of them appeared to be gaining on us."

-- On Canada banning Dr. Laura: "Canada has to protect itself against such pernicious, hate-filled American notions as the Law of Moses. If Dr. Laura wants to spew the Ten Commandments, let her do it in her own country."

After I made some point to Joe once, he paid me a compliment that describes exactly why it was so fun to be around him. He said, "Your mind is always going."

His body is gone, but I'm sure his mind is still going like gangbusters. And I'm insanely jealous that he's giving God all the good belly laughs now.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"Why else would he make speeches before the "Council of Conservative Citizens"

And Ann Coulter is gay.

[RonDog]

Thanks!

See also, from anncoulter.com:

QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN ANN

September 28, 2012, 3:56 PM

I'M ON TWITTER! -

www.twitter.com/AnnCoulter

[Dacus943]

"I hope that Ann lives long enough to write MY obituary, someday."

I hope Ann lives long to write President Obama's Obituary, and that I get to read the piece.

I also hope Obama lives to be 100!