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To: Syncro

One of the best pieces I’ve ever read in my life. Kudos Mrs. Coulter!


3 posted on 06/29/2011 3:08:35 PM PDT by jpl
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What actually happened to Beck and his family?


4 posted on 06/29/2011 3:09:35 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: jpl

Excellent column.

“Bear-baiting”. One of the best descriptions I’ve ever heard for how libs like to conducts their fights.


11 posted on 06/29/2011 3:15:49 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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Kudos again to Ms. Coulter! As a Conservative New Yorker, I know what it’s like to be howled down by a group of liberals - and I’m not even famous. I’m infuriated and embarrassed by my fellow residents for their disgusting, childish behavior. If my husband and I were not involved in NY theatre, we’d be out of here in a second.


21 posted on 06/29/2011 3:32:02 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (FR haters of Sarah Palin are wearing me out)
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To: jpl

You should read Demonic. It is excellent.


34 posted on 06/29/2011 4:02:58 PM PDT by Calm_Cool_and_Elected ("The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." --Flannery O'Connor)
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To: jpl
One of the best pieces I’ve ever read in my life.

Kudos Mrs. Coulter!

Her NEW BOOK is pretty good, too!

See also, THIS thread:
Demonic and The Underrated Ann
Pajamas Media ^ | June 27, 2011 | Andrew Klavan
Posted on Monday, June 27, 2011 8:02:08 AM by Kaslin

It seems strange to say that Ann Coulter is underrated. Every book she writes is a bestseller — her new one, Demonic, is no exception. When she’s on tour, you can barely turn on a TV or radio without seeing her face, hearing her voice.

I was in a restaurant with her once and she was so swamped with admiring members of the public I felt like I was part of a movie star’s entourage.
(I don’t really do entourages, but if I had to be part of one, I was glad it was hers.) All the same, I don’t think she gets the respect she deserves...

-- snip --

...When Ann Coulter is good — and I think Demonic is one of her best — she is doing something special and doing it at a level that makes her unique.

It’s not just the heavyweight research or the fearless disdain for received opinion. Her flexible, sardonic, rigorous and unabashedly jokey prose creates an iconic voice that humanizes her polemic and compels you to engage with her specific and original worldview.

People are wont to say off-handedly "you either love her or hate her," but they don’t seem to understand that that’s a writerly achievement of the first water.

Demonic makes an argument more complex than her other books.

Books like Slander and Treason tended to marshal legions of facts and examples in support of ideas like "the mainstream media lie," or "liberals are unpatriotic."

Demonic revives the 19th century science of "crowd psychology," and argues that left-wing politics descends from the brutal and ultimately enslaving mob madness of the French Revolution whereas conservatives have inherited the mantle of the American founders, who feared the mob above all.

The book operates like a prosecutor building a case and even at its most one-sided, is often scarily convincing.

The chapters in Part III on violence are brilliant.

Had I hair, it would’ve stood on end...

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread


65 posted on 06/29/2011 7:41:08 PM PDT by RonDog
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