Until he, say, wants to hire only white folks. . . 
Posted on 10/02/2001 9:14:04 AM PDT by truthandlife
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter, fired from her contributing editor perch at the National Review Online, blames it on free-speech hysteria in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. In a recent online column, Coulter opined that the United States should respond forcefully to the terrorist attacks: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity," she said. The comment provoked an uproar, and the National Review Online subsequently refused to run another Coulter piece in which she referred to "swarthy males." When Coulter complained, she was fired. Tuesday's Washington Post quotes Coulter as saying she doesn't need friends like that. "Every once in awhile they'll throw one of their people to the wolves to get good press in left-wing publications," she told the newspaper. National Review Online Editor Jonah Goldberg told the Post, "We didn't feel we wanted to be associated with the comments expressed in those two columns." Coulter told the Washington Post she's getting great publicity as a result of the flap.
According to the Cato institute Hong Kong has a higher index of economic freedom than the US.
If the freedoms that are culturally suppressed are those that in this country allow an image of the Virgin to be covered with feces or those that allow feminists and multiculturalists to go on a rampage then I think that maybe our society may not be superior to those East Asian societies. If what those countries suppress are those forces that attempt to destroy the society from within (read feminism, Marxism, Trotskyism, multiculturalism, etc.) then I say more power to them.
Ted is an amazing person, and so was Barbara. I never heard either of them say one unkind thing about anyone. (That wasn't based on fact, anyway. *G*) But people handle grief in different ways. Ted doesn't have a syndicated column to crank out, either, which is nothing against Ted, believe me. But it can be a pressing business, and I'm sure Ann was feeling the pressure, on top of the incredible sadness and outrage. You simply cannot compare the two. It isn't fair to either of them. (Ann was outraged for Ted, too, by the way. As she said, losing Barbara -- for him -- was a "human amputation.")
You sound like a person who speaks before he thinks.
Journalistic snobbery, eh? Only someone who is a paid, published writer could possibly have the extensive training and acuity necessary to detect the subtleties of the Coulterian style. Get over yourself. Paid hacks are a dime a dozen.
Since you scoff at my supposed lack of qualifications, and ask on what basis I dare to make a judgment about someone else's writing, let me present my curriculum vitae. I attended one of the top two or three small liberal arts colleges in the country. I graduated with a major in British literature and a minor in mathematics. I undertook graduate coursework in philosophy and theology before being accepted to the University of Chicago's Ph.D. program in English literature (generally regarded as one of the top five programs in the country). I declined admission in favor of pursuing a career as a greedy capitalist entrepreneur. I have in fact been published in a few different journals, and have been a free-lance contributor to the local fishwrap.
Have I met your lofty standard to be worthy of having an opinion? I await your judgment with bated breath. (More sarcasm, in case you didn't get it).
Doctorate of education? Don't even get me started. Funny, you didn't strike me as the type to need Daddy's assurance that you were right.
That phrase is as original as most of Trixie Jr.'s plagarized stuff!
When you barged into my reply to editor-surveyor and made an issue of the possibility of forced conversions to Christianity, you made the historical facts material.
Surely a master of prose such as yourself understands that a writer may freely choose to violate the rules of grammar when it suits his purposes? Save the grammar books for the high school students. A skilled writer will on occasion start sentences with a conjunction or use sentence fragments. Sometimes it is useful in making a point or for stylistic reasons. This is not uncommon in literature. Umm, you did study literature at some point along to way to getting that journalism degree, didn't you? A survey course in Major British Writers, perhaps?
If you are so incapable of detecting authorial intent, then I question your judgment on Coulter's writing.
It has been a pleasure jousting with you. I'm going offline now, but will check back in later tonight.
I think this qualifies as "satire." If Jonah's is standing athwart the path of vulgarity and yelling "Stop!" it's only because he's afraid he won't be able to get on board himself.
From where I sit your view of the magazine is at least five years out of date, and doesn't much reflect the online version or Jonah's contributions.
Oh yeah, I am really impressed with someone who hyphenates "freelance." LOL! Your curriculum vitae and list of credentials is washed out by your obvious lack of knowledge. You have displayed your writing ineptitude all over this thread. So you had papers published in conjunction with your education. Everybody does. They are usually all edited to death and corrected before publication, which I am sure happened in your case as well. I know that I would edit the snot out of your writing, personally.
"Journalistic snobbery?" No. Would you prefer that I ignore my expertise in this area? Would you prefer that I pretended that I am not an established professional? Sorry -- won't do it. If you think that's snobbery, that's your right. I think you're pitiful, if that's the only way you can respond to it.
You have a running pattern of pointing to certain aspects of your life to try to prove a point in this thread. It does not impress. Like I said, your writing speaks for itself. So does your ignorance. I could sit here all day and keep up the verbal volleys, but I have better things to do. If you actually had any credibility, it might be different. However, you have none.
One more thing, sweetie -- I have had my work published in several books. Not journals. Not just newspapers. Books. (Yes, those are sentence fragments. Artistic license. I know I'm using them, and I am doing so deliberately.) I am working on a book right now, too -- and it already has a publisher that I'm working with, so don't even go there!
Considering the combination of all these elements, plus the ones I will not get into here, I would say that yes -- I am more qualified to make a proper observation than you are. If that hurts your l'il feelings, I'm sorry for you.
Well, simple it may be, but you have failed that task miserably. - Perhaps the reason is that you you were so focused on the 'Christian conversion' that you lost track of the fact that we have never been known for 'killing their leaders.'
Now, as to your coy reply about my not being able to read sarcasm in your post -- if you ask me, it's a desperate attempt to cover a major screw-up on your part. If it was truly was meant as sarcasm, you did a lousy job in presenting it. That is not my fault, but yours! And yes, I studied literature of all genres ad nauseum. So what? My favorite poet is Emily Dickinson. My favorite authors are Richard Bach (Illusions, not the seagull thing), Dante Alighieri, and William Faulkner. Playwright, besides Shakespeare -- Jean-Paul Sartre.
Any more ignorant questions?? ;-}
Is there a separate jumping off point for guineas, frogs, dagos and wetbacks? What an idiot; in this instance at least.
Until he, say, wants to hire only white folks. . .
You Go Girl!!!
angelo's "personal style" seems to be, "if you can't beat 'em, make fun of 'em." How junior high of him!! ROFL! I feel sorry for the chap. Perhaps his "entrepreneurship" gives him the satisfaction he so desperately craves. I certainly hope so. ;-}
I think he expected her to retract them at a later time. When she didn't, they forced her to leave.
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