L’Affaire Coulter

National Review Online ^ | 10/3/01 | Jonah Goldberg

[Alberta's Child]

If this is anyone's fault it is NR ...

This is the most pertinent comment I've seen to date. If Ann's comments were so "bad" or her writing so "unprofessional," then why the f#ck did National Review allow them to be printed?

[jlogajan]

Typical Ann Coulter. Last year she had the bright idea to run as a candidate against the lefty demo and RINO. So she approached the Libertarian Party and demanded to be the LP candidate. They asked, "Well, Ann, do you believe in any of the LP positions?" "Hell no!", said Ann, "I just want the LP to do the footwork for my little campaign." "Well Ann", said the LP, "We're disinclined to run candidates who don't support the LP, it doesn't really make much sense, now does it?"

At which point Ann launched into her trademark rants against the LP, etc etc, you know her style. Same old same old.

[Mr. Lucky]

I believe your photograph may have been doctored to superimpose Ann's head on Jonah's body.

[Williams]

Just my opinion, I never thought A.C. was too smart. But now that I've seen her picture in a miniskirt, I am reconsidering.

[savedbygrace]

Three, there, Jonah, dearest. Feel all better now? Poor baby.

Now . . . . . . GROW UP.

And Ann? Same to you.

It's like a bad sitcom where the Dad says to the kid, "Tell your mother the meatloaf tastes funny." And the Mom says, "Tell your father he's sleeping on the couch again tonight."

[mr.pink]

Well, to be honest, it was a mistake. It stemmed from the fact this was a supposedly pre-edited syndicated column, coming in when NRO was operating with one phone line and in general chaos. Our bad.

Let's see...the wormiest of worms accuses AC of sloppy, unprofessionalism...then explains his organizations actions, basically attributing them to sloppy unprofressionalism (only one phone, general chaos?...what a absolute pansey!!!). I'm surprised Jonah didn't throw in the ole dog eating the homework.

I'm no great fan of Ann's, but Jonah (the guy who wants to occuppy Africa to saves the Africans from themselves, and bomb the crap out of the Serbs for daring to fight terrorism in a serious manner) is really a disgrace who will never grow up.

[DCPatriot]

Thanks for the photo in #7.

She's a dawg!

[ConsistentLibertarian]

"I never thought A.C. was too smart." And to think you are apparently in the minority on FR. What conclusion do you draw?

[NYCVirago]

If you read her entire article, it is very, very apparent that Ann wrote this column with the grief over the death of a friend still tearing at her heart. If this is anyone's fault it is NRs for not editing or delaying the piece to allow her to calm down and focus. They allowed her pure "stream of consciousness", still dripping with agony, hurt and shock, to go out. And it was probably on purpose. In my opinion, they took advantage of her emotional nature to create an excuse to get rid of her.

If what you say is true, then why hasn't Ann apologized for or said that she regretted her remarks? Instead, she goes on national tv (on Bill Maher's show, of all outlets!) to diss National Review. I think Jonah did the right thing, and I am disappointed that Ann is claiming censorship -- as a Constitutional lawyer, she certainly knows what the real meaning of censorship is.

[Steve0113]

National Review is just a statist rag filled with girly men. Too many at FR are just socialists who want to take power from the communists.

You do mean NR, not FR, right?

[Bikers4Bush]

So I'm looking at the pic you posted and I can't help but think.

Is Ann wearing short mini skirts or is it just that her legs are soooooo long that all skirts wind up being mini skirts to her?

[RaginCajun]

Agreed. Negative situations should never be handled via email. Especially in this age of cell phones and pagers.

[sinkspur]

Ann Coulter got a lot of attention because of her appearance - not her brains.

In fact, if Ann Coulter looked like Barbara Mikulski, her "brains" wouldn't get her a quarter for a cup of coffee.

Coulter may be grieving, but she certainly ought to have the presence of mind, if she can't control herself, to stay out of print and off the air until she can.

Frontpage ain't NRO, and Ann may look back on the last month with regret.

If she had acted as Barbara Olson would have, she wouldn't have embarrassed herself as she did.

[nofriendofbills]

" Yeah, right. At least Coulter has the, uh, cojones to say what she really believes -- as stupid as it is."

Being a former reader of antiwar.com I can vouch for your experiance in that area.

Well the stupid part anyway.

[pittsburgh gop guy]

To settle this mess, maybe they should all go on the Jerry Springer show and have at it. If they need someone to be Ann's paramour, I volunteer, even if I have to get hit in the face by Jonah.

But seriously folks, nothing better than a family fight and we on the right have not had a good one in a while.

And on another serious note, I think the whole problem might be better if Ann just "gets a little something something". Sometimes she seems really bitchy and I attribute this to a lack of male companionship. Again, I volunteer. She seems like my kinda chick.

[drjimmy]

I'm glad you pointed that out. Ann would never have actually run for Congress anyway, cuz she wouldn't have wanted to take the pay cut. She'd rather stand on the sidelines and criticize than be in the arena.

[nofriendofbills]

You have an apt name, Ms. Coulter could learn from you.

[mr.pink]

Ah yes, another Goldberg knife in the back. The old lady and her wuss boy neocon shill son exposed their true colors sometime ago. I do not always agree with Coulter, but I rank her credibility far above this sniveling lying crew.

IMHO, neither mommy dearest, nor her precious, pudgy, and poisonous puppy can be trusted to act honorably.

I always knew Jonah was brave enough to fight a girl...from a distance.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

I know!! We are typically open minded, and listen to all views,..but the woman just irritates us to NO END!!

</Susan Estridge >