Posted on 10/03/2001 11:35:13 AM PDT by BamaG
Yeah, he'll bat the yarn around a bit, but in the end it just ends up being a big tangled mess.
A compliment? I think so and a pretty civil way to end the piece.
Jonah Goldberg has some nerve to criticize Coulter as a writer. His columns are self-indulgent and dull, and I have given him too many chances already. I start to read his column, and he rambles about his personal life -- rambling just doesn't do it for me. He can't seem to make a strong point, or, when he does, he loses the reader after paragraph one, so what he says in paragraphs five and six don't matter.
Goldberg always seems to forget one of the paramount rules of a good writer:
"Just because it happened to you, doesn't make it interesting."
Coulter, on the other hand, focuses outwards in her writing, very seldom on herself. She may have flown off the handle recently, but she has written way too much great material to "write her off" like Goldberg did.
She doesn't need Goldberg, anyway. She will always have an audience, and anyone who picks up her column will do well.
Damn you, you girly-boy hypocrit. I will never again purchase National Review so long as you remain affiliated with it, and I am a former subscriber!
I'm not going to "alter," and I ain't no "girly boy," pal. Ann, you can "pump me up" anytime!
Yep.
Ann has an alter?
And who might that be?
1. Ann Coulter got a lot of attention because of her appearance - not her brains. If you actually LISTEN to her, she says the same things over and over and over and over.. well, you get the idea. She understands the Constitution - well, big deal - lots of people do. Remember Betsy whats-her-name, the FORMER Lt. Gov. of NY who suddenly became a Clinton defender during impeachment? She too was always a Constitutional scholar. Well, Betsy and Ann didn't agree on a thing - it was politics they were arguing, not the Constitution. The Constitution was argued in the Courts and we won some and lost some. The Supreme Court has weighed in and I think their decision will stand.
2. Ann is not very professional. The hair and the mini skirts get a lot of attention, but for all the wrong reasons. No professional woman would go to work looking like this. I have asked quite a few men about her, and most found her too skinny and loud - all hair, no substance.
3. If Susan Estrich wrote that article about the death of one of her good friends, we would have a collective fit. Grief is not an excuse to write indefensible things and expect management support. Barbara Olson had a lot of friends, but I sure didn't see articles such as this from THEM.
4. Ann is doing exactly what so many of us hate - she's being a VICTIM!!! She's also being vindictive - how many of you could get by with calling your bosses 'girly boys'? That's insulting and not the mark of an articulate, intelligent professional person. If she wants to express her opinions about them, then let her do it on a forum such as this.
5. Jonah Goldberg is funny and has a way with words. Do I agree with him about everything? Of course not. I like Rich Lowery. I also know without William F. Buckley there likely would not BE a major Conservative movement in this country.
6. The Geraldo's of the world will make good opportunity to denounce those 'petty, mean spirited' conservatives. If Ann isn't careful, she's going to be David Brock in a skirt.
7. There are many bright, articulate and attractive Conservative women who do a better job than Ann, IMHO ... Monica Crowley, Hearther Nauert, Laura Ingraham, etc.
Make that "scratch-back". Meooow!
Poor little Jonah. First Coulter accuses him of being a "girly man" and then he comes right out and proves her right.
You mean like the "thin blonde line.." cuteness?
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