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I'm not sure about State College being a conservative town. It may be in a conservative region, but it would be very atypical of a college town if one could actually call it conservative.

The thing about Coulter is she writes predominantly from emotion and from the gut. People praise her courage and gutsiness, and they agree with her point of view. Coulter's insightfulness or wisdom is much more rarely acclaimed. That's because she's writing from the gut more than from the brain. She's saying what people feel but can't or don't say so emphatically, rather than writing things that people realize are logical, sensible and true when they read it.

Someone like Sam Francis or the younger Joe Sobran might offend, but they also made one think. I don't get that feeling so much from Coulter. She's more of an attack dog than a philosopher. While the criticism of her by the left has been cruel and offensive, I don't get the feeling so much that she's been a voice crying in the wilderness, ahead of her time and suffering for her beliefs, as that she's been a very fortunate person, seeing her opportunities and taking them. It's not so much that her judgement and discernment are to be valued as that there was a niche in the opinion market to be filled and she rather shrewdly occupied it.

[BrianS.Wise]

Having never been to State College, I had to take what Unger said at his word, but I had to position it in the column as though he merely suggested, not that I bought it.

[independentmind]

Coulter's insightfulness or wisdom is much more rarely acclaimed. That's because she's writing from the gut more than from the brain. She's saying what people feel but can't or don't say so emphatically, rather than writing things that people realize are logical, sensible and true when they read it.

Yep.

I don't get the feeling so much that she's been a voice crying in the wilderness, ahead of her time and suffering for her beliefs, as that she's been a very fortunate person, seeing her opportunities and taking them. It's not so much that her judgement and discernment are to be valued as that there was a niche in the opinion market to be filled and she rather shrewdly occupied it.

Yep again.

Pretty shrewd yourself, x!

[rmvh]

re your #214

I happened by your comments.....

The thing about Coulter is she writes predominantly from emotion and from the gut.What you say here is essentially true but without notation leaves the wrong impression.

Your statement infers that Coulter is a simply a slugger, or more specifically, a gutter fighter without finesse....that she does not have a quick and excellent mind which she employs to connect people to reality without fuzz and window dressing.

In an age replete with yellow journalism, editorialized news, and the puffery of well coiffed news anchors, Ms Coulter has been ability to deliver quick, accurate,and "on her feet" presentations of fact.

Yes, she writes with "emotion" but it is woven tightly to fact which seems a rarity and a refreshing change. That she delivers her facts from the "gut" is quite true, yet it seems that she wants to convey information , to express information...rather than "impress" the people, as most of our more renowned conservative writers seem to find necessary.