Posted on 10/23/2002 9:23:37 AM PDT by Davis
Let's start with what everyone knows about Ann Coulter. She is tall, blond, pretty, vigorous, lithe, and lissome. Each of these adjectives applies equally well to her prose.
She is also wicked-smart and diligent, too. Look upon her works and you discover that Ann Coulter is not a dealer in slander. but rather relies on a barrage of facts or the single dispositive fact.
For an instance of the mighty barrage, see how she reduces the windbag senator from West Virginia to a pile of rubble simply by listing the institutes and erections named for himself and dotting the landscape in the style of a tin pot dictator of some mosquito-infested banana republic...more
(Excerpt) Read more at atrentino.com ...
Coulter skewers the pompous frauds who abound on the Left. She makes them appear ridiculous by showing you how ridiculously funny they are.
Mark Steyn does the same, but usually his targets are Englsih and Europeans, sometimes Asian Islamo-fascists, not our domestic variety. I find both Coulter and Steyn vastly amusing and right, too.
The Left doesn't understand anything less than a baseball bat in the face. I happen to know this for a fact, having been involved in the culture wars for quite some time.
I think Ann's humor is quite amusing, much in the style of Bierce and Clemens at their best.
Steyn has always been one of my favorites, but he doesn't get their panties in a wad quite the way Ann does. I like listening to their voices go up in the high-pitched whine of the recently de-nutted, and seeing the foam-flecks at the corners of their mouths. Did you get a load of the Forehead foaming about Coulter, especially after he just got back from lapping the altar of the Bent One's crotch and beheld Ann's heresies about his masters? Classic!!!
"Skewers" is exactly the word. I rightly compared Coulter to Bierce and Clemens in a previous post.
What a coincidence.... Your post is #42....
Don't be silly! That's like saying that if the cheerleader doesn't stop doing handsprings and splits, the football team won't win the game. Ann is the quintessential cheerleader she is enormously entertaining to us and even more importantly, she is utterly galling to them - not that she couldn't play football and beat linguine spined jerks like micky kinsley and georgie stephanopolis - but that would be gilding the rose!
How about this one: "She stumbled in her stilleto heels, spilling the peroxide into the sink."
Don't make the mistake of assuming that some things which won't persuade you (to your credit) won't persuade others. Neither boxing matches nor debates are scored for politeness. It's the jab the uppercut and the roundhouse that win - not with the target, of course, but with the audience. Ann will never convert Katie but who cares?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.