The Old Gray Liar (Ann Coulter)

World Net Daily ^ | 5/14/2003 | Ann Coulter

[TLBSHOW]

You know the Old Gray Liar the paper that can't tell the truth unless its the top 10 of the week or maybe the TV listing and that is even giving the liar paper a point on printing.

[laurav]

Nope, I don't work for the NY Times. Let me know if you can find any Ann Coulter columns in USA Today after that one, though.

[TLBSHOW]

We need to lobby for Ann to get the first interview of Hillary on her book tour! Wouldn't she do a much better job than Diane Sawyer or Oprah? :-)

There would be no lies or spin that Ann would not catch the witch on. I like this idea. LOL

[TLBSHOW]

I can tell you where we will find Ann all Summer and that is #1 bestseller for Treason the story of liberal lies.......

[laurav]

By the way, I've been on this forum for two and a half years. I don't think a Times person would have lasted that long. Though they might... there are conservative journalists out there laboring away in the trenches. And accuracy is important, whether it's liberal or conservatives committing the errors.

[ChadGore]

[Bonaparte]

"Does anyone know if Boyd is black?"

I do. He is.

And Blair recommended him for some prize -- which Boyd subsequently received.

[Malesherbes]

Yes, Boyd is black. An earlier account said he and Blair were good friends and used to take "cigarette breaks" together. Imagine, "cigarette breaks" at the New York Times in Bloomberg's New York.

[TLBSHOW]

So comment on the fact the New York Times is filled with lies.

[laurav]

I have no doubt her book will do well. My problem with Coulter is that she's preaching to the choir by writing columns that can only be printed in conservative outlets. You know how people complain about Maureen Dowd believing it's "better to be cute than coherant?" Coulter often chooses to write zingers instead of sustained arguments. Her reporting consists of looking through Lexis-Nexis. Which is how she made those errors in the USA Today column -- she quoted from other papers without calling the sources to check the accuracy.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You mean this kid just made stuff up and pretended that is was true? And he expected people to believe it? Who does he think he is, a college professor? You wanna act like that you better teach African Studies or Wimmin's Studies or some other fraudulent "discipline."

[laurav]

Like I said, accuracy is important, no matter who is doing the reporting/writing. I have a particular beef with the NY Times in that once they quoted me and spelled my name wrong. Elementary journalism skill -- check your source's name.

[Alberta's Child]

I have a friend who was a very good reporter for one of the big Washington D.C. papers. He left journalism entirely when it became apparent to him that "diversity" had become a roadblock to his career. He was astonished at the poor quality of the minorities who had found their way into the upper reaches of the newspaper.

But then again (to paraphrase Thomas Sowell): "Liberalism thrives in places where failure doesn't really cost anything."

[laurav]

Have you read "Coloring the News"? I checked it out of the library after this whole Jayson Blair thing broke. At many newspapers/mags, there is a Sr. VP for diversity, and at some (such as the Time Warner pubs) managers' bonuses are in part determined by how they do on promoting and hiring under-represented minorities. Net result is that good managers find good minority reporters and writers but bad managers hire and promote people for no reason beyond race.

[TLBSHOW]

Did they get your quote right?

[laurav]

For the most part, LOL. I was talking about sweatshop protesters on university campuses and saying how funny it was to see students protesting administrators, because all of them were liberals anyway.

[Alberta's Child]

I never read that book. Was that the one that was written by the guy who covered the Tawana Brawley story in upstate New York back in the 1980s, and quit his job after he told his editor that the whole thing was a hoax but was told to report on it as if it were a legitimate story?

[driftless]

I constantly find errors in columns by whomever. Most of them are minor, but even so the writers should be careful about accuracy on even minor details. However deliberate falsification ie. lying is another thing. Blair's history of ineptitude was astounding. Raines should be fired along with Blair.

[Alberta's Child]

Alex Haley won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for his book "Roots," which was later proven to be both a hoax (it had no basis in fact) and heavily plagiarized. And yet the Pulitzer Prize board has never seen fit to rescind the award.

I'm sure Haley now writes idiotic op-ed pieces in the NY Times under the pseudonym "Paul Krugman" or something like that.

[The Wizard]

once again Ms Coulter hits the nail on the head