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To: TLBSHOW
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.
50 posted on 05/14/2003 5:31:48 PM PDT by laurav
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To: 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.

Oh, they could be printed in left-wing journals like the New York Times, but never would be would they? The moderates--we used to call them liberals --held sway for a half century, but now it is our turn.

74 posted on 05/14/2003 7:07:20 PM PDT by Temple Owl
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To: 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.

I'm one who likes to find good conservative places to go for op-eds. It wasn't but a handful of years when there weren't any, except WSJ of course. When she writes BESTSELLERS the CHOIR gets considerably bigger, both through those who read the books, and those who see her on promo interviews on TV, WHAT A COMBO, IMHO!!

77 posted on 05/14/2003 8:29:20 PM PDT by Mister Baredog ((They wanted to kill 50,000 of us on 9/11, we will never forget!))
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To: laurav
Coulter often chooses to write zingers instead of sustained arguments.

First, brevity is the soul of wit.
Second, "sustained arguments" are boring.

Ann's "zingers" are what makes her so good and so effective. Those "zingers" make every scumbag Democrat who reads them feel like he (or she) has just been kicked in the stomach. Ann's effectiveness can be measured by how much the scumbags hate her. And man, they really hate her.

85 posted on 05/14/2003 8:58:31 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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