[VRWC_minion]

I'd say this column was definitely written "more in sorrow than in anger."

I see a different persuasion device. He draws the reader who would otherwise reject Coulter out of hand and makes the more subtle case that she is right. He is a master pursuader.

[TheDon]

That is my observation as well.

[Ichneumon]

I see a different persuasion device. He draws the reader who would otherwise reject Coulter out of hand and makes the more subtle case that she is right. He is a master pursuader.

Bingo. He gets them reading to look for juicy anti-Coulterisms, then he hits them with stuff they'd never dare read if they knew it was coming.

I got that impression halfway through reading his piece.