TAKE NO PRISONERS: THE ANTI-LEFTLIB CRUSADE OF ANN COULTER

http://www.iconoclast.ca/newPage1.asp#DN ^ | July 8. 2003 | Murray Soupcoff (The Iconoclast)

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TAKE NO PRISONERS: THE ANTI-LEFTLIB CRUSADE OF ANN COULTER
-- Please Ann, say it ain't so, about Joe!....



July 8 2003: Wow talk about hot! Ann Coulter is sizzling. She's got herself another best-seller on the NY Times best-seller list ("Treason"). She's got thousands of enthusiastic conservative young men panting with lust every time she pops up on Fox, CNN, MSNBC or Good Morning America to flail the leftist establishment, flaunting her long blonde locks, her ever-present plunging neckline and her very tart tongue. And she's got liberal pundits steaming, as she takes after hypocritical liberals, Hollywood peaceniks and Democrats with a witty vengeance.

"Take no prisoners" seems to be the watchword of Ms. Coulter's war on the left. And whether it's Katie Couric or Chris Matthews, Ann usually leaves her interrogators spluttering with outrage and incredulity. In fact, while promoting her new book, nasty Ann even cattily told Diane Sawyer that Hillary Clinton would have an unfair three-to-one weight advantage over Ann in any dustup between the two. She made it clear there's a reason that dowdy Hillary sticks to pants suits, versus the slinky Ms. Coulter who prefers the miniest of mini skirts as her usual dress mode.

Of course, viewing Hillary in a Coulter-style mini skirt might be enough to put male voters off sex for several years -- it's bad enough that Americans have been subjected to the unflattering sight of Mrs. Clinton's thick ankles for almost a decade. So perhaps Diane Sawyer was judicious in quickly changing the subject.

However, if Ann Coulter, the sexy conservative Queen of Mean, has one achilles heel, it's her propensity for overstated hyperbole. Over the top doesn't aptly describe some of Ann Coulter's statements about politics and history. After all, it takes a certain inclination to the outrageous to transform America's most notorious psycho senator and D.C. drunk, Joe -- "there's a Commie in every American cupboard " -- McCarthy, into an American folk hero -- never mind implying that such stalwart anti-Communist Democrats such as John F. Kennedy and Harry Truman were the equivalent of wussy fellow travellers of America's commie traitors.

Now before we go any further, let's get one thing straight. In this case, one can indeed praise the message (from Senator Joe) -- that the liberal Democratic establishment of the 1930's and 1940's allowed itself to be naively infiltrated by communist (Soviet) sympathizers, many of whom were spying for the tyrannical and murderous regime of Joseph Stalin, or accepting financial support from the same repressive dictatorship. But surely if one wishes to remain loyal to the historical record, it's still appropriate to want to metaphorically shoot the messenger bearing that message, Senator Joe McCarthy -- a sociopathic Washington ruffian who wished nothing more than to gain further political advantage and power by terrorizing the innocent as well as the guilty through his Commiet-baiting crusade.

Talk about making it up as you go along. Even though his basic message actually merited attention, Tailgunner Joe sullied it with so many lies and exaggerations that today he would qualify for a job as a New York Times correspondent. Certainly, by the time of his downfall, Senator Joseph MacCarthy had become the Jayson Blair of American anti-communism, demeaning his message with a litany of falsified fantasy and fiction....

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Another conservative has gotten all hot and bothered about Ann Coulter.

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[ken5050]

Coulter needs to have children ASAP....those genese have GOT to be passed on..

[DCBryan1]

Make that two (2).

[Nick Danger]

her ever-present plunging neckline

Let's not get carried away here.

[gedeon3]

I offer myself as a volunteer; free of charge.

[Sunshine Sister]

I'm not familiar with this columnist. Is this out of line for him or is he like most liberal columnists? Looks to be the same old hit piece that comes out when Ann Coulter gores one of their cows.

[Argh]

Ann's picture's out of focus. I'll keep my wisecracks about going blind to myself for once.

[TexasCajun]

"Tailgunner Joe sullied it with so many lies and exaggerations that today he would qualify for a job as a New York Times correspondent" I'm half way through Ann's book.

Ann footnotes and documents her book with facts!

Where are your facts Mr. Soupcoff?

[SwinneySwitch]

Doesn't matter, Ann looks good even on radio!

[Hugin]

Talk about making it up as you go along. Even though his basic message actually merited attention, Tailgunner Joe sullied it with so many lies and exaggerations that today he would qualify for a job as a New York Times correspondent.

Such as? Can this bozo name a single one? Ann has meticulously documented everything she says. I have yet to hear a single one of her critics point to any factual error she has made, nor document any of their claims. They just repeat the same liberal assertions made by the NY Times and other media elites without any attempt to back it up.

[quark]

Why are conservative pundit-babes most often, well, babes, and leftist pundit-hags most often, ummm, hags? Is it chromosomes, grooming habits, ideology, inner emotions, all the above?

[Roughneck]

". . . Senator Joe McCarthy -- a sociopathic Washington ruffian who wished nothing more than to gain further political advantage and power by terrorizing the innocent as well as the guilty through his Commiet-baiting crusade. . ."

Hmmm, Replace "Senator Joe McCarthy" with: Bill Clinton, Senator Hillary Clinton, Former VP Al Gore,Senator (Swimmer)Kennedy, Senator Byrd, Senator Dashle, Sheez! ANY DEMOCRAT. No, all democrats.

[m1911]

He doesn't say (in that bit, anyway) that Ann lied or exaggerated - he says Joe McCarthy did.

[Hugin]

I doubt this guy has even read her book.

[ClearCase_guy]

Ann footnotes and documents her book with facts!

I agree. It is a marvelous book. Like any human Senator McCarthy had some flaws, and Ann chooses not to dwell on those flaws. There's nothing wrong with that -- he's been criticized quite enough. Ann focuses on the fact that McCarthy was doing the right thing and she's got plenty of facts backing up the concept that McCarthy was doing the right thing.

I consider him an American hero. He wouldn't be the first flawed hero in the world.

[zchip]

According to the definition of "iconoclast," it is a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions. Mr Soupcoff proves himself to be anything BUT an iconoclast by simply regurgitating the same old worn out bromides of the left in describing Joe McCarthy.

Ann Coulter is a true iconoclast and makes a convincing argument.

[m1911]

Articles from the iconoclast.ca are regularly posted and enjoyed on Free Republic. He disagrees with Ann Coulter about Joe McCarthy, I don't think that suddenly makes him a liberal.

[hosepipe]

[ Senator Joseph MacCarthy had become the Jayson Blair of American anti-communism, demeaning his message with a litany of falsified fantasy and fiction.... ]

A sneaky weasle this guy... saveing the punchline for the end while quoteing David Horowitz without giveing him credit. The "conservative" hit squad is out. I've counted 3 so-called conservative parasites sapping mirrored fame from Annie's courageous tome, so far. Since democrats are not credible in any capacity, it will take a "conservative" to parse the truth into hyperbole. Was hopeing David Horowitz would not be one of them. This whiney simp is 3rd string, and lies.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

I just love it! Ann Coulter has all the left-wing liberal "traitor" Democrats and a number of conservative pundits "gasping for air" over her best selling book, "Treason". That petite little lady, has actually sucked the air out of Hillary Clinton's book tour here in the United States. Now, Annie probably won't ever outsell Clinton, but she has derailed her book tour in the USA big time! Of course, on the Fourth of July, both treasonous Clintons were in Europe hawking Hillary's book, rather then spending it with the voters of New York State that put the "witch" in office! "Forget those low life, dumb voters in New York and screw the USA military folks. I, Hillary Clinton, The Devil's chosen representative on Earth, have a book to sell!" "Damn the Fourth of July and all those stupid Americans that honor it!" Hearing that remark, Mrs. Chirac laughed and said, "Hillary, Let Them Eat Cake!"