A lefty takes aim at right's wrongs

NY Daily News ^ | 8/18/2003 | Suzanne Rozdeba and Ben Widdicombe

[sjersey]

Ann Coulter might want to steal an advance copy of Joe Conason's "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth," due out next week. The mini-skirted mouthpiece is skewered for 23 pages as Conason, the New York Observer national correspondent, barbecues her and Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Bernard Goldberg and other angry-for-the-airwaves pundits.

Conason notes that while the 41-year-old blond may idolize anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, she isn't exactly a "model for her 'abstinence education' campaign. ... Sexual abstinence ... is for the poor rubes who stay home watching 'The 700 Club,' not for urbane young Republicans hanging out in saloons on Capitol Hill and the upper East Side."

The unabashed progressive notes that while the "perennially single, career-obsessed Coulter" wrote that liberals are "advancing a left-wing conspiracy to abolish the family" by "refusing to condemn ... promiscuity, divorce, illegitimacy, [and] homosexuality," she "dated the son of Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, and many of her closest friends are gay men."

Coulter did not respond to an E-mail. But she has company on the spit in Limbaugh, whom Conason calls "a ridiculous snob." - despite the $20 million man's claim to represent "hard-working middle Americans."

Conason writes that Limbaugh favors $2,000-a-bottle Bordeaux, and buys banned Cuban cigars on trips to London, where he stays in the snooty Connaught Hotel.

Greedy corporados, Congressional "virtuecrats" and Republican hawks who never served in combat, like John Ashcroft, Dick Cheney, Trent Lott and Karl Rove, all come in for exposure. So does President Bush, as Conason lays out the back-room details of Dubya's previous oil dealings and purchase of the Texas Rangers in this meticulously researched must-read.

"I just want people to pay attention and ask questions and not accept what I call the conventional idiocy on TV and radio," Conason tells us.

[goldstategop]

Joe Conason just can't resist making famous conservatives... well more famous. ROFLMAO!!!

[Larry Lucido]

Gee, I can't wait to go right out and not buy it, then hurry home to not read it.

[tcostell]

I guess he doesn't understand how the philosophy of the right can forgive sin while still thinking that it's wrong to sin. In the mind of a lefty, that constitutes a contradiction or hypocrisy.

If he won't read the bible, maybe he should take a theology class.

[Drawsing]

Too late. I did not read it the minute it rolled off of the press. And I am known to be the world's fastest speed-reading illiterate.

[11B3]

Anne should be flattered - after all, this is nothing but imitation. Leftist imitation, so you know it's all BS anyway. Since when does anyone on the left tell the truth about anything?

[Drango]

Yawnnnnnnnnnn.....

[wayoverontheright]

Notice NO critique of their views, just personal attacks.

Mostly, in this article at least, what Conason rips them for should be an insult to the Democrat constituency; Coulter for having gay friends, and Limbaugh for liking Cuban cigars.

[Corporate Law]

"I just want people to pay attention and ask questions and not accept what I call the conventional idiocy on TV and radio," Conason tells us.

Except when it comes to anyone named Clinton. This guy's writings have always suggested he would steal Monica's kneepads in a heartbeat.

[Skooz]

Conason writes that Limbaugh favors $2,000-a-bottle Bordeaux, and buys banned Cuban cigars on trips to London, where he stays in the snooty Connaught Hotel.

Oh yeah, I'm outraged, alright. Yeah. Who does this Limbaugh guy think he is, buying wine and cigars and staying at nice hotels?

The horror. The horror.

[Lunatic Fringe]

So... he rips Limbaugh for buying a legal product (in England) and for being a man of taste and sophistication... but in the same breath he probably calls him a crude, uncultured, obnoxious cretin.

You can't make this stuff up.

[OldFriend]

Why in the world would anyone pay attention to Joe Conason?

What a pathetic loser.

[camle]

typical liberal - when you can't win based upon the issue, resort to personal attacks.

[WestPacSailor]

Conason writes that Limbaugh favors $2,000-a-bottle Bordeaux, and buys banned Cuban cigars on trips to London, where he stays in the snooty Connaught Hotel

Meanwhile, back at Motel 6, Conason sips from a paperbag containing his $2 bottle of Night Train, smokes some stale Kools, and struggles to find London on a map.

[Seeking the truth]

I can just see Joe "Jealous" Conason doing that too!

[Rummyfan]

Could be some good information here. Exactly what saloons on Capitol Hill does Anne frequent???? If all her male friends are gay maybe I have a chance.

[Skooz]

LOL!!!

Meanwhile, back at the Mason's Motel in Bossier City, La., Conason sips from a paperbag containing his $1.50 bottle of Thunderbird and puffs a cigarette he made by scrounging butts from the motel lobby while "London Calling" by the Clash plays through the paper thin walls from the next room.

[Consort]

[WestPacSailor]

Meanwhile, back at the Mason's Motel in Bossier City...

Could he have been waiting for one or more of Ann Coulters gay male friends to show up?

[GladesGuru]

"many of her closest friends are gay men."

If this writer critter claims to be a Liberal - how come he is attacking someone for having "gay" friends? The HillaBeast will be on his doorstep shortly to revoke his Liberal ID card.

She will be foaming because this Liberal has "outed" MS Coulter as a conservative who prefers a "diverse" choice of friends. He is supposed to demonise conservatives, not laud 'em.

PS Regarding your tag line, as I remember, the .357 has one of the best combat effectiveness records among handgun cartridges. But I still like my Redhawk.