A quick look at the numbers that measure your world.
Among Americans polled, 27% think the
USAToday sucks, 73% think it blows.
Posted on 07/26/2004 3:30:38 PM PDT by quidnunc
Ann Coulter, the witty, vivacious Human Events columnist and best-selling author, was hired by USA Today to offer commentary about this week’s Democratic National Convention, but her first column was summarily rejected late last night.“Apparently," said Coulter, "USA Today doesn’t like my ‘tone,’ humor, sarcasm, etc. etc., which raises the intriguing question of why they hired me to write for them in the first place. Perhaps they thought they were getting Catherine Coulter.”
In a sort of package deal, USA Today plans to have Michael Moore offer commentary at the Republican National Convention next month. “My guess is they will ‘get’ his humor” said Coulter. We agree.
Below is the Coulter column, in full, that caused all the ruckus. Coulter says: "Examples of their specific complaints are in ALL CAPS below. (Most of it was nonspecific B.S. about not liking my 'tone' and my column not being 'humorous' or 'coherent')."
USA Today promised us a comment on the Coulter imbroglio, which we will post as soon as we get it.
Human Events has learned that conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg of National Review will be Ann Coulter's replacement for the USA Today convention commentary.
Here at the Spawn of Satan convention in Boston, conservatives are deploying a series of covert signals to identify one another, much like gay men do. My allies are the ones wearing crosses or American flags. The people sporting shirts emblazoned with the "F-word" are my opponents. Also, as always, the pretty girls and cops are on my side, most of them barely able to conceal their eye-rolling.
USA Today: EYE-ROLLING? AT WHAT?
Democrats are constantly suing and slandering police as violent, fascist racists — with the exception of Boston's police, who'll be lauded as national heroes right up until the Democrats pack up and leave town on Friday, whereupon they'll revert to their natural state of being fascist, racist pigs.
USA Today: WHAT DEMOCRATS SUE THE POLICE? BUT THEY WON'T ACTUALLY REVERT TO BEING FASCIST PIGS, DON'T YOU MEAN THE DEMS WILL THINK THEY HAVE REVERTED TO BEING FASCIST PIGS?
A speaker at the Democratic National Convention this year, Al Sharpton, accused white police officers of raping and defacing Tawana Brawley in 1987, lunatic charges that eventually led to a defamation lawsuit against Sharpton and even more eventually, to Sharpton paying a jury award to the defamed plaintiff Steve Pagones. So it’s a real mystery why cops wouldn’t like Democrats.
USA Today: IS THAT LAST SENTENCE SARCASTIC? IF SO, YOU SURE LOST ME.
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(Excerpt) Read more at humaneventsonline.com ...
Not getting the french comment. . .now they have GOT to be lying.
Oh yippee. We get pro-gay Goldberg instead of solid conservative Coulter. They'd better trade out Moore for someone like Broder then.
If they can't take Coulter then they'd better ditch Moore.
This article is typical Ann. USA Today's loss, IMO.
Has Ann Coulter ever considered passing on her genes to future generations?
I'm going to get flamed for this, but this particular article does seem like she phoned it in.
Dump Moore for a source more moderate and objective, like al Jazzera.
Want to bet the go ahead and run Moore's anti-Bush rant.
I'm sure there are countless male Freepers who would like to contribute to that goal.
I think it's funny. The fact that they don't means they either do not "get it" or they are taking it personally.
How many times is this going to be posted today?
"A chill wind..."
Among Americans polled, 27% think the
USAToday sucks, 73% think it blows.
They will not find Moore offensive because they will agree with him.
This shows the level of intelligence USAToday expects in their readers. (USATODAY: WHAT SHOWS IT?)
This is the first I've seen it, and I've been hanging out here pretty much all day....
It seem fairly obvious that USA Today hired Coulter so that they could fire her. Also obvious that their editors are unable to comprehend words of English strung together so as to be incomprehensible to someone with only a sixth grade education.
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