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 ...
I'm sure she would find many willing assistants, in FR ranks.
This Coulter column will be so blogged that it may get her more readers this way than otherwise.
Notice Ann is not claiming "First Amendment violation."
They're like fish unable to perceive the water of leftism in which they swim.
I know his reaction to the Clintonista love-in tonight will be good; his total revulsion towards Bill comes through plain as day in his column, and usually makes for a good read.
But I want a Coulter daily. If she stays, she's gonna get caged now.
Jonah is NOT a good replacement in my opinion. They picked him because he is pro-gay social liberal. They won't get any of this "cross" talk from Joanh.
Notice USA is so out of touch with conservative critiques of Kerry & Dems that they "don't get it"
Johnny-on-the-spot to the rescue.
Ann Coulter, who has racked up more best selling books on politics than just about anyone--is not to be found in a single newspaper.
Think about that, and what its says about America--and the so-called free press.
USA Today simply sucks. Pablum for the ignorant masses with oh-so-pretty colors 'n' stuff.
This one probably hit a little too close to home for the editor.
It should lay to rest any questions about editors these days. Hard to believe the person who didn't get Ann's column regularly decides what a finished news or op-ed should look like.
Just because he's conservative and not a stuffed shirt doesn't make him "suspect", in my opinion.
This party can use a few more Jonah Goldbergs and PJ O'Rourkes, if you ask me.
Zut Alhors! sp?
SICK EM ANN!
SHREDD EM UP ONE SIDE AND DOWN THE OTHER!
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I have to say that the pantywaste at USA today has to be one of the more clueless cretins given editorial power.
What do they think Moore is going to do?
Goldberg is a lily-livered wimp. It must be a bit galling, if not totally laughable, for Ann, to be replaced by the pimp who attacked her in print in NRO.
I hope WND or HE picks her up for the rest of the week - her columns will be a bit of welcome sarcastic humor in an otherwise humorless week.
I hope she's wearing a flak jacket.
>>I'm going to get flamed for this, but this particular article does seem like she phoned it in.<<
Well, I'll take the flames with you, because that's what I was thinking as well. Their complaint may have been that it just wasn't very good. If this was by an author I had never heard of, I would have seen it as a hack job.
Coulters strength is the live television interview.
Excellent!
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