Posted on 10/01/2001 10:55:27 PM PDT by PrivacyChampion
I completely concur with this statement. Doesn't every Christian have an obligation to try to help these unfortunate Muslim masses, who have been victimized by brainwashing since birth, to accept the true religion, not the false phoney pseudo-religion that is Islam?
And what peace loving person today would support not removing people like the Taliban from power by killing them, along with leaders of states that support terrorism such as Libya, Iran, Syria, Cuba, North Korea, the Sudan, and Iraq?
Liked Ann fiestiness; but her angry pout with rhetoric seemed to be getting a bit tiresome to me. . .
Think boycotting is rediculous; given no one really knows what happened. . .
She WAS still employed after the printing of her first 'analysis'; not until the second, 'swarthy males', did they refuse to print. . .perhaps they asked her to 'tone it down' or try another tack; who knows? ..Maybe she refused to rewrite. . .
Ann seldom absorbs the the negative sitting down nor is she quiet about it. . .perhaps she should have; she might still be employed. NOT that it is a problem; 'places to go' for her and plenty of rants needed.
Bad mouthing her employer and her professional peers by association, was and is way too cheap a response. .. .am sorry, but not FOR her. NR might have reconsidered; everyone stressed out in New York.
(who knows? . . . but would not cancel NR, without a better reason. . .
For those who don't know or haven't bothered to learn the real story of Coulter's firing, here's an excerpt from the Washington Post account:
"'We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity,' the conservative commentator declared in her column on National Review Online.
Those words created an uproar at the Web site, which refused to run a follow-up piece in which Coulter singled out what she called "swarthy males." She promptly began bad-mouthing National Review, which responded by axing her as a contributing editor."
To summarize: NR refuses to run one of Coulter's columns, so she pitches a hissy fit on Politically Correct ... er, Incorrect with Bill Maher about being "censored" and starts insulting the NR editors. For this, they tell her not to let the door hit her ass on the way out. What's the problem?
The long and short of the situation, if you look at the facts, is that Coulter was fired for public insubordination. Would you tolerate an employee who badmouths you and your business in public? If not, why is NR the bad guy here?
Personally, I would have cut the inflammatory line from the first column. NR didn't, and the editors have no one but themselves to blame for that. However, they are a private enterprise, and are entitled to run or not run whatever columns they wish. The fact that Coulter went pouting to Maher, another "victim" of "PC" (who Freepers incidentally have no comparable sympathy for) and started spewing venom proves that she is fundamentally immature and unworthy of employment at NR.
Why boycott a magazine for firing an insolent, immature, publicity-crazed employee? Ask yourself that before you start treating a prominent vehicle of the conservative message as the enemy.
Who cares if Ann gets all this much closer to stardom. The better off conservatives will be with Ann out front and not some fool from NR.
People frequently feel the need to put a sarcasm disclaimer on their posts here.
In daily interactions, I constantly find myself telling people I was being facetious or sarcastic.
I do remember, however, the last Goldberg column I read at NRO - some ridiculous "I promise to..." list.
The fact is that Mr. Goldberg's "style" consists largely of six-year-old charm. One thing that stuck in my mind was something called "The Jonah Poll," which he wrote in early 1999, and his embarrassing attempts to hang on to Zack de la Rocha and other activist stars. His attempts to cozy up to them got him the nickname "The Oldest Man In The World."
Because of the recent banding-together, I read a couple of his pieces after Sept. 11 at JWR, but I've had it with being dutiful at what will probably be at my own expense.
To hell with them. Ann Coulter is absolutely right as to her characterization of them as "girly boys." Mr. Lowry certainly proved this when his mouth got him into trouble with a reporter.
Although a better categorization would be "deafy boys." Unless they're dumped, the Right might have some serious problems soon: they're planting the seeds of a revival of Hooverism.
This last observation happened to be something I noticed about eighteen-or-so months ago, but kept my mouth shut about, out of loyalty to NR as an institution. In fact, I kept all of the above to myself until this day.
Now, all I have to say is that there's a lot of ruin in a brand name. And that I have real sympathy for William F. Gullible, Jr - a fellow Catholic.
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