Defying Ann Coulter

http://www.intellectualconservative.com ^ | Thursday, 19 September 2002 | Brian S. Wise

[independentmind]

Coulter's insightfulness or wisdom is much more rarely acclaimed. That's because she's writing from the gut more than from the brain. She's saying what people feel but can't or don't say so emphatically, rather than writing things that people realize are logical, sensible and true when they read it.

Yep.

I don't get the feeling so much that she's been a voice crying in the wilderness, ahead of her time and suffering for her beliefs, as that she's been a very fortunate person, seeing her opportunities and taking them. It's not so much that her judgement and discernment are to be valued as that there was a niche in the opinion market to be filled and she rather shrewdly occupied it.

Yep again.

Pretty shrewd yourself, x!

[185JHP]

There are a lot of decent people on FR that haven't been in the company of the rough scruffy people. IMO Ann's spitoon comment has to do with the nasty thing radfems used to use to attack men - they said "To men, women are like spitoons - "after you've used them, they disgust you." What chafes the left about Ann is what chafed them about Newt - open contempt, openly displayed. They don't like it - what if it spreads?

[jla]

*PINGIN'* ya to our favorite gal!

Ya know, Cote, I think if you were to read Slander your opinion might change. *S*

[jraven]

I get it! If one of OUR people says anything even if we use the same tactics, name calling and verbal abuse it MUST be true. If our foes say anything they automatically lie the second they say anything. So we need to talk like them, distort like them, call names like them.
Isn't this why a lot of Americans now feel the two parties are ALIKE -- because the coarsening of America is on BOTH SIDES NOW and no one has the moral ground.
Sorry, I will leave it to you folks to enrich Ann on her next book and laughingly express outrage when liberals use the same tactics that you are endorsing and encouraging.
Sean Hannity's book was a zillion times better than Coulters...because he kept the name calling to a minimum.

[537 Votes]

She's way off the deep end and, it's true, using the SAME demonization tactics she decries in liberals.

Teddy Kennedy drove off a bridge and killed a woman passenger, and liberals still consider him a viable presidential candidate even today. George W. Bush was stopped for drunk driving because a cop noticed he was . . . driving too slow. And you know what liberals made of that.

I hardly think one can argue that Coulter and liberals use the SAME demonization tactics.

If liberals have any examples of the Bush family committing rape or sexual harrassment, do let us know. I'm serious, don't cover it up. Do let us know. We wouldn't want a pervert like that in the Oval Office, after all. Or should I say, another pervert like that.

[BrianS.Wise]

That was my spittoon comment ... at a debate a few years ago, when I still did debates. It was reproduced to make the point that a lot of anger can come from the Left when you go after a Kennedy.

[BrianS.Wise]

That's very nice; give my best to your bride for a piece of work very well done.

[BrianS.Wise]

Or maybe I misunderstood your point of reference ...?

[Chemnitz]

Ann Coulter is great. Who is this joker posting his own musings? Let's compare his academic record to hers. I believe she clerked for a Supreme Court justice. Am I correct? Did he? I doubt it.

[BrianS.Wise]

You must have missed the part where I supported her Kennedy comment, or the two paragraphs fronted with the words "In defense of Ann Coulter". Lighten up.

[rmvh]

re your #214

I happened by your comments.....

The thing about Coulter is she writes predominantly from emotion and from the gut.What you say here is essentially true but without notation leaves the wrong impression.

Your statement infers that Coulter is a simply a slugger, or more specifically, a gutter fighter without finesse....that she does not have a quick and excellent mind which she employs to connect people to reality without fuzz and window dressing.

In an age replete with yellow journalism, editorialized news, and the puffery of well coiffed news anchors, Ms Coulter has been ability to deliver quick, accurate,and "on her feet" presentations of fact.

Yes, she writes with "emotion" but it is woven tightly to fact which seems a rarity and a refreshing change. That she delivers her facts from the "gut" is quite true, yet it seems that she wants to convey information , to express information...rather than "impress" the people, as most of our more renowned conservative writers seem to find necessary.

[Chemnitz]

I am light enough already. You are not talented enough to post your thoughts as serious articles.

[BrianS.Wise]

Okay.

[CaliforniaOkie]

Probably on about 10% of the public understands and put in the right perspective Ann Coulter's statements.

Oh? She just had a best selling book on the NY times best seller list for weeks. I would say more than 10% understand where she is coming from.

[CaliforniaOkie]

You can't take the high moral ground if your crawling in the gutter with those who are already in the gutter.

BS.

[RAT Patrol]

I think you totally miss the meaning, style, and tone of Ann Coulter. It is highly likely that is because you first disagree with her politics. Lefties hate her. The ones that churn out the hateful slander about the right deserve it. The ones who just live their lives as, oh, I don't know, members of a union or something and think the 'rat party represents their interests better, they need to realize it is not about them. She targets the lies and tactics of the left. That's fair game; she's good at it, and I applaud her!

LOL, I have no crush on her since I'm a female too; I admire her greatly and will forever give her the same loyalty she gives me and mine.

She is one of only a few who have had the guts to stand up to the left's demonizing of Christians. Many so-called righties have caved to the pressure. That's probably what I am MOST thankful to her for. She is fearless.

[gargoyle]

...Fact is, on occasion, fact is wrong. It has names like spin, or re-writing history. Most of the time, fact is interpreted. It's called opinion...

...Fact can't be debated, only our perception, opinion is questionable...

...That's a fact,,,IMO...

...I could be wrong...

[DainBramage]

Absolutely almost.