Now that Ann Coulter is persona non grata among conservatives who wish to be well thought of by liberals-heck, even Mike Adams has lashed out at her- I think this article by her, and about William F. Buckley, gives some insight into both their characters. Read and enjoy, it’s almost all quotes from WFB.
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=237
John
Ann and Bill- A Conservative Love Story
Posted March 10th, 2008 at 03:18 PM by John Bramfeld
You could cherry-pick quotes from WFB to make him sound bad... but you could pick a random quote of Ann any day of the week and she'll prove it to you. Ann is no conservative, she's an anti-liberal shock jock turned pundit.
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j
Part-Time Pundit
Coulter is, at best, a conservative leaning comedian. The fact that she or anyone else ever took her seriously is beyond idiotic. John Stewart at least still realizes he's a comedian, even if there are plenty of yahoos who watch his show like some sort of sermon. I'm a big fan of the Daily Show. Ann Coulter, imho, should crawl into a hole and never come out again. It'd be funny if she didn't really mean it. She's just a hate-filled scumbag. Plenty of intelligent people are evil. She's one of them.
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Glock21 Op/Ed
John,
Wrtie back in about a year and tell me how being popular with liberals is working out for you.
John
Dear Glock,
The h stands for humble. If I am reading this correctly, you humbly believe that Ann Coulter is evil and a hate filled scumbag. Why don't you write us something when you are not feeling so humble.
John
P.S. If you and John will follow the link, you will find that, whatever you think of Ann, she has collected a better set of anecdotes and quotes than even the National Review.
Sure thing. In my not-so-humble opinion I'd hope that Coulter would apologize to the world for her vile hatred and remove herself from the face of the planet in a way that wouldn't require tax dollars to clean up. Quite honestly she strikes me as a brownshirt goon in politics... I can't wait for her to be ostracized and/or in some horrific accident. America deserves better. The fact that she has "fans" makes me almost as disturbed as American communist parties having "members." Just sad.
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Glock21 Op/Ed
Not wanting to be associated with Coulter isn't the same thing as her not being a conservative, which she most certainly is. Semantics aren't the right intellectual tool for the occasion.
On another note, here's the Buckley/Vidal clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li73RRLEyW8
Ex-Maroon
That's a line that could have been penned by Coulter, herself. I'm not sure who these conservatives are with which she is supposedly non grata. The only thing that's happened to her lately is that she was only invited to speak CPAC-adjacent, rather than at CPAC itself. She's still syndicated in just about the same number of news outlets as she was before Faggotgate. She's regularly invited on news shows on major networks.
I disagree slightly. I think it's schtick and she is not quite as sincere as she puts forth. For example, she was recently dating a terrorist-loving, America-hating liberal. I think she realizes that while she may not entirely believe the things she says, there are people out there that do, and that's her audience. Her job is not to put come up with insightful commentary, but to reinforce the prejudices of her readers. She says it in the most outlandish way that she can, because it gets her attention and that sells more books. She is very much a part of the Washington/New York media machine, as much as she likes to claim that she isn't.
Fascinating, because I think Ann does nothing to advance the cause of conservatism, I'm trying to curry favor with liberals? Someone call up the Daily Kos, they'll have to take down that recurring tag of me. She may *be* conservative, but I don't think I've ever heard her advocate *for* something, aside of the rehabilitation of McCarthy's reputation. Plenty of anti-liberal quotes, sure. And for the record, I read that article you linked to, about a week before you posted it here. And I agree with Narc, Ann is about making money not about advancing ideas.
And there are plenty of people who still read her stuff and she's still invited to all the good conservative parties.
But I guess I have to apologize for not being a team player because I have an unauthorized opinion.
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j
Part-Time Pundit
Ann Coulter is neither a funny humorist, nor an astute political analyst. She's an entertainer who's not entertaining.
I've read an awful lot of political news and commentary over the past ten or fifteen years, and I don't know if I've ever read anything from her that's made me sit up and think. I really don't understand what she has done that's caused so many people to pay attention to her. I really don't.
She has proven that damn good money can be made by trolling.
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j
Part-Time Pundit
There is a great deal of comfort and self-righteousness in having a member of your tribe tell you that you are smarter and more virtuous than Those People Over There. They are also foolish and possibly even working for The Enemy, or at least disagree with Us, which pretty much amounts to the same thing. I've written before, and I really think, that politics on some levels is just tribalism.
I rest my case.
John
Ok, then your case is thrown out since you haven't introduced anything remotely compelling.
On March 11th, 2008 at 01:18 PM, John Bramfeld said:
Dan Fielding,
I moved your post to the Ann coulter post.
John
(Best I can tell, that deleted it, so here it is again.)
On March 11th, 2008 at 01:07 PM, Dan Fielding said:
"In another post, I had a few semi-complimentary words to say about Ann Coulter and the response was the usual vitriol. I suggested in so many words that people were afraid to admit they enjoyed her columms and I heard nothing in the replies that disabused me of that notion, but I did hear that fear formulated in a different way, in a way that struck me."
Disclaimer: I'm a Conservative, but I'm not one of those vile Conservatives. Let's talk about how vile those vile Conservatives are, just so you're sure I'm not one of them. Let's talk about how I have female friends, black friends, even gay friends. I just don't know how anyone could like those vile Conservatives, even though I'm not sure what makes them so vile.
Peter Fitzgerald was supposed to be a vile Conservative; Loleta Didrickson was the responsible alternative. Fitzgerald won anyway and turned out Moderate for a Republican. Contrast with George Ryan that year, who was not vile, no siree.
Once upon a time, Coulter had something to say. Now she throws tantrums. Her detractors have not noticed the difference.
"Peter Fitzgerald was supposed to be a vile Conservative; Loleta Didrickson was the responsible alternative."
I liked Loleta. Does anyone know offhand, what's she doing now?
Loleta and Judy Baar allegedly had a falling out, and that was the last I heard.