USA TODAY SPIKES ANN COULTER COLUMN AT CONVENTION

[meisje]

Coulter filed her first report from Boston Sunday night, only to be told hours later that editors found it "unusable" and "not funny."

http://drudgereport.com/dnc1.htm

[Doosh]

1. good

it was probably among her most revolting work, I can just see it now "My only regret with mcveigh is that he didn't go to the Democratic Convention"

all of her material is pretty much hate mail.

[gatlingforme]

8. HAHA, Coulter would write that too. (sigh)

[xultar]

32. Agreed, too bad her publishers don't have the BALLS to tell the truth

and pull her 'books.'

[Shakespeare]

2. It took an editor THIS long to notice that?

The woman is a no-talent harpy. Good riddance.

[jdj]

53. "Moore on the floor, and Ann in the can"!!!!

that is hilarious.

Finally a drudge story I can get behind.

Ann's humor only appeals to nazis.

[Fovea]

3. Well, I guess in the new world order

Ann will actually have to pass editorial review. What a revolting development for her.

:nopity:

[janx]

81. Yes. Especially since in that kind of a situation,

nothing she ever writes or wrote would be published at all.

[DrWeird]

4. Unusable and not funny? And USA Today wouldn't publish it??!!

Man, it must have been REALLY REALLY bad!

[King of New Orleans]

6. She forgot to include

the four color pie chart.


I don't know what posesses any paper to hire her

[IggleDoer]

52. Unusable? No!

I suspect thagt she's been used .... often

[mom cat]

5. This just tickles me pink. Is some of the media really getting it?

New slogan for Ann Coulter
"unusable and not funny" :dem:

[hatrack]

39. In fact, if MoPaul's got a book-cover graphic . . . oh MO-PAUL!!!

Where AARRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEE you?? ;-)

[info being]

77. The elites are changing their position

We are now permitted to support Democrats.

[Beetwasher]

7. Is She Really There?

Will the repubs allow people like Al Franken at their convention?

Just wondering...

[hyphenate]

50. Actually, yes;

Michael Moore will be reporting from the RNC :D

[salinen]

9. No!

the editor was referring to Ann personally.

[AlFrankenFan]

10. HA!

It's about time she stopped getting praise for her vile crap!

[k in IA]

11. How could USA Today have been so clueless about who the hell they

were hiring?

[LeinesRed]

21. no kidding. I like satire just as much as anyone else

She's not even clever or witty.

[West Coast Democrat]

12. Ann and Drudge are supposedly friends

Did she get dumped by the paper, and ask Drudge to try to make a big story about it, like how it is supposedly unfair because Michael Moore gets to have a column, etc, etc.?

[itcfish1]

13. I Think

republicans are distancing themselves from her since she made those horrible statements about Max Cleland



:dem:

[hatrack]

14. And once the huggable, warm and generous GOP image is no longer needed

she'll doubtless appear at red-meat rallies with Newt, Rush & the Bugman for two straight months.

[belle]

62. She seems to be getting steadily crazier. Or more stoned. Or something.

Who wouldn't want to distance themselves? It's not like they don't have more than their share of evil RW talking heads already; even some blonde bimboesque ones. They don't need her.

I think *maybe* the more Ann slowly realizes that she is, in fact, dispensable, the wiggier she gets; and vice-versa. May it be so, anyway. I hate that Nazi skank.

[frylock]

15. "Apparently no one at USA TODAY had ever read Ann Coulter before!"

Dann refers to itself in the third person?

[VolcanoJen]

16. Michael Moore, Leftwing Controversialist (??) and Bush Hater!!

Cute labels, Matt! You really do just make shit up, don't you?

[mac56]

17. "Conservative controversialist Ann Coulter"?!

Is that really what he called her? A "controversialist"?! Is that even a word?

[yardwork]

33. She's not controversial. There's only one reasonable opinion

about Coulter, and that is that she is vile.

No controversy. Only freepers would disagree.

[0007]

18. Any link to the article?

Hooray for USA!

[Scurrilous]

37. Link:

http://www.anncoulter.org

[AirAmFan]

44. What a BIZARRE and nonsensical ramble! No editor of ANY publication,

no matter its political stance, would publish such a random string of words. It's as if she's near the end of a downward drug-using spiral, under the delusion she's sharper than Bill Mahr, while actually she's far less coherent than Courtney Love.

[jdj]

54. Hey now! Courtney is brilliant.

Even made a joke on herself during one of her trials, on exiting the courtroom, put her finger to her lips and told the media "Shhhh, no one knows I used to use drugs." Courteney Love could, and I wish, would, beat the hell out of Ann Coulter. I wish she would get her act together because the world needs more women like her.

The thing with Ann is, she only thinks she's brilliant, and nobody REALLY knows that she probably IS hopelessly hooked on diet pills or coke or meth or some upper like that, not to mention being a sloppy drunk ( the drunk part is in "Blinded by the Right" by Brock).

I think Camille Paglia and Michelle Malkin are speed freaks, too.

[TheWraith]

69. I, personally, think that it's coke.

Though you make a good point with the diet pills. But my guess is coke. It just seems right for her, particularly given her frequent delusional rants about Hollywood celebs on cocaine. It's just got the feel of one of those raging hypocrisy things. Also, she's an elitist, and there's no more elitist drug than cocaine.

Good riddence, you vile whore. You've been sliding for a long while, and hopefully this is the beginning of the end. Keep on trying to handjob the right wing as you vanish into oblivion.

My money says she'll probably end up as a suicide--drug overdose--or else slowly kill herself with substance abuse.

[REVOLT823]

87. Courtney Love is a Punk Rocker

She has an excuse for being incoherent, its part of her job. We should expect a lot more from our political journalists (can't believe I am referring to Coulter as this)

[psychopomp]

72. That was the first and last time I will read her worthless twaddle

What complete garbage. I would expect this kind of writing from a high-schooler, not a nationally-syndicated columnist.

[cynthia]

82. I agree

I wouldn't waste my time reading more of that garbage - and that is supposed to be funny???

[LeinesRed]

19. her hideous website still refers to her USA Today contributions

God, I just had to look to see if her spew was posted there.

[colonel odis]

20. i'm sure she'll be on with sean hannity before long

talking about what a commie, leftist rag usa today is.

rag, yes. leftist, no.

[belle]

63. Call me optimistic, but I'm thinking more along the lines of: rehab.

Seriously. i mean, she was *always* nuts, but at least one used to sort of be able to follow her train of thought, such as it was. That column reads like Elizabeth Wurtzel on crystal meth. Maybe she snorts Ritalin, too? She must be doing *something* seriously fucked up to maintain that skeletal figure.

[Pretty_in_CodePink]

74. She already was during the convention

In channel surfing last night I saw her for a few minutes. Colmes was kissing up too. So sympathetic - saying that USA had to know what they were getting when they hired Ann just like Slim Fast knew what it had in Whoopi. He didn't indicate that her column was incoherent and unreadable. Even USA Today can expect it contributors to have some basic writing capability. Although the Orlando Sentinel continues to print Kathleen Parker just as incoherent but maybe less crass.

[yellowcanine]

22. "not funny" heh - that must really sting Asinine Annie. Apparently USA

Today Editors don't read portfolios before hiring - or they would have known that all of Annie's shit is unusable and not funny.

[SkipNewarkDE]

23. USA Today has Conservative Editor?

I always though USA Today had a conservative publisher. I seem to recall his frequent editorials being decidedly conservative.

[NashVegas]

25. Editor Ken Paulson

Was with the 1st Amendment Center (maybe still is) and the Freedom Forum before he took the gig. I met him down here in Nashville a couple of times and he's one of the good guys.

[schultzee]

24. A coulter look alike should walk the streets of NYC in a Nazi uniform

It would be a real laugh and make the point about what witch coulter actully is in realilty.

[saigon68]

26. coulter should walk the streets of NYC

she would be in her element then--]

hey sailor--- want a good time ?????

A long with her other Johns---

LOL

[leQ]

29. the idea's a hit on irc already

n/t

[belle]

64. I don't think there enough suitably thin people, outside of hospitals

[Career Prole]

85. Get that "Naked Cowboy" dude to play Man Coulter.

He's got the hair and the Adam's apple for the job, and since it'll be a bit nippier in NYC at night he'll probably be glad to have the uniform.

[leftynyc]

27. Part of me is upset by this

The best thing that could have happened is putting that vile person's face all over the pubbies message. Her hateful diatribes would have exposed the right's message for the garbage it is.

[belle]

65. I'm not. If RW hatefulness hasn't been exposed by now, it never will be.

I say enough attention to them already. Let people like Savage and Coulter just choke on their own bile; we don't owe them anymore airtime.

[Eric J in MN]

68. Has her past garbage helped us? If not, why would this article? nt

nt

[struggle4progress]

28. Let's link to REAL journalists!

Coulter's DNC Coverage for 'USA Today' Gets Delayed Start
By Joe Strupp
Published: July 26, 2004 2:50 PM EST, updated at 3:35 PM

NEW YORK A USA Today plan to have conservative columnist Ann Coulter take shots at the Democratic National Convention this week got off to a delayed start after editors held her first column, slated for today's edition, asking that she make changes to it before it ran.

As of this afternoon, the column -- originally submitted by Coulter on Sunday -- was still set to be published in Tuesday's editions, according to USA Today spokesman Steve Anderson. But he said editors had not yet heard back from her about unspecified changes they sought in the piece. The paper has a 5 p.m. deadline for her changes to be submitted.

Anderson stressed that the column had not been spiked. Michael Moore will cover the Republican convention for the newspaper.

"Ms. Coulter filed a column for today's paper and our editors made some suggestions and asked her to consider them," Anderson said. "But by that point it was late in the day (Sunday) and there was no rush to get it in the paper, so we decided to hold it for a day." Anderson would not discuss the content of the column.
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http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000586007

[Bill McBlueState]

30. Mann says...

"USA Today doesn't like my 'tone,' humor, sarcasm, etc., which raises the intriguing question of why they hired me to write for them. Perhaps they thought they were getting CATHERINE Coulter."

I think she meant to put "humor" in quotation marks instead of "tone." As in, "USA Today doesn't like my tone, "humor," sarcasm, etc...."

:eyes:

[thebigidea]

36. you know you're in trouble when even USA Today thinks poorly of you

Coulter has been on a long, slow descent lately. Less and less tv time, less and less sense, more and more crazed looking.

[jdj]

55. I bet it was racist.

They wouldn't have held it for any other reason.

[yardwork]

35. I just read the essay on Ann's little website

Really lame. I think that Annie's losing her (his?) touch.

[Tuttle]

49. I love it when her Adam's apple starts gesticulating

usually when she gets REALLY excited!

...now, watch this drive,
Tut-tut

[CO Liberal]

31. Pretty Much Describes Ann Coulter

Unusable and not funny.

:-)

[robo]

34. coulter

Google Ann Coulter and click on her web site ,it's on there.She is just spitting out words to see where they land.

[gristy]

41. OMG

My jaw is hitting my keyboard as I read this. Some excertps:

Here at the Spawn of Satan convention in Boston,...

Also, as always, the pretty girls and cops are on my side,...

Democrats are constantly suing and slandering police as violent, fascist racists...

That's my new position on all government workers, except the 5% who aren't useless...

This woman needs therapy. Big time.

[Isere]

60. "Spawn of Satan"

is a well known term used to defame Jews. It is commonly found in Nazi propaganda and in right-wing anti-semitic literature.

Ann Thrax is just following in the footsteps of her mentors.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

38. Skanky Ann's looks have caught up with her putrid personality

She has to rely on her filthy writing and arguments now. I see fewer and fewer appearances.

[jimbot]

40. And it wasn't even humorous

I have the ability to laugh at myself but the actual text of her rant is posted at some place called human events online...here is the link

I didn't find it funny at all. It was hateful, vitriolic, and far from entertaining. I can't even pull out a single good line but here is a paragraph of her lambasting Carter:

"For 20 years, the Democrats wouldn’t let Jimmy Carter within 100 miles of a Convention podium. The fact that Carter is now their most respectable speaker tells you where that party is today. Maybe they just want to remind Americans who got us into this Middle East mess in the first place. We’ve got millions of fanatical Muslims trying to slaughter Americans while shouting “Allah Akbar!” Yeah, let’s turn the nation over to these guys."

Read at your own risk,

--JT

[jdj]

56. Carter spoke at the convention in '92, and stated tonight

on PBS that he attended all of them.

Wow, how embarrassingly factually inaccurate.

And bingo, there's the racism.

edit:

I just read this, it would be embarassing for a paper like USA today to publish this, because it is so spiteful and hate-filled.

Its beyond.

This magazine also says Jonah Goldberg is replacing her.

She's some puke whore, this one.

[loathesomeshrub]

57. What IS funny is that they included Usa Todays comments. LOL!

Its worth looking at for those

[vernon_nackulus]

42. See how liberal the media is?

This PROVES IT!!!

[snippy]

43. Ann Coulter's Usually Not Truthful. n/t

[johnfunk]

45. USA finally figured out she's not funny...

... thereby catching up with people who actually think when they read who knew this about Coulter during the mid-1990s.

Interestingly, nobody seems to have considered that Coulter was never filtered out as a potential problem through the long process of primping, schooling and "polishing" her through their system of think tanks and foundations. Talk about a waste of money...

[DainBramaged]

46. Clownblower strikes again

[johnfunk]

47. Would you like some fries with that?

[Edmond Dantes]

76. This is WAY too funny!

Laughed so hard I got the hiccups.

Is that Ann C blowing Ronnie?

[bloom]

48. good

maybe it occured to USA TODAY that they didn't want to lose every Democratic reader they had. :)

[biftonnorton]

51. In the words of Austin Powers, "It's a man, baby!"

[sofa king]

58. Unusable and Not Funny

At fine bookstores everywhere, October 14, 2004.

[roguevalley]

59. the site that is posting her, in the link above, says she's witty and

vivacious. Like a cadaver is vivacious. I can't believe a man who would find her anything but a skank.

[w4rma]

61. I just read most of her article. That woman is gross and is psycho. (nt)

[Doosh]

66. how does such a hateful war monger like coulter

get a free pass by everybody? the media treats her like a sane, rational person!?!?

[opihimoimoi]

67. I got no clue.... but am delighted to learn of the spike job....

Right about now she needs more bandages for her tongue...lottsa callouses from "Lickin her wounds"

[craiga86]

70. Not suprising

I mean she is of course on the same page as Bill O Riley and Rush. This can't be her happiest week out of the year.

[Flagg]

71. nutjob

"My pretty-girl allies stick out like a sore thumb amongst the corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie chick pie wagons they call "women" at the Democratic National Convention."


:crazy:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

73. Ever get the feeling she's an elaborate practical joke?

[yelladawg]

75. I understand

What else would you expect from a woman(???) who has a picture of Ollie North next to her bed?

[philipowitz]

78. Since she clearly needs help...

... I sent her a link to Rageaholics anon.

[The_Casual_Observer]

79. This is a really nasty article

I don't know anything about that person, but this is over the top. It's one thing to slam somebody like bush, or some known politico from the left, but slinging personal insults at the rank and file delegates is something else all together. This person clearly has nothing to offer of any value. It is good to see that the people at the USA today had enough sense not to get involved in what amounts to pornography.

[chelsea0011]

80. Funny how a union hater would side with the Boston Police

The police have been in a 2 year fight until an arbitrator forced a contract down their throats. But Coulter hates unions. Where was her police support during their fight for a contract? She probably loves the teacher's union also. You know. The terrorist organization.

[PhuLoi]

83. The ambulating yeast infection has been sacked by USA Today

As reported on CBS. My wishes for her involve a catastropic prolapse of her entire alimentary system causing her to be strangled by her own sphincter.

[DulceDecorum]

86. Touche!!

But triple glove before you go near that hazmat.

[Th1onein]

84. I can't believe anyone would print her crap!

eom

[TexasBushwhacker]

88. Why oh why does Bill Maher have her on his show?

I've never understood this. I know he's an independent, but he's certainly no fan of the current regime. Does he really like her, or does he have her on as a good example of the right wing gone nutz? Or does he just want to do her?

[enki23]

93. bill mahr has questionable judgement

even though i agree with much (not all) of what he says, and think he can be pretty funny at times. he makes questionable judgements, and exhibits questionable values all too often.

[noonwitch]

94. He's said that they are bar-hopping buddies

Which leads me to this question: Doesn't Ann proclaim herself to be a born again christian? What the hell is she doing bar-hopping? Not to mention that those clothes she wears hardly meet the definition of "modest".

She reminds me of those born-again sluts in college, going to church on Sundays, Campus Crusade on Tuesdays and getting drunk before blowing football players on Friday and Saturday night. I always find it incredible when people like that condemn gays for their alleged promiscuity.

I'm amazed at her response about USA Today not knowing what kind of columnist she is. Did she ever consider what kind of newspaper they are prior to submitting her odious column? A non-offensive paper that tries to pass for moderate. I call it "Candyland Today", but still, she's just not taking responsibility for her own spew.

[jayfish]

96. He Ripped Her Pretty Good The Last Time She Was On.

He asked her if she "just made shit up". Then Chris Rock came out for a little cameo and accused her of wanting to do *. I thought she was going to cry. I think she lost five more lbs. because of that show.

Jay

[hyperboleking]

89. As a writer, I think . . .

The editor was largely correct: several of his comments were valid regarding "getting" her jokes, but not her facts. Sometimes she's not as funny as she thinks, but other times... I do like that "pie wagon" crack.

[TexasBushwhacker]

90. As a writer myself

I can't get over her command of the English language. Her writing style, with all of its run on sentences, fragments and pseudo words, would be bleeding red ink in any Journalism 101 class.

[Bridget Burke]

92. Precisely why do you like the "pie wagon" crack?

It seemed incoherent to me. Since you're a writer, your opinion is especially valuable.

[TexasBushwhacker]

95. Yeah, I have to wonder about "pie wagon" too

"My pretty-girl allies stick out like a sore thumb amongst the corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie chick pie wagons they call "women" at the Democratic National Convention."

I guess this is Fembot's way of saying the DNC women are fat, but then why would you think that was funny? Furthermore, how can one be fat and not need a bra. If anyone can go braless, it's Ann!

[smb]

91. What A Bunch Of Idiots

The hire a bomb-thrower to write a column and are shocked, shocked when she hands in a column full of bombs!

I expect the same thing to happen with Michael Moore; is staffed with equal-opportunity nitwits.