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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:11 PM
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Here's that Coulter column that USA today rejected
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 and has confirmed that Michael Moore will provide liberal commentary during the GOP Convention. (For more on this developing story, click here.)


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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.

As for the pretty girls, I can only guess that it’s because liberal boys never try to make a move on you without the UN Security Council's approval. Plus, it’s no fun riding around in those dinky little hybrid cars. 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.


USA Today: NOT FUNNY, I DON'T GET IT.

Apparently, the nuts at the Democratic National Convention are going to be put in cages outside the convention hall. Sadly, they won't be fighting to the death as is done in WWE caged matches. They're calling this the "protestor's area," although I suppose a better name would be the "truth-free zone".


USA Today: CLARIFY WHICH NUTS (NOTE FROM AC: THAT KILLS THE JOKE OF THE NEXT PARAGRAPH)

I thought this was a great idea until I realized the “nut” category did not include Sharpton, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, and Teddy Kennedy -- all featured speakers at the convention. I’d say the actual policy is only untelegenic nuts get the cages, but little Dennis Kucinich is speaking at the Convention, too. So it must be cages for “nuts who have not run for president as serious candidates for the Democratic Party.”

Looking at the line-up of speakers at the Convention, I have developed the 7-11 challenge: I will quit making fun of, for example, Dennis Kucinich, if he can prove he can run a 7-11 properly for 8 hours. We’ll even let him have an hour or so of preparation before we open up. Within 8 hours, the money will be gone, the store will be empty, and he’ll be explaining how three 11-year olds came in and asked for the money and he gave it to them.


USA Today: I DON'T GET IT.

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.

With any luck, Gore will uncork his speech comparing Republicans to Nazis. Just a few weeks ago, Gore gave a speech accusing the Bush administration of deploying “digital Brown Shirts” to intimidate journalists and pressure the media into writing good things about Bush -- in case you were wondering where all those glowing articles about Bush were coming from.

The last former government official to slake his thirst so deeply with the kool-aid and become a far-left peacenik was Ramsey Clarke and it took him a few years to really blossom. Clinton must have done some number on Gore. Then again, with his yen for earth tones in a man's wardrobe, maybe Gore's references to "Brown Shirts" was intended as a compliment.

Only one major newspaper -- the Boston Herald -- reported Gore’s “Brown Shirt” comment, though a Bush campaign spokesman's statement quoting the "Brown Shirt" line made it into the very last sentence of a Los Angeles Times article. The New York Times responded with an article criticizing “both” Republicans and Democrats for using Nazi imagery. Democrats call Republicans Nazis, the Republicans quote the Democrats calling Republicans Nazis and “both” are using Nazi imagery. (It’s a cycle of violence!)

The nuts in the cages are virtual Bertrand Russells compared to the official speakers at the Democratic Convention. On the basis of their placards, I gather the caged-nut position is that they love the troops so much, they don’t want them to get hurt defending America from terrorist attack. “Support the troops,” the signs say, “bring them home.”

That’s my new position on all government workers, except the 5% who aren’t useless, which is to say cops, prosecutors, firemen and U.S. servicemen. I love bureaucrats at the National Endowment of the Arts funding crucifixes submerged in urine so much -- I think they should go home. I love public school teachers punishing any mention of God and banning Christmas songs so much -- I think they should go home.

Walking back from the convention site I chatted with a normal Bostonian for several blocks -- who must have identified me through our covert system of signals. He was mostly bemused by the Democrats’ primetime speakers and told me he used to be an independent, but for the last 20 years found himself voting mostly Republican. Then he corrected himself and said he votes for the “American.”

I’d say I love all these Democrats in Boston so much I want them to go home, but I don’t. I want Americans to get a good long look at the French Party and keep the 7-11 challenge in mind.


USA Today: WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY "THE FRENCH PARTY"? I DON'T GET IT.

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?print=yes&id=4610
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umtalal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:14 PM
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1. This woman is sour. n/t
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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:15 PM
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2. replaced by jonah, eh?
Edited on Mon Jul-26-04 06:15 PM by ann_coulter_is_a_man
i make it a rule of thumb not to take anything that came out of lucianne goldberg's vagina serously
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:51 PM
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23. ROFL!
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:57 PM
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24. OMFG! SNARF!!!
DAMNIT! Now I have to spend 10 minutes cleaning up my keyboard after spraying my iced tea all over it!!! GawdDAMN was that a good one!!!:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
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Momgonepostal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:17 PM
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3. Ugh, she's like a freeper with spell check
What a vile woman.
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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:17 PM
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4. they rejected it because it's piss-poor writng
and unprofessional shock scholock

usa today takes itself slightly seriously and wanted to maintain its dignity
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 07:14 PM
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27. Not to mention ludicrous as any sort of coherent analysis.
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:18 PM
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5. man, you know despite her bravado about it - this STINGS.
The Great Ann Coulter, humbled by a mere USA Today Editor? Oh, the humanity!

She's locked in a nosedive to obscurity and knows it. Ah well.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:20 PM
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6. Sick Chick.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:22 PM
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7. Just further evidence of the attempted, orchestrated Poisoning...
... of Dem Convention Coverage by GOP thugs. They're all on the same page; they must have had a conference call last night, or something.

Apparently, USAToday got the point early enough to nix Coulter's column, but I wonder how soon the cable news outlets will catch onto the well-orchestrated poisoning of the Democratic National Convention by all the right-wingers they've employed as hired guns?

It's so obvious from the news coverage today... they really should have tried coming on a little softer, I think.

I smell BACKFIRE. Big time.
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:24 PM
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8. what I love is the irony of their simultaneous messages:
1) Democrats can't bash Bush, its the kiss of death, it turns people off.

2) We must bash Kerry. Nonstop.
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:24 PM
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finally
somebody, somewhere realized that despite her ability to attract attention, Ann Coulter is simply a very bad writer. She's usually incoherent.
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:24 PM
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9. Ann's been fired before because of her courageous stand on the issues.
Edited on Mon Jul-26-04 06:28 PM by oasis
edit to add a boot to Ann's narrow rear-end. :dem:
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umtalal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:27 PM
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12. this is courageous? And what issues? n/t
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:48 PM
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19. see edit.
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umtalal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:51 PM
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22. funny. I get it n/t
she really needs some.
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luaneryder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:25 PM
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10. Lucky for me that I've never read her drivel before
Is this what she writes? Is she supposed to be humorous, witty, what? It sounds like someone on mescaline.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:27 PM
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11. Naw, not mescaline
Even Hunter Thompson in his most tripped-out, drunken state made more sense than this.

These are the ramblings of a paranoid schizophrenic off their medication.

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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:42 PM
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16. It would be fun to have the Duke analyze what she's on.
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:43 PM
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17. if you say "Duke" around him, he'll slit your throat
My guess would be amphetamines washed down with wine.
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callous taoboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 07:01 PM
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25. Very true-
I heard the good doctor say once that he never imagined he'd wake up and find that he is "Lil' Abner."

As for Coulter- My guess would be the brown acid, or an ill-fitting butt plug.
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:34 PM
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13. This is pretty stupid.
Worse than usual from her. She usually has some cohesion in her hate filled diatribes, this makes no sense.
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Ms. Clio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:35 PM
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14. Her "pretty girl allies?"
She is so desperate and delusional it's almost pathetic.

But mostly she's a scrawny lying chickenhead.
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jdj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 09:51 PM
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30. Because all democratic women are ugly dykes.
Like Uma Thurman, and Sharon Stone, etc. Those types.
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Ms. Clio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-27-04 02:12 AM
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32. Or like Hillary! n/t
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Strawman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:40 PM
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15. This almost sounds like a cry for help
And if it is I'll just have to say, umm....sorry.
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Cat Atomic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:45 PM
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18. Oh man, I honestly thought this was a joke.
Edited on Mon Jul-26-04 07:01 PM by Cat Atomic
That woman is losing it. She needs some help.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:50 PM
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20. I think her family needs to have her committed.
Edited on Mon Jul-26-04 06:51 PM by Cleita
She seems to have lost her sense of reality. A hate-filled diatribe full of factual errors and out and out fabrications is not the conservative commentary USA Today had in mind I believe. I don't know if Lucienne's fat little boy can deliver anything substantial either. They would have been better off asking a conservative like Pat Buchanan for commentary.
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The Animator Donating Member (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 06:51 PM
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21. This shit makes me really mad...
"...all government workers, except the 5% who aren’t useless, which is to say cops, prosecutors, firemen and U.S. servicemen."

Ok... first off, my Mom is a government employee. She's a secretary at a Sheriff's department, she's been there for years and has done her job very well. Does it make her worthless just because she doesn't wear a badge. If Coulter were a man, I would kick his ass.

How about my uncle, and cousins who have worked as repairmen in my local school board, fighting the never ending battle to keep underfunded, deteriorating schools from crumbling to the ground.

She leaves out paramedics as well, (I know a lot of them are privatized now, though) is a dedication to saving lives through medicine worthless?

Every sentence in that entire column invokes rage within me. I appreciate that we live in a country that allows her to say these things, because it also allows me to say that she is in more dire need of a good bitch-slaping than any other woman in history. I also happen to know plenty of "pretty women" who would be more than happy to do the job, since I being a gentleman must decline the honor.
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markbark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 07:10 PM
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26. How about Dubya taking "The 7-11 Challenge?"
.... of course we all know he TOTALLY blew the 9/11 challenge, so things don't look so good for him :)


--MAB
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chopper Donating Member (345 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 07:21 PM
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28. wow...
..the "French Party". that's really good. i mean...really, really good..you took the Democrats, and then took the French, and nobody seems to like them anymore...and you compared the Democrats to the French, that was really..original. you, Ann Coulter, are original.

i mean, nobody would have thought to come up with that one. i mean it! nobody. i've never heard *anyone* compare a Dem or a liberal to the French, really, nobody.

you are really, really original. you should really bring this act on the road. cause i think that some people in Idaho would be really entertained. like i was.

"French Party", that's PURE GOLD!
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 09:46 PM
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29. Goldberg will be an improvement
Edited on Mon Jul-26-04 09:50 PM by Jack Rabbit
Interesting that USA Today should fire Coulter and then to replace her hire the same fellow who once fired her from the online edition of the National Review.

Anyway, Jonah Goldberg is capable of much better than either Ann Coulter or his mother. He could even rise to saying something we need to hear, whether it would be comfortable reading or not. That's something Coulter couldn't do.

Hiring Ann Coulter to cover the Democratic Convention and Michael Moore to cover the Republicans points out the problem with USA Today. With its circulation, one would think the publishers could afford some top-notch, truly thought-provoking commentators. Instead, they choose low-to-middle brow entertainers. I don't want to be entertained by a newspaper. I want to be informed.

No wonder USA Today was once called "McPaper."
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-26-04 09:55 PM
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31. What a vile, hate-filled column!!!
:grr:
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