USA Today has dropped plans for conservative columnist Ann Coulter to write a daily column from the Democratic National Convention this week after an editing dispute over her first piece could not be resolved on Monday. Jonah Goldberg, a contributor to the National Review, has agreed to take her place, with his first column slated to run Tuesday.
Goldberg, of course, is the editor of National Review Online who fired Coulter a couple of years back for her inafmous remarks on how we should invade the Middle East and convert all the Muslims to Christianity.
It leaves one wondering, why on earth would mainstream USA Today hire the likes of Ann Coulter, a true extremist, in the first place? She is way too out there for the mainstream, kind of like signing on Mike Savage or Noam Chomsky. Definitely not mainstream.
Meanwhile, on her own site, she of the anorexic body and protruding Adam’s apple has posted a copy of the column that got her fired on her first day. Here’s a snip.
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 emblazened 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.
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.
Is that really what mom and dad want their kids reading over breakfast? I think this confirms what most of us know: that Ann is a fire-breathing, Democrat-hating walking streak of sleaze, a freakish entity that somehow made it to Earth, where its sole attraction is its freakishness. Let’s just hope the entity never reproduces. One Ann Coulter is way too many.
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By Michael
At least you can quote her: “conservatives … identify one another, much like gay men do” — Ann Coulter
July 27, 2004 @ 6:58 pm | Comment
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By jeremy
It does seem like an odd choice for USA Today – there are plenty of conservative pundits, with just as big a following, that don’t also happen to be borderline criminally insane.
It will be interesting, though, what the reaction would have been if Moore had written such a freakish screed.
July 27, 2004 @ 9:37 pm | Comment
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By Conrad
As long as you continue to defend Michael Moore, you really aren’t in a position to criticize anyone else.
July 28, 2004 @ 12:07 am | Comment
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By Jing
I don’t defend Michael Moore. Ann Coulter is vapid troll who has somehow managed to cobble a few words together into semi-coherent sentence.
July 28, 2004 @ 1:24 am | Comment
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By richard
Moore was highly praised by much of the mass media and even Fox News. There are parts of his movive that I feel are weak, like the Afghan oil pipeline, but all in all it hold up; it’s biased as hell, but it’s supposed to be. Coulter is in a different category. She labels all liberals as committers of “treason.” If you don’t worship Joe McCarthy you’re a traitor. She simply lies her ass off and makes outrageous statements that aren’t even worthy of debate. Even Fox News said everyone should see F9/11. So did most major newspapers. As I’ve said from the beginning, see it for the video clips you’ve never seen before and filter out 50 percent of Moore’s impish commentary. At least you know what Coulter says, so you can criticize her. You haven’t seen the movie yet, so please don’t be so quick to pass judgement.
July 28, 2004 @ 6:54 am | Comment
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By hkreportage
The phrase “a mood disorder” comes to mind when I read Coulter.
July 28, 2004 @ 4:49 pm | Comment
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By Led Zeppelin
Does anyone think she is to old to wear her hair that long?
June 14, 2006 @ 1:24 am | Comment
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By God Fearing man
Ann Coulter is beautiful, sexy, smart, sharp witted, sharp tongued and FEARLESS. When I watch her talk to liberals I see them squirm in horror. Girly men and mannish women hate her. I LOVE HER.
July 23, 2006 @ 3:45 pm | Comment
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By coulter fearing man
who gives a shit if she’s beautiful (which she’s not) or smart? the fact of the matter is that she’s a fucking nazi.
October 16, 2006 @ 8:49 am | Comment