A Tale of Two Times
This week, the right’s shrill-harpy Ann Coulter is on the cover of Time magazine. Next to her picture, this question is asked :
Is she serious or just having fun?
Last year, the man who many consider to be the left’s equivalent1, Michael Moore, was on the cover of the same magazine accompanied by the following question :
Is this good for America?
I’m not saying there’s an anti-liberal bias here or anything, but how insane do our guys have to be before they get treated with kid gloves?
1 : I don’t remember Moore ever joking about murdering people though.
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I realize it is not you who are saying that Moore (or Chomsky, or Ward Churchill) is “the left’s equivalent” of that woman, but I am getting mighty tired of this phrase. There is no “left’s equivalent” outside of a loony bin.
Churchill wrote some offensive things, but he had a coherent point to make. Coulter is simply a hate-filled liar who would not get any attention in any other country than the USA.
Comment by Rob G — April 18, 2005 @ 1:02 pm
Churchill also had no audiance, and if it weren’t for some weird David Horowitz freak out, we would never have heard of him, ever. The right’s claim that he somwhow speaks for us is absurd. Also, he’s a flipping nutjob.
Coulter, to be fair, has one cohesive point to make: LIBERAL EVILEVILEVILEVILEVILEVIL!!!!!! She makes this point at every opportunity. Coulter could find a way to say that liberals are evil in a review of the Care Bears movie.
Dang, she a freak yo.
Comment by Ross A Lincoln — April 18, 2005 @ 3:05 pm
somwhow, of course, is from the original Latin for “Spelling Bee”.
Comment by Ross A Lincoln — April 18, 2005 @ 3:10 pm
What is more odd than (M)Ann was John Cloud’s windy, wordy, stilted, and plainly lazy story, in a national news magazine accused of being, “An important source for information.”
I winder if cloud was trying to tell us, in a very subtle way, that Coulter is a vacuous, intellectualistic, but nonetheless shrill, self-shilling tout?
Comment by Sal Marelli — April 19, 2005 @ 9:20 am
“Eugene V. Debs: Is He Serious, or Just Having Fun?”
or really,
“Karl Rove: Is He Serious, Or Just Having Fun?”
Comment by Joe — April 19, 2005 @ 1:49 pm
Although I’ve had my doubts about TIME’s ability to maintain the integrity and standards through the years, it’s clear that Henry Luce’s editorial conservatism has survived intact.
How a major news magazine could even consider a cover story on Coulter is puzzling. As the rightwing nutjob O’Reilly asked recently, who does she influence, anyway?
Coulter reminds me of nothing more than the demon-possessed child in The Exorcist, who pisses herself at her monther’s cocktail party. All that adult attention, and for what?
Comment by Jon Koppenhoefer — April 20, 2005 @ 1:02 am