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[khirkhib]

OK this is on at a couple places online. IN CAPS are the USA Today comments.

Banned In Boston!
The Ann Coulter Column Too Hot for USA Today to Print
by Ann Coulter
Posted Jul 26, 2004

Ann Coulter, the witty, vivacious HUMAN EVENTS columnist and best-selling author, was hired by USA Today to offer commentary about this week's Democratic National Convention, but her first column was summarily rejected late last night.

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

Interestingly, in a sort of package deal, USA Today plans to have Michael Moore offer commentary at the Republican National Convention next month. "My guess is they will `get' his humor" said Coulter. We agree.

Below is the Coulter column, in full, that caused all the ruckus. Coulter says: "Examples of their specific complaints are in 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...

Put the Speakers In a Cage

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.

[freedomburns]

Whatta freakin' wing nut.  

On the fringe of the fringe, girl.  

Take a pill or something.

[Smash255]

She is a psycho.  Hope you don't mind, but I did a copy and paste and posted this nonsense or another board

[khirkhib]

Hey I copied it from somewhere else too.  I can't wait until somebody votes for one of my prefabricated conservative lines.  I'm trying to help them out because really neo-cons are big advicotes of the first amendment.

[MODU]

Didn't read it (nor your long article about it).  I don't pay attention to most of the Right/Left wing wacko's . . . which pretty much eliminates all media.  hahaha

[??????????]

Go Ann Coulter! Smash those liberal socialists!

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Go Ann Coulter! Smash those liberal socialists!

You approve of that lunatic?!

[??????????]

Go Ann Coulter! Smash those liberal socialists!

You approve of that lunatic?!

I agree with her views on McCarthy.

[The Dowager Mod]

nutjob.

[jacob_101]

Wow, she really has gone off the deep end.  Too bad, I used to like her...but that's ridiculous.

[Reds4]

She is a little too far to the right, but I agree on many things. She looks pretty good as well.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

OK this is on at a couple places online. IN CAPS are the USA Today comments.

Banned In Boston!
The Ann Coulter Column Too Hot for USA Today to Print
by Ann Coulter
Posted Jul 26, 2004

Ann Coulter, the witty, vivacious HUMAN EVENTS columnist and best-selling author, was hired by USA Today to offer commentary about this week's Democratic National Convention, but her first column was summarily rejected late last night.

I'm confused...Ann Coulter wrote an article about her banned column, where she talks about herself in the third person..incuding describing herself as "witty and vivacious"?   That seems bizarre even for her.

[Gustaf]

I hadn't realized Ann Coulter was such an idiot...I thought she was funny, at least.

How anyone could pay to get that into their paper is hard for me to fathomize...I can understand that Republicans, at least stupid ones, could get some sort of kick out from reading it, but the rest of us won't.

I would even venture to say that Michael Moore is slightly better. Even though he's a partisan nut-job as well, the few things I've seen from him have been a lot funnier.

[ATFFL]

If you hire Ann to write a column, you have to know you are going to get something like this.  She's highly partisan and uses hyperbole, satire and sarcasm to make her points.  It would be like getting Michael Moore to write about the RNC and expecting something other than vitriolic hate.

Whatever you think about her politics, she is right in her argument with USA Today.  They should have known what they were getting and expected a partisan column with anti-Dem satire.  

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

If you hire Ann to write a column, you have to know you are going to get something like this.  She's highly partisan and uses hyperbole, satire and sarcasm to make her points.  It would be like getting Michael Moore to write about the RNC and expecting something other than vitriolic hate.

Whatever you think about her politics, she is right in her argument with USA Today.  They should have known what they were getting and expected a partisan column with anti-Dem satire.  

This article was way over the line even for a humor piece.  Can you imagine a major newpaper actually publishing this sentence?:

"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 can't ever remember Michael Moore publishing anything as personally mean-spirited toward and entire class of people.

[ATFFL]

If you hire Ann to write a column, you have to know you are going to get something like this.  She's highly partisan and uses hyperbole, satire and sarcasm to make her points.  It would be like getting Michael Moore to write about the RNC and expecting something other than vitriolic hate.

Whatever you think about her politics, she is right in her argument with USA Today.  They should have known what they were getting and expected a partisan column with anti-Dem satire.  

This article was way over the line even for a humor piece.  Can you imagine a major newpaper actually publishing this sentence?:

"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 can't ever remember Michael Moore publishing anything as personally mean-spirited toward and entire class of people.

Yes, I can see that.  Ann used to get stuff like that printed all the time.  The people at USA Today had to know what they were going to be getting.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

If you hire Ann to write a column, you have to know you are going to get something like this.  She's highly partisan and uses hyperbole, satire and sarcasm to make her points.  It would be like getting Michael Moore to write about the RNC and expecting something other than vitriolic hate.

Whatever you think about her politics, she is right in her argument with USA Today.  They should have known what they were getting and expected a partisan column with anti-Dem satire.  

This article was way over the line even for a humor piece.  Can you imagine a major newpaper actually publishing this sentence?:

"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 can't ever remember Michael Moore publishing anything as personally mean-spirited toward and entire class of people.

Yes, I can see that.  Ann used to get stuff like that printed all the time.  The people at USA Today had to know what they were going to be getting.

In what paper?

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

If you hire Ann to write a column, you have to know you are going to get something like this.  She's highly partisan and uses hyperbole, satire and sarcasm to make her points.  It would be like getting Michael Moore to write about the RNC and expecting something other than vitriolic hate.

Whatever you think about her politics, she is right in her argument with USA Today.  They should have known what they were getting and expected a partisan column with anti-Dem satire.  

This article was way over the line even for a humor piece.  Can you imagine a major newpaper actually publishing this sentence?:

"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 can't ever remember Michael Moore publishing anything as personally mean-spirited toward and entire class of people.

Seriously.  To her, liberals are sub-human.  She's no better than a Nazi.  

[ATFFL]

If you hire Ann to write a column, you have to know you are going to get something like this.  She's highly partisan and uses hyperbole, satire and sarcasm to make her points.  It would be like getting Michael Moore to write about the RNC and expecting something other than vitriolic hate.

Whatever you think about her politics, she is right in her argument with USA Today.  They should have known what they were getting and expected a partisan column with anti-Dem satire.  

This article was way over the line even for a humor piece.  Can you imagine a major newpaper actually publishing this sentence?:

"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 can't ever remember Michael Moore publishing anything as personally mean-spirited toward and entire class of people.

Yes, I can see that.  Ann used to get stuff like that printed all the time.  The people at USA Today had to know what they were going to be getting.

In what paper?

Not sure, she sure isn't in mine.  She was syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.

She is clearly an off the cliff far righter, but USA Today had to know that.  This site does analysis of partisanship in the media.

http://www.lyinginponds.com/index.html

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I call Godwin's law on you.

[classical liberal]

Coulter is stupid.  Some of the sarcasm is funny but she's about as productive to our society as Michael Moore: not at all.  The rant about fascist pigs was a bit illucid and while there is a slight right bias in USA Today, they did have a valid point about her ranting rather than contributing to our society.  On the whole, Michael Moore and Ann Coulter should both be shot.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

If you hire Ann to write a column, you have to know you are going to get something like this.  She's highly partisan and uses hyperbole, satire and sarcasm to make her points.  It would be like getting Michael Moore to write about the RNC and expecting something other than vitriolic hate.

Whatever you think about her politics, she is right in her argument with USA Today.  They should have known what they were getting and expected a partisan column with anti-Dem satire.  

This article was way over the line even for a humor piece.  Can you imagine a major newpaper actually publishing this sentence?:

"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 can't ever remember Michael Moore publishing anything as personally mean-spirited toward and entire class of people.

Yes, I can see that.  Ann used to get stuff like that printed all the time.  The people at USA Today had to know what they were going to be getting.

In what paper?

Not sure, she sure isn't in mine.  She was syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.

She is clearly an off the cliff far righter, but USA Today had to know that.  This site does analysis of partisanship in the media.

http://www.lyinginponds.com/index.html

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I call Godwin's law on you.

I agree USA Today should never have hired her.   She is given way to much credibility by the mainstream media.

[Jake]

I agree Coulter is extremelly partisan but that line about Kucinich running the 7-11 was so true.

[Inverted Things]

actually, I think that Ted Rall is the liberal equivalent of Ann Coulter, and Michael Moore the equivalent of Rush Limbaugh

[opebo]

Hilarious!  I love the stuff about the hirsute females.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

If that column was typical of Ms. Colter, I can't understand why the McPaper contracted with her in the first place.  The humor mostly wasn't funny and was entirely childish.