Coulter gets skewered by the WALL STREET JOURNAL!

[mainer]

I just read it in the print version of today's WALL STREET JOURNAL. The website isn't free, so I can't provide a link. It's on the editorial page, and written by Dorothy Rabinowitz, a member of the WSJ's editorial board. She critiques Coulter's new book TREASON with a faintly sarcastic tone, expressing disbelief that Coulter could defend Joe McCarthy.

An excerpt:

"(the book) ranges from the martyrdom of Sen. McCarthy - without whose great fortitude and perspicacity in exposing the Communist menace, we might, Ms. Coulter suggests, all now be in the gulag -- to such matters as the Hollywood blacklist and the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, which in fact had little to do with McCarthy. Here Ms. Coulter pauses to reflect on the whining of those on the blacklist, all of whom she mocks as prosperous exiles racing happily around Europe with rich friends and having a good time. In Ms. Colter's version of this history, of course, the blacklisted are only the rich and resourceful -- a history that doesn't include the countless people destroyed because their names had popped up on some list of alleged Communists or fellow travelers, or sounded like a name on one of those lists. People like the actor Phillip Loeb, for example, unemployable and ultimately driven to suicide because he could no longer pay the bills for the care of a mentally ill son..."

It looks like Coulter's sunk so low that even the rightwing WSJ can't stand her now.

[CatWoman]

1. link

http://www.opinionjournal.com/medialog/?id=110003713

[mainer]

3. Thank you catwoman!

I'm glad someone knows how to find this stuff online!

[CatWoman]

5. anytime

:hi:

actually I get a lot of this crap emailed to me.

It's a free service, via the WSJ.

[trof]

19. read the comments

about the article.
Lotta Kool-Aid drinkers out there.
whew

[Jack The Tab]

2. That is truly astonishing...

But then again, this book is just so over the top, no one with a shred of integrity can defend it, or worse, praise it.

Hopefully this is the death knell for the McCarthy protege.

[Skittles]

4. I agree

if Ms. Coulter ever had even a shred of creditibility, she lost it with this insanity.

[Walt Starr]

11. The MSRNC whore was praising Ann the other day

:puke:

[Trajan]

14. Joe's Ho ? ...

..... Somehow, it fits ....

[kskiska]

20. She made a big mistake

by writing this book. Her other books have dealt with her usual diatribes and dirt. This time she messed with factual material and is in way over her head. No reputable reviewer can take this stuff seriously. This is the beginning of the end for her, I hope. All she needs now is to have a Michael Savage Moment on TV and she's through.

[RedSox02]

6. Savage fired, Coulter skewered

It is obvious that the right is trying to gain total domination of both government and public debate. See Delay's shananigans, and the Bush Adminsitrations policies. Coulter and Savage are two examples of extreme right wingers testing the waters. They believed public opinion was now on their side so it was safe for them to spew whatever they wanted. Unfortunately for them they are turning the tide back in favor of the left. However they serve as great examples of how twisted and dangerous the right really is.

[izzie]

15. Maybe they should put the finger in the air once more to test???

I am not so sure, but that the wind is coming in from North of where it was.

[MoonAndSun]

7. The WSJ Editorial Board is so rightwing it is not funny,

they are only dissing mAnn Coulter because they don't want to be seen as rightwing as they truly are. I don't believe anything that comes out of their mouths is truthful.

But any slapping down on mAnn Coulter is ok in my book.

[bluestateguy]

8. Uggh!! That LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS again!

Damn tye dyed tree huggers and commies at the Wall Street Journal!

[West Coast Democrat]

9. On the topic of Ann Coulter...

this is funny! In her latest OpEd piece she mentions a "lyingly smeared" Hoover! A coincidence!?

"Hoover is maligned for having been a mad spymaster and is lyingly smeared as a cross-dresser -- by people who admire cross-dressers."


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030704/51/4l28s.html

[trogdor]

26. That was a hoot!

I wrote up three single-spaced pages of Word on that particular op-ed, in which I completely skewer AC and her "heroes." I then emailed it to earlg. Perhaps you find it on the front page one day soon. It was delicious.

[Merlin]

10. Abundant ridicule.

...
"She also thanks her publisher for his bravery--a suggestion that it took courage to publish this work. Here we are, only up to the acknowledgments page, and already enjoying a laugh. True, at one point a book representing the Democrats as the party of treason, and Sen. McCarthy as one of the greatest heroes of the age, might have given some publishers pause. Not today--the era that has put its money on outrage merchants and shock jocks."

[BurtWorm]

12. Did the WSJ sic a woman on Coulter

so they wouldn't be called girly boys?

[annagull]

13. HaHA--looks like Dan the Man left out a little something

in her fawning praise of McCarthy--Nazi sympathizer:

Ms. Coulter's work includes an admiring if brief biography of McCarthy's political career. One that for some reason excludes the senator's remarkable efforts on behalf of the members of the SS battle group who executed 86 American POWs in the Ardennes campaign in December 1944; otherwise known as the Malmedy Massacre. In his impassioned efforts on behalf of the accused--one never to be repeated in his investigative career--the senator charged that the U.S. Army had cruelly mistreated the former SS men. http://www.opinionjournal.com/medialog/?id=110003713

last paragraph.

[rasputin1952]

23. WOW....

McCarthy actually defended Nazi's, especially those involved in the Malmedy Massacre?!!!! I guess he really did hate Commies, he found allies in the SS...they hated Commies too.

As for those SS troops being 'mistreated', they should have been thankful they were alive after that.

[roughsatori]

16. Conservative Rabinowitz pans Coulter in the WSJ?

Very nice indeed. I must give Dorothy much credit for the tone and quality of the writing in this review.

[kskiska]

17. If you liked the article, you'll love the Freeper comment on it

I've had this up in Editorials.

It's strange to see that perhaps Coulter doesn't have all that many fans after all. Once someone dares to challenge the cult of Coulter worship, others jump on board to confess their doubts, also. One even said that she bought Ann's book, but that it's sitting on the coffee table unread, as a conversation piece for when liberals visit. Others are staunch defenders to the death.

more…
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/941446/posts

[Barney]

18. She's Such a Nutcase. . . . .

. . . . that even her fellow nutcases on the right are distancing themselves from her.

Her major PR campaign to get on TV to promote her book is having the unintended (but welcomed, in my view) consequence of damaging her for the future. Only the far, far right wing will pay attention to her going forward.

[robbedvoter]

21. Prosperous exilees? It wasn't just Hollywood on the black lists

Thousands of teachers were subjected to the same witchhunts as the celebrities. Of course in Ann-the Man's world that did not register.

[alaine]

22. Janis Ian's father.

Janis Ian sang "at seventeen", and "society's child", I don't remember exactly when they were hits, late sixties, early seventies. She released an album in the past year or so, and in doing some of the P.R. she talked about finally getting her files from the F.B.I and how these events had affected her family and her father's life, because he was a teacher, and was blacklisted. She said he always got jobs, but at the end of the year he would never get a contract, and so they would always end up having to move, AGAIN. She said gardening was her father's passion and that all he wanted his whole life was to own a house so that he could have his own garden to harvest every year, yet thanks to the events Coulter misrepresents, Janis Ians father NEVER got teaching contract and he NEVER got to own his own home and he NEVER had his garden. So fuck you Ann Coulter.

[rasputin1952]

24. I went over to the Dark Side at FR...

and have read the posts there.....many of these people are so stupid, I'm surprised they didn't break their crayons writing about how great McCarthy and Coulter are.

The very idea that George Marshall would harbor Communists in the Army or the gov't is beyond belief. Marshall was a brilliant man with many great gifts, not the least of these, an astute political knowledge.

McCarthy was a drunk, that was not going to be re-elected, and he used his blank sheets of paper to impose a fear upon the nation, and secure his place in history as one of the greatest morons that ever served in the Senate.

Coulter, is no better; but fortunately, she is not a Senator.

[TheBigGuy]

25. Dont tell me they are going after Gen. Marshall

The Marshall Plan guy?

The Freepers on him as being soft of Communists. What did they think the Marshall Plan was about.

Man these guys are real ninnys.

[julka]

27. somebody linked the spinsanity review elsewhere....some quotes:

Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant. Fifty years of treason hasn't slowed them down. (p. 16)

"Liberals spent most of the war on terrorism in a funk because they didn't have enough grist for the anti-war mill. They nearly went stark raving mad at having to mouth patriotic platitudes while burning with a desire to aid the enemy." (p. 14)

"Unable to root for al-Qaeda openly, Democrats lodged surly objections to the Bureau of Prisons for listening to the conversations of prison inmates suspected of plotting terrorist attacks." (p. 267)

just a few samples. did ANYbody who had her on their shows read stuff like this?

http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20030630.html

even andrew sullivan has this to say about the creature; though he misses the mark by a parsec when trying to compare her sludge to MM.

"Part of me likes Coulter's iconoclasm, panache, smarts. But you still have to draw the line somewhere; and, in my view, she damages conservatism as much as Michael Moore damages liberalism. It's one thing in spirited debates to lose civility at times; it's another thing to make a lack of civility your fundamental modus operandi."