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To: JakeStraw who wrote (424211)	7/8/2003 12:43:33 PM
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On Savage/Coulter: After loads of negative publicity and thorough accounts of his disturbing past, MSNBC finally decided to pull the plug on Michael Savage after he called someone who telephoned into his Saturday TV show a "sodomite" who should "get AIDS and die." When MSNBC announced Savage's show in February, MSNBC president Eric Sorenson hailed the right-wing radio host as "brash, passionate and smart." On Monday, a spokesman for the flailing network, Jeremy Gaines, said of Savage: "His comments were extremely inappropriate and the decision was an easy one."(Associate Press) The gal that gives blondes a bad name just won't go away, and while our parents always told us to ignore bullies, it's mighty hard to do so when the chick is everywhere -- thanks to her wise and generous publishers. Yes, it's Ann Coulter and her book "Treason," which glorifies Sen. Joe McCarthy and damns all liberals as wimps and traitors. Here are some highlights of recent reviews: Salon's own Joe Conason weighed in on the Fourth of July: "So how appropriate it is that in the rapidly growing Ann Coulter bibliography, last year's bestselling 'Slander' is now followed by 'Treason,' her new catalog of defamation against every liberal and every Democrat -- indeed, every American who has dared to disagree with her or her spirit guide, Joe McCarthy -- as 'traitors.' And like a criminal who subconsciously wants to be caught, Coulter seems compelled to reveal at last her true role model. (Some of us had figured this out already.)" But it isn't only our own scribes who have come down rather hard on little Ann. Why, even the august Wall Street Journal has this, from Dorothy Rabinowitz, today: "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." (Wall Street Journal) But it's Andrew Sullivan who should get the last word, since he chastises her for not being a good conservative: "By making huge and sweeping generalizations about all liberals, Coulter undermines her own arguments and comes close to making them meaningless. If you condemn good and bad liberals alike, how can you be trusted to make any moral distinctions of any kind? And by defending the tactics of Joe McCarthy, she actually plays directly into the hands of the left." But Sullivan's lead is scary: "Few would dispute that she's a babe. Lanky, skinny, with long blonde hair tumbling down to her breasts, Ann Coulter has been photographed in a shiny black latex dress." If Ann's a "babe" then babe-itude has to be redefined. Someone call Austin Powers, quick. (Andrew Sullivan)