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To: Bill who wrote (100649)	4/7/2005 6:41:24 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

There are articles on the net from every part of Coulter's career criticizing her, and also pointing out line by line the inconsistencies and misrepresentations in her arguments. You are welcome to worship her if you want to, though. Jonah Goldberg is a lot more thoughtful than some rabid rightwingers. Occasionally I have come away from reading his stuff finding myself not totally repulsed.

To: Bill who wrote (100649)	4/8/2005 11:19:04 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I am curious as to exactly WHY you find Ann Coulter brilliant? You are quick to call racism in other instances, so why would someone like Coulter appeal to you? Did you think it was brilliant when she called reporter Helen Thomas "an old Arab?" Her syndicate thought it was offensive and edited it out of her column. Is this not something of a double standard? smirkingchimp.com Conservatives And The Right Barbara Ferguson: 'Ann Coulter's Arab-bashing reaches low with Thomas slur' Contributed by OceanLady3 on Thursday, March 03 @ 10:01:56 EST By Barbara Ferguson, Arab News WASHINGTON -- Arab bashing reached a new low in Washington last week when Ann Coulter, a loudmouthed, mean-spirited, pro-Bush columnist, decided to defend the White House press pass controversy over faux-reporter James Guckert (a.k.a. Jeff Gannon) by writing in her syndicated column: "Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president." Thomas, whose Hearst column is distributed by King Features Syndicate, is of Lebanese descent. The former United Press International reporter has been a journalist for nearly 60 years, and has covered every president since John F. Kennedy. She was the first female president of the White House Correspondents Association. Even her syndicators realized the gaffe. When Coulter's column was posted on Universal Press Syndicate's (UPS) website, someone edited out the race-based slur "that old Arab Helen Thomas," using instead: "that dyspeptic, old Helen Thomas." But the "old Arab" reference still appears the column posted on Coulter's website. Coulter was, perhaps, taking a cue from the White House, which has slighted Thomas several times since 2003. During a televised news conference, President George W. Bush deliberately snubbed several reporters he ordinarily calls upon, including journalists from the Washington Post, Newsweek, and USA Today. But the most conspicuous recipient of the Bush freeze-out was Thomas, who has barbed and grilled every president since Kennedy and almost always gets to ask a question. Bush pointedly ignored her. Bush then dealt Thomas a second slight. By custom, Thomas concludes White House press conferences at the president's signal by saying, "Thank you, Mr. President." Bush instead ended the conference with his own sign off, "Thank you for your questions," and killed a decades-old White House custom. Lastly, she was removed from her front row seat, and delegated to a back seat in the press choir. Is this treatment due to the fact that Thomas has been critical of the Bush administration? She has condemned the terror-fighting Patriot Act and slammed Bush's domestic and international policies. She also called the Iraq war "a violation of international policy under any circumstance," and said it is "immoral." But she has never been known to mince her words to any president. There has been disappointingly little reaction in defense of their colleague by White House journalists. In an article entitled "Lipstick Fascism," James Wolcott, a Vanity Fair contributing editor, writes: "I wonder what would happen if a writer, say me, were to refer in a Vanity Fair column to 'that old Jew Norman Podhoretz' or, naughtier still, 'that old Jewess Lucianne Goldberg.' "Through the magic of exaggeration, I can just imagine the commotion. Daniel Pipes and David Horowitz would blow their respective lids...petitions would file in to Vanity Fair demanding that I be fired, or, for penance, be forced to tour Auschwitz with Prince Harry. "Arabs of course are fair game on talk radio and the trash punditry, of which Ann Coulter is stringbean queen," says Wolcott. "Presumably Helen Thomas's very ancestry, about which I know nothing, makes her an incipient terrorist threat, though presumably commando call boy Jeff Gannon would have been coiled to pounce into action if the octogenarian made any sudden violent moves. Coulter's typically crass wisecrack is the cartoonish version of the hostile profiling of Arabs and Muslims being conducted all over the neoconservative right, as typified by Michelle Malkin's pioneer work to excuse the Japanese internment in order to justify the preemptive incarceration of Muslims and other suspicious elements. "I'm sure this sort of thing doesn't fluster them in the slightest. Conservatism and sadism have become indivisible," writes Wolcott. Arab News (c) 2005