Fitz!
Jane!
Christy!
Roots!
Ned!

And TRex too *.g*!

“trivial and meritless as they are irresponsible”

Trivial. Meritless. And irresponsible.

Three words I would not throw around if I had published Ann Coulter.

I believe in boxing this is called “leading with your chin.”

These people should be deeply ashamed of themselves. I still can’t believe people who live in New York would publish such filth.

TRex!

Oh Trex, I’m all giddy with excitement. Trash the punk!

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! This is so very sweeeeeeet.

And even though she’s been offered the chance to defend herself, she has not. She either attacks on her critics or is silent. No defense. None.

Bwahahahahahahaha!

Christy Hardin Smith says:
July 7th, 2006 at 7:11 pm

Hey all — just wanted to pop in for a moment and say that tomorrow’s Pull Up a Chair thread will be some gardening and vegetable and fruit recipes. (Thought the vegetarians in the group might like a whole Saturday of recipes and chatting that they could use. And, frankly, I could use some more veggie recipes myself…) Can everyone pass it around to the late night crowd for me, if I’m already in bed by then? Thanks!

Bobby G trained us:

“Anne Coulter, republican pundit and spokesperson” and alleged serial plagerist . .

rinse . repeat.

“Ann Coulter, the Republican pundit who faced plagiarism accusations over her last book…”

Dare we hope that it really is her last book?

Great writing, Trex! Just glad I don’t drink tea this time of night, when you usually post.

BTW, what ever happened to her illegal voting issue? Oh wait…

“Forget it, Jake. It’s Florida.”

(And other headlines we’d eat a live kitten to see after this…!)

um, TRex, I don’t mean to go all sensitive on ya, but I could do without the geek-trick metaphors … or how about you make that a Banana Slug instead of a kitten, and piss off the UC Santa Cruz fans instead?

Okay, I’m with PZ Meyers on this one …

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyn.....post_3.php

“OK, many people seem to be picking up on Coulter’s plagiarism, Karl Mogel picks up on the overt sexism of Coulter’s remarks*, but there’s far too little discussion of the fact that Coulter’s book is a tissue thin collection of lies. Her understanding of science is negligible, and she’s simply parroting old creationist nonsense, but almost no one is pointing out that fact. Is science just too hard for the media? Shouldn’t the fact that she plagiarizes be a lesser sin than the fact that she is making stuff up?”

Actually, I think they’re both part of the same problem, but it’s interesting that the plagiarism might bring her down, and not the fact that she speciously dismisses evolution to appeal to her base readers. Unsurprising in our current clime, but remember … not only is she plagiarizing, she’s plagiarizing from reality-deniers!

But Trex we all know who really wants the coulter to seep back into the septic system?
She, whose name must not be spoken,
‘Valdemalkin’.
Who woulda thought it would come to this.
Good time for me to start a diary, my grand children will never believe this crap.

Wow, not only may this story bring down the Coultergeist, it might also drag a conservative publishing house through millions of dollars of litigation….Happy Friday, everyone!

“Always winter, and never Christmas.”

What a great line. Can I use it? It just gave me a really wonderful idea for a kid’s book, you know throw in some bratty kids, maybe an evil queen in homage to the Coulter, and, wait, I’ve got it, a lion to eat up the evil queen. Wow! I think I’m on to something here. Does anyone have the email address for Random House?

Oh, TRex, this is a magnificent post. I finally lost it at “Some people live on evil like Keith Richards lives on heroin! She may go on like this FOREVER!” Thank you. Gods I so hope she’s going down in flaming poo-smelling wreckage, like a mysterious smouldering bag on a doorstep.

I have an excerpt from Coulter’s next book detailing her trials and tribulations on the Mississippi river. Enjoy.

—————————————

YOU don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly — Tom’s Aunt Polly, she is — and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.

Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece — all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round — more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back.

The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it. She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn’t do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up. Well, then, the old thing commenced again. The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time. When you got to the table you couldn’t go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn’t really anything the matter with them, — that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn’t care no more about him, because I don’t take no stock in dead people.

Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn’t. She said it was a mean practice and wasn’t clean, and I must try to not do it any more. That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

I guess plagiarism is defined differently in commercial world. If you were a student, or researcher, Coulter’s, um, methods of reporting her in depth research would be, like major plagiarism. Which, since most people here were students at one time, or are now, is more of reminder than a revelation.

OT, but related to previous post, here is an interesting Soros Foundation site I found that tries to keep track of Iraqi government revenues, with focus on oil, of course. From what I have read so far, lots of genteel frustration and rage:
http://www.iraqrevenuewatch.org/

Sorry to go all OT on you, TRex, but I just saw this from the Times Online, UK:

“NED LAMONT has floppy hair, talks too fast and has inherited a fortune from a blue-chip Republican family of Wall Street financiers.”

Huh?

More snappy would be:

Ann Coulter, aledged plagiarist, …

Or

Aledged plagiarist Ann Coulter …

Exmples:

Today, aledged plagiarist Ann Coulter went on Meet the Press and did not answer questions regarding her book ‘Godless.’
(These quesions not necessary having even been asked)

Some people say Ann Coulter, the aledged plagiarist, supports Al Qaeda.
(Who? Oh, you know… some people)

Perfect segue into the weekend, TRex. God luv ya.

G’night, all.

Just flipped by the second screening of tonight’s O’Reilly Fuckter, he had on Wan Williams and some standard issue Republican broad discussing Little Miss Copycat. The gist that I caught was that Michael Moore is just as bad. So there.

BLOG POWER!

In response to #13 and PZ Meyers (who is, by the way, awesome), Al Capone was finally locked up for tax evasion. His diseased body then slowly fell apart.

yes yes yes all praise the rude one.

(Yo T, it’s “to wit,” not “to whit.”)

Nightcap–gotcher lullabye for the night right here. Blissful.

http://video.google.com/videop.....4656145640

BTW, Michael Behe is full of sh*t, and anyone that claims otherwise is either mentally retarded, or flat-out lying, or both. THAT, I know.

EPU’d from last thread re RFK, Jr on Charlie Rose (probably OT but think the link to the clip worth watching if you missed it):

Hugh,

Thanks for commenting on this. I too caught RFK, Jr. on Charlie Rose and was equally impressed. If anyone out there wants to watch it, Thursday’s show is till available at their website:

http://www.charlierose.com/

Fast forward to about the 35-minute mark and you’ll catch the interview with him. Really impressive - came across as informed, passionate, eloquent, and every bit the bulldog his Dad was….refused to let Charlie mitigate or water-down his statements about Iraq, the media, the criminality of the Bush administration, the stealing of the 2004 election in Ohio, etc., etc.

I’d never seen him before but had heard him frequently on his radio show and was really surprised at how much more effective he was on TV. His gravelly voice can sometimes sound weak or difficult to understand on radio - on TV his obvious passion and courtroom manner completely reverses this impression ….

I agree it would be great to get him to guest post here sometime.

Rude one!

Coulter will be harder to discipline on this: the reactionaries love her act, whatever it is and whatever it does for them. It will be interesting to see what the push back is and who is backing it. I guess whoever bulk buys the books will be part of it. I think that topic would be a very interesting contribution to the Buzz counterattack against this bad act.. er… I mean, serious and responsible discussion of her alleged, only alleged, and of which they have only found half a dozen or so examples, plagiarism.

Which reminds, me, WHERE can we find those SIDE BY SIDE comparisons of Coulters junk with the originals that I’ve read about. I’d like to see those. They should be all over the internet to encourage serious discussion of the allegations. Are they someplace on the internet?

JWR

The Times of London is owned by Rupert Murdoch and while it has supported Blair because Murdoch likes Blair it has been accused of becoming more conservative. Parenthetically, the Times New Roman font originated with them.

fartsinsleep, valdemalkin! lolol

Josh Marshall has a mini-late-niter of his own:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c.....php#008966

The Great Tunnel Terraists of 2006 turn out to be another “aspirational” group. I’m not sure if that term of art means that they’re wannabes or they simply suck. Or both.

Shouldn’t the fact that she plagiarizes be a lesser sin than the fact that she is making stuff up?

Oh, PZ has such charming views. C*****r’s ‘research methods’ are pretty obvious for anyone who has the ascetic self-mortification to ‘read’ her: she’s a cut-and-paste troll. The factchecking and subbing at these conservative outlets is famously thin. These books are made to sell and sell quickly (bulk purchases) and be quickly forgotten for everything other than their zombie lies, just like a fast food order that gives you nothing but indigestion.

The gist that I caught was that Michael Moore is just as bad. So there.

Yes, and he’s fat too. They must have forgot to mention that.

“When has that Coulter girl ever, ever, ever run from a camera? Either someone had just dashed her in the face with holy water and her flesh was still smoking and melting off her skull…”

You have such a way with words! Tis a gift.

I’m not gonna be able to think of AC without thinking of the Wicked Witch of the West “I’m melting, melting.”

No, really, I swear it’s “to whit”.

PlagiarAnnist or PlagiarAnn: The lying acts of a cruel and unfounded pundit.
Why doesn’t this surprise me? It’s so predictably right wing. Do whatever it takes to make the money and slit throats before anyone catches you in the act.
Go TRex, ManAnndler.

TRex - I just LOVE your posts!

And for a little OT - If you haven’t seen this image posted over at DU, it may give you inspiration for a future post.

My favorite caption:

“Mr Hastert, on your left you will see our Erectile Dysfunction research labs…Mr. President, to your right is our sandbox, go cart track and play equipment”

If that doesn’t get ya curious, nothin’ will. :o)

Ed Schultz is so fat, he isn’t fit to carry his own jockstrap.

O Supremely Rude One,

Yes, your point is taken (and I glommed onto your and Raw Story’s work from near Day One … thank you, thank you for pushing it). My only point is that every time we talk about her plagiarism from our side of the Reality Chasm, we need to add the P.S.: “and, oh yeah, and what’s she plagiarizing? She’s plagiarizing creationists.” Morally and intellectually lazy!

Ooh, Atrios links to Media Matters on the same!
http://mediamatters.org/items/200607070010

Heh.

Prairie Sunshine 27 - What an accomplished, rhythmic, and passionate juggler. Thanks!

Anne of a Thousand Nights

Off with her Head!

al-Scooter

Perhaps it should be called the GWOVT, the global war on virtual terrorists, or if that’s too heavy, maybe the WOW, War on Wannabes, or the WOOF, War on Overthetop Fruitcakes.

TRex, your Late-Nights have become one of my favorites.

Respectful Dissent @ 13. I was thinking the very same thing before I read your comment. Plagiarism is an interesting ethical lapse. But the dynamite about the book is that Ann Coulter doesn’t believe evolution occurred.

Guess she sees the counter-example in the mirror each morning…

Hugh - Same paper did a hit piece on Markos last weekend.

If anyone missed Peterr’s post here from this morning, go read it … then contrast that with Coulter’s whaddyacallit, not writing but whatever it is she does that gets in the pages of an alleged book with her name on it. Hmm.

Hugh, or maybe the G-What?

Anne of a Thousand Cribs

“Republican Plagiarist Ann Coulter’s allegedly best-selling alleged book was recalled today in humiliation by formerly respected publisher Random House.”

“trivial and meritless as they are irresponsible”

Classic non-denial denial, yes?

Finally, we’ve nearly run this wretched beast to ground, after having to put up with her beastly behavior for so long.

What I want to know: when are we going to go after the HIVE?? When are we going to figuratively load up the posse with a truckload of RAID, pitchforks and torches and some Molotov cocktails and go after the origin of this beast and her hive-mates like Malkin?

And I’d really like to know why there hasn’t been some more concerted effort on investigating the criminal element at work here; Coulter isn’t just a plagiarist, she’s a fraud. So are her litter mates like Michael McManus, Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher and probably more who’ve not yet been ID’d like the other four as plagiarists or payola recipients. This is a much bigger problem than it seems on the surface because they are all of them connected by a very few organizations — maybe just one — and they all get compensated in the same way.

It’s time to torch the hive.

(Nice work, TRex. Keep ‘em sharp.)

Nice work, TRex. Absolutely.

the last time ann ran from a camera, it was around the neck of a mexican immigrant in los angeles!

Coulter’s book is a tissue thin collection of lies…

That is a lie.

It is in fact quite thick and bulky and in no way appropriate for wiping yourself with, unless properly recycled (which will no doubt be the fate of the majority of the copies of her latest book). This bulk is what allows the work to be so thourghly saturated with statements made by other people. However, it does not allow for actual attributions. That would require an additional volume, which is normally reserved for the errata.

Also, Ann is not “simply parroting old creationist nonsense” — that is a complete mischaracteriszation of her writing style. ‘Parroting’ implies she may have actually typed something herself and have a detailed enough memory of the words to accurately reproduce them, albeit without having necessarily digested it meaning, without having to consult the original source. There is no evidence of this. At best we can assume she simply copies and pastes large swathes of text. Until it can be proven that none of these sources exist in a digital format, to say she even transcribed the words is a stretch.

It is also quite likely that any actual manual work was done by illegal immigrants hired as day laborers. It’s a well known fact that any exertion on the part of Ms. Coulter may stress her physique to the point of fracture. That, and she is a hypocrite.

Finally, it is not that Ms. Coulter does not understand “science,” it is simply that “science” does not sell. Outrageous, lunatic statements are far more marketable. Scienctific and factual content tend to dilute the efficacy and impact those sorts of statements have on the buying public. That is why anyone who wishes to interview Ms. Coulter must first sign a legal binding contract that obligates them to purge their remarks of anything resembling an established scientific fact. Also, they must treat her as is he is sane. And she gets to eat part of their soul, if they in fact still have one.

Respectful Dissent @ 8:46 pm (#13) - None of this should come as a shock to people who’ve been watching Coulter over the years. I remember reading an online critique of one of her books. The guy got tired of making corrections after one chapter, and no wonder. The thing was nearly as long as the chapter itself. I’ll try to find that article. Meanwhile here’s one on Slander:

http://www.anncoulter.blogspot.com/

For those who may be interested:

The original version of The Manchurian Candidate just started showing ten minutes ago on Turner Classic Movies.

I’m heading off to the sofa to watch now. Will be back later to read everyone’s snarkilicious contributions to this thread…

Potentially interesting factoid: nearly 100% of the plagiarized papers turned in to me by students are submitted by the 10-15% of my students who are business majors.

The other story here:

The blogs did it. The blogs are having a substantial impact on the national discourse. The pundits may sneer at us, but they don’t igore us. We ask the right questions, and next thing you know, CNN is asking the same questions with credit to the blogs. This is important.

New Random House subsidiary to publish future Coulter “works” to be called Random Hose?

Tryggth @ 46, actually, we don’t know what she really believes. She’s not dumb, and she’s obviously made it through some elite hoops of the American school system. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if before her rise as “shocking conservative pundit” she accepted, you know, science.

Her book is aimed at her base readers, and is light on reason, facts, honesty, and any other virtues because the point is to get people to fork over $15 to reinforce their own tribal identity. If you buy that she’s all about marketing, self-promotion and schtick, then I wouldn’t put massive, blatant hypocrisy beyond her as well. (Either that, or she really is the caricature she markets.)

TRex,

It is good of you to give The Rude Pundit credit for his role in tossing the holy water on the Coultergeist’s face with his revelations of her plagiarism. I salute The Rude One. His was the first blog I paid any attention to, and it gave me a good many laughs. After a while I got curious and started checking out some of the blogs listed on his blogroll. One of them was FDL, and I have been here ever since. I sort of got a Rude introduction.

It is good of you to give The Rude Pundit credit for his role in tossing the holy water on the Coultergeist’s face with his revelations of her plagiarism.

Well, typically the media outlets that are running with it are acting like they discovered it themselves. RP deserves mad props on this.

For Ned: “Ann Coulter’s favorite democrat, Joe Lieberman.”

For Jennifer (Granholm): Ann Coulter’s favorite republican, Dick DeVoss. She LIKES Dick.”

For Darcy: Ann Coulter’s favorite Cascade Mountain man, Dave Reichart. Ann Especially likes the REICH part of Reichart. Maybe other parts also..”

For Jon (Tester): Ann Coulter’s favorite Republican, Conrad Burns, or as Ann so lovingly calls him, Conrad “Rugburns!”

Even on Washington Week there was tlak of blogs and Gwen Ifil always flogs their website. But, of course, there was one of the reporters (whose name I unfortunately did not catch) who had to say he thought that blogs were overrated. I seem to remember many dinosaurs had a similar view of mammals. Look they’re small and hairy. Nothing to worry about, nope, no future there.

The flatulent raccoon, in repose at her tar pond abode

;>)

I seem to remember many dinosaurs had a similar view of mammals. Look they’re small and hairy. Nothing to worry about, nope, no future there.

Well, right-wing bloggers, you know, most of them are in night school trying to evolve a thumb.

Oh, wait. They don’t believe in evolution.

Respectful Dissent @ 61 -

Its $4.99 at NewsMax.
http://www.newsmax.com/adv/godless/

And yes, I suspect she doesn’t really (deep in her, eh-hem, heart) doubt that evolution occurred.

Just saw this posted at sfgate:
The publisher of “Godless,” the Crown Publishing Group, issued a statement saying it had reviewed the “the allegations of plagiarism” in her book and “found them to be as trivial and meritless as they are irresponsible.”

“As an experienced author and attorney, Ms. Coulter knows when attribution is appropriate, as underscored by the 19 pages and hundreds of endnotes contained in ‘Godless,’” Crown’s senior vice president and publisher, Steve Ross, said in the statement.”

Guess they’re willing to go to the line for her.

ACK!! DarkBlack!!

MY EYES!!

*Grabs wastebasket*

*HURL!*

“And yes, I suspect she doesn’t really (deep in her, eh-hem, heart) doubt that evolution occurred.”

Except perhaps as Trex notes, among her readers.

TREX: I crashed earlier and just woke up. I ran to my tube mill and sure enough, a post from TREX. Yowser. Great One.

And that, my tube stuffing amigoes, is how we know that this yarn really does have gams. I sense that the little case full of points we have seen thus far of Annie the Twig’s oral duplicity possibly will be just TREX hints at: the very slanty slant of a life size ol’ Pisa-leaner of a career tower. “Why, cc, why?” you ask, “What makes you imagine that this will be the real live once-and-for-all post that severs through her ebony, wicked empathy? Some people live on evil like Halliburton lives on disaster! She may go on like an ever ready battery!

Oh, please, darkblack. Don’t ever do that to me again!

Darkblack -

I’m sure Ms. Coulter would appreciate your efforts to improve her image, but please, think of the children.

Call me cynical but I believe there is an even darker secret behind the Coulter success story, and that is my suspicion that the “writer” we know as Ann Coulter is not a single person but a gaggle of ghost writers who labor in anonymity to come up with her most shocking, obscene, and borderline insane rantings for her to dish in her column and on TV.

At this time, I suspect Crown is very very nervous that all this will lead to outing Ann Coulter as not even Ann Coulter. I believe she is mainly a front for a cottage industry you can call “Ann Coulter smut journalism.”

So the supreme irony is that some of the plagiarism attributed to her may in fact be the products of some of her minions, but there is no way she can point the finger at them, for that would mean exposure to another lie, that she is not even Ann Coulter.

Absolutely too cool for school, gang. THE Robert Greenwald just dropped into the EPU Zone in the last thread to shout out to Jane here at FDL.

Awesome.

With that I wrap up my night, have to find a veggie recipe for tomorrow’s Pull up a Chair thread before I head out of town for another family event. Aloha kekahi i kekahi!

Also, my son goes to college (I was born very young) and he has to run his essays through www.turnitin.com to check it for plagiarism. Since the website is just for students Annie May not be allowed to use it. Maybe someone should set up shop and call it www.tubeitin.com?

While searching for that other article, I found this one by Aaron Barlow Lying All The Way about Coulter, Horowitz, et. al.

Let’s take the case of my favorite whipping boy, David Horowitz. What he does is no different, really, from any of the others, be they the swiftboaters or White House spokespeople. Horowitz is a smart man (many of these people are), too smart not to know the weaknesses of the “research” he presents in his books. He went to Columbia as an undergraduate and earned a Master’s at Berkeley. He has to know something about what real research is, but is satisfied with sloppy cut-and-paste in his books. Ann Coulter graduated from a top law school, so she knows, too, just what good research is.

This is related. I posted late in the Roger Simon Clown post below.

Roger L Simon, Johnsons “Pajamas Media” partner actually slipped Cheney’s “Atta met AQ in Prague” lie into his latest “Moses Wine” novel. Twice.

How about that for paying back your wingnut welfare masters?

Amazon “search inside” link included in below post. We discovered this blatant propaganda catapulting and believe it should get the derision it richly deserves.

http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2.....w-job.html

AirportCat @ 48

Thanks for the mention, but c’mon - this object in question does have covers and pages . . .

not a book I’m interested in reading, mind you, but it might keep the door open when I want a breeze to blow through.

Here is a nice piece in Editor & Publisher by a columnist who apologizes for having once said something positive about the Coultergeist:

http://www.editorandpublisher......1002727144

It’s good to see Coulter finally getting her comeuppance. For a long time know I’ve had my own name for her.

Since I first saw her on Politically Correct some years ago and heard her speak, I thought too myself what a bitch. She started talking and would not stop. The shit just kept running and running out of her mouth.

That’s when I gave her the name Diarrhea Mouth.
Once she oppened her mouth it was just like she had diarrhea and the shit would not stop flowing from her.

So is this Ann Coulter?

“Liberals, generally speaking, hate the war and hate Bush.”

Nope, it’s WaPo reporter Jim VandeHei. Thanks for the framing, Poolboi.

Agh, orangejumpsuit, you checked me short with that one and just before I clicked ShutDown, too.

That’s exactly my point. I suspect that the Hive is the origin for both Coulter’s and Domenech’s work, but I don’t have anything more than suspicions to go on just yet…although Domenech had been at Regnery with Malkin, and Coulter has also been published by Regnery. Regnery isn’t THE Hive, but it’s a portion of the Hive.

“Coulter’s publicist said she couldn’t appear on camera.”

She also can’t appear in a mirror!

Thanks also, Rude, for neurophius. We owe you one.

Peterr @ 80 “War and Peace” is a book. “Love in the Ruins” is a book. “Godless” is, as you implied, more likely a doorstop.

ejf — maybe that ubiquitous little black cocktail dress finally wore out, too…got nothing to wear to contain She-who-will-not-leave-breath-on-the-mirror while on camera. What a sad loss.

I meant the dress. Must have been made of a DARPA-engineered carbon nanotech fiber to withstand her…

TeddySanFran @ 9:47 pm (#83) - The lack of violence gave him away.

OT, possibly. Teddy–some more Jim VandeHei:

In an October 13 Washington Post article, staff writer Jim VandeHei reported as fact an allegation in great dispute — that former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV was sent to Niger in 2002 “at the suggestion of his wife….

In 1998, VandeHei broke the story that President Bill Clinton was going to be impeached…..

Jim VandeHei wrote this in 2005….The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, transformed Bush from a president focused mostly on domestic policies and politics into a wartime leader…

In Feb. 2006, Jim VandeHei wrote…Democrats are basically building their election strategy on the Abramoff scandal…

On Jan. 20, 2006 VandeHei wrote…As some House Republicans campaign to oust their scandal-blemished GOP leadership team, they are facing an obstacle back home. It seems many voters could not care less.

From a story by VandeHei and Peter Baker…From shielding energy policy deliberations to setting up military tribunals without court involvement, Bush, with Cheney’s encouragement, has taken what scholars call a more expansive view of his role than any commander in chief in decades. With few exceptions, Congress and the courts have largely stayed out of the way, deferential to the argument that a president needs free rein, especially in wartime.

Thanks, Teddy.

*smiley face*

ejf @85

Thank you for that! Should we be wearing garlic when we watch Fox News? Is that our problem….?

…my suspicion that the “writer” we know as Ann Coulter is not a single person but a gaggle of ghost writers…

I’ve always thought of her more as a thirteen member gestalt creature that feeds on death itself.

Be that as it may, I would agree that the idea that she actual authors these screeds in their entirety is doubtful. I suspect there are a lot of ‘interns’ involved.

In any case, the emphasis is most likely time-to-market and not content. It’s pulp fiction for the non-fiction set. The sort of errors that are being cited with the book probably are the result to rushing to meet a deadline, of trying to churn out the required number of pages before the date the printer needs it by so the book can be on the shelves by the time the media campaign begins. This last one in particular, with its publication date having been set to be a particular date (6-6-06) to tie in which its “theme” and a fairly large media campaign built up around it, probably relegated anything to do with the text itself to tertiary status.

But that’s probably just as well — the product being sold isn’t the book so much as it is Ann Coulter herself. It would be inetresting to do a test on comprehension from its readers (or its alleged author, for that matter) to get a sense of how far they actually get into these tomes.

One gets the sense the book is written by interns to be read by interns who find the best quotes for interview segments (if those are prepared ahead of time as part of the press kit). Now of course there’s an additional audience, computer programs that try to find instances of plagiraism. That must be a decidedly upwark tick in the level of sophiscation of her audience.

Huh. Colin Ferguson just did a bit on Bush in Chi-town where Bush is talking s-l-o-w-l-y as if impaired…still surprises me to see this stuff after so long without any criticism of Dubya on mainstream television.

And now I really, REALLY have to go to bed…

wesgpc at 31: TMP Muckraker has a list.

Bobdog @ 9:57 pm (#93) - My guess is that she takes nourishment from misery, too. Otherwise, I think you’re spot on.

Who left that Seeds video on YouTube in the last comment thread?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4Ge.....60’s

I remember seeing that when I was a little, little kid on the Mothers-in-Law and thinking it was prefectly normal to come home and find Skye Saxon and the Seeds playing in your living room and sit there with your parents and watch them. I just could not understand what we were doing wrong that it wasn’t happening to us because it really seemed like it would be a lot of fun.

why not write the mmm and give rude pundit his props?

Anne Coulter, lawyer, serial plagiarist and tertiary syphlis survivor….

tertiary syphlis survivor….

More like existential herpes.

You forgot the patch she wore over an eye (for piracy).

Steno Sue would like to tell you about the WH Abramoff logs:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....01317.html

We think it’s gassy! ~

hehe, I think this says it all…

narry a penny have i spent
ann just came and went
how many ways can you fluff shit
she’s a shit fluffer..
mister hinky owns that role
not annie..
she speaks as if she has a mouth full of tumble-turd balls (ole out house term)

“…couldn’t appear on camera.” Huh? Did Coultergeist forget to take her estrogen pills that day? The voice was a little too low, and she was lookin a little Gannon/Guckert-y, me thinks. C’mon…she’s a he…seriously.

some of this stuff is funny, but going from all Ann all the negative time to all Ned all the positive time to all Ann all the time negative is wasting time. Four weeks and four days to August 8, the biggest voting day of the summer. Stay awake, doggies……..

Is Ann Coulter really a real lawyer, or is she a law school graduate?

The J.D. is a just a degree, and speaks only to academic acheivement. Being a lawyer means actually practicing law, having clients, getting paid for the time you put in and the work and results you produce on the client’s behalf.

[for example, I still have the J.D. (earned it fair and square) but am no longer a lawyer]

Which is she?