Ann Coulter at Denison Univ -- She said what?

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<p>Let’s not forget her referring to an audience member that asked her a question as “gay boy.”</p>

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<p>Kluge,
I’m glad you appreciate the arch tone. It slips by those who are less erudite. Good for you.</p>

<p>I actually think that the quote you highlighted is pretty funny. I mean, it’s not great, it’s not Monty Python, or even Martin Mull. But it’s funny. For a really good radical Muslim parody, try this: <a href=“http://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/p.php?i=20060227&v=t&a=7650[/url]”>http://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/p.php?i=20060227&v=t&a=7650&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>A bully? You’re the one who likes to beat up on helpless little college girls on CC.</p>

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<p>OK, now for some serious discussion of my sister-in-arms, Ann Coulter. I agree with whomever it was who earlier said, essentially, that she is basically doing schtick. Absolutely. I think she’s taken it too far, because she is actually a very intelligent women, and a fine writer with a keen knowledge of politics and history. She has found the obnoxious brat/Cruella DeVille persona to be lucrative, and perhaps fun, but in embracing it so completely, she has also placed herself outside the realm of the serious. Which I think is too bad. Her exchanges with students when she speaks on campus are a case of dropping to their level of poor form, rather than elevating, but it’s got to be awfully difficult addressing a crowd where heckling, rather than discourse, is the custom. But, she is basically spoiling for a pie-fight. She’s smart enough that she could be more Scalia-like, but she chooses outrageous petulance, instead. Entertaining, at times, but not likely to have lasting effect. As much as I detest Al Franken, it’s probably a fair comparison, although I think she’s smarter, funnier, less genuinely bitter, and much thinner.</p>

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<p>Coulter has all the subtlety of a crowbar. Maybe she is funny from purely a Republican perspective, but I would say she is more scary than funny even to moderates.</p>

<p>Al Franken is far funnier and lower key. I would say he is the more Martin Mull of the two.</p>

<p>To me, the closest from a Liberal/Democrat perspective is Michael Moore. If I’m looking for a Republican humorist, I’ll take P.J. O’Rourke.</p>

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<p>“lower key” ??</p>

<p>Go to amazon and scroll down to his video trailer for “The Truth, with Jokes.” Lower key? I mean, it’s funny, but no crowbar. Bar stool and bottle, instead.</p>