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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

RE: Ann Coulter

My point was that Ann, in ccomparison to a real journalist...

But she isn't a journalist and has never claimed to be one, so what's the point of the comparison? I could say that compared to a real watermelon, you hardly have any seeds. It would be a similar comparison and just as ridiculous. She writes a particular style of punditry, that being bombastic commentary on liberal insanity. Why would you go looking for journalistic content? Do you read Hunter Thompson looking for objective reporting?

In doing so, she has no real credibility...

Hello, pot, have you met kettle? Until you offer substantive rebuttal, your credibility in criticizing Ann (or any other conservative for that matter) is exactly zero. So what was it you were saying?

...and no one other than those who worship her take her work seriously.

Dream on. At $40,000 per appearance, Ann is booked up for the next two years. She has four NYT bestsellers. She appears on at least one of the national television networks weekly and during election cycles, almost nightly. Quite a few people obviously take her very seriously.

Basically she just writes the same article over and over again.

As do almost all pundits from a very simple-minded point of view. What's your point?

Well, since there are only two parties that have any considerable power in this country, Coulter - by default - stooges for the Republicans.

There is no logic in that statement whatsoever, so I have relegated it to the semantic land fill.

...but she'll settle for being a well-paid cheerleader to those who vote Republican to vote against the 'liberal' enemy...

Interesting. I don't see too many cheerleaders who verbally rip the coach when he does something stupid that helps the other team. Of course that's why your "stooge" argument is nothing more than smoke.

You don't like Ann for some of the same reasons most people who don't inhabit the extreme left dislike Michael Moore. The important difference between Coulter and Moore is that Ann doesn't find it necessary to lie or to create issues from whole cloth. And you call it "liberal hate," but I think it's more like disgust. It's along the lines of watching a child who knows better, yet continues to do the same stupid things, over and over.

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