Not so King on Coulter
Writing by treason on Friday, 28 of July , 2006 at 7:09 pm
“You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.”
– Dorothy Parker
So I was just saying that I don’t check my mail as often as I used to because mail, in general, has become less enjoyable. I’d mentioned that at one time I practically staked out my mailbox - and one reason I used to do that was Florence King. When Miss King had the last page of National Review all to herself, I couldn’t wait for the new issue to appear in my box.
Well, maybe that old feeling will return - I’ve noticed that her columns have been appearing in the magazine again. And, as Martha Stewart would say, it’s a very good thing. I’ve said here before how much I adore Florence King, and her article in the new issue of NR reminds me again of how much I’ve missed her. Miss King appreciates the likes of Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker and recognizes their brilliance and wit. I suspect, if the pair were still alive, Florence would be on par with Wilde and Parker in any situation, yet I wouldn’t be surprised if the two started grating on her nerves after a while and she was forced to whittle them down to stubs.
Florence’s fuse is a short one. She hasn’t the patience to put up with crap, and frankly she shouldn’t have to. But then what would she write about? We need Florence to be subjected to crap.
Her subject this time is Ann Coulter. Ann’s been skewered by just about everyone, but you haven’t really been skewered until you’ve been skewered by Miss King. It reminds me that Ann has been appearing quite a bit on FOX News lately. Every time I hear that Ann is coming up after a break (a “whoosh!”, as Miss King submits in her article), I can hear T somewhere in the house, groaning:
“Oh, no-o-o-o-o! Not Ann Coulter again! God, I hate her!!!”
I’ve recently discovered that T hates Sean Hannity, too, and it doesn’t help that Ann is on Hannity & Colmes a lot. He insists there’s something going on between Sean and Ann because he can’t see any other reason why she’s become a fixture on the program.
She appeared on Cavuto’s show the other day, and T almost lost it. He went off on some tirade about product placement and how he wouldn’t be surprised if Ann started sporting FOX logo tattoos all over her body. Ann likes to bare her arms, so to speak, and T even has an issue with that.
“So is that intentional?”
“Is what intentional?”
“That. Her bare arms. Her hair covering the straps on whatever’s she’s wearing. It makes her look like she’s naked under all her hair. Is she supposed to look naked? Is that intentional?”
I think T suspects the boys at FOX are overly smitten with Ms. Coulter. In contrast, the “boys” at NR were not as infatuated, true; but I know crushes like this in the media are fleeting and the bloom will be off this rose faster than you can say Claudia Schiffer.
Sure, I prefer the styles of Florence King, Peggy Noonan, and Laura Ingraham - all very different in their points of view and delivery systems - but I cannot jump on the Coulter-bashing bandwagon.
Why bother when Florence King has apparently said all there is to say on the subject?
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