by Kerry Marsala
July 30, 2004
Frankly speaking, I think anne Coulter and her sarcasm is a gas, but evidently the editors of USa Today don't get it. This is a prime example of censorship -disagreeing with someone's opinions and not offering anything constructive in editing requests that make sense, so we just insist on "going our own ways" to take care of it.
Sharp-tongued conservative writer, ann Coulter, was asked by USa Today to write comments on the DNC convention from Boston. Coulter offered her version of what she referred to as "The spawn of Satan convention," in Boston with her usual style of biting commentary. It's what Ms. Coulter does best and when her perceptions bite hard it would appear the Kool-aid drinking editors of USa Today pull the plug by stating, "It was just differences over editing of a fairly ordinary kind." Bull, I read the edit requests; the editors need a class in sarcasm 101. Several times in the edit requests made by the editors of USa Today it states, "Not funny," "I don't get it," "You sure lost me," and "Is that last sentence sarcastic?" That was the jest of the requests for editing changes. How is that editing or working with a writer to create clarity of thought?
I certainly don't buy into anderson's (USa Today) statement of desire to bring about, "a fresh approach to events that have largely become four-day commercials for political parties." If USa Today really wants "wry" columns that would appear under the heading "Crashing the Party," then for the Democratic National Convention you couldn't request anyone more wry than ann Coulter.
"Fresh approach," Ha-what bunk! Certainly the editors of USa Today did their homework on ann Coulter? Coulter is only a syndicated columnist and has sold nearly a million copies of her various works. Maybe USa Today's editor's need to get out of their printing offices once in awhile and read something else besides their own rag.
Did Coulter's article bite too close to the heart of the Democrats and their convention goers? The editor's of USa Today certainly wouldn't want to soil their newspaper with truths about Sharpton, Clinton, Kennedy, Kucinich, Gore, Clarke, the French and those protestor's locked up in the cage of the "truth free-zone."
How convenient it always seems to be for the far left to cry "censorship" (Ronstadt, Pearl Jam, Eminem, Michael Moore) when it comes to their strident portraits of american hatred, but when a conservative is censored it's justifiable and proclaimed to be, "not funny I don't get it." Perhaps USa Today's flatulence meters are about to burst from being to full of themselves. a good dosage of "Gas X" might take care of that.
USa Today has hired Michael Moore to write in "wry" style when the Republican National Convention comes to town. It will be interesting to compare Moore's strident and hate filled commentaries of the RNC and compare it to Coulter's censored take on the DNC. What will the humorless editors do with Moore's comments?
Wouldn't it be great if Moore showed up with a video camera to the Republican Convention? He can make another million off distortions and lies told the far-left liberal way. He could call the documentary- Conservatives: the Little Green Worm of the Big apple.
To read the complete article by ann Coulter, visit: www.anncoulter.org
(Kerry L. Marsala writes for www.americonservative.com, www.azconservative.org Opinion Editorials; assistant Editor of the GOPUSa/arizona; Independent Newspapers and is a regular contributor to Sarah's Seed Woman's Journal; Focus Magazine and The Truth Magazine. During the 80s Ms. Marsala worked as a freelance photojournalist for The Rock Revue and Newsreel Magazine. Writing about cultural, social and political ideologies by using a bit of satire every now and again helps keep her grey cells stirring. Her philosophy remains that no matter the event, you can always find a bit of humor or the human element of hope somewhere amongst the cracks.)
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