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People say that Jon Stewart has blurred the line between news and humor, but his Daily Show airs on a comedy channel. Coulter goes on actual news programs and deploys so much sarcasm and hyperbole that she sounds more like Dennis Miller than Limbaugh. Consider an exchange on Fox News in June 2001 with Peter Fenn, a Democratic strategist. At the time, Barbra Streisand had suggested that Californians practice more conservation, to which Coulter responded...
...cable-news channel asked Coulter to audition for a spot as a commentator. She appeared on MSNBC its first day and quickly became one of its most loved and hated contributors. A few months later, she began writing for Human Events, among the oldest conservative publications in the country. (Coulter jokes in How to Talk to a Liberal that the journal "had to break a half-century 'no girls' rule to hire me.") In 1998, John Kennedy Jr. asked her to write a regular column for George...
...troubles with MSNBC only freed her to appear on CNN and Fox News Channel, whose producers were often calling. In 1998, Coulter was one of the first pundits to argue forcefully that Clinton should be impeached; she helped lead the charge by writing High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, which became a best seller. When reporters asked David Schippers, the House Judiciary Committee's chief investigator, for a "road map" to the impeachment inquiry, he told them, "Read Ann Coulter's book...
...every damn time I finish listening to the song, I experience the same horrifying prophecy. I see it becoming the opening-credits music for some Disney Channel Original Movie about a skinny (but surprisingly buxom) white 12-year-old and her meaningless problems at Palo Alto Junior High. “Sweet lord,” I think to myself, “this…this isn’t ‘original!’ This isn’t ‘challenging!’ It’s glossy! It’s mass...
Perhaps no group has done more to dramatize the African anguish than Live Aid, which raised an estimated $70 million during rock extravaganzas in London and Philadelphia on July 13 that were broadcast to more than 1 billion television viewers. Live Aid plans to channel its funds into irrigation and other long-term projects. "Our concerts were trying to keep the starving alive," said Bob Geldof, the Irish rock singer who organized the events. "Now let us give them life." --By John Greenwald. Reported by Edward W. Desmond/New York and James Wilde/Addis Ababa