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...course, the political pundit infamous for saying things like this: “By the age of fourteen, you’re either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.” A refreshing alternative to left-wing comedian Al Franken ’73, she is also more audacious and outrageous than Franken—and that’s why I am smitten. Coulter chastises letter-writers to the New York Times for being “in full-dress sanctimony,” lambastes Deaniacs as “self...
...feminists, be assuaged: My crush on Coulter is less a product of my partiality for blondes than of my admiration for her insight tackling complex constitutional issues and solidly researching points that might at first seem only luridly provocative. (Her best-selling book Slander has over 700 endnotes, as Franken dutifully points out). My crush, platonic as it might be described, is a real-life refutation of the bitter complaints surfacing every so often in The Crimson—all alleging that Harvard women can’t get dates because men, the cretins, are intimidated by a woman?...
...time, some remarked on how this reminded them of other religious zealots who took offense to nudity and to statues—the Taliban came to mind, though in all fairness they preferred blowing up statues to covering them—while others, such as Al Franken, pointed out that another possible use of the money might be more urgent: fighting terrorism...
...Franken Beer Ahead of E.U. rules requiring the labeling of GM foods from April, a Swedish brewer is testing consumers' stomachs for biotech produce with a lager brewed with GM corn from Germany...
That doesn't mean the enmity is an act, though. The other common theme of most angry pundits is other angry pundits (hypocrites!), and the showdowns have got ugly. At a publishers' luncheon last summer, Franken goaded O'Reilly for wrongly saying his former show, Inside Edition, had won Peabody Awards; O'Reilly called Franken an "idiot" and told him to "shut up." But a rising bile lifts all boats. Franken's book is in its 12th week on the Times best-seller list; O'Reilly's Who's Looking Out for You? is in its seventh...