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...Vietnam a "bad," unwinnable war on national television in 1971; of bladder cancer; in Tijuana, Mexico. His 25-year military career included tours of duty in seven war zones, and he was said to have been the inspiration for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. More recently, as a TV pundit, he scorned the "perfumed princes" of the Bush Administration, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who he claimed "misunderstood the whole [Iraq...
Provocative pundit Ann Coulter regularly enrages the left and delights the right, so it was no surprise that our several thousand letters broke along similar lines. Some readers wondered why Coulter deserved the attention, while others saluted their favorite Republican pinup girl...
...began to wonder, in a moistly liberal formulation, whether Ann Coulter might be ... misunderstood? All her right-wing capering aside ("We've got to attack France!"), Coulter was an Ivy League--educated legal writer before she was a TV pundit. She's an omnivorous reader (everything from her friend Matt Drudge's website to the works of French philosopher Jacques Ellul), and she isn't afraid to begin a column on Bush, as she did in January, "Maybe he is an idiot." (The column pointed out that the most direct way to make abortion illegal would be ... to make abortion...
Some conservatives--many of them Coulter's rivals for screen time, as she points out--have also drawn their knives. "Ann's stuff isn't very serious," says a pundit who didn't want to begin a public spat with Coulter. "We have this argument every now and then among our side: whether she is a net minus or net plus to conservatism. I have come to the conclusion that she's a minus." Even fans speak of Coulter in ways that suggest some distance: "I think Ann is a brilliant girl, and she's got the quickest mouth...
...notion," wrote famed Pundit Walter Lippmann in the New York Herald Tribune last week, "is that when the American people finally arouse themselves to take action against lawlessness, one of the many things they will have to attend to is the practice of printing news which might interfere with the detection of a crime. I think I appreciate the importance of a free press. But I am quite unable to believe that the Press would be less free if some reasonable restraint were put upon its right to make instantaneous copy out of clues which are vital to the detection...