The most recent 20 comments posted to Electrolite by Julian DuBuque:

Avram, Coulter doesn't need to hide because no one is, or should be, taking her rantings seriously. She's the cotton candy of the right, cute and tasty to those of like mind, but you'll be hungry again 20 minutes later. She's a grade-C pundit! Not a single person in the world will fail university if they don't pay attention to her views.

How much face time on the media do you think Ann Coulter would get if she looked like Helen Thomas?

Coulter is a wonderful straw man for the left, but she is simply a dim red dwarf in an entire sky full of stars.

De Genova is supposed to teach people, and IMO even a kindergarten teacher is more important, and can have more influence than any pundit/talking head.

Enough for tonight, gotta walk the dog and go to bed... back to the salt mines in the morning.

JDuB

Patrick, you can think I'm saying shit all you want, but I still have to disagree with you on your opinion of Ann Coulter having a "substantial national audience". She's a grade C pundit/talking head who can attribute her number of TV appearances to her telegenic looks. If you think she has such a great following with the public, why doesn't she have her own TV show? If you're going to talk about a substantial national audience, you should be talking about Katie Couric, Larry King, Greta Van Susteren, Bill O'Reilly, etc.

Ann Coulter, with the exception of her good friend Bill Maher, is the 3rd guest, or token conservative on the end-of-the-show panel.

Granted, you won't hear her on Pacifica Radio or NPR, but she's not a regular on Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity either.

As for De Genova, he's a lot more than a single whacked-out anti-american speech, he's being trusted to teach students at Columbia! I don't think anyone has ever received a college grade on the rantings of Ann Coulter.

JDuB

Patrick, I think that your concern over the "evil" Ann Coulter is overstated. Despite your feelings about her, her influence on the general public is miniscule. She is obviously not to be taken seriously, and even those on the right consider her to be just shy of Pat Buchanan whacky, as demonstrated by her dismissal from National Review after her insane post-9/11 piece.

Do you consider her influence worse than that of Nicholas De Genova, a professor at Columbia who has stated, "The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military. I personally would like to see a million Mogadishus."?

Professor De Genova is in a position to influence the critical thought of thousands of young minds who take him seriously because of his place on the staff of a major university.

I don't claim to defend Coulter, but I don't think she's evil, she's just an idiot. As for Professor De Genova, he's as much an idiot as Coulter.

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