Finally!

Croooow Blog brings our attention to Kausfiles - which we do check once in a while. (But thanks! We overlooked it.) The Mickster has gotten around to adressing Ann Coulter's "bomb the New York Times" remark. Only three months late! It all started around August 22, and here at uggabugga we bashed Kaus for not speaking up. As far as we can tell, this is the first time since then that he's made any comments about her. Interestingly, he makes his observation in a post that is Coulter-friendly. Here's what he said: (emphasis in original)

Ann Coulter has five suggestions for reviving the Democrats in a sarcastic swipe that is clarifyingly vicious (e.g. "[T]here is still plenty of room to curry more favor with the teachers' unions"). The Democrats may actually take her up on point #4. ... While I can almost never agree completely with a Coulter column -- she's not really trying to convince anyone -- there is also some truth in the following:

Of the three Democrats arguably responsible for the election fiasco – Terry McAuliffe, Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt – surely the least culpable was Gephardt, the original phony "NASCAR Democrat." But picking up on the Clinton strategy of blame the innocent and promote the guilty, only Gephardt resigned.

Necessary disclaimer: I don't think she should have made that joke about Timothy McVeigh and the New York Times. [Still, canny of you to wait until Media Whores Online had closed down before posting this item-ed] 10:57 P.M.

So, Kaus likes to read commentary that is "clarifyingly vicious". Here is a selection of Coulter's sparkling wit that presumably amuses Kaus:

• First, the Democratic Party needs to have a lot more anti-war rallies in which Jesse Jackson embraces Ramsey Clark and liberals go around calling one another "comrade." The public cries out for the opinions of doddering old Stalinists in berets.
• Democrats need to start demanding one teacher, one teacher's assistant, one backup teacher's assistant and one auxiliary backup teacher's assistant for every student. Instead of a ratio of 20 students to 1 teacher, they should insist on .03 students for every teacher.
• Everyone knows Democrats haven't the first idea how a squirt gun operates, much less complicated missile technology.

Impressive! That certainly would have wowed them at the Algonquin roundtable. Step aside, Oscar Wilde! Pack you bags, Noel Coward. There's a new wag in town.

OBSERVATION: Kaus posted his remarks about Coulter in an entry dated Friday, November 15, 10:57PM. For the subsequent 72 hours we can't find any comments in the Fray section about Coulter or Kaus-on-Coulter. Perhaps nobody cares anymore about what Mickey has to say.

That sounds right.

posted by Quiddity at 11/19/2002 10:45:00 PM