tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1373152433565591514.post1623777290957893392..comments2023-10-02T01:11:04.783-07:00Comments on Mahound's <br>Paradise: The 9/11 Column that got Ann Coulter Fired from National ReviewOakes Spaldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078500142758654392noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1373152433565591514.post-25528333615933881322016-09-17T15:37:16.276-07:002016-09-17T15:37:16.276-07:00Ann is pretty tame.
Carpet bombing is thinking to...Ann is pretty tame.<br /><br />Carpet bombing is thinking too small.<br /><br />We should be thinking nuclear genocide with some nerve gas to finish them off.telnethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10483183710745767708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1373152433565591514.post-51865826448389288972016-09-17T07:18:56.835-07:002016-09-17T07:18:56.835-07:00Yes; Imagine using Ethical Oil from North America ...Yes; Imagine using Ethical Oil from North America how even quicker than the Two Terms of the Oil Industry, American & European, proces collapsed when fracking quatrupled North American fuel.<br /><br />Just think How the complict Jonah was in the Word Change from Oil Sands to Tar Sands was used to support the Rockefellers; The Bush Family and George Soros' string pullers.<br />Do you really believe the Enlightenment Principle of North American Society provides Greater Ethical support for meeting the requirements of Sustainity of the Globe?---Me Too. Highland Fiddlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10328413408203286955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1373152433565591514.post-72914602424815274912016-09-13T07:15:18.356-07:002016-09-13T07:15:18.356-07:00I thought it ironic that I supported both Coulter ...I thought it ironic that I supported both Coulter and Derbyshire in their firings despite not being big fans of either. NRO does have a history of firing popular writers. Mark Steyn I think quit before Sterots could fire him. Only Florence King survived the 00s -but, she retired. I don't think the Florence King of the 80s or 90s would have survived in this milieu. <br /><br />Speaking of NR. I stopped subscribing to them after Sobran's firing. I rarely visit their online publicationJeromehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03626011064246752303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1373152433565591514.post-81398078963520481042016-09-12T19:27:29.926-07:002016-09-12T19:27:29.926-07:00Thank you. That's very interesting. I tend to ...Thank you. That's very interesting. I tend to think of Sobran as someone from a very different generation, but he was only 16 years older than Coulter. He died relatively young at 64, and I think he always looked older than he was. When I was reading him in the 1980's and 1990's I always imagined him as an old guy but he was only in his 40's. Oakes Spaldinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08078500142758654392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1373152433565591514.post-65381892372014913522016-09-12T19:08:04.462-07:002016-09-12T19:08:04.462-07:00Whether anachronistic or not, your use of “Islamop...Whether anachronistic or not, your use of “Islamophobic” was simply more precise than “racist” or “bigot” would have been, and appeared not out of place at all to me.<br /><br />As for your disagreeing with “that aspect” of Sobran’s politics, it seems worth noting that he made it easy to disagree with him based in no small part on his uncommon, beautifully clear style of writing. Would that Buckley had chosen only to engage him based on their respective political differences, rather than descend into innuendo and smear—a tactic more commonly associated with the Left. A least that’s how I have finally come to see it all these years after the fact. The tangle of complicating factors notwithstanding, it strikes me as a significant black mark on an otherwise admirable and distinguished legacy.<br /><br />Happily, it was reported that the two men reconciled before Buckley’s death in 2008.<br /><br />As this has devolved into a tangent (my apologies), let me close with an attempt to return to the original focus of the post by mentioning that Sobran happened to be a close correspondent with Ann Coulter, who credits aspects of her style to his influence.<br />http://humanevents.com/2010/10/06/not-your-average-joe/<br />Michael Sadowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03767805922789944035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1373152433565591514.post-16698989108569526182016-09-12T14:45:57.963-07:002016-09-12T14:45:57.963-07:00I am in agreement with every word Ann Coulter wrot...I am in agreement with every word Ann Coulter wrote in this column, but did not know she was fired for it. We can watch things go sour in our church, and that has been rough, but I have to say, it is far worse watching our nation cower in the face of Islam, being too polite and timid to state the obvious facts, and watch so many Americans just parrot liberal talking points. It's nothing but evil, on the part of this diabolical president, to fill this nation with Muslims, it's his parting shot. And all the people who support it, one man the other day telling me to not allow them in "is not who we are", the insane talking point of the jackass Obama and his kind...it's enough to make one go mad. There is a demonic malaise, intractable ignorance, or something, that is preventing people from seeing the obvious and definite results we can look forward to after we import the enemy by the thousands. What unmitigated and fatal foolishness.Kathleen1031https://www.blogger.com/profile/10201084623185206141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1373152433565591514.post-34765277425743851172016-09-12T14:37:27.067-07:002016-09-12T14:37:27.067-07:00Yeah. I was a subscriber then I remember agreeing ...Yeah. I was a subscriber then I remember agreeing with Buckley. (How could he be wrong in a three-part 30,000 word essay? :) ) I would still disagree with that aspect of Sobran's politics, but now firing someone for that seems, as you imply, cowardly and disloyal.<br /><br />By the way, it might have been more accurate for me to say that NR was worried about being perceived as "racist," rather than "Islamophobic." I'm not sure the term even existed then.Oakes Spaldinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08078500142758654392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1373152433565591514.post-73345621701056117312016-09-12T14:30:47.493-07:002016-09-12T14:30:47.493-07:00If Jonah Goldberg fired and smeared Ann Coulter fo...If Jonah Goldberg fired and smeared Ann Coulter for fear of having National Review viewed as Islamophobic, it might be said he was just observing a precedent set by National Review’s founder and former editor-in-chief, William F. Buckley Jr.<br /><br />Buckley did the same to Joe Sobran in 1993, although his concern then differed slightly. It was done to allay perceptions that National Review might be anti-Semitic—even at the expense of smearing an old friend.<br /><br />http://reasonradionetwork.com/20101002/how-i-was-fired-by-bill-buckley-joe-sobran<br />Michael Sadowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03767805922789944035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1373152433565591514.post-50110458233506573122016-09-12T05:52:36.350-07:002016-09-12T05:52:36.350-07:00If you haven't already, read Goldberg's ex...If you haven't already, read Goldberg's explanation (linked to above) and see what you think.Oakes Spaldinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08078500142758654392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1373152433565591514.post-11637527220855447902016-09-12T05:48:37.444-07:002016-09-12T05:48:37.444-07:00I am not a Coulter fan, but I am still astonished ...I am not a Coulter fan, but I am still astonished that she got fired for this column.Patrick Archboldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13230114519933936165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1373152433565591514.post-82282506260616621002016-09-12T01:39:15.516-07:002016-09-12T01:39:15.516-07:00Aside from the carpet bombing part I am in full ag...Aside from the carpet bombing part I am in full agreement with Ann.<br /><br />One thing we can do is stop using their oil ASAP and use all the anti-terrorist methods Israel uses immediately. Michael Dowdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16650782589323136700noreply@blogger.com