Haven't been by the
LA Times lately, so I stopped in to check the opinion page. Meghan Daum had this enlightening piece
Coulter's a satirist -- really?
Today, of course, "A Modest Proposal" is considered one of the greatest works of political satire in the English language. But isn't that always the way? Comedy is tragedy plus time, which may explain why Ann Coulter, the Cruella De Vil of blond, ectomorphic wonkdom, is getting such a beating by the liberal and (more important) tragically literal mainstream media. Such is the price of being in the cultural vanguard. If you think Swift was cutting-edge, imagine having a wit so dry that even you haven't yet realized you're a satirist.
Humph. Somebody should go tell
David Niewert he's got Ann all wrong.
I checked over at
Atrios; Wanker of the day is
Richard Morin I'd give Daum my vote, but Morin isn't a bad choice either.
Comparing the two (
Daum &
Morin) is informative. On the one hand, one says Liberals don't get the joke when it comes to Coulter. Meanwhile, the kind of humor Liberals enjoy
"...is not funny: Jon Stewart and his hit Comedy Central cable show may be poisoning democracy."
Darn those Liberals. There they go again!
And of course the Colbert Report is The Show That Must Not Be Mentioned.