Ann Coulter Class of '84

While I do agree with the NRO's decision to drop Ann Coulter's column, I would tend to agree with anyone's decision to drop Ann Coulter from any height for any reason. That said, some of Goldberg's reasoning is blatantly self-serving. First of all, saying that she did not fail as a person is, to me, absurd. She turned her friend's tragic death into a publicity stunt that catapulted her to pundit stardom. The one sentence that sits by itself, "Listening to Ann legalistically dodge around trying to explain all this would have made Bill Clinton blush" is so petty that, to an outsider such as myself, it takes away from his point that she was backtracking on the Sean Hannity show and name-calling elsewhere. Further, his explanation that publishing her initial story was a mistake due to the chaos is unacceptable. What self-respecting publication, regardless of circumstance, publishes an article without at least reading it first? Finally, I love how Jonah Goldberg, a man with a name rivaling mine in Jeweyness, defends Coulter's assertion that the NRO has "succumbed to 'PC hysteria'" by stating that, "William F. Buckley himself has called, essentially, for a holy war." And he stands by this and even serves as editor for it? Something at the NRO is completely backwards and it did not start with Ann Coulter and it did not end with her dismissal.

-David Finkelstein