Thursday, September 01, 2005

FGAQ: For Immediate Release     As of 9/1/05, Fried Green al-Qaedas will no longer be carrying our 'Ann Coulter' parody column on Thursdays. Unlike Harding University, which today cancelled a Coulter appearance because they find her to be 'un-Christian', or the Arizona Star, which last week dropped her column because readers found her 'shrill, bombastic, and mean-spirited', FGAQ is dropping the column because we find Ms. Coulter increasingly alternating between obtuse and irrelevant. In other words, nearly impossible to parody. Last week Ms. Coulter published a meandering column entitled 'Conservatives cause global warming and liberal press' which appeared to have no raison d'être beyond fulfilling her contractual obligations. This weeks column, 'Teddy Bare', consisted almost entirely of thirty-six year old Chappaquiddick jokes. It should be noted that few readers of this column know much more about Mary Jo Kopechne beyond her status as an answer to an $800 question on Jeopardy. While wishing Ms. Coulter no personal ill will, the editors of FGAQ believe that we have certain standards of humor to maintain. It is certainly telling to note that after running this column for twenty weeks, no one noticed when we swapped out her picture for the head of a mannequin.                                      The Editors Teddy Bare Ann Coulter (Archive) September 1, 2005 | Print | Send Sen. Teddy Kennedy has demanded that the Bush administration waive attorney-client privilege and release internal memos John Roberts worked on while in the solicitor general's office 15 years ago, all of which were supposed to be held in the deepest confidence. Apparently, Kennedy thinks public officials have no right to keep even their attorney-client communications secret. This surprised me because the senator is such a strong advocate of the (nonexistent) "right to privacy." And not just in the way most drunken, Spanish quiz-cheating, no-pants-wearing public reprobates generally cherish their own personal right to privacy. I            Cancelled 11:20:05 AM    comment []