Coulter is no satirist

Re “Coulter’s a satirist -- no kidding?� Opinion, June 24

Anyone who would seriously attempt to classify Ann Coulter as a satirist or literary comedian needs to consult a dictionary. Coulter, though often blatantly blunt, is one of a handful of writers who tells it like it is with substantiated, verifiable, factual proof.

What separates her work from that of the true satirists and comedians is her consistent flow of truth -- even though it rubs ultraliberals the wrong way and drives the politically correct up the wall.

JIM ROBERTS

La Mirada

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Nice try, Meghan Daum, recasting Coulter as a latter-day Jonathan Swift. But Coulter is no satirist; if she were, she’d be merciless in roasting the powerful, in the noble tradition of Swift, Rabelais and Mort Sahl.

Unless and until Coulter spreads her vitriol right of center, she’s a shill for the conservatives and nothing more.

BONNIE SLOANE

Los Angeles

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So Daum has revealed that Coulter is actually an arch-liberal pretending to be a conservative firebrand in the style of Jonathan Swift. This will come as a shock to the vast majority of Coulter’s fans.

Perhaps the real satirist is Daum?

JOHN P. HUBER

Pasadena

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Coulter is not a satirist. She is a pathetic joke, and all the Op-Ed apologia in the world won’t change that.

She does, however, inspire wonderful satire on the Internet, and for that I thank her.

GLENN C. DAVIS

Laguna Woods