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Skriven 2008-01-10 15:21:40 av Ross Sauer (1:123/1011)
     Kommentar till en text av Tim Richardson (1:123/140)
Ärende: Nostalgia
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> JOHN VINCENT COULTER
> January 9, 2008

> The longest baby ever born at the Albany, N.Y., hospital, at least as of May
> 5, 1926, who grew up to be my strapping father, passed away last Friday
> morning.

I do feel sorry for Ann Coulter, her Father having died. My own Father is
nearly that age.

And "longest" baby?
Does that mean the baby was longer in length than any others?

> John Vincent Coulter was of the old school, a man of few words, the un-Oprah,
> no crying or wearing your heart on your sleeve, and reacting to moments of
> great sentiment with a joke. Or as we used to call them: men.

Heartless, unemotional, cold fish.

> So it took me awhile to realize that by telling my friends that Father was an
> ex-FBI agent and a union-buster

In other words, a corporate stooge and J. Edgar Hoover syncophant.

> Besides being very funny, Father had an absolutely straight moral compass
> without ever being preachy or judgmental or even telling us in words. He just
> was good.

Too bad his daughter dumped all those moral lessons.

> When I was bombarded with arguments for baby-killing as a kid, I asked Father
> about the old chestnut involving a poverty-stricken, unwed teenage girl who
> gets pregnant. (This was before they added the "impregnated by her own
> father" part.)
> Father just said, "I don't care. If it's a life, it's a life." I'm still
> waiting to hear an effective counterargument.

And Ann just ignores all the women who *DIED* as a result of the "back-alley
butchers."

> Father hated puffery, pomposity, snobbery, fake friendliness, fake anything.

He must have hated Ann then.

> Like Kitty's father in "Anna Karenina," he could detect a substanceless
> suitor in a heartbeat. (They were probably the same ones who looked nervous
> when I told them Father was ex-FBI and liked to shoot squirrels in the
> backyard.)

No wonder Ann is nearly my age and has dumped yet *ANOTHER* boyfriend, after
being engaged 3 times.

> He hated unions because of their corrupt leadership, ripping off the members
> for their own aggrandizement. But he had more respect for genuine working men
> than anyone I've ever known. He was, in short, the molecular opposite of John
> Edwards.

The usual Coulter bullshit.

> Father didn't care what popular opinion was: There was right and wrong. I
> don't recall his ever specifically talking about J. Edgar Hoover or Joe
> McCarthy, but we knew he thought the popular histories were bunk. That's why
> "Treason" was dedicated to him, the last book of mine he was able to read.

Hoover used the FBI, for his own purposes. McCarthy was a total fake, who died
in disgrace by drinking himself to death.

> As a young FBI agent fresh out of law school, one of Father's first
> assignments was to investigate job applicants at a uranium enrichment plant

No wonder Ann is such a defective mutant.

> One day, a group of FBI agents saw the beautiful Nell Husbands Martin at
> lunch with her mother. They asked the waitress for her name and flipped a
> coin to see who could ask her out first. Father lost the coin toss, so he
> paid off the other agents. And that's how Nell became my mother.

Flips a coin, and pays off other potential boyfriends. Some beginning to a
"courtship."

> Father spent most of his nine-year FBI career as a Red hunter in New York

More likely a red-baiter.

> Now Daddy is with Joe McCarthy 

Shoveling shit in hell, if you believe that sort of stuff...

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