The Price of Not Being Funny
USA Today hired Ann Coulter to write commentary on the Democratic National Convention. But after her first submission they decided to fire her. Of course she is complaining about this act, and is questioning why they hired her in the first place. I can understand the points of both sides in this case.
After reading Ann’s commentary I have to agree that it is rather sophomoric and not funny. I sometimes appreciate Ann’s writing, but here she doesn’t really offer much meat in her humor and little in the way of bones as the basis for her jibes.
I also agree that this is typical Coulter writing, and that if USA Today did not want this then they should not have hired her. They have hired Michael Moore to do commentary on the Republican convention, so I have to wonder if they will fire him for just being Moore.
I think it is a shame that USA Today picked Coulter for this job in the first place. There are many conservative writers that I find humorous, and any one of them could have done a better job. Dennis Miller, Larry Miller, P.J. O’Rourke, or Mike S. Adams could have done a better job of actually drawing humor out of the typically drab proceedings of the convention. Coulter’s attempt just seems like grade-school bickering.