A dapper Steyn entertained an audience at the Har Zion Temple when he spoke on “Outsourcing the Future: The West World’s-Historical Gamble.” Steyn said, “There are no jokes in Islam.” Come to think of it, with their longing to see America fail, rioting in the streets, anti-Semitism and aversion to deodorant, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Islamo-fascists and the humorless Left.
Following his speech, he thoughtfully answered a slew of questions and signed copies of his book, America Alone: The End of the World As Know It. Steyn remains at least somewhat more optimistic than the iconic Pat Buchanan in his new book.
Coulter, a graduate of the National Journalism Center’s internship program, celebrated her sixth New York Times bestseller in October with If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans. The book is a collection of Coulter’s insightful and funniest quotes. Thus far, the only memorable quote from the Left’s self-appointed comedic genius Al Franken is “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough and, dog gone it, people like me.” It’s just too bad those people don’t listen to talk radio. By the way, any comedian who has to use “With Jokes” in the title of his book is not funny.
In October Stephen Colbert’s I Am America also reached the top of the bestseller list. It’s sitting on my bookshelf, mostly unread, while Coulter’s books are dog-eared and marked beyond recognition. I Am America does have one advantage – it includes a fancy red bookmark to forever mark (pg. 64) my intolerance for reading the same “conservatives are stuffy and weird” joke over and over. The gag that catapulted him to comedic stardom wasn’t his inaccurate portrayal of a conservative, but his accurate portrayal of a cable TV blowhard.
Unlike their counterparts on the Left, Coulter and Steyn have a great deal of substance between their jokes and that’s the key to their success. Conservatives are honest about their support while liberals practice affirmative action for their second-rate authors. As long as liberals labor at the altar of political correctness, they will never match the success of conservatives like Coulter and Steyn.
Lisa De Pasquale
Lisa De Pasquale is is a writer in Alexandria, VA. Miss De Pasquale was previously the director of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where she oversaw all aspects of the conference from June 2006 to April 2011. Prior to CPAC, she was the program director of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute. In 2010, she was named a “Rising Star” by
Campaigns & Elections magazine in their annual list of top political leaders under 35. She has written articles for Townhall.com and Townhall Magazine,
Human Events, The Daily Caller, Washingtonian, the St. Augustine Record, The Washington Times, The Houston Chronicle, and the Tallahassee Democrat. Originally from Florida, Miss De Pasquale received a B.A. from Flagler College in St. Augustine.
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