Conservative Cornellians

[David Morris]

Who gives a shit about anything else in the mind or mouth of someone
thankful for Ann Coulter, vile homunculous she.

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Referring to conservative Cornellians (Wolfowitz is a 1965 Cornell
> graduate in mathematics), Corn showed his familiarity with university
> alumni when he said: "I was accepted at Cornell and nearly attended.
> Thank you for giving us both Thomas Pynchon and Ann Coulter."
>
> http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/04/9.23.04/Corn-Lowry_debate.html
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0409&msg=93524
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0409&msg=93553
>
> Is this Corn calling Pynchon conservative ... or is the writer simply
> assuming he is...
>
> The ur-text isn't clear enough to provide an answer. "Referring to
> conservative Cornellians" is a clumsy, ambiguous transition. My guess
> is that David Corn intended "Thank you for giving us [alumni as
> different as] Thomas Pynchon and Ann Coulter," and Segelken (the
> Cornell Chronicle reporter) was too busy tracking the political
> ping-pong to catch it
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114628