Sadly, since she started working for Time magazine, not so much. Case in point is this meta-whine in which she lays in to bloggers for not being sufficiently blasé about L’Affaire Colbert.
(Bloggers? Et tu, Wonkette?)
Ana gets off a few zingers, but she can’t afford to be too funny, because she has to loyally defend her “Nader-supporting, antiwar, vegetarian” husband Chris Lehmann, who wrote an all-of-this-passion-is-so-passé piece for the N.Y. Observer, from a rabid Huffington Poster.
At the end of her column, Ana lectures us:
Comedy can have a political point but it is not political action, and what Colbert said on the stage of the Washington Hilton — funny or not — means far less than what the ardent posters at ThankYouStephenColbert.org would like it to.
Comedy not political action? Uh, Ana, you don’t give yourself, or at least your former self, enough credit. Wonkette had power because she was funny. Jon Stewart has power because he’s funny. Ronald Reagan had power because…well…a lot of people thought he was funny.
Oh well, at least you’re helping to keep L’Affaire going a little longer.
Sigh. Elvis went into the army, and Wonkette went to Time.