Slander is the sum of socialist politics

National Post ^ | 8/3/02 | Elizabeth Nickson

[jalisco555]

It's always so nice to encounter someone more right-wing than me. It's even relaxing, since I can fob all the projections and suspicion onto them. Rare though, especially in hacking, especially in Canada. Almost everyone is from the left, far left, liberal, wussy in-the-middle, and worst of all, technocratic left. Little good to say that left-wing thought is based on communism, which produced Stalin, who murdered 20 million of his own people, dragged half the world into slavery, wasted the lives of several generations, the theory of which is still shadowing most developing countries with very, very bad ideas. No, they are on the side of the angels, always, no question about it and you? You are pond scum.

In the past few weeks, I've written about gay marriage (against it), black people (love them, against throwing billions more into Africa's sinkhole), women's studies at universities (destructive nonsense) and something else I can't remember right now. Since then -- and I knew this would happen, so thanks guys for offering your lily white necks for my vampirish delight (I have to pause here to rub my hands together and anticipate the meal because the soft flesh of liberals is particularly yummy, since not marred by the musculature of actual thought) -- I have been called a reactionary bitch, racist. This despite actual black people writing to say thanks. As well as sexist, homophobic, and being compared to Catholics (?), new-age nut cases, cultists, and neo-Nazis. I was asked what airline I fly so the writer could pass the info along to some Middle Eastern fellows she knows. Then racist and a fascist again. This from real people with government jobs. So essentially I'm being deluged with hate mail from people whose salaries I help pay. Liberal theory at its necessary conclusion, or can I call it, left-wing fascism? Yes, I rather think I will. Canada is a left-wing fascist state. Go ahead and try and prove me wrong.

Anyway, so when a friend called in tears because some technician at the CBC had beaten her up, I said, (after I comforted her because we racist Nazi Jew bitches, never mind that she's native, gotta stick together even though we're naturally cruel and hard and like to see people cry), "What did you expect? We're only ever invited onto the CBC so they can beat us up. You know that." She snuffled and admitted that she did. Then we both swore to never ever appear on the CBC again. They can find someone else to kick around. Stephen Harper, for instance. We're sure he gets paid more than us.

Actually this is serious stuff and lots of people are aware of it. It is why, for example, Ann Coulter's Slander is on top of every non-fiction, best-seller list in the States. Subtitled Liberal Lies about the American Right, along with Matt Drudge, by page 12, I was shouting, laughing and punching the air. Yes! Someone has finally marshalled the facts, made the case, prosecuted, and once you read the book, won the argument. Hands down. The left has no ideas but effectively muzzles conservatives by accusing them of racism, sexism and homophobia.

But, truth is seductive, as we say in the vast right-wing conspiracy. As Coulter makes clear, it is why conservative books are routinely on top of the best-seller lists. Conservatives read books. Despite the fact that their advances are 10% of famous liberal writers, conservative authors outsell all liberal political, historical and economics writers by a continent of forests. It is why talk radio is so popular, and why Fox News blows every other cable news channel out of the water. Coulter lists the many liberals who have attempted to poach on Rush Limbaugh's turf. Hilarious: Alan Dershowitz, Gary Hart, Mario Cuomo, Jim Hightower, Ed Koch, Lowell Wicker. Cancelled, cancelled, cancelled, cancelled. No listeners. Right-wingers happily splashing in 600 markets. Most people agree with conservative political thought, when it is laid out in plain terms.

Not easy to do. In the States, even more so in Canada, 90 out of a 100 journalists comes to his or her material from the left. So what we get, routinely, in every single mass-market media organ, is hectoring nonsense about our failings, and the impossibility of ever solving one single problem, except with vast increases in taxes and bureaucracy. Why, asks my most intelligent friend, can't I get interested in federal politics? Because, I say, there's no one up there with great, or even good ideas. All they do, all day long, is try to figure out how to get more money out of our pockets. And everything is run, dictatorship-style from the PMO. Deliberately dull, impenetrable, and fundamentally hostile to democracy.

And their most effective tool? Slander. All the left has to do to the right to devalue its ideas is charge all the things that I have been charged with: Racist. Sexist. Fascist. Exaggerating? I don't think so. Heritage Minister Sheila Copps once compared Preston Manning to KKK member David Duke. Now I've met Preston Manning, and if he's a KKK sympathizer, then I'm a guy, and believe me, I'm all female and proud of it. Two years ago, Elinor Caplan compared Alliance supporters to "Holocaust deniers." After the Alliance embarrassed the Liberals by pointing out that 72% of refugee claimants enter this country through the U.S., Immigration Minister Denis Coderre called the Alliance a Le Pen franchise.

The right in Canada has very good ideas and there is an excellent chance you will never hear them. Compas pollster Conrad Winn contends that the Liberals will continue to use the race card against the Alliance because it continues to work. "We've done surveys revealing amazing support for the across-the-board policies of the Alliance, including on immigration. But the Alliance simply doesn't have the skills to fight back against the [racism] charge."

The results? Liberal corruption, which this paper has proved conclusively is epidemic and endemic. Public cynicism and withdrawal. The bullying of challengers by human rights tribunals who suppress free speech. The hobbling of police forces unable to investigate crimes in immigrant populations. The financial constriction of middle-class families. The time-bomb of an ever-increasing under-class. A consistent policy of putting the ideas of political correctness ahead of public safety. An imperial judiciary. Left-wing fascism.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

The one word that sums up democrats/socialists to me is hypocrisy. They rarely practice anything they preach, or expect the rest of us to live by. Torricelli was just the tip of the iceberg. I noticed it from the moment I got interested in politics, which, besides their bankrupt policies is why I voted for Reagan and never looked back.

[Springman]

Bumb, a very good read.

[driftless]

Most of my family and most of my relatives vote Dem though few are true liberals. I've been in situations where I've been arguing with ten people against me. Typically I have to patiently explain the facts of every topic to them, even the names and positions of the Dems whose ideas they champion. Their lack of knowledge except for their own individual bailiwicks (unions, teachers, abortion) is astounding. Usually one minute into the argument, my Dem family members start raising their voices and gesticulating wildly. Do I hear much in the way of facts from them. Of course not. Emotion is their chief weapon as if shouting the loudest proves your point. I've found that there are very few people who you can engage in an argument without them going ballistic part-ways into it. One in-law tried to claim that political correctness is a conservative idea. I could only gaze at him in wonder.

Nevertheless though it's true that most Dems and liberals are factually ignorant, it's also true most Republicans and conservatives (apart from the persons on this site and other conservative sites) are not much better. Everyone should try to get smarter.

[alex]

Great read, never heard about her, but she sure can write.

[NorthernRight]

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ELIZABETH NICKSON Elizabeth Nickson is a writer and journalist who has been published widely for the past fifteen years. Nickson was European Bureau Chief of Life Magazine in the late 80's and early 90's. During this time, she arranged photo stories and interviewed Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, the Dalai Lama and dozens of other leaders, movie and pop stars, politicans, and royalty, as well as torture victims, political prisioners and criminals. She initiated and co-ordinated the acquisiton of Nelson Mandela's autobiography for Little Brown, smuggling letters into prison before Mandela was released. Prior to her appointment at Life, she was a reporter at Time Magazine. Nickson has also written for The (London) Sunday Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Observer The Independent, Tatler, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Sunday Express, the Wall St. Journal, Vogue, Saturday Night, Chatelaine, Reader's Digest, and Harper's Magazine. In 1994, she published a novel, The Monkey Puzzle Tree, which tells the story of the CIA mind control program in Montreal in the 50's and 60's. Nickson's column appears on National Post Online every Friday. E-mail: enickson@nationalpost.com

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Elizabeth Nickson's past articles have consistently dealt with criticism of cultural liberalism and it's corrosive effects. A proud conservative, she often writes about modern culture from a definitely right-wing point-of-view.

[NorthernRight]

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