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The "Mainstream" Is Located In France (Ann Coulter Slams The French-Looking Democrats)
Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 10/29/03 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 10/29/2003 3:57:30 PM PST by goldstategop

The newspaper that almost missed the war in Iraq because its reporters were in Georgia covering the membership policies of the Augusta National Golf Club has declared another one of President George Bush's judicial nominees as "out of the mainstream." The New York Times has proclaimed so many Bush nominees "out of the mainstream" that the editorial calling California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown "out of the mainstream" was literally titled: "Out of the Mainstream, Again."

Among Bush's "many unworthy judicial nominees," the Times said, Brown is "among the very worst" – more "out of the mainstream" than all the rest! Even Teddy Kennedy, who might be well advised to withhold comment on a woman's position relative to a moving body of water, has described Brown as "out of the mainstream," adding, "Let's just hope this one can swim."

Liberals are hysterical about Justice Brown principally because she is black. Nothing enrages them so much as a minority who does not spend her days saying hosannas to liberals.

On the basis of its editorial positions, the Times seems to have called a bunch of racist Southern election supervisors out of retirement to cover judicial nominations for the paper. The only difference is, instead of phony "literacy" tests, now we have phony "mainstream" tests. Amazingly, no matter how many conservative minorities Bush sends up, the Times has not been able to find a single one who is "qualified." The Times thinks Justice Brown should be the maid and Miguel Estrada the pool boy.

According to the Times, Brown has "declared war on the mainstream legal values that most Americans hold dear." What the Times means by "mainstream legal values" is: off-the-charts unpopular positions favored by NAMBLA, the ACLU and The New York Times editorial page.

Thus, for example, opposition to partial-birth abortion – opposed by 70 percent of the American people – is "out of the mainstream."

Support for the death penalty – supported by 70 percent of the American people – is "out of the mainstream."

Opposition to government-sanctioned race discrimination – which voters in the largest state in the nation put on an initiative titled Proposition 209 and enacted into law – is "out of the mainstream."

Opposition to gay marriage – opposed by 60 percent of the American people – is "out of the mainstream."

Failing to recognize that totally nude dancing is "speech" is "out of the mainstream."

Questioning whether gay Scoutmasters should be taking 14-year-old boys on overnight sleepovers in the woods is "out of the mainstream."

I guess if your "mainstream" includes Roman Polanski, Michael Moore, Howard Dean and Jacques Chirac, then Brown really is "out of the mainstream." This proverbial "stream" they're constantly referring to is evidently located somewhere in France.

Liberals are always complaining that they haven't figured out how to distill their message to slogans and bumper stickers – as they allege Republicans have. Though it can't be easy to fit the entire Communist Manifesto on a bumper sticker, I beg to differ. (Bumper sticker version of the current Democratic platform: "Ask me about how I'm going to raise your taxes.")

The problem is, if Democrats ever dared speak coherently, the American people would lynch them. Fortunately for liberals, soccer moms hear that a nominee is "extreme" and "out the mainstream" and are too frightened to ask for details. (Ironically, based on ticket sales and TV ratings, soccer is also out of the mainstream.)

In addition to the fact that she is black and "out of the mainstream," the first item in the Times' bill of particulars against Brown was this:

"She regularly stakes out extreme positions, often dissenting alone. In one case, her court ordered a rental car company to stop its supervisor from calling Hispanic employees by racial epithets. Justice Brown dissented, arguing that doing so violated the company's free-speech rights."

Despite the Times' implication that Brown was "dissenting alone" in this case, she was not. The opinion of the California Supreme Court in the case, Aguilar v. Avis, was as closely divided as it gets: 4-3. Among the dissenters was Stanley Mosk, who was once described by the Los Angeles Times as "the court's most liberal member." When Mosk died in 2001, his obituary in The New York Times described him as "the only liberal on the seven-member court." I suppose if the Times had mentioned that a prominent liberal jurist had agreed with Brown in Aguilar, it would be harder to frighten silly women with that "out of the mainstream" babble.

But the real beauty part of Brown's dissent in Aguilar is that she was vindicating a constitutional principle that is second in importance only to abortion for liberals: no prior restraints on speech.

In a major victory for Avis, the jury rejected almost all of the claims against Avis by Hispanic employees, but did find that two managers – only one of whom still worked at Avis – had called Hispanics names. So the lower-court judge got the idea to issue an injunction prohibiting one single Avis manager from ever using derogatory language about Avis' Hispanic employees.

The injunction was broad enough to prevent the manager from using such language in his home, out of earshot of his employees, in a joking or friendly manner, as part of a hypothetical example, or even if his speech were incapable of creating a "hostile environment" under the law. Questions were also raised about whether he was even allowed to chuckle at the little dog in those "Yo quiero Taco Bell" TV commercials. It was basically a bill of attainder against this one manager (who was himself married to a Hispanic).

I note that liberals laughed at the idea that a "hostile environment" could be created by a single incident of a governor dropping his pants and asking a subordinate to "kiss it." But the mere speculative threat of a manager saying "wetback" – one time – was such a threat to the stability of the nation that the Times backed a prior restraint on the manager's speech.

Usually The New York Times is citing the law's antagonism to prior restraints on speech in order to wax eloquent about the Supreme Court's "landmark decision in the Pentagon Papers case." In a ruling that celebrated the very essence of the First Amendment, the court ruled that the government couldn't stop the Treason Times from publishing classified national-security documents. As the Times put it, that case had "made it clear that only a showing of concrete, immediate risk to the nation could justify a judicial order imposing a prior restraint on any kind of publication."

But apparently, there is one interest even more vital than preventing an immediate risk to the nation: stopping a supervisor someplace in America from ever using the word "spic." Anyone who disagrees is "out of the mainstream." And any minority who is not duly grateful to liberals for supporting prior restraints against certain words is only qualified to be the maid


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Front Page News; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; democrats; france; liberals; mainstream; newyorktimes
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Liberals think every one who doesn't think like them is "out of the 'mainstream.'" The Democrats and the New York Times are absolutely correct. We're just troglodyte, trailer park, and flyover country white trash. The same goes for minorities who deserve those well known racial slurs if they dare leave the Liberal Plantation. After all, the liberals' model for America is France. And competing to see who can be the most French-looking seems to be the Democrats and the NYT's order of the day. All the expense of normal out of the mainstream Americans who just don't happen to be residents of their beloved France.
1 posted on 10/29/2003 3:57:31 PM PST by goldstategop
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To: goldstategop
In strict occordance with FR by-laws, chapter 2, paragraph 4, stating that any mention of our beloved Ann Coulter must include her picture, I propher the following image for your exclusive viewing pleasure.

(cue the angelic music)


2 posted on 10/29/2003 4:02:56 PM PST by ChadGore (Kakkate Koi!)
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To: goldstategop
She nails it again. She's good, she's very good. But when the liberals make it this easy she's very very good!
3 posted on 10/29/2003 4:04:35 PM PST by Arkie2
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To: goldstategop
It's not a stream, it's a sewer.
4 posted on 10/29/2003 4:07:21 PM PST by Flashman_at_the_charge
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To: ChadGore
Oh yes....my new wallpaper.
5 posted on 10/29/2003 4:08:00 PM PST by anncoulteriscool
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To: goldstategop
Its wednesday night so it must be time for an ann coulter column. YIPPEE!!!
6 posted on 10/29/2003 4:08:43 PM PST by anncoulteriscool
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To: ChadGore
Where the heck was that picture taken?
7 posted on 10/29/2003 4:10:50 PM PST by BlueString
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To: goldstategop
Great column! They're always great, but this one is particularly good.

"Even Teddy Kennedy, who might be well advised to withhold comment on a woman's position relative to a moving body of water, has described Brown as "out of the mainstream," adding, "Let's just hope this one can swim.""

ROTFL!

Qwinn
8 posted on 10/29/2003 4:11:29 PM PST by Qwinn
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another great piece by Ms. Coulter
9 posted on 10/29/2003 4:12:34 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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To: ChadGore
"ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY ANN" (scha-wing)!
10 posted on 10/29/2003 4:13:56 PM PST by JOE6PAK ("Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."-Hector Berlioz)
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To: Qwinn
I guess if your "mainstream" includes Roman Polanski, Michael Moore, Howard Dean and Jacques Chirac, then Brown really is "out of the mainstream." This proverbial "stream" they're constantly referring to is evidently located somewhere in France.

This is my favorite quote. All of our liberal dolts for reason seem to have more in common with France than with America. For some reason know only to them, this country can never live up to the standards they've ordained for it. And if it doesn't, it must be the fault of those eevil conservatives!

11 posted on 10/29/2003 4:15:12 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: ChadGore
Would you post a picture of something this um, intellectually stimulating in a landscape format? I'm afraid if I use this for wallpaper it wouldn't fit on my screen. My wife probably wouldn't like it either.
12 posted on 10/29/2003 4:17:20 PM PST by JusPasenThru (We're through being cool (you can say that again, Dad))
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To: JusPasenThru
Does your wife have an FR account? If not, I don't think there's a reason she'd feel threatened by an Ann Coulter pic! ;-)
13 posted on 10/29/2003 4:18:47 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
The Dims now hold positions that mirror communist groups and our enemies.

They have declared open war against Republicans, creating a world wide coalition featuring our enemies.

I cannot figure out their end game. They must be convinced that they have a chance of pulling off a socialist political revolution in the US.
14 posted on 10/29/2003 4:20:13 PM PST by At _War_With_Liberals
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To: goldstategop
BTTT!
15 posted on 10/29/2003 4:21:36 PM PST by jmstein7
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To: goldstategop
"Liberals think every one who doesn't think like them is "out of the 'mainstream.'" "

To be precise, the liberals really do not think that. They know they are lying and distorting the record, as Ann's article demonstrates. Thus "lone dissenter" is stated when the vote is 4-3. It requires making stuff up with no basis or just plain lying. Either is inexcusable. This is how they operate.

It is the present (i.e. "boomer") generation and those they have instructed. No bounds rein them in because they are involved in "direct action" for the truth of their ideology. I knew this back in the 60's/70's when in college these paragons spread the rumor that they had spit in the dining hall salad bowl in order to "persuade" their peers to "support" the migrant alien crop pickers in their lettuce strike. I have seen this ethos repeated over and over through the years. You can not trust liberals younger than 60 because they inwardly believe they have carte blanche with the truth and if they lie and distort it is all right because it is for the "cause" or the "movement." Basta ya!

16 posted on 10/29/2003 4:23:57 PM PST by ontos-on
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To: ChadGore
Where did you get that BEAUTIFUL picture of Ann??????
17 posted on 10/29/2003 4:24:05 PM PST by Dacus943
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To: BlueString
"Where the heck was that picture taken?"

Oh, that was taken at my house. Ann just dropped in unexpectedly one day to ask my views on a number of subjects.

18 posted on 10/29/2003 4:25:12 PM PST by Enterprise
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To: Qwinn
Here's my pick for best line:

"This proverbial "stream" they're constantly referring to is evidently located somewhere in France."

Actually, she is correct, the Times spellcheck doesn't recognize Marne Stream, the river in France.

19 posted on 10/29/2003 4:26:48 PM PST by Jabba the Nutt
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To: At _War_With_Liberals
"I cannot figure out their end game. They must be convinced that they have a chance of pulling off a socialist political revolution in the US."

You give them too much credit for thinking. If they thought, they would not be Liberals.

There are only a few evil ones bent on power at any price, and their mass of follower fools.
20 posted on 10/29/2003 4:27:14 PM PST by Search4Truth (When a man lies he murders some part of the world.)
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