IT'S DR. RICE, NOT DR. DRE [Ann Coulter]

Yahoo ^ | 12/1/04 | Ann Coulter

[Forgiven_Sinner]

In light of their reaction to the nomination of Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) as secretary of state, I gather liberals have gotten over their enthusiasm for multiculturalist milestones. It's interesting that they dropped their celebrations of the "first woman!" "first black!" "first Asian!" designations at the precise moment that we are about to get our first black female secretary of state.

When Madeline Albright was appointed the FIRST WOMAN secretary of state, the media was euphoric. (And if memory serves, Monica Lewinsky was the first Jewish female to occupy her various positions on the president's, uh, staff.)

With Albright at the helm of the State Department, Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) ran wild throughout the Middle East, the North Koreans began feverishly building nukes under her nose, and we staged a pre-emptive attack solely for purposes of regime change based on false information presented to the American people by Albright about a world leader who was not an imminent threat to the United States. Slobodan Milosevic (news - web sites) wasn't even a latent, long-term, hypothetical threat.

But the girls in the mainstream media were too smitten with Albright's brooch collection and high heels to notice the shambles she was making of foreign policy.

The New York Times raved about Albright's brooches in an article titled, "A Diplomat Who Says 'Read My Pins.'" In the San Francisco Chronicle, Leah Garchik was amazed by Albright's "jewel-encrusted flag" pin -- Albright's clever ruse to prove that Republicans did not have "dibs on patriotic jewelry." Perhaps Rice could impress American journalists if she talked more about her accessorizing.

People magazine quoted an aide gushing that Albright "stays in her heels all day." Albright herself told Harper's Bazaar, "I've kidded that the advantage of being a woman secretary of state is makeup." This was a great leap forward for feminism? At this point even Paris Hilton was rolling her eyes and saying, "Oh, come on now!"

But Bush nominates a brilliant geopolitical thinker who happens to be black and female and all of a sudden she's Butterfly McQueen, who don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no Middle Eastern democracies.

Earlier this year, the flamboyant Richard Clarke claimed that when he briefed Rice in early 2001 about al-Qaida, her "facial expression gave me the impression that she had never heard the term before." It's good to know that Clinton's chief terrorism "expert" believes himself to possess paranormal abilities such as ESP.

Why couldn't Dick Clarke have used some of those mind-reading skills on Osama before al-Qaida blew up the USS Cole (news - web sites) in October 2000? Or after? To the bitter end, the official position of the Clinton administration was that it couldn't say for sure who was responsible for the Cole attack.

Apparently, liberals believe Rice compares unfavorably to Madeline Albright, whose principle accomplishment before becoming secretary of state was managing to attain the age of 60 without realizing she was Jewish. That was raw competence.

I take that back: Albright also taught at Georgetown University. Of course, American universities make professors of people like Eldridge Cleaver's wife. (Kathleen Cleaver is currently at Yale law school; Susan Rosenberg, a participant in a Brinks car robbery, teaches at Hamilton College; former Weatherman Bill Ayers is a distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago; and former Weatherman Bernardine Dohrn is the director of a legal clinic at Northwestern University.)

Or how about Clinton's first secretary of state, Warren Christopher, a lawyer whose dazzling foreign policy experience consisted of being President Carter's chief negotiator for the hostages in Iran? That's almost as impressive a resume entry as "Chief Iceberg Lookout, the Titanic," "Senior Design Engineer, the Edsel," "Navigator, Exxon Valdez," or "Writer/Executive Producer, 'Alexander.'"

The closest black woman to Bill Clinton (news - web sites) was his secretary, Betty Currie -- whose principal function was penciling in "Monica" on Clinton's "To Do" list every morning. The closest black woman to most of the liberals accusing Rice of being incompetent is the maid they periodically accuse of stealing from the liquor cabinet.

George Bush (news - web sites) chose a black woman to be his top adviser on national security. Now he wants her as his secretary of state. And when she becomes the first black female secretary of state, Rice will replace the first black secretary of state -- both appointed by right-wing Republican George Bush (news - web sites). The entire Bush cabinet is starting to look like an Image Awards telecast minus the fisticuffs and gunplay.

Democrats are terrified that black people might start to notice.

Say, there's a black woman standing next to President Bush (news - web sites) ... who is that?

Never mind! It's probably somebody he's arresting!

It's extremely valuable for Democrats to be able to campaign in black neighborhoods while talking about the "white boys" running the Republican Party. When she was managing Al Gore (news - web sites)'s 2000 campaign, Donna Brazile said she was not going to "let the white boys win in this election." (If I had a nickel for every time I've confused Al Gore, Joe Lieberman (news - web sites), Terry McAuliffe, Paul Begala and James Carville for the Jackson Five ...)

Sure enough, Brazile was instrumental in not letting a couple of white boys -- named Al and Joe -- win the election. I guess that's liberals' idea of a "competent" black woman.

[Chu Gary]

"I think the jury's still out on that. I still think she was Ernest Borgnine in drag."

Please don't defame Ernest Borgnine, a class guy and a great actor!

[John Lenin]

Felicia Taylor is co-anchor of "NewsChannel 4 at 6 and 11 p.m." She assumed that position as of Sept. 2003.

Prior to that, Taylor was the co-anchor for NewsChannel 4's "Weekend Today in New York," the station's No. 1-rated weekend morning news programs. She joined NewsChannel4 in October 1998.

Taylor came to the station from CNBC, where she was co-anchor of Today's Business and Market Watch. While at CNBC, Taylor also served as a contributor to the weekday editions of Today in New York, providing daily business and stock market updates for the show. She also has contributed reports to NBC News at Sunrise.

[Chu Gary]

"An interesting aside on Madeleine Albright. She may have been the first female Secretary of State, but researching a bit back further into history, we find out HOW Condoleezza Rice discovered her interest when being taught international relations by Joseph Korbel at Denver University .

Joseph Korbel is Madeleine Albright's father. It would seem that the second of Dr. Korbel's female prodigies that would one day ascend to the position of Secretary of State would learn her lessons even more thoroughly."

That's interesting, but I think Ann lacks one thing that Madaleine Halfbright has, namely, the ability and willingness to dance the Macarena with the North Koreans.

[George Smiley]

Laura Ingraham is more attractive than Ann Coulter, IMHO.

They both smoke cigarettes if I'm not mistaken.

Understand?

[REDWOOD99]

Come to think of it, I've never seen Borgnine and Albright together! HMMM...

[hatfieldmccoy]

Store front dummies turn their heads for both of these ladies. However their minds are, in fact, drop dead gorgeous....

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Can you imagine the misery she would inflict on Reid, Kerry, Kennedy and company if she were a senatrix?

[geopyg]

One of the news shows just had on Mosely-Brown(?). She was worried that Bush was giving positions to Rice and Guteirez (sp?) just because of their ethnicity, and was concerned it was all for show. Ya just can't win with some folks.

(Can't you just hear the liberals whining? "Bush isn't putting enough old white guys in positions of power.")

[tortoise]

Fabulous article, but I will openly admit that I do not find Ms. Coulter particularly attractive physically -- too skinny for her frame, for starters. And her personality grates on my nerves; she is aggressive and acid even when she is making little or no sense. I don't mind strong and aggressive as long as whatever a person is saying is lucid. She writes far better than she speaks.

I kind of view her like a razor-tongued Hannity. Not exactly the brain trust of the conservative movement, but communicating effectively to a consituency that loves them. They say enough really stupid things that I can never really get behind them though.

[L.N. Smithee]

Or how about Clinton's first secretary of state, Warren Christopher, a lawyer whose dazzling foreign policy experience consisted of being President Carter's chief negotiator for the hostages in Iran? That's almost as impressive a resume entry as "Chief Iceberg Lookout, the Titanic," "Senior Design Engineer, the Edsel," "Navigator, Exxon Valdez," or "Writer/Executive Producer, 'Alexander.'"

This is among Ann's best works. Keep kickin'!

[lainde]

BTTT

[Forgiven_Sinner]

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[pepperdog]

Have you noticed how the Libs backed off after their first conniption fit when the President said he would nominate Rice for SOS? All the racist cartoons and comments suddenly went silent and disappeared. We saw them for their true selves for a moment but then they got orders to go underground again. I hope their brief exposure was illuminating to some of their followers.

[subterfuge]

Great article by Ann. However, I would really like to see the conservative pundits take an even harder look at how hypocritical the left is in its suppression of minorities, blacks in particular.

For example, as I understand it, Slick Willie (I always call him that 'cause I read that he hates it) had exactly ZERO Secret Service agents that were black and that at one time he was being sued by those who were charging discrimination by the Clinton administration. There are lots of examples and if I was a minority I'd ask myself exactly what did the Dems do for minorities when Slick Willie was in power for 8 years?

[subterfuge]

Mine too! Now, anyway.

[Designer]

The whole Madeline Halfbright thing was a disaster! At a time when there was such turmoil in the Middle East, Klintoon showed his bare ass to all the heads of state in that region by appointing the exact opposite of the type of person they would most respect, namely; a Jewish woman!

[rave123]

Bush does not "owe" black people anything. They didn't vote for him, why would he care to appease them? Now the hispanics, there could be a debate but I don't think so. I think he gave it to all of them because of their merit.

[NCjim]

Mark for later

[Lorianne]

OMG! She's not a writer she's an A-bomb on detonation.
This is great.

[DCPatriot]

I like this column a lot...grand slam!