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Posted on 12/01/2004 4:22:41 PM PST by 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.
Perhaps she needs to be Dr. Dre with the Muslims and slap those punkass bitches all the way to the LBC, bizzatch!
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A delight to read...
What is left to say - Ann Coulter - a woman for all seasons. She should be appointed as Press Secretary for the State Department!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL! What's there to say -- another winner column for Ann. And I can almost hear her voice as she reads it.
When Madeline Albright was appointed the FIRST WOMAN secretary of stateI think the jury's still out on that. I still think she was Ernest Borgnine in drag.
You gotta love when a hot, leggy blond babe writes about "staffs" and "positions".....
Does she ever miss? Another humorous and true analogy from Ann.
my goodness but your hottie is a regular ball bearing breaker...she can take your breath away with some of her zingers...she's never heard of kerry spitballs...she throws ryan expresses...bcboy
Brains, beauty and wit. Ann is the best.
Great column.
I'm not a big Coulter fan, but this one is a keeper. More spot-on zingers than a machine gun at point-blank range. There's pieces of liberal all over the floor; don't bother to call 911, it's too late..
All the arguments that these "liberal" screech owls advance to explain why they don't think Dr. Rice is more than very well qualified for the proposed position - sound strangely like they really think ALL Americans of African descent are not fit to fill any position of responsibility.
Gary Trudeau of "Doonsbury" fame is probably one of the most blatant, putting words in Bush's mouth that he would never utter, and divining the thoughts of Dr. Rice so expertly that all these imagined slanders are clearly and broadly amplified for everybody to understand. Gary Trudeau is transmitting codespeak for all liberals to get the inside joke.
"George Bush is no better than WE are!"
But then, if George Bush is no better than the liberals who despise him, why are they on the outside peeking in through the windows?
Yep, my girl Annie has no problem showing her lovely legs. That sharp tongue coupled with those gams makes me a fan for life.
Ol' Annie was at the top of her game with this one. A ton of great zingers.
There's a reason liberals hate Ann Coulter. She points out their hypocrisy in the most brutal terms. They can't stand that.
Dang good.
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.
Still LOL!
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