Posted on 12/08/2004 4:49:29 PM PST by buckeyesrule
The new and improved racism
Posted: December 8, 2004
7:00 p.m. Eastern
By Ann Coulter
© 2004 Universal Press Syndicate
Still furious about the election, liberals are lashing out at blacks. First it was Condoleezza Rice. But calling a Ph.D. who advised a sitting president during war "Aunt Jemima" apparently hasn't satiated the Democrats' rage. Even the racist cartoons didn't help.
So this week, they've turned with a vengeance to Clarence Thomas. Only the Democrats would try to distract from their racist attacks on one black Republican by leveling racist attacks against a different black Republican. If Democrats don't nip this in the bud, soon former Klanner and Democratic Sen. Bob Byrd will be their spokesman.
In the past few weeks, there have been nasty insinuations all around about Condoleezza Rice's competence for the job.
Democratic consultant Bob Beckel – who demonstrated his own competence running Walter Mondale's campaign – said of Rice, "I don't think she's up to the job."
Joseph Cirincione, with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (so you know they don't have an agenda or anything), said Rice "doesn't bring much experience or knowledge of the world to this position." This was reassuring, inasmuch as that was also liberals' assessment of the current president before he took office and he, to put it mildly, has been doing rather well.
The Kansas City Star editorialized that Rice "has not demonstrated great competence in the last four years," which is to say, Dr. Rice failed to be sufficiently clairvoyant to predict the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
Columnist Bob Herbert sneered of Rice's nomination in the New York Times: "Competence has never been highly regarded by the fantasists of the George W. Bush administration." For example, these are the bumbling nitwits who conquered Afghanistan, the "graveyard of empires," and toppled Baghdad in less time than your average Jennifer Lopez marriage lasts. (Wait, I can't remember: Was it the Bush administration that hired Jayson Blair?)
So far, Dr. Rice has demonstrated her abundant competence only in academia, geopolitics, history, government, college administration, classical music and athletics. I eagerly await the Bob Herbert column in which he lists the subjects and pursuits he's mastered. If only Rice talked about her accessorizing like Clinton's Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, she might impress the sort of fellow who writes for the New York Times.
Liberals at least give white Republicans credit for being evil. Rumsfeld is a dangerous warmonger, Paul Wolfowitz is part of an international Jewish conspiracy, Dick Cheney is "Dr. No." But Dr. Rice? She's a dummy.
In fact, after spending the last four years telling us that President Bush was an empty suit, a vessel for neoconservative fantasies of perpetual war, liberals have now found someone who is Bush's puppet: the black chick.
It's all so eerily familiar.
The late Mary McGrory, a white liberal, called Scalia "a brilliant and compelling extremist" – as opposed to McGrory herself, a garden-variety extremist of average intelligence. But Thomas she dismissed as "Scalia's puppet," quoting another white liberal, Alvin J. Bronstein of the American Civil Liberties Union, to make the point. This is the kind of rhetoric liberals are reduced to when they just can't bring themselves to use the n-word.
Most recently – at least as we go to press – last Sunday Harry Reid, the Democratic leader in the Senate, had this to say about Justice Clarence Thomas: "I think that he has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court. I think that his opinions are poorly written." You'd think Thomas' opinions were written in ebonics.
In the same interview, Reid called Justice Antonin Scalia "one smart guy." He said that although he disagreed with Scalia, his reasoning is "very hard to dispute." Scalia is "one smart guy"; Thomas is the janitor. If Democrats are all going to read from the same talking points, they might want to get someone other than David Duke to write them.
On the Sean Hannity radio show, Democratic pundit Pat Halpin defended Sen. Reid's laughable attack on Thomas by citing Bob Woodward's book "The Brethren," which – according to Halpin – vividly portrays Thomas as a nincompoop.
I return to my standing point that liberals don't read. Harry Reid clearly hasn't read any of the decisions Justice Thomas has written, and Pat Halpin clearly hasn't read "The Brethren."
"The Brethren" came out a decade before Thomas was even nominated to the Supreme Court. The only black Supreme Court justice discussed in "The Brethren" is Thurgood Marshall. That's one we haven't heard in a while: I just can't tell you guys apart.
How many black justices have there been on the Supreme Court again? Oh yes: two. It's one thing to confuse Potter Stewart with Lewis Powell. After all, there have been a lot of white guys on the court. But there have been only two black justices – and Democrats can't keep them straight. Two! That's like getting your mother and father confused. I can name every black guy on a current National Hockey League roster: Is it asking Democrats too much to remember the names of the only two black Supreme Court justices?
In "America (The Book)," by Jon Stewart and the writers of Comedy Central's "Daily Show," the section on the judiciary describes how to make a sock puppet of Clarence Thomas and then says, "Ta-da! You're Antonin Scalia!" On grounds of originality alone, Mr. Stewart, I want my money back.
But reviewing the book in the New York Times, Caryn James called the sock puppet joke one of the book's "gems of pointed political humor." Funny how the liberal punditocracy all parrot this same "sock puppet" line about Thomas year after year, almost as if they were sock pu-- oh, never mind.
Curiously, of all the liberals launching racist attacks on black conservatives I've quoted above, only two are themselves black: the two who write for the New York Times. So I guess there are still a couple of blacks taking orders from the Democrats. Isn't there an expression for that? I think it begins with "Uncle" and ends with "Tom."
If she has quit, then she'll get a little meat on her bones. Love her hair though. Ann has nice hair.
I have announced the same a number of times. *puff*
Wouldn't be surprised if she lurked!
Oh, me too. In fact I quit just about every day!
I quit every night when I go to sleep.
Feh. Can we say "bottle blonde?"
Ya think? I dunno.
Maybe. But really, I just love the writing and her fight-fire-with-fire approach. It really gets the libs' goat!
They can dish it out but can't take it. Plus Ann is better looking than say... Maureen Dowd. Seen her neck lately? Looks like a chicken leg.
What is it with the liberal spokeswomen: Dowd, Van Den Heuvel (sp?), Patricia Ireland, Susan Estrich, etc? I don't want to criticize solely on physical appearance, but they are a bunch of harpies compared to Coulter, Ingraham, Malkin, and even Tammy Bruce, an open lesbian (not that lesbians can't be beautiful). Maybe that political and life outlook is poisoning, a Dorian Gray in reverse!
I'm a white boy, and reading this disturbs me. I wonder how I would feel if I was Clarence Thomas, or Condoleeza Rice?
I wonder how I would feel if I was someone with dark skin and African lineage, an American who was working hard to make the most out the opportunity that being an American gives me.
I think I'd be pretty pissed off to think that I could rise to the top of my field, distinguish myself with rare excellence, and still have these "democrat" mouthpieces talk trash to me, and refuse to give credit where it is due. I tell you, I think every word ever uttered by any "democrat" from here on out would fall on very deaf ears. I would feel betrayed -- yes, Al Gore betrayed -- by those who have been telling me that conservatives were my enemies all along; that capitalists were trying to "enslave" me, and that white republicans saw me as an inferior species.
I would know now just who it is that is using me -- my race! -- and the struggles of my ancestors -- to further their own twisted agenda; I would know who secretly rejoices at the sickening deterioration of the black community -- because it keeps him in power; just who it is that wants me to be dependent on (read: enslaved by) him; and just who it is that really sees me as hopelessly unfit for dignity and respect, regardless of my superlative accomplishments.
The people speaking this way would have consigned themselves to be forever irrelevant to me. And I would vow to never again entrust my future, my children's future, or the future of the land I love to anyone who uttered such things ever again.
Well when you think mean,hateful thoughts it shows.
BARF-a-moto!
What's that chicken-skin underarm shaved pit wrinkled mass thing going on???
And a scowl-frown?
N-O-T A-T-T-R-A-C-T-I-V-E
Without pancake tv makeup I guess
I didn't know it was her birthday; she got a zinger of an article off in celebration. If I were a leftist (shudder), I would be so completely ashamed of the people who purport to represent me in the Democrat party.
Ahhhh! "Jimmy's Angels!"
ACK!! How could you! (Cold-cocked by cyborg in an Ann Coulter thread)
LOL
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