Posted on 06/06/2006 6:45:50 AM PDT by bigsky
In an exclusive interview with HUMAN EVENTS, Ann Coulter explains what motivated her to write her just-released book Godless: The Church of Liberalism (Crown Forum, 2006), how faith played a role, what “virtues” the Church of Liberalism promotes and much more.
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What led you to write Godless: The Church of Liberalism?
It’s the third of a trilogy. Slander was about liberals’ methods, Treason was about the political consequences of liberalism, and Godless is about the underlying mental disease that creates liberalism.
How did your own faith contribute to your book’s premise?
Although my Christianity is somewhat more explicit in this book, Christianity fuels everything I write. Being a Christian means that I am called upon to do battle against lies, injustice, cruelty, hypocrisy—you know, all the virtues in the church of liberalism. As St. Paul said, if Christ is not risen from the dead, then eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
How do you think Godless will be received by conservatives? How about liberals?
Hmmmm, well, I think conservatives will say, “Oh I see. They’re Godless. Now I understand liberals.” Liberals will say, “Who-less”?
In Godless, you mention that a far greater number of children are sexually abused each year by educators than by priests. You also write about the sex-education programs in public schools. What suggestions do you have for parents on dealing with these issues?
As an emergency measure: home school. As a long term solution: encourage your home-schooled children to become public school teachers and destroy the temple of liberalism.
A large portion of the book addresses the left’s contempt for science. Why do you think the left is uneasy with the scientific facts you discuss regarding AIDS, gender differences, IQ and embryonic and adult stem-cell research?
Because science is not susceptible to their crying and hysterics.
Why do you think the left uses mouthpieces like Cindy Sheehan and Max Cleland to advance their message?
So they can engage in crying and hysterics and hope this will prevent us from responding.
George Clooney said that it was difficult making his movie Good Night and Good Luck because so many people had read your book, Treason, which exposed the truth about Soviet agents in the U.S. government and exonerated Sen. Joseph McCarthy. What impact do you hope Godless will have on the political scene and people’s misconceptions about evolution?
I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions, like the Cargo Cult of the South Pacific. Practitioners of Cargo Cult believed that manufactured products were created by ancestral spirits, and if they imitated what they had seen the white man do, they could cause airplanes to appear out of the sky, bringing valuable cargo like radios and TVs. So they constructed “airport towers” out of bamboo and “headphones” out of coconuts and waited for the airplanes to come with the cargo. It may sound silly, but in defense of the Cargo Cult, they did not wait as long for evidence supporting their theory as the Darwinists have waited for evidence supporting theirs.
You frequently write about liberals’ using the courts to advance their agenda. Should conservatives start doing the same by electing and embracing conservative activist judges?
Only long enough to get liberals to admit that judicial activism isn’t so much fun when the rabbit has the gun.
As a popular speaker on college campuses, you’ve become very familiar with the “apple-polishers” and their liberal professors. What can conservative students do to combat liberalism on their campuses?
I recommend bringing a tape-recorder to class, taking lots of notes and then writing a bestselling book like my friend Ben Shapiro’s Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth. If every right-wing student reading this wrote a book about his college experience, they would all be bestsellers because normal Americans will not believe what is happening on college campuses across America.
What do you enjoy most about your life as a best-selling author and columnist? What do you enjoy the least?
Enjoy most: the prospect of having an impact on the public debate. Irritating liberals is a close second. Enjoy least: the travel.
In your column following the terrorist attacks on September 11, you revealed that when you wrote your columns, you pictured Ted and Barbara Olson reading them at their breakfast table. How does having such a specific audience help you while writing?
When I was writing High Crimes and Misdemeanors, the magnificent writer Joe Sobran gave me the greatest advice a writer could ever get. I called him in desperation, because I was pulling my hair out trying to write the Whitewater chapter. I explained to him that the reason Whitewater was so hard to write about was that the financial transactions comprising Whitewater were incredibly complicated—and they were complicated for a reason: to hide what was really going on. After I whined for about five minutes about how impossible this made it to explain the scandal, Joe told me to write down exactly what I had just said to him—in fact, to write the entire chapter like I was writing an e-mail to him. I did, and the Economist (written by the only economists on earth who liked Hillary’s health care plan) described it as one of the clearest explanations of the Whitewater scandal out there.
So now I write everything like I’m e-mailing one of my friends—often a friend I’ve been arguing with about whatever I am writing. I think the writing is better, and it’s a lot more fun.
Also, I noticed that when I e-mailed my friends asking them to explain some point of law to me so I could put it in my book, I’d get a lot of convoluted jargon that read like an 18th-Century legal brief. But when I sent them an e-mail casually asking, “Hey, what do you think of William Ginsberg [Monica Lewinsky’s attorney]?” I would get back some of the most beautiful prose ever written. So I recommend to all writers that they write like they’re sending an e-mail to a friend—or enemy, for some really punchy writing.
What books do you look forward to reading this summer?
I think I’ll just keep reading Godless over and over again. I love it so!
SEAN HANNITY and ANN COULTER to broadcast LIVE from New York:
"Godless" book signing WEDNESDAY 6/7
www.bookrevue.com ^
Posted on 06/04/2006 1:27:31 PM PDT by RonDog
From www.bookrevue.com:
Wednesday, June 7th
SEAN HANNITY and ANN COULTER LIVE RADIO BROADCAST2pm – 5pm
SEAN HANNITY will be broadcasting his WABC radio show live from Book Revue with guest ANN COULTER to launch the release of her new book Godless.
BOOK SIGNING WITH ANN COULTER 5pm
ANN COULTER will be signing copies of Godless immediately following the broadcast.CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
On The Seventh Day, God Rested And Liberals Schemed
(Godless Special Preview Alert)
Townhall.com ^ | 06/06/06 | Ann Coulter
Posted on 06/05/2006 10:06:45 PM PDT by goldstategop
GODLESS: The Church of Liberalism, Chapter One On the Seventh Day, God Rested and Liberal Schemed
They exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator. . . . Therefore, God gave them up to passions of dishonor; for their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature.—Romans 1:25–26
Liberals love to boast that they are not “religious,” which is what one would expect to hear from the state-sanctioned religion. Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as “religion.”
Under the guise of not favoring religion, liberals favor one cosmology over another and demand total indoctrination into theirs. The state religion of liberalism demands obeisance (to the National Organization for Women), tithing (to teachers’ unions), reverence (for abortion), and formulaic imprecations (“Bush lied, kids died!” “Keep your laws off my body!” “Arms for hostages!”). Everyone is taxed to support indoctrination into the state religion through the public schools, where innocent children are taught a specific belief system, rather than, say, math.
Liberal doctrines are less scientifically provable than the story of Noah’s ark, but their belief system is taught as fact in government schools, while the Biblical belief system is banned from government schools by law. As a matter of faith, liberals believe: Darwinism is a fact, people are born gay, child-molesters can be rehabilitated, recycling is a virtue, and chastity is not. If people are born gay, why hasn’t Darwinism weeded out people who don’t reproduce? (For that, we need a theory of survival of the most fabulous.) And if gays can’t change, why do liberals think child-molesters can? Pedophilia is a sexual preference. If they’re born that way, instead of rehabilitation, how about keeping them locked up? Why must children be taught that recycling is the only answer? Why aren’t we teaching children “safe littering”?
We aren’t allowed to ask...
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Thanks. The above sentence is... pure Coulter.
The apparent contempt for the scientific observations of evolution would appear to be not confined exclusively to the left.
The LEFT generally promotes evolution, and by the way teaches it in all the major colleges of the U.S. (and the World).. The LEFT HAS NO contempt for evolution..
Have you ever considered that this might fit into the category of, "Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while."
The left supports evolution because they consider it, um, "Godless". But their support does not make it erroneous.
I have always contended that God has evolution as one of the tools in his toolbox, just as His Son had a plane, chisel, and mallet in his ... at least for a while.
Does me using spell check also make me a RINO? I'm sorry I missed the piles of scientific evidence indicating the Earth was created 4000 years ago and that natural selection and fossil records are a bunch of bunk. She makes valid points up there about liberal judges and academia, but Ann makes conservatives look like a bunch of unscientific morons by saying evolution is stupid and suggesting Biblical creationism!
You seem to have missed something.. Liberals have a mental disease, you know addled... And cannot understand her books.. Ann Coulter is the leanest meanest RINO EXPOSER ever enjoin the task..
ALL of Ann's books are about exposeing RINOs.. Liberals are not not worth the effort they are Nutz you see.. Many RINOs are hiding in conservative ranks... RINOs, you see, ARE LIBERALS.. Coulter is not a religious shaman she is a RINO EXPOSER and knows where all the RINOs buttons are...
Got exposed eh?... LoL.. She a genious..
Rush is right. Being out of power for so long, Conservatives had to refine their philosophy and arguments. Liberals had no need for this, being in power and with the MSM carrying their water. Thus, when faced with a debate with well-conditioned Conservatives, the out-of-condition Liberals retreat to ad hominem attack. In so doing, they lose EVERY argument.
Exactly.. Ann knows where all the liberals(and RINOs) buttons are.. She is quite SMART..
Both liberals and RINOS crawl out from under rocks when Ann Coulter writes ANYTHING.. Which is EXACTLY what she is trying to accomplish.. They EXPOSE themselves TO US by their responses.. Pure genious..
Yeah, not agreeing 100% with Coulter makes someone a RINO.
/sarcasm/
"The left supports evolution because they consider it, um, "Godless". But their support does not make it erroneous."
BINGO. They are correct, but for the wrong reason.
Kind of like Saddam hating Iran.
You seem to be conflating an argument where none exists.
I would not make the rash assumption that all conservatives who support evolution are some kind of Republicans In Name Only ... just as I would not conclude that a person who consistently misspells the word Genius is missing a few cards from his mental deck.
A) I didn't.. you don't read good...
B) Genius was a canard to attract your attention and gall.. it worked..
c) Internet spelling nannies are weak people..
WRONG.. being forced to comment negativly on Coulterisms makes you a RINO..
Republicans lament to themselves "nobody is 100% correct on anything"..
Shes the leanest meanist RINO exposer of ALL TIME...
And its beautiful to observe.. RINOs spitting into the wind..
Yes, I'm sure that could be it. I don't read good.
Please, continue with your creative spelling techniques in order to expose more weak-minded fools such as myself.
"WRONG.. being forced to comment negativly on Coulterisms makes you a RINO."
Ah, so all conservatives must remain silent if they disagree with Coulter or they are a RINO.
Yes, a typically brilliant conclusion. /sarcasm/
O.K. thanks for the confidence.. d;-)~',',
Actually conservative(as a word) means same old, same old.. i.e. "More of the same"
Not all conservatives are conservatives.. some are radicals..
You know, that want radical change in persistent democrat party socialism.. NoN radical conservatives ARE RINOs.. Basically BIG Givernment conservatives.. i.e. "more of the same"..
Coulter EXPOSES all that.. She divides conservatives from conservatives.. i.e. those cross dressed as republicans.. She exposes the queer conservatives.. Liberals dressed in conservative clothing.. There are many.. (very confused people)..
RINOs upon getting themselves sliced and diced by her..
GROAN with groanings to too DEEP for a RINO to hear..
THATS the beauty of it.. schere beauty.. almost prose..
I am sure Coulter feels wonderful having such brilliant acolytes as you supporting her.
Your razor sharp observations really add a lot to the discussion of serious issues.
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