Posted on 06/08/2006 10:59:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bingo.
Good insight!
Thank you so much for posting this.
Ann is the vanguard right now against Victimhood politics. Rather daring--and iconoclastic in the classic sense of the word--if she succeeds in this volley against the leftist Sacred Cow, she'll have done quite a job for us in the rhetorical battle against liberalism.
Terrorist use innocent humans as targets and shields. The left uses victims as targets and shields. A common denominator of enemies of the Republic.
My first rection to Ann's words were shock and outrage as well. But then on closer examination, it is one of those statements that sounds horrible taken out of context, but is reasonable in the larger discussion.
I hadn't followed the 911 group of 4 like I have Cindy Sheehan. I find Sheehan's behavior despicable and a dishonor to her late son.
So Ann wasn't attacking all of the victim's of 911, just those that are using their victim status to push a defeatist political agenda. And the larger point is that these "human shields" are the foundation of the left's strategy to win symapathy for their defeatist position.
Ann has challenged the sanctity of the victim propogandist. Letterman asks "How can anyone question Cindy Sheehan?" Very easily, when her statements are examined. Zarqwi was no freedom fighter despite what Sheehan says, and her and any other person's defeatist drivel can and should be attacked.
Mark Gauvreau Judge has a "fissure" in his perinium for whatever is in fashion to be inserted there to suit him via the MSM.
Hey, don't fall for the liberal crap... What Ann is saying is to the point and factual. If the MSM and other disagree, then let them, but do not give in to the PC line about the widows.
Their latest response is consistant with their past drippings and is just another example of how leftists worship their god of liberalism.
Liberals daily reveal their spirituality (their lack of true spirituality) by putting liberal politics above all that is sacred.
You were right in the initial show at Ann's words...but if you stop and try to understand what she is trying to get accross, you will agree that she is right... The MSM is always pushing the liberal widow viewpoint and they can NOT be questioned since they are 9/11 widows... Hmmm...
It seems to me that if you are the victim of some tragedy, your opinion about related political issues shouldn't be elevated, but regarded with more suspicion. Your emotions could get in the way of clear thinking if you're a victim. Too many people already have trouble telling the difference between thinking and emoting.
I wasn't shocked by the 'offending statement' even taken out of context as the lefties have tried to do..... Because I noticed the very same things myself during the 911 Commission hearings and later during the Kerry Campaign.
I really wasn't planning on reading 'Godless' much less purchasing it until I heard the reactions and statements of Hillary, Letterman, and the usual leftist suspects AS WELL AS those of some of the pundits that are normally kind of on the conservative / libertarian side.
So, I ran out to Walmart and bought a copy of it this afternoon. So, You lefties and pseudo-conservatives can pat yourselves on the back for making your hated Walmart, Crown Publishing and Ann Coulter all a little richer than they otherwise would have been.
15 pages into the book, and all I can say to them is "Thanks for making me buy a book that I am quite enjoying".
I guess I wasn't shocked because I knew immediately what she meant...and I agreed with her. My first thought was "it's about damned time!"
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Rolling Stone cover photo (taken on the deck of one of their multi-mill buck mansions?)....
I wasn't shocked either, in fact the first thing I thought of was Murtha.
"Vote for John Edwards.. He uses a ton of hairspray like me!"
I had allowed the spin doctors on the left to tap into my dignity and use it in a most insidious way to shroud my judgment with phony victims..
If I had any doubt, I watched Nick Berg's father, Michael Berg, blame George W. Bush for his son's death, and not Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, even though we all witnessed his brutal beheading at the hands of al-Zarqawi..
These liberals are not to be trusted or believed because they HATE! THEY HATE AMERICA AND THEY HATE US, but most of all they hate THEMSELVES!
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