Posted on 06/12/2006 6:52:54 PM PDT by NotchJohnson
I was reading Ann Coulter's "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," when all the hell broke loose last week. At that point I had not reached the chapter which contained her comments on the 9/11 widows ... so I didn't see the firestorm coming. Now we have Coulter being portrayed as an alien monster and elected officials demanding that her book be banned.
Did Ann Coulter go over the edge a bit with her comments about The Jersey Girls? Possibly. Rather than write that they were enjoying their husband's deaths in the Twin Towers, perhaps Coulter could have said that they were enjoying the attention they've been getting since the terrorist attacks. That comment would have been certainly correct, and far less inflammatory.
The fact is that in her general comments about these 9/11 widows, Coulter got it essentially right. The left most definitely has refined the technique of taking someone deserving of a great deal of public sympathy, and then turning that person into a propaganda machine for the left. The obvious goal here is to create a spokesman that cannot be attacked ... one who's essentially bulletproof. Cindy Sheehan certainly fits that bill. The left would have us believe that to attack anything said by these people is off limits due to the suffering they have experienced. We saw this very concept at work in the defense of Sheehan.
When you think about it, Hillary Clinton has even approached this bulletproof status in some ways. She's a woman, and she's a woman who has endured public humiliation at the hands of her philandering husband. As such, some would say that she is beyond criticism. We've seen examples-a-plenty where Hillary's critics have been criticized for saying such things about a woman, and a long-suffering loyal wife at that!
Back to Coulter's book. I think it is brilliant. Sure, I might not agree with her characterizations of the 9/11 widows, but the larger point she was making there was wholly valid. Throughout the entire book Coulter does an excellent job of showing liberals for what they are. It is one of the most effective and hard-hitting writings of the absurdities, inconsistencies, and outright lies of today's dominant liberal elite in this country.
That is why Ann Coulter must be destroyed!
What you saw last week .. and will see continue into this week ... is a driven attempt by the left in this country, and especially the leftist media, to so completely demonize Ann Coulter as to destroy here effectiveness as a writer and conservative pundit. The focus will continue to be on this one portion of the book relating to the professional widows, without any commentary on the thousands of other very valid points she brought up. Ann Coulter sells a hell of a lot of books. There is no liberal writer out there who comes close, a point not lost on the left.
So, how far is the left willing to go in their efforts to destroy one of our best conservative writers? Well, we now have two New Jersey Democrats (state legislators) who have announced that they want Coulter's books banned in New Jersey. That's right. Banned. They weren't happy just to urge people not to buy the book, they actually want to use the police power of the New Jersey State Government to prevent the books from being sold in the first place! This is America? They're names, by the way, are Joan Quigley and Linda Stender. We'll note that unless we have some rather odd family names at work here, they're both women. These two ladies issued a press release last Friday that was carefully crafted to contain two dominant leftist trigger words. In that release they said;
"Ann Coulter's criticism of 9-11 widows, whose only desire since the attacks have been to repair their shattered lives and protect other families from the horrors they have experienced, is motivated purely by petty greed and hate. .... Coulter's vicious characterizations and remarks are motivated by greed and her desire to sell books . . . She is a leech trying to turn a profit off perverting the suffering of others."
You got the two trigger words, didn't you? "Greed" and "hate." Remember, to a liberal, anyone who makes money in an endeavor frowned upon by liberals is "greedy" and any person who expresses an idea contrary to basic liberal dogma is preaching "hate." How shallow these people are.
At any rate ... please don't let the left scare you off. They've taken one paragraph from an excellent book and are using that section in an attempt to have Ann Coulter banished to some writer's leper colony on the dark side of the Moon. Hopefully they're boosting sales, rather than hurting them.
I will Always remember the fury from Terry McAuliffe and the dem machine over a photograph of President Bush looking out of his office window on Air Force One on September 11, 2001. McAuliffe cried foul, saying that it wasn't "fair" for the President to have such a photo, because it might be used for Republican fundraising.
In reality, that photo made President Bush such a sympathetic figure, that he would have fit the dem profile of someone who could not be challenged.
They always project what they are thinking.
An important post. The left is motivated by hate and delusion. They "feel" but they do not like to "think." That is why they can "believe" that life would be better for "everyone" if they were in power.
All we have to say to refute this postulate is to ask them to explain the failure of so many Dem-controlled cities. They cannot do it. They can only change the subject with a "yeah, but..."
I think she hit the nail dead on the head.
Those women couldn't believe their luck when, out of the blue, they were rid of the old man, wealthy beyond imagining, and the center of media attention.
Better than hitting the lottery, and Ann called them on it.
Yes it is amazing. Thanks for the response.
"As for Churchill, any institution that employs him is damaging its own reputation."
I don't know exactly how big a hit the University of Colorado has taken over Churchill over the last year.
I, for one, have returned or trashcanned every alumni letter or newsmag they've sent to me, and I'm not sure just when I'll revisit that policy decision.
The propaganda will have its effect with people who are half-paying attention. "Isn't she the one who was mean to the 9/11 widows?" But the propaganda will backfire with people who are paying attention, and they're the ones who matter as far as cultural change goes.
I'm one of them. But there's a place in the conservative movement for her. She's the perfect person to put up against the James Carvilles of the world.
I live in Manhattan and, as I have posted before, a display rack with about 2 dozen copies of the book is about 10 feet from the front door at the B&N on 86th St. between 2nd and 3rd.
Thank you for concern about my dental health, it's appreciated. I'm fine and in possession of all my own teeth at an age in excess of 70 years.
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