Posted on 08/25/2010 2:38:32 PM PDT by Syncro
MSNBC SWEARS TO ALLAH THAT OBAMA'S NOT A MUSLIM
August 25, 2010
MSNBC's Monday programming was dedicated to denouncing Sen. Mitch McConnell's response to a question about whether Obama is a Muslim.
McConnell said: "We all have to rely on the word of (Barack Obama) -- something about as reliable as a credit default swap."
No, I'm sorry, that's what The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan said about whether Trig Palin was really Sarah Palin's child.
McConnell responded by demanding that Obama be fired -- or at least have his security clearance suspended.
No, no -- wrong again: That was Sen. John Kerry and Sen. Chuck Schumer, respectively, not taking Karl Rove at his word when he said he had not released Valerie Plame's name to the press. (It turned out Rove was telling the truth; it was Richard Armitage, and it wasn't a crime.)
What McConnell actually said in response to the Muslim question was: "The president says he's a Christian. I take him at his word. I don't think that's in dispute."
Over at MSNBC, that's Republican code for: "He's a Muslim!"
North Korean TV's Ed Schultz hysterically babbled: "McConnell gave cover. That's what he did. He gave cover to all those low information voters out there who still believe this garbage about President Obama being a Muslim. ... The Republican leadership just loves to feed the fire."
Chris Matthews was so impressed with Schultz's nonsensical argument that he spent the entire hour on NKTV's "Hardball" making the same one: McConnell had expressed insufficient fervor when he said he believed Obama was a Christian! (Perhaps if McConnell had added something about a thrill running up his leg ...)
The statement "I take him at his word," Matthews said, was a "pitch-perfect dog whistle to the haters." He continued: "Yes, sure, whatever he says. Right. This is not about belief. It's an accusation that President Obama is not one of us. The right wing's attempt to de-Americanize the president."
What else is there besides Obama's word? If Obama suddenly announced that he was a Muslim -- or a Buddhist -- what evidence would Matthews cite to prove him wrong?
Meanwhile, liberals absolutely refuse to take Republicans at their word when they identify their own children. Or deny leaking a low-level CIA functionary's name to the press.
Or when they deny they are racists.
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
LOL. I had no idea. “Looks”! Now *that* is Kool.
LOL. Thanks, andy58-in-nh!!
LOL. When I smoked, it was Kools!
I have no idea if he was baptized or not. My points stand rather he was or wasn't.
If Republicans played by liberal rules, they'd just call Obama a racist, who leaked Valerie Plame's name to the press, is not Sasha's father, and smokes Newports, not Kools.
Ann's latest column!
Let me know if you'd like to be added to the Ann Coulter ping list.
e-mail from Ann: (of course, they know I’m not changing my mind on gay marriage even though I like gays.)As I posted on several of the "homocon" threads:
This is at the heart of the problem, that Ann truly LIKES many gay people -- and THEY really like her.Many social conservatives seem to fear that Ann's close association with gay people on such a PERSONAL level will eventually effect her on a POLITICAL level...
...and they are concerned that Ann will have a "Ted Olson"-like conversion to the Dark Side.TED OLSON, as you may recall, is the widower of Ann's very good friend BARBARA OLSON -- who died on 9/11 in the hijacked plane that hit the Pentagon.
But recently, the previously conservative Ted Olson led the legal battle to get California's Proposition 8 (which defined marriage as only being between "one man and one woman") overturned in the courts...ANN, however, has shown NO similar signs of "going wobbly" on us -- beyond the fact that she has many gay friends and admirers....and he seems to have been influenced to support gay marriage by his new lefty wife.
...Ann truly LIKES many gay people -- and THEY really like her..Here's a (somewhat garbled) account of what Ann said a few months ago -- at a "question and answer" session after her speech at UCLA:
...Ann Coulter likes gay people. She has lots of gay friends!Having heard Ann speak in this kind of forum in the past, I'm sure that HER actual words and delivery were MUCH BETTER than this left-leaning graduate student's paraphrasing would indicate....So many gays support her that if you went to West Hollywood and said you didn't like her, all the hair stylists would refuse to cut your hair.
But she doesn't want them to marry.
They don't want to marry, they told her themselves. They just support gay marriage because it's a nice symbol of public acceptance.
Isn't that the whole point of being gay anyway, that you don't have to marry?
She's not anti-gay, she's just pro-family.
She also opposes single mothers. Did you know that such and such criminal was raised by a single mother?
Who knows what weird stuff will happen to children raised by gay couples?
...but I think that her position on gay marriage comes through CRYSTAL CLEAR.
add me! Thanks
As Mark Steyn said so much more eloquently than I ever could, you may not always agree with Ann's emotion-inducing TACTICS... ...but it's hard to argue with the RESULTS that she gets for our side.You are absolutely right to quote Steyn on this.
I was a little angry at Ann for awhile at what I perceived to be her over-reaction to the whole WND thing... but I'm over that and wow, with this article posted here on this thread, wow, all I can say is she is so good. So, so good at what she does.
I was a little angry at Ann for awhile at what I perceived to be her over-reaction to the whole WND thing...I understand. ;)but I'm over that and
wow, with this article posted here on this thread, wow,
all I can say is she is so good.
So, so good at what she does.
Ann is the MASTER at "provoking an emotional response" -- to force people to examine the core beliefs...
...and she's having a LOT of fun tweaking the "PC police" on BOTH sides of this issue.The NEXT time that you get angry at Ann, read a few her OLDER columns at random, to remind yourself of what a treasure she is -- here:
anncoulter.com/cgi-local/archives.cgi
I swear, when I first read your comment, I thought you had written ...
"...WAY "above his gay parade."
Then, when I re-read it and recognized my mistake, I thought, "Well, what's the difference?"
You're on!
:o)
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