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Kissing Cousins....Ann Coulter
World Net Daily ^ | 19 March 2003 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 03/19/2003 5:19:45 PM PST by Rummyfan

Kissing cousins: New York literati and Nazis

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: March 19, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2003 Universal Press Syndicate

It became clear the nation was finally going to war with Iraq this week when the New York Times pulled two dozen reporters off the Augusta National Golf Club story. In a speech to the nation on Monday night, President Bush gave Saddam Hussein 48 hours to get out of Baghdad, warning that the American military was poised to remove him forcibly.

Many still held out hope that Saddam would abandon power without a fight, primarily so we could listen to liberals explain how a peaceful resolution was brought about by their urgent demands that we work through the United Nations, and had nothing to do with the fact that Saddam was surrounded by 200,000 American troops.

In response to Bush's ultimatum, Saddam's son, Uday Hussein, said Bush was stupid. He said Bush wanted to attack Iraq because of his family. And he said American boys would die. At least someone is finding the New York Times editorial page helpful these days.

In angry harangues largely indistinguishable from the one by Uday Hussein, the Democrats were also hopping mad at Bush. Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., spent 40 minutes detailing Saddam Hussein's manifest cruelties and violations of all human norms. Without breaking a sweat, Lieberman then said he could understand why the French were not bothered by these indisputable barbarisms: It was Bush's failure of "diplomacy." Bush, the clod, had failed to convince the inconvincible.

Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., said: "I'm saddened, saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war. Saddened that we have to give up one life because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country." Mostly, the Democrats were saddened that America was about to win a war.

With the nation on the verge of a glorious military triumph, liberals have had to put their predictions of a Vietnam "quagmire" on the back burner for a few weeks. Instead, they have turned with a vengeance to attacking "American arrogance." The day after President Bush's speech, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius spoke of self-defeating "American arrogance." The Post quoted "a senior U.S. official" (in newspaper jargon: "a janitor at the Pentagon") who warned of "a degree of hubris unprecedented in American history."

The New York Times' lead editorial on Tuesday also bemoaned American "hubris." One front-page article called Bush trigger-happy and another bitterly accused him of breaking a campaign pledge to preside over a "humble" America. In the 19 months since the 9-11 attack, the Times has used the phrase "American arrogance" nearly as many times (17) as in the entire 96 months of the Clinton presidency (24). Instead of American arrogance, the Times yearns for Clintonian flatulence.

There was no more eloquent testimony to what liberals mean by "American arrogance" than an article in the March 10 New Yorker, which nonchalantly quoted a Nazi in support of the proposition that Americans are jingoistic, imperialist rednecks. Amid page after gleeful page of European venom toward Americans, Columbia University professor Simon Schama quoted the anti-American bile of Norwegian writer and renowned Nazi-sympathizer Knut Hamsun.

Schama admiringly cited Hamsun's contempt for American boosterism, neglecting to mention that Hamsun went for Hitler boosterism in a big way. Beginning in the early '30s and until his death in 1952, Hamsun was absolutely smitten with Adolf Hitler. He exchanged gifts and telegrams with Goebbels and Hitler. Indeed, so enamored of Joseph Goebbels was he, that Hamsun gave Goebbels his own Nobel Prize medal.

When the Nazis invaded Norway, Hamsun wrote a newspaper column saying: "NORWEGIANS! Throw down your rifles and go home again. The Germans are fighting for us all." Tearful upon news of the Fuhrer's death, Hamsun was quoted in an obituary on Hitler saying: "I am not worthy to speak his name." He never equivocated and he never apologized.

While he issued tributes to Hitler, Hamsun wrote the ironically titled book "The Cultural Life of Modern America," which, as professor Schama sniggeringly writes, was "largely devoted to asserting its nonexistence." Hamsun called America "a strapping child-monster whose runaway physical growth would never be matched by moral or cultural maturity." It must have been a relief for Hamsun to find such genuine "cultural maturity" in Nazi Germany.

Hamsun hated America for all the reasons liberals hate America. To the delight of New York sophisticates, Hamsun once sneered at pathetic Americans marching in veterans' parades, "with tiny flags in their hats and brass medals on their chests marching in step to the hundreds of penny whistles they are blowing." America's little patriotic parades apparently compared unfavorably to a stirring Nazi war rally.

This is the essence of liberal admiration for Europeans and their pompous cultural snobbery. For proof that Americans are immature hicks in an ugly jingoistic mood, they cite a Nazi.


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KEYWORDS: anncoulter; hamsun; knuthamsun; simonschama
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Latest from Ann.......where is TLBSHOW??
1 posted on 03/19/2003 5:19:45 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
Latest from Ann.......where is TLBSHOW??

Good question. But I have an even better one:

Where's the picture?

;-)

2 posted on 03/19/2003 5:22:31 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: Rummyfan
Ann Coulter is a weapon of mass rhetorical destruction.

She gives it to these morons with both barrels. I just love her for it, too.

3 posted on 03/19/2003 5:24:10 PM PST by Reactionary
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To: Rummyfan
From the first sentence to the last....truly a rapier piece. Methinks our dear Ann is very, very angry.

Aren't we all.

4 posted on 03/19/2003 5:24:36 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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'In the 19 months since the 9-11 attack, the Times has used the phrase "American arrogance" nearly as many times (17) as in the entire 96 months of the Clinton presidency (24). Instead of American arrogance, the Times yearns for Clintonian flatulence.'

I love it!!
5 posted on 03/19/2003 5:24:57 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
Absolutely brilliant.
6 posted on 03/19/2003 5:28:09 PM PST by marktwain
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To: Rummyfan
© 2003 Universal Press Syndicate

Few things more ironic than someone who steals and posts an entire copyrighted story -- and leaves the copyright notice intact!

Normally I'd get more worked up about this kind of thing. But we all have more important stuff on our minds tonight. So I'll give you a pass. When the war is over... look out!

7 posted on 03/19/2003 5:29:25 PM PST by wizzler
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To: Rummyfan
In strict acordance with the FR by-law (paragraph 3 section II) stating all threads about or eluding to our beloved Ann Coulter must include her image, I offer the following post for the exclusive viewing pleasure of Free Republic.

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8 posted on 03/19/2003 5:30:30 PM PST by ChadGore (No matter where you go, there you are.)
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Hmmm.... Interesting. Most Americans never heard of Knut Hamsun. It is true that Hamsun was very pro-Nazi. When Hamsun attacked American "boosterism." Very similar attitudes to Sinclair Lewis. Which reminds me, I will probably be assigning a Sinclair Lewis book as part of the Freeper Reading Club in the near future. Lewis's attitude against small businessmen as culturally "uncouth" was very common back then. Hamsun is just the European version of this. Most of the Europeans that had this attitude towards Americans became either Commies or Fascists (Ezra Pound was of the latter variety).
9 posted on 03/19/2003 5:32:36 PM PST by PJ-Comix (A Person With No Sense Of Humor Is Someone Who Confuses The Irreverent With The Irrelevant)
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For proof that Americans are immature hicks in an ugly jingoistic mood, they cite a Nazi.

Wow, nobody tells it like it is like Ann Coulter. I'd love to meet this lady sometime.

10 posted on 03/19/2003 5:34:50 PM PST by Future Snake Eater
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From the first sentence to the last....truly a rapier piece. Methinks our dear Ann is very, very angry.

But she makes me very, very happy. She is great!

11 posted on 03/19/2003 5:35:19 PM PST by Temple Owl
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To: ChadGore
In strict acordance with the FR by-law (paragraph 3 section II) stating all threads about or eluding to our beloved Ann Coulter must include her image, I offer the following post for the exclusive viewing pleasure of Free Republic.

Thank you. I was becoming concerned.

12 posted on 03/19/2003 5:35:34 PM PST by Blennos (hoste, opto ut seis felicior.)
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To: Rummyfan
As always, Ms. Coulter nails 'em. I am surprised, however, that she didn't mention Ohio State Univesity Law School Proffessor Dan Boyle, who along with a few of our Democratic chums in the House of Representatives, drafting up an article of impeachment for President Bush. This rude creep was invited to speak on Dennis Prager's show in the last hour; after Dennis actually challenged him on a crucial point, he hung up on him. He later was Michael Medved's guest in the opening hour of his show; I don't know if Boyle hung up on him, too (I left my car), but I certainly don't doubt it.

-Regards, T.
13 posted on 03/19/2003 5:36:25 PM PST by T Lady (.Freed From the Dimocratic Shackles since 1992)
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To: T Lady
I'm ashamed that my alma mater employs such a whack-job. But dang, we sure have a great football team!
14 posted on 03/19/2003 5:41:03 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: PJ-Comix
One must admit, Ann gives new meaning to the description of mid-America as the 'booboisie'.
15 posted on 03/19/2003 5:48:43 PM PST by headsonpikes ("They seek him here, they seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere!")
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To: Rummyfan
"Clintonian flatulence."

Would that be of the Loud And Deadly (LAD) variety, or the Silent But Deadly (SBD) variety. My money's on the latter.
16 posted on 03/19/2003 5:50:03 PM PST by ricpic
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To: Rummyfan
Kissing cousins
17 posted on 03/19/2003 5:53:22 PM PST by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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To: PJ-Comix
Hamsun is an interesting case. His first book, Hunger, remains a classic to this day and is not dated at all. On the other hand there is a nihilist element in all his work, which got worse with age.
18 posted on 03/19/2003 5:57:09 PM PST by ricpic
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To: Rummyfan
It became clear the nation was finally going to war with Iraq this week when the New York Times pulled two dozen reporters off the Augusta National Golf Club story.

Ann has written some great lines but this is one of the funniest
19 posted on 03/19/2003 5:57:33 PM PST by uncbob ( building tomorrow)
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To: Rummyfan; All

click the pic

20 posted on 03/19/2003 5:57:37 PM PST by perfect stranger (I like to leave this area blank.)
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