TAKE NO PRISONERS: THE ANTI-LEFTLIB CRUSADE OF ANN COULTER

http://www.iconoclast.ca/newPage1.asp#DN ^ | July 8. 2003 | Murray Soupcoff (The Iconoclast)

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TAKE NO PRISONERS: THE ANTI-LEFTLIB CRUSADE OF ANN COULTER
-- Please Ann, say it ain't so, about Joe!....



July 8 2003: Wow talk about hot! Ann Coulter is sizzling. She's got herself another best-seller on the NY Times best-seller list ("Treason"). She's got thousands of enthusiastic conservative young men panting with lust every time she pops up on Fox, CNN, MSNBC or Good Morning America to flail the leftist establishment, flaunting her long blonde locks, her ever-present plunging neckline and her very tart tongue. And she's got liberal pundits steaming, as she takes after hypocritical liberals, Hollywood peaceniks and Democrats with a witty vengeance.

"Take no prisoners" seems to be the watchword of Ms. Coulter's war on the left. And whether it's Katie Couric or Chris Matthews, Ann usually leaves her interrogators spluttering with outrage and incredulity. In fact, while promoting her new book, nasty Ann even cattily told Diane Sawyer that Hillary Clinton would have an unfair three-to-one weight advantage over Ann in any dustup between the two. She made it clear there's a reason that dowdy Hillary sticks to pants suits, versus the slinky Ms. Coulter who prefers the miniest of mini skirts as her usual dress mode.

Of course, viewing Hillary in a Coulter-style mini skirt might be enough to put male voters off sex for several years -- it's bad enough that Americans have been subjected to the unflattering sight of Mrs. Clinton's thick ankles for almost a decade. So perhaps Diane Sawyer was judicious in quickly changing the subject.

However, if Ann Coulter, the sexy conservative Queen of Mean, has one achilles heel, it's her propensity for overstated hyperbole. Over the top doesn't aptly describe some of Ann Coulter's statements about politics and history. After all, it takes a certain inclination to the outrageous to transform America's most notorious psycho senator and D.C. drunk, Joe -- "there's a Commie in every American cupboard " -- McCarthy, into an American folk hero -- never mind implying that such stalwart anti-Communist Democrats such as John F. Kennedy and Harry Truman were the equivalent of wussy fellow travellers of America's commie traitors.

Now before we go any further, let's get one thing straight. In this case, one can indeed praise the message (from Senator Joe) -- that the liberal Democratic establishment of the 1930's and 1940's allowed itself to be naively infiltrated by communist (Soviet) sympathizers, many of whom were spying for the tyrannical and murderous regime of Joseph Stalin, or accepting financial support from the same repressive dictatorship. But surely if one wishes to remain loyal to the historical record, it's still appropriate to want to metaphorically shoot the messenger bearing that message, Senator Joe McCarthy -- a sociopathic Washington ruffian who wished nothing more than to gain further political advantage and power by terrorizing the innocent as well as the guilty through his Commiet-baiting crusade.

Talk about making it up as you go along. Even though his basic message actually merited attention, Tailgunner Joe sullied it with so many lies and exaggerations that today he would qualify for a job as a New York Times correspondent. Certainly, by the time of his downfall, Senator Joseph MacCarthy had become the Jayson Blair of American anti-communism, demeaning his message with a litany of falsified fantasy and fiction....

[Marysecretary]

Nah, she can have mine....grin! Of course, my three handsome blond sons would probably not want to think of her as MOM!

[Gunrunner2]

I volunteer to help!

[Hatteras]

"Ann's picture's out of focus. I'll keep my wisecracks about going blind to myself for once."

Whew... I thought it was just me.

But, but, Dad! Can't I just do it 'til I need glasses?!

[zoen]

Someone please POST a better picture than that the fuzzy one. Come one.

[evets]

[Argh]

"You go out and get a job to pay for those glasses and it's fine with me. Just don't let your momma catch you at it."

[stop_fascism]

I agree, a very good read. They footnotes are a good source for further reading.

It would be nice if one of these critics would give one example of what a vile sociopath McCarthy was. They never do. They seem to believe that if you call someone enough names, you can destroy his reputation. Oh, isn't that what they accuse McCarthy of doing.

[PISANO]

Joe was demonized by the COMMIE LOVING LEFT, and made a fool by the COMMIE LOVING MEDIA, he was a flawed human but his 'rantings' were PROVED correct by the Venona projects recent release of Top Secret papers. The COMMIE LOVING LEFT and the COMMIE LOVING MEDIA owe Joe an apology. Don't hold your breath.

[Rate_Determining_Step]

> The photo there resembles Sarah Michelle Gellar, another conserva-babe.

Huh? Buffy is a conservative?!

[bray]

He's right, the Rats have NEVER supported ANY Communist dicators. They never supported Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Gorbechev, Pol Pot, Castro, Che Cuevera, Ortega, Saddam... No there is no pattern of Communist sympathizing at all. McCarthy was just a drunk, sociopathic paranoid.

Ann Rox!

Pray for GW and the Truth

[exDemMom]

Ann's book was excellent and meticulously referenced. I read it in less than 2 days. Murray Soupcoff should have taken a few hours to read it himself before writing this. He might have had something a little different to say.

[exDemMom]

The photo there resembles Sarah Michelle Gellar, another conserva-babe.

Is she? Although an engaging show, Buffy sometimes dipped into annoying PCness. I have never heard that the star is a conservative; if so, then I like her even more! We definitely need more role-models for girls out there who are not screeching, hysterical, loony leftists (e.g. Babs Streisand).

[Paulus Invictus]

Well, you idiot, if you had actually read the book and the references, you might just understand that Coulter is right about Joe and every other commie RAT she mentions in the book. The book is terrific and puts the traitorous RATS in the spot light of truth. RATS can't stand the truth.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for posting the full text, RD !

[RonDog]

Well, you idiot, if you had actually read the book and the references, you might just understand that Coulter is right about Joe and every other commie RAT she mentions in the book. The book is terrific and puts the traitorous RATS in the spot light of truth. RATS can't stand the truth.

I asssume that your post to ME is intended to be directed at the AUTHOR of the article which formed the basis of this thread.

Please do not shoot the MESSENGER. :o)

I only posted the FULL TEXT of that article, without comment.

(Non-"L.A. Times/Washington Post" excerpts drive me NUTS.)

[RonDog]

Thanks. :o)

[RaceBannon]

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[Rummyfan]

Come on! Susan Ostrich, Nadine Stosser, Katrina Vandendevil!

[quark]

Come on! Susan Ostrich, Nadine Stosser, Katrina Vandendevil!

I know. The mental picture is more than I can....gulp...choke...BARFFFF!!!! Sorry...

[Argh]

My sight's returning! It's a miracle! Thanks, Race!