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....

[ladyinred]

I have almost finished the book and I am thankful to Ann for writing it. I had heard all of the propaganda for years about McCarthy and appreciate hearing the truth finally. I had started wondering about this quite some time ago and I began recognizing the communist manifesto in Democrats speeches and policies.

[Don Corleone]

Please Ann. Say it ain't so, about Joe!

IT's SO! Live with it!

[WVNan]

Another character assassination that I've never gotten over is Richard Nixon. He did not do anything wrong. Never did, no way. His aids cooked up that deal. President Nixon was a good president and did not deserve the attacks on him. clinton did deserve impeachment.

[nopardons]

Thanks for the ping. I see another supposed Conservative ( is Mr. Soupcoff really a Conservative ? ) is attacking Ann, her book, and McCarthy. What gives with these people ?

If Ann looked like Donna Shalala, it wouldn't matter to me; her outing of the left is what is of tantimount importance ! Calling her, on what she wears ( and for the ill informed male writer of this hit piece ... there are far SHORTER minis available, than what Ann wears. One of her problems is he height. Skirts aren't cut long enough for her, though women's slacks are. ), the color of her hair, and the FACTS she's set down; facts, I might add, with reams of sources.

Methinks that some of these Conervative writers are soft on Communism, don't know much history ( JFK was a " wussie " where Communism was concerned; it was his brother BOBBY, who was the hardliner !),and are just green, green, GREEN with jealousy.

[nopardons]

Thanks onyx. BTW, " RED DIAPER BABIES " are those whose parents were card carrying Commies, like David Horowitz and his pals .

[nopardons]

The lefties went after Nixon, because he ran against Helen Gahagan Brown, in California and beat her. During that campaign, he had flyers printed on PINK paper ( Helen , a sort of movie star, married to melvin Douglas ), because she WAS a fellow traveller. Then, Nixon was on the cpmmittee, in D.C., that went after Commies. Nixon, FYI, was never impeached.

[nopardons]

For far too long, the GOP has behaved like ladies and genetlemen against the damned DEm bomb throwers. You're absolutely right; the ONLY way to fight them, is with their own tactics.

[onyx]

Yes, red diaper babies are the children born of, and raised by, American Communists. David Horowitz is one.

[smoothsailing]

Ann points out the commies while leftists deny truth.

With such clarity, reality can triumph over fantasy.

I have Treason. It's a worthy read.

[nopardons]

As were every Hippie/Yippie/SDS " leader", except for Tom Hayden.

[Marysecretary]

I like Joe a lot. And I like the fact that she was given time to speak without some shrill voice over her, interrupting everything she's saying. M

[Paulus Invictus]

T'was for the author, not you! Sorry! I'll be more specific next time.

[John Lenin]

[Spirited]

"The people on the co called anti-left side who are critical of Coulter are the very people who are responsible for losing the war.

These are the incompetent generals who have been completely out- guessed out-smarted and completely routed by a more aggressive and well organised force."

Add to that cowardice and self-interest and you would only still be beginning on the description of that lot.
Many of them have gone to their "just reward" and I can only hope that it IS just because they left us in the throes of the peril which besets us now.

They not only dropped the ball they kicked it away so that no one else could reach it.

When a Coulter comes along with the courage of a biblical Deborah the illegitimate progeny of that same crowd, (standing even farther to the left)repeat the same spineless analysis and pronounce the same cowardly lies in simpering tones and expect to be admired by Conservatives for their acumen.

Those "conservatives" here standing firmly to the left of everything a Constitutionalist values are of that lot. They despoil anything they can and ridicule the rest. They will boost and lionize the most imperfect or fallen leaders of their own type but will not tolerate the acceptance of a leader like McCarthy because of his supposed shortcomings. Truth is, his "insights" were too purist, it might go "too far". They were and still are afraid of that!

If the jack ever got out of the box they know they couldn't get it stuffed back in.

It is my belief that courageous Ann Coulter has come "for such a time as this". No man had the gonads. She is following in the footsteps of stellar women like Phyllis Schlafly and whatever you do not like about her or her demeanor stuff it and get your eyes on the goal.

If you have half a hope for this nation you will also pray that some men and additional forceful women will come forward to help her to shoulder the burden of trying to buy back a nation from the slavery into which it has all but been sold.

[Carthago delenda est]

Without fully endorsing your views or those of the McCarthy-haters (I don't know enough about this subject yet to make a full decision), I must say that Ms. Coulter's book has been very interesting reading and that I am much looking forward to the large biography of Joe McCarthy that is now being produced by M. Stanton Evans. Coulter mentioned it in the preface, because she received much of her research material from Evans. If Coulter's version of the argument is any clue as to what Evans has up his sleeve, I think it's safe to say that his book will be one of the few McCarthy biographies to take full account of the decoded Venona transcripts, which establish just how severe the Communist infiltration was. As a college student and a history major, I am licking my chops over this. You think the sparks are flying now? Just wait until this comes out.

[wideawake]

It would be nice if one of these critics would give one example of what a vile sociopath McCarthy was.

He drank too much and he made some Communist sympathizers cry.

In other words, he was a lot like PJ O'Rourke, only he was a Senator.