You know that the Left is desperate for a Bush scandal when they start trotting out their failed Texas Ranger stories from four years ago...
Posted on 08/18/2003 11:46:01 PM PDT by thegreatbeast
Ann Coulter might want to steal an advance copy of Joe Conason's "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth," due out next week.
The mini-skirted mouthpiece is skewered for 23 pages as Conason, the New York Observer national correspondent, barbecues her and Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Bernard Goldberg and other angry-for-the-airwaves pundits.
Conason notes that while the 41-year-old blond may idolize anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, she isn't exactly a "model for her 'abstinence education' campaign. ... Sexual abstinence ... is for the poor rubes who stay home watching 'The 700 Club,' not for urbane young Republicans hanging out in saloons on Capitol Hill and the upper East Side."
The unabashed progressive notes that while the "perennially single, career-obsessed Coulter" wrote that liberals are "advancing a left-wing conspiracy to abolish the family" by "refusing to condemn ... promiscuity, divorce, illegitimacy, [and] homosexuality," she "dated the son of Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, and many of her closest friends are gay men."
Coulter did not respond to an E-mail. But she has company on the spit in Limbaugh, whom Conason calls "a ridiculous snob." - despite the $20 million man's claim to represent "hard-working middle Americans."
Conason writes that Limbaugh favors $2,000-a-bottle Bordeaux, and buys banned Cuban cigars on trips to London, where he stays in the snooty Connaught Hotel.
Greedy corporados, Congressional "virtuecrats" and Republican hawks who never served in combat, like John Ashcroft, Dick Cheney, Trent Lott and Karl Rove, all come in for exposure. So does President Bush, as Conason lays out the back-room details of Dubya's previous oil dealings and purchase of the Texas Rangers in this meticulously researched must-read.
"I just want people to pay attention and ask questions and not accept what I call the conventional idiocy on TV and radio," Conason tells us.
Well, this tells you that the author of this piece (which is a blatant attempt to help that silly weasel Conason sell his book) is a fellow-travelling liberal scumbag, maybe even a boyfriend.
You know that the Left is desperate for a Bush scandal when they start trotting out their failed Texas Ranger stories from four years ago...
Call me when we run out of new ideas (something that the Left has long since abandoned), and then I'll consider worrying about looking desperate or not.
But "people" don't just accept conventional idiocy, Joe. Why do you think Salon is on life-support?
The key to looking desperate is not just trotting out old stories, but in trotting out old, previously failed stories; especially when combined with a dearth of new ideas for moving forward in any semblance of a positive manner.
Ann or Conason? Ann or Conason? Ann or Conason?
Damn....it's not even a choice.
And that's NOT including their looks or beliefs: Conason behaves like a spoilt little boy.
But she has company on the spit in Limbaugh, whom Conason calls "a ridiculous snob." - despite the $20 million man's claim to represent "hard-working middle Americans."
Conason writes that Limbaugh favors $2,000-a-bottle Bordeaux, and buys banned Cuban cigars on trips to London, where he stays in the snooty Connaught Hotel.
Conason is trying to take advantage of people who don't know anything about Coulter or Limbaugh.
Rush has never been shy about talking about his overwhelming success and the trappings of it, although he -- like most multimillionaires -- don't speak in specific numbers. I was listening when he got the legendary call from the guy in Nacogdoches, TX who whined "you're not like 'us' anymore." He continues to needle those who complain about his name-dropping and asides about his golfing excursions.
It was only the vast wealth that Limbaugh has amassed that made it possible for him to continue in the radio business after his near-deaf experience.
IIRC, Coulter dedicated Slander in part to her editor, who died of AIDS before he could finish working with her on the book, and I don't ever remember Coulter saying anything about adults practicing abstinence. Anyone who read Slander knows that her admiration of the brilliant Phyllis Schlafly is not only for her moral stances, but her intelligence, determination and accomplishments.
Conason is slick as a slug. He writes bilious crap for liberals who only know about conservatives what guys like him tell them. Such dupes would think that Coulter's fans would abandon her after discovering that she has friends that are homosexuals or that Rush's fans would bristle that he doesn't drive a pickup truck and prefers fine wine to Budweiser.
By the way, it's interesting the way that the leggy blonde Ann Coulter has gotten so much media condemnation for her bomb-throwing in Slander and Treason, but the more studious and tempered book about how liberals are constantly on the wrong side of things -- the short-haired brunette Mona Charen's Useful Idiots -- is ignored.
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