Ann Coulter: BUSH PAYS HOMAGE TO THE FETISHISTIC RITUALS OF LIBERALISM

Yahoo ^ | Wed Jun 19, 7:01 PM ET | Ann Coulter

[Keyes For President]

Interrupting the endless 30-year Watergate retrospective and getting back to the war for a moment, I've noticed that liberals are having trouble making any good arguments against Bush, so I thought I'd help them out this week.

In the third presidential debate, George Bush responded to a question about racial profiling by spontaneously denouncing the profiling of Arabs at airports: "Arab Americans are racially profiled ... people are stopped, and we've got to do something about that."

Admittedly, this was before Sept. 11. If Arabs were being stopped at airports before Sept. 11 -- and that's a big if -- that was probably wrong. There had been only one terrorist attack here in America by Arabs -- the bomb at the World Trade Center in 1993. (This is excluding Sirhan Sirhan, the first Muslim to bring the classic religion-of-peace protest to American shores, when, in support of the Palestinians, he assassinated Robert Kennedy.)

But now it's after Sept. 11, we're at war, and Bush is still vexed about profiling Arabs.

Last week, Bush's Department of Transportation required airport security to search former Vice President Al Gore ( news - web sites). There's a lot not to like about Al Gore, but he's not a terrorist. Gore said he was glad he was searched. Why? So that a potential terrorist could be spared the trouble?

Searching Al Gore is a purely religious act. It is the purposeless, fetishistic performance of rituals in accordance with the civic religion of liberalism.

It's not just Bush's Department of Transportation swearing fealty to the left's civic religion. A few weeks ago, FBI ( news - web sites) Director Robert Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee ( news - web sites) that "immediately after Sept. 11" when the FBI was trying to stop "a second wave of terrorists out there," FBI policy was this: "We were not looking for individuals of any particular religion or from any particular country."

Evidently, the only people the Bush administration thinks it appropriate to search are angry men with smoke pouring out of their trousers.

Fortunately, Fitzpatrick and O'Malley out on the street appear to have had a different idea about whom to roust after Sept. 11. If not, then valiant and hardworking FBI agents are to be commended for their rapid surveillance of 280 million Americans -- cheerleaders, dentists, nursing home residents, Amish, performance artists, professional baseball players and so on -- before settling on about a thousand Muslim men to detain.

If it weren't a laughable lie, Mueller should be fired for demanding that FBI agents chastely ignore religion and nationality when investigating terrorism.

But instead of calling for Mueller's head, Democrats on the committee demanded that Mueller issue yet more ritualistic professions of faith in liberalism's civic religion. Only a religious cult would require people to appear before committees and say things that are demonstrably false.

Mueller dutifully complied, repeatedly assuring the assembled clergy that "The bureau is against -- has been and will be against -- any form of profiling." He said the new guidelines do not address "members of a particular group and not members of a particular political persuasion or anything along those lines."

Galileo put up more of a fight.

In his inimitable Stalinist way, Sen. Russell Feingold demanded that no one at the FBI even consider whether racial profiling might have prevented 9/11. Liberals treat racial profiling like the Victorians treated sex. It is not a topic that may be discussed, except to recoil in horror at the practice.

Feingold said he was "very troubled" at seeing government officials "quoted in the press saying that they believe concerns of being accused of racial profiling led the FBI to not act on the Phoenix memo."

The Phoenix memo was the one noting that a lot of Middle Eastern men were enrolled in American flight schools. Inasmuch as all of the leaders of the terrorist attack were Arabs in American flight schools, it's not crazy to think that an aggressive investigation of Arabs in American flight schools might have thwarted the attack.

When Mueller came back with some flaccid response, saying he had heard an "indication" of "a possible concern" about racial profiling, Feingold imperiously informed the director: "I was hoping for a different answer." Not the truth -- just a different answer. The only thing he left out was "Comrade."

Muslim terrorists are trying to nuke Manhattan, and the Senate is conducting Soviet show trials on whether anyone at the FBI is wistfully daydreaming about racial profiling.

Relentlessly pursuing incipient thought crimes at the FBI, Feingold pronounced it "a distortion" to suggest that acting on the Phoenix memo would have constituted racial profiling. The memo, he said, "contained specific information about specific individuals."

The specific information was this: A lot of Middle Eastern men were attending American flight schools. Excising the portion of that statement that liberals refuse to consider -- Middle Eastern men -- the only "specific information" is: "People were attending flight schools."

These are the lunatics the Bush administration is hoping to propitiate by refusing to engage in racial profiling. If an attack comes, I assure you: No one will be praising Bush for abiding by the rules of the cult and carefully searching Al Gore.

[ArneFufkin]

Hey Reg,

Why don't you put together a cartoon that translates Ann's gibberish above for the benefit of English speaking kids. Does Babblefish have a "Peyote-English" translator? Your maid seems silly .. this thing is not defenseable and no Bush supporter is able to be legitimately satirized here. There's no allegation to even defend. Well, I'm pretty sure that Russ Feingold is not a Stalinist. He's always been a Trotsky kinda guy in my judgement.

Unless you wish to enlighten me on what the eff she's saying that makes me blind to Bush's blunders? Cuz I'm needin 'splainin Lucy.

[ArneFufkin]

You like to make things simple don't you?

[Registered]

Bush supporter is able to be legitimately satirized here.

You lost me there..huh? ;-)

[ArneFufkin]

You're lost?

OK, let's see if you can speak and construct cartoons?

What is the specific charge against George W. Bush here? I'll expect some cartoon back, Harpo.

[ArneFufkin]

Sorry, forgot the ;^)

You are one of the few funny and insightful people disemboweling my President and master, I don't want to piss ya off. Your stuff makes me laugh and go "bastard". That's good!

[TLBSHOW]

I think this article was written under duress.


Oh come on it's the same style that she writes in when slamming the commie liberals!

[TLBSHOW]

WE ARE AT WAR WITH ISLAM


Searching Al Gore is a purely religious act.

It is the purposeless, fetishistic performance of rituals in accordance with the civic religion of liberalism.

It's not just Bush's Department of Transportation swearing fealty to the left's civic religion.

A few weeks ago, FBI ( news - web sites) Director Robert Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee ( news - web sites) that "immediately after Sept. 11" when the FBI was trying to stop "a second wave of terrorists out there," FBI policy was this: "We were not looking for individuals of any particular religion or from any particular country."

Evidently, the only people the Bush administration thinks it appropriate to search are angry men with smoke pouring out of their trousers.


,.,.,.

We know who the terrorist is, it is Islam. Not old ladies.

[Rockitz]

You realize, of course, that no matter how much the president believes that Arabs should be profiled, he cannot say so. The ACLU would throw lawsuits at our country so fast, it would make our collective heads spin. The profiling will occur as it has been and there will be no written or spoken policy otherwise- at least nothing that would stand up in a court of law and that's the point in this case. Hey, Bush bashers, RELAX!!!!

[Dick Bachert]

Reg, here's ANOTHER mess for her to clear away.

[Endeavor]

"It would be nice if we could find this type of person who could wave a wand and make everything perfect, but I seriously doubt that we'll ever see that happen. What we need to do is get with the program and work together on keeping conservatives in office and liberals out instead of bickering among ourselves all the time."

"Who said that it was bashing, I certainly didn't."

Sorry Dixie, if I misunderstood you. I thought you meant that Coulter's article, which is critical of the President on this one point, was Bush bashing and therefore, divisive. Perhaps you were referring to the nature of some of the comments on this thread. If so, my apologies.

[ned]

Good graphic, Registered. Don't cut em any slack, buddy.

And don't you dare forget to buy a copy of Ann's new book.

[bray]

Please don't confuse allegience to GW with blind allegience. You heard the cat fight when he suggested that terrorists entering the country should be fingerprinted? He is a wise politician that knows when and where to pick his fights. To take on racial profiling=nigger is only going to be taken down in wise incremental steps. There is the biggest election in our country's history coming up in 150 days. Most of us accept the reality of DC and know that we have the greatest leader since President Ronald W Reagan, who also would have been bashed for being too big govt if there were a Free Republic/libertarian/victorian conservative party.

Pray for GW and the Truth

[Sloth]

Get over it - even the most ardent Bush supporter acknowledges that they don't agree with him 100% of the time on 100% of the issues.

But every time you disagree with George W. Bush you are giving 37 votes to Hillary Clinton, or something like that. I know it's true, because I read it on FR every day. Are you seriously suggesting that the President of the United States might be less than 100% correct on 100% of the issues? Who are you with anyway, US or the terrorists?

[Future Snake Eater]

The point is that these idiots at the airports (presumably under W's directions) are searching everyone but the most likely candidates. Surely you have noticed that fact. I can't stand Gore, but even I know he wouldn't blow up or hijack a plane. They're merely checking a box on their little government checklists. Are ALL terrorists Arab men between 18-40? Of course not. However, you do have to admit that a disproportionate number of them are. All the ones who executed the 9/11 attacks fit that profile. And if you're still not sold, then how about we search anyone and everyone who gives off a "Muslim vibe." I'm certainly not against it, and it would expand to women and young people as well. That way we could cover our bases. Some would slip by, but not many. It's ridiculous to search a 15 year-old girl wearing skin-tight shorts and a tank-top for carrying weapons to hijack a plane.

This ridiculous farce of "search everyone" just to be fair has GOT to end.

[ArneFufkin]

TLB, this one ... oh man. Check out that one sentence in paragraph six. That's like somethng from Master Po. I guess I have snatch the rock to get that one.

And ... did you get the Galileo reference? Galileo read a forced repentence of Copernicus after weeks of posturing, negotiating and pushing the envelope with a Pope who loved and respected him and KNEW HE WAS RIGHT but executed people just to keep popular ... but after his prepared statement he said softly to the pontiff: "but it does move"! LOL! That was overlooked on a home-court call and he was sentenced to some electronic ankle band thing (he probably invented the band and a quick-fix electricity and telephone system for the occasion. He was the MacGiver of the Inquisition set). Galileo took a LONG time to give in to his public recantation and really pushed his luck with the big hat guy... so her reference with Mueller's testimony is nonsensical again. Galileo put up a hell of a fight before coming to court, and then basically said "NOT" after his forced recantation in the PAPAL COURT!!!! Those are balls big as canned hams.

She needs a backrub my friend. She's playing to the druids who hire her for talk show appearances. It's ugly to watch, but that's how the clan grooming and positional dehumanizing goes in D.C., Hollywood and any Maximum Security Men's Prison.

[Registered]

You and I both know Bush doesn't appear to be working the conservative cause right now (outside of the War on Terror, which is everyone's cause). If dollars speak for ideology, then it's apparent he's pandering to the left. From the Minority home ownership plan to this obscene AIDS package, he apparently either 1) truly believes in these causes (SHOCKING IF TRUE!) or 2) is using tax dollars to build inroads with these interest groups. That may be the point, but what really shocks conservatives on this forum is the fact that it looks as if he has abandoned his principles to build in-roads with a group that will not leave their dance partner, the Democratic party. So why do it? The only conclusion we can draw,("we", meaning the Bush Confused Conservative or BCC), is the man may actually believe in this Socialist "We are the world" crapola.

The BCC would love to support this guy, we love his military leadership, his moral dedication to the office, but when people come onto threads debating the ridiculous stance of NOT racially profiling at airports, especially after 9-11, why, frankly, our intelligence is insulted by this ignorance. We know that this is an indefensible stand to take post 9-11, unless it is being done to do nothing but make us feel happy thoughts, hence my Cleaning Lady. And those, btw, are the Bush supporters that can be satired ;-)

Now, what I believe this article by Coulter is saying that prior to 9-11, Bush made statements to the fact that he did not believe in racial profiling as a security measure at airports, and I and most others would agree back then that if that was done, it was being done with little or no merit. It was wrong then, but this is now, post 9-11, Bush is not addressing the issue of racial profiling and neither is his Director of the FBI, in fact his airport security measures are an indication that he continues on with this insane no-profiling stand when it is obvious to all that it should be done. While little ladies and Gore are being searched, terrorists that meet the profile are apparently not due to the anti-profiling nature of the airport security.

In fact, we know that the liberal "fetish" regarding the profiling issue is partly responsible for the FBI not acting on the information they had concerning the flight schools. Due to this being a fetish of the left, the wise thing to do would be to do the thorough and complete checks of these middle-eastern males in combination with spot checks of non m-e passengers, and doing so without public comment.

So rather than address the obvious, that we need to be examining everyone coming into our country that meets the terrorist profile, Bush is paying homage to the left by not addressing this serious issue. Meanwhile, old ladies and Gore are being searched at the airports, a directive from this Administration. Now, as a frequent airline passenger myself, I want to give Bush the benefit of the doubt, that he's actually doing what I suggested. But from my first hand experience, he apparently has not given those orders yet. And the elephant in the room, he just stands there.

[Registered]

Praying for my leaders is something I do regularly.

[EternalVigilance]

But the longer the Administration tarries in doing the job, the less credible the claim that it is all the fault of Clinton holdovers.

Tell us all EXACTLY how Bush goes about this; since you seem to be aware of some method that is not known to the rest of us for ridding the government of CAREER employees, do tell us how it's done.

No messing around now; post the EXACT procedure and laws/rules that allow Bush to fire ANYBODY he wants to from the administration.

The United States Constitution

Article II.

Section 1 The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years...he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Section 2

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices...He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

Section 3

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.

He has the power, Howlin. The question is does he have the will. Oh, and he could start by replacing the heads of the FBI and the CIA.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Did he look Hispanic? At that time, you remember, every knucklehead that wanted to garner attention was hijacking planes to Havana.

The issue I have with all of this is the Liberals blurring "racial" profiling i.e. singling out a person only because of their race, and "criminal profiling" which surveys many more factors than just race, although race is a significant element.

The distinction is important and is going to get a lot of us killed if the FBI, etc. is not allowed to "profile".

Regards,

[Registered]

Oh, that silly thing.