Posted on 06/13/2006 8:43:55 AM PDT by Miami Vice
Ann Coulter wrote a book that may, or may not, contain a controversial statement that is being demonized by liberal politicians and the liberal media.
So what else is new?
Coulter is to liberals what Father Merrin was to Pazuzu in The Exorcist. She is the cultural equivalent of critical mass for liberals. She is their Pavlov's Bell.
However, liberals have selective recall. They need to be reminded of a few things.
Liberals need to be reminded that Coulter has never mentioned assassinating a Democrat president, something said by at least two prominent liberal pundits.
Liberals need to be reminded that Coulter has never said the wife of a liberal Supreme Court Justice should cook meals for him that will cause a stroke - something said by a famous liberal newspaper columnist about Justice Thomas.
Liberals need to be reminded that Coulter has never said that a liberal congressman should be stoned to death - as a renowned liberal actor did about Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde.
Liberals need reminding that Coulter never said that the best way to deal with the leader of a liberal advocacy group is to shoot him - as a well-known liberal moviemaker did about Charlton Heston.
So pardon me if I do not get so outraged by anything that Ann Coulter may have written in her new book, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism." I am so used to the vicious, hateful, mean-spirited, despicable, invective of Democrats and liberals that anything a conservative would say about liberals can only be considered reciprocity.
I understand why liberals are outraged and why they want the average American to be outraged. They feel they can politically exploit L' Affaire Coulter. (They cannot - the average person knows there is vitriol by both sides, just as they know both parties can be corrupt.)
While I am not shocked of the righteous indignation of Hillary Clinton, I am somewhat amused by the righteous indignation of some Republicans and conservatives. They have tripped over themselves running to the nearest microphone to distance themselves from Coulter.
Last night, I watched Coulter on Fox News Channel's National Heartland with John Kasich. Kasich, a former Republican congressman, soundly criticized her. The Richie Cunningham like, occasionally pious, Kasich began by chastising her about her alleged comments. He then informed Coulter that his wife said she, 'really likes Ann, but doesn't understand why she has to be so mean.'
What occurred next made Kasich look foolish. Coulter asked him if either he or his wife ever read her book.
Kasich admitted that neither of them have.
Ann then informed him that her critics often misquote or distort her remarks. She said that Kasich, and his wife, were not appalled by what she wrote; they were appalled by what the New York Daily News said she wrote.
Kasich is not alone though. Several other well-known Republicans and conservatives have done the same.
The question is why? Why do Republicans and conservatives feel the need to demonstrate that they will not condone vitriolic remarks about liberals or Democrats?
Are they doing it to show their gentility? Are they doing it because of principle? Are they doing it not to anger their political opponents?
If they do not want to anger their political opponents -forget about it. Democrats and liberals are always going to hate them.
If they are trying to demonstrate their gentility - there are other ways to do so.
If they are trying to demonstrate how principled they are, then they are doing the exact opposite. They are demonstrating, as a group, that they are extremely insecure.
This last analysis seems the most likely. Conservatives and Republicans always give the impression they are walking on eggs. After a decade of being the nation's majority political party, Republicans still act as if they need to explain themselves.
This is baffling. The fact that Republicans are the majority political party is an extraordinary accomplishment when one considers that the opinion forming institutions in this country - the news media, the entertainment industry, and the education establishment - are clearly liberal and sympathetic to Democrats.
This indicates that average Americans are center-right, at the very least, in their political beliefs. Why some Republicans - even in the liberal Northeast and West Coast - feel they cannot spout conservative ideas is inexplicable.
Reagan did, and the people voted for him - even in the Deep Blue states.
I have not read Coulter's book. I don't know what she wrote. As I said, it does not matter. It could never be worse than what liberals and Democrats have said about conservatives and Republicans.
I do know that conservatives and Republicans need not apologize for her. At least not until liberals and Democrats apologize for their own diatribes.
Michael P. Tremoglie is the author of the new novel Sense of Duty refer to http://www.geocities.com/ddc4010/
©The Evening Bulletin 2006
The conductors of traveling minstrel orchestras have customarily called themselves "professor" as well.
Good point. And there are other similarities as well:
Minstrel show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The performance itself was divided into three major sections. During the first, the entire troupe danced onto stage singing a popular song and doing a dance called the "walk around". Upon the instruction of the interlocutor, a sort of host, they then arranged themselves in a semicircle and sat down. Various stock characters always took the same positions: the genteel interlocutor sat in the middle, flanked by Tambo and Bones, who served as the endmen or cornermen. The interlocutor and the endmen then exchanged jokes and performed a variety of humorous songs."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minstrel_show
Except for the part about the humor.
From the Evening Bulletin. It looks like Philadelphia has a conservative newspaper.
I myself
Wow, I AND myself, very college like professor....lol
BTW you're kicking Sam Hill's @ss!
Thanks. :-)
Tambo?
You're a little late.
Just get the call?
I hate to nitpick, but the quote doesn't exactly call for his assasination, it mentions an alternate situation where there is debate over it.
Not nitpicking, the quote is not even third person. It merely supposes a debate would occur, Ann does not state that she would participate in debate let alone take a side. Misquote out of context is standard leftie trickery.
Actually, probably more like a Clown. A member of that PO'd Posse whose members spend every living moment reading posts at FR. Kooks!
thanks, your whole comment is great.
I have not read Coulter's book. I don't know what she wrote. As I said, it does not matter. It could never be worse than what liberals and Democrats have said about conservatives and Republicans.
Bingo! Give Michael a Havana Cigar!
Precisely. They call Bush a Nazi, a terrorist, all manner of vile things, and the MSM yawns. But let a Conservative, Ann Coulter, Mark Levin, etc. let it rip, and it's front page news.
More than just a couple of liberal pundits:
"We really feel bad for poor Chuck - United States senator. The man who, uh, uh, how do I phrase this diplomatically, will put a bullet between the president's eyes, if he could get away with it," Mr. Hevesi told graduating students at Queens College."
http://www.nysun.com/article/33731
Dear Right Wing Professor
Like most professors you are not as smart as you think. You wrote something that is false.You wrote:
"The article is premised on the contention that Ann Coulter has never said anything as bad as the worst things a motley collection of liberals have said."
This is patently not true. The premise of the article is that what Ann Coulter said should not causing the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth by conservatives and Republicans since liberals and Democrats are never apolegetic about their colleagues who say things that are worse.
So by your own ridiculous standard you are discredited because what you said is false.
As far as what Tremoglie wrote, it is true Coulter mentioned assassination and a Democrat president. He was incorrect about that. Does it discredit his piece?
No. His point is, as far as he is concerned, what Coulter did or did not say does not matter.
Tremoglie wrote:
" I have not read Coulter’s book. I don’t know what she wrote. As I said, it does not matter. It could never be worse than what liberals and Democrats have said about conservatives and Republicans...I do know that conservatives and Republicans need not apologize for her. At least not until liberals and Democrats apologize for their diatribes...So pardon me if I do not get so outraged by anything that Ann Coulter may have written in her new book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism. I am so used to the vicious, hateful, mean-spirited, despicable, invective of Democrats and liberals that anything a conservative would say about liberals can only be considered reciprocity. "
If you have any facility with reading comprehension you would know this. Obvioiusly you do not and therefore what you say does not matter!
LIke I said your like most professors not as smart as you think.
Dear Right Wing Professor
Like most professors you are not as smart as you think. You wrote something that is false.You wrote:
"The article is premised on the contention that Ann Coulter has never said anything as bad as the worst things a motley collection of liberals have said."
This is patently not true. The premise of the article is that what Ann Coulter said should not causing the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth by conservatives and Republicans since liberals and Democrats are never apolegetic about their colleagues who say things that are worse.
So by your own ridiculous standard you are discredited because what you said is false.
As far as what Tremoglie wrote, it is true Coulter mentioned assassination and a Democrat president. He was incorrect about that. Does it discredit his piece?
No. His point is, as far as he is concerned, what Coulter did or did not say does not matter.
Tremoglie wrote:
" I have not read Coulter’s book. I don’t know what she wrote. As I said, it does not matter. It could never be worse than what liberals and Democrats have said about conservatives and Republicans...I do know that conservatives and Republicans need not apologize for her. At least not until liberals and Democrats apologize for their diatribes...So pardon me if I do not get so outraged by anything that Ann Coulter may have written in her new book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism. I am so used to the vicious, hateful, mean-spirited, despicable, invective of Democrats and liberals that anything a conservative would say about liberals can only be considered reciprocity. "
If you have any facility with reading comprehension you would know this. Obvioiusly you do not and therefore what you say does not matter!
Like I said your like most professors not as smart as you think.
Dear Right Wing Professor
Like most professors you are not as smart as you think. You wrote something that is false.You wrote:
"The article is premised on the contention that Ann Coulter has never said anything as bad as the worst things a motley collection of liberals have said."
This is patently not true. The premise of the article is that what Ann Coulter said should not causing the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth by conservatives and Republicans since liberals and Democrats are never apolegetic about their colleagues who say things that are worse.
So by your own ridiculous standard you are discredited because what you said is false.
As far as what Tremoglie wrote, it is true Coulter mentioned assassination and a Democrat president. He was incorrect about that. Does it discredit his piece?
No. His point is, as far as he is concerned, what Coulter did or did not say does not matter.
Tremoglie wrote:
" I have not read Coulter’s book. I don’t know what she wrote. As I said, it does not matter. It could never be worse than what liberals and Democrats have said about conservatives and Republicans...I do know that conservatives and Republicans need not apologize for her. At least not until liberals and Democrats apologize for their diatribes...So pardon me if I do not get so outraged by anything that Ann Coulter may have written in her new book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism. I am so used to the vicious, hateful, mean-spirited, despicable, invective of Democrats and liberals that anything a conservative would say about liberals can only be considered reciprocity. "
If you have any facility with reading comprehension you would know this. Obvioiusly you do not and therefore what you say does not matter!
Like I said your like most professors not as smart as you think.
Dear Right Wing Professor
Like most professors you are not as smart as you think. You wrote something that is false.You wrote:
"The article is premised on the contention that Ann Coulter has never said anything as bad as the worst things a motley collection of liberals have said."
This is patently not true. The premise of the article is that what Ann Coulter said should not causing the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth by conservatives and Republicans since liberals and Democrats are never apolegetic about their colleagues who say things that are worse.
So by your own ridiculous standard you are discredited because what you said is false.
As far as what Tremoglie wrote, it is true Coulter mentioned assassination and a Democrat president. He was incorrect about that. Does it discredit his piece?
No. His point is, as far as he is concerned, what Coulter did or did not say does not matter.
Tremoglie wrote:
" I have not read Coulter’s book. I don’t know what she wrote. As I said, it does not matter. It could never be worse than what liberals and Democrats have said about conservatives and Republicans...I do know that conservatives and Republicans need not apologize for her. At least not until liberals and Democrats apologize for their diatribes...So pardon me if I do not get so outraged by anything that Ann Coulter may have written in her new book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism. I am so used to the vicious, hateful, mean-spirited, despicable, invective of Democrats and liberals that anything a conservative would say about liberals can only be considered reciprocity. "
If you have any facility with reading comprehension you would know this. Obvioiusly you do not and therefore what you say does not matter!
Like I said your like most professors not as smart as you think.
Dear Right Wing Professor
Like most professors you are not as smart as you think. You wrote something that is false.You wrote:
"The article is premised on the contention that Ann Coulter has never said anything as bad as the worst things a motley collection of liberals have said."
This is patently not true. The premise of the article is that what Ann Coulter said should not causing the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth by conservatives and Republicans since liberals and Democrats are never apolegetic about their colleagues who say things that are worse.
So by your own ridiculous standard you are discredited because what you said is false.
As far as what Tremoglie wrote, it is true Coulter mentioned assassination and a Democrat president. He was incorrect about that. Does it discredit his piece?
No. His point is, as far as he is concerned, what Coulter did or did not say does not matter.
Tremoglie wrote:
" I have not read Coulter’s book. I don’t know what she wrote. As I said, it does not matter. It could never be worse than what liberals and Democrats have said about conservatives and Republicans...I do know that conservatives and Republicans need not apologize for her. At least not until liberals and Democrats apologize for their diatribes...So pardon me if I do not get so outraged by anything that Ann Coulter may have written in her new book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism. I am so used to the vicious, hateful, mean-spirited, despicable, invective of Democrats and liberals that anything a conservative would say about liberals can only be considered reciprocity. "
If you have any facility with reading comprehension you would know this. Obvioiusly you do not and therefore what you say does not matter!
Like I said your like most professors not as smart as you think.
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