Posted on 06/15/2006 10:12:05 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
Let me ask you this: when, prior to last week, was the last time you heard of the Jersey Girls? I can’t give a definite answer, which in itself is telling. Not that I was paying any large amount of attention, but there was a lot of noise in between the Afghan and Iraqi campaigns, intense media play building up to the 2004 election, which they did their damndest to throw to Kerry, and then… nothing.
They’d shot their bolt, they had their fifteen minutes and more, and that was the end of it. Until last week when Ann Coulter, acting unilaterally, put them back on the front pages with an attack so obnoxious that it immediately (and unjustly – it was the Girls themselves, after all, who debased their victim status for political purposes) threw all sympathy in their direction. A free ticket to a second act. Not to mention providing Madame Hillary with an opportunity to pose as, of all things, the defender of civility.
Thanks a lot, Ann.
Conservatives used to be known for this kind of thing. Much of this was the media’s doing – at any conservative gathering, be it a gun show or a political convention, reporters will make a beeline for the guy in full camo gear or wearing two dozen anti-UN buttons. But conservatives played their part.
The classic figure here is Coulter’s idol, Joe McCarthy. Bellowing about Communists you couldn’t produce (and it cannot be repeated often enough that McCarthy bagged nobody – the Party infiltrators had been cleaned out by the time he showed up) was bad enough. Doing it in an ill-cut Chicago gangland suit with a five-o’clock shadow and fifth of Jim Beam under your belt simply turned it into a circus.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The twuth hurths...
FTW?
Transmogrified verbigage alert!
My Cuase hurth two.
Notice anything wrong with the title?
why? becuase!
Split-lip header?
Speaking truth to TIN FOIL HAT WEARING KOOKS ON THE FAR LEFT..
Shucks...they fixed the title..:(
And being the silent majority all over again doesn't hurt it?
It's twue! It's twue!
Mr. J.R. Dunn has thoroughly missed the point. The liberal practise of annointing victims as unassailable spokes-people. That's what Coulter was highlighting. So what if the Jersey Girls get a bit more fame out of it? It means nothing. What's important is that the process was exposed, the methodology was clearly shown for what it is: just one of many ways the liberals use to stifle free speech.
The victim process works like this:
The liberals advance a phoney argument and it gets criticized, so they dig up a victim (Jersey Girls, Cindy Sheehan, whoever) to advance the argument again and then there is no criticism allowed. What? You're criticizing a VICTIM?
Ann exposed all that. Much more important than whether or not the Jersey Broads get a bit more fame.
"All conservatives are hereby forbidden from mocking or criticizing any leftists at all, past or present, for fear that the media may quote their comments out of context on a slow news day. I have spoken." - JR Dunn.
No, you moron, Ann Coulter did NOT put that tiny portion, that one comment, from her excellent book on the front pages of the newspaper. The MSM, looking for anything sensational that they could hurl at Ann Coulter and the rest of us conservatives cherry-picked that comment and trumped it up to be something that it was not.
Blame the MSM, not Ann. If she hadn't put that in the book, then the MSM would have found something else in the book to sensationalize, to lie about, and to attack conservatives over. In the meantime, Ann's freedom of speech would have been dealt a blow because she may felt she needed to alter her writings in order to prevent the MSM feeding frenzy. Chilling conservative free speech is a really bad idea. The author of this article should know that.
That's pretty comical, considering that the entire media is awash in pornography, stupidity, and craven idiocy.
The real problem with Coulter is that she's a hundred times more effective than all of the mewling, pissant "republicans" in the world.
Nonsense.
Read the book!
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