Posted on 03/28/2002 6:55:13 AM PST by Deadeye Division
Coulter liberally attacks liberals as ‘anti-American crowd’
By SHAWN ANKROM, News-Sun Staff Writer
Ann Coulter held little back in attacking liberals during a speech Wednesday night at Wittenberg University.
Coulter's half-hour barrage before some 200 people in the Shouvlin Center painted liberals as the "anti-American crowd."
"They control the media," said Coulter, who launched into criticism of liberals who don't support the war against terrorism in Afghanistan.
"We've finally given the liberals a war against fundamentalism and the oppression of women and they don't want to fight it," said Coulter, an author, conservative and legal analyst. "They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States. I never realized liberals used the term 'flag waver' as an epithet."
"The liberals will be after the Amish next," said Coulter to laughs. "As usual, liberals are not just wrong but are aggressively, symphonically, perfectly, 100 percent wrong."
The war is a religious battle, Coulter said, although not by the standards of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, and not a war against Muslims, but against Muslim terrorists.
And it is a religious war for Christianity.
"The miracle of America, the unprecedented freedom we have in this country can't be understood apart from the Christian world view of the framers (of the Constitution)," said Coulter. "This nation was founded as a Christian experiment."
Coulter's criticisms were specific, attacking politicians and journalists by name, as well as broad criticism, as in the case of some women liberals.
For his criticism of the Rev. Jerry Falwell's political position, Coulter said retired television journalist Walter Cronkite displayed the "dispassionate and critical judgment that earned him the title most pious blow-hard in America."
As for President Carter, she wondered why anyone listens to him.
"He couldn't even land a helicopter in the desert," she said.
And "it wasn't Gloria Steinem who invented equality of women," she said, "It was Jesus Christ."
"It's the explicitly Christian idea that all men are created equal and that no man has the right to rule over another man without his consent ... that was the revolutionary concept that was the core of the American revolution," Coulter said.
While most in the audience applauded the author of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton" and "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right," not everyone agreed with her opinions.
Before the speech, the audience was asked to be respectful and protesters would be asked to leave.
Annie Wagganer, a senior at Wittenberg, told Coulter her attacks against liberals were disrespectful.
"I really value how you stand on these Christian values," said Wagganer. "One of the Christian values that I really value is that you edify and build people up. So far I've figured out (from the speech) why not to be a liberal, but I haven't come up with any reason to be a Republican."
"Have you heard anyone publicly speak before?" was the quick response from Coulter. "Did you listen to anything Bill Clinton ever said in his entire presidency? Was that edifying?"
Coulter's speech was presented by the Wittenberg University College Republicans and the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute.
Where's the obligatory Ann Coulter pic? ;)
I wonder if she would marry me.
Conservatism ought to be above this sort of thing anyway. Aren't we supposd to be the better-behaved bunch?
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Excellent observation. And why, you may ask? Because that's their safety zone where they can't be and won't be criticized, by liberals or conservatives all shaking in their panties lest they themselves be accused of being "RACIST!" Works every time!
Start with Arthur Sulzberger and Stephen Case.
Every time some someone tries to push the Christian doormat philosophy, I consider it my cue to blast their eyebrows off.
The Golden Rule isn't a command for us all to be brown nosers.
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