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.
Umm maybe Ted Turner who labeled his employees who had attended an Ash Wednesday Mass as "Jesus Freaks"?
Go forth and read "Bias" by Bernard Goldburg.
a. cricket
**blink**
Depends on what you mean by liberal.
Who is she talking about? I don't know of anyone, liberal or conservative, who doesn't support the war on terrorism. Where does Anne get the idea that there are some people who don't? Who are these people, specifically? What did they say or do, specifically, that leads Anne to make such charges about them?
Does she know something we don't? Is Anne prescient? Or merely paranoid?
The vast majority of liberals are very well meaning, in their own way. The essence of the typical liberal's self image is that they are "nice". To be considered "not nice" is quite an insult.
If you spend any time reading liberal literature, you will find commentary about conservatives always manages to say or imply that conservatives are "not nice". Until recently, conservatives were too polite to respond in kind, and liberals took this to be proof of their self evident "niceness".
If we want to have a shot at opening their minds, we should refrain from demonizing them, except in those specific and blatant cases where particular evildoers can be identified and held up for objective condemnation.
For all too long, conservatives have refrained from challenging the liberal self image of "nice". Although part of the liberal self-image is that they are "smart", liberals are not famous for logical thought. When challenged with reason, they retreat to their "feelings". For many of them, challenging their "feelings" may be the only way to elicite a self-examination that mere logic apparently cannot.
Ann Coulter is deliberately calling the liberals what they actually are: "not nice". She is putting them on notice that the most cherished part of their self-image, "niceness", cannot be taken for granted. It is time they knew.
Have you ever read a non-liberal newspaper, or watched an unbiased news station? Start with doing a search on FReeps, using the words "Operation Infinite FReep" in this forum; pay special attention to Fresno, CA FReeps. Then watch an hour of FOX News; doesn't matter which hour -- the difference abounds in all 24 of them per day.
"Prescient?" She doesn't need to be. It's already happening. Everywhere. Are your eyes and/or ears open?! "Paranoid?" I'm sure she knows who the "boogey man" is, and avoids him as often as possible. She referred to him in her speech.
I think it it fair to assume the liberals are lead by their leaders and Bill and Hillary, Senators Dashil and Kennedy are their leaders.
Jim, had Walter Crankcase ever brought himself to tell Edward Kennedy that he was all wet in his miserable self-defense in re Chappaquick, then I might say that Crankcase was good and decent (for a day).
Unfortunately, the avuncular Walter swallowed the laughable self-defense of Teddy, and virtually bawled on screen over this fine, good, and decent brother of JFK's.
Coulter isn't far wrong about liberals.
I am sick and tired ... no, I'm FINISHED, treating Liberal/Socialist/Marxist/Commie-lovin', America-Hating fools with anything but outright contempt.
If they refuse to join in the struggle to preserve our U.S.Constitution & Bill of Rights, IMO, they barely deserve to breathe on our soil.
They really should leave NOW, and find somewhere else on earth to create their Brave New World.
Kindly eat a biggie.
Hugs, cupcake, and welcome to the board...
Martin
Quotable.
Look, friends, I don't expect you to agree with their politics. I'm just telling you what anyone who's studied patterns of persuasion, effective and ineffective, would tell you: Once a man has tabbed you as his enemy, he's unlikely to listen to your opinions with attention or respect.
Conservatives in the United States are currently in the minority. President Bush won his office because of an uninspiring opponent and a fortunate distribution of electoral votes, not because the conservative viewpoint has attained breakaway status. The survival of the Republic might just depend on converting a few million reachable liberals to the cause of freedom and economic sanity. This is what I'd call a priority.
We have an opportunity coming up, because of demographic changes that are favorable to our cause. The country is getting older on average. Older people have a more conservative outlook, by virtue of their extended perspective. They tend to own more, and therefore tend to be more protective of property rights. They've seen a lot of nonsense and have had their noses rubbed in why it's nonsense. Our polemic opportunities are expanding. Let's not pollute them with unprofitable streams of vituperation and character assassination!
Please, please, don't give in to the tendency to stereotype, collectivize, or demonize folks who call themselves liberals. A lot of them are quite as horrified and disgusted about recent political defaults by their so-called leaders as we are. Let's work with their sense of betrayal, rather than jarring them into rejecting us at the outset. We don't like it when they castigate us; why should we do it to them, only to spoil what might be our last chance to reclaim a Constitutional future?
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