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.
A reasonable statement that applies to most situations.
It does not apply here. Liberalism, as a generic identifier, has to be changed from "nice" to "not nice". The average liberal wants to be thought of as "nice" above all else. If the connotations of the word change, the people who self identify with the word will change also.
The only way the connotations of the word will change is if people, like Ann Coulter, stand up and speak the truth.
FACT: Liberalism is NOT nice.
I couldn't disagree more. If someone feels strongly enough about you to label you as an "enemy," then they will indeed hang on your every word. (Possibly to try to find errors, so they can rip you apart, but "hang" they will!) The worst thing one can be is "ignored."
I don't agree. Liberalism is evil. It is neo-puritian, gnostic and totalitarian. It is opposed to the Anglo-America tradition of liberty and equality under law. About time sect members are called on exactly what they are advocating. Make being a liberal as socially unacceptable as being a Klansman or Nazi (with whom they share much). The way to defeat tyranny is not to coddle it but hit it head on.
I'm thoroughly disgusted with mere 'Public Servants' who put legislation together like this, and knowing it could never withstand the sunshine of any honest scrutiny, RAM their freedom-robbing crap through Congress and into LAW, in the middle of the night, with a voice vote.
These people are U.S.Constitution HATERS, not Constitution lovers and respecters. They obviously believe they live on a level above the rest of us (chattle)
It's obvious that Pres Bush and his RINO boys are just as adept at this type of disingenuous, middle-of-the-night Constitutional Nazism as Comrade Krinton and his communist crowd.
If any of these people truly cared that 'The People' be informed and involved in what is supposed to be 'Self-Rule', they would not be afraid to post their legislation in every library across the land for 6months prior to a vote, in order to give every citizen ample opportunity to scrutinize and debate the important issues which control our future lives.
But Nooooooo, they HAVE TO sneak their pieces of tyranny through as fast as possible, before anyone, including other legislators, have a chance to do anything but skim over a 200 page summary of a 10,000+ page Bill.
They did it with NAFTA, they did it with GATT, they did it with the Crime Bill, they did it with the Tele-communications Bill etc etc etc under Comrade Krinton, and they do the same thing under Princeling George.
These people really do believe they are royalty in Washington, and we are simply the 'Little People' ... the 'Peons in the Hustings', who live in 'Fly-Over Country' that need to be taken care of, because THEY know what we need better that they do.
THEY, are disgusting, arrogant, ego-inflated and despotic.
And yes, I am glad we ended up with George Bush, instead of that total-commie Gore. I told my friends before the election, the difference between the two is, Gore will take us over the cliff at 165, while GW and his pals will only take us over the cliff at 90.
Bravo! My sentiments exactly!
Will someone please inform the President?
GO ANN!!!!!!
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