June 2, 2006
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I lifted this from Defiance_01′s Xanga . . . .
Hitler’s Protégé:
The Hatespeech of Ann Coulter
Don’t get me wrong. I am not a person who makes wild, abstract connections between republicans and Nazis; I am well aware that even though Bush and Hitler have committed horrible, intolerant atrocities, but excluding the fact that they both surrounded themselves with yes-men, Bush cannot be compared to Hitler, under any circumstances. Period. Virtually no one in modern American politics can be compared to Hitler.
Except Ann Coulter, and I am not saying that out of partisan anger. I’m saying that because it’s true. She has publicly stated that she idolizes Joseph McCarthy, a man who came to fame in 1949 for campaigning on behalf of Nazis who were convicted of war crimes. Of course, you won’t read any of that in her books, because she sweeps that glaringly obvious fact under the rug.
Don’t believe me? Read a salon.com review of her book “Treason: Liberal Treachery from Cold War to the War on Terror”
Wow, now there’s an “honest” title. Right up there with her other books, “Slander: Liberal Lies about the American Right” and “How to Talk to a Liberal (if you must)”
Wait a second. “How to talk to a liberal if you must” ? How many groups could she get away with using a book like this for?
“How to talk to a Jew (if you must)” by Ann Coulter
“How to talk to a Negro (if you must)” by Ann Coulter
“How to talk to a Queer (if you must)” by Ann Coulter
Would colleges be inviting her to speak if she had written books like these? Of course not. But throw the word “Liberal” in there and you’ve got a best-selling book. More proof that we live in a climate where it’s becoming increasingly acceptable to hate Liberals.
“But wait,” you may be thinking, “there are people like that on the left too!”
Oh really?
This an actual quote from Coulter:
“When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.”
Hmmm…..so liberals should be physically intimidated and killed for disagreeing with conservatives?
I dare you to find a single well-known liberal who thinks the same thing about conservatives.
Al Franken? Nope.
Michael Moore? Not in any of his books or movies.
Noam Chomsky? Guess again.
Bill Maher? a) Not a liberal. b) Nope.
Ted Kennedy? Not a word.
Paul Begala? Wrong.
Hmmm……
A few more actual quotes by Coulter:
“I’m fed up with hearing about civilian casualties in Iraq.”
“I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.”
“All feminists are weak and pathetic.”
“My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.”
“Seriously, I think the rest of the countries in the Middle East, after Afghanistan and Iraq, they’re pretty much George Bush’s bitch,”
“I will go to a black church and talk about gay marriage. The brothers aren’t big on queer theory.”
“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to christianity.”
“When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.”
“There are no good Democrats.”
“Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.”
“Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.”
“Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.”
“A central component of liberal hate speech is to make paranoid accusations based on their own neurotic impulses, such as calling Republicans angry, hate-filled, and mean.”
“Liberals don’t try to win arguments, they seek to destroy their opponents and silence dissident opinions.”
“Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments…It’s really all the same lie [that liberals tell]
“The swing voters—I like to refer to them as the idiot voters because they don’t have set philosophical principles. You’re either a liberal or you’re a conservative if you have an IQ above a toaster. “
“Liberals hate America, they hate “flag-wavers,” they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam (post 9/11). Even Islamic terrorists don’t hate America like liberals do. They don’t have the energy. If they had that much energy, they’d have indoor plumbing by now.”
[Ha ha! Wrong again. I hate all religions except Buddhism
]
“Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America’s self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.”
“Even if corners were cut, (Iran-Contra) was a brilliant scheme.
“Much of the left’s hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred is blinding, producing logical contradictions that would be impossible to sustain were it not for the central element faith plays in the left’s new religion. The basic tenet of their faith is this: Maybe they were wrong on facts and policies, but they are good and conservatives are evil. You almost want to give it to them. It’s all they have left.”
[mmm, hypocritically delicious......]
“If it were true that conservatives were racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, stupid, inflexible, angry, and self-righteous, shouldn’t their arguments be easy to deconstruct? Someone who is making a point out of anger, ideology, inflexibility, or resentment would presumably construct a flimsy argument. So why can’t the argument itself be dismembered rather than the speaker’s personal style or hidden motives?”
[Boy, when she's right, she's right. I suggest "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" and "The Truth (with Jokes)" by Al Franken.]
“In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is.”
[And then she has the audacity to say this....]
“There is no serious dialogue or engagement of ideas between the left and the right in this country.”
Gee, I wonder why? Are we actually supposed to be surprised when an asinine extremist like this is booed?
Ann Coulter hates liberals more than terrorists.
But, somehow I think there is one piece of government treason that Ann won’t write about…..
……namely, the fact that Bush was the one to leak Plame’s name
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/06/libby.ap/index.html
Allow me a moment to blow my own horn. (….not like that, you sicko.)
I accurately predicted the neocon response to the leak the very instant I hear the news break on the 6th. I turned to my girlfriend and said, ”You know, I’d bet anything that the neocons will come out and say that since Bush is the one who did it, that makes it all okay.”
Sure enough, since the leak story broke we’ve heard a steady stream of Bush and the people around him saying, “Well, the president has the power to declassify……”
Oh really? You know what it would be called if someone else were the one to leak Valerie Plame’s name in order get revenge on an expert who disagreed with Bush?
Treason.
Literally - what has happened in the administration is an offense punishable by death. That’s not me saying that, that’s an actual law. Treason against America is a capital offense, and leaking a CIA agent’s name is treason. But, like always with this administration, no one will really be punished.
But then ask yourself this - what message does that send to other CIA agents when a president “declassifies” info about a CIA agent just to get revenge on her husband for pointing out flaws in the president’s actions?
