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Published: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:41:28 GMT - Source: Telegraph.Co.Uk - Read the articleIssuesIs NBC going to help Coulter sell this book?
As Media Matters for
America has noted, author and
syndicated columnist Ann Coulter recently announced that she is scheduled to
appear on the January 6 broadcast of NBC's Today to promote the release of her new book, Guilty:
Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America,
which Media Matters obtained in advance of its January 6 release. Media Matters has documented that
NBC has repeatedly provided Coulter a platform
to spew her inflammatory rhetoric even as NBC-affiliated
hosts and anchors have expressed disapproval of her statements or criticized
the media for promoting her. Coulter's latest book is rife with such
inflammatory and offensive comments.
Examples of such comments from Guilty include the following:
Coulter says the Democratic primaries were a
contest of "Who's the Biggest Pussy?":
Liberals' hysterical obsession
with the "Republican Attack Machine" turns Democratic primaries
into a contest of: "Who's the Biggest Pussy?" Although I
would have voted for "All of Them," inasmuch as none of the
Democrats could face questions from Fox News's Brit Hume, the winner
turned out to be [Barack] Obama. Hillary [Clinton]
claimed to be a victim of Republicans, while Obama claimed to be a victim of
Republicans, Hillary, and racists. [Page 79]
Coulter later suggests that Sen. John McCain should also be
nominated for this contest:
Alas, despite liberals'
terrific fear of John McCain and the Republican Attack Machine, evidently
McCain was more afraid of the real attack machine: the mainstream media. He
wasted no time in denouncing the North
Carolina ad. Obeying the media's command that
Republicans not mention any facts unfavorable to Obama, McCain said,
"There's no place for that kind of campaigning, and the American
people don't want it." He promptly fired off a letter to the North
Carolina Republican Party presuming to tell them not to run the ad.
Say, is it too late to nominate
someone else for that "Who's the Biggest Pussy" contest?
[Page 88]
Coulter calls children whose parents divorce
"future strippers" in a chapter titled "Victim of a Crime?
Thank a Single Mother":
In any event, divorced mothers
should be called "divorced mothers," not "single
mothers." We also have a term for the youngsters involved: "the
children of divorce," or as I call them, "future strippers."
It is a mark of how attractive it is to be a phony victim that divorcées will
often claim to belong to the more disreputable category of "single
mothers." [Page 36]
Later in the chapter, Coulter writes: "Single
motherhood is like a farm team for future criminals and social outcasts."
[Page 38]
Coulter, discussing "Republican
turncoats," remarks that "their gender always remains the same.
They are women, not limited to the biological sense":
On the bright side, look at how low
the mainstream media have had to stoop lately to find their Republican
heretics. The most famous "former Republican" is Kevin Phillips,
who attended Bronx High School of Science, Colgate
University, the University
of Edinburgh, and Harvard Law
School. Even John Dean
was at least a practicing lawyer. The 2008 version is Kathleen Parker, who went
to Converse College
and the University
of San Francisco. The
educational attainments of Republican turncoats may change, but curiously,
their gender always remains the same. They are women, not limited to the
biological sense. [Page 114]
Coulter claims that Obama, actress Halle Berry,
and musician Alicia Keys "race bait[ed] their way to success":
Even grifters know that to be
embraced by the cool people in America,
you must claim to be a victim, preferably abused by religious fundamentalists.
In a related phenomenon, various
half-black celebrities insist on representing themselves simply as
"black" -- the better to race-bait their way to success. Actress Halle Berry,
singer Alicia Keys, and matinee idol Barack Obama were all abandoned by their
black fathers and raised by their white mothers. But instead of seeing
themselves as half-white, they prefer to see the glass as half-black. They all
choose to identify with the fathers who ditched them, while insulting the women
who struggled to raise them.
In 2002, Berry engaged in wild race-baiting to win
her Oscar and then ate up most of the awards show with an interminable
acceptance speech claiming that her award was "so much bigger than
me." People who say "it's bigger than me" always mean
it's just about them. During the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama repeatedly
said the exact same thing: "This election is bigger than me." Would
they be able to pawn off their personal victories as transformative events for
the nation if they were not claiming to be doing it for the blacks? [Page 7]
Coulter calls former White House press secretary
Scott McClellan "retarded" after describing a fictional scene of
"washed-up Republican functionaries like McClellan showing up in a
basement office at NBC and announcing they want to be rewarded for snitching on
a Republican":
The media accuse Republicans of
playing dirty pool, but they turn to the retarded press secretary for an attack
on his former boss. [Page 118]
Coulter states that New York Times columnist Frank Rich "became qualified
to comment on U.S. foreign
policy, national security, and presidential politics after spending a childhood
dancing his favorite numbers from Oklahoma! in his mother's panties":
Rich, who became qualified to
comment on U.S. foreign
policy, national security, and presidential politics after spending a childhood
dancing his favorite numbers from Oklahoma! in his mother's panties and then
spending twelve years reviewing theater for the New York Times, attacked [former Talon News
"Washington Bureau Chief" Jeff] Gannon for not being a "real
newsman." Not only that, but, Rich breathlessly reported, there were "embarrassing
blogosphere revelations linking [Gannon] to sites like hotmilitarystud.com and
to an apparently promising career as an X-rated $200-per-hour 'escort.'
" In Rich's estimation, $200 an hour was way too much to pay a male
escort who wasn't Latino. Now, if there's anybody in this world who
knows what a real man is, it's Frank Rich. But as for knowing what a real
newsman is, that's another story. [Page 198]
Coulter later wrote: "The entire scandal that Frank
Rich complained was not getting enough attention was that Gannon was a gay
Republican. (Because if there's one thing Frank Rich can't abide,
it's a gay man who's too scared to come out of the closet)."
[Page 200]
Coulter calls Newsweek
contributing editor Eleanor Clift a "braying left-wing slattern":
But according to [New York Times columnist Paul] Krugman the
"pretty honest" Clinton
administration was victimized by unfair news coverage. The only living human
who might agree with that assessment is Bill Clinton, who derisively referred
to Newsweek magazine as
"the house organ of Paula Jones" -- an unfortunate use of
"Paula Jones" and "organ" in the same sentence.
Yes, he was referring to the
magazine that refused to report Paula Jones's accusations against Clinton
for months, described Jones as a "dogpatch Madonna," killed Michael
Isikoff's exclusive on the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and unaccountably
employs braying left-wing slattern Eleanor Clift, who named Clinton the
"Biggest Winner of the Year" for being "a colossus on the
world stage" in 1999 -- the very year Clinton was impeached and the
entire Supreme Court boycotted his State of the Union Address. [Page 193]
Coulter describes Code Pink co-founders Medea Benjamin and
Jodie Evans as "storm troopers" and "satanic
dervishes":
Why do Republicans never learn? They
will never get credit for apologizing to the endless stream of fake liberal
victims. Instead, everyone sees that Republicans are milquetoast sops. Republicans
have turned themselves into such doormats that a major Obama fundraiser felt
free to sneak into the Republican National Convention to disrupt Sarah
Palin's speech -- and then portray herself as a victim of the Republicans
for being asked to leave.
The storm troopers at the Republican
National Convention were Jodie Evans, a major Obama fundraiser, and her fellow
outside agitator, Medea Benjamin.
[...]
And Republicans fall for fake
victims every time. Blake Hall, one of the Republican delegates who removed the
screaming banshees, sent an e-mail to the Idaho
Falls Post Register contritely explaining that the protesters had
"violated convention rules by being in a place not permitted by their
guest passes." He continued defensively, "They were asked to cease
and they refused." And -- as Palin continued to try to speak over the
disrupters -- they "continued their disorderly behavior at which point I
was requested by the Sergeant at Arms and other deputies to assist in their
removal." Not exactly Ronald Reagan saying, "I'm paying for
this microphone!" Republicans are apologetic about
not supinely turning over their convention to satanic dervishes. [Pages
177-178, 179]
Discussing former Virginia Sen. George
Allen's calling
S.R. Sidarth -- a volunteer who was videotaping Allen for James Webb,
Allen's Democratic opponent in 2006 -- "macaca,"
Coulter refers to Sidarth and other campaign trackers as "little Nazi
block-watchers":
At one of his campaign speeches,
Allen jokingly introduced a "tracker" from the campaign of his
Democratic opponent, Jim Webb, to the audience. Trackers are little Nazi
block-watchers, who follow a candidate around, recording everything he says --
and everything his audience says -- so the selectively edited videos can be
posted online for ridicule. [Page 165]
Coulter makes several other references to the Nazis and the
Holocaust in the book, including the following:
Not surprisingly, Hollywood has taken a leading role in
portraying single mothers as victims, while relentlessly promoting promiscuity,
single motherhood, prostitution, and divorce to the detriment of the most
vulnerable members of society. But if anyone makes a peep of criticism,
suddenly it's 1939 Germany
and overpaid writers from Murphy Brown
are the Jews. [Page 45]
The most amazing thing liberals have
done is create the myth of a compliant right-wing media with Republicans
badgering baffled reporters into attacking Democrats. It's so mad,
it's brilliant. It's one kind of a lie to say the Holocaust was
when the Swedes killed the Jews. But it's another kind of lie entirely to
say the Holocaust was when the Jews killed the Nazis. Liberals have actually
neutralized the incredible press orchestration of left-wing propaganda by
acting as if they are the victims of the all-powerful Republican National
Committee. [Page 110]
Even stupid people -- come to think
of it, especially stupid people -- will always take the path of least
resistance. The young, the stupid, and the weak are invariably impressed with
authority figures. College students in Weimar Germany emulated their Nazi-sympathizing professors
just as college students in modern America emulate their
America-hating professors and the stupid and weak in society at large emulate
the liberal establishment. [Page 112]
Published: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:43:26 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the article
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