Ann Coulter Versus Postmodernism

Interesting article linking post modernism to the modern liberal left.

com'on now, 210 views and no replys. how many are "viewing" for pictures only?....lol

It's always important to get liberals to stop complaining long enough to make a hard prediction. This week we will review liberal predictions on bringing democracy to Iraq.

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When they weren't claiming the Iraq elections would not take place at all -- and, even if they did, the people wouldn't participate -- liberals were telling us that if we let those crazy Arabs vote, the Iraqi people would elect extremist Islamic mullahs hostile to the United States.

Well, the Iraq National Assembly completed filling out the cabinet this week, and it can now be said that this was liberals' laughably wrong prediction No. 9,856. (Or No. 9,857 if you count their predictions of ruinous global cooling back in the 1970s, which I don't because that could still happen.)

Iraq's first democratically elected government in half a century has a Shia prime minister and a Kurdish president and several Sunni cabinet ministers. In fact, toss in a couple of dowdy lesbians from the Green Party and it would look a lot like Vermont's state house.

Fat Muqtada al-Sadr saw his radical Shiite movement humiliated in the January elections. According to a recent poll by the International Republican Institute, two-thirds of Iraqis say Iraq is on the right track.

The minority Sunnis, who once held sway under Saddam Hussein and were told by American liberals to expect major payback from the Shiites under a democracy, were chosen by the majority Shia government for four cabinet positions -- including the not insignificant position of defense minister. Plus, the Sunnis might get a fifth if they can convince Rep. Ali Abu Jeffords to switch parties.

One of the Sunnis picked for a cabinet post turned it down on the grounds that he thought he was chosen simply to fill a Sunni quota. "I don't believe in sectarianism," he said, "I believe in democracy." So I'll be moving to Iraq soon to live in a country that forcefully rejects quotas.

Also this week, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said he would like a woman as his fourth deputy prime minister. It's as if the Taliban has risen from the dead!

Apparently -- like John Kerry and the Democrats -- I guess the Muslim extremists just didn't get their message out. Although "Green Zone Veterans for Truth" were also a factor.

What we've learned from this is: Talking to liberals is much more fun now that we have Lexis-Nexis.

In a Nov. 9, 2003, news article, The New York Times raised the prospect that "democracy in the Middle East might empower the very forces that the United States opposes, like Islamic fundamentalists in Saudi Arabia and Egypt."

Democracy in the U.S. might have put John Kerry in the White House, too, but you'll notice we didn't abandon the idea.

One difference is that the Islamic fundamentalists in Saudi Arabia and Egypt were not democratically elected. Still, the Times said that "something similar" happened in Iran when "domestic pressures" installed the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. By "domestic pressures" in Iran, I gather the Times meant "the Carter presidency."

Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Trudy Rubin claimed to be talking about "grim Iraq realities," explaining to her readers that if elections were held, the new Iraqi government "will likely be dominated by religious parties. If the economy stays bad, radical Islamic parties could do well." So you can see how leaving the tyrannical Hussein dynasty (slogan: "We're the rape room people!") in place was preferable to that.

Winning the category of Most Wrong Predictions in the Fewest Words, Joe Conason predicted in the Sept. 27, 2004, New York Observer: "a series of horrifically violent confrontations in Iraq's cities, a postponement of the January elections, a wider call-up of National Guard and Reserve units, or even a renewed military draft." And if Bush won a second term, Conason said: "Beware the 'November surprise' that will begin to bring home the true costs of his feckless adventure."

Conason's feeble litany of harebrained predictions reads like a haiku of bum steers. No increase in "horrific" violence, no postponement of elections, no draft, no "November surprise." (OK, there was one "November surprise" -- but only for the Democrats. It happened on Nov. 2.)

Winning the category of Most Wrong Predictions, Lifetime Achievement Award, Katrina vanden Heuvel (Queen of the May at the fun-loving Nation magazine) said invading Iraq would lead to "more terrorist retaliation, undermine the fight against al-Qaida and make America less secure and possibly unleash those very weapons of mass destruction into the hands of rogue terrorists in Iraq."

What weapons, Katrina? (Katrina lied, kids died!) Hey! Wait a minute! How can rogue terrorists in Iraq detonate bombs? They're all too busy flying kites with their children! Hasn't she seen "Fahrenheit 9/11"?

After we invaded Iraq, Katrina predicted the U.S. would stay in Iraq as a colonial power -- as the only nonimperialist superpower in the history of the world is wont to do. As we paved the way for elections, she said, "You know, if there are elections in Iraq, it's very likely it will not be secular democracy."

But it's not fair to quote Katrina. She still thinks the Soviet Union's planned economy failed because the farmers had 70 years of bad weather. Liberals' current prediction is that Hillary will be able to do a planned economy right.

....by Ann Coulter

"It's always important to get liberals to stop complaining long enough to make a hard prediction."

Yeah, and then their predictions are almost always wrong. I guess that’s what happens when you view the world through narcissistic and self-centered lenses...views that support your agenda rather than reality.

The tentacles of the subversives are diversified, widespread and deep into the fabric of our country.

The young radicals (communists/socialists) of the 60’s have become college professors, teachers, lawyers, politicians, clergy, news and entertainment media and the business world elite. They are “educating” and recruiting our young for their replacements. They are taking OUR country away from us and saving it for the “Future owners”. This link shows what they have accomplished. (http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm)

There have been several additions to this list:

They have gotten environmental and regulatory control (NGO’s) over most businesses, resources of water, forests, oil, farming, ranching and mining in order to eliminate their profits and shut them down.
They are in the process of bankrupting the people and government with lawsuits, social programs, environmental programs and out-right GIVING money to socialist front groups, the UN and foreign countries.

They are eliminating our jobs as much as they can with the above methods and with foreign treaties. NAFTA, FTAA, etc.

OK, where's the obligatory Ann Coulter picture?

I've read the communist goals before and it is pretty scary. The war of ideas is in full swing.

"OK, where's the obligatory Ann Coulter picture?"

I'm new to FR and don't know how to post pics or change font styles and colors. If you show me how I'll gladly post a pic of the lovely AC.

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Mason sees it pretty good. While the colleges are dens of marxist-socialist thought, the MSmedia and the 'Progressive'(Democrat) Party are the tools of this socialist conversion.

I witnessed postmodernism destroy the American theatre. People taking shakespeare apart bit by bit and jumbling it back together much like the collage of different fonts ransom note, except the ransom note still makes declarative sense while the shakespeare piece ended up as a celebration of cacophony. These people are completely unaware of the harm they do. Solipsistically, they believe that their destruction is in fact creation. The irony is either lost on them or they secretly enjoy the perversity.

Still waiting for the pictures!

Yeegads, you guys!

I witnessed postmodernism destroy the American theatre. People taking shakespeare apart bit by bit and jumbling it back together much like the collage of different fonts ransom note...

Kinda like modern music, no? Rap et.al.

LOL ping

What stood out for me in Mason's discourse about the (postmodernist) liberal's inability to debate (emphasis mine):

This is what Ms. Coulter is not understanding, nor is Mr. Hannity or Mr. Limbaugh. They are still trying to parse and dissect these people in rational terms. It cannot be done. Postmodernists constitute a new paradigm and require a non-standard means of evaluation. For instance, these postmodernist people eschew reason, so they cannot be reasoned with. They are carbon copies of the German university students who so strongly supported Hitler. Intellectually and spiritually, they are fifth column partners with all of the overt and covert jihadists. Like CAIR (Council for American-Islamic Relations), they insist on their "civil rights.” They are totally narcissistic, however. They are concerned with THEIR rights, but not anyone else’s rights.

(I picture them as most likely to be the first ones to sharpen the stick at both ends.)

These postmodernists need to be expunged from our universities as well as their disciples before they make the entire culture like them.

Coulter, Hannity, and Limbaugh--along with so many on the Right--sputter and stop, and seem to be at the end of their thinking whenever they invoke the term "liberal." That is not good enough because "liberal" offers no obvious explanation any longer. Once upon a time, "liberal" described people like me, who advocate individual rights and capitalism. Socialists co-opted the term to mean "socialist-without-saying-so." Now, "liberal" has become almost meaningless because the liberals of today are nihilistic, anti-American, anti-reason, anti-individual rights, anti-life and anti-man. They are postmodern nihilists who no longer seek just some socialist "nirvana" but the destruction of values, all values, and all valuers.

...courtesy of FReeper Echo Talon on THIS thread:

Just a Reminder to Everyone: Ann Coulter will be on "Tonight Show"
NBC ^ | 05/10/2005
Posted on 05/10/2005 3:36:53 PM PDT by Panerai

Just a reminder to everyone that Ann Coulter will be on the Tonight Show on NBC tonight.
Tuesday, May 10

Matt LeBlanc - Joey
Ann Coulter - Conservative author
Music - Theory of a Deadman

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I'm new to FR and don't know how to post pics or change font styles and colors.
If you show me how I'll gladly post a pic of the lovely AC.
From:

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Published: 03/06/2001
Posted on 03/06/2001 16:43:40 PST by michigander
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How to post a picture:
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(?=the address of the picture)

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the image height is 130, and the width is 150...
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In order to place it on a Reply page, I would normally center the image, and add a caption underneath:

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Thanks Cultural Jihad!

On the other hand Post modernism has produced some great Art. Pynchon, Delillo... even Nabokov and Borges were proto pomos. A good critic has argued that Faulkner's 'Absalom, Absalom' is the dividing line between Modernism and Post modernism.

Thanks! What a great photo!