Apple-polisher shows POW real courage — Ann Coulter

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | May 24, 2006 | Ann Coulter

[Fintan]

More on this little snot by Linda Chavez in today's Phila. Inquirer...

What a spoiled kid owes McCain

A commencement protester speaks of honor, but she doesn't understand the concept.

By Linda Chavez

It's amazing what passes for courage these days.

The newest hero in the left's pantheon is 21-year-old Jean Sara Rohe, who gave a self-indulgent little tirade against Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) on Friday when he spoke at graduation ceremonies for the New School in New York.

Rohe no doubt thought she was speaking truth to power when she said, "The senator does not reflect the ideals upon which this university was founded," but what she really demonstrated was appalling conceit.

You can agree or disagree with McCain's politics, but the man is one of the few genuine heroes in public life. Although the official biography on his Web site doesn't even mention it, John McCain spent five-and-a-half years in a North Vietnamese prison camp after his plane was shot down in 1967. He suffered terrible injuries, which were not properly treated, and was beaten and tortured repeatedly. He refused early release, choosing to stay with his fellow captives until all came home together in 1973. He has spent his entire life in public service ever since, first continuing his career as a Navy officer and then as an elected official.

Rohe could have chosen to give a substantive speech detailing why she believes "preemptive war is dangerous and wrong" - or as she so categorically put it, how she "knows" that it is. Instead, she took the easy way out by insulting the speaker and throwing out some leftist chestnuts about the still missing Osama bin Laden and weapons of mass destruction. But the former would have required her to grapple with ideas; she chose to take potshots.

Rohe has now decided to explain her decision to forgo a speech she'd written for the occasion, one that would have talked about music and her work with children in the New York City public schools. In a posting to Arianna Huffington's blog, Rohe writes, "A certain not-so-dynamic duo of 'centrist' politicians foiled my standard graduation speech and forced me to act. Until just the day before commencement I really hadn't understood the gravity of the situation," she writes (www.huffingtonpost.com).

Meeting up with some students who planned to protest the speech, she got this brilliant idea: "I checked the schedule for the ceremony and realized that I would be speaking just before the senator got his award. And that's when the idea for a preemptive strike began to brew in my little stressed-out brain. What if I tore McCain's speech apart before he even opened his mouth? After reading his speech a couple of times I picked out a few particularly loathsome sections - and believe it or not, none of these actually came from the extensive section where he defends his position on the war in Iraq - and I began planning an attack against him using his own words."

Just before the moment finally arrived, Rohe found herself in the green room with McCain. She introduced herself, "I almost wanted to warn the guy that I was about to make him look like an idiot so that he would at least have a fighting chance and an extra moment to change his speech to save himself. But he didn't even make eye contact when we shook hands, so I figured I didn't owe him anything."

She couldn't be more wrong. She and the others who jeered not just McCain but the president of their university, former senator and fellow decorated Vietnam veteran Bob Kerrey, owe them their very way of life. Men like McCain and Kerrey have endured more than Rohe and her fellow protesters can even imagine so that all of us might enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Rohe said the commencement was "an occasion that is supposed to honor us above all." Maybe that's the problem. McCain was addressing a bunch of spoiled kids who think they deserve "honor" for having made it through college.

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[Rummyfan]

Anopther good take on this incident here:

http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5220

[blitzgig]

Thanks for pointing out that article. Good take-down of the spineless liberal to go with Ann's contribution.

[SupplySider]

I hear that... Liberalism and political correctness have become the establishment, and we (college-age conservatives) have become the underground, anti-establishment culture glorified in the '60s.

Very true. All the words are backwards now.

Today's "liberals" are are devoted to protecting the establishment, opposed to free speech, in favor of racial discrimination, and in favor of the socialist staus quo that uses government force to take money from the people and give it to themselves. They're more accurately called conservative, reactionary, racist, greedy elites.

Today's "conservatives" are anti-establishment radicals devoted to free speech and racial equality, who want economic fairness and prosperity for all through capitalism.

I was, sorry to say, a sixties radical. Many if not most of my friends got old and turned into establishment "liberals". I'm still a rebel and reject most all of their views, which I grew out of decades ago.

Right on young conservatives and viva la (Reagan) revolucion!

[Antoninus]

I guess this fem-bot hippy-chick didn't get the memo that McCain is the Manchurian Candidate.

What was Sgt. RINO doing at the New School in the first place?

[SupplySider]

What a class act this lady is. I loath McCain. Would never of written this. I sure Ms Annie is no McCain fan. Yet she had the grace to write this. My respect for here just grows and grows

Very well put. I can't stand McCain either, but he is a bonafide war hero and patriot. He is entitled to courtesy and respect. These leftie kids have learned very bad manners and lack of respect for others from their supposedly compassionate teachers and parents.

[SupplySider]

Great to see an Ann Coulter thread where no one has suggested she eat a sandwich. She looks fantastic and healthy, not everyone has to be chubby!

[Mamzelle]

No, no! Rohe is just a maverick.

[drew]

Amen, Annie! I know people who are like-minded politically who don't like Ann because they say she's too extreme and writes such outrageous things (how is she any different from Maher and Olberman, e.g. whom I loathe). But I like the fact that she has the guts to skewer morons on the left and she backs it up by appearing on the polticial indoctrination centers that pass for universities. These idiots who preach to their amen corners and claim to be courageous make my blood boil. I was perusing a magazine last night at the store that had an article on Green Day, and the quote on the cover said "We aren't afraid to criticize America." Gee, wow, what guts and how original! Inside, beneath the picture of the deep thinking Billy Joe (you know he's serious because he has that mussy hair and black eyeliner) another quote read "We're rock and roll terrorists!" What rebels, how daring! What a bunch of simple-minded shite.

[marc costanzo]

Add to that: Jon Stewart and Al Franken as caustic polemicists -(if not demagogues)

All of these liberal loudmouths are protegies of Eric Berg from the 1980's . .

[okiecon]

What a bunch of simple-minded shite.

What do you expect for high school dropouts who struggle to put three simple cords together, dress like fools, pretend that they are 'rebels' by saying exactly what the critics in their industry wishes to hear, and whose "criticize America" through the most shallow lyrics since Tiffany sang "I Think We're Alone Now?"

[sinkspur]

I said at the time that this whole thing was staged to garner sympathy for McCain from conservatives. It worked.

From reading your posts over the last month, I've come to the conclusion that you're the biggest goofball on this forum.

And the competition is fierce.

[Mr Rogers]

He has spent his entire life in public service ever since, first continuing his career as a Navy officer and then as an elected official.

Umm...excuse me, but I'm not sure being a congresscritter is 'public service'. He took politically helpful jobs in the Navy and then ran for Congress in a safe district on his wife's money - and has had folks kissing his butt ever since.

The protester was an @$$ - like most college grads. She doesn't know squat about life, and should have had just enough sense to realize it. Since she didn't, her elders should have smacked her down and told her not to discuss life until she's had one.

But that doesn't make McCain a great guy. Not in this Arizonan's book!

[sinkspur]

What was Sgt. RINO doing at the New School in the first place?

He was invited there by his fellow Vietnam vet friend, Bob Kerrey.

[John Lenin]

Even the original '60s anti-war protesters were rebelling against at least 5 percent of their professors. Today's college liberals ape the beliefs of 99 percent of their professors and then pretend they're on-the-edge radicals.

Liberals are nothing more than

[Jim_Curtis]

Do you have any other talents besides flinging your feces?

[sinkspur]

Do you have any other talents besides flinging your feces?

Yes. And they are considerably better and preferable to your constant, nagging negativity toward Bush, McCain, and every other Republican.

Are your hemorrhoids bothering you?

[Jim_Curtis]

I'm not negative towards "every Republican", just McCain, Coleman, Lugar, Hagel, Chafee...you know, the kind you like. The other 99% of Republicans are just fine by me.

[rockbobster]

It is good that she is not the average American fat chick, but is she really the Antichrist?

http://www.staggeron.org/fire&brimstone.html#ann-goddess