Exclusive Interview: Coulter Says Book Examines 'Mental Disorder' of Liberalism

Human Events ^ | June 6, 2006 | Lisa De Pasquale

[Huck]

Exclusive interview? She was on the Today show, for cripes sake.

[cbkaty]

Based on her scientific ignorance, I won't be buying this book.

exsqueeze me?

[Huck]

Looks more like Ann submitted answers to a list of written questions. Not quite the same as an interview. She had some funny answers, though.

[Mogollon]

Based on her scientific ignorance, I won't be buying this book.

Was it because she dared profane the hallowed theory of evolution?

[Christian4Bush]

I pre-ordered Ann's book, along with Bill Sammon's "Strategery", from Amazon a few weeks ago. I figured that they'd send both books once Coulter's was released today.

They were waiting for me at home yesterday.

I actually started with "Strategery", but come the weekend, I will dive into both books. There's too much "tyranny of the urgent" to do it now. Interested in your thoughts.

[Disambiguator]

I just went to Amazon to check it out, and you are spot on. The liberals are claiming to be Christians and bashing Ann for being un-Christian in her attitudes towards liberals. I say it's evil lamenting being exposed.

Every review was written today, and it's plainly obvious that no-one has actually read the book, they're just piling on.

[rlmorel]

Yup!

I cannot watch that show, it makes my blood pressure go up. My wife and I actually had a very rare fight about the show...she watches and likes it, and it makes me verbally angry, which I normally am not.

This morning, I am in the bathroom shaving, and I hear the unmistakable voice of...Ann Coulter! Now I had to go look, and my wife was watching the exchange between her and Matt "Hairplug" Lauer, who was trying to do his best Tim Russert "Gotcha" mode of attack.

I thought she defended herself brilliantly!

[youthgonewild]

I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions, like the Cargo Cult of the South Pacific.

I would like Ann to join the roster of other discredited pundits, like Father Charles Coughlin and Pat Buchanan. I used to think she was funny because I assumed her to be playing a "character" as a conservative provocateur but she is really hurting the conservative movement by making inane comments like this.

[MeanWestTexan]

Yes, that is a shame. She is otherwise very insightful.

I would imagine she is merely pandering to our moonbats.

Gotsa sell books.

[murdoog]

When I was writing High Crimes and Misdemeanors, the magnificent writer Joe Sobran gave me the greatest advice a writer could ever get. I called him in desperation, because I was pulling my hair out trying to write the Whitewater chapter. I explained to him that the reason Whitewater was so hard to write about was that the financial transactions comprising Whitewater were incredibly complicated—and they were complicated for a reason: to hide what was really going on. After I whined for about five minutes about how impossible this made it to explain the scandal, Joe told me to write down exactly what I had just said to him—in fact, to write the entire chapter like I was writing an e-mail to him. I did, and the Economist (written by the only economists on earth who liked Hillary’s health care plan) described it as one of the clearest explanations of the Whitewater scandal out there.

I've read HC&D, and this was one of the most memorable chapters. I especially loved the first sentence ..."This is the boring part".

[MeanWestTexan]

No, but she does make some basic mistakes that anyone with hard scientific training would get, regardless of the side of the evolutionary issue one is on.

There are many, many, legitimate ways to attack evolution, but the "no transitionary fossils" canard is simply a mistake up there with arguing the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

[auto power]

After having tried, many times, to put myself in the shoes of a liberal....just can't do it....doesn't feel natural...or normal....and was always whinny....

[april15Bendovr]

I did a post on the topic

Question to My Psychiatric Colleagues (Mental Health Vanity)
9/27/05 | ME

Posted on 09/27/2005 8:01:08 PM PDT by april15Bendovr

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492572/posts?page=1,50

[trisham]

I almost never watch it, but I do surf during commercials. That's how I spotted Ann this morning. I was delighted, especially since she gave Matt a correction the likes of which is rarely seen on the morning news. Poor Matt must be weeping in a corner somewhere right about now.

[proud_yank]

After having tried, many times, to put myself in the shoes of a liberal....just can't do it....doesn't feel natural...or normal....and was always whinny....

I tried, briefly, I couldn't manage to get my head that far up my rear.

After 9/11, I put a little bit too much trust in the MSM. Its amazing the things that they lead you to believe, that never even were points for debate by the Dims.

Never, ever again will I trust a word from the press. I am very thankful for FR.

[hosepipe]

[ Based on her scientific ignorance, I won't be buying this book. ]

RINOs despise Ann.. its all in the plan...
She EXPOSES RINOs.. they can't help themselves..
They MUST snipe at her.. LoL.. She's a GENIOUS..

[Maigrey]

Now that is a tagline!

[hosepipe]

[ I would like Ann to join the roster of other discredited pundits, like Father Charles Coughlin and Pat Buchanan. I used to think she was funny because I assumed her to be playing a "character" as a conservative provocateur but she is really hurting the conservative movement by making inane comments like this. ]

The Carge Cult metaphor was spot on.. Lay off the Dumberol.. it can make you a RINO.....
RINOs viscerally hate Ann Coulter..

Coul·ter: a cutting tool (as a knife or sharp disc) that is attached to the beam of a plow, makes a vertical cut in the surface, and permits clean separation and effective covering of the soil and materials being turned under

[Aldin]

Even if you disagree with Ann on whether or not evolution happened, it's hard to disagree with her point that the liberals have turned it into a religion.

[RonDog]

See also, from:

Book Review: Coulter Attacks the Cult of Liberalism
Human Events ^ | June 5, 2006 | Lisa De Pasquale
Posted on 06/05/2006 6:46:45 AM PDT by boryeulb

In "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," HUMAN EVENTS legal affairs correspondent Ann Coulter lays out one of the most original and perceptive philosophies on the cult of liberalism.

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She states, "Under the guise of not favoring religion, liberals favor one cosmology over another and demand total indoctrination into theirs. The state religion of liberalism demands obeisance (to the National Organization for Women), tithing (to teachers' unions), reverence (for abortion), and formulaic imprecations ('Bush lied, kids died!'' 'Keep your laws off my body!' 'Arms for hostages!'). Everyone is taxed to support indoctrination into the state religion through public schools where innocent children are taught a specific belief system, rather than, say, math."

For years liberals have relied on a strategy of faking out the American public in order to win elections. Instead of accurately articulating their beliefs and engaging in an honest debate, they scour the nation for the perfect patsy. A hysterical mother who is willing to go on national television and call the President a "furor" and "evil maniac" is akin to seeing the stigmata. Liberals' ecstasy over Cindy Sheehan, Max Cleland, and the widows who made a spectacle of themselves in the midst of the 9/11 Commission epitomizes their secret weapon for winning back America -- a doctrine of infallibility in which victory goes to the most hysterical.

As Coulter writes:

Finally, the Democrats hit on an ingenious strategy: They would choose only messengers whom we're not allowed to reply to. That’s why all Democratic spokesmen these days are sobbing, hysterical women. You can't respond to them because that would be questioning the authenticity of their suffering. Liberals haven't changed the message, just the messenger. All the most prominent liberal spokesmen are people with "absolute moral authority" -- Democrats with a dead husband, a dead child, a wife who works at the CIA, a war record, terminal illness, or as a last resort, being on a first-name basis with Nelson Mandela. Like Oprah during Sweeps Week, liberals have come to rely exclusively on people with sad stories...

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