Annie, get your gun!
Posted on 01/28/2009 2:43:20 PM PST by Syncro
LIBERAL VICTIMHOOD: A GAME YOU CAN PLAY AT HOME
January 28, 2009
I notice that liberals have not challenged the overall thesis of my rocketing bestseller, "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America," which is that liberals always play the victim in order to advance, win advantages and oppress others.
I guess that would be hard to do when the corrupt Democratic governor of Illinois is running around comparing himself to Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.
Indeed, you can't turn on the TV without seeing some liberal playing victim to score the game-winning point.
Caroline Kennedy tried to Bigfoot her way into New York's Senate seat while being bathed in the Kennedy light of eternal victimhood. The New York Times began a profile of Caroline by quoting an average citizen who "turns almost maternally protective" upon hearing Caroline's name, mentioning the assassination of her father -- nearly half a century ago.
MSNBC's Chris Matthews summarily announced: "We all want to be protective of Caroline Kennedy." When one of his guests, Michael Smerconish, merely asked what her qualifications were, an appalled Matthews said: "Wow."
Political reporter Ron Brownstein elaborated on "wow," saying: "Well, that's pretty rough. That's pretty rough. I mean, but she has got, at least publicly, a very private persona, one of quiet grace and elegance and intelligence."
The Times' City Room exercised its own protective function toward Caroline by censoring any indelicate inquiries about her on its blog.
The Kennedys are the textbook case of victims who go around victimizing others. As I describe in "Guilty," in 1969, Times reporter James Reston began his story about Teddy Kennedy driving a girl off the Chappaquiddick bridge with the sentence: "Tragedy has again struck the Kennedy family."
Reston waited a discreet four paragraphs before mentioning the name of the dead girl, whose "tragedy" was arguably greater. (Even the Times rewrote Reston's opening line.)
Caroline's expectation that she would sail past all other contenders and be handed a seat in the U.S. Senate is perfectly in keeping with her family tradition.
When Robert Kennedy won his Senate seat from New York, he unseated a well-liked Republican, Kenneth Barnard Keating, who had represented New York in Congress for more than a decade.
Meanwhile, Robert Kennedy hadn't lived in New York since he was 12 years old. But the allegedly sophisticated voters of New York were awed by the Kennedy name, and dumped a popular native son.
A deputy manager of Kennedy's campaign explained that the carpetbagger accusation could not withstand the image of JFK's assassination a year earlier: "You couldn't vote against Robert Kennedy without seeing the presence of John Kennedy."
With New York's record of swooning for celebrity victims, it was a snap for another carpetbagger, Hillary Clinton, to push aside veteran New York Democrats to win her Senate seat in 2000.
When Gov. David Paterson ended the Kennedy soap opera by appointing Democratic congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand, her Democratic colleague, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, blanketed the airwaves, threatening to challenge Gillibrand in the next election because of her NRA-approved stand on guns.
McCarthy explained, "My voice is for the victims."
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
But ironically, Obama's father is from Africa: He never suffered from the ancient policies that, today, give his son Victim Gold. To the contrary, if Obama's African relatives had anything to do with slavery, it was on the business end.
Read the rest at AnnCoulter.Com
Is it Wednesday again already?
Ouch! That last line is gonna leave a mark!
She doesn’t pull any punches!
See, affirmative action does work.
Ann bump!
No she doesn’t. And really the article is a masterpiece. The hit on James Reston is perfect. But really so is the whole article.
Annie, get your gun!
Once again, Ann’s right on the money. (But I wish she would eat a pizza or an ice cream sundae once in a while.)
There is nothing wrong with her size, but it seems it bothers fat people.
I’m a skinny person and it bothers me.
: > )
She's fine and healthy, take care of yourself.
I’m fat and I am okay with it.
But ironically, Obama's father is from Africa: He never suffered from the ancient policies that, today, give his son Victim Gold. To the contrary, if Obama's African relatives had anything to do with slavery, it was on the business end.
Read the rest at AnnCoulter.Com
There's no stopping Anne plus she dined with and hung out with JimRob and other Freepers when she was on the Dr Phil show taped in LA
Yeah - I copied the last line too. Ironically, he’d be in line for reparations. You can’t make this stuff up.
Victimhoodlums all.
QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN ANN January 27, 2009, 6:41 PM
TONIGHT: HANNITY TV: ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEW - WEDNESDAY, JAN 28, FNC 9PM
. . . ALSO: THURSDAY, JAN 29:
-- CBS's THE EARLY SHOW (EARLY)
-- FNC'S THE GLENN BECK SHOW, 5PM
The Arabs invented race-based slavery, importing East Africans to the Iraqi marshes as the best way to keep their field hands from being able to run off and melt into the populace at large.
From there, African slaving in the West passed into the hands of the Barbary Pirates and Sally Rovers—both of whom were more-or-less colourblind—and from there to the Spaniards who started importing non-Christian North African slaves—predominantly, but not exclusively sub-Sarahan Africans to work their plantations in the West Indies after the Arawaks died out due to Eurasian diseases.
After the War of Spanish Succession, the English received the right to the Spanish slave trade with America as their reward for opposing the Bourbons. The English only dabbled in the trade of African slaves in significant volume from 1715—although they did import some from Spanish colonies before that—to 1807, when they outlawed the traffic while permitting the practice of slavery to endure in their colonies for another 20 years or so.
The history after that is pretty well known, but it was another brilliant Muslim contribution to world civilisation in conception.
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