Posted on 06/12/2006 6:52:54 PM PDT by NotchJohnson
"Don't worry Notch, I will be buying my copy this weekend. The left doesn't scare me."
Bought my copy today. Wasn't going to -- my mother has one and I was just going to borrow it when she was done -- but I saw one one in a bookstore and bought it specifically BECAUSE of those NJ democraps' call for a ban/boycott...
These people are making Ann famous, it's a lift for the conservative side, I should say moral side.
Fortunately, not too many people care what the drive-by media says.
Same goes for Hitchens, who came out for the war in Iraq and has been proclaiming himself an recovering Trotskyite ever since.
I remember how the left went absolutely berserk when he fell out of lockstep with them, and they how started calling him a sellout - among other things.
Not to mention how they sent out their character assassins after him too.
Same goes for Hitchens, who came out for the war in Iraq and has been proclaiming himself an recovering Trotskyite ever since.
I remember how the left went absolutely berserk when he fell out of lockstep with them, and they how started calling him a sellout - among other things.
Not to mention how they sent out their character assassins after him too.
It sounds pretty reasonable to me. As for Churchill, any institution that employs him is damaging its own reputation.
Yes, Hannity is not the sharpest bowling ball on the rack.
But Rush Limbaugh pioneered the genre...in more ways than one can count. And in the process, revitalized the AM radio dial.
Not to mention Rush's brilliant satire, even on non-political subjects (e.g. the Pee-Wee Herman update song, "Beat It" by Michael Jackson)...; or the fake commercials (Weemsco Tuna).
Please, think it over again, at least about Rush.
Cheers!
Dbl post. Sorry folks.
As to the current outrage? She's unmasked one of their most dishonest and sleazy techniques and devices- a snippet with links:
Battered Conservative Syndrome: Defending Ann Coulter [Big Lizard: BEST defense of GODLESS yet!]--This was the first time I encountered what, fifteen years later,
--Ann Coulter would call-- "the Left's doctrine of infallibility," "using their grief to make a political point while preventing anyone from responding." (The link is to a transcript of Coulter's appearance on the Today Show with Matt Lauer; tuck it away in your grey matter, we'll come back to it at the end of this post.)
The infallibility of grief, take 2.
The Club of Grief...
Here is what Coulter wrote in her newest book, Godless, that has provoked such a fury of denunciation... not just from the left, but from the right as well:
And here is the SECOND BEST defense of Godless yet -- IMHO, 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.
As Coulter writes:
Finally, the Democrats hit on an ingenious strategy: They would choose only messengers whom we're not allowed to reply to. Thats 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."Whenever someone like the Jersey Girls or Sheehan appears, I try to picture wives of the men on the Arizona (Dec 7, 1941) etc., behaving that way... You immediately see them for what they are, opportunists."
Can you hide behind that with an unproven accusation? I have my doubts. As Jesus would have it, to call somebody "you fool" was like unto murder. At least if you couldn't prove it.
Hey, that's an insult to the girls here! ;-)
I wouldn't advise it. Her chapters on evolution are not only "outright stupid", they are deeply dishonest, and say a great deal about how she feels about lying to her readers, and her assessment of their intelligence.
"As a matter of fact, there is no dark side of the moon. Actually, i'ts all dark."
Of course, the flip side of this consists of everyone around here who goes ga-ga over her looks.
No Bob Seger for me, man.
Charro. Charro forever!
The book is full of statements of fact. Liberals could pretty much discredit her by showing(counterassertion is insufficient) that a couple of the dozens of assertions she makes are untrue. Liberals cannot do that without being refuted themselves so their argument against the book turns on a characterizartion that is not the characterization they would make. They are allowing that the assertions in Mrs. Coulter's book are true because they do not essay to dispute them.
How have you managed to hang in here so long? FR must keep you grinding your teeth so bad that I would guess you have removable replacements now.
I suspect the NRO guys have made an editorial decision to sit back for this one and just chuckle. Mrs. Coulter doesn't need to be defended and too much defense detracts from this defendee. I would prefer that the Big Guns on the right leave it alone until after the screaming has waned a bit. Mrs. Coulter is surely the most sure-footed advocate we have. She has calculated her target with precision and she is highly skilled in the application of the verbal JDAM.
The problem is that it is piles of FACTS. Liberals are unable to counter facts effectively with slogans any more. People have heard them too often and too long. They have nothing else with which to counter Mrs. Coulter's assertions. Their Armory of Facts is very large but quite empty.
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