Posted on 12/28/2002 12:24:38 PM PST by TLBSHOW
Slander This
Ann Coulter recently published her latest book, Slander: Liberal Lies about the American Right.
A founding member of the Cornell Review as well as former editor-in-chief, this fiery attorney and legal affairs correspondent wittingly exemplifies with meticulous detail the leftist monopoly of the media and the puerile attempts of liberals to convince the world that Republicans are “mean-spirited”.
Recognizing that “the Soviet threat has been vaporized, women are not prevented from doing even things they should be, and the gravest danger facing most black Americans today is the risk of being patronized to death”, Coulter begins her book by acknowledging that the void that overwhelms those who once lived for fighting against the tyranny of the state has left liberals bitter and angry. Liberal catechism, she states, “includes a hatred of Christians, guns, the profit motive, and political speech and an infatuation with abortion, the environment, and race discrimination (or in the favored parlance of liberals, ‘affirmative action’)”. Noting the pure emotion that often dictates the course of liberal thought, she berates left-wing radicals like Jesse Jackson who incessantly accuse Republicans of planning a second Holocaust and ridiculously compare conservatives to Nazis without once qualifying their statements with proof of alleged right-wing hatred other than references to “evil” marginal tax cuts and paranoid babble about “code words” implying deep-rooted elitist snobbery. Of course, Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz did accuse Republicans of “ethnically cleansing the voting lists” by not allowing convicted felons to vote, she credits, but that’s about as close as they get to substantiating their arguments with something other than “my gut feeling tells me so” and even that doesn’t hold. Coulter goes on to point out that in today’s world, the only groups that differentiate between races are the Democrats and the Ku Klux Klan. Denouncing more general assertions that Republicans are uncompassionate, she points out that Republicans are unwarrantedly targeted as the cause of anger and hostility in instances such as the Oklahoma City bombing, the killing of James Byrd, and even the recent events of 9/11. In the case of Byrd, for instance, she notes Al Gore’s vicious attacks against George W. Bush for failing to support a hate crimes bill. Apparently, the fact that Bush supports the death penalty for the very reason that travesties like this continue to occur was not enough. Oh, no. “They would not rest until the killers were found guilty of ‘hate’ and forced to attend anger-management classes.”
Throughout her book, Coulter also criticizes the favorite argument of the liberal media- and it is especially apparent right now concerning the dignified President Bush- the claim the Republicans are stupid. She writes, “If liberals were prevented from ever calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have ‘racist’, ‘fascist’, ‘homophobe’, ‘ugly’, and a few other highly nuanced arguments in their quiver. But the loss of ‘dumb’ would nearly cripple them.”
Of course, she also addresses the issue of intolerance. Liberals would have you believe that it’s the Republicans who are intolerant, she writes, but the left-wing is laughable in its claims to be the “tolerant” party. She points out the infantile name calling of Conservatives by the media, the use of terms and phrases like “Uncle Tom”, “race traitor”, “Benedict Arnold”, and “colored lawn jockey for conservative white interests” that are continually directed towards Colin Powell, Justice Clarence Thomas, and any other Black-American who-Heaven forbid- actually believes his race should not define his beliefs, and their ruthless attacks against conservative women whom they deem to be unattractive despite their rantings and ravings that women should free themselves from the oppression of feminine idealism. When was the last time you heard a Republican discrediting Janet Reno for not wearing the right shade of lipstick? Yet journalists have ferociously attacked Katherine Harris, Linda Tripp, and Paula Jones, to name a few, on the grounds of their looks.
All in all Slander is well-written, humorous, controversial, and well-referenced.
She is the answer to the carviles and mccaulifs of the left...our "pitbull" so to speak.
FMCDH
If "wittingly" is a word, it shouldn't be.
It is a word, but I think they were going for "wittily".
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