Posted on 06/24/2002 3:43:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Ann Coulter: Left Is 'out to Destroy the Country'
Phil Brennan
Tuesday, June 25, 2002
Last week, Washington Post columnist Lloyd Grove wrote a cynical piece about Ann Coulter's new book, "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right." He opined that Miss Coulter, whom he called "a human Uzi," had "lumped" his fellow Post columnist Howard Kurtz with "liberal" journalists who – the author notes – regularly distort conservative utterances, which are "paraphrased, unfairly excerpted, summarized or ... invented out of whole cloth."
Grove quoted Kurtz as saying that "Coulter is apparently still angry about his reporting last fall on her dust-up with National Review Online, whose editors she insulted as "girly-boys." They responded by dropping her weekly column.
"I guess I committed the sin of accurately quoting Ann's comments, which got her dumped by National Review, which is not exactly part of the liberal media conspiracy," Kurtz wrote. But I still think Ann can be very funny."
NewsMax.com asked Ann what she thought of Grove's column and Kurtz's reply.
"I liked it ... though the book is even more vitriolic [than Grove wrote]. The reason I liked it is that Grove quotes me – and the quotes are things I actually said! That is stunningly rare.
'The Left's Logic Deficit'
"What liberals normally do in response to a principled conservative argument is lie, manufacture quotes, and call conservatives names – as some dissolute drunk did in the New York Post a few days later. The left's logic deficit is a topic I explore thoroughly in my book. Buy it and prepare to have your blood run hot.
"Oh, and for the record, Howard Kurtz is wrong about the reason I call him the Liberal Ombusdman for Liberal Media Bias in my book – it was not the 'girly-boy' quote. Paradoxically, that is the ONLY time Kurtz has quoted me accurately."
In her book Coulter cites examples of CBS News anchorman Dan Rather's leftist bias numerous times, much to what has to be his enormous discomfort. NewsMax asked her that, given the fact that Rather's leftist bias is so blatantly obvious that he sounds more and more like a parody of himself, does she believe he still can have any impact on public opinion?
"Yes! He may be the baby seal of right-wing fundraising letters, but he still reaches millions of people," she said.
"The reason propaganda works is that most people are too involved or too stupid to recognize it as propaganda. People claim to understand the bias and filter it out, but that's absurd. Of course they don't.
Attention, Katie Couric
"Though Rather is congenitally bad – an admirable heir to Walter Cronkite and his special form of treasonous broadcasting – more insidious are certain chirpy girl-next-door morning TV hosts who characterize the beliefs of ordinary middle-class Americans in terms that would make Goebbels blush."
In her book, Coulter writes that conservative books sell like hot cakes, conservative talk show hosts dominate the airwaves, and the public shows every indication of leaning to the right and has some hostility to liberals and their positions. This being true, why does almost half the electorate vote for the National Socialist Democrat party (NSDP), which is owned lock, stock and barrel by the Marxist left?
Leftists 'Vote on the Basis of Urges'
"Liberals don't read books – they don't read anything," she said. "That's why they're liberals. They watch TV, absorb the propaganda, and vote on the basis of urges.
"Moreover, consider that fewer than half the people in this country pay federal income tax. Fifty percent of the populace voting for the Democrats isn't bad when you realize that."
About the other 50 percent, she wrote, "Evidently, there are still some moral human beings in America who don't want to take other people's income."
In "Slander," Coulter says abortion is the left's "only remaining cause." NewsMax asked her if that's due to the fact that the multibillion-dollar abortion industry is one of its prime sources of political funding.
"No, no – there's a chicken and egg problem with that theory," she replied.
'Their Cause: Spreading Anarchy'
"Liberals' only remaining big issue is abortion because of their beloved sexual revolution. That's their cause: Spreading anarchy and polymorphous perversity. Abortion permits that."
In "Slander, one of Coulter's targets is the radical environmentalist movement. Noting that the terrorists with whom the U.S. is at war seek to destroy the U.S. economy and bring the nation to its knees, throwing millions of Americans out of work and reducing America to their own poverty-stricken level, we asked if that isn't the exact effect radical environmentalism is having on the economy, with more success than al-Qaeda?
NewsMax also noted that it's costing miners, ranchers, farmers, fishermen and lumbermen their livelihoods, burning millions of acres of forestland, depriving us of domestic sources of energy such as Alaskan oil. What can be done to convince the American people that the deadliest enemy is right here at home in the radical environmentalist movement?
Environmentalists 'out to Destroy the Country'
"We should be fingerprinting environmentalists," Coulter replied. "As for what can be done to convince Americans that we face an enemy that hates America as much as the terrorists, we should put people like Ann Coulter on TV more, stop with the infernal nonsense of thinking liberals are decent but misguided people, and characterize the threat appropriately.
"Start by telling the truth about them: They are out to destroy the country."
Her opinion of the Democrat congressional leadership: Senate plurality leader Tom Daschle and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt? She replied, "See answer on environmentalists."
On Bush: 'Consider the Alternative'
How is President Bush doing?
"Great! Consider the alternative. But in fact, he's doing quite well. Admittedly, he is capitulating to liberals on some stupid, namby-pamby issues, but nobody's perfect. Again I say, consider the alternative."
In his latest book, conservative turncoat David Brock castigated Coulter. What does she think of Brock, aside from pitying him?
"Who?" she asked.
Next: a review of "Slander."
One forest fire at a [cough] time.
Yep. Without pictures, there's no chance of communicating with them. That's no joke. They hate IQ tests. They avoid them like the cross.
They're really dumb, but the commies support them via money and tell them what words to say.
He always reminds me of Ted Baxter on the old Mary Tyler Moore show.
I hear that!...
FMCDH ("Coughing in Durango")
I heard the snippet of a news report that Ann is going to partake of the "Celebrity Boxing" venue but didn't catch who her opponent will be.
Whose clock is she gonna clean?
I know it is uncommon to have a hero who is 20 years younger than you are, but notwithstanding this small glitch, Ann Coulter is my HERO.
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