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-Book Review of Anne Coulters Great book "Slander"
Slander: Liberal Lies About The American Right by Ann Coulter
If you are wondering what it would sound like if people dropped politically corrected speech, you might consider sharing the reading of "Slander" by Ann Coulter with a friend; taking turns reading aloud to each other. You will increase your reading pleasure by sharing your laughter -- and very often outrage -- as well. Coulter does no name-calling in the book but there are pages and pages of precise, descriptive language about liberals (and liberal-wannabes) and their self-absorbed behavior, and it is all well documented.
As the book soars in the New York Times best seller list, liberals in print and on television are heaping scorn on Coulter, parsing passages in her book out of context and misquoting her; repeatedly engaging in the very tactics the book describes. Their attempts to discredit her sound desperate, and are the tactics of the intellectually and politically bereft .
Will the liberals dare to sneer at Ann Coulter as an 'ugly' woman, as they rushed to say about Linda Tripp, Paula Jones and Katherine Harris? Coulter says: "More than any of their other hate speech, the left's attacks on women for being ugly tell you everything. There is nothing so irredeemedly cruel as an attack on a woman for her looks. Attacking a female as being ugly is a hideous thing, always inherently vicious."
Women on the left, such as Maxine Waters, Janet Reno, and Madeleine Albright, are never characterized by the liberals as "Howard Stern in a fright wig," "ugly and evil", having been beaten with the "ugly stick", neither "attractive nor possessed of human DNA" or "looks like a bloated carcass and whatever's pecking at it." These are only a few of the ugly sneers about Tripp, Jones and Harris by supposedly serious, anti-hate-speech, (feminist!) liberal journalists, in print and on television. And all because these three women were conservatives who dared to (1) expose corruption in a Democratic administration, (2) seek legal redress for having been sexually harrassed by a sitting Democratic president, and (3) fulfil her legal duties by obeying state and federal laws in Florida following the last presidential election (thus preventing the planned theft of that election by Democrats).
Every Republican president (and other important conservatives) for many years has been described by the left as "dumb". According to Coulter: "This is how six-year-olds argue: They call everything 'stupid.' The left's primary argument is the angry reaction of a helpless child deprived of the ability to mount logical counterarguments. Someday we will turn to the New York Times editorial page and find the Newspaper of Record denouncing President Bush for being a "penis-head." And she adds that a "refusal to submit to name-calling means that you were overwhelmed by the force of their argument." Logical thinking, obviously, is not a strength possessed by the liberals.
Nor is an appreciation of religion. It is a brave person who admits in public (when liberals are nearby) that he is both a conservative and a Christian. "For twenty years, evangelical Christians have been portrayed as toothless hicks preaching for a nickel in the Ozarks. Then -- seamlessly, without remark on the shift in Orwellian propaganda -- they were transformed into Howard Hughs money men, expertly manipulating the system. Overnight, the Beverly Hillbillies became the Boys from Brazil." Coulter also demolishes the liberals' whines that Christians are bloc-voters and that they give their candidates overwhelmingly more money than liberal politicians receive from their supporters. She proves that "the religious right" does not even exist in the same sense as do numerous dedicated leftist special interest groups. She says: "If the "religious right" were a real organization with real power, people might not talk so rough to it. To the contrary, any mediocrity who attacks the "religious right" is guaranteed good press."
Another group guaranteed good press are conservatives who come out in support of the liberals' pet issues, while any person of consequence who opposes liberal issues is "extremist", not part of the in-crowd, and even "mean!". Coulter suggests that the liberals probably 'have something on' important conservatives who begin supporting liberal articles of faith, such as raising taxes (or campaign finance reform?). Would even an old liberal like Teddy Kennedy dare, ever, support a conservative issue, such as ending live-birth abortions, knowing that Chappaquiddick would suddenly become fresh and constant news again? The liberal media are swift and relentless in their bestowals of both punishment and rewards.
It is not so surprising, really, that the mainstream media, without fail, attacks Republicans and other conservatives as "evil," rich," "homophobic," or "just not getting it," and consistently praises the most pathetically inept and/or corrupt Democrats as "fighting for the little people", or perhaps as "the most intelligent woman in the world". Many of the liberal media stars are former Democratic party workers, or were on the staffs of Democratic politicians. Several pages of the book are required for a partial list of them. Liberals insist that disclosing these political ties to the public is not necessary, since their reporting and commentary is always "fair" and "balanced!"
Having a lock on the mainstream media means the liberals never have to question their devotion to what is, in most respects, a religion -- socialism, which is a two-class system of government comprised of superior, elite (rich) rulers and grateful, adoring (not rich) servants. Since they refuse serious debate and are frequently successful in silencing conservative voices, liberals don't think anyone will (or should) notice when their arrogance finally
becomes news. After all, they are rich not because they worked for their wealth, but simply because they are "good" and deserve not only the finest life has to offer but they also deserve not to have contact with the unwashed poor or that hated, soon-hopefully-to-be-taxed-out-of-existence middle-class who aspire to life's amenities and pleasures themselves.
Early this year, Coulter tells us, David Geffen, Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, and other of the fabulously rich Hollywood elites, erected illegal chain link fences to keep normal citizens from using public beaches that happened to be next to the liberals' beachfront homes. "The California Coastal Commission was forced to intervene to demand that the Hollywood left stop blocking access to the beach." Like their favorite, though impeached, president, the left considers themselves above the law.
Despite the liberal media's years of propaganda and role-modeling for us on television and in the movies, drumming into the minds and hearts of America the image of the left as the true reflection of America -- intellectually, culturally and politically -- not many of our citizens buy into it. Slivers of the East and West coasts, enclaves in Florida, dependent government bureaucrats, and fearfully deceived minority members, are all they can count on. America's interest in liberal newspapers and television programs continues a downward spiral. The reason for that is that Americans are generally a hard-headed, can-do, practical, sometimes religious people who have the sense to recognize that when someone lies to you a lot, probably they want something from you they have no right to possess.
Oregon Magazine
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