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June 12, 2006
Coulter's Point Proven
Say what you will about Ann Coulter's callousness, she certainly has managed to make her point — and it's one worth making. She wanted to warn us that the left's tactic of using grieving victims as mouthpieces is stifling dissent. Both liberals and conservatives have proven her right by screaming for her to shut up.
Cindy Sheehan is the most obvious example of the "liberal infallibility" phenomenon. The woman is clearly evil and insane, openly siding with terrorists and dictators and advocating her own country's defeat. Yet taking issue with any of her twisted ravings will result in dolts like David Letterman gasping with outrage that anyone would challenge what Maureen Dowd called this awful woman's absolute moral authority.
When Coulter called the Jersey Girls "broads" and accused them of enjoying their husbands deaths, she certainly crossed the boundaries of good taste, and made it easier for libs to paint conservatives as mean. But who's to say it isn't better to look mean than to look spineless? The Jersey Girls may be 9/11 widows, but they are also left-wing activists, and the liberal media has unfairly used them as a fortified machine-gun nest to fire on the Bush Administration. Someone had to have the guts to storm the nest and chuck a hand grenade into it. Ann Coulter may be obnoxious, but she has intestinal fortitude that those sanctimoniously tsk-tsking her at weak-kneed conservative blogs do not.
As Kevin McCullough puts it:
By paying the price for us she also challenges us to not be so timid, to fight for the integrity of substance, and to not fall for the idea that a victim can never be disagreed with.
What a twisted world it would become otherwise.
If there was ever any doubt that Coulter is correct in her essential point that grieving victims are being exploited to stifle dissent, it has been laid to rest by a pair of New Jersey Democrats, Assemblywomen Joan Quigley and Linda Stender, who actually want retailers to ban the sale of Coulter's latest book Godless: The Church of Liberalism in their state.
The lesson is obvious: criticize widows who are being exploited for political attacks and you might find your book has been banned. Thanks are due to Ann Coulter for making this so clear.
Hat tips: Wiggins, Michelle Malkin, Flopping Aces
Posted by Van Helsing at June 12, 2006 6:45 AM
Comments
Wow! I didn't know Ann had such a nice rack...
Ummm....sorry, what were we talking about?
Posted by: phil at June 12, 2006 8:31 AM
Check out "Battered Conservative Syndrome: Defending Ann" at http://biglizards.net/blog/archives/2006/06/defending_ann.html
Posted by: Sam Houston at June 12, 2006 11:32 AM
It's heresy to attack the enemy at their root doncha know? People are blind as bats and they have no guts.
The enemy's most effective tactic is to use "innocents"
(puppies, children, widows, bad hippie mothers/fathers of dead soldiers, old lady queer couples and other "victims") to sell their bilge.
Of course you are an AWFUL, awful wench to point out these disguised political ploys Coulter! Just think what would happen if the politicos had the cojones to expose the same? They'd have to find other work!! (more honest work that is).
You go Ann.
Posted by: Jael at June 12, 2006 11:48 AM
drudge had her on last night in my town. callers never had a derogatory remark all night.neither did I.
Posted by: mickey at June 12, 2006 12:34 PM
Gotta admit Coulter has balls. But then, he hasn't had the final operation for his sex change to a woman.
Which explains why Phil didn't know he had a nice rack. Hormones. They've added up since his last photo shoot.
Posted by: Ronald Reagan at June 12, 2006 4:12 PM
andy coulter?
Posted by: Ben at June 12, 2006 8:26 PM
Hey Junior, you oughta know all about sex change.
Besides, I thought Castro-ass-snorters like you just LOVED all those ac/dc/idontknowyetwhatiam weirdos.
And Ann is all woman, apparently too much for you to handle.
Posted by: Doug at June 12, 2006 10:15 PM
Ann Coulter: 6 feet tall and everything in proportion!
Posted by: phil at June 13, 2006 7:10 AM
