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Ann Coulter Exposes Leftists' Witless Arguments
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Ann Coulter Exposes Leftists' Witless Arguments
Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com
Saturday, June 29, 2002
This is part four of a review of Ann Coulter's "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right." Part one: Leftists Love Hate Speech. Part two: Leftists Are Snobs. Part three: Coulter Exposes Media's Power to Protect and Destroy. Exclusive interview: Left Is 'out to Destroy the Country.'
"If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments," Ann Coulter writes. "To be sure they would still have `racist,' `fascist,' `homophobe,' `ugly,' and a few other highly nuanced arguments in their quiver."
But not having "dumb" to throw around, she says, "would nearly * them. Like clockwork, every consequential Republican to come down the pike is instantly, invariably, always, without exception called dumb."
Noting that this is exactly the way 6-year-olds argue, that they call everything "stupid," Coulter says the left's resort to the "stupid" stratagem comes out of its inability to mount an intelligent counter-argument when faced with undeniable facts.
Attacks, Not Ideas
It is, she adds, part of the leftist tactic of "refusing to engage ideas." For the most part they respond to arguments they can't counter with reason by replying with "ludicrous and irrelevant personal attacks."
The tactic, she explains, "ensures that liberals will never have to learn how to argue beyond the level of a six-year-old." Like a child repeating over and over again "so's your old man," liberals parrot "some stupid meaningless phrase a billion times: Arms for hostages, arms for hostages, arms for hostages, it's just about sex, it's just about sex, just about sex, dumb, dumb, dumb, money in politics, money in politics, money in politics, Enron, Enron, Enron."
She cites the case of Clarence Thomas vs. Anita Hill as a classic case of the repetition strategy, noting that during the hearings 69 percent of Americans believed Thomas rather than Hill. One reporter wrote that among co-workers who knew both Thomas and Hill "the vote was Thomas 20-to-1."
Then the liberal campaign to deify Hill got under way with a vengeance. Hill "was endlessly praised in the mainstream media, showered with dozens of awards and invited to speak at once-prestigious organizations such as Yale Law School and the American Bar Association."
Hill's alleged heroism was touted on hit TV shows such as the ever-available-to-liberals "Murphy Brown" and "Designing Women," produced by Clinton ally Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. Hill was anointed "woman of the year by Glamour magazine and glorified in a Ted Turner documentary "A Century of Women" with "fair and balanced commentary by Senator Barbara Boxer."
Result? Just a year after 69 percent of women thought Hill was the villain of the piece and Thomas the hero, a mere 44 percent of women believed Thomas over Hill. After watching the hearings 79 percent of the people thought Hill had been fairly treated in the Senate hearings. A year later only 49 percent agreed.
Liberals especially hate being called "liberal," because they know it describes a "dastardly individual."
'Progress' Toward What?
In an appearance on "Hardball" Wednesday night, where Coulter was a guest haplessly attempting to get her book discussed, "The Nation" editor Katrina Ven Den Heuvel substituted "progressive" for the hated liberal epithet, obviously unaware that this was the code word underground Communist Party members in the 1930s and '40s used to identify themselves to other communists as fellow minions of genocidal totalitarian Joe Stalin.
When calling the conservative target stupid is simply ludicrous, as in the case of Newt Gingrich, referred to by Newsweek as "Spiro Agnew with brains," leftists resort to other epithets, such as "mean."
Newsweek put the then-House speaker on their cover as the Grinch. "The idea was, welfare was Christmas, and Gingrich was trying to steal it." After Scrooge's welfare reform turned out to be a "fabulous success, it became Clinton's initiative, his signature reform, his good idea," even though he had resisted it.
GOP presidents are automatically stupid. Coulter writes that it's a compulsion to describe every Republican president as an idiot. "Coolidge was dumb, Eisenhower was dumb, Ford was dumb, Nixon was dumb, Quayle (standing in for his boss) was dumb, Reagan was dumb, Bush is dumb."
Why, Coulter asks, would the GOP "pursue such a crazy strategy of consistently running really dumb guys for office - much less president. Or why the Democratic Party insists on tapping presidential candidates who are so mind-bogglingly smart they can never connect with the average voter."
Coulter reminds the liberals that Coolidge presided over peace and prosperity, was successful with Congress and wildly popular with the public. Eisenhower presided over the greatest military operation in world history on D-Day, and smashed the Nazi war machine. "Liberals go around calling people fascists - well this is the guy who beat them," she says.
No More Arguments, No More Adjectives
"Stupid," Coulter exlains, "means one thing `threatening to the interests of the Democrat Party.' The more conservative the Republican, the more vicious and hysterical the attacks on his intelligence will be. Liberals have not only run out of arguments, they've tun out of adjectives."
Coulter can't resist citing some examples of real stupidity: left-wing stupidity.
Bill Clinton:
"This is still the greatest country in the world, if we will just steel our wills and lose our minds."
"They've managed to keep their unemployment low although their overall unemployment is high."
"I'd like for you to have more, rather than less, sooner rather than later."
Sen. Barbara Boxer: "Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said `Thank God I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again."
Janet Reno: "I always wait until a jury has spoken before I anticipate what they will do."
Al Gore: "A zebra cannot changes its spots."
"I always had a very vivid and clear sense that men and women were entirely equal - if not more so."
Had a conservative said any of the above, the media would never allow the public to forget it. It would be engraved on his tombstone.
"Gore also told a union gathering that his mother used to sing lullabies to him as an infant including `Look for the Union Label.' Then it turned out that song had been written in 1975 when Gore was twenty-seven. Gore misspoke. Therefore pursuant to the rigorous IQ standards imposed by the media - Gore is a moron."
Next: Samizdat media http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/6/28/161243.shtml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com
Saturday, June 29, 2002
This is part four of a review of Ann Coulter's "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right." Part one: Leftists Love Hate Speech. Part two: Leftists Are Snobs. Part three: Coulter Exposes Media's Power to Protect and Destroy. Exclusive interview: Left Is 'out to Destroy the Country.'
"If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments," Ann Coulter writes. "To be sure they would still have `racist,' `fascist,' `homophobe,' `ugly,' and a few other highly nuanced arguments in their quiver."
But not having "dumb" to throw around, she says, "would nearly * them. Like clockwork, every consequential Republican to come down the pike is instantly, invariably, always, without exception called dumb."
Noting that this is exactly the way 6-year-olds argue, that they call everything "stupid," Coulter says the left's resort to the "stupid" stratagem comes out of its inability to mount an intelligent counter-argument when faced with undeniable facts.
Attacks, Not Ideas
It is, she adds, part of the leftist tactic of "refusing to engage ideas." For the most part they respond to arguments they can't counter with reason by replying with "ludicrous and irrelevant personal attacks."
The tactic, she explains, "ensures that liberals will never have to learn how to argue beyond the level of a six-year-old." Like a child repeating over and over again "so's your old man," liberals parrot "some stupid meaningless phrase a billion times: Arms for hostages, arms for hostages, arms for hostages, it's just about sex, it's just about sex, just about sex, dumb, dumb, dumb, money in politics, money in politics, money in politics, Enron, Enron, Enron."
She cites the case of Clarence Thomas vs. Anita Hill as a classic case of the repetition strategy, noting that during the hearings 69 percent of Americans believed Thomas rather than Hill. One reporter wrote that among co-workers who knew both Thomas and Hill "the vote was Thomas 20-to-1."
Then the liberal campaign to deify Hill got under way with a vengeance. Hill "was endlessly praised in the mainstream media, showered with dozens of awards and invited to speak at once-prestigious organizations such as Yale Law School and the American Bar Association."
Hill's alleged heroism was touted on hit TV shows such as the ever-available-to-liberals "Murphy Brown" and "Designing Women," produced by Clinton ally Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. Hill was anointed "woman of the year by Glamour magazine and glorified in a Ted Turner documentary "A Century of Women" with "fair and balanced commentary by Senator Barbara Boxer."
Result? Just a year after 69 percent of women thought Hill was the villain of the piece and Thomas the hero, a mere 44 percent of women believed Thomas over Hill. After watching the hearings 79 percent of the people thought Hill had been fairly treated in the Senate hearings. A year later only 49 percent agreed.
Liberals especially hate being called "liberal," because they know it describes a "dastardly individual."
'Progress' Toward What?
In an appearance on "Hardball" Wednesday night, where Coulter was a guest haplessly attempting to get her book discussed, "The Nation" editor Katrina Ven Den Heuvel substituted "progressive" for the hated liberal epithet, obviously unaware that this was the code word underground Communist Party members in the 1930s and '40s used to identify themselves to other communists as fellow minions of genocidal totalitarian Joe Stalin.
When calling the conservative target stupid is simply ludicrous, as in the case of Newt Gingrich, referred to by Newsweek as "Spiro Agnew with brains," leftists resort to other epithets, such as "mean."
Newsweek put the then-House speaker on their cover as the Grinch. "The idea was, welfare was Christmas, and Gingrich was trying to steal it." After Scrooge's welfare reform turned out to be a "fabulous success, it became Clinton's initiative, his signature reform, his good idea," even though he had resisted it.
GOP presidents are automatically stupid. Coulter writes that it's a compulsion to describe every Republican president as an idiot. "Coolidge was dumb, Eisenhower was dumb, Ford was dumb, Nixon was dumb, Quayle (standing in for his boss) was dumb, Reagan was dumb, Bush is dumb."
Why, Coulter asks, would the GOP "pursue such a crazy strategy of consistently running really dumb guys for office - much less president. Or why the Democratic Party insists on tapping presidential candidates who are so mind-bogglingly smart they can never connect with the average voter."
Coulter reminds the liberals that Coolidge presided over peace and prosperity, was successful with Congress and wildly popular with the public. Eisenhower presided over the greatest military operation in world history on D-Day, and smashed the Nazi war machine. "Liberals go around calling people fascists - well this is the guy who beat them," she says.
No More Arguments, No More Adjectives
"Stupid," Coulter exlains, "means one thing `threatening to the interests of the Democrat Party.' The more conservative the Republican, the more vicious and hysterical the attacks on his intelligence will be. Liberals have not only run out of arguments, they've tun out of adjectives."
Coulter can't resist citing some examples of real stupidity: left-wing stupidity.
Bill Clinton:
"This is still the greatest country in the world, if we will just steel our wills and lose our minds."
"They've managed to keep their unemployment low although their overall unemployment is high."
"I'd like for you to have more, rather than less, sooner rather than later."
Sen. Barbara Boxer: "Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said `Thank God I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again."
Janet Reno: "I always wait until a jury has spoken before I anticipate what they will do."
Al Gore: "A zebra cannot changes its spots."
"I always had a very vivid and clear sense that men and women were entirely equal - if not more so."
Had a conservative said any of the above, the media would never allow the public to forget it. It would be engraved on his tombstone.
"Gore also told a union gathering that his mother used to sing lullabies to him as an infant including `Look for the Union Label.' Then it turned out that song had been written in 1975 when Gore was twenty-seven. Gore misspoke. Therefore pursuant to the rigorous IQ standards imposed by the media - Gore is a moron."
Next: Samizdat media http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/6/28/161243.shtml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878