Ann Coulter – Town Hall Magazine 11-30-2012
In January, Mitt Romney won the love and esteem of all Americans who have ever had to deal with the DMV, the post office, or any government office by saying, “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.”
In February, the women of America rose up as one and demanded that Sandra Fluke set aside her law studies to be our spokeswoman. Please, Sandra, we know you have no qualifications to comment on any matter of importance and how the glare of publicity repels you, but we need you to speak for us!
Described by a longtime Democratic congressional aide as “the least-qualified witness ever to appear before a congressional committee,” Fluke was declined by the Oversight and Government Reform Committee as a witness on a panel of theologians and members of the clergy during a hearing on religious liberty.
But that was only the beginning of Fluke’s “voice” being “silenced.” Next, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi arranged for her to testify before an unrelated House committee, where Fluke demanded that Catholic institutions be required to provide birth control with no co-pay to their students.
Fluke then appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and NPR and a number of other national media outlets to say that her voice was being silenced.
Rush Limbaugh ridiculed Fluke the way ridiculous people often are ridiculed, including, at some point, referring to her as a “slut.” President Obama called Fluke and told her that her parents should be proud of her. Fluke became a featured speaker at the Democratic National Convention in September and, by October, was drawing crowds as large as 10 in Reno, Nev.
In March, the non-Fox media (NFM) charged off on the Trayvon Martin case, not waiting for any facts, to make wild allegations of racism against a Florida police force, and another mixed-race Hispanic – Geraldo Rivera.
Like Captain Ahab searching for the Great White Whale, the NFM is constantly on the hunt for proof of America as “Mississippi Burning.” In March, they had their White Male Oppressor in the person of Zimmerman, a mixed-race Hispanic.
In February, Zimmerman had spotted a suspicious-looking character walking “aimlessly” in his diverse (47 percent white) gated community, and called 911. Not long after that, Zimmerman had shot and killed Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old staying with his father’s girlfriend in the community. Zimmerman claimed self-defense, saying Martin had attacked him and he was in fear for his life.
On the basis of having absolutely no information, the media conjured a Hollywood script: A “white” man was “stalking” a little black kid – who could be Obama’s son – confronted him and then shot the small black child dead, “just because he was black.”
Liberals seem to imagine that whenever black people are shot by other blacks, they heave sighs of relief and say, “at least I wasn’t a victim of racism!”
Strangely, the media kept showing us snapshots from Martin’s childhood, rather than any recent photos, suggesting that Martin was a slight 12-year-old boy at the time of the shooting, rather than a strapping 6-foot, 160-lb 17-year-old. Indeed, he was one inch taller than Zimmerman, according to the police report.
Where were Zimmerman’s baby pictures? The media choose sides by whose childhood pictures they choose to show the public. If Martin had been white, not only would we have seen Zimmerman’s baby pictures, but the media would have championed him as the victimized “Mexican” engaging in self-defense.
To be extra sure the public understood that America was faced with a KKK uprising, NBC edited Zimmerman’s 911 call about a suspicious character in his neighborhood to make Zimmerman sound like a racist nut.
This is the actual exchange Zimmerman had with a police dispatcher during his 911 call:
ZIMMERMAN: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.
DISPATCHER: OK, and this guy – is he black, white or Hispanic?
ZIMMERMAN: He looks black.
Here’s NBC’s version:
ZIMMERMAN: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.
Two months of nonstop racial hysteria later, it turned out that every part of the media-invented fairytale was false.
For example, MSNBC had triumphantly produced grainy black and white photos of Zimmerman walking into the police station some time after his arrest to prove that there wasn’t a scratch on him.
A few weeks later, close up photos of Zimmerman’s blood-soaked scalp taken right after the shooting disproved that theory.
There were no apologies – the story just disappeared. As we go to press, Zimmerman is still on trial for murder as the media stand around looking at their shoes.
In May, we discovered two Democrats had made up stories about their origins.
After the Sturm und Drang about President Obama’s birth certificate, it turned out that the confusion over his birthplace came from… Obama!
From 1999-2007, his literary agent, Acton & Dystel, had been describing Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” An employee of the agency rushed out to claim the error was entirely hers. Apparently, she lists all her authors as Kenyan unless they correct her.
Then Sen. Scott Brown’s Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Warren, found herself in big heap-um trouble. Warren, who also goes by her Indian name, “Lies on Race Box,” falsely claimed to be part-Cherokee to get a job at Harvard.
When doubts were cast on Warren’s Indian heritage claims, The Boston Globe leapt to her defense, quoting a genealogist who found a marriage license on which Warren’s great-great-uncle scribbled that his mother, Warren’s great-great-great grandmother, was a Cherokee.
If true, that would make Warren 1/32nd Cherokee. That was her claim to affirmative action bonus points. Proposed Warren campaign pitch: “Isn’t it time we had a senator who was 1/32nd Cherokee?”
Soon, however, the worm turned again and we found out Warren wasn’t even 1/32nd Cherokee. The census records for 1860 list the allegedly Cherokee great-great-great-grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith-Crawford, as “white.”
So the Harvard ethnic quota office was left with Warren’s reminiscence that her great-aunt used to point to a portrait of her great-great-grandfather, noting his high cheekbones.
For the final cherry on top, the search of Warren genealogy turned up a great-great-great-grandfather who was one of the white enforcers on the brutal Trail of Tears, helping round up Indians from their homes in order to march them to a less desirable part of the country.
What’s next? “Yes, but I swear, James Earl Ray is not a BLOOD uncle. We’re related only by marriage. At least that’s what my cousin John Wayne Gacy used to always tell me.”
In June, we found out the Obama administration had engaged in the most monstrous political scandal in U.S. history. Administration officials intentionally put guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels, so that when guns taken from Mexican crime scenes turned out to be American guns, Democrats would have reason to crack down on gun sellers in the United States.
From the moment Obama became president, liberals had been demanding that the U.S. reinstate the assault weapons ban, specifically on the grounds that Mexican drug violence was directly linked to the law’s repeal. But then that turned out to be a lie, exposed on about 1 million gun blogs and on Fox News.
So the Obama administration skipped the middleman and just gave thousands of American guns to Mexican criminals. Hundreds of people were murdered with these U.S. government-supplied guns, mostly Mexicans, but also at least one American, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
Apart from the fact that tracking thousands of guns into Mexico was not feasible or rational, the dumped guns didn’t have GPS tracking devices on them, anyway. There is no conceivable law enforcement objective to such a program and no one has explained what putting 2,500 untraceable guns in the hands of Mexican drug dealers was supposed to accomplish.
But you know what that might have accomplished? It would allow Democrats to argue that American guns were ending up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels, requiring a crackdown on American gun sellers.
Precisely because this is such a jaw-dropping accusation – criminality at the highest level of government to score a political point – Republicans refused to make it. The public never understood what Fast & Furious” was about and the media passed it off as an obscure obsession of right-wingers.
But unless someone can think of a better explanation, the only reason for President Obama’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to have placed thousands of untraceable guns in the hands of Mexican drug dealers was to buttress liberals’ argument for gun control.
Liberals have been dying to reinstate the so-called “assault weapons” ban since the 1994 ban expired. But they can’t because they’ll be voted out of office, which is exactly what happened in 1994.
This isn’t just another government program gone badly. Fast & Furious would be the equivalent of the Bush administration dumping dangerous abortifacients on Planned Parenthood clinics just to give pro-lifers on argument about how dangerous abortion clinics are.
Also in June, we had the recall election heard around the world. Americans were finally beginning to wake up to the scam of public sector unions paying off politicians for ever-growing salaries and perks funded by less-well-paid taxpayers.
There’s a reason both FDR and labor leader George Meany said it would be insane to ever allow government employees to unionize. People who work for the government don’t have a hard-driving capitalist boss on the other side of the bargaining table demanding more work for less pay.
With government jobs, no one is worried about the profit margin because there is no profit. The only people on the other side of the table are the unions’ co-conspirators: Democratic politicians willing to spend the public treasury on union members, who will repay the politicians by mobilizing voters.
Unions take the money by force from members, hire hundreds of political operatives and give them salaries to work on campaigns, and then call them “volunteers” so their work isn’t reported as a campaign contribution.
Luckily for them, government employees’ non-punishing work schedules leave them plenty of time to be in a constant state of grievance, demanding recalls after any election they lose, and mobilizing voters.
As a result, the Democrats give the government unions anything they want. It’s not their money they’re spending, it’s the taxpayers’; and government unions reciprocate by making sure the Democrats keep getting re-elected.
That’s why the Democrats will do anything to keep government employees happy. They’ll legalize gambling and drugs or sell body parts to keep paying off public sector workers.
The Scott Walker recall election had nothing to do with people being paid a fair wage for the work that they do. The question was: Do you want a society where the people whose salaries you pay make more than those who pay them?
Walker’s victory was a transformative event in the history of the nation. Even Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn’t beat the government unions. As Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch said, the recall election will go down in the record books as the night “the campaign to save America” began.
At the beginning of September, MSNBC officially kicked off the Hysterical Liberal Sanctimony About Imagined Republican Racism competition. Many media outlets put in a splendid showing, but the gold in every category went to MSNBC.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews yelled at Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus on “Morning Joe,” denouncing Romney’s harmless birth certificate joke as an example of the Republicans playing “that card.” (At a campaign stop in Michigan, Romney had mentioned the local hospitals where he and his wife were born, saying, “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate.” Ahhhhhhhhhh!)
Black people were in America before the Irish were, in any large numbers. Jokes about Obama’s birth certificate refer to his foreign father, who passed only a few years in the U.S. before returning to Kenya. President Chester Arthur’s father was born in Ireland – though he remained in the U.S. after marrying an American. But President Arthur was hit with birther accusations, too. The birther conspiracy may be crazy, but it has absolutely nothing to do with race.
Next, Matthews said Romney’s ads about gutting the work requirements in the welfare law were also racist – another example of Romney “playing that card… playing that little ethnic card there.”
When Priebus laughed at him, Matthews (who has no black friends, neighbors or employees) became even more enraged: “You can-you play your games and giggle about it, but the fact is your side is playing that card. You start talking about work requirements, you know what game you’re playing, and everybody knows what game you’re playing. It’s a race card.”
As you can see, there wasn’t much in the way of explanation. It was just Matthews repeating himself more and more loudly. “Of course” the ad was racist, he thundered. “Welfare? Food Stamps?”
Conservatives hear “welfare” and think “welfare.” Liberals hear “welfare” and think “black people.”
The next night on “Hardball,” Matthews said the mention of “Chicago” in relation to the president is also racist: “They keep saying Chicago, by the way, you noticed?” Guest John Heilemann, like an orderly in a mental institution trapped alone with a patient, played along. Responding, “Well, there’s a lot of black people in Chicago” – while frantically jabbing the alarm button.
About the same time, The Daily Caller released a 2007 video of Barack Obama speaking in Hillary Clinton’s black accent to an audience of black preachers. Obama told them the U.S. government doesn’t “care about” black people in New Orleans. The government had shortchanged them on disaster relief, he said, because blacks were not considered “part of the American family.”
According to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, the only purpose of the tape was to expose Obama’s “secret plan to be way more black than he seems to you now.” Continuing with her trademark smirk, she said: “This is how (Obama) snuck into the White House, right? People didn’t actually know he was this black, and if they had known he was this black, they never would have elected him. That’s the idea here, right?”
Actually Rachel, I think the point is that Obama was slandering America as racist in a fake black accent and sounding remarkably like his race-monger preacher Jeremiah Wright.
Obama was a sitting senator when he spouted this nonsense. He had to know that months earlier, $100 billion in federal disaster fund relief had been sent to the Gulf States hit by Katrina – or five times more than the disaster relief funds sent to New York after 9/11.
But this half-black, private-schooled Hawaiian, born in 1961, was so desperate for reasons to be angry at white America, he lied about the racist white government denying relief funds to blacks hit by a hurricane.
A few weeks later, Matthews said that the word “apartment” was racist because black people live in apartments. (I didn’t even know I was black!) Liberals reason that if a Republican said it, it must be racist, and proceed from there. Romney had used the word “apartment,” so “apartment” was racist.
Sadly, MSNBC’s encyclopedic list of allegedly racist words came to a crashing halt soon after my book on liberal racial demagoguery was released. Instead of trying to convince black people that Republicans had a secret plan to bring back slavery and segregation (both Democratic policies), the network switched to trying to convince women that Republicans planned to legalize rape.
Ann Coulter is the author of eight New York Times best-sellers. Her latest title, released earlier this year, is “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama.”
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