Monday, June 19, 2006
Like a modern day Martin Luther, Ann Coulter has metaphorical tacked her manifesto to the door of the High Temple of The Left with her new book, “Godless – The Church Of Liberalism”.
In the book, Coulter contends, “Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as ‘religion.'”
With her new book quickly soaring to the number one spot on the New York Times Best Sellers list, the full court press to bring her down has gone into full swing. The harshest criticisms of Coulter’s new book centers around one paragraph.
The paragraph in question speaks about four New Jersey widows who lost their husbands in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Coulter writes, “These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths so much.”
Let the smear campaign begin.
Some on the left have pulled out all the stops to try to censor Ann Coulter. House Representative Steve Israel drafted a letter demanding that Coulter apologize for her comments.
New Jersey Assemblywomen Joan Quigley and Linda Stender called for book retailers to ban the sale of Coulter’s book throughout the state. NBC news has shown its liberal bias in their reporting of the Coulter controversy.
On the June 7 broadcast of the NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams introduced a segment about Coulter by saying “Just when you think that it seems that there are no limits on anything, someone comes along and makes a comment that goes over the line – the line that is shared by just about everybody because some things are, it turns out, still sacred.”
In the chapter of Coulter’s book that mentions the New Jersey widows, Coulter explains that liberals have a need for sacred cows – people whose personal sufferings make them immune from criticism.
Coulter is often referred to as “hate-filled” or “mean.” But what the media forget is their own hypocrisy about hate speech.
It’s well and good to remember every controversial statement that Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, or Sean Hannity makes.
But, at the same time, the media ignore inflammatory statements made by liberals such as Michael Moore, James Carville, Barbra Streisand, and Susan Sarandon.
When Al Franken appeared on NBC’s “Today” show last October, and he said that Karl Rove and Lewis Libby should be executed, the comment drew laughs from host Matt Lauer.
When Alec Baldwin appeared on “Late Night with Conan O’Brian” in 1998 and suggested that Republican Congressman Henry Hyde be stoned to death and that his family should be killed, there was no outcry from the mainstream media.
In her book, Coulter also points out the hypocrisy many of the left adhere to when it comes to the value of human life. Coulter writes, “To a liberal, 2,200 military deaths in the entire course of a war in Iraq is unconscionable, but 1.3 million aborted babies in America every year is something to celebrate.”
Coulter also says that many liberals take pride that they eat only natural foods but, at the same time, put their health at risk with casual sex. She also contends that liberals believe that their “church” has a divine right to be the sole purveyor of the news.
Coulter saved the last part of her book for a full-scale attack on the theory of evolution.
She says that Darwinism lets liberals off the hook morally since we aren’t expected to behave any better than monkeys.
It’s clear why Coulter’s new book has hit a raw nerve with many on the left.
