Ann Coulter: The True Voice of "Compassionate Conservatism"
Ann Coulter is a sideshow Geek who bites the heads off Liberals as part of her show. She is a fine spokesperson for George Bush's "compassionate conservatism."
By Mick Youther
I made a big mistake this week. I got so upset about Ann Coulter’s snide comments about Max Cleland’s service in Viet Nam that I decided to do a column about her. This is a perfect example of why you should never make decisions when you are angry. I forgot the biggest drawback to doing a column about Ann Coulter—I would have to read the words of Ann Coulter.
For example:
• “The swing voters---I like to refer to them as the idiot voters because they don't have set philosophical principles. You're either a liberal or you're a conservative if you have an IQ above a toaster.”-- Beyond the News, Fox News Channel, 6/4/00
• “I think [women] should be armed but should not [be allowed to] vote...women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it....it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care.”-- Politically Incorrect, 2/26/01
• “...a cruise missile is more important than Head Start.”-- Speech, 11/01, rebroadcast by C-Span in Jan. 2002
• “In his brief fiery ride across the landscape, Joe McCarthy bought America another thirty years. For this, he sacrificed his life, his reputation, his name. The left cut down a brave man, but not before the American people heard the truth.”-- The Drudge Report, quoting from Coulter’s new book, Treason, 6/19/03
• “When I began swooning for George W. Bush during the Republican primaries, my friends warned me that I was going to have to eat my words. It's now a month into his presidency, and I'm even more doe-eyed about Bush than ever.”-- Column, 2/22/01
• “We hate them. Americans don't want to make Islamic fanatics love us. We want to make them die. There's nothing like horrendous physical pain to quell anger. Japanese Kamikazes pilots hated us once, too. A couple of well-aimed nuclear weapons got their attention. Now they are gentle little lambs.”-- Column, 9/25/02
• “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.”-- Column, 9/13/01
• “We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.”-- Speech to Conservative Political Action Conference, January 2002
• “The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the collapse in time to allow them to get in on the swindle.”-- Column, 1/24/02
• “My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."-- New York Observer interview, 8/20/02
• “Then there are the 22 million Americans on food stamps. And of course there are the 39 million greedy geezers collecting Social Security. The greatest generation rewarded itself with a pretty big meal.”-- WorldNetDaily, 12/10/03
• “God help us if the Democratic Party ever wavers on its three major planks: abortion, gay marriage and banning the Boy Scouts. (Perhaps they could save a step by figuring out how to automatically abort all future Boy Scouts.)”-- WorldNetDaily, 12/10/03
• “It is simply a fact that Max Cleland was not injured by enemy fire in Vietnam. He was not in combat, he was not...on a reconnaissance mission, and he was not in the battle of Khe Sanh, as many others have implied. He picked up an American grenade on a routine noncombat mission and the grenade exploded.”-- Column, 2/18/04
If you can stand to read the rest of that column, Coulter implies that Max Cleland received his Silver and Bronze Stars for having an accident. She neglects to mention Captain Cleland earned his medals “by exceptionally valorous action on 4 April 1968 … during an enemy attack near Khe Sanh.”—four days prior to his “accident”. Coulter states that Max Cleland wasn’t even in the battle of Khe Sanh.
This is what Coulter does. She twists, she lies, she inflames and insults. She does not speak for conservatives or any other group of rational human beings. She does, however, speak for "compassionate conservatives"--spewing their hate. But for most Americans, Ann Coulter is a sideshow geek.
Hear the call, “Come one, come all. Watch the Palomino Pundit in the short mini-skirt bite the head off a real live Liberal—right before your very eyes!" She is Ozzy Osbourne, without the talent. She is a waste of time.
Is her fifteen minutes up yet?
Posted February28, 2004
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Mick Youther is an Instructor in the Department of Physiology at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL |
