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The Coulter Inquisition (of Liberals and Other "Heretics")

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Written by David Starr   
Wednesday, 13 February 2013 06:54

After U.S. President Barack Obama urged the U.S. Congress to take action on gun control, emphasizing "real and lasting change" (change we can believe in?), right-wing-nut Ann Coulter gave her normal(?) response. On Sean Hannity's Fox news program, Coulter accused Obama of wanting to set up "universal background checks," causing "universal extermination."

As reported by RawStory (02/05/2013), Coulter summed up her appeals to hysteria by indirectly saying to Obama, "Screw you!" Coulter also brought out the usual Obama "outrages" from her political laundry list: Obama favoring "gay scout masters, gay marriage, watering down welfare requirements, abortion rights, and war on women."

But Coulter only addressed the gun issue with side show semantics. Issues can connect directly and indirectly. They can also stand on their own, with gun control now a highlighted controversy. But Coulter showed her usual "barking" without the "bite," i.e., her lack of coherence on the gun issue, thus lumping it with other issues, to "back up" the typical right-wing caricature of Obama as a "Dr. Evil."

Obama "exterminating" gun owners is as unrealistic as Coulter justifying an offensive gun culture for self-defense. True, self-defense is real, e.g., a woman facing a rapist and having no choice but to fire away. But a gun culture, like U.S. military spending, goes well beyond that justification, even into a serial killer-like mentality. According to the London Free press (03/22/2010), Coulter suggested that Muslim countries should be invaded, their leaders killed, and all Muslims converted to Christianity. In other words, ethnic and religious cleansing.

Coulter has certainly left her mark, or more realistically, a stain. Perhaps by compulsion, she's tried to do the impossible: Literally turning reality on its head. Sometimes the impossible is possible, but in Coulter's world the impossible is usually fact.

But Ann Coulter is a "True American," a holier-than-thou ultranationalist. In her writings, Coulter especially portrays liberals as "America-hating traitors," hiding under every "True Americans'" bed. Her writings reveal a lockstep obsession for an anti-liberal crusade, rather than free speech.

The following quotes are self-evident. My responses follow (unless already noted, quotes come from the following sources: Right-wing news, "terryturtletuthpaste:Quotes From Ann Coulter," and Boycott Liberalism.):

• "...liberals use political correctness as a weapon to silence people with opposing views." Coulter favors an imperial weapon to go beyond that: invading, killing, and forced conversion.

• "Felons are usually Democrats." That would make Republicans ethnic cleansers. Shades of Iran-Contra (illegal funds for war), the Persian Gulf (deceiving an "evil doer"/former ally for war), Panama (portraying a former ally as an "evil doer" for war), Iraq (massive deception for war), Abu Ghraib (torture scandal following war.)

• "If Democrats had any brains, they'd be Republicans." If Republicans had any brains, they wouldn't run for office.

• "Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals." Republicans are defenders of criminals - provided we're talking about right-wing tyrants/fanatics.

• "Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post-9/11." Christian fanatics, e.g., Ann Coulter, hate anyone who isn't a Christian fanatic.

• "[Liberals] are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant." Coulter and the right are traitors to humanity, and idiots, for supporting the United States as an empire, rather than a nation equal among others.

• "When Democrats scheme from the White House, it's to cover up the president's affair with an intern. When Republicans scheme, it's to support embattled anti-communist freedom fighters sold out by Democrats." Actually, Democrats have usually caved in to or agreed with Republicans, thus, supporting, not selling out, right-wing tyrants, plus neoliberal pawns, enforcing freedom for the few.

• "While the form of treachery varies, liberals always take the position that undermines American security." Neocons always manage to take the position that destroys U.S. credibility, thus threatening its security.

Coulter's conspiracy of liberal "America-haters" includes a morbid wit, and witlessness, for sarcastic stereotypes. The following is Coulter's exclusive interpretation of civil rights, where current "undesirables" don't have any, but a racial group of former undesirables has because it's no longer expedient to deny them such rights:

• "In America everyone wants to be black, the illegal aliens want to be black, the gays want to be black." Is Coulter implying that you have to be in a certain group to have civil rights? Is she also implying that African-Americans are some poster child for civil rights, as opposed to the latter simply being natural for the former, etc.? If she lived during the 19th century, would Coulter have denied civil rights for blacks, because slaves are mentioned in the Bible? Judging from her literal views on gays, e.g., who are also mentioned in the "Holy Book," it indicates she would.

Ann Coulter's books also drone on with a rhetorical sameness:

From "How to talk to a Liberal (if you must)" (2004):

• "Abu Ghraib is the new Tet Offensive. By lying to about the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the media managed to persuade Americans we were losing the war, which demoralized the nation to loose the war." Coulter ignores a lot here: U.S. citizens increasingly opposed the war not because they were fooled, but because they figured out the ulterior motives and/or its meaninglessness. She does ignore what Vietnamese themselves may think, but the right can't be bothered with this "inconvenience." Never mind about napalm, My Lai and about 3 million dead.

• "Again, the constant drumbeat of failure, quagmire, Abu Ghraib and Bush-lied-kids-died." Coulter does need a reality tour of a U.S.-provoked, imperial war, seeing, e.g., one of her relatives tortured in a prison or her child (if she has one) blown to bits by a cluster bomb, or exposed to white phosphorous. She could also join in the experience.

• "We won't have enemies because we are going to kill them...America going to war is huge karmic retribution. They killed three thousand Americans [9/11] and now they're going to die." Were the victims all U.S. citizens? Coulter's gross hypocrisy contradicts U.S. foreign wars/interventions, where the overall death toll numbers way more than 3,000. Coulter has karmic retribution ass-backwards. But that's what happens when one thinks, and talks with, one's ass.

From Coulter's book, "Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is endangering America," (2006):

"Liberals hate the idea of a revolution by gentlemen, and celebrate hairy, foul-smelling revolutionaries like Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and Susan Sarandon." She no doubt meant the U.S. founders with the former. They were genteel but hardly gentle; she overlooked slavery and their fondness for empire. And Coulter's holier-than-thou sarcasm about revolutionaries like Guevara and Castro, and activist Sarandon, is wholly delusional.

From Coulter's book, "Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies" (2006):

• With abortion, "liberals see it as a constitutionally-protected right." For conservatives, "all human life is sacred and must be protected by government." For Coulter and her fellow cons, some human lives are more sacred than others. "True Americans" rate higher for Coulter, etc., than other members of the human race who are "suspicious-looking" and "swarthy." About 1 million "swarthies" weren't sacred enough for Bush Jr.'s Iraq War. That goes for previous wars/interventions against "Third World" countries, and supported by both "parties." Either way, Coulter's concern for human life is negated with her probable support for this.

It is strange that the rantings of a Coulter still exist, and in the 21st century. This arch-conservatism should have become extinct with segregation. But it gives one a chance to learn about, rather than from, her peculiar mindset.

That is the only value for Coulter's work, or handiwork.

© 2013 David Starr























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