Posted by
Tzimisce on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 3:44:06 PM
Most people who read the news heard about Ann Coulter at CPAC last week. I guess she went to the microphone and joked "I'd say something about John Edwards, but if you use the word faggot, you have to go to rehab." Naturally the "Conservatives" at the meeting couldn't distance themselves from Coulter fast enough - her words were called "inappropriate" and it was suggested she shouldn't have said it.
But this reflects the problems with the modern Conservative movement. It's bad enough the unbiased, non partisan, activist left wing press jumps all over true Conservatives - we don't need a pathetic washouts who call themselves Conservatives helping the left out. Someone else made a crude joke on Friday: Bill Maher when talking about the assassination attempt on Cheney stated "I'm just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That's a fact." Maher also questioned why comments supporting the attempt on Cheney's life were taken down from the Huffington post.
Now which incident is getting more coverage? What do you think would have happened if Ann had joked that someone should kill Edwards? But Maher wasn't the only case ignored. There is no doubt that if Maher's comments ever did become big news, Libs would simply dismiss it as "free speech".
Assistant Professor Julio Pino at Kent State University has a blog called "Global War". In his blog, he hails an Islamic victory worldwide against the "Crusaders". In his own words he describes his agenda "
"We are a jihadist news service, and provide battle dispatches, training manuals, and jihad videos to our brothers worldwide. All we want is to get Allah’s pleasure. We will write ‘Jihad’ across our foreheads, and the stars. The angels will carry our message throughout the world."
Not surprisingly Kent State refuses to take any responsibility for the hate being pumped out by Pino. After all the University argues, Pino has "free speech." The Libs circled the wagons again to defend this guy. Again the MSM felt this was not worth mentioning.
Now let's go back three weeks ago to the Edwards for President campaign itself. They had hired two bloggers by the names of Melissa McEwan and Amanda Marcotte. These two women are feminists who attacked Catholic dogma. The Edwards campaign REFUSED to take any action any the women at all, deciding instead to give them a "fair shake". Edwards himself stated "We're beginning a great debate about the future of our country, and we can't let it be hijacked."
The bottom line is that the left is actually willing to fight for what it believes in. And real conservatives are also willing to fight for what they believe in, which is why none of the current presidential candidates can get any traction with the base. People like John McCain are willing to sell us out so they can be invited to all the best parties - which is sickening. Arnold Swartzenegger ran as a conservative - so why is he pandering to the left now? North Easterners Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney are really the front runners? These guys were elected in Lib country - how can they possibly even come close to what a real conservative is?
Why did Republicans get voted out last Nov? Because they sold out their base. Republicans fought for amnesty for illegals, federalized airline inspectors, implemented massive new spending policies, banned speech in the form of McCain Feingold Campaign Finance Reform and a host of other big left wing issues.
Ann Coulter's statement was a swipe at Political Correctness - a doctrine that is wrong. A doctrine that violates freedom of speech. A doctrine that is itself a political issue. People like me and Ann have been saying for 15 years that Political Correctness is wrong and no one listened. Politicians passed laws institutionalizing Political Correctness in the form of "Hate Speech" and people like me and Ann argued that it was wrong. So 15 years later, Ann is drawing attention to something that needs to be changed. PC has gone too far. It might have started out as an innocent attempt to treat people with dignity, but it's become a way for Liberals to silence debate and we're seeing that with Coulter right now.
So instead of giving in to the leftist agenda, we should be fighting on Coulter's behalf. Geez - the left defends Pino's calls for a jihad. So what's wrong with what Ann said?