Liberals are up to their old tricks again. Twenty years of treason hasn't slowed them down.
OK, I'll admit it: I am impressed and I was mistaken. I hadn't thought Coulter could stoop lower than her recent screeds on forced conversion of Muslims and the stunning racism she'd displayed. I hadn't thought you could display less logic and more revisionist history. Apparently, you can go lower, you can be more racist, you can be more revisionist.
What impresses me is that everything since Vietnam was apparently the liberals' fault. Everything, you understand. That 12 years of Republican conservative rule in there? Apparently, liberalism in disguise. Who knew? I mean, really, Who Knew? For example, apparently, the fact that the Shah of Iran fell is Carter's fault. The Iranians themselves -- you know, the ones who had the revolution, who held people hostage for a couple years, those guys -- they had nothing to do with it! I never knew that! And apparently, noticing that the military is part of the government, and that Republicans have in recent years been opposed to government's growth, is (a) insane exultation and (b) somehow leads to subsidising the arts. I'm not sure how, exactly, but then what would I know? And apparently, in the calculus of things, it's not possible to be in favor of both a strong military and Head Start -- or to think that at that point in time, Head Start might have been more valuable to the country than a cruise missile. I'm not sure why, but there you go. (I'm also trying to figure out how "regressive" equals "tax cut" in "Times-speak" -- I thought it was an ever-so-slightly more sophisticated position than that, but then, what do I know? Apparently, I must be a liberal traitor! Who knew!)
Of course, it's not going to be possible for her to lose this gig because she's so offensive that even the right wing doesn't want her; after all, that's why Horowitz hired her. But it will be interesting to see if she reaches a point where her fulminations are so embarrassing that Horowitz finds people paying even less attention to him because his judgement in doing this was so demonstrably in error.
I wonder sometimes if she isn't meant to be a distraction. That somewhere, there's A Deep Republican Conspiracy that sticks her out there to be massively distracting while the real policy analysis and development happen elsewhere.
Then I realize that this is the sort of thing that she would think, and I get over myself.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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