Ann Coulter - Conservative Pit Bull: A review of "Godless: The Church of Liberalism"
By Gene Lalor
Posted On August 03, 2006
When my son complains that Rush Limbaugh is a bombastic, egotistical blowhard, I have to concede that he is, but I remind him that Rush is our bombastic, egotistical blowhard. A similar defense may be used for that pit bull of the American right, the cantankerous, vitriolic, take-no-prisoners, no-holds-barred Ann Coulter. I mean, they have fatuous Al Franken, screaming Howie Dean, shabby Michael Moore, and countless other spewers of hate, such as the various reverends, notably the Reverend Al and the Reverend Jesse. Aren’t the good guys–that would be conservatives–entitled to our very own flame-thrower?
And throw flames and kick ass is precisely what the lady does. Is she delicate and genteel about it? She’s anything but -- and rightly so. Some would say we should stick to the high road, that of Bill Buckley, for example, and not besmirch ourselves with our own invective but, as the late great coach Vince Lombardi said, “Nice guys finish last.”
We’re not playing an inconsequential football game. Just like our various foreign enemies, our home-grown America-haters need a brutal rebuttal; anything less is seen as weakness. Ann Coulter gets the job done–in spades. Libs hate her with a passion, rarely citing what she says but most often focusing on her goiter, her height, her somewhat anorexic appearance. The ancients referred to those as ad hominem attacks, ripping the messenger since they’re unable to refute the message. And, damn, this lady has a message.
“By their fruits ye shall know them.” Thus, Coulter concludes her latest jeremiad against the rampant evils of liberalism–their hand-wringing over rights of criminals and be damned the rights of victims; the hypocrisy of their love of rights for women and the business of abortion and be damned the millions of pre-born babies; their idolization of public school teachers and be damned the fact their young charges graduate with vacuous minds full of NEA mush; their alleged reverence for science, pseudo science for the most part -- and truth, common sense and facts be damned.
Godless: The Church of Liberalism, replete with some three or four hundred endnotes, is Ann Coulter at her new best as she takes her cudgels to the godless “religion” that poses as modern liberalism. While Buckley, Cal Thomas, George Will use scalpels to dissect that putrescent living corpse, Coulter dispenses with the niceties of political debate and attacks her enemies -– our enemies -- with cudgels and cleaver. The result is messy but effective.
Much has been made of brief references she makes to those four 9/11 New Jersey widows who, in their grief over their murdered husbands, saw fit “to complain that the $1.6 million average settlement to be paid to 9/11 victims’ families was not large enough” and proceeded, in their grief, to campaign for -- and extort -- more blood money to assuage their anguish. At the same time they saw fit, despite their grief, to attack President Bush during war time and to suggest that the devastation of that day was somehow known in advance by our prescient government. No facts, mind you! Just their grief-stricken womanly intuition. “Sobbing, hysterical women” are excellent fodder for the Left.
Now, our Ann may be said to lack sufficient compassion toward these women and calling them “the Jersey Girls,” “broads,” “rabid widows,” and “weeping widows” could be seen as insensitive and demeaning to them. Her compassion goes out to those who didn’t become millionaires as a result of 9/11, especially our fighting forces who are still dying. I, for one, agree with Coulter.
More relevant than these four milionairesses is the fact that little if any of the other three hundred pages in Godlesshave been given much attention. Oddly or not so oddly, the scrutiny of the media zeroed in on Coulter for this dastardly criticism of four defenseless women and virtually ignored the remainder!
As a public service therefore, and for that media which no doubt read only those few “widow pages,” I present some other tidbits, salient points made by our pit bull, Ann Coulter:
College professors and the media: “These zealous pagans teach the official state religion of liberalism as axiomatic truth...The stupidest of their students become journalists...” The media seems to have tunnel vision when it comes to all things liberal (good!) and all things conservative (bad!)
Criminals and capital punishment: Citing a number of criminals defended by liberals as “displays of affection for a killer,” even confessed murderers and child rapists, she writes, “Assuming you’re not a fetus, the Left’s most dangerous religious belief is their adoration of violent criminals.” Cf. Willie Horton et al.
Abortion: This chapter is titled, “The Holiest Sacrament: Abortion” and that capsulizes Coulter’s view on the issue. She cites lies, subterfuges, misrepresentations, distortions–all endnoted and verifiable–that demonstrate the liberal passion for killing babies.
Public school teachers, “The Liberal Priesthood” : These “parasites” are overpaid, underworked, coddled tools of the Church of Liberalism more concerned in spreading the socialistic pap disseminated by the National Education Association than in educating kids.
Much of the remainder of Godless deals with Darwin and Darwinism, evolution, and the godlessness of blindly accepting the theory that we are descended from apes and other life forms. Personally, as a Catholic I can accept evolution if we posit that God infused the human soul into cave people at some point in their cave lives. I can also accept Creationism/Intelligent Design as long as that theory allows for the millions of years that elapsed from the Big Bang to the Big Cave. Admittedly, however, Coulter does present powerful arguments to refute much of Darwin's The Origin of Species.
Love Ann Coulter or hate Ann Coulter. There’s really no middle ground. But to fill in the details of the above, just read her! Careful though - Pit bulls can bite!
Gene Lalor lives on Long Island.
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