Ann Coulter's Latest

[Guest Rick O'Shay]

You need to read down a bit to see the relevance:

Liberal Victimhood: A Game You Can Play at Home

by Ann Coulter

I notice that liberals have not challenged the overall thesis of my

rocketing bestseller, *"Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on

America <http://www.hebookservice.com/products/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c7315>,"

* which is that liberals always play the victim in order to advance, win

advantages and oppress others.

I guess that would be hard to do when the corrupt Democratic governor of

Illinois is running around comparing himself to Nelson Mandela, Martin

Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.

Indeed, you can't turn on the TV without seeing some liberal playing victim

to score the game-winning point.

Caroline Kennedy tried to Bigfoot her way into New York's Senate seat while

being bathed in the Kennedy light of eternal victimhood. The New York *Times

* began a profile of Caroline by quoting an average citizen who "turns

almost maternally protective" upon hearing Caroline's name, mentioning the

assassination of her father -- nearly half a century ago.

MSNBC's Chris Matthews summarily announced: "We all want to be protective of

Caroline Kennedy." When one of his guests, Michael Smerconish, merely asked

what her qualifications were, an appalled Matthews said: "Wow."

Political reporter Ron Brownstein elaborated on "wow," saying: "Well, that's

pretty rough. That's pretty rough. I mean, but she has got, at least

publicly, a very private persona, one of quiet grace and elegance and

intelligence."

The *Times*' City Room exercised its own protective function toward Caroline

by censoring any indelicate inquiries about her on its blog.

The Kennedys are the textbook case of victims who go around victimizing

others. As I describe in "Guilty," in 1969, Times reporter James Reston

began his story about Teddy Kennedy driving a girl off the Chappaquiddick

bridge with the sentence: "Tragedy has again struck the Kennedy family."

Reston waited a discreet four paragraphs before mentioning the name of the

dead girl, whose "tragedy" was arguably greater. (Even the Times rewrote

Reston's opening line.)

Caroline's expectation that she would sail past all other contenders and be

handed a seat in the U.S. Senate is perfectly in keeping with her family

tradition.

When Robert Kennedy won his Senate seat from New York, he unseated a

well-liked Republican, Kenneth Barnard Keating, who had represented New York

in Congress for more than a decade.

Meanwhile, Robert Kennedy hadn't lived in New York since he was 12 years

old. But the allegedly sophisticated voters of New York were awed by the

Kennedy name, and dumped a popular native son.

A deputy manager of Kennedy's campaign explained that the carpetbagger

accusation could not withstand the image of JFK's assassination a year

earlier: "You couldn't vote against Robert Kennedy without seeing the

presence of John Kennedy."

With New York's record of swooning for celebrity victims, it was a snap for

another carpetbagger, Hillary Clinton, to push aside veteran New York

Democrats to win her Senate seat in 2000.

When Gov. David Paterson ended the Kennedy soap opera by appointing

Democratic congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand, her Democratic colleague, Rep.

Carolyn McCarthy, blanketed the airwaves, threatening to challenge

Gillibrand in the next election because of her NRA-approved stand on guns.

McCarthy explained, "My voice is for the victims."

The only reason McCarthy was elected to Congress in the first place is that

her husband and son were shot by a crazed gunman on the Long Island Rail

Road in 1993. Colin Ferguson's shooting spree wasn't stopped sooner because

none of the passengers had guns. As has been demonstrated beyond dispute at

this point, armed citizens save lives.

In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in

America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes found

that the only public policy that reduced both the incidence and casualties

of such shootings were concealed-carry laws. Not only are there 60 percent

fewer gun massacres after states adopt concealed-carry laws, but the death

and injury rate of such rampages are reduced by 80 percent.

Rep. McCarthy claims to "speak for the victims" by promoting policies that

will provably create a lot more victims.

And all of this occurs in a year when the mainstream media is agog with

their discovery that a black man *can *be elected president in America! By

being elected president, Obama overcame the massive racial hatred that

existed only in liberal imaginations.

I don't know a single conservative who thought America wouldn't elect a

black man.

If Republicans had run Colin Powell in 1996 -- back when he was a Republican

-- he would have been the first black president. As Powell himself said, he

received the strongest support from Southern white men, who admired his

military background.

The first serious black candidate to run for president in America won, so

blacks are one-for-one in a country liberals would have us believe is

teeming with Ku Klux Klanners.

Throughout Obama's entire life, doors were opened for him, his college

applications smiled upon and favors bestowed simply because he is black --

the original victim category in America. Being black is the highest victim

caste because of blacks' authentic victimhood: The nation once tolerated

slavery and Jim Crow.

But ironically, Obama's father is from Africa: He never suffered from the

ancient policies that, today, give his son Victim Gold. To the contrary, if

Obama's African relatives had anything to do with slavery, it was on the

business end.

[Bloodbought1]

Wow!!!

[Guest bkelm18]

Wow indeed. I like it, I like it a lot.

[DavidD]

Ann in 2012

[Guest Linoge]

She surely has found all the buttons that liberals have...

[Guest Rick O'Shay]

She surely has found all the buttons that liberals have...

lol!

Take some time to read her archives:

http://anncoulter.org/cgi-local/archives.cgi

[Guest Jcochran88]

wow! indeed.

[Guest jackdog]

As a rule I don't like her. But in this case I totally agree with her.

[Guest HexHead]

As for that McCarthy woman, it's a damn shame she wasn't on the train with her husband.

[Magiccarpetrides]

As for that McCarthy woman, it's a damn shame she wasn't on the train with her husband.

ouch man thats cold...kinda true, but cold....

Im pretty excited about Gillibrand....I had no idea someone with a 100% NRA rating could get appointed to the Senate in New York...I bet that didnt thrill Hillary too much lol.

[Guest jackdog]

As for that McCarthy woman, it's a damn shame she wasn't on the train with her husband.

Plus 10,0000

[eapking]

While I agree with most of her points, I just don't like her delivery. She comes off like a real Bee-otch.

[Guest Rick O'Shay]

While I agree with most of her points, I just don't like her delivery. She comes off like a real Bee-otch.

I beg to differ. I like her style.

[I_Like_Pie]

While I agree with most of her points, I just don't like her delivery. She comes off like a real Bee-otch.

Yeah...I feel the same way about the other old fart on FOX who likes to argue. They put it in writing and it makes perfect sense, but listening to them talk about anything makes one want to jab a pencil in their ear.

You know the saying "They put on their shoes like everyone else?"I am not sure that they do without first thinking on how to make it a dem vs Repub issue and showboating about it for 5 minutes.

Remember folks...The louder you talk...the more correct it makes you.

[Smith]

While I agree with most of her points, I just don't like her delivery. She comes off like a real Bee-otch.

Yeah...I feel the same way about the other old fart on FOX who likes to argue. They put it in writing and it makes perfect sense, but listening to them talk about anything makes one want to jab a pencil in their ear.

You know the saying "They put on their shoes like everyone else?"I am not sure that they do without first thinking on how to make it a dem vs Repub issue and showboating about it for 5 minutes.

Remember folks...The louder you talk...the more correct it makes you.

Mehh, everyone here is always complaining about PC and then when someone articulates (very well I might add) the truth in a very straightforward and concise way - calls a spade a spade - the same people starting saying how much they don't like them.

Give me Ann and Rush all day all the time!

[I_Like_Pie]

I am not disagreeing with you about them being correct. I just seem them as folks with strong convictions and no compassion

...in other words I wouldn't want them to tag along on a Sat. morning fishing trip.