Ann Coulter soft-pedals white supremacists in her new book
By David Neiwert Saturday Feb 14, 2009 10:00am
Most of the discussion of Ann Coulter's most recent wretched contribution to the national discourse -- her book Guilty -- has focused on her attacks on single motherhood.
But Mark Potok at the SPLC noticed that there were some other problems with it -- namely, her vociferous defense of the Council of Conservative Citizens:
In her latest foaming-mouth tome — Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and Their Assault on America, released on Jan. 6 — Coulter spends the better part of three pages defending a group called the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), which The New York Times had described as a “thinly veiled white supremacist organization.” Coulter begs to differ. The CCC, Coulter opines, is “a conservative group” that has unfairly been branded as racist “because some of the directors of the CCC had, decades earlier, been leaders of a segregationist group.” “There is no evidence on its Web page that the modern incarnation of the CCC supports segregation,” she says. “Apart from some aggressive reporting on black-on-white crimes — the very crimes that are aggressively hidden by the establishment media — there is little on the CCC website suggesting” that the group is racist. Indeed, its main failing is “containing members who had belonged to a segregationist group thirty years earlier.”
Contrary to Coulter's assertion, there is more than abundant evidence beyond their origins that the CofCC is a profoundly racist organization dedicated to white supremacy. For example:
The CCC’s columnists have written that black people are “a retrograde species of humanity,” and that non-white immigration is turning the U.S. population into a “slimy brown mass of glop.” Its website has run photographic comparisons of pop singer Michael Jackson and a chimpanzee. It opposes “forced integration” and decries racial intermarriage. It has lambasted black people as “genetically inferior,” complained about “Jewish power brokers,” called gay people “perverted sodomites,” and even named the late Lester Maddox, the baseball bat-wielding, arch-segregationist former governor of Georgia, “Patriot of the Century.”
One day, the CCC ran photos on its home page of accused Beltway snipers John Muhammad and John Malvo, 9/11 conspirator Zacharias Moussaoui and accused shoe-bomber Richard Reed. “Notice a Pattern Here?” asked a caption underneath the four photos. “Is the face of death black after all?” On another occasion, its website featured a photo of Daniel Pearl, the “Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter” who had just been decapitated by Islamic terrorists. In the photo, Pearl was shown with his “mixed-race wife, Marianne.” The headline above the couple’s picture was stunning even for the CCC: “Death by Multiculturalism?” The CCC Arkansas chapter ran an essay waxing nostalgic for the days “when racial separation was the norm.”
But to Ann Coulter, there is “no evidence” on its website that the CCC “supports segregation.” Mostly, she says, the group — which was formed from the debris of the White Citizens Councils that Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall once called “the uptown Klan” — is about “a strong national defense, the right to keep and bear arms, the traditional family, and an ‘America First’ trade policy.” Indeed, she says, The New York Times and other critics of the CCC are simply liberals “who have no principles.”
Of course, Ann Coulter has lots of principles. They're just not principles any decent human being would adopt.
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"comparisons of pop singer Michael Jackson and a chimpanzee"
Thats really more offensive to chimpanzees. *rimshot*
One of the upsides to the Obama presidency is that some of these right-wing pundits in their foam-flecked-lips frenzies are going to go to far and their will be some career damaging if not career ending moments. I think when Rush said he hoped Obama would fail flirted with that moment, its full impact has yet to be seen I think.
Coulter is also flirting dangerously with the boundary of what the public will accept.
it (coulter) passed those boundaries when she called John Edwards a "f@g".
I was referring to the boundaries that the public would accept, not the boundaries of good taste, right and wrong, decency.
Huge difference.
Insinuating Obama is a terrorist.
Calling Hillary a bitch.
Calling for the assassination of Supreme Court Justices.
"The Magic Negro" song.
Barney "F@g" remark.
The list goes on. I know this isn't all Coulter but it seems like the public accepted these and moved on too. I don't see any difference. I'm not arguing, just pointing out they've done stuff as bad or worse, with no serious reprocussions.
For some reason what pisses of the public rarely makes sense. I agree much much worse stuff has been said but it can always be some little thing someone says or does that makes people sit up, take notice and become outraged.
For instanced, Bush starts an illegal war based on lies. No biggie. Edwards has an affair and must disappear from public life. Its insane.
show your nipple at the Super Bowl!
Its weird what gets the public outraged and what they let slide, isn't it? Although its probably more of a reflection of what the MSM decides to flog over and over for weeks on end than any actual indication of what the public at large feels.
For the record I fully support Miss Jackson's nipple.
that Rush hasn't crossed that line yet.
rush pushed himself over that line long ago.
I have a theory that some time over the next 4 to 8 years, some conservative will say something awful about one or both of the Obama daughters. I don't think there is really a limit to how low some of these people will go. Limbaugh, Savage and John Gibson are candidates to cross this line, but Coulter may be the most likely. It's certainly not something I WANT to see happen, but I really do think there are folks on the far right that are THAT hateful and rotten.
This looks more like Candice Bergan back in the day.
n/t
who is murphy brown?
Murphy Brown is Candice Bergen's character from a late 80s early 90s sitcom, which then VP Dan Quayle apparently could not figure out was fictional.
He also couldn't figure out a potato.
PotatoE
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You stick with your own kind.
you are a piece of shit.
Your head is exploding.
"Tell the world, watch the skies. Watch the skies"!!!!!!
AC's head exploded at 5:15pm on Sat 2/14/09 according to the WaPo. The brown material that "smelled like a #2", was seen hitting the ground in 45 states. The mayor of Los Angeles said that they were very lucky the drop zone did not reach California. However, the non-union Venetian Hotel on the Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, received a huge load of the "crap". Reporters stated that they believe this happened because the Venetian owner also owned one of the most vile right wing companies in the USA, Freedom Watch. This company paid millions to smear Senator Obama and other Democratic candidates last summer.
Stay tuned as updates will follow with breaking news.
Working people have been the "victims" of the overclass for centuries.
The long history of the progressive movement is a history of fighting
for peace and justice for all men and women. Stopping slavery and child
labor, securing women's rights, immigrant rights, unionism, civil rights...all
fought tooth and nail against the evil forces of oppression. When a
"conservative" starts their shit I always ask them, do you get days
off, a pension, health care, a house, education? Oh you do, well we
fought for those for years, men and women died for them for years.
Maybe we will have to fight again and end the rule of racism and
conspiracy of run away capitalism.
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It should be pointed out that Coulter rarely gets asked any tough or probing questions by the so-called liberal media regarding the trash that she writes. What is also just as non-existent is the fact that this demagogue will almost never debate anyone from the left regarding what she has written. For example, Coulter has never, to the best of my knowledge, ever debated anyone regarding her claims that her hero, former Senator Joseph McCarthy, was defamed and that McCarthy was [supposedly] performing a public service by going after the dreaded communists despite the fact that not one communist was ever convicted of being a spy in the State Department in the 1950s.
It is very easy for someone like an Ann Coulter to be considered as a heroine of the right especially when she refuses to challenge any of her many critics that take her to task for the many inaccuracies any fabrications that she presents in her less than truthful books.
What is it with these racists and their use of letters?
NAACP?
I heard an ad for the UNCF (United Negro College Fund) yesterday. Wasn't aware that was still being used as a name either.
...the organization, don't look for something that does not exist. To attempt to associate the NAACP with the KKK is Coulter like...even in jest.
That wasn't a jest but a response to
"What is it with these racists and their use of letters?"
This shows that it's not only racists that abbreviate. One could go on, UN, NASA etc.
One of my pet peeves is FDR's NRA (National Recovery Act) has an almost immediate identification with gun nuts.
The interesting thing about the juxtapositioning of KKK with CCC is that C has two pronunciations, one of which is like K.
Sat, 02/14/2009 - 10:23 — LibertyLover
One only needs to add a couple of vowels and UNCF becomes UNICEF.
One only had to add 2 consonants fore and aft to UN, and it becomes Ann!
Is appealing to small minds.
I did want to point that out, but felt that would lessen my point. But to be pedantic, what you're referring to is consonance, alliterations is with vowels.
I don't think conservatives have had vowel movements. They just explode at a certain age.
From Mirriam-Webster site: the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (as wild and woolly, threatening throngs)
Eh...the only poetry I read is on bathroom walls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xBNAwwqjkw
Anne Coulter could never utter the word n@##*r in her sorry ass, self hating, unhappy life, yet I would still know that she(whatever) is a vile racist.
She fits the profile in every way possible.
Racism is racial prejudice plus power. Racism is the intentional or unintentional use of power to isolate, separate and exploit others. This use of power is based on a belief in superior origin, identity of supposed racial characteristics.
That's how people are trying to redefine the term the past 30 odd years.
Racism is a form of bigotry, and are universal.
However, what academics call institutional racism has the definition you provided.
I found several definitions. This one caught my eye because of
the word power.
Is that it allows racist to argue that there is no racism because they have no power. As minorities become the majority in this country more and more racists will claim that they aren't racists merely because minorities are now the majority.
Racism is a generalize belief in the inferiority of a race of people. If you have power you can act on that belief but even without power you can still hold the belief.
I think you can expect that now that Obama's in power.
Remember after the election how people like glen beck and rash limpballs said racism as an argument had to be retired now?
America, a land of screaming irony: Having a black president empowers racists.
It is one of the methods of amassing power.
You convince a group of people that they belong to a select group, religion, race etc., so by definition there has to be those that aren't select.
Or as Puritans called them, the elect.
Anne Coulter could never utter the word n@##*r in her sorry ass, self hating, unhappy life
Because Coulter knows she could never get away with that.
it could also get her shot.
I suggest you visit Margaret and Helen's blog for a chapter by chapter breakdown. (Is it blog-whoring to link to someone else's blog?) Too funny. Love these gals.
http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/
Thanks LibertyLover. Very funny!!!
"thinly veiled white supremacist organization”, vs. "a conservative group". I haven't seen much of Ann on tv since her televised failed attempts to convert (or perfect as she called it) Jews to Christianity. That was pretty entertaining.
She is on the same level as right winger Michael Savage in the ammount of bigoty and hatred that is spewed- Savage is a more poplular amongst right wingers than Coulter, yet we ignore him- because we know he is a total nut-
Why can't we ignore Coulter? By focusing on her, we are giving her recognition, and implying anything she has to say is worthy of debate. Just brush the likes of Coulter and Savahe under the rug and ignore them.
I disagree. Coulter has a very large audience and needs to be countered. If you don't want to acknowledge them, that's fine.
I say ann's writings should be sold from under the counter.
Like a prescription for sanity?
Doctor, Doctor, I'm too sane...write me a 'script for some Coulter!
More like Playdude.
Cancer goes away magically if you ignore it!
yesterday (the local "liberal" station's signal fades after dark). God help the people who endure this cretin daily.
Thankfully, I found a bar before having to hear the rest of the program...
...of Annie's categories of groups to attack. It's always white people who never experience racism lecturing folks on how to deal with it. "Just ignore it." Lol.
What I would like to see is, Coulter on Real Time.
And have her mic turned off. Make it so she is the only one hearing herself. So she doesn't know it's turned off to the public.
And just watch Bill ask her some oddball questions .
I'd pay to see that.
BFF's? Because Bill was defending her for a while, saying she was "fun".
I think she has been on Real Time before. I'm certain she was on Politically Incorrect too. Seems I heard that she and Maher had some kind of relationship at one time, but I'm not sure how far that goes.
Are ya sayin' this is Bill and ann?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9lYWNGypsQ
He looks like an owl.
coulter is a fool, harlequin and a strumpet. she only continues to exist in the public forum because of continued attention.
can we just stop with the tracking and outrage at her inconsequential natterings?
like all the neo-cons and their enablers, history is already casting them on the ash heap. hopefully, justice shall be done.
in coulter's case, maybe a conviction on vote fraud will finally usher her into well earned oblivion.
When you search for website, it comes up with the caption "Organization dedicated to European culture and immigration polices". Nough said.
I. personally, would choose to ignore this silly woman out of existence. I do believe, like Palin, she will just go away. The current economic doldrums may garner these types some support, you can count on at least 30% of society being beholden to complete idiots. But I do also believe that Americans and people in general like action when the going gets rough, and they dislike the imbeciles who holler nonconstructive poppycock from the peanut galleries.
Understand one thing about these mouthpieces on the right: They are primarily in it for the MONEY. They are paid to heat up that 30%. The sad thing is, they start believing their own BS. But to stay in the game, they have to become increasingly outrageous. This whittles away the "base." Ultimately, they'll be like that stupid little church that hates gays so much. ... Meanwhile C&L, I'd ignore this woman. She really is an imbecile.
By discussing this hateful woman, we are giving her recognition, putting the spotlight on her, and we are thus playing right into her hands-
Again, we sould do what to Coulter what we do to radical right wing hate merchant Michael Savage- Ignore her!
Cancer goes away magically if you ignore it!
I used to work with fanzine publications, and some underground zine writers would deliberatly make theirs as offensive as possible because they knew offended people would speak out against their work and try and get it banned- and thus give them more publicity than they could ever pay for-
Many authors of music- or books could only dream they would wind up with a corps of vocal bashers, or be put on a banned list, because that would triple interest in their product.
Of course if the artist was ignored, their work didn't sell, and they faded into obscurity.
If people on the left contunue to spend all their time talking about Coulter or Billo, they are HELPING THEM stay in the spotlight. Ignore these right wing freaks, they will fade away- otherwise, you are part of the problem.
with your cancer then.
Wondered where the racist group from Marietta, GA would crop up. 30 years ago, it's other name was the Concerned White Citizens Council. It was responsible for a lot of mischief in those years. Newt breeding ground country. Remember the '96 Olympics torch run?
If we ignored ann et al we would be totally mystified to find the motives of the crimes of such people as eric rudolph, timothy mcveigh, and that goober who shoots up a church and releases his "manifesto."
It ain't the same as churlish behavior over whether you prefer Slayer, Slipknot or Cannibal Corpse. They got that covered in the comments sections of Youtube.
apropos of nothing really .... just an observation ..I think that ONE of the reasons the toxic bint gets so much traction in the U.S is that she is young-ish blonde and thin( I won't add attractive because she has a face like an axe in my opinion).
She survives in a society that puts thin blondes on pedestals.
I wonder if she were old , chubby and grey if she would get so much air time...I think not.
"Council of Conservative Citizens"? How a propos that the three initials have "hard C" sound, phonetically shown as "k", "k" and "k". One has to wonder if Coulter is aiming to be an aryan pinup, not just an aryan pinhead.
If Coulter really believes in "old fashioned christian values", why isn't she married and producing kids at every available opportunity as per St. Augustine? But then duplicity and hypocrisy are nothing new for her, are they (i.e. voting, taxes, women's rights, etc.)?
Let's see. George (Shrub) Bush, Ann Coulter on and on ad nauseum. How can a school that claims to be a premier institution keep turning out such illiterate and idiotic alumni? Maybe there's something to that inferiority complex thing.
That's also where Bill, Hillary, and Gore came from.
I though I heard that Coulter has venereal disease of the mouth.
Gotta love the 'white pride' advertisements in the margins of the CCC websits.
Nope nothin' racist there.
What a shocker - a hateful bitch supports a hate group.
Corrupt Cabal of Criminals (aka Bush & Co.)
White Supremacy? And you expected something else from a woman whose nickname is the Aryan from Darien?
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