Attacks On Markos' New Book Are Silly
I haven't been posting much lately because I had a flare-up of my nerve damage, so I was ordered to rest. (Yeah, right.) Anyway, I've missed some of the action lately and I wanted to say something about the lefties who are criticizing the new book
I haven't been posting much lately because I had a flare-up of my nerve damage, so I was ordered to rest. (Yeah, right.) Anyway, I've missed some of the action lately and I wanted to say something about the lefties who are criticizing the new book by Markos Moulitsas, American Taliban. I have a copy and while I haven't finished it, I have cracked it open. I wonder if some writers are just a little bit jealous that Markos' blog, Daily Kos, is so successful.
Suddenly left-wing authors are not allowed to use words to express ideas in the way they see fit? Have left-wing elitists been looking around the country and the world that encompasses the politics of it all and can honestly tell me that the right wing has not acted downright scary? How many people have to be murdered like Doctor Tiller was for it to actually resonate with the MSM and the American Prospect? President Obama was in office less than six months before Tiller was executed by a right-wing fanatic, but I guess that doesn't count. So I ask again, how many people must die before they see a very dangerous pattern?
David and I have been documenting right wing extremism under Obama's presidency on C&L and in our book, Over The Cliff, and you would have to be a fool not to notice.
Jamelle Bouie wrote the most ridiculous attacks on the new book that I've read. I don't have the time to do a full analysis of the article, but Jamelle proves to be a useful idiot for the Ann Coulters out there when he writes this:
It doesn't help that Moulitsas elides glaring contradictions in his argument and routinely misrepresents his evidence; in one instance, Moulitsas brandishes Ann Coulter's infamous quotation from 2001, where she declared that "we should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity," as evidence of the right's bloodthirsty ways, while ignoring the fact that she was fired from National Review (an organ of the American Taliban) for that exact quotation.
From that passage you would think that Ann Coulter was kicked out of the Republican party for good and all conservatives and FOX News like entities would be done with her. All hail the NRO!
Of course, that's not the case at all. Ann Coulter has only risen in stature since she wrote those disgusting views, so much so that Time put her on its cover, and Matt Lauer had her on the Today Show to give their audience a year in review of George Bush's 2005 performance. (She thought he had a slow start but a wonderful ending after he fixed his crazy Harriet Miers pick for the Supreme Court.)