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JSG WEIGHTED RATING: 5 STARS (gotta have some Balance, people, Balance. 5-stars for agent provocateur value & to offset the 1-star votes of enraged leftist squeaklings. Excellent!)
NORMAL BOOK STANDARDS RATING: 2 STARS (gotta have some Balance, people. Balance. it's a 'greatest hits' book of quotations with big wide margins and lots of white space. Bummer)
Q: What is a Liberal? A: Someone who is driven sick with rage at very notion that someone, somewhere in America might be having an unauthorized good time---and is consequently determined to stop it!
Q: Why are Liberals for Gun Control? A: So their victims can't shoot back!
Pretend for a moment you've come down from Mars and thus you're happily innocent of the increasingly demented political battles fought in the decades-long American "Culture War". What's that, you ask? An epic battle for the commanding heights & best cultural real estate in the country, waged between Right and Left, and conducted through the smoldering battlefields of Cinema, Television, Literature, Academe, the Military, Business, and a bazillion other culverts, high roads, bunkers, castles, and assorted bastions of our erstwhile Popular Culture.
It's a bitter fight, red in tooth and claw, closely resembling either the Thirty Years War (with more laughs!) or WWI Trench Warfare (with less gound grained, & uh, somewhat cleaner)!
Coulter comes into this bloodbath with a gask mask, a bayonet, and a kazoo. Smart as a whip and legally trained, Coulter has become a hot commodity on TV talk shows, a skinny, smart-alecky Valkyrie astride the high winds of the 24/7 News Cycle, gliding over the fields of the ripening political Dead, riding like a circuit preacher from talk show to talk show and jousting with the Black Knights of Liberalism over the tourney of the Day.
She's a hot commodity because she's:
1) whipchord skinny and something of a fox...for a talking head. I mean, jeez, remember the days when Eleanor Clift was about as sexy as the Commentariat got? Exactly.
2) she's caustic. It's fun to watch Coulter open her mouth and breathe battery acid across her shrinking, terrified, morally outraged opponent.
3) she's willing to say outrageous stuff for the sake of provoking offense. Typically the ranks of the Offended (and they, like the Devil, are Legion) are American liberals, deliriously easy to offend. Yeah, YOU---you, frothing at the mouth, raging against the Machine, baby, you with the finger pokety-poking the "not Helpful" button, you know who you are, Old Hoss.
Anyway, the Culture War is bogged down, and American politics is wading through a pretty confused time---a sort of Dantesque Dark Wood. Hell, the whole cultural and politics of the West is in pretty much the same Dark Wood. We're fighting what looks to be a hopeless rearguard action against the rise of militant Islam (who knew suicide bombing could be a growth industry?).
It's not a time for intellectuals---is it any coincidence that Bill Buckley, an intellectual first and a conservative a few stiff brandys thereafter, has shaken off this mortal coil? Or that Noam Chomsky mumbles in his cups and Nat Hentoff writes sleepy op-eds while the sub-literate Michael Moore and the hysterical Al Gore get bankrolled for flicks?
It is a time for cheerleaders. For rabble rousers. For standard bearers.
Things have gotten confused in this brutal urban warfare: the terms are all turned around. Conservatives used to be the statists, the Torys: believers in the efficacy of the State for waving a stick about and getting things done. Liberals---classical Liberals---once believed in the progressive merits of free markets and free discourse.
They've pretty much changed places in the last 50 years, with Conservatives driven to the subculture as Liberals have stormed---and become---the Establishment (Hollywood, Big Media, Big Business, the Bureaucracy, the Universities). It's time to take the Power back!
Ann Coulter yet again mans the ramparts and unmans the opposition with "If Democrats had any brains, they'd be Republicans". The question boils down to this: what's the difference between your typical liberal democrat and a man born with a brain the size of a chickpea? A: the democrat chooses to be a Retard.
Shall we put too fine a point on it? We shall! Democrats have consistently demonstrated an unerring, uncanny, almost pretenernatural ability to be consistently wrong on every major issue of the age. Entirely, constantly, historically wrong! It would be marvellous, a kind of dark gift, if it weren't an evolutionary dead-end*.
They were wrong on the Cold War. They were wrong on McCarthy, the Red menace, the Soviet threat, the Soviet missile gap, and the nature of the threat of global communism as directed by the Soviet Comintern intself.
They were wrong on dA tente. They were wrong on ABM, and endless treaties, and nuclear non-proliferation. They were wrong on welfare. They are wrong on tax policy, on supposedly soaking' the wealthy, on economic policy, on fiscal policy, and even on monetary policy. They are certainly wrong on the relative merits of a planned versus a free market economy.
They are wrong on free speech: big boosters as they are of the petty, bucolic tyranny of political correcteness. They are wrong on Cuba. They are wrong on civil rights, having long ago accepted race demagoguery and a nation divided by pelt as a replacement for true human dignity and equality.
Coulter is despised as few other talking heads are. Why? Because she says what you think, she's trenchant, and she's wickedly funny.
Laughter is the bane of tyrannies, and her enemies are of a tyrannical sort: naturally they loathe her. But then, stupid is as stupid does.
A workable field manual for the Culture War, the latest Coulter salvo may indeed prove that Culture War is Hell---but that doesn't mean it isn't entertaining.
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