LIBERAL INFALLIBILITY: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO COULTER

“Liberals Use Victims as Human Shields”

“The truth cannot be delivered with novocaine. Now Americans recognize this and won’t fall for this practice of liberals foisting their unsalable political opinions on us by using a victim we’re not allowed to respond to. They immunize the message by choosing a messenger with a tragedy. I’ve had it with that.

I feel sorry for all the widows of 9/11. I do not believe that sanctifies their political message or deserves special sanction.” — Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter is stirring up controversy with her new book, ‘GODLESS; the Church of Liberalism’. In particular, she has a chapter called ‘Liberals’ Doctrine of Infallibility: Sobbing Hysterical Women’ in which she describes the self-proclaimed "Jersey Girls", who lost their husband in the World Trade Center on 9/11 and who were front and center in the 9/11 Commission hearings. They have relentlessly accused the Bush administration of various conspiracy theories revolving around 9/11 and WHY? it happened, attacking the Administration with Sheehan-like bravado.

The problem, as Ann Coulter points out, is that any rebuttal to their accusations is met with a harsh rebuke. Despite the issue being discussed, no one can refute their accusations without being condemned for "questioning the authenticity of their suffering." When Jersey Girl Kristin Breitweiser says, "Three thousand people were murdered on George Bush’s watch," any dialogue about who really caused 9/11 or even Bill Clinton’s culpability is met with dismissal and a chastising sigh, "Leave her alone! She lost her husband in 9/11!" The same is true of Cindy Sheehan: "She lost her son in Iraq for God’s sake!" Or John Murtha and John Kerry: "They served proudly in the US military!" Therefore the message is safe because the messenger either is a victim and deserves sympathy.

A paragraph in question in Ann Coulter’s chapter addressing the Jersey Girls is this:

“These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attack only happened to them. They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. Apparently denouncing Bush was an important part of their closure process. These broads are millionaires lionized on TV and in articles about them reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ death so much.”

Ouch! Harsh no doubt, but untrue? To the contrary. Coulter hits the nail squarely on the head. (by "enjoying their husband’s death" Coulter is referring to the tangible benefit their situations find them in, from writing books, appearing on TV and in magazines to recklessly promote their accusations). Good proof that criticizing the Jersey Girls as they criticize the Administration is met with disdain because they are widows can be seen in Matt Lauer’s reaction to Ann Coulter in this NBC morning video interview.

Coulter suggests liberals use victims as "human shields" to promote their propaganda. They attribute "absolute authority" to these victims, whether Cindy Sheehan, the Jersey Girls or poor John Murtha, inoculating their commentary from scrutiny. This is absolutely true. How many times on this blog have I been accused of insensitivity for criticizing the sentiments of Cindy Sheehan because, after all, her son died? (oh and by the way, her son Casey Sheehan of 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, re-enlisted with the Army in 2004 knowing he would be going to Iraq). True, my husband did not DIE in Iraq, but is my support of Operation Iraqi Freedom then less valid, particularly taking into account that he relays to me 1st hand experience that helps form my understanding of this situation, because he returned? Yet my knowledge by association doesn’t make my position superior; the truth does.

"Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as ‘religion.’" –Ann Coulter

You go, girl.

Watch the Video of Ann Coulter on Hannity and Colmes