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I Won't Throw It Up In Anybody's Face ...04/15/2005 04:00:17 pm
A little bit of Ann Coulter is always bracing and
agreeable. Some extracts from her current
column, where she addresses the recent spate of
physical attacks on conservative public speakers:
Liberals enjoy claiming that
they are intellectuals, thrilled to engage in a
battle of wits. This, they believe, distinguishes
them from conservatives, who are religious
fanatics who react with impotent rage to opposing
ideas. As one liberal, Jonathan Chait, put the
cliche in The New Republic: Bush is an
"instinctive anti-intellectual" and his
administration hostile to "fact-driven
debate." In a favorable contrast, Clinton is
"the former Rhodes scholar who relished
academic debates." Showing his usual
reverence for fact-checking, The New York Times'
Paul Krugman says the Republican Party is
"dominated by people who believe truth
should be determined by revelation, not
research."
I'm not sure how these descriptions
square with the fact that liberals keep
responding to conservative ideas by throwing
food.
...
Last October, two liberals responded to my speech
at the University of Arizona — during
question and answer, no less — by charging
the stage and throwing two pies at me from a few
yards away. Fortunately for me, liberals not only
argue like liberals, they also throw like girls.
...
On March 29, liberals'
intellectual retort to a speech by William
Kristol at Earlham College was to throw a pie. On
March 31, liberals enjoyed the hurly-burly of
political debate with Pat Buchanan at Western
Michigan University by throwing salad dressing.
On April 6, liberals engaged David Horowitz on
his ideas at Butler University by throwing a pie
at him.
If you close your eyes, it's almost like you're
listening to Ludwig Wittgenstein!
If there had been that many attacks on
Muslims in the weeks following the 9/11 attack,
we'd still be watching Showtime specials about
it.
Indeed. But never mind Muslims - what if it were
just plain old leftists being assaulted in this
manner - for the crime of giving a speech in a place
to which they've been invited? Imagine if Maureen
Dowd or Nancy Pelosi were hit with the pie, and Frank
Rich got drenched in salad dressing?
Al Gore has already described conservative-minded
bloggers as "digital brownshirts." Can you
imagine what delectable Nazi analogies would roll off
his and many others' tongues if there were a series
of assaults on leftist public speakers? And how
widely it would be covered in the mainstream media?
Like shark attacks and missing children, each
successive food attack on a liberal icon would be
greeted by increasingly breathless reports, wondering
at the connection between the incidents and what this
all said about the temperature of political discourse
in America, and the threat to free speech.
The double standard's enough to make you want to
throw your doughnut at the wall. Just don't hit any
liberals.
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