Ann Coulter - 10 Nov

IF DEMOCRATS HAD ANY BRAINS,
THEY'D BE REPUBLICANS

GODLESS

HOW TO TALK TO A LIBERAL (IF YOU MUST)

TREASON

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HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS

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KIMBERLY LLOYD COULTER

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CHRISTINA HART COULTER

L iberals always have to be the victims, particularly when they are oppressing others. Modern victims aren't victims because of what they have suffered; they are victims of convenience for the Left. There's no way to determine if an action is offensive by looking at the action. One must know who did it to whom, and whose side the most powerful people in America will take. Republican senator Trent Lott committed a hate crime when he praised former segregationist Strom Thurmond at a birthday party, but a year later, Democratic senator Chris Dodd did nothing wrong when he praised a former Ku Klux Klanner, Senator Robert Byrdwho was also a sort of community organizer.

Playing the game of He Who Is Offended First Wins, the key to any political argument is to pretend to be insulted and register operatic anger. Liberals are the masters of finger-wagging indignation. They will wail about some perceived slight to a sacred feeling of theirs, frightening people who have never before witnessed the liberals capacity to invoke synthetic outrage. Distracted by the crocodile tears of the liberal, Americans don't notice that these fake victims are attacking, advancing, and creating genuine victims.

Just as we're always told that schoolyard bullies are actually deeply insecure, liberals rationalize their own ferocious behavior by claiming to have been wounded somehow. What about the little guy our poor, insecure bully is beating the living daylights out of? How's his self-esteem coming along? That is the essence of liberals: They viciously attack everyone else, while wailing that they are the victims.

Liberals infernal habit of accusing others of what they themselves are doing distracts attention from who is really being attacked. No one is victimized by a mouse: Real victims are those who are called the oppressors by the powerful. Just as Nazi mythology made ordinary working Germans believe they were victims of Jewish oppressorsin order to oppress the Jewstoday's media-certified victims are the true oppressors, and the alleged aggressors are the real victims. To find the authentic victims in most situations, one can simply refer to the people the mainstream media urge us to hate, beasts such as George Bush, the Duke lacrosse players, Joe McCarthy, Jesse Helms, Tom DeLay, the Swift Boat Veterans, and Sarah Palin. But often the victims are nameless, faceless victims of repellent liberal policies that are promoted on behalf of counterfeit victims, such as single mothers or the poor. Media-anointed victims inevitably create actual victims who became so the old-fashioned way: They earned it.

Fake victims have become so crucial to liberal argument that you need a pathos-meter to follow politics in modern America. Every policy proposal is launched or opposed on the stories of victims. When Senator Hillary Clinton sought more federal money for New York City in 2007, she made a big show of attending Bush's January 2007 State of the Union Address with the son of a New York City police officer, Cesar A. Borja, who had died that very day of a rare lung disease he had allegedly acquired from working 16-hour shifts at the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks.

Senator Hillary Clinton seized on the 9/11 victim's story, parading Officer Borja's twenty-one-year-old son at the State of the Union Address. She even sent President Bush a lettermade available to the pressinviting him to meet Officer Borja's son, at the same time requesting more federal funding for New York's emergency workers. The federal money allocated thus far, she said, was only a down payment in repaying our debt to those who came to assist us in our hour of need. She asked the president to honor Officer Borja's memory and those who had lost loved ones as a result of the 9/11 attacks.

Bush met with Officer Borja's son and agreed to the additional federal funding for those suffering nonspecific health problems related to the 9/11 attack. Senator Clinton then released another letter noting our responsibility to take care of those who took care of usthose who, she said, selflessly risked their lives and their health at Ground Zero.

Then it turned out the story of Officer Borja's glorious heroism on 9/11 was a complete hoax. Borja had not rushed to the disaster site after the attack. He only started working there, directing traffic, near the end of December 2001, by which time much of the rubble had been cleared away. He was not a volunteerthis was his job. Indeed, the only reason he was working sixteen-hour days was to boost his pension just before he retired. In all, Borja had worked seventeen days at the World Trade Center, most of them in 2002. Officer Borja had done nothing dishonorable, but he had not selflessly risked his life at Ground Zero, as Hillary Clinton claimed in order to beg for more taxpayer money for New York City.

No matterhe had served his purpose and New York City got its federal funding.

All the Left's seminal imagery keeps turning out to be a hoax. Daddy was diving repeatedly into ground zerowhen he was nowhere near the place. The New Republic's Baghdad Diarist told sickening tales about the brutish behavior of American troops in Iraqand then he signed an affidavit admitting he made it all up. John Edwards was the loyal husband to his cancer-stricken wifeexcept it turned out he was carrying on an extended affair with Rielle Hunter. The Democrats dredge up victim after victim, but it's hard to find one real story.

Why do liberals keep coming up with hoaxes for our edification? Time and again, liberals transform themselves into chaste Victorian virgins fainting over the suffering of their victim du jourbut then the facts come out, and liberals react like Emily Litella on Saturday Night Live: Never mind.

You know you've really made it in America when the Left weeps for you. But this much-sought-after victim status is evanescent, lasting only as long as the fake victim's bellyaching advances the liberal agenda. Poor, long-suffering Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson, Scott Ritter, Cindy Sheehan, the Jersey Girls, Scott McClellanall putative victims of the Republicansweep alone these days. The liberal establishment has moved on.

It's so popular to be a victim in modern American society that people are constantly faking their own hard-luck storiesand not just in the personal statement essay in their Harvard applications. Among the recent hoax memoirs was one in 2008 by Margaret B. Jones called Love and Consequences: A Memoir of Hope and Survival. Jones claimed to be a half-white, halfNative American girl who grew up in a foster home in South Central Los Angeles, raised by an African American mother. She said she ran drugs for the Bloods in the middle of the deadly crack wars of the 1980s, losing her foster brother to the gang wars. Jones gave interviews using an urban black patois, referring to her fellow gang members as her homies. In her book she passed on urban wisdom, such as Trust no one. Even your own momma will sell you out for the right price or if she gets scared enough.