Thursday, March 30, 2006
Coutler, McCain, Falwell
Ann Coulter, Ann Coulter, Ann Coulter…
Where have you been lately, Ann? You used to be the mouthpiece for the bigots and misshapen monsters of the right. You were lauded. You were Sean Hannity’s regular guest.
I want Ann Coulter to get more exposure. I want every conservative slug on FOX News to wrap his/her arms around the woman who called Arabs “ragheads,” who has advocated everything from repealing womens’ right to vote to dismantling the New Deal. We need people like you, Ann, even if you are a clown. We need demagogues like you to remind people of what conservativism is really about.
So Ann lied about her address. Is this a surprise, coming from a subject of an Outside the Spectrum Beat Down Session?
I won’t put Ann on the Dead to Me List because I enjoy her too much. My only hope is that, when she is convicted of a class three felony in Palm Beach, she will only get a slap on the wrist, be sent to jail for a few months, and come back with some serious “street cred.”
I also won’t put John McCain on the Dead to Me List, even though he irritates me endlessly. In addition to communing with Jerry Falwell, all of a sudden McCain is having second thoughts about his opposition to the constitutional ban on same sex marriage that is being proposed.
Haven’t I covered this enough? Do we need a refresher course on what Jerry Falwell stands for? We do, methinks.
"I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them," Falwell wrote in his book America Can Be Saved. He lost a lawsuit in 1984 when he denied and was then caught on tape saying that a gay-oriented church was a “vile and Satantic system” that will “One day be utterly annhiliated and there will be celebration in heaven.” In 1994 he produced a video slandering Bill Clinton in which his producer posed as a journalist who was “afraid for his life,” and who detailed the “crimes” attributable the Bill Clinton, including murder. His producer, Patrick Matrisciana, later admitted the hoax.
In 1999, you may remember, Falwell’s journal alleged that the Teletubbies character Tinky Winky was a covert gay character. In 2001, after September 11th, Falwell blamed the attacks on “the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way—all of them who have tried to secularize America—I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen."
Falwell later issued a weak “apology” for his remarks, saying that “I would never blame any human being except the terrorists, and if I left that impression with gays or lesbians or anyone else, I apologize.”
I don’t know why anyone would get that impression from his remarks.
To my knowledge he has never apologized, however, for saying AIDS was a scourge from God sent to punish homosexuals.
He also had this choice quote about Jimmy Carter and forgiveness:
"His message of peace and reconciliation under almost all circumstances is simply incompatible with Christian teachings as I interpret them. This 'turn the other cheek' business is all well and good but it's not what Jesus fought and died for. What we need to do is take the battle to the Muslim heathens and do unto them before they do unto us."
I love the part where Falwell dismisses “this ‘turn the other cheek’ business.”
He also, on the September 30th, 2002 60 Minutes show, said that “I think Muhammad was a terrorist” because “he was a violent man, a man of war.” Please read this in the context of “What we need to do is take the battle to the Muslim heathens and do unto them before they do unto us.”
Come on, for God’s sake. This guy should be radioactive. Instead McCain is courting Falwell.
And in more news, Bush blames Saddam for sectarian violence. I think that, from now on, when any administration official stands up to talk about the War in Iraq carnival music should be played in the background. U.S. involvement will last six weeks…or six years. Whatever. I understand the masterminds at the Pentagon no longer have an idea how much longer the war will last, or how much more it will cost, or how many more U.S. soldiers will come home maimed or dead.
I also like the president giving the Iraqis a kick in the ass: "I also want the Iraqi people to hear -- it's about time you get a unity government going,” he said.
My question to the president is this: what’s the rush? It took our founding fathers decades to form a stable central government, as conservatives have been telling me for three years. Stay the course, right?
One thing I love about Drinky is his “stay the course” attitude with regard to global warming. First he refused to acknowledge it for years, then he acknowledged it, now he’s questioning whether or not it’s man-made.
When corporations tell you it would hurt business too much to do anything significant to curb greenhouse gasses and when Jerry Falwell is telling you that science is the work of the devil you get republicans like Bush stepping forward to bravely challenge established science. If your party is willing to write religion into law and throw evolution to the wolves, why wouldn’t they do so for an inconvenient (for business) conclusion of science like global warming?
The GOP is founded on irrationality. They enjoy the benefits of science but reject its conclusions that threaten their worldview. That’s why they question evolution, global warming, polls that show Bush’s JAR in the 30s, polls that show that 72% of U.S. soldiers want out of Iraq by the end of the year, a survey that shows that 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died in the war, etc.
And a correction or clarification to an earlier post. A day or two ago I mocked conservatives for the liberal McCain-Kennedy Immigration Proposal. You might argue it’s not that liberal, though it is still liberal compared to the far more extreme measures many on the right advocate.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 10:02 AM 
