August 16, 2007

If At First You Don't Succeed, Lie, Lie Again

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By: Ann Coulter

Suspiciously, Daniel Pearl's widow is suddenly being lavishly praised by the Treason Lobby. Jane Mayer, co-author of the discredited hit-book on Clarence Thomas, "Strange Justice," published an article in The New Yorker last week recounting that Mariane Pearl was called by Alberto Gonzales in March with the news that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had admitted to American interrogators that he had personally beheaded her husband and they were going to release the transcript to the press. Mayer wrote: "Gonzales' announcement seemed like a publicity stunt."

Frank Rich followed up with an article in The New York Times saying of Gonzales' call: "Ms. Pearl recognized a publicity ploy when she saw it."

Inasmuch as these are journalists who adjudge George Bush more evil than Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, their perception of reality is to be treated gingerly. But if Ms. Pearl is toying with the idea of becoming the latest liberal cause celebre, she might want to consider the trajectories of the rest of them.

All the Democrats' most dearly beloved anti-war/anti-Bush heroes invariably end up in the Teresa Heinz Kerry wing of the nut-house. Scott Ritter went from being a trusted U.N. weapons inspector valiantly defending poor, misunderstood Saddam Hussein from George Bush's imperialistic war to being just another creep trying to have sex with underage girls.

Cindy Sheehan once had "absolute moral authority." Now she's just a madwoman writing mash notes to Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.

Max Cleland was a war hero who lost his limbs as a result of Viet Cong grenades, giving him the stature to gleefully taunt George Bush and Dick Cheney. "Where the hell were you in the Vietnam War?" Cleland responded to Cheney. "If you had gone to Vietnam like the rest of us, maybe you would have learned something about war."

Then we learned Cleland was a victim only of his own clumsiness and had dropped the grenade on himself in Vietnam after stopping for a beer.

Bill Burkett was the left's most admired military veteran since Benedict Arnold. He claimed Bush had shirked his National Guard duty and said he had the documents to prove it. According to Dan Rather and CBS News, Burkett was a "solid" and "unimpeachable" source who was being attacked by "partisan political operatives."

And then Burkett turned out to be a foaming-at-the-mouth loon. He was eventually forced to admit on air that he had "misled" CBS on the phony National Guard documents, which is a little like Hugo Chavez "misleading" Sean Penn. Burkett's current medical diagnosis: too crazy to be a homeless person.

The congressional campaign of anti-war Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett was treated in the media as if it were the Second Coming. The New York Times described Hackett adoringly as a "lean 6-foot-4, he is garrulous, profane and quick with a barbed retort or a mischievous joke." The Times even produced the obligatory quote-ready Republican who said that "Mr. Hackett's service had caused him to consider voting Democratic."

Then we found out with a little more specificity what some of those quick-witted barbs were. Hackett called the president a "chickenhawk," referred to Bush's "Bring it on" statement as "the most incredibly stupid comment," and called Bush "the biggest threat in America." Yes, he was a veritable Noel Coward, that Hackett.

Soon, even Rep. Rahm Emanuel and Sen. Chuck Schumer were trying to get Hackett to drop his next political campaign for the U.S. Senate.

Gen. Wesley Clark was once compared to Eisenhower, which, in mediaspeak, means: "He is virulently anti-Bush." Democrats were so tickled to have found an anti-war Southerner and retired general, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert asked, is he "just a mirage?"

Then it turned out the only war Clark wanted to lead was America's War on Fetuses, declaring that abortion should be legal for any reason until the moment of birth. Soon Clark was buddying around with Michael Moore and Madonna. Also, he claimed he had received calls from "the White House" by which he meant "a think tank in Canada."

Last we heard, Gen. Clark was on the alternate list for "Dancing With the Stars."

Joe Wilson went from being billed in the media as a trusted adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney and billed (by himself) as an eyewitness to the president's "lies," to being an apron-wearing househusband who had been sent on an errand by his wife.

Not only did he fail to debunk the Niger yellowcake story, he also forgot to bring home the quart of milk his wife had requested. (Wilson is now demanding a congressional investigation into who leaked the classified information that his wife wears the pants in the family.)

The Joe Wilson celebrity tour officially ended when The Washington Post editorialized: "It's unfortunate that so many people took (Wilson) seriously" -- not the least of whom were reporters at The Washington Post itself.

Most recently, The New Republic's "Baghdad Diarist" has been unveiled as a liar, another illustrious chapter in that magazine's storied history of publishing con men and frauds.

If conservatives are the ones driven by ideological passions, then why are liberals the ones always falling for laughable hoaxes in support of their anti-war ideological agenda? And if liberal beliefs are true, why do they need all the phony stunts to prove them? How about liberals keep hoaxes out of politics and return them to their rightful place: "proving" Darwinian evolution.

Posted by redguy at August 16, 2007 06:59 AM

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Oh, so true and spot on in every case. While the Right is not without their own questionable characters they have not made a cottage industry of lionizing liars, prevaricators, fabulists and democrats of all stripes. (Sorry for being redundant.)

The underlying story is less of genetic incapability for telling the truth (and I am not going to take a cheap shot at Clinton. Either of them. Your choice.) but the patella reflex that all Liberals have to most any situation.

Sam Kinnison said many years ago talking about people starving in Africa "they do not need food, they need LUGGAGE, it is a desert, you can not grow anything in a desert." Or something to that effect.

I state that because the Liberals would rather send tons of food to starving people under the pretext of doing good as opposed to finding out WHY these people are starving. The Sally Struthers of the world would be out of the public eye (and thankfully so) if they identified the problem, took steps to eradicate it, got buy in by all parties and actually reversed the situation.

But, no, that can not be done!

Just as it is easier to curse the dark than to turn on a light, the Liberals would rather enforce the concept that people are in bad situations and it is up to them to keep them in bad situations but at least with 3 hots and a cot.

Do you see the Liberatzi taking in Starving Marvins? (Angelina Jolie excepted.)

Do you see the print media tycoons inviting inner city thugs, varlets and ne'er-do-wells into to their gated communities?

Do you see the ACLU starting an educational process to un-radicalize the at risk Muslim population who are the next generation of terrorists?

No.

And you wont.

So, just like taking some poor schmo or schmo-ette and playing on their tragedy/weakness/ego/flat EEG and pimping them to rile up the public (then conveniently "fergetting" to tell us "the rest of the story"), the Left is not above exploiting someone else's tragedy to make them feel better about themselves.

But, if it quacks like a duck.....

God Bless and God Speed
John

Posted by: Jaksavin [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 16, 2007 08:13 AM

The 'discredited' hit-book on Clarence Thomas?

lol.

ps- what's with the Bush/Cheney poster under the George Bush link?

Now THAT'S what I call discredited.

EVERYBODY knows Dubya doesn't cheat on Rove.

Rofl!

Posted by: kevind [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 16, 2007 08:48 AM

with the michael yons and michael tottens of the world writing real news, it saddens me more than anything else that what the real problem with all of those Chmn Ann is writing about is that they fit in the key slot so perfectly for the leftists.
Its as if they wait for them and when they appear its like a holy parting of the clouds and an icon appears handed down from a Mony Python (TGilliam?) hand to the libs and they run with it.
theyre just desperate to return to the summer of love, let alone 9/10, that they think these antisaints are going to magically teleport us back or race around the earth backwards to reset the clocks.
it reminds me of the time I informed two libs that DMorris had revealed overhearing the phone call and that bj had been caught. It was as if they had heard the earth wasnt flat..

Posted by: playertwo [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 16, 2007 12:57 PM

Thanks, Ann...How I wonder if there will ever be an end to the unfounded venom that springs forth from these liberals with no prodding - over and over again!

And, John, yes indeed you can add the two Clintons to the referenced liars. Neither of them would know the truth if it bit them! They will lie whenever necessary to help their cause...and actually believe what they say!!!!

The big difference between a conservative and a liberal is:
The conservative teaches a man (or woman) to fish so they will eat the rest of their life (and have some healthy self-confidence!)

The liberal gives a man (or woman) a fish to eat today - and that way the recipient (a VICTIM forever!) is beholden to the liberal for another fish another day...and another day and another day!

Posted by: CapeConservative [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 16, 2007 07:19 PM

The Good news is that the Liberals (read: those running for the Democratic Party indictment for president) is that one by one they are imploding.

Osama Hussein Obama and his plans to invade Pakistan, never to use nukes and enjoy a cup of tea with Chavez, Imadinnerjacket, Kim Jong Mentally-ill and more.

Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich: well all they need to do is open their mouths and it is a yuck-fest for the the 3-digit IQ set.

"Breck Girl" Silky Pony John Edwards apparently lives in an alternative universe (or is it: "there are two universes") as he seems to be devoid of any concept what happens in our particular universe.

Hillary Clinton. 'Nuff said.

The Bad news is the lefties, wing-nuts, anti-Americans, fans of terrorism, newspaper editors, TV producers and other various Birkenstockistas sit in awe at the utterances of these mendicants as if they are oracles.

The Worse news is that it does not seem that anyone is doing anything about it. We are letting them lie, cheat, skew, misrepresent and obey them when they say to "ignore the man behind the curtain."

But if there is any positive news is that Hillaroos negatives as so high that some in the Democratic Party are concerned if she gets the nomination as she will bring out far more anti-Hillaroo voters than those who support her!

God Bless and God Speed
John

Posted by: Jaksavin [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 17, 2007 07:45 AM

Well said, Mr. Cape Conservative: the bad news is that lefties aren't interested in the truth. Famous leftist Vladimir Lenin says lying to help the party is good. Most disturbingly, he also says the press is to be used for propoganda.

So these people seem to believe they're on something akin to "a mission from God." In that, they've awarded themselves the higher moral authority and latitude such a mission might entail. But they don't back it up with God. They back it up with . . . well, lying and propoganda are what they do, because they can.

For lefties, wrong, right, honest & dishonest don't matter beyond their use in confounding accusations. The only thing that really exists is what can and cannot be done to obtain and maintain power.

So we can expect treason, deception and propoganda from leftists. They won't surrender their still-potent choke hold on the flow of information. They're not concerned with reason, and they'll find ways--no matter how low--to sabatoge any instance wherein leftism is publicly shown to be a scam.

When Yeats said, "the worst among us are full of passionate intensity," I think he knew that 99 percent of the time humans get intensely passionate, they do incredibly stupid, destructive things.

The political left trades on its passion. Without passion, the left couldn't exist. They need to lie. They need a powerful propoganda-spreading system, too.

So by definition, leftism is a real pain in the a**.

Posted by: Florida Cane [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 17, 2007 12:29 PM

Florida Care sums it up succinctly and accurately.

To further expose the lies and foibles of the Breck Girl, John Edwards, he tried to exact a pledge from all that they would not take money from FOX. (And, apparently to not watch FOX, lest they get a glimmer of truth.)

He asked Hillaroo to send back the few paltry thousands that she got from various FOX employees but for some reason saw no reason to return the hundreds of thousands he received from FOX and their affiliate companies. He explained, at first, that is was not a campaign contribution then came back with the altruistic statement that he "donated it to charity". When that rang hollow, he 'fessed up and said that his dog ate all the money. Finally, something close to the truth.

But, he gets even better.

Other than kicking off his soon-to-be ill-fated campaign in New Orleans, he then said that as president he would start each day with a report from his, I suppose, Secretary of NOLA, or some such thing. He went back and pimped the recent water-treaders until even they were sick of seeing him. Next he pronounces that foreclosure of homes in NOLA is a tragedy and something needs to be done.

And he is just the guy.

Of his many financial interests, he is involved with the Fortress Fund, which is a hedge fund, which invests in various financial vehicles that loans money to sub-prime mortgage lenders who then foreclose on homes of people who do not pay back their loans.

To synthesize the above, John "Silky Pony" Edwards has some $15-16 million invested in a company that to date has foreclosed on 34 homes in NOLA.

'Splain that!

Can't, can he.

Well, not without lying.

The good people of NOLA were waist-deep in water. The Democratic party, and in particular the pretenders to the throne, will have something less savory than swamp water far higher than our waists.

God Bless and God Speed
John

Posted by: Jaksavin [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 17, 2007 03:00 PM

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