January 07, 2009
This Is The Downer We've Been Waiting For
Printer FriendlyBy: Ann Coulter
After NBC canceled me "for life" on Monday -- until seven or eight hours later when the ban was splashed across the top of The Drudge Report, forcing a red-faced NBC to withdraw the ban -- an NBC insider told The Drudge Report: "We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now," explaining that "it's such a downer. It's just not the time, and it's not what our audience wants, either."
In point of fact, I'm not particularly critical of Obama in my new book. I'm critical of the media for behaving like a protection racket for Obama rather than the constitutionally protected guardians of our liberty that they claim to be. So I think what the NBC insider meant to say is that NBC is not interested in anyone so highly critical of NBC right now. It's such a downer, it's just not the time, and it's not what their audience wants right now, either.
In fact, I think my book is the downer America has been waiting for! So herewith, I present an excerpt from the smash new book out this week, "Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault on America":
When the Obama family materialized, the media was seized by a mass psychosis that hadn't been witnessed since Beatlemania. OK! magazine raved that the Obamas "are such an all-American family that they almost make the Brady Bunch look dysfunctional." Yes, who can forget the madcap episode when the Bradys' wacky preacher tells them the government created AIDS to kill blacks!
Still gushing, OK! magazine's crack journalists reported: "Mom goes to bake sales, dad balances the checkbook, and the girls love Harry Potter" -- and then the whole family goes to a racist huckster who shouts, "God damn America!"
Months before network anchors were interrogating vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on the intricacies of foreign policy, here is how NBC's Brian Williams mercilessly grilled presidential candidate Barack Obama: "What was it like for you last night, the part we couldn't see, the flight to St. Paul with your wife, knowing what was awaiting?"
Twisting the knife he had just plunged into Obama, Williams followed up with what has come to be known as a "gotcha" question: "And you had to be thinking of your mother and your father." Sarah Palin was memorizing the last six kings of Swaziland for her media interviews, but Obama only needed to say something nice about his parents to be considered presidential material.
The media's fawning over Obama knew no bounds, and yet, in the midst of the most incredible media conspiracy to turn this jug-eared clodhopper into some combination of Winston Churchill and a young Elvis, you were being a bore if you mentioned the liberal media. Oh surely we've exploded that old chestnut. ... Look! Look, Obama just lit up another Marlboro! Geez, does smoking make you look cool, or what! Yeah, Obama!.
The claim that there's no such thing as a left wing press is a patent lie said to enrage conservatives. Newspapers read like the press under Kim Jung Il, which, outside of a police state, looks foolish. The prose is straight out of The Daily Worker, full of triumphal rhetoric with implicit exclamation points. Still, their chanted slogans fill your brain, like one of those bad songs you can't stop humming.
There is no other explanation for the embarrassing paeans to Obama's "eloquence." His speeches were a run-on string of embarrassing, sophomoric Hallmark card bromides. It seemed only a matter of time before Obama would slip and tell a crowd what a special Dad it had always been to him.
The major theme of Obama's campaign was the audacity of his running for president. He titled his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, "The Audacity of Hope" –- named after a sermon given by his spiritual mentor Jeremiah Wright, whom we were not allowed to mention without being accused of playing dirty tricks. (Rejected speech titles from sermons by Rev. Wright included "God Damn America!," "The U.S. of K.K.A." and "The Racist United States of America.")
What is so audacious about announcing that you're running for president? Every U.S. Senator has run for president or is currently thinking about running for president. Dennis Kucinich ran for president. Lyndon LaRouche used to run for president constantly.
But the media were giddy over their latest crush. Even when Obama broke a pledge and rejected public financing for his campaign -- an issue more dear to The New York Times than even gay marriage -- the Times led the article on Obama's broken pledge with his excuse. "Citing the specter of attacks from independent groups on the right," the Times article began, "Sen. Barack Obama announced Thursday that he would opt out of the public financing system for the general election."
So he had to break his pledge because he was a victim of the Republican Attack Machine.
When Obama broke his word and voted for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act bill (FISA), the Times' editorial began: We are shocked and dismayed by Sen. Obama's vote on ... oh, who are we kidding? We can't stay mad at this guy! Isn't he just adorable? Couldn't you just eat him up with a spoon? Is he looking at me? Ohmigod, I think he's looking at me!!!! Couldn't you just die?
It has ever been thus.
Posted by redguy at January 7, 2009 08:14 PM
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Ann you are a scream and right on, as usual. I will be laughing all day over your description of how Palin was treated versus Obama. My liberal associates just don't get it. If it was not for you and your take on things I'd be crying. Thanks for the laugh--you made my day! Keep up the great work.
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at January 8, 2009 10:29 AM
Right on Ann! This was one of your better columns. Where can I buy the book?
Posted by: mcrider at January 8, 2009 10:33 AM
This article hits the nail on the head. As black person born and raised in the U.S.. I don't get the Obama mania. I find the man to be quite against this country and what it stands for. From the beginning I have had issue with him running for president. This may an unpopular comment but he is not a black American in the same sense as the vast majority of us. He is not the product of slavery who has crested the great mountain of ignorance and bigotry. To become the first black president.
In fact he is a fraud in my opinion who is going to lead this country to hell in a hand basket. People think the future is now brighter because he fed them a few good catch phrases. Made promises he has no intention to keep and is about to make me and my contemporaries financially responsible along with our grandchildren for the mistakes of a few. That just really gets under my skin. Yet American's voted for this man with out him ever answering a tough question.
So while the mainstream media is walking around kissing Obama's ass. Rest assured not all of us fell for his line's of bull. Some of us our intelligent enough. Have the common sense to realize that talk is cheap. We need more then for someone to say something to make us feel good.
Posted by: amc1977 at January 8, 2009 10:42 AM
Hi Ann,
When (if) you and mcrider write a book together, I will purchase that one too!!!
Joe B.
Posted by: Joe B. at January 8, 2009 11:09 AM
Ann Coulter, you are hilarious! But your subject matter is as serious as the proverbial heart attack. I honestly don't know how people could have voted for this man. But then the vast majority of his voters are the product of public education ...
Posted by: The_Kat™ at January 9, 2009 08:14 PM
Having nothing better to do than to nettle the media, when I heard that Ann was banned, I wrote an email to one of the henchmen at NBC.
Surprisingly enough, he responded, well, at least the first time.
For your edification, here you go. (I did not remove his email as I am not protecting anyone innocent, feel free to drop him a line, I am sure he'd love to hear from you.)
I WROTE:
Good for you banning Ann Coulter! Well done!
It is far better for us to allow you to pick our viewing content!
From your brilliant reporting of babies in Gaza being injured to saving us from a different viewpoint from one of those nasty republicans, well done!
I mean, if it was not for NBC and your brethren at CBS, ABC, CNN, MS/NBC we might actually find out that Israel was actually attacked by the Hamas forces in Gaza and it was retaliation by Israel for said attacks.
And you artfully cadged the fact that the Hamas forces use residences and Mosques to wreak havoc on Israel. Don't worry I won't tell anyone our secret.
And what a clever move having Perez Hilton replace that Coulter broad. Since she offered to pay anyone $1000 to pie Coulter, picking her was a masterstroke. I guess she will have to pay NBC now that you have effectively pied her! Bravo! Now, perhaps, you won't have to go begging cap in hand to Congress for a bailout like every other "regulated industry." (I will wait here until someone over there makes the connection between government intervention and regulation and businesses going down the dumper. Perhaps Tom Brokaw could run the piece?)
While you are at it, can you please run a mini-series on the Civil War but this time let the Yanks win? After all you guys are tops at rewriting history and making up current events.
(Do you ever wonder why you are loosing market share? If is because of bone-head moves like this!)
Have a spectacular day!
John Savin
Massapequa, NY
PS: Please, write back! I'd love to hear from you!
HE WROTE BACK:
In a message dated 1/6/2009 12:26:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Steve.Capus@nbcuni.com writes:
Here are the facts:
Ann Coulter will be on tomorrow's morning Today Show. Her appearance was simply delayed by 24-hours. This clearly is not a "ban" of Ms. Coulter from NBC. At some point, the facts need to trump the hype.
TO WHICH I RESPONDED:
Of course. And thanks for the follow up and clarification. I suppose I was laboring under misinformation when Coulter herself said it, but, you know, she lies.
How we are doing with that mini-series?
But, seriously, thank you for a reply.
J
AND HE ADDED:
(chirp, chirp, chirp, the sound of crickets on a still summers night)
God Bless and God Speed
John
Posted by: Jaksavin at January 10, 2009 09:54 AM
all I can say is: go get 'em Ann..
and Thank-you for standing up..
you seem to be one of a few who has the guts to do it.
you crack me up and keep me from crying in despair.
The gushing of the media for Obama is beyond sickening. Especially when you compare the treatment they have given President Bush since Day 1.
I'm just waiting for this guy to walk on water.
According to the way the press treats him..he already does.
Posted by: ziggy at January 10, 2009 10:20 PM
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