Thursday, July 29, 2010

Setting the Record Straight

She's smart. She's smooth. And she's spot on.

Here's Ann Coulter clarifying on just which side of the culture wars lie the real racism, violence and hypocrisy. Pass this one along.

While engaging in astonishing viciousness, vulgarity and violence toward Republicans, liberals accuse cheerful, law-abiding tea-party activists of being violent racists.

Responding to these vile charges, conservative television pundits think it's a great comeback to say: "There is the fringe on both sides."


Both sides? Really? How about: "That's a complete lie"? Did that occur to you simpering morons as a possible reply to the slanderous claim that conservatives are fiery racists?


The most notorious accusations of "racism" at anti-Obama rallies so far has consisted of the allegation that one black congressman was spat on and another called the N-word 15 times at an anti-Obamacare rally on Capitol Hill last March.


The particularly sensitive Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., perhaps walking too closely to a protester chanting "Kill the Bill," was hit with some spittle – and briefly thought he was a Freedom Rider! When observers contested Cleaver's account – with massive video evidence – he walked back from his claim of being spat upon.


The slanderous claim that a protester called the civil-rights hero John Lewis the N-word 15 times was an outrageous lie – never made by Lewis himself – but promoted endlessly by teary-eyed reporters, most of whom cannot count to 15.


The media never retracted it, even after the N-word allegation was proved false with a still-uncollected $100,000 reward for two seconds of video proof taken from a protest crawling with video cameras and reporters hungry for an act of racism...


Since Obama became president, the only recorded violence at tea parties or town halls has been committed by liberals. Last fall, a conservative had his finger bitten off by a man from a MoveOn.org crowd in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Two Service Employees International Union thugs have been charged with beating up an African-American selling anti-Obama bumper stickers at a St. Louis tea party in August 2009.


Respected elder statesmen of the Democratic Party have referred to Obama's "Negro dialect" (Harry Reid), said he would be getting them coffee a few years ago (Bill Clinton) and called him "clean" (Joe Biden). And that's not including the former Ku Klux Klan Democratic senator, the late Bob Byrd.


So I'm thinking that maybe when conservatives are called racists on TV, instead of saying, "There are fringe elements on both sides," conservative commentators might want to think about saying, "That is a complete lie."...