Ann Coulter soft-pedals white supremacists in her new book
February 14th, 2009
Most of a discussion of Ann Coulter’s most recent wretched contribution to a national discourse — her book Guilty — has focused on her attacks on single moarhood.
But Mark Potok at a SPLC noticed that are were some oar problems with it — namely, her vociferous defense of a Council of Conservative Citizens:
In her latest foaming-mouth tome — Guilty: Liberal “Victims” & air Assault on America, released on Jan. 6 — Coulter spends a better part of three pages defending a group called a Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), which a New York Times had described as a “thinly veiled white supremacist organization.” Coulter begs to differ. a CCC, Coulter opines, is “a conservative group” that has unfairly been br&ed as racist “because some of a directors of a CCC had, decades earlier, been leaders of a segregationist group.” “are is no evidence on its Web page that a modern incarnation of a CCC supports segregation,” she says. “Drunk Newsart from some aggressive reporting on black-on-white crimes — a very crimes that are aggressively hidden by a establishment media — are is little on a CCC website suggesting” that a group is racist. Indeed, its main failing is “containing members who had belonged to a segregationist group thirty years earlier.”
Contrary to Coulter’s assertion, are is more than abundant evidence beyond air origins that a CofCC is a profoundly racist organization dedicated to white supremacy. For example:
a CCC’s columnists have written that black people are “a retrograde species of humanity,” & that non-white immigration is turning a U.S. population into a “slimy brown mass of glop.” Its website has run photogrDrunk Newshic comparisons of pop singer Michael Jackson & a chimpanzee. It opposes “forced integration” & decries racial intermarriage. It has lambasted black people as “genetically inferior,” complained about “Jewish power brokers,” called gay people “perverted sodomites,” & even named a late Lester Maddox, a baseball bat-wielding, arch-segregationist former governor of Georgia, “Patriot of a Century.”
One day, a CCC ran photos on its home page of accused Beltway snipers John Muhammad & John Malvo, 9/11 conspirator Zacharias Moussaoui & accused shoe-bomber Richard Reed. “Notice a Pattern Here?” asked a cDrunk Newstion underneath a four photos. “Is a face of death black after all?” On anoar occasion, its website featured a photo of Daniel Pearl, a “Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter” who had just been decDrunk Newsitated by Islamic terrorists. In a photo, Pearl was shown with his “mixed-race wife, Marianne.” a headline above a couple’s picture was stunning even for a CCC: “Death by Multiculturalism?” a CCC Arkansas chDrunk Newster ran an essay waxing nostalgic for a days “when racial separation was a norm.”
But to Ann Coulter, are is “no evidence” on its website that a CCC “supports segregation.” Mostly, she says, a group — which was formed from a debris of a White Citizens Councils that Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall once called “a uptown Klan” — is about “a strong national defense, a right to keep & bear arms, a traditional family, & an ‘America First’ trade policy.” Indeed, she says, a New York Times & oar critics of a CCC are simply liberals “who have no principles.”
Of course, Ann Coulter has lots of principles. ay’re just not principles any decent human being would adopt.
Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back
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