Here are this week’s winners of the prestigious “Ann Coulter Award for Annoyingness in the Field of Wingnuttery.”First, for originality, our winner is Jonah Goldberg:
Liberalism as a Political Religion [Jonah Goldberg]
As someone who believes modern liberalism behaves like a political religion, as Eric Voegelin laid out, (See my “The New-Time Religion – Liberalism and its problems” in the May 23, 2005 NR for example — or my forthcoming book), I find this Kos secular megachurch thing fascinating to no end.
So, Jonah is writing a book about how liberalism is like a religion. I wonder where ever he got that idea?
Second, for an Ann Coulter-worthy defense of the Second Amendment, our winner is Doug Giles, who offers this tip to fathers who want to develop “a kick-butt babe.”
Fathers, I wouldn’t have your girl learn how to just barely use a weapon; I would be aiming for her to be able to emulate Angelina Jolie’s character in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Yeah, I would teach her to be proficient in all forms of death dealing with all types of guns.
Since Angelina Jolie’s character was a professional assassin, hoping that your child emulates her seems a rather odd goal for a father to have. But then, Doug is not just a father, he’s also a Christian clergyman, so he has a more enlightened perspective on these things than you, or I, or Jesus.
Next, we present our award for Annie Award for Hypocrisy – and it goes to Rush Limbaugh, for his “blame the Foley pages” commentary, “Capitol Hill Pages, Paragons of Virtue?” which include the following bit:
And you know teenagers can be mean. They haven’t yet had the maturity to understand sensitivity and decency, love making fun of people, they walk around mimicking the way they walk, they make fun of the way people look, and they’ll do it sometimes to their faces.
So says the guy who called Chelsea Clinton “the White House Dog” on national TV – at the time she was a young teenager, and while he was obviously lacking in maturity, sensitivity, and decency, he was technically an adult.
Our AC award for “Cluelessness Raised to An Art Form,” AND the one for “Arabs are the Source of all Evil” goes to Cliff Kincaid, for this tidbit from his “Accuracy in Media” piece entitled “Who Carried Out the Anthrax Attacks?“
The phrase “Death to America” was in the letters, as Stewart noted, but they also said, “Death to Israel” and “Allah is God,” sure signs that an Islamic extremist had written them.
Wow, so using those phrases are sure signs of Islamic extremism? Quick, alert the authorities: Cliff has cracked the case!
Our Runner-Up Award this week for “Overall Crappiness” goes to Ann Coulter herself, for her description of the Foley communications as “e-mail chitchat with a former page about what the kid wanted for his birthday.”
Yes, it’s her moral center, her humanity, and her concern for children that helps Ann retain her position as Red America’s Favorite Female-ish Pundit. (You know, I’m betting that she’ll describe the Foley IMs as “helpful questioning from a concerned mentor.”)
However, for his sheer crassness, lack of sensitivity, and deliberate offensiveness, our overall winner for the week is Kevin McCullough. For your reading displeasure, here’s a portion of his winning column, “Why Liberal Feminists Support School Shootings“:
What modern feminists will never admit is everything ugly about what they claim their “choices” entitle them to. But with Charles Carl Roberts the ugly evidence could not be hidden. If Planned Parenthood put a disclaimer in all of their African-American neighborhood targeted locations that read something along the lines of, “upon completion of your abortion today you will have exercised the same willful, and deranged murder as the man who shot the school girls in Amish country,” I wonder how much more business they would continue to be able to do.
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It is no mistake that the left sees the utility in child murder, thus why they are so conflicted when they see a story like the Amish shooting. In their heart of hearts they already understand that killing an innocent young girl in an old fashioned school house is little different than killing and even more innocent girl in a place that was designed by God to be a womb of safety, comfort, nourishment, and life.
How nice of Kevin to tell the Amish parents that their daughters were less valuable than month-old fetuses, because their kids were not as innocent as the womb babies, being born and all.
And, less than a week after this disturbing massacre, how classy of him to characterize half the country as child murderers on a par with killer Charles Roberts, just to make a political point.
IMHO, it’s little tricks like that which will, I predict, allow him to someday claim Ann’s Black Cocktail Dress of Hussiness And Shame as his own.