Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [107]
But Keith Olbermann stormed out of the 2008 Republican National Convention early because MSNBC wouldn’t double his security in the presence of scary Republican delegates.
No matter how much liberals wail about the threat of right-wing violence, all the nontheoretical violence keeps coming from the Left.
This is why it was laughable, even to themselves, when liberals began trying to portray Tea Partiers as potentially violent. These endlessly violent liberals never pass up an opportunity for indignation. Whenever it suits their purposes, they will transform themselves from supporters of violent anarchists into fainting Victorian virgins—“I can’t believe my opponent would stoop so low!” Liberals believe anything ever said by a Republican is an incitement to violence. But when no violence ensues, we never hear, “Oh, okay, I overreacted.” As soon as liberals think they can get away with it, they reintroduce their hoax charges. It didn’t get much press that our accusation was a lie—let’s run with it.
The Democratic National Committee called the Tea Party movement “rabid right-wing extremists” and “angry mobs.”29 ABC called them a “mob.” CNN anchor Suzanne Malveaux introduced a segment on the Townhalls asking, “What is all this shouting about?”30 CNN called them “rabble-rousing critics” of the president. Representative Brian Baird (D-WA) said citizens opposed to ObamaCare had a “lynch mob mentality” and were using “close to Brown-shirt tactics.”31 (Meaning what? Light brown shirt tactics? Beige, maybe? Taupe? Ecru?) The AFL-CIO—yes, the AFL-CIO—said the anti-ObamaCare citizens were “using mob rule.”32
In an unexpected twist, Democrats also attacked the Tea Partiers for being too well dressed. (You’re always arguing from a real position of strength when you attack your opponent’s clothes.) White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said they looked like the “Brooks Brothers brigade.” Senator Barbara Boxer complained that the ObamaCare protesters were suspiciously “well dressed.” Chris Matthews repeated Gibbs’s “Brooks Brothers brigade” line, demanding to know who these “well-dressed, middle-class people in pinks and limes” were.33 Liberals don’t consider protesters believable unless they’re homeless people hired to protest by SEIU with a free T-shirt and a box lunch. They would find out in the next election just how real those protests were.
With the “too well dressed” attack not making much of an impact, liberals reverted to calling the anti-ObamaCare protesters a dangerous mob.
Senator Harry Reid called them “evil-mongers”—twice, to be sure he was understood.34 Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer wrote an article in USA Today calling them “un-American” for allegedly shouting down speakers. Pelosi and Hoyer should come to one of my college speeches.
Liberals acted as if they had encountered the Night Riders every time they saw a sign that said “T(axed) E(nough) A(lready).” It seemed perfectly plausible to liberals that a bunch of out-of-control, badass headbangers would call their rallies “Tea Parties.” But while we kept hearing about the violent, racist rednecks at conservative rallies, the only violence at the Tea Parties and Townhalls kept being committed by liberals.
At a Townhall meeting on ObamaCare in St. Louis on August 6, 2009, Kenneth Gladney, a conservative black handing out pens and buttons, was punched in the face by union thugs yelling racial slurs—“What kind of nigger are you?” According to the police report, Gladney’s assailants, Elston