Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [108]
About a month later, on September 3, 2009, sixty-five-year-old ObamaCare opponent Bill Rice had his finger bitten off at a health care rally in Thousand Oaks, California, by an ObamaCare supporter.36 To repeat: A man had his finger bitten clear off by another human being at a political rally. Oh and by the way, the New York Times never mentioned it. Only two news outlets carried the story, according to Nexis: the Washington Times and Neil Cavuto, who interviewed the victim on Fox News. Ironically, having your finger bitten off by a left-wing crackpot while protesting ObamaCare is not covered by ObamaCare, but erectile dysfunction therapy for federal inmates is.
In January 2011, radio host Michael Smerconish was babbling to Chris Matthews about his terror of some angry birthers he had seen eighteen months earlier at a Mike Castle Townhall meeting in Delaware. He said, “I looked at that video and I was frightened. These are people who are on the edge and if somebody pushes them over, God help us all.”37
Perhaps the good Lord stepped in—or perhaps the excitable attendees at the Castle meeting were never especially dangerous. Even the nutty birthers at the Mike Castle Townhall seemed to have managed not to attack anyone in the eighteen months since Smerconish had been “frightened” by what he saw there. If these wacky right-wingers are constantly on the verge of violence, why isn’t there ever any violence?
You could throw a glass of cold water on a liberal in the middle of the night and he’d wake up denouncing “right-wing rhetoric.”
Liberals keep warning us about right-wing violence—the Tea Partiers, the gun nuts, the militias, the abortion protesters, the Republicans in Hush Puppies terrorizing Jesse Jackson during the 2000 Florida recount. But they can never produce any examples. And when they do, it turns out to be a liberal.
In June 2009, liberals thought they finally had an act of violence they could pin on a right-winger—besides the old McVeigh chestnut—when there was a shooting at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, killing a black security guard.
The night of the shooting, Keith Olbermann hysterically warned, “Five months—less than five months actually, into this presidency of this Democratic president, half-white, half-African-American, and a shooter opens fire in the National Holocaust Museum. Eleven days after an OB-GYN in Kansas is assassinated and his women’s health clinic closes its doors apparently for good. Is this a coincidence of timing that these attacks are happening now?”38
The next night, Rachel Maddow noted that the Holocaust museum shooter was a birther, adding that such thinking was common among conservatives: “At the conservative tea parties that were held across the country in April, you couldn’t get away from it.”39
That day on the Ed Schultz show, Ed raised the prescience of the Department of Homeland Security report warning of an upsurge in violence among conservatives, sneering that “it was mocked by a lot of conservatives … but this guy that committed this crime yesterday, we knew what he was all about.”40
In fact, however, the shooter, James Von Brunn, was every bit as angry about Bush’s election as Obama’s. On his webpage—about to be sold to AOL for $315 million—he raged against Bush, McCain, and all “neoconservatives.” In addition to apparently being a birther, he was a 9/11 truther and—naturally—detested Christianity.41
Not every liberal will commit political violence, but all political violence keeps being committed by liberals.
Liberal hearts again leapt with anticipation on February 18, 2010, when a nut flew his plane into the IRS building in Austin, Texas. Those of you who are familiar with my previous work can probably guess what’s about to happen.
The pilot, Joseph Stack, turned out to be a Marxist. Stack was upset not only about his IRS audit but also about the fact that America didn’t have national health care. In what could have been a script from MSNBC’s Countdown