Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [13]
Forget that liberal mobs are always on the wrong side—protesting, for example, Reagan’s bombing of poor, innocent Libya in retaliation for Moammar Khadafy’s murdering U.S. servicemen. One does not see conservatives out smashing windows, throwing rocks, or vandalizing buildings even in support of a good cause—such as bombing Khadafy.
Decades later, liberals would force one another to retract the mildest praise of Reagan. During the 2008 presidential campaign, for example, Obama cited Reagan’s “clarity” and “optimism,” and liberals reacted as if he had praised Hitler. Hillary instantly launched TV and radio ads accusing Obama of actually liking Reagan.
Obama was soon forced to deny that he had ever had any warm thoughts whatsoever about Reagan. “What I said,” Obama bleated during a Democrat debate, “is that Ronald Reagan was a transformative political figure because he was able to get Democrats to vote against their economic interests to form a majority to push through their agenda, an agenda that I objected to.… I spent a lifetime fighting, a lifetime against Ronald Reagan’s policies.”
Meanwhile, Republicans issue constant, nauseating praise for FDR and Kennedy.
Depending on who’s in the White House, the enemy of the liberal mob is either the president or the people. Americans are either enlightened truth-seekers or racist, paranoid haters. “Dissent is patriotic” only when a Republican is president, and we must have “respect for the office” only when a Democrat is president.
After promising to unite us—following the horror of the Reagan years—President Bill Clinton blamed conservative talk radio for Timothy McVeigh.
When Clinton was caught ejaculating on interns, the First Lady of the United States responded by going on the Today show and claiming there was “this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.” Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter called Ken Starr and his assistants “sheet sniffing prosecutors,”46 and Geraldo Rivera called Starr an “investigative terrorist.”47 Margaret Carlson compared Clinton’s impeachment to the legal system in Saudi Arabia.
As the Senate began Clinton’s impeachment trial, Ellen Mendel of Manhattan matter-of-factly told the New York Times that she felt “the same despair that she did as a girl in Nazi Germany when the efforts of a stubborn group of leaders snowballed, crushing the will of the people.” (Clinton never got even 50 percent of the country to vote for him.) It was clear, she said, “that the bulldozing campaign by the Republicans will not end.”48
But as soon as George W. Bush became president, the only threat to the republic came from the White House itself. Every White House employee was an evil genius, knee-deep in dark conspiracies and cabals. Bush was the target of almost unimaginable calumnies—the sort of invective liberals usually reserve for people who disable detectors on airplanes. Liberals were more sympathetic to Islamic terrorists than they were toward President Bush.
As Le Bon says, “A commencement of antipathy or disapprobation, which in the case of an isolated individual would not gain strength, becomes at once furious hatred in the case of an individual in a crowd.”49 Little did Le Bon know he was the first to discover “Bush Derangement Syndrome”!
Out of a cast of thousands, liberal financier and convicted felon50 George Soros, former vice president Al Gore, and Vanity Fair’s James Wolcott compared Bush to a Nazi. In the case of Soros, it was unclear if this was meant as a compliment; Soros had helped the Nazis identify Jewish homes in his native Hungary as a boy.51 (Hey, we all have to start somewhere. I was on the safety patrol at school when I was a little girl.)
Bookstores overflowed with anti-Bush books. The paper alone destroyed so many trees that Sting’s musical career was extended a full decade. A novel released in 2004 advocated the assassination of President Bush “for the