Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [14]
Bush was heartily disapproved of by the world’s most fiendish tyrants—Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, and Air America’s Janeane Garofalo.
Bush was called a “miserable failure” by Democratic congressman Dick Gephardt, a guy who ran for president two times without anyone noticing. Journalist Helen Thomas said Bush was “the worst President ever … the worst President in all of American history.”52 Forgotten 1950s calypso singer Harry Belafonte—not Louis Farrakhan, I mean the other forgotten 1950s calypso singer who hates America—called Bush “the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world.”53 Time magazine’s Joe Klein said Bush’s foreign policy was one of “arrogance” and his domestic policy “cynical, myopic and cruel.”54 Washington Post columnist William Raspberry, whose last name means “a rude sound effect made with the mouth to mimic a bodily function, used to express disapproval,” called Bush “a devil.”55
With critics like these, no wonder Bush was elected president of the United States twice.
After the Washington Post’s Dana Priest abetted America’s enemies by disclosing the government’s top-secret rendition program—for which she would win a Pulitzer Prize—NPR’s Nina Totenberg said of Bush’s rendition program, “It is the first time in my life I have been ashamed of my country.”56 Liberals spent a lot of time being ashamed of their country under George Bush, even when it later turned out the rendition program was started under President Clinton.57
CBS’s Dan Rather attacked a sitting president on the eve of his reelection with forged documents he used to accuse President Bush of shirking his National Guard duty. When the documents were exposed as phony, Rather attacked the bloggers who exposed the fraud as “powerful and extremely well-financed forces” who decided to “attack” him and destroy his “credibility.”58 Dissent was patriotic, but dissent from CBS News was not.
At a performance on the eve of Obama’s inauguration, hip-hop artist Young Jeezy shouted out, to huge cheers, “I wanna thank two people, I wanna thank the mother f**ker overseas that threw two shoes at George Bush and I wanna thank—and listen, listen—and I wanna thank the mother f**kers who helped dem move their sh*t up out of the White House. Keep it moving bitch because my president is mother f**king black, nigga!” Cheers and applause.59
And thus Obama ushered in a new era of attacking Americans who opposed the president and concluded the era of dissent being patriotic. Overnight, the soi-disant “adversary press” switched from being the people’s watchdogs to the government’s guard dogs. (Except at MSNBC, where they became the government’s lapdogs.)
Opponents of Obama’s health care nationalization were automatically deemed racists, thugs, and lunatics. CNN called them “teabaggers”—a crass sexual reference—as did Democratic senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), who also called Obama’s critics “birthers.”60 Senator Chuck Schumer called then–Senate candidate Scott Brown a “far-right teabagger.”61 (Ironically, liberals love actual, sodomitic teabagging, but use the term derisively when talking about ordinary Americans protesting a Democratic president’s policies.) Nancy Pelosi called opponents of ObamaCare “Un-American”—and, again, this could have been a compliment. Speaking of “Un-American,” Harry Reid called them “evil-mongers.” Jimmy Carter said an “overwhelming portion” of the people opposed to Obama’s health care plan were racists.62 (And if there’s one guy who’s got his finger on the pulse of what the American people are thinking and feeling, it’s Jimmy Carter.)
The last time I heard this much race-baiting and crass invective I was … in my usual front-row pew, as I am every Sunday morning, at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago listening to the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
As a special bonus,