Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [140]
Sadly for liberals, they have been unable to turn any of Sarah Palin’s actual children against her and had to settle for risible attacks from the nitwit biological father of Palin’s illegitimate grandchild, Levi Johnson.
It isn’t random which children turn on their parents. The benefits flow only to those who tattle on conservative parents. Who could write a better “Mommy Dearest” book than Chelsea Clinton? How about Amy Carter? But no conservative publisher would seek out such a book. Conservatives don’t use children as weapons against their political opponents.
As with the vile accusations against Marie Antoinette, liberals revel in obscene bacchanals—while hurling accusations of sexual depravity at their enemies. Soviet spy Alger Hiss’s partisans started a rumor that his accuser, Whittaker Chambers, had committed incest with his brother who later committed suicide. When told of the disgusting slander, Chambers exclaimed, “What kind of beasts am I dealing with?” Only minds “deformed by something more than malevolence could have excreted it.”13
The first George Bush was falsely accused of having an affair, John McCain was falsely accused of having an affair, Sarah Palin was falsely accused of having an affair—and also of not having given birth to Trig—Clarence Thomas was falsely accused of talking dirty to a coworker, and on and on. This, from the party whose motto is “Everybody does it.”
During the investigation of Bill Clinton’s actual sexual congress with a White House intern and associated felonies, Clinton adviser and Hustler magazine magnate Larry Flynt offered a reward for information about sexual affairs of any Republican members of Congress.
After Clinton’s impeachment, his partisans sponsored an investigation by writer and fantasist John Connolly into the sex lives of wholly private citizens to punish them for having supported Clinton’s impeachment. Commissioned by Tina Brown’s Talk Miramax, the book was canceled after it was spectacularly revealed that Connolly had hired a detective to snoop into private individuals’ sex lives.14
Liberals will even dirty up the founding fathers’ sex lives for political gain. They have absurdly accused Abraham Lincoln of being gay based on his sleeping in the same bed with a male friend, as was common in the era before reliable indoor heating.
They have accused Thomas Jefferson of having an affair with his slave Sally Hemings in order to help Bill Clinton in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. This was in defiance of evidence that overwhelmingly suggests that Hemings’s only Jefferson consort was the president’s younger brother, Randolf, who frequently socialized with the slaves. (At least they were holding Jefferson clear of being gay.)
Strikingly, with every mob uprising we see the recrudescence of hatred toward religious morality—from the French Revolution to Nazi and communist ideologies to Islamic barbarians and our liberal friends in this country. “History tells us,” Le Bon says, “that from the moment when the moral forces on which a civilization rested have lost their strength, its final dissolution is brought about by those unconscious and brutal crowds known, justifiably enough as barbarians.”
In his book on the French Revolution, the British historian Simon Schama describes a moral weakening of the entire country that paved the way for the coming massacre. None of the libelous attacks on Marie Antoinette, Schama says, “would have been possible had there not already been a rich and unsavory vein of court pornography to tap.” Although pornography wasn’t new, Schama says, “it evolved into a particularly ripe phase during the last years of Louis XV”—on account of the king’s openly acknowledged mistress and his private brothel at Versailles.15 Schama says, “Virtually everything short of outright atheism, tracts preaching regicide and pornography got published” between 1750 and 1763.16
It was a small step from there