Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [30]
MSNBC manufactures bogus stories and pumps them out a mile a minute, while leaping on the slightest misstatement made on Fox News as proof of malice or lunacy. (Thus uniting the mob’s belief in myths and acceptance of contradiction in one dynamite combo platter!)
When the Mississippi River bridge in Minnesota collapsed during rush hour on August 1, 2007, killing thirteen people, Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann wildly leapt to the conclusion, on the basis of no evidence, that it was Republicans’ fault. They had callously cut taxes and now people had died.
Forty-eight hours after the collapse, Keith cited the remarks of Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)—whom he called “Governor,” in the sort of misstatement he deems a firing offense if uttered by a conservative—and Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY) blaming Republicans for the tragedy. (When something is an actual “tragedy” involving no human will, liberals blame Republicans; when it’s an intentional attack, such as the Tucson shooting or the 9/11 terrorist plot, liberals call it a “tragedy.”)
Klobuchar blamed the bridge’s collapse on “messed-up priorities of spending half a trillion dollars in Iraq while bridges crumble at home.” Slaughter also blamed the Iraq War, calling the people who died in the bridge collapse “almost victims of war” because our “perpetual war depletes the funds available to maintain our infrastructure.”
Maddow laid the deaths of thirteen people directly at the feet of “Republicans, including Governor [Tim] Pawlenty [and] President Bush,” who “have demonized taxes and demonized any Democrat who ever said a tax hike could improve our lives, save our lives at home.” Saying, “there aren’t Republican bridges or Democratic bridges,” Maddow railed: “We’re a country that as a whole is paying this incredible deadly price for a brand of American conservatism that hates and demeans government, and that has defined any sort of spending on anything for the common good as something that’s soft headed and suspect.”
She traced the collapse of the bridge back to Ronald Reagan’s “first inaugural, where he defined government as the problem, and to Barry Goldwater before him, and the Republican Party defends itself as uncritical inheritors of the legacy.”13
All this was two days after the bridge collapsed, before an investigation into the causes had even begun.
A year later, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the bridge collapsed because of a design flaw.14 It had nothing to do with government spending on upkeep of the bridge, it wasn’t corrosion or cracks. It was a design flaw. The Democrats’ demand for more “infrastructure” spending wouldn’t have helped.
After polluting the airwaves with their irresponsible, baseless accusations, liberals never acknowledged that they were wrong, nor did we get an apology from Olbermann, Maddow, Klobuchar, or Slaughter.
In the last year of the Bush administration, terrified that the president would take action against Iran before leaving office, MSNBC and other conscience-of-the-nation types denounced neoconservatives, Zionists, and the right-wing smear machine for insulting the good name of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In December 2007 a report was leaked that all sixteen U.S. intelligence agencies had concluded that Iran had ceased nuclear weapons development as of 2003. The leak came after months of warnings from the Bush administration that Iran was pursuing a nuclear weapons program.
In October 2007, for example, President Bush had warned, “If you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing [Iran] from having knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.”
The only people more triumphant than Ahmadinejad about the leaked report were liberals. In Time magazine, Joe Klein gloated that the Iran report “appeared to shatter the last shreds of credibility of the White House’s bomb-Iran brigade—and especially that of Vice President Dick Cheney.”15
Liberal columnist Bill Press said, “No