Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [95]
The placid acceptance of glaring contradictions is the essence of mob behavior, according to Le Bon. Neither Matthews nor the rest of the herd grasp any inconsistency between Matthews’s personal behavior and his blustery public accusations against others. He is “in reality under the influence of anterior ideas, that have become sentiments, and it is such ideas alone that influence the more recondite motives of our acts and utterances. It cannot be otherwise in the case of crowds.”42
Also on the Republican racism beat is MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. (Because if a Jewish lesbian doesn’t speak for the black man, then I don’t know who does.) On September 21, 2009, Rachel Maddow introduced a video as if she were presenting a snuff film, saying, “Behold, a Missouri congressman, candidate for U.S. Senate, … telling what seems to be a really long, meandering, gut-churning racist joke.”
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Representative Roy Blunt (R, Missouri): Supposedly it’s the turn of the 19th century, the end of the 19th century, beginning of the 20th century, there was a group of British occupiers in a very lush, very quiet, very peaceful, very uneventful part of India. And this group of British soldiers who were occupying that part of India decided they’d carve a golf course out of the jungle of India. And there was really not much else to do. So, for over a year, this was the biggest event going on getting this golf course created.
And they got the golf course done and almost from the day the first ball was hit on this golf course, something happened they didn’t anticipate. Monkeys would come running out of the jungle and they would grab the golf balls. And if it was in the fairway, they might throw it in the rough. If it was in the rough, they might throw—they might throw it back at you.
And I can go into great and long detail about how many things they did to try to eliminate the monkey problem, but they never got it done. So finally, for this golf course and this golf course only, they passed a rule, and the rule was you have to play the ball where the monkey throws it. And that is the rule in Washington all the time.43
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You could play that tape for the NAACP, and they would say, “I’m sorry, why are you showing us this?” Obviously, Blount was saying, This is how things work in Washington. It could be senators, representatives, government bureaucrats—or other Republicans—who are grabbing the balls. It actually tells you something about liberals that they instantly assume any mention of monkeys must be a reference to Obama.
Longtime New York Times blubberbutt Tom Wicker wrote endlessly about civil rights and racial reconciliation. Naturally, Wicker was another educational chicken hawk, sending his own children to elite, very white private schools and then retiring to Vermont, literally the whitest state in the nation.44 When asked about the glaring inconsistency of his kids’ white private schools, he said, “It gives me a lot of intellectual discomfort, but I am not going to disadvantage my children to win more support for my views.”45
The point wasn’t whether Wicker was required to “win more support” for his views, but that he didn’t actually hold those views in the first place. Manifestly, liberals who don’t send their own children to public schools believe those schools are inferior, but don’t mind dumping poor kids into them—provided they can send their own children to sanitary, private schools. It tells you a lot when the actual behavior of people is at variance with their public position.
Liberals who send their own kids to fancy private schools while wailing about the racism of other people are like stockbrokers pushing stocks they got out of a long time ago. All these friend-to-the-blacks liberals adamantly refuse to give other