Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [96]
In 2002, when marbles-in-his-mouth Trent Lott stepped down from a leadership position with the Senate Republicans for praising Strom Thurmond (who had a better record on civil rights than Bill Clinton’s pal Orval Faubus), Hillary Clinton said, “If anyone thinks that one person stepping down from a leadership position cleanses the Republican Party of their constant exploitation of race, then I think you’re naive.”
Where did Chelsea go to school again? (Fancy private school, Sidwell Friends.)
In fact, could we get a list of all the sanctimonious white liberals constantly accusing other people of racism who sent their kids to private schools? We’ll start with Al Gore, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama—all of whom sent their kids to lily-white private schools. What other pompous liberals who rank themselves with Martin Luther King won’t let their kids go to school with blacks?
It’s always the people with the most secure, taxicab, doorman-protected lives lecturing those who live on the front lines of integration about their racial attitudes. Howell Raines was editorial page editor of the New York Times from 1993 to 2001. During that time, more than one-third of his signed editorials somehow brought up “racism” (11 out of 29). Raines’s main interaction with actual black people was apparently limited to the family maid, about whom he wrote a book, Grady’s Gift. Like Wicker’s “intellectual discomfort” with sending his kids to elite private schools, Raines felt bad about leaving the maid outside in the car when his family ate at “Whites Only” restaurants.
Raines’s only other famous interaction with a black person consisted of his utter humiliation of Jayson Blair, whom Raines hired, retained, and promoted, despite Blair’s manifest inability to do the job, culminating in an indelible scandal at the Times and both of their firings. When Raines “retired,” he chose the Poconos as his home,46 a famous white-flight destination that lawyer Ron Kuby calls “outer whitelandia.”47
Contrast these hairy-chested civil rights champions with Republican-appointed judge Charles Pickering. He took on the Ku Klux Klan as a prosecutor in the sixties—you know, before it was safe. As a consequence, Pickering required full-time FBI protection for his family. In the seventies, he sent his children to public schools in Mississippi, the state with the highest percentage of blacks in the nation. 60 Minutes found a picture of Pickering’s daughter sitting happily in a classroom with nearly all black faces.
But when George W. Bush nominated Pickering to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Democrats said Pickering was bad on … civil rights! Yes—civil rights. Of course, by “civil rights” liberals meant abortion on demand. These days, “civil rights” is nothing but a cat’s-paw for the mob’s left-wing social policies, such as abortion. Back when civil rights meant rights for blacks, Democrats were standing in the schoolhouse door.
The fact that Pickering’s nomination to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals under Bush was blocked by Senate Democrats tells you all you need to know about the mob. Pickering was supported by the Mississippi NAACP, which knew him and knew his history. His nomination was fiercely promoted by Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. But Pickering was opposed by an oddball collection of pro-abortion left-wingers. So in the name of “civil rights,” the Democrats filibustered a man who risked his life to take on the Klan.
The inferior reasoning of crowds described by Le Bon allows liberals to puff themselves up and act as if they are Freedom Riders by waiting a safe fifty years after the racist mobs have been defeated and then running around denouncing everyone else for “racism.” A mob’s logic, Le Bon says, resembles that of “the savage, who imagines that by eating the heart of a courageous foe he acquires his bravery.”48
Republicans are always the party of the law-abiding and the productive;