Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [97]
Angry violent mobs are always Democratic: Code Pink, SDS, The Weathermen, Earth First!, anti-war protesters, and union protesters in Wisconsin. Like them, the Ku Klux Klan was, of course, another Democratic undertaking, originally formed to terrorize Republicans, but later switching to terrorize blacks. It was Democratic juries that acquitted Klansman after Klansman. It was Democratic politicians who supported segregation, Democratic governors who called out the National Guard to stop desegregation, Democratic commissioners of public safety who turned police dogs and water hoses on civil rights protesters.
As the historian Paul Johnson explains, “Christianity was content with a solitary hate-figure to explain evil: Satan. But modern secular faiths needed human devils, and whole categories of them. The enemy, to be plausible, had to be an entire class or race.”49
Once, Democrats used blacks as the mythical enemy to rally their troops. Today, it’s conservatives, Tea Partiers, and Fox News. To increase their own power, Democrats are perfectly happy to gin up violent ruffians—from the Klan to Moveon.org—to battle this or that human devil. Democrats are always the party of the mob. The only thing that changes is which mob they’re supporting.
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Whenever a Democrat is elected president, the media’s standard response is to start looking for armed rebellion in the red states. With mob savagery woven into the history of the Left, they use their media mobs to broadcast stories about the omnipresent threat of right-wing violence, hoping that no one will notice that the actual violence—as opposed to the supposed threat of violence—has always come from the Left.
Consider that liberals have been citing Timothy McVeigh, Oklahoma City bomber, as a right-wing terrorist for fifteen years. Liberals simply assumed that McVeigh was a conservative because he was a white male who knew how to use a gun. After a century of violence from the Ku Klux Klan, the labor unions, the communists, the anarchists, the anti-war protesters, the Weathermen, the SDS, the Black Panthers, Jim Jones’s People’s Temple, Squeaky Fromme, and Earth First!, liberals were desperate for any hooligan who looked like a Republican.
But McVeigh was neither conservative nor Christian. This alleged right-winger was a drug-taking self-proclaimed agnostic, who was thrown out of the Michigan militia and who declared, “Science is my religion,” sounding more like Janeane Garofalo than Wayne LaPierre.
Liberals were undeterred. McVeigh was white and he was male: he had to be a Republican. (To liberals, we all look alike.) In Harper’s Magazine, Lewis Lapham said McVeigh’s views were “not unlike those expressed by the members of the nation’s better country clubs.” Time senior writer Richard Lacayo called talk radio “an unindicted co-conspirator in the blast.” Today show host Bryant Gumbel said, “The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the rhetoric that’s been coming from the right and those who cater to angry white men.” Then-representative (now senator) Chuck Schumer blamed the bombing on the National Rifle Association.
(Luckily, McVeigh was captured before the Unabomber, so liberals didn’t have to explain how the Green movement wasn’t responsible for Ted Kaczynski’s bombing spree.)
Even the president of the United States, Bill Clinton, blamed the Oklahoma City bombing on talk-radio hosts, accusing them of “fostering hatred, division and encouraging violence.” He said some rhetoric “pushes fragile people over the edge,” adding, “their bitter words have consequences.… They leave the impression, by their words, that violence is acceptable.”
In response, Brent Bozell, Media Research Center chairman, offered $100,000 to Clinton’s favorite charity if he named a single credible radio talk-show host who had called