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 jbet777 rated 19 months ago - The Coulterization of the American right
The "faggot" episode isn't about Ann Coulter. It's
about the deal conservatism made with the devil
-- a deal that has cost it its soul.
By Gary Kamiya
Salon.com
From the page: "It will be objected that Coulter,
Limbau...
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- jbet777 rated 19 months ago
- The Coulterization of the American right
The "faggot" episode isn't about Ann Coulter. It's
about the deal conservatism made with the devil
-- a deal that has cost it its soul.
By Gary Kamiya
Salon.com
From the page: "It will be objected that Coulter,
Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage and their
ilk are just the lunatic fringe of a respectable
movement. But in what passes for conservatism
today, the lunatic fringe is respectable. In the
surreal parade of Bush administration follies and
sins, one singularly telling one has gone almost
entirely unremarked: Vice President Dick Cheney
has appeared several times on Rush Limbaugh's
radio show. Think about this: The holder of the
second-highest office in the land has repeatedly
chummed it up with a factually challenged right-wing
hack, a pathetic figure only marginally less creepy
than Coulter. Imagine the reaction if Al Gore,
when he was vice president, had routinely appeared
on a radio show hosted by, say, Ward Churchill. (The
comparison is feeble: There really is no left-wing
equivalent of Limbaugh, just as there is no left-wing
equivalent of Father Coughlin or Joe McCarthy.) The
entire American political system would melt down.
Beltway wise men would trip on their penny loafers
in their haste to demand Gore's head. "
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