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Ann Coulter Fights the Good Fight Philip V. Brennan
There's a war on, and I don't mean the one in Iraq. It's been called the KultureKampf - the conflict between the traditional values of our culture and the nihilism of modern liberalism that renders permissible just about everything but religious faith, the sanctity of the womb and patriotism. In the last week, since June 6, 2006 (666), when her book "Godless" hit the bookstores, Ann Coulter became the ultimate bete noir of our times – and the target of CoulterKampf, the war to destroy liberalism's most dangerous enemy. She has been castigated for being "mean" and "cruel," for "crossing the line" for failing to recognize the sacredness of four canonized liberal icons. She's "mean" and "cruel" because she blasphemed women elevated to secular sainthood by the church of liberalism, and she "crossed a line" drawn by, and visible only to, the liberal media and the dominant left wing of Democrat Party. Here's what Ann wrote about meanness in her book "Slander" four years ago: "A central component of liberal hate speech is to make paranoid accusations based on their own neurotic impulses such as calling Republicans angry, hate-filled and mean." She went on to note that "liberals have compared conservatives to Down's syndrome children, wished them dead of cholesterol-induced heart attacks, malevolently attacked women for their looks, called Clarence Thomas every racist name in the book, repeatedly stated they 'hate' Republicans, and now – in addition – they say Republicans are 'mean.'" Today it's Ann Coulter who's "mean."
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In the 310 pages of her meticulously researched new book, Coulter documents her assertion that liberalism has all the earmarks of a religion, ergo a bizarre one, and carefully deconstructs the dogmas of the church of liberalism. Critics, who one has every reason to believe haven't so much as cracked the pages of "Godless," have focused all their venom on one small segment of a long chapter. The chapter in question deals with liberalism's use of sacred cows made immune from criticism by virtue of some personal suffering to promulgate their slanders and falsehoods. There seems to be universal agreement among the nation's literati, right and left, that she went too far in her wholly justified attack on the Jersey Girls, who cynically parlayed the 9/11 deaths of their husbands into an anti-Bush political cause. In all of the myriad attacks on Ann for zeroing in on these liberal icons, I have yet to read one word that challenges the accuracy of her criticism of these women. It's all about the very fact that she dared to tell the truth about the women and failed to understand that they bear the liberal seal of immunity from attack by virtue of their widowhood. Now, I will grant that the lady is hard-as-nails tough – I once told her she reminded me of Baodicea, fearsome queen of the Iceni, who casually butchered a few Roman legions and almost drove the invading Romans out of Britain.
She takes no prisoners, and why should she? She's fighting a war in which every decent, clear-thinking American should be an ally. This war is against a foe that would destroy every vestige of everything Americans have always held dear. This war is against those who would destroy everything that has carried this nation to the pinnacle it occupies as history's wealthiest and most powerful nation. At stake in this war is whether Americans will remain free or end up ground under the heels of the atheistic Marxist elite who are the hierarchy of the church of liberalism, whose Vatican is the Democrat Party. Ann knows it's a war, and she knows what it takes to win a war. She believes in what she's doing despite snide references to her marketing savvy and her ability to sell books by the tens of thousands, allegedly her sole motivation. It's not easy to stand and take the abuse the left hurls at her. She deserves the support and sympathy of the American people she seeks to alert to the dangers they face from the clergy and acolytes of the church of liberalism. In her book "Slander," Ann exposed the catechism of the church of liberalism as one that includes hatred of Christians, guns, the profit motive and political speech, and an infatuation with abortion, etc. I'm with her, all the way. As a veteran of the Marine Corps I see her as one of us – the few, the proud, the warriors who go into battle with verve and steely determination to win, even if it involves – gasp! – being mean to the enemy. Semper Fi, Ann.
Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.
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