Church Of The Poisoned Mind

Some exerpts from Ann Coulter's latest tome:

Liberals' Theology of Crime and Punishment - "Assuming you aren't a fetus, the left's most dangerous religious belief is their adoration of dangerous criminals," Coulter writes. "Environmentalists can be dismissed as stupid girls who like birds, but liberals' admiration of dangerous predators is a direct threat to your health."

She cites cases where obviously dangerous killers were set free to prey on society - such as Arthur Shawcross, who molested and murdered a ten-year-old boy and later raped and murdered an eight-year-old girl. Tried only for the second killing, Shawcross was paroled after fifteen years and relocated to Rochester, NY, where within just two years he committed eleven more murders.

Liberalism's Saints and Martyrs - Convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, Tookie Williams, Sacco and Vanzetti (the evidence shows they really were guilty), traitors Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs are all enshrined in the hagiography of liberalism's religion. Coulter also reveals the true story of Willie Horton, a killer and sadistic rapist falsely and repeatedly portrayed by the Democrats as a victim of GOP racism.

Liberalism's Sacrament - "No liberal cause is defended with more dishonesty than abortion. No matter what else they pretend to care about from time to time – undermining national security, aiding terrorists, oppressing the middle class, freeing violent criminals – the single most important item on the Democrats' agenda is abortion . . . "To liberals, 2,200 military deaths in the entire course of a war in Iraq is unconscionable, but 1.3 million aborted babies in America every year is something to celebrate . . .

"The Democrats will sell out blacks, blue-collar workers, Catholics, Hispanics and the elderly. But they will never cross NARAL [The National Abortion Rights Action League]. The most important thing isn't the little guy, the poor, the voiceless, civil rights, or the ‘other America.' The most important value to liberals is destroying human life."

Liberalism's Doctrine of Infallibility – Liberals' belief that their church has a divine right to be the sole purveyor of news has been challenged by the collapse of the left's media monopoly and the rise of the alternative media.

She traces the rout of the so-called mainstream media to the emergence of Rush Limbaugh and the Fox News channel, which "nearly drove liberals berserk: they were supposed to control 100% of news dissemination . . . the mere existence of one solitary network that doesn't toe the party line has driven the Left insane."

Liberalism's Clergy - "The only group in society that must be spoken of in reverential terms all the time, no matter what, is public schoolteachers. Attack the Boy Scouts, boycott Mel Gibson, put Christ in a jar of urine – but don't dare say anything bad about teachers." She suggests that "it's well past time for liberalism to be declared a religion and banned from public schools."

Liberalism's Doctrine of the Sanctity of (junk) Science – Liberals invoking "the sanctity of ‘science' to promote their crackpot ideas" creates "the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite scripture."

Coulter points to liberalism's lies and distortions on stem cell research, the banning of DDT based on falsehoods that condemned millions of Africans to death from malaria, the claim that global warming is causing hurricanes, the hysteria over the dangers of heterosexual AIDS, and the idea that men and women have the same aptitude for science and math.

Proving either that she is precognitive or that he can't bear to be pre-emptively upstaged, Coulter lets John Kerry have it anew as well:

Throughout the 2004 campaign, the Democrats were looking for a Democrat who "believed in God," a pursuit similar to a woman searching for a boyfriend in a room full of choreographers. The religious outreach coordinator hired by the Democratic National Committee was Brenda Bartella Peterson, who had signed a brief to the Supreme Court advocating the removal of "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance. Apparently, Madalyn Murray O'Hair was unavailable.

The religion adviser to John Kerry's presidential campaign was Mara Vanderslice. She had previously been the religious outreach coordinator for Howard Dean, an assignment that would have required the patience of Job, whoever the hell he was. Vanderslice had spoken at rallies cosponsored by the radical gay group ACT UP, famous for a protest at St. Patrick's Cathedral at which its members spat the Eucharist on the floor. She had been an organizer of violent protests in Seattle and Washington, D.C., when liberals reacted as any normal person would by smashing Starbucks windows and torching police cars because some bankers had come to town for a meeting. Vanderslice majored in "peace studies" at Earlham College. There she was a member of the Marxist-Leninist group that supported convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. That's devoutly religious for a Democrat. In fact, by Democratic standards Vanderslice was a veritable C. S. Lewis.

I could write a book like this if I had the time. But then again, nobody would read it because Coulter wrote it first. So spare me some time and get her book. Sounds like the typically rousing, fist-pumping, side-splitting Coulter literary excursion.