Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right by Ann Coulter Read Free Book Online Page B

welfare-to-work requirements, apparently the only women who liberals think should be stay-at-home mothers are single women on the dole.
    Another way liberals flaunt their omnipotence is by toying “with murderous predators. If liberals expressed half as much self-righteous indignation about crime as they do about the random case of police brutality, one might be inclined to take them seriously. Criminals they like. It’s the police they hate. In his book The White Negro, Norman Mailer wrote: “One is Hip or one is Square. One is a rebel or one conforms, one is a frontiersman in the Wild West of American night life, or else a Square cell, trapped in the totalitarian tissues of American society, doomed willy-nilly to conform if one is to succeed.” They have reinvented the master race and it is their own hip selves.
    Mailer and his fancy friends hailed the murderer Jack Henry Abbott as an “intellectual, a radical, a potential leader, a man obsessed with a vision of more elevated human relations in a better world that revolution could forge.” Mailer helped Abbott get out of prison and championed his literary—and social—aspirations. Abbott was interviewed on Good Morning America, published in the New York Review of Books, and feted at chichi Manhattan cocktail parties. Two weeks after the beautiful people toasted the murderer at a Greenwich Village dinner party held in his honor, Abbott killed again. When waiter (and aspiring playwright) Richard Adan stepped out on the street to show Abbott where to go to the bathroom, Abbott stabbed him and left him to bleed to death. Mailer termed the incident “tragic.”
    Jerzy Kosinski, one of the fabulous people who had been at the dinner party, later said: “Had Abbott proposed the Nazi solution, we would not have embraced him. There is a tendency to believe violence on the left is somehow justifiable. Had Jack Abbott substituted for the phrase Marxist-Leninist, Hitlerian-Mussolinian, I do not think Mailer would have written the introduction to his book, I do not think we would have gone to toast his success.” 1
    Noticeably, more fancy high-priced lawyers jumped at the chance to represent American traitor John Walker—free of charge—than would have touched Paula Jones’s case with a ten-foot pole.
    Predators are great fun for liberals. Criminals and poor people allow them to swell with a sense of their own incredible self-worth. That’s the whole point of being a liberal: to feel superior to people with less money. They enjoy pitying unfortunate wretches and trifling with killers. Only the grasping acquisitive middle class, with their petty rules and morals, are a nascent threat to liberal pomposity.
    Consider that the leading Democrat argument against Bush’s 2001 tax cut was to demand to know how exactly it would help anyone. Scratching their heads and babbling about long-term economic goals and short-term economic goals, liberals exasperatedly asked how a tax cut was supposed to improve people’s lives. To state the manifestly obvious: People would have more money. That’s an improvement right there. Liberals are so blocked on the idea that people’s money should be their own, they can’t see the big fat reward: more money! It’s some metaphysical thing with liberals. More money will give people more money. Isn’t that the goal? What am I missing?
    The New York Times has transformed into a caricature of the old reactionary WASP establishment, swatting down the social-climbing middle class with their polo mallets. They are annoyed at the thought of new money emerging from the perpetual dynamism of capitalist economy. Really vicious liberals are constantly bragging that they love paying taxes. They want their taxes to be raised even higher! The ostensible point of these boasts is to induce admiration for their deep patriotism or unbounded generosity toward the poor. But the real point is to announce that they do not share the working class’s petty concern with