I support Ann Coulter's right to say whatever she wants in her feeble-minded books. I happen to think her attack on the Jersey Girls was both weak and in poor taste (not that she did attack them at all, but the way she went about it; but rubbing salt in a wound is Coulter's basic MO). So no, I don't "support" Coulter's writings but I'm not gonna start shrieking that it was unfair or call the PC police.

I could care less about Sheehan, she's been hurting liberal causes for way too long now and based on her more recent behavior should be institutionalized. She absolutely got involved in mud-slinging, so yes, fair game.

"He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous
pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself
and fling the curses on his neighbors." -Emily Bronte

Democrat Bill Clinton's administration called Monica Lewinsky a stalker in an effort to escape Clinton's being discovered as a perjurer in a civil rights trial.

And yet people like you not only lacked outrage, you gave him honors and accolades until the day he left office in disgrace. 

Your hissy fit about Ann Coulter falls flat, pal.

Indeed, if you buy into the notion that there is some sort of highly-organized cabal of liberal smear artists with a secret master plan to bring down prominent conservatives, then I suppose the Gestapo analogy is apt. But I don't think this is true, and I don't find Bruce's discussion to be thoughtful; I think she was dropping little rhetorical bombs all over the place. "Gestapo" served as little more than an unqualified term guaranteed to rile up a viewer.

Clarence Thomas and Rice are public political figures and one cannot say they deserve or don't deserve criticism. When race enters needlessly into it, you can be sure I will criticize it.

If there are bloggers attacking Sowell, as you mention, I am unaware of it. Leftist bloggers tend to be unhinged. My point was that you don't see him getting involved in these big-pundit battle royales.

"He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous
pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself
and fling the curses on his neighbors." -Emily Bronte

This is thetranscript from Media Matters. I am not sure how this is out of context:

From the September 19 edition of Westwood One's The Radio Factor:

O"REILLY: Now, how do we get to this point? Black people in this country understand that they've had a very, very tough go of it, and some of them can get past that, and some of them cannot. I don't think there's a black American who hasn't had a personal insult that they've had to deal with because of the color of their skin. I don't think there's one in the country. So you've got to accept that as being the truth. People deal with that stuff in a variety of ways. Some get bitter. Some say, [unintelligible] "You call me that, I'm gonna be more successful." OK, it depends on the personality.

So it's there. It's there, and I think it's getting better. I think black Americans are starting to think more and more for themselves. They're getting away from the Sharptons and the Jacksons and the people trying to lead them into a race-based culture. They're just trying to figure it out: "Look, I can make it. If I work hard and get educated, I can make it."

You know, I was up in Harlem a few weeks ago, and I actually had dinner with Al Sharpton, who is a very, very interesting guy. And he comes on The Factor a lot, and then I treated him to dinner, because he's made himself available to us, and I felt that I wanted to take him up there. And we went to Sylvia's, a very famous restaurant in Harlem. I had a great time, and all the people up there are tremendously respectful. They all watch The Factor. You know, when Sharpton and I walked in, it was like a big commotion and everything, but everybody was very nice.

And I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship. It was the same, and that's really what this society's all about now here in the U.S.A. There's no difference. There's no difference. There may be a cultural entertainment -- people may gravitate toward different cultural entertainment, but you go down to Little Italy, and you're gonna have that. It has nothing to do with the color of anybody's skin.

[...]

O'REILLY: No, no, I mean, I like that soul food. I had the meatloaf special. I had coconut shrimp. I had the iced tea. It was great.

WILLIAMS: Well, let me just tell you, the one thing I would say is this. And we're talking about the kids who still like this gangsta rap, this vile poison that I think is absolutely, you know, literally a corruption of culture. I think that what you've got to take into account that it's still a majority white audience -- young, white people who think they're into rebelling against their parents who buy this stuff and think it's just a kick. You know, it's just a way of expressing their anti-authoritarianism.

O'REILLY: But it's a different -- it's a different dynamic, though.

WILLIAMS: Exactly right --

O'REILLY: Because the young, white kids don't have to struggle out of the ghetto.

WILLIAMS: Right, and also, I think they can have that as one phase of their lives.

O'REILLY: Yeah.

WILLIAMS: I think too many of the black kids take it as, "Oh, that's what it means to be authentically black. That's how you make money. That's how you become rich and famous and get on TV and get music videos." And you either get the boys or the girls. The girls think they have to, you know, be half-naked and spinning around like they're on meth in order to get any attention. It really corrupts people, and I think it adds, Bill, to some serious sociological problems, like the high out-of-wedlock birth rate because of this hypersexual imagery that then the kids adapt to some kind of reality. I mean, it's inauthentic. It's not in keeping with great black traditions of struggle and excellence, from Willie Mays to Aretha Franklin, but even in terms of academics, you know, going back to people like Charles Drew or Ben Carson here, the neurosurgeon at [Johns] Hopkins [University]. That stuff, all of a sudden, is pushed aside. That's treated as, "You're a nerd, you're acting white," if you try to be excellent and black.

O'REILLY: You know, and I went to the concert by Anita Baker at Radio City Music Hall, and the crowd was 50/50, black/white, and the blacks were well-dressed. And she came out -- Anita Baker came out on the stage and said, "Look, this is a show for the family. We're not gonna have any profanity here. We're not gonna do any rapping here." The band was excellent, but they were dressed in tuxedoes, and this is what white America doesn't know, particularly people who don't have a lot of interaction with black Americans. They think that the culture is dominated by Twista, Ludacris, and Snoop Dogg.

WILLIAMS: Oh, and it's just so awful. It's just so awful because, I mean, it's literally the sewer come to the surface, and now people take it that the sewer is the whole story --

O'REILLY: That's right. That's right. There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, "M-Fer, I want more iced tea."

WILLIAMS: Please --

O'REILLY: You know, I mean, everybody was -- it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all.

There's plenty of substance. I wouldn't call his comments racist. But I would call them ignorant on a certain level. I would think that BOR living in New York City would encounter enough minorities to know they're able to run a restaurant and to eat in a civil manner. Although he did really seem a little flabbergasted by this, which surprised me. But I think he was more speaking to his audience letting them know "hey we're all the same." I think he realized a lot of his audience is unfamiliar with other races so he had to explain to them that a black restaurant is "exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks," and that at the Anita Baker concert the "blacks were well-dressed." It's sad that he has to point that out to his audience. He obviously meant well and didn't mean to offend the owner of Sylvia's, even though he did. I just couldn't believe BOR couldn't realize how so many took it as an insult instead of a compliment. I heard a good analogy the other day, it's like meeting your friend's mother and "complimenting" her on the fact that she's not a prostitute.

Well I think conservative public figures just need to get more in touch with minorites and not seem so distant. That's why I was frustrated that our conservatives turned down the debates that were going to be valuable to Hispanic and African-American voters, further distancing themselves from minority voters. There's no "thugs laying in wait," just people that hold public figures accountable for their statements.

O'Reilly is a white broadcaster, not a black comedian or someone who just fell off the turnip truck into the big city. For someone who is constantly reminding us that he's been a broadcaster for twenty-five years, he should have known better.

Anyone who isn't a total left-wing lunatic has known for years that George Soros is a bad guy. Not just because he does everything he can to undermine America and its traditions, but because he is quite literally a crook. In 2002 a French court convicted Soros of insider trading and the court's decision was upheld in 2006.Investor's Business Daily recently wrote a multi-part expose on Soros and his growing influence in American politics. His fingerprints are literally on every major issue of the day from terrorism to global warming.  - from here (George Soros: The Enemy Within)

She told him then that he can't "buy" America. We hope and pray it's still true. - iveseenitall

He's trying...so keep praying...hard and often.

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