So...Ann Coulter has a new book out

[Cain]

This promises to be hilarious:

http://www.amazon.com/Demonic-How-Liberal-Endangering-America/dp/0307353486

The demon is a mob, and the mob is demonic. The Democratic Party activates mobs, depends on mobs, coddles mobs, publicizes and celebrates mobs—it is the mob. Sweeping in its scope and relentless in its argument, Demonic explains the peculiarities of liberals as standard groupthink behavior. To understand mobs is to understand liberals.

In her most provocative book to date, Ann Coulter argues that liberals exhibit all the psychological characteristics of a mob, for instance:

Liberal Groupthink: "The same mob mentality that leads otherwise law-abiding people to hurl rocks at cops also leads otherwise intelligent people to refuse to believe anything they haven't heard on NPR."

Liberal Schemes: "No matter how mad the plan is—Fraternité, the 'New Soviet Man,' the Master Race, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, Building a New Society, ObamaCare—a mob will believe it."

Liberal Enemies: "Instead of 'counterrevolutionaries,' liberals' opponents are called 'haters,' 'those who seek to divide us,' 'tea baggers,' and 'right-wing hate groups.' Meanwhile, conservatives call liberals 'liberals'—and that makes them testy."

Liberal Justice: "In the world of the liberal, as in the world of Robespierre, there are no crimes, only criminals."

Liberal Violence: "If Charles Manson's followers hadn't killed Roman Polanski's wife, Sharon Tate, Clinton would have pardoned him, too, and he'd probably be teaching at Northwestern University."

Citing the father of mob psychology, Gustave Le Bon, Coulter catalogs the Left's mob behaviors: the creation of messiahs, the fear of scientific innovation, the mythmaking, the preference for images over words, the lack of morals, and the casual embrace of contradictory ideas.

Coulter traces the history of the liberal mob to the French Revolution and Robespierre's revolutionaries (delineating a clear distinction from America's founding fathers), who simply proclaimed that they were exercising the "general will" before slaughtering their fellow citizens "for the good of mankind."

Similarly, as Coulter demonstrates, liberal mobs, from student radicals to white-trash racists to anti-war and pro-ObamaCare fanatics today, have consistently used violence to implement their idea of the "general will."

This is not the American tradition; it is the tradition of Stalin, of Hitler, of the guillotine—and the tradition of the American Left.

As the heirs of the French Revolution, Democrats have a history that consists of pandering to mobs, time and again, while Republicans, heirs to the American Revolution, have regularly stood for peaceable order.

Hoping to muddy this horrifying truth, liberals slanderously accuse conservatives of their own crimes—assassination plots, conspiracy theorizing, political violence, embrace of the Ku Klux Klan. Coulter shows that the truth is the opposite: Political violence—mob violence—is always a Democratic affair.

Surveying two centuries of mob movements, Coulter demonstrates that the mob is always destructive. And yet, she argues, beginning with the civil rights movement in the sixties, Americans have lost their natural, inherited aversion to mobs. Indeed, most Americans have no idea what they are even dealing with.

Only by recognizing the mobs and their demonic nature can America begin to defend itself.

Basically this is Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism without the pretence of being scholarly and with the batshit insanity dialled up to 11. 

Coulter is the best troll ever.

[Chairman Risus]

Can't blame her for capitalizing on the people that will buy this.

I'm actually more surprised someone hasn't done this very thing, then once they're done making money, publicly recant it all and declare it a big joke.

[Cain]

The part that has me absolutely convinced she is trolling is the "projection" part...ie; liberals are projecting these values on Republicans because they are the REAL mob-forming racist, violent, irrational fools.

Anyone who can write that after the last decade has to be trolling.  Even Glenn Beck isn't that stupid.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I love how "white-trash racists" are now Liberals. 

Also, "fear of scientific innovation"? Scientific innovation like teaching creationism in schools?

[Cain]

Maybe she means rejecting The Bell Curve: Why Blacks Will Never Be As Smart As Their White Superiors, So We May As Well Bring Back Slavery For Their Own Sake?

Although, being written in the last 20 years hardly counts as "innovation".  But as it so happens, I am acquiring a copy of the book, in order to investigate these strange notions Ms Coulter is proposing.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Maybe she means rejecting The Bell Curve: Why Blacks Will Never Be As Smart As Their White Superiors, So We May As Well Bring Back Slavery For Their Own Sake?

Although, being written in the last 20 years hardly counts as "innovation".  But as it so happens, I am acquiring a copy of the book, in order to investigate these strange notions Ms Coulter is proposing.

Ah, that must be one of the "contradictory ideas" she refers to! White-trash Liberal racists rejecting scientific innovation, yes.

[Cain]

Also, it occurs to me, rejecting the MMR scare (which was heavily spread by UK Coulter-doppelganger "Mad" Melanie Phillips) and Missile Defence (aka shooting down a bullet with a smaller bullet) may also be considered rejecting "science".

Anyway, I now have a copy.  I am debating whether or not to open it, since I currently already have enough bad juju floating around my skull, without having Coulter's screeching to add to the mess.

[The Wizard Joseph]

Just the cover makes me think this book may be Lovecraft-like in it's toxicity.  You just can't unread some things.  I do know for a fact that the "demon" vibe Coulter's going for has been done by better, but none of THOSE guys had a rack like this guy does.

[Kai]

Just the cover makes me think this book may be Lovecraft-like in it's toxicity.  You just can't unread some things.  I do know for a fact that the "demon" vibe Coulter's going for has been done by better, but none of THOSE guys had a rack like this guy does.

Ah, misogyny. Notice how, whenever the name of Coulter or any prominent woman comes up, some fucktard, instead of arguing against her actions and ideas, has to call her ugly and mannish and point out that she has breasts.

Cain, I for one would be interested to see how she pulls off lumping those contradictory categories, if you are willing to risk your mind.

[The Wizard Joseph]

Just the cover makes me think this book may be Lovecraft-like in it's toxicity.  You just can't unread some things.  I do know for a fact that the "demon" vibe Coulter's going for has been done by better, but none of THOSE guys had a rack like this guy does.

Ah, misogyny. Notice how, whenever the name of Coulter or any prominent woman comes up, some fucktard, instead of arguing against her actions and ideas, has to call her ugly and mannish and point out that she has breasts.

Cain, I for one would be interested to see how she pulls off lumping those contradictory categories, if you are willing to risk your mind.

I apologize
You're right, that was off color.  I was merely pointing out that such attributes are appealing in ways that many (usually male) propagandists can't imitate.
 
I saw a pic looking up the name and it had a very convincing adam's apple that was not likely real.  
It inspired a joke.  She'd definitely intelligent and in no way did the other pics strike me a "mannish" at all.  She seems like what Joseph Groebbels could have done if he had THAT kind of appeal.

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Cain, If I may I would like to join this discussion.  I'll find a copy of the book and read it.  I promise to behave decently and thoughtfully.  This wouldn't be my first book discussion, just my first on a forum.

[Jenne]

Watching her on Bill Maher's show the other night gave me instant Tourette's...she's such a screeching harpy--if she's playing schtick, she's so fucking annoying with it (like, so hyperbolic that she makes Glenn Beck and the Dittohead set look like cool, calm and collected protagonists), that I just get to where I'm shouting at the damned TV rather than watching the interplay of the talking bobbleheads on the show.  Bill Maher considers her a "friend" (his list of friends is sooooo fucking Hollywood it's ridiculous--it includes Ariana Huffington, Sarah Silverman, and Ann Coulter...the list goes on, but it's rather hilarious). 

Otherwise, I doubt she'd bother to open herself up to criticism for a whole fucking 40 minutes like she did on Friday--she's not one to let folks hear her talk without the words pretyped in front of an audience and other bobbleheads who might put her to the task and question what she says outright.  She did a while back, but these days, she plays it Palin-safe on shows on Fux News.

[Da6s]

Watching her on Bill Maher's show the other night gave me instant Tourette's...she's such a screeching harpy--if she's playing schtick, she's so fucking annoying with it (like, so hyperbolic that she makes Glenn Beck and the Dittohead set look like cool, calm and collected protagonists), that I just get to where I'm shouting at the damned TV rather than watching the interplay of the talking bobbleheads on the show.  Bill Maher considers her a "friend" (his list of friends is sooooo fucking Hollywood it's ridiculous--it includes Ariana Huffington, Sarah Silverman, and Ann Coulter...the list goes on, but it's rather hilarious). 

Otherwise, I doubt she'd bother to open herself up to criticism for a whole fucking 40 minutes like she did on Friday--she's not one to let folks hear her talk without the words pretyped in front of an audience and other bobbleheads who might put her to the task and question what she says outright.  She did a while back, but these days, she plays it Palin-safe on shows on Fux News.

I couldn't get over her obnoxious hiccup laugh, especially when he was going through the rejected book ideas.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Ah, misogyny. Notice how, whenever the name of Coulter or any prominent woman comes up, some fucktard, instead of arguing against her actions and ideas, has to call her ugly and mannish and point out that she has breasts.

I've pointed out her adam's apple to FAUX Newstard homophobes who say she's hawt.

Does that make me a fucktard? 

[Luna]

Ah, misogyny. Notice how, whenever the name of Coulter or any prominent woman comes up, some fucktard, instead of arguing against her actions and ideas, has to call her ugly and mannish and point out that she has breasts.

I've pointed out her adam's apple to FAUX Newstard homophobes who say she's hawt.

Does that make me a fucktard? 

Nope.