I was inordinately pleased last Saturday morning to hear that Ann Coulter was about to be interviewed by FAIR on Counterspin . . . the resulting exchange was a bit on the mind-boggling side. When confronted with a quote by herself that she apparently does not like, she calls it a "lie." Like when she allegedly told a Vietnam Vet that it was people like him that lost the war. When asked how the media can be so right-wing when she is plastered all over it, she mentions something incomprehensible about "not being taken out and shot yet." When given examples of the right-wing method of personal insults against political opponents, she either claims it was a mistake, calls it a "lie," or says she never heard of it. When Rush Limbaugh said, "Here is a picture of the White House dog," and showed a picture of Chelsea Clinton, this, according to Coulter, was a mistake. FAIR points out that this was done twice, was that also a mistake? I could go on and on, but I found her method of "polemics" highly disturbing, to say the least. Most disturbing, however, was her co-opting of the term "samizdat." She referred to the neocon media in America today as "what I call samizdat media." Perhaps I can refute her claim the next time I appear on television.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
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"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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