redefining "pro" or "anti" American

[Richard Haut]

In the last day or so two things have altered the reality of the perception of what is "pro" or "anti" American.

The first was a statement by a strange woman called Ann Coulter. Coulter jeered that the wives of men who died in the attacks of 9.11 were enjoying their husbands' deaths. When Hilary Clinton objected to this clearly offensive statement, the American media did something strange. They reported the matter as some form of dispute between Coulter and Clinton. The American media did not seem to see any reason to condemn Coulter's statements for what they were: pissing on the dead of 9.11.

The second was a report by a Swiss Senator to the Council of Europe on the transportation, detaining - even kidnapping, collusion in maltreatment and torture (and probably murder) of illegal detainees by America within Europe (with possible help from some European governments), and the question of illegal prisons within the Continent of Europe.

America has responded to this report in a manner which is both abusive and racist - so let me explain the position clearly.

Concentration camps are not acceptable in Europe.

[Kevin]

Mainstream U.S. media these days tend to be an embarassment to the human species -- like their owner/masters. Not always, but often, and especially where things matter deeply.

Ann Coulter is one of their own sad corrupt creations. So briefly and superficially refreshing, to see a right-wing front person who isn't a honky porker dude -- while so lastingly bitter, to find svelte beauty in some dimensions melded with such painful ugliness in others. Quite a character.



http://www.ideagrove.com/blog/2005/12/whos-stupider-ann-coulter-or-cnn.html

And in response to her pictured pendant, and for the quest of our species toward sanity/survival, this may be worth pondering:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/1997/11/virus.html

[Richard Haut]

As I did not know who she was, I looked up a bit about Coulter - what is amazing is not that she has views that are to the right of the Nazi Brownshirts, it is that her books are bestsellers and that she appears to be considered a "pundit" by the media.

The lunatic fringe exists in most places in some form or another - but be careful. This particular lunatic appears to be very close to US government policy.

However even the Nazis had people who were 'too rabid' and what happens is always the same: whether it is the programme advertisers, the publishers, the broadcasters, or a group of dark ops intelligence guys, there will be a meeting one day when someone shrugs and says "waste the dyke".

[Ed Ziomek]

I was so amazed and horrified at what Ann Coulter said, that the fool in me asked... who can profit from such a gaffe?

Coulter works for Fox. Owned by Rupert Murdoch, aka Fox, Post, Satellite channels around the world, pals with Sharon, etc.

World Trade Center was/is owned by Larry Silverstein.

The surviving spouses of the WTC debacle have been a thorn in the side to the development of WTC, which is there absolute right. Why commercialize such a graveyard? (I say make a grassy green-space memorial over the top of the Path Station... Green Space for the masses, it is too sacred a shrine.)

So I ran a Yahoo/Google search on Murdoch and "Larry Silverstein".

Surprise, surprise! Buddies.

So how much was Ann Coulter paid to shill for her bosses? That is what the fool would ask the king.

To some, I suppose that makes me a racist for asking the question, and un-American for being such a fool.

1 + 1 = 11. I get the picture.

[Richard Haut]

ahhhhhhhhh - Fox, Murdoch, Sharon, Silverstein ....

the reason that I mentioned what Coulter said is that for me - British living in France - it makes me want to throw up. I could not imagine how it sounded to Americans.

the fool in you is not so daft - it is the legal pinciple of cui bono - who benefits.

try it with 9.11 - and then see that you already have some of the names .....

[Ed Ziomek]

By the NewsMax.com staff... Story behind the Story...

Saturday, June 17, 2006 3:25 p.m. EDT
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/6/17/152828.shtml?s=lh

"In an e-mail interview by John Hawkins at the Right Wing News Web site, Coulter was asked to give her opinion of certain people, among them anti-war Congressman Murtha, D-Pa. In a style familiar to journalists who have quizzed her via e-mail, Coulter responded with her characteristic single brief line: "The reason soldiers invented 'fragging.'"

That's it. That's all she wrote.

She did not suggest that Murtha, long out of the military service, should be killed by a grenade because his men considered him deserving of death -- which is what fragging means -- she was describing him as the kind of leader soldiers have good reason to distrust. "

Ed Z Asks .... Is this the Spin behind the spin? Can she say anything worse?

[Richard Haut]

Ed

Fascinating, isn't it ?

I am sure that Ann "Tokyo Rose" Coulter thinks that she is clever, wise-cracking and important.

However I suspect that the reality is that she is being used (and encouraged) as a cover. The more revolting her statements then the more coverage they get. Obviously seeing obscenities like insulting the families of those who died on 9.11 makes people read about it.

It also means that they are not reading the other news; the news that is in part not being written.

I have to admit that it is a clever and effective tactic.

Much coverage of the fact that there is no hard evidence (as in none, zero) linking OBL to the 9.11 attacks? Who said that ? The F.B.I.

Much coverage, behind the crowing about US "Aegis" warships on exercise off Korea, about the Russian missiles which the Aegis naval defence computers are literally helpless to track, let alone stop ?

Much coverage of the total re-equipping of the Turkish attack helicopter fleet and that not one single U.S. firm is even submitting a bid ?

Much coverage of the European "Bilderbergers" (the real financial muscle) telling the American Bilderbergers straight to their faces last week that there is no way that they will support or take part in a war for Israel (meaning an attack on Iran) ?

Much coverage of the slaughter of children using main battle armaments by the Israelis in Gaza ?

Much coverage of the apparently unnecessary new law repeating a blocking of aid to Hamas by the US ? Interesting - because it actually steps back and does allow real humanitarian aid. Bush has just isolated Israel. Neat - victimization - hand.

So Tokyo Rose is doing an effective job, but it is only short-term cover. No, I do not believe that there is a risk of the "fragging" of Murtha, but Coulter will soon find that she is more expendable.