Happy National Hate Week! Today were all hating on Indiana. Who will be the lefts Emmanuel Goldstein next week?
Evidently the sole function of the media these days is to subject the public to a steady stream of manufactured events: Hands Up Dont Shoot; nuclear power kills; Lena Dunhams rape by a college conservative at Oberlin; the mattress girl raped at Columbia University; Jon Stewart is funny; a fraternity gang-rape at the University of Virginia; and a law protecting religious freedom will lead to separate water fountains for gays in Indiana.
The whole country has to keep being dragged through these liberal hate campaigns but as soon as the precipitating event turns out to be a gigantic hoax the truth is revealed like a bedtime story being read to a child: The ending is whispered and the narrator tiptoes out of the room.
Heres a time-saver: Whenever one of these conscience-shocking stories is promoted to front-page status by The New York Times and involves:
-- police brutality;
-- the environment;
-- a campus rape; or
-- gays;
... you can be pretty confident its a hoax. As the saying goes it didnt happen until its reported by The New York Times and not even then.
Many months several million wasted taxpayer dollars and one cops career later even Eric Holders Justice Department finally admitted that the whole Hands Up Dont Shoot story was bunk.
After the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan four years ago Bill Nye the (self-proclaimed) Science Guy gravely informed CNN viewers This is all bad and very scary. ... You know its nothing but danger. Its nothing but very serious very very long-term problems.
Wired magazine recently reported that in the four years since the disaster more than 96 percent of food fish and agriculture throughout Fukushima has contained less than one-sixth of the radiation permitted in food imported to Europe.
Lena Dunham star of HBOs Girls was forced to retract her autobiographical account of having been raped by a campus conservative named Barry.
The alleged rapist of Columbia Universitys mattress girl finally released her alluring texts to him and now we all know she was a desperate spurned lover not a rape victim.
Sabrina Rubin Erdelys much-celebrated Rolling Stone story about a fraternity gang-rape at the University of Virginia turned out to be based on one poor sad girl seeking attention by creating a fake online boyfriend and fantasizing her own gang-rape.
And this week we all have to be in a panic about Indiana passing a measure that enshrines a basic principle of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence because of the utterly apocryphal assertion that the law will be used to turn gays away from restaurants.
The idea that generally applicable laws may in certain circumstances be required to accommodate individual religious beliefs has been around for centuries. Thats why priests dont have to reveal penitents confessions to the police and Quakers dont have to join the military.
Having won the war on gay marriage (by judicial fiat) now some liberal zealots insist on going house-to-house and shooting the survivors. They seem to seek out Christian businesses to provide floral arrangements and cakes for gay weddings so they can call the cops if the Christians try to pass.
A roomful of gays would say Why dont you guys just go to one of the nine out of 10 florists who would be happy to have your business? (My guess is if the zealots looked really hard they might even be able to find a gay florist!)
That is all the religious freedom laws do: Encourage steely-eyed activists to stop requiring every last Christian to celebrate gay marriages.
Right now in states that dont have religious protection laws Christians are being compelled by general non-discrimination laws either to participate in gay marriages -- or go out of business.
With the law the Christian gets a legal argument. He might win in court or he might lose but hed at least have an argument thus encouraging the kill-the-survivors nuts to go to another shop for their gay weddings and stop doing their victory dances on top of Christians.
Its utter nonsense that any shopkeeper least of all a nice Christian would turn away a customer for any reason other than a deeply held religious belief such as not wanting to participate in a gay wedding a Planned Parenthood gala or any event involving Bill Clinton.
Do not assume that because liberals are in an absolute panic over Indianas law they must have a point. To the contrary the more hysterical they are the more you should assume the whole story is a sham.
When the journalist Richard Bradley raised questions about Erdelys Rolling Stone gang-rape story Anna Merlan responded at Jezebel calling his questions a giant ball of sh*t in an article titled Is the UVA Rape Story a Gigantic Hoax? Asks Idiot.
Even after Rolling Stone had retracted the story and Charlottesville chief of police Timothy J. Longo confirmed that the man Jackie accused of precipitating the gang-rape didnt exist his department merely suspended the investigation. Im going to call Chief Longo with a complaint that I was raped by a unicorn to see if we can get him to actually close a case.
Its one thing to treat disturbed girls falsely crying rape with kid gloves. (Though the boyfriend of the Duke lacrosse false-rape accuser Crystal Gail Mangum might have wished shed been held a little more accountable: Mangum was never prosecuted for her lies and she later murdered her boyfriend thus dashing her hopes for a primetime show on MSNBC.)
But why do we have to treat liberal fantasists in the media as if theyre children too? Believing theres a monster under the bed is cute. Falsely accusing cops of murder men of rape and an entire state of homophobia is not.
Every single cause championed by liberals is based on a fake story. They make up events that didnt happen and get apoplectic over things that never will happen. The definition of liberal is quickly becoming: people who believe their fantasies should be facts.
Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.
Happy National Hate Week! Today were all hating on Indiana. Who will be the lefts Emmanuel Goldstein next week?
Evidently the sole function of the media these days is to subject the public to a steady stream of manufactured events: Hands Up Dont Shoot; nuclear power kills; Lena Dunhams rape by a college conservative at Oberlin; the mattress girl raped at Columbia University; Jon Stewart is funny; a fraternity gang-rape at the University of Virginia; and a law protecting religious freedom will lead to separate water fountains for gays in Indiana.
The whole country has to keep being dragged through these liberal hate campaigns but as soon as the precipitating event turns out to be a gigantic hoax the truth is revealed like a bedtime story being read to a child: The ending is whispered and the narrator tiptoes out of the room.
Heres a time-saver: Whenever one of these conscience-shocking stories is promoted to front-page status by The New York Times and involves:
-- police brutality;
-- the environment;
-- a campus rape; or
-- gays;
... you can be pretty confident its a hoax. As the saying goes it didnt happen until its reported by The New York Times and not even then.
Many months several million wasted taxpayer dollars and one cops career later even Eric Holders Justice Department finally admitted that the whole Hands Up Dont Shoot story was bunk.
After the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan four years ago Bill Nye the (self-proclaimed) Science Guy gravely informed CNN viewers This is all bad and very scary. ... You know its nothing but danger. Its nothing but very serious very very long-term problems.
Wired magazine recently reported that in the four years since the disaster more than 96 percent of food fish and agriculture throughout Fukushima has contained less than one-sixth of the radiation permitted in food imported to Europe.
Lena Dunham star of HBOs Girls was forced to retract her autobiographical account of having been raped by a campus conservative named Barry.
The alleged rapist of Columbia Universitys mattress girl finally released her alluring texts to him and now we all know she was a desperate spurned lover not a rape victim.
Sabrina Rubin Erdelys much-celebrated Rolling Stone story about a fraternity gang-rape at the University of Virginia turned out to be based on one poor sad girl seeking attention by creating a fake online boyfriend and fantasizing her own gang-rape.
And this week we all have to be in a panic about Indiana passing a measure that enshrines a basic principle of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence because of the utterly apocryphal assertion that the law will be used to turn gays away from restaurants.
The idea that generally applicable laws may in certain circumstances be required to accommodate individual religious beliefs has been around for centuries. Thats why priests dont have to reveal penitents confessions to the police and Quakers dont have to join the military.
Having won the war on gay marriage (by judicial fiat) now some liberal zealots insist on going house-to-house and shooting the survivors. They seem to seek out Christian businesses to provide floral arrangements and cakes for gay weddings so they can call the cops if the Christians try to pass.
A roomful of gays would say Why dont you guys just go to one of the nine out of 10 florists who would be happy to have your business? (My guess is if the zealots looked really hard they might even be able to find a gay florist!)
That is all the religious freedom laws do: Encourage steely-eyed activists to stop requiring every last Christian to celebrate gay marriages.
Right now in states that dont have religious protection laws Christians are being compelled by general non-discrimination laws either to participate in gay marriages -- or go out of business.
With the law the Christian gets a legal argument. He might win in court or he might lose but hed at least have an argument thus encouraging the kill-the-survivors nuts to go to another shop for their gay weddings and stop doing their victory dances on top of Christians.
Its utter nonsense that any shopkeeper least of all a nice Christian would turn away a customer for any reason other than a deeply held religious belief such as not wanting to participate in a gay wedding a Planned Parenthood gala or any event involving Bill Clinton.
Do not assume that because liberals are in an absolute panic over Indianas law they must have a point. To the contrary the more hysterical they are the more you should assume the whole story is a sham.
When the journalist Richard Bradley raised questions about Erdelys Rolling Stone gang-rape story Anna Merlan responded at Jezebel calling his questions a giant ball of sh*t in an article titled Is the UVA Rape Story a Gigantic Hoax? Asks Idiot.
Even after Rolling Stone had retracted the story and Charlottesville chief of police Timothy J. Longo confirmed that the man Jackie accused of precipitating the gang-rape didnt exist his department merely suspended the investigation. Im going to call Chief Longo with a complaint that I was raped by a unicorn to see if we can get him to actually close a case.
Its one thing to treat disturbed girls falsely crying rape with kid gloves. (Though the boyfriend of the Duke lacrosse false-rape accuser Crystal Gail Mangum might have wished shed been held a little more accountable: Mangum was never prosecuted for her lies and she later murdered her boyfriend thus dashing her hopes for a primetime show on MSNBC.)
But why do we have to treat liberal fantasists in the media as if theyre children too? Believing theres a monster under the bed is cute. Falsely accusing cops of murder men of rape and an entire state of homophobia is not.
Every single cause championed by liberals is based on a fake story. They make up events that didnt happen and get apoplectic over things that never will happen. The definition of liberal is quickly becoming: people who believe their fantasies should be facts.
Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.
