The Infallibility of Grief
In the last week Conservatives have been decrying Ann Coulter who's new book "Godless" was released. They all have bitten into what Dafydd calls "The infallibility of Grief". The soundbites and headlines are all buzzing around Coulter's stance on the Jersey Widows of 911 (there's four of them). But Dafydd has four examples he uses to demonstrate that when it comes to Democrats or the Left that a Victim's (who of course are on the Left side of the aisle) grief trumps science and fact.
Here's the four examples Dafydd uses:
- Anti-Breast Implant Mob who blamed Dow Corning for their getting breast cancer (proven incorrect - this also shows that the Oprafication of American women where facts are not a factor, emotion and 'feelings' are the driver for all thought process).
- Former Sen. Max Cleland (GA, D) who was hailed as a combat wounded war hero for the left. This was used as a bonafide in Cleland's senate run against Saxley Chambliss (GA,R). Course what the Democrats and Cleland failed to acknowledge to the public was that Cleland was not a combat injured Vet. Cleland's injuries were the result of an accident during the Vietnam War.
- Then of course there's the current icons of the Democrat Party - Sheehan and Michael Berg.
- Then finally we have the Jersey Girls who became shills for the Democrat Party. Which means their grief is infallible.
I have to agree with Dafydd on this. The comparing of Ann Coulter to Michael Moore is indeed an insult to Coulter. Why? Because Michael Moore goes out of his way to manufacture and fraudulently present information. Ann Coulter's books are footnoted for every word not written by her and also to backup her assertions. Ann does not manufacture facts or information. The Jersey Girls and Democrats used grief to promote their agenda and slap down President Bush and Republicans.
From Dafydd:
Coulter argues — and I completely agree — that by using their grief as a club to batter their opponents into silence, they have willfully and irrevocably forfeited the right ever again to use it as a shield.
Here's Dafydd's description of Conservative bashers of Ann Coulter:
They join the liberals in attacking Coutler for malfeasance of rhetoric; in this, conservatives are showing classic symptoms of Battered Spouse Syndrome. Huddled in a defensive crouch, they labor to prove that they are too decent, they are so sympathetic — they attack Coulter to prove their own chivalric honor. They become "enablers" of liberal griefarazzi.
Many conservatives have let themselves be ensnared by the "infallibility of grief" gambit. Like suckers who give money to the woman with the baby she rents by the hour, conservatives who attack Ann Coulter, without regard to the point she makes, prove the utter truth of that point: the reflexive, Lorelei power of the whimper of whipped dogs. And like Odysseus, if they don't stop their ears or lash themselves to the mast, they will wreck upon the rocks.
Awesome Dafydd!
[…] “Then finally we have the Jersey Girls who became shills for the Democrat Party. Which means their grief is infallible. ” (The spat-upon “Jersey Girls” being the wives of men who died in the attacks of September 11, 2001. I guess that’s just a Republican Moral Values tactic I just wouldn’t understand.) […]
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I honestly believe Coulter has the right to express her opinions - and that’s all they are. But she refuses that
same right to others.
She sees no justification in anyone offering an opinion which is not hers - going so far as to suggest that any dissent of her views are acts of Scandal, Treason and Godlessness.
As an adult in America, its a fact that a wide variety of opinion and expression is provided for every other American.
I wonder how she feels now that she is the the camp of Grieving Victim of non-supporters of her insulting, flawed rhetoric? I doubt it bothers her much as her only interest has ever been in making money - a freedom enjoyed by many Americans.
Comment by Joe P. — June 10, 2006 @ 11:44 am
Whooey! She sure shook the fur off the rug with that one! I justlove to see fur fly - gets the blood pumping. My Mom always said consider the source - on everything - then make up your own mind and don’t be afraid to own it.
Comment by yankeemom — June 10, 2006 @ 12:16 pm
Three cheers for a great article and for Ann. She is like light and holy water to vampires. Its no wonder that the creatures that lurk under rocks yell and bray so when she gets them in her sights.
Comment by Thomas J. Jackson — June 10, 2006 @ 8:24 pm
Ann Coulter is a disease. I wish a cure could be found for her.
Even worse are the people who defend her.
There is a special place in hell for all of them!
Comment by Terry C — June 10, 2006 @ 8:25 pm
“The infallibility of grief” — is that anything like the “Unquestionable assertion that third-world jihadists with cell-phones, box cutters and unguarded munitions from al QaaQaa is the GREATEST THREAT *E*V*E*R*!!!! to face the U.S.?”
As someone who was conceived during the Cuban Missile Crisis, I call lack of historical perspective. And I win.
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Comment by Jeffraham Prestonian — June 10, 2006 @ 10:03 pm
yes, let’s cheer a woman who calls for death for anyone who does not convert to christianity … or for the death for a Supreme Court Justice … or who calls for televised torture on American television. What God-loving Christian could argue with her theology?
Comment by Joe P. — June 10, 2006 @ 10:57 pm
Want to acquire my ghoulish celebration of death in a Flash plug-in? Click here to find out how! Really! Only MY co-opting of a national tragedy for political gains is legitimate and proper!
*sigh*
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Comment by Jeffraham Prestonian — June 11, 2006 @ 1:17 am
Woooeeee! I’ve been condemned to hell by one of those open minded “progressives”!
Comment by Toni — June 11, 2006 @ 5:52 am
open minded = anything goes = idiot caricature
Y’all got to try a little harder.
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Comment by Jeffraham Prestonian — June 11, 2006 @ 5:59 am
You disgust me. It’s all a game to you, isn’t it, Toni?
Comment by no — June 11, 2006 @ 9:59 am