Hillary: Swiftboated!
By: Ann Coulter
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, March 27, 2008
Hillary is being "swiftboated"!
She claimed that she came under
sniper fire when she visited in Bosnia in 1996, but was contradicted by
videotape showing her sauntering off the plane and stopping on the
tarmac to listen to a little girl read her a poem.
Similarly,
John Kerry's claim to heroism in Vietnam was contradicted by 264 Swift
Boat Veterans who served with him. His claim to having been on a secret
mission to Cambodia for President Nixon on Christmas 1968 was
contradicted not only by all of his commanders -- who said he would
have been court-martialed if he had gone anywhere near Cambodia -- but
also the simple fact that Nixon wasn't president on Christmas 1968.
In Hillary's defense, she probably deserves a Purple Heart about as much as Kerry did for his service in Vietnam.
Also,
unlike Kerry, Hillary acknowledged her error, telling the Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review: "I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke." (What if she's
sleep-deprived when she gets that call on the red phone at 3 a.m.,
imagines a Russian nuclear attack and responds with mutual assured
destruction? Oops. "It proves I'm human.")
The reason no one
claims Hillary is being "swiftboated" is that the definition of
"swiftboating" is: "producing irrefutable evidence that a Democrat is
lying." And for purposes of her race against matinee idol B. Hussein
Obama, Hillary has become the media's honorary Republican.
In
liberal-speak, only a Democrat can be swiftboated. Democrats are
"swiftboated"; Republicans are "guilty." So as an honorary Republican,
Hillary isn't being swiftboated; she's just lying.
Indeed,
instead of attacking the people who produced a video of Hillary's
uneventful landing in Bosnia, the mainstream media are the people who
discovered that video.
I've always wondered how a Democrat would fare being treated like a Republican by the media. Now we know.
It's
such fun watching liberals turn on the Clintons! The bitter infighting
among Democrats is especially enjoyable after having to listen to
Democrats hyperventilate for months about how delighted they were to
have so many wonderful choices for president.
Now liberals
just want to be rid of the Clintons -- which is as close to actual
mainstream thinking as they've been in years. So the media suddenly
notice when Hillary "misspeaks," while rushing to make absurd excuses
for much greater outrages by her opponent.
Liberals are even
using the Slick Willy defense when Obama is caught fraternizing with a
racist loon. When Bill Clinton was exposed as a philandering,
adulterous, pathological liar, his defenders said that everybody is a
philandering, adulterous, pathological liar.
And now, when B.
Hussein Obama is caught in a 20-year relationship with a raving racist,
his defenders scream that everybody is a racist wack-job.
In the
Obama speech on race that Chris Matthews deemed "worthy of Abraham
Lincoln," B. Hussein Obama defended Wright's anti-American statements,
saying:
"For the men and women of Rev. Wright's generation, the
memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has
the anger and the bitterness of those years. That anger may not get
expressed in public, in front of white co-workers or white friends. But
it does find voice in the barbershop or around the kitchen table."
So
in the speech the media are telling us is on a par with the Gettysburg
Address, B. Hussein Obama casually informed us that even blacks who
seem to like white people actually hate our guts.
First of all: Watch out the next time you get your hair cut by a black barber over the age of 50.
Second, Rev. Wright's world wasn't segregated.
And
third, what about Wright's wanton anti-Semitism? All the liberals
(including essence-besplattered Chris Matthews) have accepted Obama's
defense of Wright and want us to understand Wright's "legitimate" rage
over his painful youth in segregated America.
But the
anti-Semitic tone of Wright's sermons is as clear as his rage against
the United States. Rev. Wright calls Israel a "dirty word" and a
"racist country." He denounces Zionism and calls for divestment from
Israel.
In addition to videos of Rev. Wright's sermons, Obama's
church also offers for sale sermons by Nation of Islam leader Louis
Farrakhan, whom Rev. Wright joined on a visit to Moammar Gadhafi in
Libya in 1984. Just last year, Obama's church awarded Farrakhan the Dr.
Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award, saying Farrakhan "truly
epitomized greatness."
What, pray tell, is the legitimate
source of Wright's anti-Semitism? I believe Brother Obama passed over
that issue entirely in his "conversation," even as he made the
obligatory bow to Israel's status as one of our "stalwart allies." Why
does crazy "uncle" Wright dislike Jews?
Will liberals contend that these remarks were "taken out of context"? Maybe Wright's church was trying to say that Farrakhan isn't great when it said he "epitomized greatness." Who knows? We weren't there.
Can liberals please educate us on the "legitimate" impulses behind Rev. Wright's Jew-baiting?
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