Is Ann Coulter The Last Conservative With Guts?
There’s
an important lesson for conservatives in the news this week, if
they’re willing to learn from it. Appeasement always fails. Always.
Throughout
history people have been desperate to avoid conflict. Many are
willing to do anything to stave off a fight. In politics it is no
different.
Corporations
have spent untold millions in “donations” to radical
environmental groups or hustlers such as Jesse Jackson and Al
Sharpton in the hope of buying some goodwill should any unexpected
controversy arise. It’s never worked.
When
something went wrong, as it always does, or some controversy (real or
contrived) breaks, the very people they had cultivated were out in
front of a bank of cameras demanding “justice,” which usually
comes in the form of another, larger, check.
The
same thing happens in the news business. Fox News let Bill O’Reilly
go this week because people who never watch their network, who never
would watch their network, pressured companies to pull their
advertising from the top-rated show in cable news history.
That
the companies caved isn’t a surprise -- caving to left-wing mobs is
what companies do. But if Fox had not caved, advertisers would have
come back to O’Reilly. It would be financial malpractice to avoid
running ads to the largest audience possible, and companies don’t
remain successful committing financial malpractice.
But
bad publicity always trumps spine.
The
mob that went after O’Reilly is the same mob that went after Glenn
Beck and the same that always has gone after Fox. Letting Beck go,
then Roger Ailes, did not appease them. Neither will O'Reilly.
To
the fascistic left, Fox News can’t do right because its existence
is wrong. As long as it exists, they will find something to be upset
about and demand action on. And advertisers will cave.
I
don’t know what Bill O’Reilly did or didn’t do, but I do know
nothing was proven.
Companies
pulled their ads not over proof, but over allegations. You’re
supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but conservatives are
simply guilty. Meanwhile, Democrats such as Bill Clinton, who were
proven guilty, are still praised as if they were innocent.
I
have to wonder how many of the companies who pulled their ads from
O’Reilly’s show have donated to the Clinton Foundation? How many
executives of those companies donated to Hillary’s campaign? Or
paid for speeches from either of them?
It
doesn’t matter. Liberals don’t hold other liberals to different
standards; they hold them to no standards. Standards are reserved
exclusively for conservatives, mostly because they know we have them
and they mean something.
If
the allegations against O’Reilly had been proven, that’s one
thing. But they weren’t. And some of them were garbage anyway. One
woman reportedly said he leered at her. Leered? Another said he got a
guest’s name wrong and made a blonde joke about it. Seriously, get
over yourself. And a third said he asked her to come back to his
hotel room. After she refused, he stopped having her on his show.
Did
it happen? Who knows? Was he otherwise obligated to have her on his
show? No. If it happened, was it cool? No, it wasn’t. Was it
something that should end his career? They weren’t even co-workers.
But
when a lawyer like Gloria Allred gets involved, or in this case her
daughter, Lisa Bloom, forgive me if I’m skeptical. They strike me
as lawyers you go to when you want publicity, not justice. When you
want to harm a conservative, not seek what is right.
Fox
chose to go another route. Maybe its leaders know more than is
public. Or maybe, as has been reported, the wife of one of Rupert
Murdoch’s kids convinced him he had to do it because she’s
liberal. Whatever the reason, it happened and it won’t unhappen.
But
the fascistic left won’t take a day to savor this scalp -- the
largest in its recent collection. Lefties already are back at it, on
the hunt for more. Always more.
And
they’ll get more because, unlike the right, they’re relentless.
No fascist ever said, “Well, we showed those people who think
differently from us. How about we call it a day?” No, they are
relentless. They purge. They destroy. They still get visibly angry
when someone speaks favorably about Ronald Reagan, and he’s been
dead for more than a decade.
Conservatives
will continue to add scalps to the collections of these
thought-Brownshirts just as their ideological comrades,
the Blackshirts,
will continue to collect scalps on college campuses, keeping them
“pure” from differing opinions.
Where
are elected Republicans on this? I get remaining silent about Fox.
It’s a private business, and what News Corp chooses to do is,
ultimately, irrelevant to government.
But
the Nazi march across publicly funded college campuses to prevent
students from inviting conservative speakers is a government issue.
It’s a direct, unambiguous violation of the First Amendment.
Where’s the outrage? Where are the public statements of
condemnation? More importantly, where is the legislation to defund
these indoctrination centers?
God
bless Ann Coulter.
When her speech at UC Berkeley was cancelled, Ann
had the guts to say she’s going anyway. She said she’s going to
speak, and if the school wanted to stop her it could have her
arrested. The school has (at least for the moment) un-canceled the
event, though it tried to schedule it on a different day. That won’t
work for Ann, and she’s still planning on showing up Thursday.
If
elected Republicans had anything but air in their shorts, they’d
recess Congress and the entire caucus would be out there to escort
her onto campus. Democrats in California and Washington, D.C., don’t
give a damn, and the state’s sniveling governor should send
security but won't because he's rooting for the other side.
It’d
also be helpful if President Trump spoke out against this and
threatened action.
Is
Ann Coulter the only person willing to stand up to the modern
Gestapo?
A
line must be drawn, because appeasement only leads to emboldening
fascists. Don't look to the private sector -- its job is to profit,
not ensure constitutional rights. Don't look to Democrats -- the mobs
are their base, and although they'd be out in force if someone had to
break stride to get into an abortion clinic, this is not their way.
It
has to be Republicans. More specifically it has to be conservatives.
A stand must be made because appeasement never works.
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2017/04/23/is-ann-coulter-the-last-conservative-with-guts-n2316874
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