In her ever-hungry bid for publicity, Ann Coulter (aka Coultergeist) has recently hit a new low (for conservatives, but not for her) in portraying Hispanics as the shiftless and lazy group that helped keep Obama in the Oval Office:
AMERICA NEARS EL TIPPING POINTO
"...[Charles Murray] recently pointed out that -- contrary to stereotype -- Hispanics are less likely to be married, less likely to go to church, more supportive of gay marriage and less likely to call themselves "conservative" than other Americans.
Rather than being more hardworking than Americans, Hispanics actually work
about the same as others, or, in the case of Hispanic women, less.
More than half of all babies born to Hispanic women today are
illegitimate. As Heather MacDonald has shown, the birthrate of Hispanic women
is twice that of the rest of the population, and their unwed birthrate is one
and a half times that of blacks."
In citing Charles Murray, author of The Bell Curve and fellow of
The American Enterprise Institute, Coultergeist tips her heavy hand as a white
supremacist: The Bell Curve insinuates that minorities (especially
African-Americans) are inherently inferior in intelligence. And while
Coultergeist has always preened herself in the mirror of conservative
(therefore, white) supremacy, her adulation of Murray as well as Joe McCarthy
has catapulted her into David Duke's upper eschelons.
The rest of the article tries to cite research such as Murray's as definitive
and emblematic of the way America is turning black in its shiftless heart and
brown in its skin.
Ann Coultergeist's disdain for anyone or anything slightly liberal has always
been up front (the cover of her book, How To Talk To A Democrat ...If You Must
shows her in tight leather dominatrix-style attire) and her rhetoric has always
indicated that she and only she is the true savior of conservatives everywhere:
she has been THE pin-up girl for the likes of Phyllis Schalfley and (retiring)
Jim DeMint. She has taken moderate Republicans to task for being too
"liberal" and even excoriated right wingers like Todd Akin for
damaging the image of conservatives.
Footloose With The Facts
What would Coultergeist do with real facts? The very first thing critics of the
article pointed out was that her "facts" were so ridiculously skewed
and baseless that they couldn't weather the lightest scrutiny: Hispanics DO go
to church more (albeit it the Catholic Church - a difference to Christian Right
polemicists such as Coulter), and have a divorce rate far lower than any
"religious" other group (e.g. Southern Baptists). Her statement about
illegitimacy is tainted by her assumption that ALL illegitimate children become
criminals.
In addition: the Hispanic
share of total births declined from 24.2% to 23.6% during the last decade.
The reaction to Coultergeist's recent polemic has been predictable:
"... hateful, inflammatory piece of garbage passing as
journalism."
and
"Republicans looking to reach out to Latinos may want to avoid the
advice of Ann Coulter."
Indeed, Republicans may want to distance themselves from Coultergeist
altogether, seeing that she has even disparaged Republicans for NOT
caving in to Obama's tax
hikes on the rich.
Demonic Or Just
Delusional?
The (now) caricature Ann Coultergeist has created for herself has been of a
harridan gone delusional: e.g., at one point after becoming GOProud's mascot
(er, honorary co-chair) she declared that gays really loved her. And the fact
that her latest screeds about Hispanics will be dismissed by the very political
party trying to increase its numbers with them seems to be lost on her. To some
(albeit very few), Ann Coultergeist is like a Carrie Snodgrass, deluded into
thinking that she really is the queen of the conservative's prom. But in
reality, Coultergeist's white supremacism makes her more insidious to the
Republican Party and more destructive to conservatives.
Hmmm ... where's that bucket of pig's blood when we need it?
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