Sorry for concentrating on Ann Coulter so much lately, but her downfall is emblematic of the dissolution of the neocon movement in America, largely brought on by their obnoxious insistence on always being right even when wrong, their support of an ideology that has repeatedly been proven a failure, their virulent hatred of any political opposition, and their comfort at continuing to lie long after the truth has been revealed.
After six years of Bush blundering, the public presence of the neocons is roughly that of the cranky crazy aunt who believes the TV is talking to her and tapes over outlets so that electricity can't jump out and 'get at her.'
"Plame was not covert. She worked at CIA headquarters and had not been stationed abroad within five years of the date of Novak's column."
-- Victoria Toensing, from the Washington Post, Feb. 18, 2007, as quoted at Think Progress.
"If Valerie had been an overt employee or a covert employee not covered by IIPA [Intelligence Identities Protection Act] then Scooter Libby would not have had to lie to FBI agents because there would not have been an investigation. But Valerie was a covert agent. Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, Ari Fleischer, and Richard Armitage, among others, put her name in circulation with members of the press. They harmed a covert agent and in the process did serious damage to our nation's security."
-- Larry C. Johnson, a former CIA agent, in "Was She Covert?" Feb. 20, 2007.
Case in point is this week's Valerie Plame testimony before Congress. Many neocons in the media questioned whether Plame was ever a CIA covert agent at all, from Mona Charen to 'former federal prosecutor' and reliable Bush shill Victoria Toensing, who stated this belief in the same Congressional hearing. As former CIA agent Larry C. Johnson, who attended CIA training with Plame, has noted, Plame's covert status was confirmed by other CIA agents in 2003, after Bob Novak's column outing her was printed. Beyond that, CIA Director Michael Hayden, a Bush appointee, also officially confirmed her classified covert status; she was a NOC (Non Official Cover) covert agent who acted overseas in the vital area of nuclear non-proliferation. In other words, she and her networks would be the people who would find out if terrorists had obtained a nuclear device. Seems pretty important in this post-9/11 era. Outing Plame not only potentially endangered her and her family, it also outed her contacts overseas. This would seem to qualify as a very high crime, and imagine what Charen, Toensing and Co. would have said if Al Gore, when he was Clinton's VP, had done the same thing Cheney has done -- leaked a covert CIA agent's name for political purposes and to avoid the public knowing the White House used forged evidence to get us into a war in Iraq. The roaring from the right for impeachment would have made a tsunami look like a bathtub splash.
Apparently, Charen, Toensing, et al, are merely trying to provide talking points for what remains of the neocon base; their denial of the reality of Plame's status, and the treasonous actions that made it public, is indicative of their lack of character and preference for their party over their country's safety.
But back to the declining fortunes of Coulter.
Here's one aspect of her 'appeal' that has always given the Tattlesnake a belly laugh: Young Republicans drooling over mean-mouthed harpy Ann Coulter as the epitome of sexy womanhood; a stick-thin pop-eyed Olive Oyl who may have the long blonde hair of the seductive siren but is in every other respect a degenerate Mannish Boy straight out of Fellini's Satyricon -- sharp-tongued, angular, coarse, cruel, unloving, thoroughly unfeminine. It's a testament to their cluelessness as to what this says about their own sexuality: they want to be screwed by a nasty dyke (or perhaps an unflattering peek into their relationship with their mothers). Is this the kind of good Christian woman virile Wonder-Bread Republican men want to settle down with -- or just slum up with at the No-Tel Motel for a little adulterous 'side of Newt' action while the Church Lady Missus sits at home knitting booties for their fifth child in five years?
Since her speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference March 2, 2007, where she sarcastically made a reference to John Edwards as a 'faggot,' all three top GOP presidential contenders have denounced her remarks, nine newspapers (and counting) have dropped her column, and Verizon, NetBank and Sallie Mae have pulled ads from her website.
Could we be seeing the ultimate meltdown of the Queen of Neocon Mean -- a fall from gracelessness that Marie Slanderette has deserved for years? This flap is also giving impetus to the general slide of the GOP neocon hate squad, likely to be replaced in the party hierarchy by libertarian and moderate Republicans who have been shunted to the sidelines by such babbling freak shows as Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and their bilious ilk.
After vicious attacks on 9-11 widows, calling for the execution of John Walker Lindh to 'intimidate' liberals, advocating poisoning a Supreme Court Justice as 'just a joke,' asserting that all Democrats are 'no good,' claiming we should invade Muslim countries and kill their leaders, regretting that Timothy McVeigh didn't blow up the New York Times building, and repeatedly calling her political opposition 'traitors,' is it possible that the word that will bring her down, the one that will convince the MSM not to book her as a guest anymore, is 'faggot'? Oh, the irony.
"[The word 'faggot'] It isn't offensive to gays. It has nothing to do with gays."
-- Ann Coulter on Fox News, March 5, 2007, as quoted by AlterNet.
"People die, lose their jobs, are beaten and harassed because of homophobia. Is this what the GOP and the conservative movement stands for? That's fine with me, just don't try to pretend that's not what Coulter is saying."
-- Pam Spaulding, "'Faggot' is dangerous," AlterNet, March 6, 2007.
"Let's be clear -- I'm not advocating that anyone should censor this harridan of hate. But for her own sake (as well as that of the rest of us) if any friends or family do remain, will they please take Ms. Coulter to the rehab that even she is hinting -- in her profoundly Freudian way -- is now necessary?"
-- Rory O'Connor, "Ann Coulter Should 'Go Into Rehab'," AlterNet, March 8, 2007.
Of course, being a good Republican, Ann Coulter will never take responsibility for any harm her flapping jaw causes as she continually ups the ante to get publicity.
"The Americans who are fighting and dying in Iraq were sent there on false pretenses. [Ann] Coulter has contributed greatly to the grotesque disfigurement of our politics. Her political freak show helped render us incapable of sorting out the lies prior to the war. Her loudmouthed jingoism still rules the day, and Coulter, whether she knows it or not, has blood on [her] hands."
-- Joseph A. Palermo, "Ann Coulter Hates the Troops," Common Dreams.org, March 5, 2007.
"Ann Coulter's bigotry and hostility, her public fantasies about violence against Democrats, progressives, and journalists -- and those of countless others like her -- demand more attention, not less. They illustrate the irrational anger that has long driven and sustained the conservative movement. (Those who insist on believing, against all available evidence, that the left is driven more by anger than the right would do well to remember that, during the 2000 Florida recount fiasco, it was the Republicans who rioted, not the Democrats.) But those who applaud Coulter can't win or hold power on their own -- there just aren't enough angry, hate-filled voters in the country. They need the support of more rational and reasonable people, many of whom would be appalled -- and no longer supportive -- if the media showed them the true nature of the extremists they support."
-- Jamison Foser, Media Matters, March 10, 2007.
"Coulter is somewhat desperate so she's articulating this stuff in a crude and obvious fashion in order to keep her stale shtick going. But this concept is so ingrained in the political culture by now that the only thing that really stands out about it is the fact that she used an obvious epithet that is out of public fashion, even at a rightwing event. Suppose she had used the silly word 'girlyman'? Nobody would be calling for the smelling salts. In fact, I would imagine the press corps would have told us all to 'get over it.'"
-- Digby's blog, March, 2007.
Here's a good idea:
"Is there now any doubt that the Republican Party is wholly familiar with Ann's other hysterical schoolyard jokes, like 9/11 widows being "self-obsessed women... enjoying their husbands' deaths" or her "raghead" reference at previous CPAC conference? Yet they still invite her to pump up the CPAC crowd. And she is still guest-staple throughout the FOX News [sic] Network.
"They love the girl and her "schoolyard" jokes." It's time to remind the voter that they do. Everyday. Every way.
"From now on, when talking about the Republican Party or their candidates, let's call them like they are...
"THE PARTY OF ANN COULTER.
"They deserve each other."
-- Steve Young, "The Party of Ann" APJ, March 6, 2007.
I agree with Steve Young, hang Coulter and her hate speech around the GOP like a millstone, it's only what they deserve.
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It's Confirmed by Bush's CIA Director: Plame Was a Covert Agent
At the time in 2003 the slimemeisters in the White House were trying to leak her name to the media, Valerie Plame was an active covert agent for the CIA , even Bush's CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledges it. Case closed on all the right-wing fulminating to the contrary.
Leaking a CIA agent's name is a treasonous act; when are the impeachment papers for Dick Cheney going to be readied?
"Yesterday the CIA came out of the closet. CIA Director Michael Hayden approved a statement that contained the following language:
During her employment at the CIA, Ms. Wilson was under cover.
Her employment status with the CIA was classified information prohibited from disclosure under Executive Order 12958.
At the time of the publication of Robert Novak's column on July 14,2003, Ms. Wilson's CIA employment status was covert.
This was classified information.
"Got it? The Director of the CIA confirmed in public for the first time that Valerie Plame Wilson was undercover, was covert and that this information was classified. What is it about English that goober Congressman Westmoreland and ditzy Vicky Toensing don't understand?"
-- Larry C. Johnson, a former CIA agent, "Undercover, Covert, and Classified (Also Hush Hush)," March 17, 2007.
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