Ann Coulter as an authoritative voice on the great matters of human culture - oh puleez!
Speaking of USA (even New York Times) best sellers each of the volumes of the psychotic Left Behind series of books by Lahaye and Jenkins were best sellers.

I've seldom watched such vile sentiments as those that Ann Coulter regularly trotted out on the few occasions I witnessed her on Fox News.

Here's a little background on her:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ann_Coulter

There's a penchant for those involved with the "Fox-Right" in America to trawl through other times and other zeitgeists in an attempt to topple Democrats in this era. Glenn Beck (on Fox News at the time) spent months trying to link Obama to a Communist plot. If my memory serves me, Beck's case rested on Obama's grand-daddy fighting colonialist forces in Africa way back when - or some such wild and wooly premise. This technigue is stock-standard junk right-wing propaganda designed to sway (even further) the Tea Party audience in the US.

The Claim:
“And although some Democrats finally supported the famous Civil Rights Act of 1964, Republicans voted in far greater numbers for it.”

The Facts:
Vote totals
Totals are in "Yea–Nay" format:
The original House version: 290–130 (69–31%).
Cloture in the Senate: 71–29 (71–29%).
The Senate version: 73–27 (73–27%).
The Senate version, as voted on by the House: 289–126 (70–30%).
By party
The original House version:[16]
Democratic Party: 152–96 (61–39%)
Republican Party: 138–34 (80–20%)
Cloture in the Senate:[17]
Democratic Party: 44–23 (66–34%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)
The Senate version:[16]
Democratic Party: 46–21 (69–31%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)
The Senate version, voted on by the House:[16]
Democratic Party: 153–91 (63–37%)
Republican Party: 136–35 (80–20%)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

as in Australia the left hate to have their bigotry and hatred exposed. I take it that is why they demonise Coulter.

runner,

You're at it again...

B - is for Bigotry

H - is for Hatred

(runner's Book of Vile Epithets and Insults)

Coulter's line is " vile hate speech". She is noted "for despising anyone politically left of Ronald Reagan". She is "a vitriolic right-wing ideologue".

You may think that is something to revere, but most fair-thinking people reject fundamentalism, whatever form it takes.

Ann Coulter as a source, put on the dunces hat and stand in the corner Ben.

Poirot

I suggest you look at your own post and google the word 'vile 'before throwing stones.

runner,

Describing someone's style of speech as vile is not the same as pasting their fundamental nature with vices - which is your usual line of engagement.

A very strange reconstruction of history. In the Civil War the Democrats split amongst those who supported the war and those in the South who were against. I'm sure readers understand that the Democrats and the Republicans of the 1800s bear no resemblance (or relation) to the parties we have today.

Do we blame FDR (a Republican) for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour? Silly.

Poirot
'Describing someone's style of speech as vile is not the same as pasting their fundamental nature with vices - which is your usual line of engagement. '

Oh what a covenient way to excuse such language. Such self righteousness.

I can't argue with you on this point, runner.

"Such language" is your specialty.

I think NOFX's description of Ann Coulter is the most accurate I've ever heard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUZ5gGO0_Pw

About 55 seconds in if you want to skip ahead.

Cheers,

Tony

The Democrats, like the Left in Australia,develops amnesia for its past if it does not serve their current purpose. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and was perhaps the major force in the abolition of slavery in the US, while in Australia, it was the Labor Party spurred on by the Unions, who were the main proponents of the White Australia Policy. Calwell even tried to expel non-white immigrants.

It was in fact the Catholic Church who railed against the poor treatment of the Chinese by the Labor Party.

Coulter seems to be breaking some unwritten rule that you can't criticise the morally righteous,lest they be publicly unmasked. I guess she'll cop their vitriol over this one.

How easily these things are forgotten when it no longer suits.When Labor Party figures speak of traditional Labor Party 'values' one can only laugh.

Runner says nasty things one day and hateful things the next,
its being so happy that keeps him going !!

Atman,

It is true that long ago the Labor Party supported the White Australia Policy. It is also true that the legislation to establish it was introduced to Parliament by the forerunners of the Liberal Party, under Edmund Barton.

The Liberals did eventually move away from the White Australia Policy, but they were a bit late to do so. The DLP was the first of our parties to demand the abolition of the White Australia Policy – before the Liberals, before the Country Party and before the ALP – but that did not suit the SBS narrative and so was not mentioned in the program, Immigration Nation: The Secret History of Us.

The term 'half-black' was the first bit that put me off. Which half of the guy is black? What colour is the other half?

His opponents tried to demonise him by 'proving' that he wasn't born in the USA. When that didn't wash, he turned out to be a Commie. Now he's not black enough?

The Democrats may have a racist past, but they certainly showed courage when they put forward a candidate who wasn't entirely white.

The article is dreadfully one-eyed. For one thing it ignores the fact that the South has swung from Democrat to Republican. This makes the racist past irrelevant to the Democratic Party of today.