Ann Coulter is one of a number of Republican Shills that are so far over the top they should forfeit their right to engage in debate on our public airways. David Neiwert over at
Crooks and Liars has been looking closely at Coulter's new book.
He points out that Coulter in her book documenting the dangers posed by we liberals spends several pages praising the Council for Conservative Citizens. Neiwert is actually quoting research done by Mark Potok at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
This screed ranks right up there with Coulter's call for violence against judges in her recent past. Take a look for your self:
Contrary to Coulter's assertion, there is more than abundant evidence beyond their origins that the CofCC is a profoundly racist organization dedicated to white supremacy. For example:
The CCC’s columnists have written that black people are "a retrograde species of humanity," and that non-white immigration is turning the U.S. population into a "slimy brown mass of glop." Its website has run photographic comparisons of pop singer Michael Jackson and a chimpanzee. It opposes "forced integration" and decries racial intermarriage. It has lambasted black people as "genetically inferior," complained about "Jewish power brokers," called gay people "perverted sodomites," and even named the late Lester Maddox, the baseball bat-wielding, arch-segregationist former governor of Georgia, "Patriot of the Century."
One day, the CCC ran photos on its home page of accused Beltway snipers John Muhammad and John Malvo, 9/11 conspirator Zacharias Moussaoui and accused shoe-bomber Richard Reed. "Notice a Pattern Here?" asked a caption underneath the four photos. "Is the face of death black after all?" On another occasion, its website featured a photo of Daniel Pearl, the "Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter" who had just been decapitated by Islamic terrorists. In the photo, Pearl was shown with his "mixed-race wife, Marianne." The headline above the couple’s picture was stunning even for the CCC: "Death by Multiculturalism?" The CCC Arkansas chapter ran an essay waxing nostalgic for the days "when racial separation was the norm."
But to Ann Coulter, there is "no evidence" on its website that the CCC "supports segregation." Mostly, she says, the group — which was formed from the debris of the White Citizens Councils that Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall once called "the uptown Klan" — is about "a strong national defense, the right to keep and bear arms, the traditional family, and an ‘America First’ trade policy." Indeed, she says, The New York Times and other critics of the CCC are simply liberals "who have no principles."
I would propose a dkos action plan where every time Coulter is on cable news or a network, we come back with complaints to the appropriate entities, copying the above information. We should always throw up a diary here at dkos as well. This kind of hate has no place in the homes of Americans. We should make sure that as many people as possible understand just what the networks and cable programs are supporting when they have on this sick and dangerous person.
Any other suggestions for getting this out?