Controlled Chaos Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 The "Attack Bush" Hysteria By Ann Coulter FrontPageMagazine.com | March 25, 2004 Are you sitting down? Another ex-government official who was fired or demoted by Bush has written a book that ... is critical of Bush! Eureka! The latest offering is Richard Clarke's new CBS-Viacom book, "Against All Enemies," which gets only a 35 on "rate a record" because the words don't make sense and you can't dance to it. As long as we're investigating everything, how about investigating why some loser no one has ever heard of is getting so much press coverage for yet another "tell-all" book attacking the Bush administration? When an FBI agent with close, regular contact with President Clinton wrote his book, he was virtually blacklisted from the mainstream media. Upon the release of Gary Aldrich's book "Unlimited Access" in 1996, White House adviser George Stephanopoulos immediately called TV producers demanding that they give Aldrich no airtime. In terms of TV exposure, Aldrich's book might well have been titled "No Access Whatsoever." "Larry King Live" and NBC's "Dateline" abruptly canceled their scheduled interviews with Aldrich. Aldrich was mentioned on fewer than a dozen TV shows during the entire year of his book's release – many with headlines like this one on CNN: "Even Conservatives Back Away From Aldrich's Book." That's almost as much TV as Lewinsky mouthpiece William Ginsburg did before breakfast on an average day. (Let's take a moment here to imagine the indignity of being known as "Monica Lewinsky's mouthpiece.") But a "tell-all" book that attacks the Bush administration gets the author interviewed on CBS' "60 Minutes" (two segments), CNN's "American Morning" and ABC's "Good Morning America" with an "analysis" by George Stephanopoulos, no less. In the first few days of its release, Clarke's book was hyped on more than 200 TV shows. In contrast to Aldrich's book, which was vindicated with a whoop just a few years later when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, many of Clarke's allegations were disproved within days of the book's release. Clarke claims, for example, that in early 2001, when he told President Bush's National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice about al-Qaida, her "facial expression gave me the impression that she had never heard the term before." (If only she used botox like Sen. Kerry!) Sean Hannity has been playing a radio interview that Dr. Rice gave to David Newman on WJR in Detroit back in October 2000, in which she discusses al-Qaida in great detail. This was months before chair-warmer Clarke claims her "facial expression" indicated she had never heard of the terrorist organization. But in deference to our liberal friends, let's leave aside the facts for now. Just months before Clarke was interpreting Dr. Rice's "facial expression," al-Qaida had bombed the USS Cole. Two years before that, al-Qaida bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. In fact, al-Qaida or their allies had been responsible for a half dozen attacks on U.S. interests since Clinton had become president. (Paper-pusher Clarke was doing one heck of a job, wasn't he?) In the year 2000 alone, Lexis-Nexis lists 280 items mentioning al-Qaida. By the end of 2000, anyone who read the paper had heard of al-Qaida. It is literally insane to imagine that Condoleezza Rice had not. For Pete's sake, even the New York Times knew about al-Qaida. Rice had been a political science professor at Stanford University, a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, and a senior fellow of the Institute for International Studies. She had written three books and numerous articles on foreign policy. She worked for the first Bush administration in a variety of national security positions. All this was while Clarke was presiding over six unanswered al-Qaida attacks on American interests and fretting about the looming Y2K emergency. But chair-warmer Clarke claims that on the basis of Rice's "facial expression" he could tell she was not familiar with the term "al-Qaida." Isn't that just like a liberal? The chair-warmer describes Bush as a cowboy and Rumsfeld as his gunslinger – but the black chick is a dummy. Maybe even as dumb as Clarence Thomas! Perhaps someday liberals could map out the relative intelligence of various black government officials for us. Did Clarke have the vaguest notion of Rice's background and education? Or did he think Dr. Rice was cleaning the Old Executive Office Building at night before the president chose her – not him – to be national security adviser? If a Republican ever claimed the "facial expression" on Maxine Waters – a woman whose face is no stranger to confusion or befuddlement – left the "impression" that she didn't understand quantum physics, he'd be in prison for committing a hate crime. As we know from Dr. Rice's radio interview describing the threat of al-Qaida back in October 2000, she certainly didn't need to be told about al-Qaida by a government time-server. No doubt Dr. Rice was staring at Clarke in astonishment as he imparted this great insight: Keep an eye on al-Qaida! We've done nothing, but you should do something about it. Tag – you're it. That look of perplexity Clarke saw was Condi thinking to herself: "Hmmm, did I demote this guy far enough?" http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadA...le.asp?ID=12732 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldmember Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 she raises some points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreye Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 She had me until she brings up the black stuff. I don't really care for her much and that's one of the reasons why. She makes herself look like a fool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KipWellsFan Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 I also have a very difficult time thinking Condoleeza Rice didn't know anything about Al-Qaeda so she probably has a point there. But other than that her words are tainted and discredited by the dumb insults she makes throughtout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwsox Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 Here is an interesting picture of Ann Coulter doing her research for her columns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreye Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 Here is an interesting picture of Ann Coulter doing her research for her columns Is the other one Molly Ivins? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwsox Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 Is the other one Molly Ivins? No it is Matt Drudge in his weekend drag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreye Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 Off topic, do you see that guy in the background with his shirt open? He's got some nasty man-boobs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Kickass Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 What I think is funny about all this is that the White House never got its story straight about Richard Clarke. Cheney was saying on Limbaugh that he's out of the loop. Given that he ran the response desk on 9/11 and 9/12 during the tragedy... that would make him THE loop. Clarke's story checks out for the most part actually. There are a couple excellent articles in Slate about the allegations and the fact that they are corroborated by people who didn't work with the guy. If the warnings didn't come from Clarke, they came from others. Including Ruddman and Hart who were chairing a blue ribbon counter terror panel chaired by the Clinton administration. I remember Gary Hart specifically voicing his concerns about an imminent terror attack on the show I was producing in Spring 2001. The report they issued showed a drawing of a jet flying into the WTC. But we never expected that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreye Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 I remember Gary Hart specifically voicing his concerns about an imminent terror attack on the show I was producing in Spring 2001. The report they issued showed a drawing of a jet flying into the WTC. But we never expected that? I would LOVE to see this photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwsox Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 What I think is funny about all this is that the White House never got its story straight about Richard Clarke. Cheney was saying on Limbaugh that he's out of the loop. Given that he ran the response desk on 9/11 and 9/12 during the tragedy... that would make him THE loop. Clarke's story checks out for the most part actually. There are a couple excellent articles in Slate about the allegations and the fact that they are corroborated by people who didn't work with the guy. If the warnings didn't come from Clarke, they came from others. Including Ruddman and Hart who were chairing a blue ribbon counter terror panel chaired by the Clinton administration. I remember Gary Hart specifically voicing his concerns about an imminent terror attack on the show I was producing in Spring 2001. The report they issued showed a drawing of a jet flying into the WTC. But we never expected that? Sheeee-it, i forgot all about Hart and his warnings - who was the GOP Senator (Rudman?) he was working with on that - they turned out to be very right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Prawn Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 Off topic, do you see that guy in the background with his shirt open? He's got some nasty man-boobs. Gee, thanks for pointing that out! :puke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 Off topic, do you see that guy in the background with his shirt open? He's got some nasty man-boobs. I would LOVE to see this photo. and Gee, thanks for pointing that out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.