--- In [email protected], Emily Reyn <emilymae.reyn@...> wrote: > > Wgm4u, Whaddya think of this one? Â > > http://www.beliefnet.com/News/Politics/2006/08/Church-Militant-Ann-Coulter-On-God-Faith-And-Liberals.aspx?p=1
Excellent, an anathema to the liberal elite! > From: wgm4u <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 7:23 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ann Coulter on the truth of the Zimmerman case. > > > > Â > > > --- In [email protected], Mike Dixon <mdixon.6569@> wrote: > > > > Ann nails it! But FFLers can't hang their emPATHETIC war bonnets on a nail > > that doesn't exist. > > Bingo! > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: wgm4u <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 7:03 AM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Ann Coulter on the truth of the Zimmerman case. > > > > > > > > ÃÂ > > > > July 17, 2013 > > Black liberals keep bemoaning the danger to their own teenage sons after > > the "not guilty" verdict in George Zimmerman's murder trial. To avoid what > > happened to Trayvon Martin, their boys need only follow this advice: Don't > > walk up to a stranger and punch him, ground-and-pound him, MMA-style, and > > repeatedly smash his head against the pavement. The Justice-for-Trayvon > > crowd keeps pretending there hasn't been a trial where the evidence > > overwhelmingly showed that Trayvon committed the first (and only) crime > > that night by assaulting Zimmerman. Instead, the race agitators are > > sticking with the original story peddled by the media, back when we had > > zero facts. To wit, that Zimmerman had stalked a young black child and shot > > him dead just for being black and wearing a hoodie. Dozens of these > > hair-on-fire racism stories are retold in my book, Mugged: Racial > > Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama. In the golden age of racial > > demagoguery, they came at a pace of > > about one a year. Al Sharpton was usually involved. A normal person would > > hear some of the more outlandish allegations and think, "I can't believe > > it!" not meaning, "Wow! What a blockbuster story!" but rather, "I would > > like to hear the facts because I literally don't believe it." (That was > > much of America's reaction to the media's claim last year that a > > neighborhood-watch captain in Florida had hunted down a black teenager and > > shot him dead just for wearing a hoodie.) Whenever a much-celebrated claim > > of racism turned out to be false -- which was almost always -- you'd just > > stop hearing about it. There would never be a clippable story admitting > > that the media's harrumphing had been in error: Attention, readers! That > > story we've been howling about for several months turned out to be a > > complete fraud. > > A little time would pass, and then we'd get an all-new, excited "America is > > still racist" media campaign. Journalists are incapable of learning that > > they should get all the facts before launching moral crusades. As a result, > > the official record shows: A few hate crimes and some unverified hate > > crimes with no clear resolution one way or another. As long as the > > fraudulent hate crimes didn't get counted as strikeouts, liberals always > > looked like Ted Williams. Since they didn't keep an accurate batting > > average, I did it for them in Mugged. The case most like George Zimmerman's > > is the Edmund Perry case. In 1985, Perry, a black teenager from Harlem who > > had just graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, mugged a guy who turned > > out to be an undercover cop. He got shot and a few hours later was dead. > > Instead of waiting for the facts, the media rushed out with a story about > > Officer Lee Van Houten being a trigger-happy, racist cop. When that turned > > out to be false, > > The New York Times looked at its shoes. It was the kind of story the > > elites wanted to be true. It should be true. We had such high hopes for > > that one. Damn! The initial news accounts stressed not only that Perry was > > a graduate of Exeter on his way to Stanford, but that he was unarmed. (In > > all white-on-black shootings, the media expect the white to have > > RoboCop-like superpowers to detect any weapons on the perp as well as his > > resume.) A few weeks after the shooting, The New York Times called Perry "a > > prized symbol of hope." In a telling bit of obtuseness, The Times said that > > "all New Yorkers have extraordinary reasons to wish for the innocence of > > the young man who was killed." I doubt very much that the cop being accused > > of being a murderous racist hoped for that. An article in The Village Voice > > explained: "[L]ike so many other victims in this city," Perry was "just too > > black for his own good." Luckily for the policeman, Perry had mugged him in > > a > > well-lit hospital parking lot. Twenty-three witnesses backed the officer's > > story in testimony to the grand jury. (Unlike Zimmerman, Van Houten's case > > was at least presented to a grand jury.) As I wrote in "Mugged": "God help > > Officer Van Houten if he had been mugged someplace other than a hospital > > parking lot with plenty of witnesses." Such as, for example, a dark pathway > > in The Retreat at Twin Lakes. There weren't 23 witnesses backing > > Zimmerman's story, only about a half-dozen. But, as with Van Houten, the > > evidence overwhelmingly corroborated Zimmerman's story. In Van Houten's > > case, even after it was blindingly clear that Perry had mugged him, the > > truth was only revealed amid great sorrow. When the facts were unknown, the > > cop was a racist. When it turned out Perry had mugged the cop, it was no > > one's fault, but a problem of "violence," "confusion" and "two worlds" > > colliding. Perhaps, someday, blacks will win the right to be treated like > > volitional human > > beings. But not yet. As with Zimmerman's case this week, some journalists > > pretended to have missed the court proceedings that supported the > > self-defense story. Even after the grand jury's refusal to indict Van > > Houten, Dorothy J. Gaiter of the Miami Herald wrote about Perry in an > > article titled "To Be Black and Male Is Dangerous in U.S." She asked: "How > > do you teach a boy to be a man in a society where others may view him as a > > threat just because he is black?" Van Houten said he was jumped, knocked to > > the ground, punched and kicked by Edmund Perry. Grand jury witnesses backed > > his story. Isn't it possible that Van Houten saw Perry as a threat for > > reasons other than "just because he is black"? (And please stop talking > > about Martin's "hoodie"! Zimmerman wasn't worried about the hoodie; he was > > worried about being beaten to death.) Instead of turning every story about > > a black person killed by a white person into an occasion to announce, "The > > simple fact is, > > America is a racist society," liberals might, one time, ask the question: > > Why do you suppose there would be a generalized fear of young black males? > > What might that be based on? Throw us a bone. It's because a > > disproportionate number of criminals are young black males. It just happens > > that when Lee Van Houten and George Zimmerman were mugged by two of them, > > they survived the encounter. COPYRIGHT 2013 ANN COULTER DISTRIBUTED BY > > UNIVERSAL UCLICK > > Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email Share on print More > > Sharing Services 1.5K > > >
