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Ever wonder where they get the money to say the stuff they sayabout the hard working politicians [Click This]
[Click This]By Ann Coulter
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Little Lord Fauntleroy Goes to War
By Ann Coulter © Human Events, 2000Answering a question in the third presidential debate about why Americans are cynical about politicians, Vice President Al Gore said: "I’d like to tell you something about me. . . . I’ve kept the faith with my country. I volunteered for the Army, I served in Vietnam."
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Throughout the years, Gore has repeatedly provided the media with vivid reminiscences of his combat experiences
in Vietnam. He told the Weekly Standard of his harrowing flights on combat helicopters: "I used to fly these things
with the doors open, sitting on the ledge with our feet hanging down. If you flew low and fast, they wouldn’t have
as much time to shoot you."
He told the Washington Post: "I was shot at. I spent most of my time in the field."
He told Vanity Fair magazine: "I took my turn regularly on the perimeter in these little firebases out in
the boonies. Something would move, we’d fire first and ask questions later."
He told the Baltimore Sun: "I pulled my turn on the perimeter at night and walked through the elephant
grass and I was fired upon." He said he "carried an M-16."
Earlier this year, Gore ran campaign ads featuring photographs of himself strapped into a backpack and toting
an M-16, recounting his vaunted service in Vietnam. The basic picture being conveyed is that upon landing in
Vietnam, young Al Gore ripped open his blouse and shouted, "Let the bullets hit me first!"
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Gore is fibbing.
He was never shot at, and never fired a shot in anger. Gore’s tour of duty consisted of a five-month vacation
in the Orient with his own Man Friday bringing him mint juleps as he typed illiterate dispatches for the Stars
and Stripes.
During his brief five months there he carried white-out and a typewriter ribbon, not an M-16. The closest
he came to physical harm consisted of the paper cuts he risked while filing his little human interest stories.
After working on it for about a year, the Los Angeles Times finally published an article in October 1999
revealing that Gore not only never saw combat in Vietnam, but was assigned a bodyguard. Still, all the
drinking and pot-smoking (which Gore admits to) was exhausting. After three months, he asked to go home.
Gore’s Man Friday, H. Alan Leo, was quoted saying that he was given explicit orders to keep the senator’s son
out of harm’s way: "It blew me away. I was to make sure he didn’t get into a situation he could not get out of.
They didn’t want him to get into trouble. So we went into the field after the fact, after combat actions, and that
limited his exposure to any hazards."
Not only that, but, the Times reported that several of Gore’s other colleagues "remember they were assigned
to make sure this son of a prominent politician was never injured in the war."
After the L.A. Times article ran, the adversary press jumped in to do damage control. Soon they had Gore’s
Man Friday on record admitting that he was technically called Gore’s "security escort"–not his "bodyguard."
Oh, well, that’s completely different.
The press further hounded Leo into admitting that though initially he resented the privileged Little Lord Fauntleroy,
"after I’d been around him for a while, I kind of changed my attitude–I found him to be a straight guy." (Of course
Gore was affable, he was stoned all the time.)
And that ended the media’s interest in the story. His bodyguard says he didn’t resent Gore–let’s all go home now.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that "Gore was occasionally taunted by soldiers who . . . felt that he got special
treatment." Huh. That’s interesting. Let’s flesh that out. Why might all these guys have fallen under the impression
that Gore was getting special treatment? (The "security escorts" perhaps?)
But the cynical reporter quickly brushed over that stunning fact with this non sequitur: "There is no evidence
that he did [receive special treatment]."
Okay, we may not have proof beyond a reasonable doubt as that phrase would be interpreted by a Bronx jury
that Gore got special treatment in Vietnam. (Not to be confused with "I was shot at.") But no evidence? How
about the fact that his comrades clearly thought so?
By all accounts Gore "volunteered" for the Army in the summer of 1970 primarily to help his father’s do-or-die
campaign for Senate that year. What is the difference between "volunteering" and simply "enlisting"? And why don’t
we ever hear what draft number Gore got? Notably, even this braggart never claims he had a safe number and
then volunteered.
The media straight-facedly recite Gore’s ludicrous claim that his family believed Nixon had postponed the orders
sending young Al to Vietnam for a couple months in order "to deny Sen. Gore any political boost from having a son
in Vietnam on election day."
So in the middle of bombing Cambodia, establishing slush funds, opening doors to China and presumably supervising
the wiretapping of John Lennon President Nixon was making sure Young Al Gore’s deployment to Vietnam was
delayed for two months solely to deprive Sen. Gore of the incremental advantage of having his son physically present
in Vietnam. It is really sublime that Gore works in a shot at poor Nixon.
Sen. Gore did get to announce during his campaign that his son had enlisted in the Army–and did so with some
frequency. All Gore’s father missed out on was the collateral benefit of giving voters constant updates on Gore’s
progress: "His plane is leaving!" "He’s landed in Hawaii!" "Young Al has finally arrived!" ("Can I go home now?")
In the end, Gore’s father lost the election, anyway. Consequently, Gore saw no sense in hoodwinking the good
people of Tennessee with his bogus deployment any longer. Three months into his cosseted service at the "Beach
Club,"
as his barracks was known, and Gore asked to go home.
Oh yeah, the Army grants requests like that all the time: "Can I go home?"
The normal tour of duty is 12 months. Gore’s request was granted the next day. He was told he would be
permitted to leave in two months’ time. (Incidentally, why didn’t the eternally vengeful Nixon thwart Gore’s
early return from Vietnam?)
The hard-hitting adversary press have accepted at face value Gore’s claim that he was allowed to leave after
only five months because the war was coming to an end.While it’s true the war was slowing down, it wasn’t
over. Liberals ought to remember this with some clarity. They were the ones burning down buildings in response
to Nixon’s letting the war drag on through half of his term after having promised to end it.
As of 1972 the year after Gore’s "can I leave?" request was granted there were still 70,000 American men in
South Vietnam.The fact that the war was slowing down is presumably small consolation to the mothers whose
sons would have been laughed at if they had raised their hands and asked to go home. Still, Gore continually
boasts that he "volunteered for the Army" because "I knew if I didn’t, somebody else in the small town of
Carthage, Tenn., would have to go in my place."
No. Nobody else in Carthage would have had a bodyguarder, "security escort" and nobody from Carthage
would have had the temerity to ask to go home after three months.
The media are perfectly willing to impute a two month delay in Gore’s deployment to some grave Nixonian
conspiracy, but Gore’s cushy job, bodyguard, and rapid exit strategy when Dad loses provide no basis for
any paranoid inference that Gore was subject to special treatment as a senator’s son. ("Can I go home now?")
On this point, there is "no evidence."
Can you imagine a right-wing Republican trying to pass off this squalid arrangement as just the luck of the draw?
If Gore had the dignity to keep his mouth shut about the special treatment he received, it would almost be tolerable.
But he boasts about his acts of bravery in war, droning on about his fictitious combat experience.
The privileged little Lord Fauntleroy is fully aware that the Viet Cong was about as likely to take a shot at him
then as the adversary press is now.© Human Events, 2000
You folks will *love* this one.
Bianca Trump
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Didn't Go to War
Who served in the military? Who did not...
Prominent Republicans
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Former President Ronald Reagan - due to poor eyesight, served in a noncombat role making movies for the Army in southern California during WWII. He later seems to have confused his role as an actor playing a tail gunner with the real thing.(http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/wwii/rr.htm) (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/story/0,3604,593127,00.html) |
* Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - avoided the draft, did not serve.
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* Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey - avoided the draft, did not serve.
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* House Majority Leader Tom Delay - avoided the draft, did not serve. "So many minority youths had volunteered ... that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself."
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*House Majority Whip Roy Blount - did not serve.( http://www.blunt.house.gov/about.asp)
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* Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - did not serve. (An impressive medical resume, but
not such a friend to cats in Boston.)( http://frist.senate.gov/cv.cfm)
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* Majority Whip Mitch McConnell, R-KY - did not serve.
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* Rick Santorum, R-PA, third ranking Republican in the Senate - did not serve.
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* Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott - avoided the draft, did not serve.
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* Former President Ronald Reagan - due to poor eyesight, served in a noncombat role making movies
for the Army in southern California during WWII. He later seems to have confused his role as an actor
playing a tail gunner with the real thing. (http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/wwii/rr.htm)
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* Former Speaker Newt Gingrich - avoided the draft, did not serve
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* Karl Rove - avoided the draft, did not serve, too busy being a Republican.
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* Jeb Bush, Florida Governor - did not serve.
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* Att'y Gen. John Ashcroft - did not serve; sought deferment to teach business ed at SW Missouri State
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* GW Bush - decided that a six-year Nat'l Guard commitment really means four years.
Still says that he's "been to war." Huh?( http://www.cis.net/~coldfeet/grounded.gif)
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* VP Cheney - several deferments, the last by marriage in his own words, "had other priorities than military service"
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* Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld - served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as an aviator and flight instructor.
Served as President Reagan's Special Envoy to the Middle
East and met with Saddam Hussein twice in 1983 and 1984.
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* "B-1" Bob Dornan - avoided Korean War combat duty by enrolling in college acting
classes (Orange County Weekly article). Enlisted only after the fighting was over in
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* Phil Gramm - avoided the draft, did not serve, four (?) student deferments
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* Senator Jeff Sessions U.S. Army Reserves, 1973-1986 ( http://sessions.senate.gov/pages/bio.htm)
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* Duke Cunningham - nominated for the Medal of Honor, received the Navy Cross, two
Silver Stars, fifteen Air Medals, the Purple Heart, and several other decorations.
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*Chuck Hagel - two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star, Vietnam.
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* Former Senator Bob Dole - an honorable man.(http://www.bobdole.org/bio/wwII.shtml)
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* Senator John McCain - McCain's naval honors include the Silver Star, Bronze Star,
Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross. Why did the Bush campaign smear him so?
At least Senators Cleland (D-GA), Kerry (D-MA), Kerrey (D-NE), Robb (D-VA) and Hagel
(R-NE) defended him.( http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/020500wh-gop-mccain.html)
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* Representative Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), served in USMC in Vietnam; wounded in action.
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* Colin Powell. What are we to make of Powell? On the one hand, a long career as a military manager.
On the other hand, accused of covering up the My Lai massacre. Back on that first hand, one of the
seemingly sane voices in this administration when it comes to Iraq (or at least he used to be).
On the other hand, a clear hypocrite ("I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful
and well-placed... managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units...")
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Barr, Bob
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US House (R-Ga.)
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1948
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Bartlett, Roscoe
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US House (R-MD)
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Craig, Larry
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1947
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Vietnam
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Gov. - Mich.
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1948
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Veep
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1947
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Vietnam
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Hollywood
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Hollywood
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unk
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La-La Land
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Comedy Channel
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1952
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Vietnam
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Carmen, Gerald
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DC Lobbyist
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1930
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Korea
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college
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Chandler, John PH
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Ancestors?
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1911
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WWII
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pencil pushing
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Douglas, Chuck
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Unk
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1942
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Vietnam
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Finnegan, Jim
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Bill Loeb
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1930
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Korea
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disk jockey
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Gregg, Judd
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Politician
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1947
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Vietnam
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bad knees, acne
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college
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Lessner, Dick
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Bill Loeb
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unk
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Vietnam
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divinity school
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Loeb, William
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Beelzebub
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1905
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WWII
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McQuaid, Joe
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Bill Loeb
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1949
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Vietnam
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"trick shoulder"
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copy boy
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Rath, Tom
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Legal clients
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1945
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Vietnam
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law school
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Thomson, Meldrim
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Taxpayer
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1912
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WWII
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pencil pushing
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Thomson, Robb
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Taxpayer
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1952
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Vietnam
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Thomson, Peter
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Taxpayer
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1941
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Vietnam
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Tibbetts, Don
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Bill Loeb
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1930
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Korea
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disk jockey
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Modus
Operandi
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Year
Born
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Relevant
Conflict
Avoided
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Lame
Excuse
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Preferred
Activity
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Bennett, Bill
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Public Scold
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1943
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Vietnam
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attended grad school
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Cohn, Roy
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Creep
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1927
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Korea
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terrorism
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Falwell, Jerry
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Holy Man
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1933
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Korea
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Gaffney, Frank
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Missile Salesman
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1953
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Vietnam
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zits
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Graham, Billy
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Holy man
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1918
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WWII
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LaPierre, Wayne
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Head Gun Nut
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unk
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Vietnam
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Nugent, Ted
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Noisemaker
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1948
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Vietnam
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Robertson, Pat
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Holy Man
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1930
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Korea
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Rove, Karl
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Puppeteer
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1950
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Vietnam
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many schools; no degrees
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Sinatra, Frank
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Entertainer
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1915
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WWII
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punctured eardrum
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a singer
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Chickenhawk Notes:
Definition
A chickenhawk is a term often applied to public persons - generally male - who (1) tend to advocate, or are fervent supporters of those who advocate, military solutions to political problems, and who have personally (2) declined to take advantage of a significant opportunity to serve in uniform during wartime.
Some individuals may qualify more for their political associations than for any demonstrated personal tendency towards bellicosity. Some women may be included for exceptional bellicosity.
There is another, less savory definition of the term chickenhawk. It is not relevant to this discussion; we intend no such associations to be drawn here.
This list is provisonal. The management of the Gazette is proud to have served the vital public function of assembling the best known list of American chickenhawks, but we confess - we declare and emphasize - that we have not the resources to tend to it properly. Therefore we declare it provisional: we acknowledge there may be faults - hell, we know there are.
Errors and Omissions
Anyone falsely characterized as a chickenhawk is particularly welcome to correct any errors. We encourage every interested American to feel free to nominate chickenhawks, or to fill in missing information. Nominations are solicited from all sources.
History
We assembled an earlier version of this list by merging two or three less complete lists. We then added more than a score of names ourselves. We posted the list to the Gazette's website in March, where it seemed to catch the public's interest. Twenty or more names were then added to create the list as you see it here.
June 24, 2002
Another Sort of Chickenhawk Altogether
We realized with a shudder today that with all the noise we've making about "chickenhawks" - who are in general a less-than inspiring lot - we've neglected to mention a self-described chickenhawk of an altogether different sort: Robert Mason.
Robert Mason was an Army helicopter pilot with the First Cavalry in Vietnam in 1965 and 1966. His best-selling memoir "Chickenhawk" will likely remain the definitive portrayal of the war as seen from the pilot's seat of a Huey.
In 1984, when Mason's "Chickenhawk" was on the New York Times best seller list, its author was in prison for trying to sail a boat full of marijuana into the country. How an ace Army helicopter pilot became a drug smuggler is revealed in Mason's second book, "Chickenhawk: Back in the World."
It will come as no surprise to Mason's fellow veterans that PTSD - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - had something to do with the course of his life after the war. Mason's aptly-named wife Patience wrote a valuable book of her own, Recovering From the War: A Guide for all Veterans, Family Members, Friends, and Therapists, published by Viking in 1990.
The fact that the term "chickenhawk" applies to belligerent draft dodgers like Saxby Chambliss and Tom Delay, and to men like Robert Mason, is, as far as we can tell, simply further proof that if you follow something to its extreme, you may meet its opposite.
Monday, July 1, 2002
George W. Bush: Yeah, right. He was in uniform. Big deal. See http://web.archive.org/web/20021104100232/http://www.awolbush.com/
Bill Clinton: He may have launched a few cruise missiles to distract us from a dalliance with a girl half his age, but our judges believe he wasn't bellicose enough to make the cut. Your mileage may vary.
Tom Delay: "DeLay's excuse for having a yellow streak as wide as the Rio Grande down his back is truly imaginative, if you take a delight in the bizarre. The man who believes Dioxin is good for you (again, we are not making this up), claims that he volunteered for Vietnam, but all the spots were taken up by minorities, so he was not allowed to serve. Clearly all those years of exposure to toxic chemicals had some serious side effects on 'Ol Tom." - Esther and/or Jeff Clark
Sean Hannity: Too young for 'Nam, but anyone that bellicose could have horned in on Panama or Desert Storm somehow.
Paul Harvey: A complicated case. We're working on a dossier.
Trent Lott: "Dear Sir or Madam, Please be advised that Trent "Cheerleader" Lott is NOT a senator from Louisiana as you have mislabeled him but rather from the state of Mississippi. We have enough problems in Louisiana without someone thinking this toupee wearing, right wing fop is our Senator! - Please correct your entry and keep up the good work! - Rev. Kenneth M. Kafoed"
Ted Nugent: An amusing case. We're working on a dossier.
Richard Perle: We're working on a dossier.
Ronald Reagan: A complicated case. He remains listed because our judges believe his bellicosity outweighs his relatively painless service.
Pat Robertson: As we recall it, Pete McCloskey charged that Robertson's father got him posted to Japan shortly after his unit arrived in Korea. Robertson responded with a libel suit, which he later dropped. "[His own] libel suit [against fellow former Marine Pete McCloskey] turned out to be an embarrassment to Robertson. During depositions, Paul Brosnan, Jr., a retired university professor who served with Robertson in Korea, backed up [Congressman Pete] McCloskey's claim and went even further, asserting that the televangelist had consorted with prostitutes and had sexually harassed a Korean cleaning girl who worked in the barracks." --Rob Boston, The Most Dangerous Man in America, Prometheus Books, 1996.
Steven Spielberg: We read his films as ultimately adding to the glorification of war. Perhaps we're wrong. This nomination has been challenged, and is open to debate.
John Wayne: "Another notable Hollywood faker to consider is Marion Morrison. Born in 1907, he decided to jump past his competitors like Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda by using his married status as a reason to avoid volunteering for the cause. As John Wayne, a phony name for a phony man, he played a lot of war heroes, while he ran away from anything resembling patriotism, except the pose. - Ray Duray
The assembler of this information meditates on his own service in Vietnam, in
Cognitive Dissonance and Moral Imperatives, or, From One Morgue to Another
While you're here, check out our proposal to save the country from these chicken-livered maniacs. We're still working on an updated, downloadable, printable version of this database, but in the meantime here's a provisional version, as published in our March 22 issue. - The Editor
The alleged "gentlemen" listed in this database are here because they share three qualities: bellicosity (a warlike manner or temperament), public prominence, and a curious lack of wartime service when others their age had no trouble finding the fight. (Sorry, Dan and George W. and Dan Q. - your safe, cushy National Guard slots won't help you now.) The fact that they's almost all Republicans is ... well, curious, don't you think? No doubt this list is incomplete. Readers are encouraged to nominate their favorite overlooked chickenhawks. And while you're at it, you might want to consider subscribing to the dead-tree manifestation of This Olde Rag. It's only $20 a year, you know.
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Republicans/Conservatives Political
* Senator Don Nickles, R-OK - Did not serve
* Senator Richard Shelby, did not serve
* Senator Jon Kyl, R-AZ - did not serve
* Senator Tim Hutchison, R-AR - did not serve
* Rep. Christopher Cox, R-CA, fifth-ranking Republican in Congress - did not serve
* Representative Saxby Chambliss, Georgia - did not serve, had a "bad knee" (yet
somehow feels he has a right to attack Max Cleland's patriotism)
* Representative JC Watts - did not serve
* Jack Kemp, did not serve (was fit enough for pro football, but "failed" the physical?)
* Dan Quayle, avoided Vietnam service, got a slot in the journalism unit of the Indiana
National Guard when the unit was at 150% capacity (at least he showed up for his
duty, unlike GW)
* Eliot Abrams, did not serve (however, played a key role in subverting democracy in
South America)
* Paul Wolfowitz, did not serve
* Vin Weber, did not serve
* Richard Perle, did not serve (is the current bloodshed in the Middle East a direct
result of his treasonous meddling in Clinton Administrstion foreign policy?)
* Rudy Giuliani, did not serve
* Michael Bloomberg, did not serve
* George Pataki, did not serve
* Spencer Abraham, did not serve
* John Engler, did not serve
* Lindsey Graham (R-SC) - website used to claim service as a "Operation Desert Shield
and Desert Storm veteran." A current biographical website makes no such claim. In
reality, was a National Guard lawyer who never left South Carolina during the Gulf War.
* Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-CA, did not serve
* Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA/49th, there were some problems with his service.
* George Herbert Walker Bush, pilot in WWII. Shot down by the Japanese; was lone
survivor out of airplane (link).
* Tom Ridge, Bronze Star for Valor in Vietnam
* Representative Sam R. Johnson, combat missions in both Korea and Vietnam, POW in
Hanoi from April 1966 to February 1973
(don't ever run for president Sam, they'll spread rumors that you're crazy)
* Senator Ted Stevens, R-AK, WW II pilot, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, two Air
Medals, and the Yuan Hai medal awarded by the Republic of China.
* Congresswoman Heather Wilson, R-NM, served in the Air Force
* Former President Gerald Ford, served in the Navy, WWII
* Former Senator Strom Thurmond - apparently believes, along with Trent Lott, that
America should have been a segregated society. Still, he served.
Punditocracy and Preacher-types (See also Media Whores Online)
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* George Will, did not serve
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* Chris Matthews, Mediawhore, did not serve.
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* Bill O'Reilly, did not serve
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* Paul Gigot, did not serve.
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* Bill Bennett, Did not serve
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* Pat Buchanan, did not serve
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* Rush Limbaugh, did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal cyst' [see "The Rush Limbaugh
Story" by Paul D. Colford, St. Martin's Press, 1993, Chapter 2: Beating the Draft.]
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* Michael Savage (aka Michael Alan Weiner) - did not serve, too busy chasing herbs and botany degrees
in Hawaii and Fiji
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* John Wayne, did not serve
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* Pat Robertson - claimed during 1986 campaign to be a "combat veteran." In reality, was a "Liquor Officer."
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* Bill Kristol, did not serve
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* Charlton Heston - served in WWII, but went AWOL when Michael Moore asked him some tough questions.
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* Kenneth Starr, did not serve
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* Antonin Scalia, did not serve
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* Clarence Thomas, did not serve
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* Ollie North - Convicted in the Iran-Contra scandal, at least he served.
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* Ralph Reed, did not serve
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* Charlie Daniels, did not serve
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* Ted Nugent, did not serve
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I'm quite certain this will poke Homer right in the eye.
LOL
* brett Infernal Eye Poker.
Remember, it's not how hard you beat the goat, but whether the goat
you're beating is on fire.
Followups Omigawd, not John Wayne, I'm crushed --- DWA
Click the little LINK at the top of the page, dumbass. --- HiSatanicMajestYall
Soft-headed sampling methods --- DWA Soft headed rodents. --- HiSatanicMajestYall
When I was in the service... --- The Barbarian
No doubt. And that is what makes the aircraft carrier landing posturing ---
HiSatanicMajestYall Barb, the winner? --- DWA
Nope. I served I was one of those people Bush thinks are suckers. --- The Barbarian
Stale warmed over attack propaganda... --- sonic
Weak on the military? --- HiSatanicMajestYall
Well at least you now admit it. --- skibummer
"Democracy is the belief that twenty thousand lemmings can't all be wrong." --- STUFF
BUSTED! "The American people don't think so, I speak for them."
Ann "Potty Mouth" is at it again "Words rhymes with Turds"
Dude she's just the Bimbo-hick vision of Tokyo Rose of WW3
Ann Coulter -- the liberal Anti-Christ
michael gordon gordonm40@cox.net Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:23:32 -0700
Previous message: [gordon-newspost] do US liberals ever see a US national interest at stake that justifies unilateral
use of force? Next message: [gordon-newspost] A couple of articles on Mencken that deal with his life and his writing: gives you a good sample.
An amusing piece by a clever journalist (George Gurley) on an outspoken Mencken-like journalist, Ann Coulter, who in
her scattergun comments, lumps all liberals together with the radical left pc-types --- which is wrong --- sees them all as
radical-chic frauds (which is wrong), and obviously enjoys her celebrity-status that has gained her the attention of average
Americans who, repelled by the liberal pieties that dominate network news --- for once on target --- have flocked to watch
Fox News, read the WSJ opinion online, the National Review, and other conservative journals and on-line sites.
I haven't read her book, and her journalism seems excessively polemical (even if it's sometimes astute in its observations)
, but I did watch her interviewed on MSNBC a couple of times, and yes, I found found her acerbic style and poised repartee
both appealing and a source of wry amusement."
"How about all those very unflattering pictures they like running of
conservatives, I asked. "Oh yeah, oh yeah," Ms. Coulter said.
  Is that Little Anney Fanney all growde up?
"They ran not one but two photos of George Herbert Walker Bush throwing up in Japan.
Not one, one was not enough! Two photos of that. Is your tape recorder running? Turn it on!
I got something to say."
Talking about war head dumb blonds ED
Then she said: "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh
is he did not go to the New York Times Building."
I told her to be careful.
 "You can lead a whore to culture but you cant make her think."
"You're right, after 9/11 I shouldn't say that," she said, spotting a cab and grabbing it.
I first started thinking I might be conservative after witnessing the communist radical Angela Davis give
a speech at University of Kansas in the late 80's. Hundreds of students cheered after she blamed the Bush administration for the crack epidemic.
There is a connection to Bush Noireaga Oliver North & Reagan the CIA admit it but take no responsibility.
This reminded me of that hippie girl my senior year who berated me at a party for saying I admired Margaret Thatcher. "She's a capitalist pig!" she screamed at me. I stammered. Then one of my best friends defended her, saying, "George, sorry, you got no leg to stand on, man." I had left the party ashamed, powerless.
That was in 1991. So I called up this same friend of mine, Hampton Stevens, now a freelance writer now living in Kansas City.
He responded to Ann immediately. "I love it when she's unafraid to say that people are stupid and ignorant.
She's written some stuff about liberal folly and it's so fantastic." Did he find her attractive? "Oh, I'd fuck the shit out of her."
In the cab, I told Ms. Coulter that although back in college I'd been comforted by writers like Tom Wolfe, Camille Paglia and Dinesh D'Souza ("I've dated him, I've dated every right-winger," Ms. Coulter said), I remembered feeling that that nauseating political correctness was the way the world was going to be and I had to accept it.
"And then you moved to New York and it was true," she said. "The rest of America hates New York,"
she said, laughing. "I love that, I find it very comforting."
There was nothing wrong with me?
"No, we're living in an insane asylum," Ms. Coulter said. She said she "takes joy in liberal attacks. It's like coffee. I mean, usually when I write up a column, I know what's going to drive them crazy. I know whenI'm baiting them, it's so easy to bait them and they always bite.That is my signature style, to start with the wild, bald, McCarthyite overstatements-seemingly-and then back it up with methodical and laborious research. Taunting liberals is like having a pet that does tricks. Sit! Beg! Shake! Then they do it."Ann Coulter is not a screeching reactionary?
"The American people don't think so. I speak for them." What happens if everybody finally converts to conservatism, then will the liberals finally give in? "No, liberals are too stupid, they will never give in.
They are implacable. They don't read. They hate America."
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Flash in The Ann Pan...
Sample of the text:
SpinSanity
June 30, 2003
Brendan Nyan
Screed: With Treason, Ann Coulter once again defines a new low in America's political debate
With her new book Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, syndicated
pundit Ann Coulter has driven the national discourse to a new low
Salon
June 27, 2002
When right-wing fembots attack
Ann Coulter dishes out a fresh bookful of hypocrisy, distortion and half-crazed rants. Can't conservatives
find a better champion than this?
October, 2001
Racist Coulter fired, rehired by conservative philanthropy funded institutions
Fired for her racist views from the National Review On Line, Coulter was immediately picked up by
another racist sponsored by the conservative philanthropies, David Horowitz
July 16, 2001
Brendan Nyhan
Ann Coulter: The Jargon Vanguard
St Petersburg Times
August 26, 2002
Bestseller trampled under footnotes
Slander, conservative Ann Coulter's bestseller about ''liberal lies'' gets counter-punched by
the left at the hands of fact-checking critics on the Web.
Also see: Fact Checking Ann Coulter.
Washington Post
Richard Cohen
August 15, 2002
Blaming of the Shrew
May I say something about Ann Coulter? She is a half-wit, a termagant,
a dimwit, a blowhard, a worthless silicone nothing, physically ugly and
could be likened to Eva Braun, who was Hitler's mistress. As it happens,
these are all descriptions or characterizations Coulter uses for others
July, 2002
The Daily Howler takes on "journalists" who blindly accept allegations made in
Coulter's new book:"Coulter is a crackpot" "..Coulter is a crackpot, a clown—
and a balls-out dissembler. Her procedures are an insult to the American public
interest. And so we have a simple question for lazy [Bill]
O’Reilly and worthless [Mickey] Kaus. Nobody made you host a TV show. Nobody
forced you to go on the web. But boys, are you here to perform your actual duties?
Or are you really just here to f*ck around?
Washington Post June 27, 2002 The Thrilla in Rockefella Ann Coulter dukes it out
with Katie Couric. Washington Monthly Oct 2001 "The Wisdom of Ann Coulter"
Ann Coulter From The Public Eye:Clinton, Conspiracism, and the Continuing Culture War
"...Coulter attended Cornell University, where she launched the conservative Cornell
Review, part of the conservative Collegiate Network funded by Scaife. She trained at
the National Journalism Center, run by conservative columnist M. Stanton Evans, whose
lectures are sometimes sponsored by the Young America's Foundation. The Center
claims no partisan bias but its lecturers and postings are skewed to the right. The center
receives funding from the conservative Olin Foundation. While at the University of
Michigan law school, Coulter founded the local chapter of the Federalist Society.
After the Republicans Congressional takeover in 1994, Coulter joined the staff of
[former] Sen. Spencer Abraham, (R-MI), a Federalist Society activist. She then became
a legal commentator for MSNBC.
Coulter's book was published by Regnery. Phillips/Eagle, a major owner of Regnery,
also publishes Human Events. Coulter went to work for the Scaife-funded Center for
Individual Rights, then as a legal affairs writer for Human Events, which had previously
run a favorable review of her book. Coulter also played matchmaker, helping Paula
Jones find lawyers and suggesting that attorney Jim Moody help Linda Tripp with her
legal problems [ More...].
$6.1 million to the Federalist Society
$2.5 million to the Collegiate Network
$185,000 to the National Journalism Center
$3.3 million to the Center for Individual Rights
$9.4 million to the Center for the Study of Popular Culture
$384,000 to the National Review
Antiwar.com
Oct 5, 2001
KU KLUX COULTER
Ann Coulter, another conservative philanthropy frankenstein
A spat on the Right reveals a lot
Ann Coulter is a leggy, sassy blonde telebimbo, (and constitutional lawyer) whose
career as a TV talking head took off during the Clinton scandals – and, like Clinton,
she never really went away. Her column...has been a mainstay of the firebreathing
Right...Ms. Coulter is now embroiled in one of those intramural spats on the Right
that reveal more about the participants than anyone ever intended, a scrap which
underscores the new era of ugliness that now seems to be dawning in wartime
America [more...]
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Ann Coulter, who recently imploded in print, is nearly a complete
product of the conservative philanthropies, having worked for or received funds
from no fewer than six of their funded institutions. She was recently fired from
her job as columnist for the National Review Online after she advised that the
US conquer Muslim countries and convert them to Christianity.
In college she benefited from funds from the Collegiate Network -
funded by Richard Mellon Scaife. She trained at the National Journalism Center,
which itself is connected to the Young America's Foundation, and run by the
conservative philanthropy funded columnist M. Stanton Evans. She founded a
chapter of the Federalist Society at the University of Michigan Law School, and
later worked for former Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham, himself deeply
involved with the Federalist Society.
Later Coulter worked at the Scaife-funded Center for Individual Rights. Now she's
just been picked up by David Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture,
one of the most prominent recipients of conservative philanthropy money.]
Read the full commentary by Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.com
See the full page ads Horowitz has taken out in college newspapers urging
students not to protest the new "war".
Where does Horowitz get all the money to hire Coulter and run those
propagandistic ads?
Plus, don't miss Washington Monthly's"The Wisdom of Ann Coulter"
Starr, the Federalist Society and Collegial Networks