Don Imus’ Mistake and Ann Coulter’s Target Selection

Kurt Nimmo
Sunday April 15, 2007

Robert Wright, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, doesn’t have a clue. “Why the Imus-Coulter disparity?” he muses, and then ventures at a possible explanation: “Maybe part of it is that Coulter isn’t as structurally susceptible to sanction as Imus. She doesn’t have her own radio or TV show, so advertisers on CNN and Fox have two degrees of separation from bigotry. Still, there are pressure points big enough for an Al Sharpton to find. Coulter’s column appears in newspapers with major advertisers.”

It’s far more simple, Bob. It’s open season on Muslims and Arabs. It’s not simply turn time for the Arabs and Iranians. Our neocons have a well established and contrived plan, although far too many people, when presented with the facts, react with disbelief and, worse, credulity. Most of them want to believe George Bush is a good man, maybe ill-equipped and bumbling, but a decent man at heart, when in fact he is a sociopath born into the vampiric elite, a profligate deviant guilty of massive war crimes.

In Bushzarro world, opposing the murder of nearly a million Iraqis—heaped upon the previous two million killed by Junior’s father and diligently followed by the lost son of the Bush criminal dynasty, Bill Clinton—is increasingly a punishable crime. Truth saying results in the loss of tenure, jobs, sets up one for death threats, no-fly designation, and who knows what sort of special attention over at the NSA, FBI, CIA, and local constabulary. On the other hand, telling scurrilous and vicious lies, habitually and expertly defaming character is a growth business, especially if the two minute hate sessions are directed against Muslims and the domestic “American haters” who are said to aid and abet the enemy, never mind Congress never gets around to formally declaring war, as that would require commitment.

Ann Coulter is in demand because she appeals so effectively to the mean-spirited and destructively hateful streak a mile wide and countless fathoms deep in the American psyche—a flabby, malleable, and intellectually incurious psychological structure effortlessly programmed by the Borg Hive idiot box. Corporate “entertainment” media, passing as the “news,” feeds ferociously off the piercing malice of Coulter, savors the venomous tongue and smirk of Glen Beck, consumes as a spectator sport the spiteful diatribes unleashed every week night by the Operation Mockingbird CIA operative O’Reilly, and let us not forget the millions who tune in faithfully to the grand wizard of malignancy, Rush Limbaugh.

“Before Imus was fired by CBS, Coulter weighed in on the affair on Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes,” writes Ron Brynaert. “She said that it wasn’t that the shock jock used the phrase ‘nappy headed hos,’ but that by picking on the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, he chose the wrong targets.”

Indeed, Don Imus was careless in his target selection, as he slandered a politically protected minority group, not the designated target, Arabs and Muslims.