Coulter: Obama's memoir is "Dimestore 'Mein Kampf' "
SUMMARY: In a syndicated column titled "Obama's Dimestore 'Mein Kampf,'" Ann Coulter wrote that Sen. Barack Obama's 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, "reveals Obama to be a flabbergasting lunatic," adding: "If only people had read 'Mein Kampf' ..."
In an April 2 syndicated column titled "Obama's Dimestore 'Mein Kampf,' " Ann Coulter wrote of Sen. Barack Obama's 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance: "Has anybody read this book? Inasmuch as the book reveals Obama to be a flabbergasting lunatic, I gather the answer is no. Obama is about to be our next president: You might want to take a peek. If only people had read 'Mein Kampf' ..." Mein Kampf, or "My Struggle" as translated from German, is the 1925 autobiography of Adolf Hitler and an exposition on National Socialist political theory, the ideological foundation of the Nazi Party.
Media Matters for America has documented numerous appearances made by Coulter on NBC-affiliated networks; she is regularly invited back despite an extensive pattern of offensive comments and inflammatory rhetoric, including on NBC and affiliated networks. Less than 24 hours after she repeatedly referred to Obama as "B. Hussein Obama" and "President Hussein" on the February 13 edition of Fox News' Your World, Coulter appeared on the February 14 edition of MSNBC Live. During the program, MSNBC highlighted remarks Coulter made in a February 8 speech to the Young America's Foundation with on-screen text that read, "COULTER: OBAMA WOULDN'T BE RUNNING IF HE WERE NOT HALF BLACK." Coulter referred to Obama as "B. Hussein Obama" during the speech and asserted, "His strongest selling point is that he is one of the least dangerous people I know named Hussein." As the blog Think Progress noted, Coulter went on to say: "Other than that, Barack's really been kind of coasting on his record, since his first big accomplishment of being born half-black. I keep hearing people say, 'Oh, Obama could never be elected because he's half-black. You know, 'cause we're just such a racist country.' What are they talking about? He wouldn't be running for president if he weren't half-black. He'd be [Sen.] Dick Durbin [D-IL] with less experience." Less than one month later, Coulter appeared on the March 6 broadcast of MSNBC Live to discuss presidential primaries and referred to Obama as "B. Hussein Obama." Asked why she emphasized Obama's middle name, Coulter responded: "Because I think it's funny."
Other conservative pundits have made Hitler references when talking about Obama. As Media Matters noted, on the February 11 broadcast of Fox News Radio's Tom Sullivan Show, host Tom Sullivan aired what he called a "side-by side comparison" of a Hitler speech and an Obama speech. On the February 22 edition of CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck, National Review Online editor-at-large Jonah Goldberg compared Obama to Hitler and former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
From Coulter's April 2 column, "Obama's Dimestore 'Mein Kampf' ":
If characters from "The Hills" were to emote about race, I imagine it would sound like B. Hussein Obama's autobiography, "Dreams From My Father."
Has anybody read this book? Inasmuch as the book reveals Obama to be a flabbergasting lunatic, I gather the answer is no. Obama is about to be our next president: You might want to take a peek. If only people had read "Mein Kampf" ...
Ann's just biting her nails a little in anticipatory fear. Obama doesn't embrace her brand of slash and skewer partisan nastiness, hers may actually have peaked, she might be yesterday's nasalwhine of political punditry and flame-throwing for nothing more than its own sake. What will she do? Where will she go? What will she write about if she goes the way of big hair and brick cell phones?
Cut her some slack, she won't give up without a fight.
But I thought libs were pu**ies.
I've caught two of his spoken word performances, he is amazing.
That's rich Tommy! This pathetic bag-o-bones is sooooooooo irrelevant it's sad really. She's been supplanted by The Malkinator and has to sit on the sidelines and witness the rise of her rival Laura Ingrate. What's the washed-up, washed-out trannie gonna do now? Uh-oh . . . better call Maaco!
Go piss up a rope. You sound like some disenchanted little gossipy drama queen.
With absolutely nothing worthwhile to bring to the table.
Ok, Geng,
Show me any quotes if Wright's that are racist. Iassume you'll find many anti-white sentiments, Post them. Show me the terrorist-loving ones too.
You are so correct. Amazing that the far right, who consistantly claim to posess such exceptional intelligence, put up with the blabber out of this woman and still act like she is a leading light of intelligent thought. Truly amazing. Wonderful that Keith is so faithful in his label for this demented woman. She is a racist of the first order, a hate mongerer, and a deceiver. Poor demented thing.
That's ridiculous.
I read some of the book and it is candid and he comes across as senstive and introspective.
He doesn't sound like a politician in the book.
I've never actually read "Mein Kampf" but perhaps Coulter is just parroting Jonah Goldberg.
Ann Coulter should be quarantined or at least ostracized by everyone.
Wanna bet Coulter's never read Mein Kampf?*
Oh yeah, I forgot. She's just making funnies!
(*obvious joke-- she doesn't need to...)
I know Ann Coulter is clearly over the edge, but even a broken clock is shows the correct time twice a day. What does anyone have to lose by reading Hitler's book. What if she is right; wouldn't you want to know?
If you are already in the tank for Obama, then pretend Keith Olbermann said it.
There's no need to ostracize Anne
She already has a long skinny neck.
Does she have another book coming out? If not, then why is she trying to be controversial?
Maybe she should go back to that gay-owned restaurant where she can hang her head in shame again when someone confronts here, again, for being there in the first place.
"Has anybody read this book?"
#147 on Amazon. Respectable for having been released 15 months ago. That makes it worthy enough to inspire Ann Coulter to take a break from being the right wing's foremost expert on everything and become a book critic for one day.
What's next, Ann? Your highly anticipated review of Gone With The Wind?
What I'm wondering is, where are all the Coulter apologists?
They're all off getting ready for tonight's big cross-burning/lynching party.
So once again, the "woman" that Richard Belzer refered to as a "fascist party doll" breaks Godwin's Law by making a Nazi comparison to attack someone she disagrees with. I'd use the "C" word to refer to her, but there is no evidence that "she" even has one....
This is why over the years so many newspapers have dropped her hate-spewing column.
She didn't break Godwin's Law, she actually proved its main corollary, and does so time and time again. The point of Godwin's Law is to show that whoever makes the analogy (because somebody eventually will) loses the argument.
Sorry Ann, better luck next time!!
I knew it! Barrack Obama is a white supremecist trying to bring the master Arian Race to their rightfull place at the front of the line.
I hate Anne Coulter
As usual, "actual Obama supporter", the liberals do the right thing and suspend someone for inappropriate speech, while the rightwingers celebrate their inappropriate speech.The stiff Rhodes said is what Michael Savage spews every day with no consequences.
And of course you had to try and deflect from the criticism of Coulter, because you just HAVE to try and defend her. You're pathetic.
I think you guys have found your very own Anne Coulter. Rhodes is right up there in the disgusting department.
Now on topic: Anne has a way of twisting things in order to poke fun at them. I'd want to read the book before accepting Coulter's analysis of any of Obama's thoughts & words.
I have seen the enema and it is you! I'm off to the toilet now since your post was just what the doctor ordered. Back in Jiff . . .
I just read the column, which is nothing more than a series of bigoted rants. Is this what passes for conservative commentary these days?
Oh, for the days of Buckley! I didn't agree with him much, but boy, did he say it well.
Whatever.
Buckley was a disgusting racist as well. He was just a little more erudite about it.
Inasmuch as the book reveals Obama to be a flabbergasting lunatic...
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There goes Annie ... projecting again.
Wow, not even any effort at her smear here. She just mentions that Obama, by the way, is Hitler, and leaves it at that.
She's certainly gotten lazy lately.
I read this yesterday (yeah, I'm on the Human Events email list- I get the crap while it's still hot) and could not believe, on top of all the other nonsense, Annie-christ was going after Obama's writing. From her columns that I've read, I'd guess she writes at about a 2nd grade level.
Can't believe somebody's paying her for this bathroom wall quality prose.
Ann Colder claims Obama's writings "reveal Obama to be a flabbergasting lunatic." Gee, isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? (No pun intended, BTW.)
Dear Annie,
Welcome back. I have missed you and your eloquent words of wisdom. As you know, you are a goddess and I simply adore you. Please come and visit as soon as possible.
Your Servant,
Seannie
P.S. Did you really get that Hitler idea during our last Bondage session? You are my Nazi Mistress and your dad, Adolph the H would be proud of you.
Who wrote the following?
"It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time."
"Any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning."
Referring to Joseph Conrad's, "Heart of Darkness", "I read the book to help me understand just what it is that makes white people so afraid. Their demons. The way ideas get twisted around. I helps me understand how people learn to hate."
On Malcom X's autobiography "He spoke of a wish he'd once had, the wish that the white blood that ran through him, there by an act of violence, might somehow be expunged."
All these quotes, and a few more are in her latest column. Whether you like Ann or hate her, she does make you react.
Col.
I don't remember seeing any of the quotes I provided which were the gist of Coulter's comments in the MMFA thread. Those quotes are the basis for her reference to Mein Kampf. In my opinion, by MMFA leaving that out, they lead others to miss the context, not me. There was no attempt at 'gotcha' (whatever that means?) The answer to my question about who made those quotes was so obvious even you figured it out. ;-)As an aside, You'd do a lot better if you'd stop trying to assign motives to my posts. You are obviously not clairvoyant and as I illucidated, you are 100% wrong - again. :-)
Your critique of my post is based on your completely erroneous assumption regarding my motives. Therefore your conclusion with your derogatory remarks are also in error. Now I ask you, who's the one who should be embarrassed?
You don't have to agree with what I post or even have to read those posts. But rather than make up motives out of your imagination simply so you can castigate them, is very, very weak. The column by Coulter is much more interesting than guessing wrongly at my motives. Lets get back to that discussion.
The third to the last sentence, "But rather than make up motives out of your imagination simply so you can castigate them, is very, very weak." should have started out, "Making up motives..."
Sorry for the confusion.
So, for the record, I want to be clear, AA. Are you honestly trying to say that the purpose of your post was NOT to try to trick somebody into believing those were AC's quotes, then accusing them of hypocrisy if they criticized the quotes?
You are amazing. Transparent and pitiful. I just don't know how you reconcile, in your mind, the whole "playing dumb" act with your condescending attitude.
On second thought, AA, ignore my request. I know the truth, and I think you know the truth, anybody reading this does as well. No need to embarass yourself any further.
And, please, no longwinded posts advising other s how to be more honest and on-topic. Nor real convincing coming from someone with the record of plagiarism and dishonesty you've built up. I thought maybe Roundhouse got through to you yesterday, but it didn't seem to stick.
Col.
I never once considered anyone would think AC wrote those words as I have already explained but you refuse to accept. The quote where Obama talks about a "...well mannered young black man" should have given it away. To say you think I was trying to trick others is ludicrous. You just won't admit that your original critique was off base. Conintuing by making ad hominum attacks at me does not make it any better just as Round's increasingly juvenile insults did not only showed him to be narcissistic and ill mannered. (Although I had to laugh when he called me a "prig".) :-)
The bit about plagiarism is also laughable. Hell, everyone here is anonymous so what use is plagiarizing. I am not publishing any tome or making any money from what I post. Although not perfect, I do a lot better job documenting my line of reasoning than most. I support my reasoning rather than sink into name-calling and motive guessing which is what I find you are doing.
It is simple. You made assumptions about my motives that were false. Your quick descent into a personal attack proves that you are only trying to mask your error and have nothing substantial to back your original claim.
Rail at me all you want. I hope it makes you feel better.
ps. I have a question for you. Are you a reincarnation of Huntington Beach Lefty? You certainly sound like him.
You didn't know I'm HBL? hee hee, you are thick, I've made no secret of that. I had to re-register during that maintenance a while ago.
Anyway, I won't ask you to look up ad-hominum(sic) again, but I won't advise against it.I don't point out your blunders to be mean, I'm actually doing it because I'm pretty soft-hearted. While others might just let you continue for laughs, I'm starting to feel sorry for you, and I'm trying to help you. You may be fooling yourself with your feeble excuses, but I'm trying to let you know that you're not fooling anybody else. It's getting sad.
Thanks for pointing out my spelling errors. Lord knows I make a bunch.
I appreciate your concern but it is unnecessary. If anyone wants to laugh at my posts, they are most welcome to do so. I've laughed at enough myself.
Although not perfect, I do a lot better job documenting my line of reasoning than most. (AA)
Thanks for the laugh ! ;0)
At least I'm honest and adult enough with you to make my intentions incandescently clear.
If so, Colonel, I salute you. So many have tried and failed.
Arg,
My motive was to add the quotes by Obama to the conversation as they were the crux of AC's column, not her Mein Kampf reference. Nobody up to that point even noticed that. It was simply another AC bashfest.
I would rather discuss those quotes as Obama is potentially the next President rather than how much everyone hates Coulter.
(This is getting tedious.)
You are welcome to give your opinon but if you don't have anything to back it up other than more insults, it's time to let it go.
Col.
Although Jesus has nothing to do with thread. I realize that indeed I must be thick to have carried this conversation at length with you. ;-)
Have a great weekend.
You too, AA. BTW, my comment about looking up Ad hominem wasn't about the spelling but the meaning. Since nobody knows you personally here, an Ad Hominem attack is not just debatable, it's impossible.
All anybody knows about you here is through your ideas and opinions. When those get shot down, that is not an Ad Hominem attack. No charge.
Just finished reading the column, and the "Mein Kampf" connection is pretty clearly the "crux" or thesis--for which the cherry-picked quotes are offered in support. Like many a lazy undergraduate, she throws out the quotes--often in suspiciously short, choppy phrases--without really explaining why she thinks they make her point.
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Discuss them, then. Do you really think the Obama-Hitler analogy (which is, whatever you say, EXACTLY what Coulter is implying) hold water>
Arg,
Obviously the reference to Mein Kampf is Coulter's suggestion we read Obama's books so we know "his struggle" before we make him our next President. I agree that it is not a kind reference. However Coulter illustrated the difference between the Obama we see speaking about bringing people together and some of his writings regarding race. Whether one agrees with Coulter or not, her suggestion to read his books is not a bad one.
I have not read them. Since you have and you think they are out of context that is fine. If you can add any specifics that would be great.
She does make this "suggestion", but undercuts it by offering a summary/interpretation of the book--that Obama displays that he's "bonkers", a "lunatic" with a "racial hair-trigger." In her view. The obvious point of the column is to offer her own creative reading, rather than genuinely encouraging anyone to read it and decide for themselves.
"However Coulter illustrated the difference between the Obama we see speaking about bringing people together and some of his writings regarding race. Whether one agrees with Coulter or not, her suggestion to read his books is not a bad one."
No, she asserts this difference, but she doesn't illustrate it.
"Since you have and you think they are out of context that is fine. If you can add any specifics that would be great."
Sure. She claims that an anecdote about Obama taking a couple of white friends to a black party shows this lunatic racial hair-trigger. The quotes from Obama's book consist of 'black party", "made some small talk, took a couple of girls out on the dance floor." In between the actual brief quotes, we get Coulter herself telling most of the story in her overblown, snarky fashion, adding all the emotional flavoring to what are mostly direct descriptive phrases from the book itself.
She never quotes at any real length, because the reasonable tone and tack of Obama's prose would undercut her claim about it all being "racist invective."
So. How about some specifics from you? You clearly haven't read Obama's book, and I'm not sure you've fully read Coulter's column. Did the column inspire you to read the book and make up your own mind about Obama, or has the column just reinforced what you already think? If the latter, your original defense of the column is bogus.
Argle,
Reading Coulter's article did raise my interest in reading Obama's book. Since the primary is already over in my State, My plan was to wait until BO wins the nomination.
On second thought, I think I'll go reserve a copy from my library as I think, all things being equal, ;-) he'll win the nomination and the Presidency. But who knows, maybe Hillary will be able to wrestle it away? If that is the case, I think McCain would win.
Is Ann Coulter looking more and more like Neal Smith, Alice Cooper's original drummer?
I've read Mein Kampf, and it's all about self-delusions of grandeur, fear of the other, and attempts to purify a nation,
Like Ann's writings.
Furthermore, Andrew would do well to remember some of her own words.
Even I get confused sometimes.
Loser.
LOL. I'm waiting for Another American to tell me how disappointed he/she is with the past comments of Anne Coulter. How come she isn't public enemy number 1? Because she says only positive things about the U.S. Jeremiah Wright served in the Marines. The only time Andrew has served anyone in the U.S. is when she's asleep and no one has to hear her b.s.
I consider Coulter to be a shock jock comedian who found her niche in lampooning liberals. She says things over-the-top all the time. I don't take them seriously. I also don't get upset at Mahr or Rhodes, Stewart or anyone else on the left that use their acerbic wit to skewer Republicans and conservatives. I think they all contain nuggets of truth.. I disagree with most Doonsebury cartoons yet I continually read them. The same goes here. It would be too serious without them.
I have reconciled myself with her remarks because I think the things she says are done primarily to tick off liberals and progressives. After reading post after post of AC insults, the contrarian in me tries get beyond those barbed statements - to her points which I feel are lost in the bashfest.
I do not at all agree with her most outrageous statements, but since I think she says them strictly for shock effect, I laugh and go on.
I find it interesting that people on the left here get upset because Coulter makes disparaging comments, but in expressing themselves, they do what I consider to be the exact same thing. For example your referencing Ann as a man or as Col. put it, transgendered. It seems to be a very popular derision. I don't take those comments seriously either.AA, have you heard the computer expression "garbage in, garbage out"? That's what you get with Ann Coulter. Yet you read her columns and listen to her inane utterings? Maybe you don't - please set me straight. If you do, please let me know why.
For me, I don't listen to shock jocks. They aren't funny to me and I'm not given to mindless entertainment that seeks to humiliate or degrade people. Ann deserves no respect and rightly garners derision. She's actually getting off pretty easy considering the sewage she regularly delivers. If you want to intelligently discuss Obama's views, please do read his book and quit taking a dishonest person's characterizations of things. If you seek her out, you are actively and wilfully trying to be ignorant. Or perhaps she makes you feel better about your own frailties as a huiman being when she says racist and viscious stuff.
Lastly, quit comparing her to real comedians who don't need to have their funniness explained. You insult yourself and everybody at this forum when you try that baloney.
August,
If Ann were running for office it would be different story. I would not vote for her.
Actually, I like Bill Maher, and find him even better than Jon Stewart. His is a humor with teeth, and reminds me of the later Mark Twain, and Ambrose Beardsley. But the teeth frighten off potential guests.
Bill Maher's jibes have a sense of cleverness and wordplay, as well as keen observation, whereas rash limpballs and ann just engage in the yelling of insults on par with the elementary school playground.
You're never going to get your fat mouth inside of sheep's clothing.
It's way too late for that now.