Demonic: A+

Ann Coulter’s new book, Demonic, is a must read for those, like myself, who are constantly left scratching their heads or shaking their fists at the irrational behavior of liberals. Drawing from the outlined “mob psychology” in Gustave Le Bon’s book The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1896), Coulter details the danger propagated by “group think.” She makes the overwhelming connections between today’s liberals and crowd ideology, and the conclusion is clear: Liberals are the party of the mob. Though you will want to read this entertainingly acerbic book yourself, here is an excerpt that perfectly shows the doublethink liberals unabashedly employ:

A liberal is a person who:

· worships President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who carpet-bombed German cities and executed an American-born spy captured on U.S. soil after a secret military trial- but screams that Bush was guilty of war crimes;

· is crazy about Michael Moore- but against child obesity;

· tapes over the sign that said, “Too Many Jews at Harvard” with a sign that says, “Ethnic Quotas This Way”;

· is enraged with Karl Rove for releasing the name of a CIA paper-pusher (which he didn’t do)- but are copacetic with WikiLeaks putting hundreds of thousands of classified national security documents on the Internet;

· categorically opposes the death penalty for convicted murderers- but venerates it as a “constitutional right” for innocent, unborn babies;

· hysterically opposed taking out Saddam Hussein, a mass murderer who gassed his own people and presided over “rape rooms”- but weepily demands that we intervene in Rwanda for humanitarian reasons;

· claims to be pro-children- but supports the public schools;

· champions women’s and gay rights- but ignores the brutal treatment of women and gays by Muslims;

· same sentence as above, except take out the words “gay” and replace the word “Muslims” with “Bill Clinton”;

· claims it was a vicious slander to be called a communist in the fifties- but didn’t see anything wrong with being a communist in the fifties;

· advocates unfettered scientific research and debate- but then, with no evidence, simply declares discussions about evolution and global warming closed;

· says women should be treated like men- but then demands a vast network of speech laws that assume women are hothouse flowers;

· yelps for clean, alternative energy- but violently opposes nuclear power;

· decries stereotyping- but when a black conservative comes along denounces that person as “unqualified,” “stupid,” a “house nigga,” “an Uncle Tom,” or “window dressing”;

· believes that Tea Partiers are terrorists- but Islamic jihadists are victims;

· as mayor of New York City, closes off streets to traffic, clogs the remaining streets with bike lanes to be “green”- and then takes off in one of his two Gulfstream jets to London.

This welter of contradictions doesn’t even embarrass liberals.

Why? Because they are a mob. (Coulter, 49-50)

You can find Coulter’s book at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, or Borders bookstores.

Works Cited:

Coulter, Ann. Demonic. New York: Crown Publishing Group, June 2011.