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There’s a price to pay for having the No. 1 best-selling book in America when you’re a controversial conservative female author.
Ann Coulter’s new book, “Godless: The Church of Liberalism,” has prompted criticism from Sen. Hillary Clinton and other members of Congress. It has stirred heated debate in media forums. And today, it has so stirred the passions of Advertising Age columnist Simon Dumenco that he has called for the popular columnist and commentator to kill herself.
In a column taking on several media entities and individuals who bug him, Ad Age’s “media guy” asks: “Would it kill you, ‘Godless’ author Ann Coulter, to do us all a favor and kill yourself? (Oh, well, yeah, I guess it would kill you.”
“After her recent rabidly hateful, foaming-at-the-mouth, sub-human ‘Today’ show appearance – in which she reiterated her assertion that 9-11 widows are ‘enjoying their husband’s (sic) deaths’ – even her former supporters began to fantasize about how much nicer the world would be if it were Coulterless,” wrote Dumenco.
In her new book, the WND columnist argues that while many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion, to focus solely on the Left’s attacks on Judeo-Christian tradition is to miss a larger point: Liberalism is a religion – a godless one.
“Liberals love to boast that they are not ‘religious,’ which is what one would expect to hear from the state-sanctioned religion,” she writes.
“Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as ‘religion.'”
Chapter headings in Coulter’s “Godless” include “On the Seventh Day, God Rested and Liberals Schemed” and “Liberals’ Doctrine of Infallibility: Sobbing Hysterical Women” and “The Holiest Sacrament: Abortion.”
Coulter is the author of four New York Times bestsellers: “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must),” “Treason,” “Slander,” and “High Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
In her new book, Coulter takes on what she calls the liberal creation myth: Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
For liberals, she says, evolution is the touchstone that separates the enlightened from the benighted. But Coulter neatly reverses the pretense that liberals are rationalists guided by the ideals of free inquiry and the scientific method. She exposes the essential truth about Darwinian evolution that liberals refuse to confront: It is bogus science.
Coulter reveals that “gaps” in the theory of evolution are all there is – Darwinism is nothing but a gap. After 150 years of dedicated searching into the fossil record, evolution’s proponents have failed utterly to substantiate its claims. And a long line of supposed evidence, from the infamous Piltdown Man to the “evolving” peppered moths of England, has been exposed as hoaxes. Still, liberals treat those who question evolution as religious heretics and prohibit students from hearing about real science when it contradicts Darwinism. And these are the people who say they want to keep faith out of the classroom?
Most of the criticism of Coulter is focused on comments in her book about four 9-11 widows using the deaths of their husbands to push a political cause.
Coulter is the first publicly to take on the New Jersey widows who pushed for an independent commission to investigate the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The women also backed Democrat John Kerry’s presidential candidacy in 2004.
“These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths so much,” Coulter writes in “Godless.”
Former Rep. Tim Roehmer, D-Ind., a member of the commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks, is the latest to get on the bash-Coulter bandwagon, calling Coulter’s “hate-filled attack on the patriotic heroes of 9/12 – the widows of 9/11 – reprehensible and undignified.”
Roehmer urged people not to buy her book: “Americans shouldn’t contribute to her profiting from these vicious remarks.”
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., said on the House floor that Coulter is a “hatemonger” and called on Republicans to denounce her: “I must ask my colleagues on the other side of the aisle: Does Ann Coulter speak for you when she suggests poisoning … Supreme Court Justices or slanders the 9/11 … widows? If not, speak now. Your silence allows her to be your spokesman.”
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