Columnist Ann Coulter Defends White Supremacist Group
Rabid far-right commentator Ann Coulter is known across America for . Al Gore is a âtotal f--â and another one-time presidential candidate, John Edwards, is the same. Democrats are âgutless traitorsâ and their convention a âSpawn of Satanâ gathering. Muslims are âr-------â and America should âkill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.â Jews are people who need to be âperfected.â The New York Times building and its editorial staff should be bombed. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens should have ârat poisoningâ mixed into his food. Princess Diana âostentatiously [had] sex in front of [her] children.â The Rev. Al Sharpton is âa fat, race-baiting black man.â President Bill Clinton was âa very good rapist,â and North Korea should be ânuked.â
But despite denouncing school desegregation as a âspectacularâ failure, Coulter has generally avoided bolstering white supremacist hate groups. Until now, that is.
In her latest foaming-mouth tome â Guilty: Liberal âVictimsâ and Their Assault on America, released on Jan. 6 â Coulter spends the better part of three pages defending a group called the (CCC), which The New York Times had described as a âthinly veiled white supremacist organization.â Coulter begs to differ. The CCC, Coulter opines, is âa conservative groupâ that has unfairly been branded as racist âbecause some of the directors of the CCC had, decades earlier, been leaders of a segregationist group.â âThere is no evidence on its Web page that the modern incarnation of the CCC supports segregation,â she says. âApart from some aggressive reporting on black-on-white crimes â the very crimes that are aggressively hidden by the establishment media â there is little on the CCC website suggestingâ that the group is racist. Indeed, its main failing is âcontaining members who had belonged to a segregationist group thirty years earlier.â
Coulter could hardly be more wrong. And even if she canât find time to read beyond a page of the CCCâs website, she really ought to know â after all, the organization where she frequently speaks, the Conservative Political Action Committee, has publicly banned the CCC from its annual gathering because it is racist. Also in the late 1990s, Jim Nicholson, then-chairman of the Republican National Committee, asked GOP members to stay away from the CCC because of its âracist and nationalist views.â
How could conservative Republicans be inspired to say such ugly things? Let us count the ways.
The CCCâs columnists have written that black people are âa retrograde species of humanity,â and that non-white immigration is turning the U.S. population into a âslimy brown mass of glop.â Its website has run photographic comparisons of pop singer Michael Jackson and a chimpanzee. It opposes âforced integrationâ and decries racial intermarriage. It has lambasted black people as âgenetically inferior,â complained about âJewish power brokers,â called gay people âperverted sodomites,â and even named the late Lester Maddox, the baseball bat-wielding, arch-segregationist former governor of Georgia, âPatriot of the Century.â
One day, the CCC ran photos on its home page of accused Beltway snipers John Muhammad and John Malvo, 9/11 conspirator Zacharias Moussaoui and accused shoe-bomber Richard Reed. âNotice a Pattern Here?â asked a caption underneath the four photos. âIs the face of death black after all?â On another occasion, its website featured a photo of Daniel Pearl, the âJewish Wall Street Journal reporterâ who had just been decapitated by Islamic terrorists. In the photo, Pearl was shown with his âmixed-race wife, Marianne.â The headline above the coupleâs picture was stunning even for the CCC: âDeath by Multiculturalism?â The CCC Arkansas chapter ran an essay waxing nostalgic for the days âwhen racial separation was the norm.â
But to Ann Coulter, there is âno evidenceâ on its website that the CCC âsupports segregation.â Mostly, she says, the group â which was formed from the debris of the White Citizens Councils that Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall once called âthe uptown Klanâ â is about âa strong national defense, the right to keep and bear arms, the traditional family, and an âAmerica Firstâ trade policy.â Indeed, she says, The New York Times and other critics of the CCC are simply liberals âwho have no principles.â