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WOULDN'T A MINI SERIES ON ATTILA THE HUN EXPLAIN
NANCY PELOSI?
by Ann Coulter
AnnCoulter.com
Rachel
Maddow's MSNBC special on Timothy McVeigh this past Monday night did not
come a moment too soon. As Maddow explained in the introduction to her show:
"Nine years after his execution, we are left worrying that Timothy McVeigh's
voice from the grave echoes in the new rising tide of American
anti-government extremism."
After months of hysterically warning
viewers that cheerful, well-dressed tea partiers carrying "I Can See
November From My House" signs could suddenly erupt into wanton violence,
MSNBC finally had proof: Timothy McVeigh.
How about a special on the
KGB to help us understand what makes Henry Waxman tick? We're just trying to
seek answers ...
On her April 14 show, Maddow gave a "War of the
Worlds" report on gun rights activists whom she claimed were planning
tributes to Timothy McVeigh's bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma
City. "On the anniversary of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma
City by Timothy McVeigh," she said, "there will be two marches on
Washington."
After reminding viewers that McVeigh was "an
anti-government extremist with ties to the militia movement" (his only
"ties" being that he tried to join the Michigan Militia, but was rejected)
Maddow said one of the groups, the Second Amendment March, had "been holding
armed rallies at state capitols from Kentucky to Montana to Virginia --
anti-government marches and rallies at which participants are encouraged to
wear and display their guns."
So if I have this straight, the
pro-Second Amendment marchers were both armed ... AND displaying guns!
Having received an "A plus" from the Department of Redundancy
Department, a deadly earnest Maddow continued: "Also on the occasion of the
Oklahoma City bombing anniversary," there would be an Open Carry rally.
Participants, she said, "are being encouraged to bring guns" (you know,
just like the guns Timothy McVeigh used to shoot up the federal building in
Oklahoma City).
True, April 19 is the anniversary of the Oklahoma
City bombing. It's also the anniversary of Lexington and Concord.
Once upon a time, the skirmish that sparked the Revolutionary War was a date
that every schoolchild knew. When British soldiers moved to seize the
gunpowder and arms of voluntary militias, armed citizens defended
themselves, firing upon the British in "the shot heard 'round the world" --
as Ralph Waldo Emerson put it in his "Concord Hymn."
Hmmm, I wonder
if the gun rights activists chose April 19 for their rallies because it was
the anniversary of Lexington and Concord -- or because it was the
anniversary of Oklahoma City?
Unless the organizers of the Second
Amendment March and the Open Carry rally specifically told Rachel, "Oh no,
we picked April 19 to honor the bombing in Oklahoma City -- gosh, we had no
idea it was date of Lexington and Concord!", I'm pretty sure they picked
April 19 because that was the day armed patriots defended themselves from
British troops.
Maddow's idiotic attempt to ascribe the date of the
gun rights marches to Oklahoma City rather than Lexington and Concord is so
Olbermanic that -- to paraphrase Truman Capote -- it is now apparent that
you lose a point of your IQ for every day you spend at MSNBC.
We
have enough U.S. history by now that there's not a day on the calendar that
isn't the anniversary of something. In fact, the very day that Maddow was
attacking gun rights groups on her show -- April 14 -- was the 235th
anniversary of the founding of the first anti-slavery society in America!
It is also the anniversary of an anti-war actor's murder of a
crusading, anti-slavery Republican president. (In addition -- like I have to
tell any of you -- it was National Restless Leg Syndrome Awareness Day, but
I don't think that had anything to do with Rachel's report.)
Oh
sure, Rachel may claim that she had no idea what April 14 was the
anniversary of, and that the date of her attack on our constitutionally
guaranteed right to bear arms was just a coincidence. But given the long and
ugly history of gun control laws in America being used to keep guns out of
the hands of free blacks, it was a shockingly insensitive date for Maddow to
engage in such extremist anti-gun rhetoric.
What's curious about the
left's current obsession with Timothy McVeigh is that it proves that --
despite a frantic search for 15 years -- liberals have come across no better
evidence of burgeoning "right-wing extremist" violence than a drug-taking,
self-described "agnostic" who was thrown out of the Michigan Militia and who
proclaimed, "Science is my religion."
That sounds more like Bill
Maher than Rush Limbaugh.
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