Pulp Conservatism
What better handle for conservatism today? I mean, Rush Limbaugh flummoxes the very democratic responsibility of discovering what happened at Haditha with being gang raped and Ann Coulter thinks 9/11 widows are given a pass in the media. The liberal media, just so we’re clear on that. From her Godless: The Church of Liberalism book:
These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzies. I have never seen people enjoying their husbands’ death so much.
In an interview with Matt Lauer she defended that quote as the left’s Doctrine of Infallibility: “If they have a point to make about the 9-11 commission … how about sending in somebody we are allowed to respond to. We have to respond to someone who had a family member die. Because then if we respond, oh you are questioning their authenticity.”
It’s true that some widows publicly endorsed Kerry’s campaign but I take it Coulter considers the infallible president blocking the widows’ attempts to get to the bottom of what happened as insufficient reason for these women to turn traitor.
Speaking of pulp, here’s an article uncovering Michelle Malkin’s use of the Doctrine of Infallibility:
Tying every issue to a leering swipe at the physical appearance, personal style or intimate life of a prominent figure — especially those with a high sex-appeal quotient — was becoming Malkin’s trademark. It didn’t matter that the subject had done nothing to invite focus on her personal life. Even Elizabeth Dole didn’t escape Malkin’s radar. In Is Bush a Liddy Dole Republican? (Mar. 17, 2000) Malkin snipes, “She’s baaaack. Elizabeth Dole has been buffed, polished, and pulled off the Republican trophy shelf by Texas Gov. George W. Bush in a lame attempt to attract liberal women voters.” Malkin even seemed to hint at a bit of sexual chemistry between Dole and Bush. “She cooed that Bush was ‘my kind of conservative.’” She sexualizes Dole with the gratuitous observation: “The woman nicknamed ‘Sugar Lips’ has been wading inside the Beltway for decades, like a giddy queen bee in a bottomless pot of taxpayer-subsidized honey.”Malkin was becoming skilled at supplying back-door titillation to those who liked to heap righteous indignation on supposed immorality while leering at its sexiest exponents. Some observers thought Malkin was out to make herself an object of right-wing titillation. For her column’s headshot she cultivated a put-together look that included parted lips coated with red lipstick, big wind-blown hair and a red blouse unbuttoned to expose a prominent V of flesh.
The rest of her new visitors will find in Malkin’s columns a gleeful sort of pleasure in seeing their distate for liberal weenies and pushy minorities articulated by a hot little Asian woman full of bitchy putdowns worth repeating over beers. They may well find strength in seeing the principles of their eroding way of life being shored up by a woman who looks like the enemy. Some may accuse Malkin of dispensing phony outrage, but her core audience will find it all the more gratifying that an Asian woman has found them worth catering to at a time when they’ve been pushed to the margins of society by members of their own race.
