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From:	soooright (98.68.174.18)
Subject:	This mentality applies to Global Warming as well
Date:	June 8, 2011 at 3:32 pm PST

In Part One of my [A. Coulter's] new book -- released this
week! -- Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering
America, I demonstrate that liberals have all the earmarks
of mob psychology.

Their myths, slogans, demands for immediate action,
messianic goals, demonization of opponents, creation of
political idols and occasional resorts to violence -- all
this is classic herd behavior.

Because mobs are irrational, immature, subject to wild
passions and infatuations, they cannot be reasoned with. And
they are always dangerous.

The mob attributes of liberals we will review this week are
a crowd's inability to perceive contradictions and its
tendency to form an infatuation for an individual.

Consider just one blinding contradiction recently embraced
by liberals.

Immediately after Jared Loughner's shooting spree in Tucson,
Americans were lectured on civility by the likes of Keith
"the leading terrorist group in this country right now is
the Republican Party" Olbermann.

Two days after the shooting, The New York Times ran an op-ed
by former Democratic congressman Paul Kanjorski (Pa.)
calling for "an atmosphere of civility" to eliminate a "fear
of violent confrontation." Only months earlier, Kanjorski
had said of the Republican candidate for governor in Florida
(now governor), Rick Scott: "They ought to have him and
shoot him. Put him against the wall and shoot him."

But the media turned to one man more than any other to
discuss how rhetoric can lead to violence: Al Sharpton --
someone whose rhetoric actually had inspired violent mobs.

In addition to libeling innocent men in the Tawana Brawley
hoax, ginning up angry mobs outside the Central Park
jogger's rapists' trial, whipping up mobs after a car
accident in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood killed a
black child and a rabbinical student was stabbed to death,
Sharpton famously incited an anti-Semitic pogrom against a
Jewish-owned clothing store in Harlem, saying, "We will not
stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some
white interloper can expand his business."

Someone who was listening to Sharpton later decided to storm
the store and start shooting, wounding several employees,
and setting a fire that killed seven people.

Of course, after all this, Sharpton became a pariah -- oh
wait! In the opposite of being exiled, he became famous, ran
for president as a Democrat and Al Gore kissed his ring,
after these events.

In January of this year, Sharpton was repeatedly rolled out
as the expert commentator on civil discourse -- on NBC's
"Meet the Press," NPR, CNN and MSNBC. As MSNBC's Ed Schultz
said in introducing him, "Al Sharpton is on a crusade
against hate speech on talk radio."

In light of Sharpton's history, you'd think that, in the
middle of the Arizona shooting being blamed on "rhetoric,"
someone in his organization might have said: "Boss, I'd keep
a low profile for the next couple of weeks. We just don't
want you to be on TV right now because someone is going to
say -- 'Hey, how about Freddy's? What about Gavin Cato's
funeral? Weren't you the guy stirring up the violent rabble
at the trial for the Central Park jogger's rape?'"

They needn't have worried. No one brought up any of the
mayhem that had followed Sharpton's speeches.

As Gustave Le Bon, the father of groupthink, explains: A
crowd's "complete lack of critical spirit does not allow of
its perceiving these contradictions."

Second and most obviously, liberals fanatically worship
their leaders. FDR, JFK, Clinton, Obama -- they're all "rock
stars" to Democrats. They're the Beatles, Elvis, Abraham
Lincoln or Jesus, depending on which cliche liberals are
searching for.

Nearly seven decades after FDR was president and five
decades after JFK was, we still have to listen to liberals
drone on about their stupendousness. It's as if Republicans
demanded constant praise for Calvin Coolidge.

Even Republicans are forced to pretend to admire these
profligate Democrats in order to court Democratic voters.
Republicans don't mention Reagan as much, and he was a
better president.

In 1992, Time magazine quoted The Boomer Report editor
Cheryl Russell, saying, "Every woman I know is having sex
dreams about Bill Clinton." (If you call nightmares about
Bill Clinton dropping his pants "sex dreams," I guess I was,
too.)

When Obama came along, guess who liberals started having sex
dreams about? Yes, the big-eared beanpole. The New York
Times' Judith Warner reported: "Many women -- not too
surprisingly -- were dreaming about sex with the president."

Meanwhile, during Reagan's first year in office,
conservatives didn't even rank him as their favorite
conservative. He was assailed from the right throughout his
presidency.

Republicans certainly never had sex dreams about Reagan --
nor Coolidge, Nixon or Bush. Most of the time, conservatives
can barely stand their leaders. They aren't a mob.

As Gustave Le Bon explains, the "convictions of crowds
assume those characteristics of blind submission, fierce
intolerance, and the need of violent propaganda which are
inherent in the religious sentiment."

Perhaps if they believed in a real God, liberals wouldn't
have to keep creating an endless stream of human gods.

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