veiled4allah: presented without further comment veiled4allah: presented without further commentWearing surgical gloves, DCMediagirl extracts this latest choice morsel from Ann Coulter: "Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president."
I wonder what would happen if a writer, say me, were to refer in a Vanity Fair column to "that old Jew Norman Podhoretz" or, naughtier still, "that old Jewess Lucianne Goldberg."
Through the magic of exaggeration, I can just imagine the commotion. Daniel Pipes and David Horowitz would blow their respective lids, Michael Medved would wince with feigned pain, rightwing bloggers would demand that liberal bloggers disavow me and delink, I'd be lumped in with Justin Raimondo and Kurt Nimmo as prime examples of the New Antisemites, petitions would file in to Vanity Fair demanding that I be fired, or, for penance, be forced to tour Auschwitz with Prince Harry.
Arabs of course are fair game on talk radio and the trash punditry, of which Ann Coulter is stringbean queen. Presumably Helen Thomas's very ancestry, about which I know nothing, makes her an incipient terrorist threat...
...Coulter's typically crass wisecrack is the cartoonish version of the hostile profiling of Arabs and Muslims being conducted all over the neoconservative right, as typified by Michelle Malkin's pioneer work to excuse the Japanese internment in order to justify the preemptive incarceration of Muslims and other suspicious elements.
I'm sure this sort of thing doesn't fluster them in the slightest. Conservatism and sadism have become indivisible.
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