June 09, 2005

Ann Coulter: “There was no Deep Throat.”

From Ann’s latest column:

Of course, in Felt’s defense, he wasn’t Deep Throat. There was no Deep Throat. Now we know.

As most people had generally assumed, the shadowy figure who made his first appearance in a late draft of “All The President’s Men” was a composite of several sources — among them, apparently, Mark Felt. But in telling the glorious story of “How The Washington Post Saved America,” it was more thrilling to portray Deep Throat as a single mysterious individual, spilling his guts to Bob Woodward.

Now that Woodward and Felt are both claiming Felt was Deep Throat, the jig is up. The fictional Deep Throat knew things Felt could not possibly have known, such as the 18 1/2-minute gap on one of the White House tapes. Only six people knew about the gap when Woodward reported it. All of them worked at the White House. Felt not only didn’t work at the White House, but when the story broke, he also didn’t even work at the FBI anymore.

Deep Throat was a smoker and heavy drinker, neither of which describes Mark Felt.

HYPE: TOP SAUDI SAYS KINGDOM HAS PLENTY OF OIL.

“The world is more likely to run out of uses for oil than Saudi Arabia is going to run out of oil,” Adel al-Jubeir, top foreign policy adviser for Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler Crown Prince Abdullah, said Wednesday.

That does not appear likely to be true. It’s meant to discourage development of alternative energy sources.

PAPARAZZI:

Routinely now, law enforcement officials said, paparazzi use several vehicles to “box in” a celebrity’s car; try to force stars off the road; chase them at high speed as they do nothing more than run errands, often with their children in tow; and recklessly put pedestrians, other drivers and even themselves at risk.

I had no idea it had gone that far.

“Koran Desecration” Charge Now Being Replicated Elsewhere (Since we Took it Seriously)

Now that the “Koran desecration” charge has been so useful as a way of attacking Gitmo, Islamofascists are seeing where else they can give it a try.

The only reason Americans took it seriously in the first place is because people rioted in Afghanistan over the original phony Newsweek report and killed fellow Afghans. So, many in America, who are caring and compassionate, reacted by saying that Koran desecration must be a terrible thing. As has often been pointed out, Americans would have yawned if anything similar had been alleged to have happened to our holy books. We’d just print more of them.

So now Islamofascists have suddenly discovered that, lo and behold, they just found some new Koran desecration, this time in Israel.

We are making a mistake to let these Islamofascists use our own compassion against us. The Islamofascists kill women and children. They have been expanding the number of nations ruled by Shari’a law for 1400 years. It looks like they’re about to expand it into many European nations. They want the U.S. to be ruled by Shari’a. A war to impose Shari’a is currently causing the genocide of Muslims by fellow Muslims in Sudan and Darfur. Under Shari’a, nations permit women to be stoned to death. This isn’t a Hollywood film; this is what’s happening in specific nations in the world right now.

The next time a charge of Koran desecration is made, the U.S. should get a whole bunch of Korans in a big pile, and flatten them under a giant steamroller. We just can’t keep taking these kinds of charges seriously.

Update 6-23-05: I was the first to say this as far as I know; I’m happy to find myself in the company of others whose work I admire. On June 11th, Mark Steyn wrote in a similar vein, making fun of the charges of Koran desecration. Just yesterday I was commenting to friends that it appeared these charges were no longer being taken seriously. And late yesterday I saw an Instapundit link to this article by Ryan Sager detailing why such charges cannot be taken seriously:

There’s an important debate to be had in this country about just how far we’re willing to go in our interrogations. But it’s a difficult debate to even get started when one side thinks that we should be extremely concerned with the possibility that someone, somewhere might have desecrated the Korans of the people responsible for the murders of Daniel Pearl, Nick Berg, Fabrizio Quattrocchi, three-thousand Americans and now hundreds upon hundreds of Iraqi civilians.

I’m proud to have been among those initiating the expression of this view.

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