The Final Word

Ann Coulter looks at the bizarre treatment accorded to the Bear Flag Republic's lovely, yet controversial (lovliversial?) Miss California for saying out loud what most people think: that marriage is for men and women exclusively. But, she also makes a point often lost in the rapid-fire declamations that substitute for public debate: you will inoculate yourself against such displays if you toe the party line: Liberal Taliban Issues Fatwa Against Ms. California

What is crying out for an explanation is why every bubble-head TV news anchorette from a nice, churchgoing red state ends up adopting the political views of Karl Marx.

From Katie Couric on CBS to Norah O'Donnell on MSNBC, the whole stable of TV anchorettes weirdly have the exact same politics as their liberal masters. It's the ideological burqa women are required to wear to work in the mainstream media. As with a conventional burqa, it enforces conformity and severely restricts the vision.

The only way to protect yourself is to do the liberal male's bidding, as the bubble-head anchorettes do, or stand on the rock of Christianity

One of the oddities of liberalism, especially on the social side, is its conformity. If you aren't always in tune with the "correct" position you may well find yourself at the receiving end of a Keith Olbermann rant. The complicating factors: (1) the standards always change, but you won't know they have until someone starts leading chants outside your office; (2) it doesn't always apply to conservatives, liberals on the outs with (1) - Larry Summers and Jane harman come to mind - can also find themselves prostrate.

Ann also highlights an essential difference between liberal faith and the real version:

Christians aren't people who believe they are without sin; they're people who know they're sinners and are awestruck by God's grace in sending his only Son to take the punishment they deserve.

This is in contradistinction to liberals, all of whom believe they're on a fast track to heaven on the basis of being "basically good" people -- and also believe that anyone who disagrees with that theological view is evil.

You couldn't pay progressives enough to understand this. Our discourse and culture thus will remain poisoned by ginned up controversies over "Hate."