Hey! Are Those Bullets in Your NPR Tote? by Anne Coulter
Who Commits More Political Violence, Liberals or ConservativesJUL 17, 2024
Excerpts:
“Granted, we’re only 248 years into this experiment, but so far, every single shooting of a national politician in the U.S. has been committed by a person on the left — or someone even more deranged than a liberal.”
“A few would-be assassins were simply delusional nuts. Richard Lawrence, for example, was a house painter who thought he was King Richard III of England. He tried to shoot President Andrew Jackson because he thought the United States owed him money”
“The rest were political activists who may have been crazy enough to be left-wingers but were not so crazy as to believe they were King Richard III.”
“Democrat, actor and peace activist John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, because, as he explained in a letter to his family, he loved “peace more than life.” (But he really wanted to direct.)”
” Charles J. Guiteau, who shot President James Garfield in 1881, had a long relationship with a utopian commune, the Oneida Community, where free love and communal child-rearing were practiced — and this was before Hillary Clinton’s “It Takes a Village”!”
“Leon Czolgosz, who killed President William McKinley in 1901, was a socialist and anarchist inspired by socialist radical Emma Goldman.”
“Giuseppe Zangara plotted to kill both Republican President Herbert Hoover and President-elect Franklin Roosevelt, intending to assassinate “all capitalist presidents and kings.” He just missed Roosevelt, killing Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak instead.”
“Lee Harvey Oswald, who shot President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, was a stone-cold communist since reading Communist propaganda as a teenager. He moved to the USSR, and when his application for Soviet citizenship was denied, slit his wrists. He then moved with his Russian wife and child back to the U.S., planning to move to Cuba and biding his time”
“Inspired by Communist and Socialist Party literature, Oswald first tried to kill Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, a John Bircher; then former Vice President Richard Nixon; and finally did kill President Kennedy — or so the mafia and the CIA would have us believe!”
“Upon his arrest, Oswald immediately called John Abt, lawyer for the American Communist Party, saying he wanted Abt to defend him so he could use the trial to showcase his Marxist beliefs.”
“Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, who shot at President Gerald Ford in 1975, was part of Charles Manson’s countercultural hippie cult. She pulled a gun on Ford because she was upset about the plight of the California redwood — which put her on the shortlist for a MacArthur “genius” grant. Sadly, a woman has to do twice as much as a man …”
“In the entire history of the nation, only two senators and two congressmen have been assassinated. Three of the four were killed by “progressives” for political reasons.”
Before you start wailing about how we “almost lost “our democracy on Jan. 6,” that was the only right-wing mob violence in U.S. history. And we’ll never hear the end of it. Your grandchildren will be in nursing homes and Jan. 6 will still be at the top of the news feed.”
” Pretty weak tea, compared to the epic violence exhibited the previous year by BLM protesters, ginned up by the police-hating media.”
“Jan. 6 carnage: One person died — protester Ashley Babbitt, who was killed in cold blood by a black Capitol Police officer for trespassing; and $2.7 million in property damage.”
” BLM carnage: 25 deaths, thousands of injured law enforcement officers, hundreds more hospitalized, $2 billion worth of property damage, and torched stores, neighborhoods and police precincts.”
“Liberals accusing the former president of inciting political violence is factually incorrect, deeply ironic and slightly silly. (Other than that, good point!) Trump needs to hear Biden’s thoughts on political violence like he needs another hole in the head.”
