The Politics of Personal Destruction: Facing Down the Enemy! Don't Wimp Out!

I've been reading Andrew Breitbart's book Righteous Indignation and have found it a quite compelling read about his transformation from a dissolute liberal to a conservative. The book which was keynoted in a video I posted back on June 25th from the Hoover Institute, Uncommon Knowledge, featuring Breitbart. SEE HERE or CHECK IT OUT

I enjoyed the video so I bought the book. It is full of penetrating vignettes of how the liberal progressive media distort and game the news and are rarely met with any effective opposition from the conservative wing with some rare exceptions.

Breitbart cites the political theater of the liberal ploy that focuses on victims to immunize against criticism. Examples he cites include Max Cleland and Cindy Sheehan. He cites the one example of effective opposition when he says:

"... Only Ann Coulter had the guts to take them on at the time. Ann had experienced the underhanded attention of the media left and refused to be defeated just because her opponents tried to destroy her. Her refusal to play by the enemy's rules made her a warrior of the highest order, exposing the leftist tactic of using grief as a means of stifling dissent. And even though the left threw every grenade in their arsenal at her, Ann shamed them into taking the Jersey Girls, Cleland, and Sheehan out of heavy rotation. She did so by pointing out that these "victims" were cynically being used as political weapons, and the charge was so obviously true it stuck. ..."

Brietbart goes on to conclude: "Ann's defiance and success taught me a valuable lesson: the people most detested by the Democrat-Media Complex, the ones who are most marginalized, are the ones who are the most effective."