Townhall.com
Derek Hunter
April 23, 2017

There’s an important lesson for conservatives in the news this week, if they’re willing to learn from it. Appeasement always fails. Always.

Throughout history people have been desperate to avoid conflict. Many are willing to do anything to stave off a fight. In politics it is no different.

Corporations have spent untold millions in “donations” to radical environmental groups or hustlers such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton in the hope of buying some goodwill should any unexpected controversy arise. It’s never worked.

When something went wrong, as it always does, or some controversy (real or contrived) breaks, the very people they had cultivated were out in front of a bank of cameras demanding “justice,” which usually comes in the form of another, larger, check.

The same thing happens in the news business. Fox News let Bill O’Reilly go this week because people who never watch their network, who never would watch their network, pressured companies to pull their advertising from the top-rated show in cable news history.

That the companies caved isn’t a surprise -- caving to left-wing mobs is what companies do. But if Fox had not caved, advertisers would have come back to O’Reilly. It would be financial malpractice to avoid running ads to the largest audience possible, and companies don’t remain successful committing financial malpractice.

But bad publicity always trumps spine.

The mob that went after O’Reilly is the same mob that went after Glenn Beck and the same that always has gone after Fox. Letting Beck go, then Roger Ailes, did not appease them. Neither will O'Reilly.

To the fascistic left, Fox News can’t do right because its existence is wrong. As long as it exists, they will find something to be upset about and demand action on. And advertisers will cave.

I don’t know what Bill O’Reilly did or didn’t do, but I do know nothing was proven.

Companies pulled their ads not over proof, but over allegations. You’re supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but conservatives are simply guilty. Meanwhile, Democrats such as Bill Clinton, who were proven guilty, are still praised as if they were innocent.

I have to wonder how many of the companies who pulled their ads from O’Reilly’s show have donated to the Clinton Foundation? How many executives of those companies donated to Hillary’s campaign? Or paid for speeches from either of them?

It doesn’t matter. Liberals don’t hold other liberals to different standards; they hold them to no standards. Standards are reserved exclusively for conservatives, mostly because they know we have them and they mean something.

If the allegations against O’Reilly had been proven, that’s one thing. But they weren’t. And some of them were garbage anyway. One woman reportedly said he leered at her. Leered? Another said he got a guest’s name wrong and made a blonde joke about it. Seriously, get over yourself. And a third said he asked her to come back to his hotel room. After she refused, he stopped having her on his show.


Did it happen? Who knows? Was he otherwise obligated to have her on his show? No. If it happened, was it cool? No, it wasn’t. Was it something that should end his career? They weren’t even co-workers.

But when a lawyer like Gloria Allred gets involved, or in this case her daughter, Lisa Bloom, forgive me if I’m skeptical. They strike me as lawyers you go to when you want publicity, not justice. When you want to harm a conservative, not seek what is right.

Fox chose to go another route. Maybe its leaders know more than is public. Or maybe, as has been reported, the wife of one of Rupert Murdoch’s kids convinced him he had to do it because she’s liberal. Whatever the reason, it happened and it won’t unhappen.

But the fascistic left won’t take a day to savor this scalp -- the largest in its recent collection. Lefties already are back at it, on the hunt for more. Always more.

And they’ll get more because, unlike the right, they’re relentless. No fascist ever said, “Well, we showed those people who think differently from us. How about we call it a day?” No, they are relentless. They purge. They destroy. They still get visibly angry when someone speaks favorably about Ronald Reagan, and he’s been dead for more than a decade.


Conservatives will continue to add scalps to the collections of these thought-Brownshirts just as their ideological comrades, the Blackshirts, will continue to collect scalps on college campuses, keeping them “pure” from differing opinions.

Where are elected Republicans on this? I get remaining silent about Fox. It’s a private business, and what News Corp chooses to do is, ultimately, irrelevant to government.

But the Nazi march across publicly funded college campuses to prevent students from inviting conservative speakers is a government issue. It’s a direct, unambiguous violation of the First Amendment. Where’s the outrage? Where are the public statements of condemnation? More importantly, where is the legislation to defund these indoctrination centers?

God bless Ann Coulter. When her speech at UC Berkeley was cancelled, Ann had the guts to say she’s going anyway. She said she’s going to speak, and if the school wanted to stop her it could have her arrested. The school has (at least for the moment) un-canceled the event, though it tried to schedule it on a different day. That won’t work for Ann, and she’s still planning on showing up Thursday.


If elected Republicans had anything but air in their shorts, they’d recess Congress and the entire caucus would be out there to escort her onto campus. Democrats in California and Washington, D.C., don’t give a damn, and the state’s sniveling governor should send security but won't because he's rooting for the other side.

It’d also be helpful if President Trump spoke out against this and threatened action.

Is Ann Coulter the only person willing to stand up to the modern Gestapo?

A line must be drawn, because appeasement only leads to emboldening fascists. Don't look to the private sector -- its job is to profit, not ensure constitutional rights. Don't look to Democrats -- the mobs are their base, and although they'd be out in force if someone had to break stride to get into an abortion clinic, this is not their way.

It has to be Republicans. More specifically it has to be conservatives. A stand must be made because appeasement never works.

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Excellent post JALLEN. Thanks!

And God bless Ann Coulter.

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Is Ann Coulter the only person willing to stand up to the modern Gestapo?

No. Other public speakers are doing it, such as Ben Shapiro and Milo (at least before he pushed the envelope too far with his raunchy comedy). Ironically even some "liberal" speakers who embrace or are willing to have a reasonable discussion about some conservative viewpoints such as Dave Ruben are fighting back against the enemies of free speech.

Sean Hannity is standing up to those fuckers as we speak. He has guts.

^^^ Granted, Hannity can stand up from the safety of the Fox studios, for the most part. Speakers who regularly speak on college campuses, like ann Coulter, Shapiro, Milo, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, David Horowitz, etc., usually have to do battle with attempts by students, administrators, and other malcontents to have them blocked from appearing. Additionally, most if not all of them must have bodyguards, and can't expect the police to lift a finger to protect their right to speak if protestors/rioters want to stop them.

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^^^ Granted, Hannity can stand up from the safety of the Fox studios, for the most part. Speakers who regularly speak on college campuses, like ann Coulter, Shapiro, Milo, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, David Horowitz, etc., usually have to do battle with attempts by students, administrators, and other malcontents to have them blocked from appearing. Additionally, most if not all of them must have bodyguards, and can't expect the police to lift a finger to protect their right to speak if protestors/rioters want to stop them.

Did you listen to Hannity's radio show today? You might change your tune if you heard what he had to say.

Trump should go, and bring a boatload of Secret Service for protection...

This is truly dangerous for Ann-- and, yes, she definitely has guts. There will be no way to screen people for weapons at this outdoor event.

Conservatives, libertarians, people on the right who live anywhere near Berkeley need to show up and protect her. The Berkeley police have shown that they won't do it.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/...-hostile-atmosphere/

Young America’s Foundation (YAF) has pulled out of Ann Coulter’s Thursday event at UC Berkeley, blaming the college for allowing left-wing extremists to terrorize conservatives on campus.

“When Young America’s Foundation confirmed Ann Coulter would speak at UC-Berkeley as part of YAF’s nationwide campus lecture program on April 27, we assumed UC Berkeley would take all steps necessary to ensure the safety of students attending the educational event,” the group declared in a blog post on Tuesday. “In the meantime we discovered that the University of California Police Department at Berkeley has an official ‘stand-down’ policy for any situation that develops on campus as long as the situation doesn’t involve the imminent loss of life, allowing the leftist thugs who have terrorized Berkeley’s campus to do so without consequence.”

“As of 4:00 p.m. today, Young America’s Foundation will not be moving forward with an event at Berkeley on April 27 due to the lack of assurances for protections from foreseeable violence from unrestrained leftist agitators,” they continued. “Berkeley should be ashamed for creating this hostile atmosphere.”

“Ms. Coulter may still choose to speak in some form on campus, but Young America’s Foundation will not jeopardize the safety of its staff or students,” they concluded. “For information on Ms. Coulter’s plans, please contact her directly.”

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Originally posted by rusbro:
^^^ Granted, Hannity can stand up from the safety of the Fox studios, for the most part. Speakers who regularly speak on college campuses, like ann Coulter, Shapiro, Milo, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, David Horowitz, etc., usually have to do battle with attempts by students, administrators, and other malcontents to have them blocked from appearing. Additionally, most if not all of them must have bodyguards, and can't expect the police to lift a finger to protect their right to speak if protestors/rioters want to stop them.

Did you listen to Hannity's radio show today? You might change your tune if you heard what he had to say.

I listen to Hannity everyday (almost). Yes, he called them commies out everyday, I know. But, you missed rusbro's point. When was the last time Hannity went on college campus and call out the commies?

Hannity is all talk, and more often then not talking over anyone else. I don't believe that I've ever seen anyone more in love with himself and hearing himself talk.

Let's see him get in the trenches with Shapiro, Horowitz, and Coulter. I doubt that'll happen.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Hannity is all talk, and more often then not talking over anyone else. I don't believe that I've ever seen anyone more in love with himself and hearing himself talk.

Let's see him get in the trenches with Shapiro, Horowitz, and Coulter. I doubt that'll happen.

Exactly

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Originally posted by 12131:

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Originally posted by 2Adefender:

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Originally posted by rusbro:
^^^ Granted, Hannity can stand up from the safety of the Fox studios, for the most part. Speakers who regularly speak on college campuses, like ann Coulter, Shapiro, Milo, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, David Horowitz, etc., usually have to do battle with attempts by students, administrators, and other malcontents to have them blocked from appearing. Additionally, most if not all of them must have bodyguards, and can't expect the police to lift a finger to protect their right to speak if protestors/rioters want to stop them.

Did you listen to Hannity's radio show today? You might change your tune if you heard what he had to say.

I listen to Hannity everyday (almost). Yes, he called them commies out everyday, I know. But, you missed rusbro's point. When was the last time Hannity went on college campus and call out the commies?

The title to the thread is "is Ann Coulter the last conservative with guts?" I was just trying to point out there are others who are standing up to attacks from the libs, regardless of the forum they may be using. That was my point.

I admire Ann an Milo and others who take the fight out to colleges. It's a very difficult thing to do.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Hannity is all talk, and more often then not talking over anyone else. I don't believe that I've ever seen anyone more in love with himself and hearing himself talk.

Let's see him get in the trenches with Shapiro, Horowitz, and Coulter. I doubt that'll happen.

What's the point of bashing someone who is unequivocally on our side? I don't get it.

I wish Ann would schedule an appearance at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and our Republican governor Scott Walker would call out the National Guard to protect the 1st Amendment. I'd love to see those commie punks get a beat down they'll never forget.

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There’s an important lesson for conservatives in the news this week, if they’re willing to learn from it. Appeasement always fails. Always.

Throughout history people have been desperate to avoid conflict. Many are willing to do anything to stave off a fight. In politics it is no different.

Yes, and perhaps Ann Coulter The Last Conservative With Guts. There are certainly very few in Congress.

There are two things I want to see out of this President's first term:
1. Build the Wall
2. Repeal Obamacare

A Republican majority Congress is standing in the way of both. Some will say the Wall is not necessary, it is largely symbolic, it won't accomplish much, it's expensive. There will be a million excuses. The truth is that many Republicans don't want to build it and many don't want to stem the tide of illegal immigration.

The same is true for repealing Obamacare. It can't be repealed because it will leave 20 million people without healthcare. We have to call them out on this BS. Many Republicans want the federal government to have power over you and your life. In that respect Paul Ryan's plan was not all that different than Obamacare. Many of the Republicans are different than the Democrats only in rhetoric, but not in action.

Ann Coulter holds their feet to the fire. She not only calls out the Democrats, but the Republicans too when they fail to deliver on their promises.

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What's the point of bashing someone who is unequivocally on our side? I don't get it.

I know! It's fucking aggravating.