Ann Coulter body slams Bill O'Reilly

Ann Coulter, who researches and writes her own history books, takes on, no, she body slams Bill O'Reilly for his claim that Bobby Kennedy was

"the guy who was really concerned about African-Americans" and "who really DID SOMETHING. ... He went in with the federal government and he cleaned out the rat's nest that was abusing African-Americans in the South."

Ann responds that when O'Reilly said this,

No one laughed. I guess that's what they're teaching these days at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. (I can't wait to hear how Ted Kennedy helped eradicate drunk driving!)

Coulter correctly points out that if you want to find Presidents who actually enforced civil rights laws, you look to Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon! As for the Kennedys, who did want to help blacks, the truth is they were not responsive when James Meredith wrote his famous letter asking for help in integrating Ole' Miss. Bobby and John

couldn't risk upsetting the segregationists, more than 90 percent of whom were Democratic.

Ann goes on to give many historically accurate examples, and even body slams readers, by writing,

(You'd know all this if you had read Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama, but you were busy watching TV.)

I have not read her book, and I have not been watching t.v.; I have been writing this blog and reading lots of other blogs. However, I have read most of her other books, and she is absolutely one of my favorite writers.

She finishes with:

Crediting Bobby Kennedy for the great work he did on behalf of black Americans would be like calling Harry Reid the country's greatest champion of the unborn. Sure, Reid says he's pro-life, but he dare not act on it lest he upset the rest of his party. It was the same with Democrats and civil rights.

If you want to say something nice about Bobby Kennedy, remind everyone that he proudly worked for Sen. Joe McCarthy.