Sickeningly liberal Juan Williams (whom I can’t stand to watch on Fox News Sunday because of his consistently narrow-minded support of virtually every far-left talking point) is being called the “black Ann Coulter“.

What has he done to deserve such high praise?

He wrote a book condemning the failure of black leaders in America: Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America–and What We Can Do About It.

And who is slinging the dirt? Those self-same black leaders:

“I think Juan is trying to be the black Ann Coulter with pants,” Sharpton told me yesterday, ­responding to Williams’ critique of him as a cynical, ­money-grubbing self-promoter who encourages African-Americans to evade responsibility for problems by blaming others. “I have fought for social responsibility in the black community, unlike some of these guys who try to hustle right-wing politics for Fox News.”

Jackson was ­equally insulting, accusing Williams of journalistic sins tantamount to plagiarism.

Yet Williams is standing firm. At a recent appearance on his book tour, he asked the audience:

If Washington, D.C., has a black mayor, black city council and a black school board, how can you blame your troubles on racism?

How indeed?

Williams is taking up the banner recently hefted by Bill Cosby — that the culture of victimization, the breakdown of the black family, the glorification of gansta rap, the disdain for learning, and so on are things that the black community must take upon itself to fight against.

But Williams directs his sights towards those that publicly claim to stand up for the black community:

Williams wonders why blacks don’t organize against feckless fathers, black-on-black crime, the glorification of failure and Stop Snitching campaigns that vilify those who testify against drug dealers and murderers. He quotes a law professor at Loyola University advising against cooperating with the police because it “sows distrust in some of the nation’s most socially vulnerable communities.”

The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan once wrote of defining deviancy down so that what was once abnormal — constant use of the N word, high school girls in class in maternity clothes — becomes routine. Instead of railing against teenagers for smoking crack cocaine, black officials pour energy into criticizing judges who hand out higher sentences for that than for sniffing the drug (a white addiction). Where, Williams asks, is a black War on Drugs?

It is interesting that Williams is following Cosby’s lead, yet I can find no mention of Williams commenting on Larry Elder’s Ten Things You Can’t Say in America. Elder achieved some notoriety in 2000 when he proclaimed that the “nanny state” was doing more harm than good and that blacks are more racist than whites.

So perhaps Williams is just jumping on the Cosby bandwagon to make a buck. But he’s taking a lot of flak for it and is not taking it quietly. In a recent LA Times op-ed, Williams defends his position:

My critics are busy blaming racism for all this poverty. But that tactic is losing its punch because so many people of color, including black people from Africa and the Caribbean, arrive in this country and outperform native-born black people in educational achievement and income. And it is hard to make the old “racism is the whole problem” argument when the other 75% of black America is taking advantage of 50 years of new opportunities — since Brown vs. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act — to create the largest black middle class in history, with unprecedented wealth and political power.

Much of what Williams says is nothing new. For instance, take this excerpt from a recent interview with NewsMax:

Moreover, Williams said, Jackson and Sharpton are paid by competitors to stage phony “civil rights” demonstrations at companies.

“Because one company wants to get access to a cable system, for example, they have these people out there demonstrating as if this is a civil rights issue,” Williams said. “They’re trying to embarrass [companies] by having people like Jackson and Sharpton pull up in limousines and lead these demonstrators. It is a total farce.”

This sounds a lot like something you’d read in Ken Timmerman’s book, Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson.

LaShawn Barber, writing for the Examiner, interviews Williams and you’ll find an excerpt from the book at the bottom of the article. This is kind of her, considering that Williams has usurped her title; Barber was labeled the “black Ann Coulter” over a year ago.