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Sean Hannity announcement ^ | Sunday March 4th, 2007 | Sean Hannity

[UCANSEE2]

And you don't think that Edwards primping his hair for 20 minutes in a mirror is just a little 'gay'?

Ann's point was that if she chose to debate the effeminate acts of Edwards, she could dodge responsibility for her words by being forced into rehab like the libs are.

Kinda like Al Gore buying 'carbon credits' (from himself).

Kinda like praying in school gets you sent home.

Kinda like saying nigger is a hate crime, but five black youths raping two white women on a softball field in Wichita is just a sports disagreement.

[Sam Hill]

Folks, take a look at ajolympian2004's posting history:

http://tinyurl.com/2czpzt

If you want to see a portrait of an obsession.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

What are Hewitt's numbers vis-a-vis Ms Coulter's?

You are right. It's just my opinion based upon interviews I've heard as her many books have been discussed.

However, I've posted several times that truth is more important than my ego. If it's that important look it up -- I seem to be touching a button.

On the subject of proof where's your proof that Ms Coulter has made conservatives look like idiots? Reply #71 I believe.

In my opinion individual conservatives make themselves suspect as this silly hubbub continues.

[ajolympian2004]

Just a few here -

Ann Coulter at CPAC

I'm sorry to see that Ann Coulter once again made certain news coverage of CPAC would be focused upon her instead of upon the conservative movement's goals and principles.

The National Center for Public Policy Research is one of very many co-sponsors of CPAC, and has been for some years. After Ann Coulter's offensive speech last year, we telephoned the organizers and strongly suggested than Ann Coulter’s behavior was harmful to, and unrepresentative of, the conservative movement. We said we were considering pulling out our co-sponsorship because of Ann Coulter’s "raghead" comment, and asked them to not invite Ann Coulter to speak in CPAC 2007, or, at the very least, only invite her if she was told to can the offensive speech, and explicitly agreed to do so. I had 90 percent decided to stop our co-sponsorship for CPAC 2007, but the sponsor seemed to be taking our concerns about Coulter’s 2006 remarks seriously and with what seemed to us to be appropriate sympathy, so the National Center co-sponsored CPAC again this year.

(I am, by the way. under no illusion that CPAC's main sponsors lose sleep over possibly losing the National Center's co-sponsorship. We do pay a fee to co-sponsor, and all the fees paid by all the co-sponsors together do add up to quite a tidy sum, but I'm sure any one co-sponsor is quite expendable.)

As has been widely reported, Ann Coulter not only once again went out of her way to use a nasty epithet, she pushed her offensiveness up a notch, using a word that is even more universally reviled than the derogatory term she hurled last year.

So, CPAC's sponsors either invited Coulter back without first getting her pledge that she would speak without using demeaning epithets, or they obtained her pledge, and she broke her word.

We'll ask.

It would be better, in my opinion, to not have a CPAC at all than to have one that presents conservatism as a hostile, people-hating ideology. We conservatives have enough trouble overcoming the false things that are said about us without paying for a platform upon which we shoot ourselves annually in the foot.

Some of my past commentary on Ann Coulter can be found here and here.

Here's a roundup of other conservative (and moderate) commentary on the Coulter situation:

"With Friends Like These... (re Ann Coulter)," JonQuixote

"CPAC is Shocked--Shocked!--by Ann Coulter's Remarks," Jon Swift

"Coulter Screams for Attention, Again - Losing Whatever Supporters She Still Had," Patterico

"Ann Coulter Doesn't Speak For Me," Wizbang

"Coulter Said What? (Bumped)," Captain's Quarters

"The Shame Of Ann Coulter," The Moderate Voice

"Ann Coulter at CPAC," Betsy's Page

"Ann Coulter calls John Edwards...," Right Thoughts

"Count Me Out," Lone Star Times

"Ann Coulter Calls John Edwards The 'F-word'," Gay Patriot

"Coulter Needs A Rehab," Riehl World View

"Apologizing for Ann Coulter," MyDD

"On Ann Coulter, John Edwards, and Civility," historymike

P.S. A hostile liberal blogger issues a challenge to conservatives:

Reality: [Ann Coulter] is your biggest star. The people you claim to speak for feel she speaks for them much, much more than you do -- and they're right. She is modern conservatism's id -- she's the one who says what the rest of you would say if you didn't feel it would cost you your standing as reasonable, responsible people.

Want to prove me wrong? You cut her off. You boycott the sponsors of TV shows that still invite her on as a guest. You show up at her book signings and campus appearances and hand out flyers quoting her nastiest bon mots. You boycott CPAC next year if she's invited, and demand that others do the same. Or if you have a problem with boycotts as a matter of principle, at the very least urge your fellow conservatives, on college campuses and elsewhere, to stop extending invitations to her, given the profound harm you say she does to your movement.

But you won't do that, will you? In that case, shut the hell up, hypocrites, and acknowledge that while Coulter may be the bad apple in the family, your door is always open to her.

Well?

Addendum, 3/4/07: This post has generated a great deal of comment mail, most of it vile. I can clear up a majority of the issues made by correspondents (who self-identified themselves as liberals and conservatives in roughly equal numbers) with these responses:

1) No, I have never had sex with Ann Coulter. This seems irrelevant, but the question came up more than once.

2) Yes, I do lack male reproductive organs, but I have never considered that a cause for consternation.

3) Those of you who graphically described male-male sexual activities and aggressively claimed I have participated in same should have noted that a blogger named “Amy” is unlikely to be male. I thus consider it probable that these emails are less a comment about my thoughts on Ann Coulter at CPAC than a reflection of their authors' own interests.

4) To AJ, who suggested I add three more links to other commentary about the Coulter-CPAC matter, and also told me that Freepers have been discussing this post (not very favorably), thank you. Here are the three links AJ suggested:

"The CPAC I Saw," Michelle Malkin

"Ann Coulter And Michael Richards," Hugh Hewitt

"Ann Coulter, Republicans and Teh Gay," Dean Barnett, writing on Hugh Hewitt's Blog

To those of you who wrote thoughtful letters (I interpreted that broadly; a person whose closing contained “better luck in your next attempt to destroy our republic” qualifed), thank you. I appreciate the glimmers of civility wherever they appear.

Addendum II, 3/5/07: In "Ann Coulter: The Britney Spears of the Right," which, if its Google News placement is any indication, was drawing a good bit of traffic overnight, Cliff Kincaid reveals that Accuracy in Media has "announced that it will be discontinuing sales of books by or merchandise promoting Ann Coulter. We hope that other conservative groups follow our lead."

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Labels: Conservatives

Posted by Amy Ridenour at 2:26 AM  

[Sam Hill]

I'm beginning to think that Mr. Olympian's "event" was either synchronized swimming or ribbon tossing.

Eleswize his obvious personal wounding at Coulter's joke is completely inexplicable.

[whatisthetruth]

I have a challenge for you. Sign up to volunteer for the candidate you want to support in the GOP Presidential primary coming up in '08 and take your last comment (and others in this thread) with you as a representation of your beliefs. They will have zero interest in you and kick you to the curb

I have a sneaky suspicion that the 3 leading contenders are all pretty much 'pro-gay' in their positions so I'm not surprised they would bend and bow so quickly before the mandating altar of the Gay-Mafia. I would volunteer for none of them, now if Annie were running that is another story........

[ajolympian2004]

Nope, baseball, football, ice hockey, track & field, skiing, cross country skiing, snow-boarding, snowshoeing, bowling, tennis, go-cart racing, skeet shooring and golf. My events in regards to aspriations of making the USA Olympic team are the 800m, 1500m and 5000m in track & field. In fact I'm going for the mile world record coming up here in May.

[Sam Hill]

Well, you're selling yourself short if you don't go out for "non-stop psychotic posting on an internet forum about a meaningless joke."

[Sam Hill]

"Addendum II, 3/5/07: In "Ann Coulter: The Britney Spears of the Right," which, if its Google News placement is any indication, was drawing a good bit of traffic overnight..."

Yes, that Mr. Hewitt is so high minded.

I wonder if he is wearing out his hand checking his Google Adsense account.

(I really don't wonder. I know he is.)

[My Favorite Headache]

Let me know when the outrage will begin with Bill Maher's remarks on Cheney and I will let you know whether or not I care about what Ann said.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

A 1960s-style (and catchy, I might add) slogan for all who hope Ms Coulter follows them and submits to the left

Keep on truckling!

[ajolympian2004]

Just from Michelle Malkin and her Hot Air site. I'm sure there are many others -

Shock: Bill Maher says something disgusting about Cheney
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/03/03/shock-bill-maher-says-something-disgusting-about-cheney/

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We're wrapping up the CPAC conference. I'll be back soon and I'll have much more to say about the past three days' events. Stay tuned.

'Til then, check out today's diarrhea of the mouth.

More: The CPAC straw poll results are in. I wouldn't put too much stock in these.

[whatisthetruth]

Thanks for the list, never heard of any of 'em other than Hewitt and Malkin, and why should I care what they think anyway? They all just have ONE opinion as do I, as do many conservatives on FreeRepublic.

This hand-wringing before liberals' faux-outrage thoroughly nauseates me and you 'cowering''trembling' 'quivering' PC-intimidated conservatives are only aiding and abetting the enemy in trying to silence one of conservatives' best champions of conservative thought and wit.

[ajolympian2004]

They aren't trying to silence anyone. I haven't heard anyone say or write that Ann Coulter can't say anything she wants.

They are making their own comments against the content of what Ann said and more importantly where and when she said it.

I guess your argument about being politically correct means that all the '08 GOP candidates should start using the term Coulter did in their stump speeches. I'm sure their poll numbers would skyrocket.

Being nasty like leftists, liberals and democrats gets conservatives nowhere. A discussion of conservative ideas does. Ann should stick to the discussion, which she is very good at, minus the "bomb throwing" / over the top name-calling.

[whatisthetruth]

Hewitt doesn't seem to be all that popular on the radio, he's been on how many years now?

And Levin who just started on the air has already jumped 52 spots ahead of him. It'll be interesting to get his take on the latest chapter of his 'personal' friend Annie Coulter.

[ajolympian2004]

And you talk about helping out liberals... as I mentioned before during her guest appearance on the Mike Rosen show to promote her book she called for the impeachment of President Bush three times in 27 minutes. And at the end said her new book will be titled 'Impeach Bush'. She was dead serious. You could hear Mike Rosen cringe on the radio.

Was she assisting leftists, liberals and democrats with this unhinged statement against President Bush??? You tell me.

[Slip18]

Merriam-Webster.com:

faggot or fagot

Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English fagot, from Anglo-French
Date: 14th century
: bundle : as a: a bundle of sticks b: a bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be shaped by rolling or hammering at high temperature
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Figures the Frogs would have something to do with this. Oh, no, I called someone a name.

[Sam Hill]

"They aren't trying to silence anyone."

You lie so easily. You must get a lot of practice:

The Shunning of Ann Coulter | Redstate

"She should never again be invited to CPAC. She should, for that matter, never again be invited to another conservative or Republican event. She should be totally and utterly shunned by the conservative movement. "

http://www.redstatenetwork.com/blogs/nathan_nelson/2007/mar/03/the_shunning_of_ann_coulter

[Sam Hill]

"And you talk about helping out liberals... as I mentioned before during her guest appearance on the Mike Rosen show to promote her book she called for the impeachment of President Bush three times in 27 minutes. And at the end said her new book will be titled 'Impeach Bush'. She was dead serious. You could hear Mike Rosen cringe on the radio.

Was she assisting leftists, liberals and democrats with this unhinged statement against President Bush??? You tell me."

Again, you are a liar. This is simply preposterous.

I really am beginning to doubt your sanity.

[whatisthetruth]

I personally don't think Coulter is nasty like liberals, she's nasty to liberals, liberals are just plain nasty period.

There's a way to rebut any Coulterism by any Presidential 08 candidate without using the word that the PC police have dictated to be a no-no. But the current crop of contenders won't know how to do that without cutting and running from the issue of homosexuality altogether.

Just remember what happened at the last Republican convention, a tip-toe throught the tulips gala affair. If we're against anything other than same -sex marriage we will be called bigots, homophobes,and hatemongers by the left therefore these 'divisive' issues' will in all likelihood be avoided by them anyway.