Posted on 03/02/2007 3:22:58 PM PST by Pyro7480
Michelle Malkin writes:
Ann Coulter just finished her riff on Al Gore, tossed out some cute jokes ("You can understand why Hollywood is concerned about global warming. You know what heat does to plastic."), and ended with a cheap one-liner about John Edwards being a "faggot." (Paraphrasing) She said she would refrain from commenting on Edwards because "if you say faggot, you have to go to rehab."
A smattering of laughter.
Not from this corner.
Crickets chirping.
Flashback Last year's bomb about "ragheads."
Bryan at Malkin's Hot Air:
I’m no fan of John Edwards, but that’s just a stupid joke. It’s over the line. The laughter it generated across the room was more than a little annoying.
Last year it was “raghead.” This year it’s calling John Edwards a “faggot.” Two years in a row, Coulter has finished up an otherwise sharp CPAC routine with an obnoxious slur that liberals will fling at conservatives for years to come.
Thanks, Ann.
The Captain of Captain's Quarters opined
Yeah, that's just what CPAC needs -- an association with homophobia. Nice work, Ann.
At some point, Republicans will need to get over their issues with homosexuality. Regardless of whether one believes it to be a choice or a hardwired response, it has little impact on anyone but the gay or lesbian person. We can argue that homosexuality doesn't require legal protection, but not when we have our front-line activists referring to them as "faggots" or worse. That indicates a disturbing level of animosity rather than a true desire to allow people the same rights and protections regardless of their lifestyles.
Ann Coulter can be an entertaining and incisive wit. Unfortunately, she can also be a loose cannon, and CPAC might want to consider that the next time around.
Mary Katharine Ham of Townhall.com's one-liner
You shouldn't have to go to psych eval for using it, but it's a nasty word. Just don't.
Sean Hackbarth of The American Mind:
Ann Coulter almost made it through her CPAC speech without looking like a complete buffoon. She wasn’t funny, she rarely is, but she’s an attention whore. Near the end of her speech she said she wouldn’t talk about John Edwards because ” you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot.’” She’s now on non-speaking terms with any gay and lesbian friends.
I predict that Ann will end up being the only one this year that said something that "offended" someone and will not apologize for it. Go Ann "Kill their leaders and convert the rest of them to Christianity" , one of her best quotes ever.
From A Saint for the Church Militant - St. Gabriel Possenti
The man proposed that the two travel together for companionship. St. Gabriel Possenti agreed. As they passed an abandoned shack, the stranger accosted the saint, suggesting actions for which God obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah.
"You fiend," St. Gabriel cried as he brandished his hunting knife. "If you touch me I'll stick you through."
The assailant fled without further prompting.
Hey! It's OK with me and it's also OK with me when they wet their pants. A little poo-poo is OK with me too, as long as I don't have to stand around and smell it.
She's a smoker, what do think her mouth smells like?
I get more uncomfortable reading the mealy-mouthed opinions of these bloggers than Ann Coulter's remark.
By skirting around a comment about the power of the homosexual lobby, they prove the power of the homosexual lobby.
Uh, he's not?
Hey, what Ann says is up to Ann.
I'm just not sure of her intended target, I mean John Edwards might be a lot of things, but I doubt that he's a faggot.
Now John F'in Kerry? No, he's probably not a faggot, but DEFINITELY a ***MAGGOT*** !!!!
I thought that a "faggot" was a piece of wood used in steamboat torches.
They should get over themselves. Ann has a fire tongue and we should've been fighting fire with fire a loooooong time ago GO ANN!!!!!
BTW, faggot doesn't have to mean a gay man....
-PJ
Someone has to come out and say it. Ann is an idiot who is interested in herself, not conservatism. It's time this "harpie" was treating with the same disdain as David Duke. We're better off without the being associated with the likes of her, Pat Buchanon, and David Duke.
Seems to me that she should have used the opportunity to criticize him for an actual failing instead of throwing out an insult that is easily dismissed. I'm no comedian but why not craft a joke that pokes fun at the guy for going on & on about poverty while living in a lavish mansion or modify one of the millions of trial lawyer jokes that are available. Something along the lines of the purple heart band-aids for Kerry. Why waste your time in front of the audience and cameras resorting to the same insults heard on every playground at lunch time. I don't care that she has offended homosexuals - I care that she couldn't create something more sophisticated than taunts used by an average middle school student.
You people saying "Go Ann Go" are missing the point. Conservatives are supposed to be the grown ups. Leave the profanity spewing for no reason to the lefties.
Mouthwash is a great invention...
Who cares? Whether right or wrong, they have shown themselves to exactly the same brand of prune-faced PC apologists as their left-wing counterparts.
I guess it was inevitable that once the right-wing blogosphere began to take itself as seriously as the left-wing media, they would turn into the same kind of self-aggrandizing jerks, looking down their very long noses at anyone of whom they disapprove.
Coulter should tell every single one of them to walk straight to Hell.
I agree. I was there last year for the raghead comment. She said if they're going to fly airplanes into our buildings and murder us by the thousands, then she's going to call them ragheads. So there!
As for Edwards, anyone who's seen those pictures of him and Kerry being lovey-dovey certainly has to wonder.....
I love her books but she definitely goes overboard with some of her comments.
She went over the line. Leave the vulgarity on the Left.
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