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The CPAC I saw (Michelle Malkin shares her thoughts on Ann Coulter)
Michelle Malkin ^ | Sunday March 4th, 2007 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 03/04/2007 8:28:45 AM PST by ajolympian2004

Enter Ann Coulter.

Her "faggot" joke was not just a distraction from all the good that was highlighted and represented at the conference. It was the equivalent of a rhetorical fragging--an intentionally-tossed verbal grenade that exploded in her own fellow ideological soldiers' tent.

There are countless conservatives who bring their children to CPAC. It's a family-friendly event. I brought mine last year and the year before. I met several parents with their kids there this year. We expect CPAC to be a place where conservative role models speak with clarity, passion, and integrity. There are enough spewers of mindless filth, vulgarity, and hatred on TV, at the movies, and in the public schools. We don't expect our children to be exposed to that garbage at the nation's preeminent conservative gathering.

I was in the back of the ballroom and did not see any children in the audience during Coulter's speech. But what if there had been?

Would you want your children hearing the word "faggot" spoken in such a casual and senseless manner? Would you like your first-grader or three-year-old running around the halls of CPAC singing "faggot, faggot, faggot?" Not me. Not anymore than I'd like my toddler singing "gook, gook, gook" or "sambo, sambo, sambo"--favored epithets hurled at conservative minorities by leftist haters groping around in their empty intellectual quivers. There were hundreds of young conservative college students in the ballroom. Would you be proud of your college-age daughter spewing such epithets in her campus debates with leftists?

With a single word, Coulter sullied the hard work of hundreds of CPAC participants and exhibitors and tarred the collective reputation of thousands of CPAC attendees. At a reception for college students held by the Young America's Foundation, I lambasted the substitution of stupid slurs for persuasion-- be it "faggot" from a conservative or "gook" from a liberal--and urged the young people there to conduct themselves at all times with dignity in their ideological battles on and off campus.

I made something else explicitly clear: Not all of us treat the communication of conservative ideals and ideas as 24/7 performance art. You can and should use humor to convey your message. You can enlighten and entertain--without becoming a tired old schtick. You can joke without becoming the joke.

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The rest of her coverage, great pics from the event and photo album link here -
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006981.htm


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; catfight; coulter; cpac; cpac2007; doublestandard; eatingourown; foxnews; foxnewscontributor; gop; hotair; littleanniefanny; macacamoment; malkin; michellemalkin; zogbyism
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To: misterrob
mean, they are only words, no?

They are crude and inappropriate words, to be sure. I don't use them to make personal smears. The vast majority of conservatives don't use them to make personal smears. But that isn't the point. The left's control of our language is the point.

The left has an large and ever-expanding lexicon of "mere words" that it has made the basis for controlling the public discourse and for punishing people who don't buy into the left's worldview. Recently there has been talk of criminalizing global warming denials. This is a logical consequence of the left's assault on language.

At the same time the left uses its own privileged vocabulary of hate to smear and demean people like Ann Coulter, Dick Cheney, and George W. Bush freely and without consequence.

That's the battle. And we're losing it. Critics of Coulter on the right are assisting the enemy to achieve its victory.

101 posted on 03/04/2007 9:01:27 AM PST by JCEccles
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To: ajolympian2004
"Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild" (by Michelle Malkin, this coming Monday Oct. 24th)
Michelle Malkin's site & Amazon ^ | October 24th, 2005 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 10/20/2005 3:58:07 PM EDT by ajolympian2004

This coming Monday October 24th is the official release date for Michelle Malkin's new book, "Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild".

+++++

Just what is your relationship with Michele Malkin?

102 posted on 03/04/2007 9:01:51 AM PST by Sam Hill
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To: Sam Hill

Nice one slammin' sammy boy. Ha Ha, LOL.

Yep, I've been reading her blog from the very beginning in 2004. So what. I also send story ideas to Matt Drudge which he has linked to many times within minutes, to Sean Hannity which he has used on radio and H & C, other nationally syndicated talk show hosts, to local talk show hosts, to many milbloggers, etc.



103 posted on 03/04/2007 9:02:58 AM PST by ajolympian2004
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To: ajolympian2004

I think less of MM after reading her take on this. First of all, she didn't call Edwards a "faggot" outright. She alluded to it. Big difference. She was artful in how she did it.


104 posted on 03/04/2007 9:03:04 AM PST by jdm
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To: Txsleuth
Hey...Edwards loved it.

He loved it so much he has the video of Ann's speech on his campaign internet site.

LOL!  Yep!  He's also asking for $100,000 in "Coulter Cash" LOL 

105 posted on 03/04/2007 9:03:26 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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To: misterrob

"She's a terminally single women with no husband or children that allows her to participate in or experience love"

Good point.
I'd imagine it would take one strong man with a healthy dose of self confidence to take her on and withstand the barbs.


106 posted on 03/04/2007 9:03:42 AM PST by Scotswife
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To: Buck W.
I think this was a calculated move on Coulter's part. Now, she will draw a distinction between Edwards's support of his Catholic-hating bloggers and his condemnation of a single word by Coulter.

Good point

107 posted on 03/04/2007 9:03:56 AM PST by Tribune7 (A bleeding heart does nothing but ruin the carpet)
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To: misterrob

Here we go again. I've been here since 1996.

Coulter has been here since then too.


108 posted on 03/04/2007 9:04:20 AM PST by Sam Hill
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To: ajolympian2004

She's Ann friggin' Coulter, a hot babe who gives you a glimpse of what regular guys think, not that they hate gays, but John Edwards?? Come on, really, is this a rugged, manly man?

Do you think I respect this pompous ambulance chaser and his ridiculous 2 Americas?? This is the larger point, this is how most men feel about him. I dismiss him out of hand as a preening narcissist, not even close to being worthy of being the most powerful man in the world.

Compared to Ronald Reagan, he is a f-----.

You're shocked when Ann Coulter stirs it up??? You must also be shocked when you go to a hockey game and a fight breaks out.


109 posted on 03/04/2007 9:04:49 AM PST by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: misterrob

Seemingly the difference between class and trash has been lost on some freepers.


110 posted on 03/04/2007 9:04:50 AM PST by OldFriend (Swiftboating - Sinking a politician's Ship of Fools by Torpedoes of Truth)
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To: misterrob

Standards? What standards?

I don't like the dopers, the perverts, the illegals, the gun grabbers or the baby killers and I won't vote for anyone who does...

You want to talk standards??? I see few standards in the current crop of limp GOP RINOs dubbed "front-runners" by the leftists queers in the press.

Don't talk to me about standards when there is a presidential candidate who dresses up like a woman and lived with two homosexual perverts...

Don't talk to me about standards when there is an invasion of our Southern border and a growing welfare plantation for illegal immigrants that is swelling our prison population...

Don't talk to me about standards when there is a capitulation by the body politic on the Constitutional duty of the government to protect us from invasion and secure our Second Amendment RIGHTS to protect OURSELVES...


111 posted on 03/04/2007 9:04:51 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: honestfreedom69

Very well said. Ann is going over the top in these two cases completely and is losing her ability to be a top spokesperson for the conservative movement.

Liberals will never, and I mean never read her books (which they need to) with her throwing bombs like this.


112 posted on 03/04/2007 9:04:52 AM PST by joyspring777
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To: ajolympian2004

You are hawking her books?

On FR?

Why?


113 posted on 03/04/2007 9:05:19 AM PST by Sam Hill
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To: Tribune7

"Edwards is a fag" bookmark for later.


114 posted on 03/04/2007 9:05:25 AM PST by gate2wire
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To: misterrob
What's the matter, can't criticize Ann?

Launch away, it matter not a whit to me or Ann Coulter. She is used to far worse when she goes on college campuses to speak. The Left not only hurls invective, they hurl objects.

Oh, but wait, people bashed her upside down and inside out when she protested GWB's nomination of Harriet Miers for SCOTUS. No standards around here.

I defend her right of free speech as a private citizen and to ridicule public figures. If Edwards doesn't like it, let him use the libel laws. This is all much ado about nothing. The Left has seized on something Ann said to discredit her and the Conservative movement, something they have done repeatedly to her before and to others who dare criticize the church of liberalism or step across some verbal line of politically incorrect speech, except if they are Dems.

Ann is a political pundit and an entertainer. The MSM covers her events. A reporter from The Nation even asked her a question [about her personal life] during the same Q&A that elicited the Edwards response. Imagine, the Left feels compelled to attend the CPAC conference and ask Ann Coulter, private citizen, a question. Ann was, is, and will continue to be a target of the Left, which should be worn as a badge of honor. It is fiting testimony to her effectiveness at puncturing the Liberal theology and her ability to get them frothing at the mouth. Great political theater and for me, one of the major highlights of the conference. I enjoyed Ward Connerly's speech the most at the Reagan banquet. He was not PC either.

115 posted on 03/04/2007 9:06:04 AM PST by kabar
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To: Sam Hill
Cool. Keep getting all the articles from Michelle posted here. While you are at it get all the ones posted by other FReepers.

Shall I get all the links from Michelle Malkin's blog to Free Republic??? She has directed hundreds of thousands of folks to Free Republic over the years. At least!

Ask 'Kristinn' of the Free Republic DC Chapter about Michelle Malkin.

116 posted on 03/04/2007 9:06:12 AM PST by ajolympian2004
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To: stm
Welcome troll.

Someone's a troll just for expressing a (sadly) minority opinion?

117 posted on 03/04/2007 9:06:14 AM PST by Misterioso
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To: misterrob

"She's a terminally single women with no husband or children that allows her to participate in or experience love."

No, you're not a troll.

No way.


118 posted on 03/04/2007 9:06:15 AM PST by Sam Hill
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To: rom

The Left is overpopulated with Pit Bulls who will rip out a conservatives throat in an instant; why can't we have just one? Ann is a GODDESS!(and a pit bull)


119 posted on 03/04/2007 9:06:29 AM PST by jwatzzzzz (jwatzzzzz)
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To: OldFriend

I've always thought we go to hockey fights to see if games
will break out.


120 posted on 03/04/2007 9:06:44 AM PST by TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl
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