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
It was a joke. I have nothing against Asians, they do a great job on my laundry and they make great eggrolls (another joke). I'm Irish so you can call me a Mick all day long. I don't give a crap. I have a very thick skin. With over 20 years in the Army I have been called a hell of a lot worse by people with far greater control over my destiny and career than you.
"Let us sitpulate now that anyone posting in favor of Coulter will be deemed a Coulter operative -- likewise for Malkin."
Okay.
Then why is Michele Malkin doing this?
Is she really that desperate to "get ahead"?
Does she think she will "grow" in the eyes of the mainstream media?
She didn't get the joke. Everyone else in the room did.
Maybe she chose not to because she is tired of being in the back of the room.
Look at how many threads her operative has posted about this subject? He's even re-posted previous threads -- duplicates.
Why?
Someone forgot their xanax today.
Michelle Malkin was there. She is reporting what she heard and her thought about it. Good for Michelle! And Ed Morrissey of Captains Quarters and so many others like Hugh Hewitt.
Agreed. It was a joke. A poignant one, at that. It wasn't "dignified speech" - whatever that is - anyway. However, I really have major issues about letting pro-homosexual activitsts dictate our sensibilities.
I don't use the term "faggot" most of the time when discussing homosexuality, in part because the libs have somewhat succeeded in making it politically-incorrect: to the point that it's use gets in the way of reasoned debate when talking to certain kinds of people.
But I refuse to accept any criticism if and when I do choose to use it (such as when I think I am among like-minded individuals and perhaps telling a joke), and certainly would vehemently oppose anyone who tried to make ME or my children check into rehab (or more likely, "diversity training") if I ever dared to use it.
And what part of that isn't true?
And how does that approach the nastiness of suggesting that the husbands of widows were planning on leaving them?
Like I said before.....at least they had husbands.
Thanks for posting the YouTube video. Now pardon me while I go hurl breakfast. What a fop!
No offense intended, it is just I am very sensitive on this matter, a bit of a drama queen - My father use to say....and I would not call you a Mick - because You and My Father due have something in common - you both are Irish and both Army Veterans -*(Camp Casey - 1957)* - the Asian side of Me - is from My Mother, She is Japanese.....Have a Happy St. Patricks Day!!!!!!!!/seoul62.......
Sorry Michelle, love you but you are dead wrong on this one. Sometimes when you are cleaning out a sewer you get your shoes dirty.
Go read your e-mail and see if faggot even gets close, this is about Free Speech and only about Freedom of Speech. Too many are willing to give it up under the guise of offense.
Some people have been punished for wishing Happy Birthday to 100 year old man with the same tactics. You ready to give up that speech too?
Pray for W and Our Troops
It's the Zumbo-attempt, except that Ann is pretty darned funny, and spot-on, and ain't going anywhere.
I wonder if they have vocabulary rehab for conservatives, or if that's solely the purview of Hollywood and MLB? Good thing for Coulter that she's self-employed.
(And, boy, did her point get proven. LOL. She must have the patience of Job, "whoever the hell he is".)
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P.S. Hi!
*waves*
I agree with Michelle.
Ann should be careful she doesn't jump the shark here one of these days.
FReeper 'pissant' posted an article about Michelle Malkin. Are you going to ask him about his relationship with Michelle??? A Hard Right Punch (WaPo profiles Michelle Malkin) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785930/posts
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And 'goldstategop', 'Pyro7480', 'bitt', 'Mr. Brightside', 'kellynla' and so many other... Oh my God! All these FReepers will now have their relationship with Michelle Malkin questioned by slammin' sammy boy. The horror!
Hey! Shut up and pay for their health care, you homophobe!
I'm still waiting for all the giant roadside billboards and television "public service" spots telling us that like tobacco, homosexuality is extremely dangerous to our health...
Waiting...
Still waiting...
Get a spatula and clean the crap off your lip. I'm having a hard time hearing your outraged denunciations of Ann Coulter for using a "bad word."
See? This is what just what happens when you assign ethnic status to life style choices. Queers are not a race.
Michelle (love her dearly) has drunk from the left's kool-aid container on this one. She is forever tainted and I don't think I would even date her anymore.
You really love to post a lot on the same subject don't you ajolympian2004 ?
Kike? Spic? Nigger? Do you use those terms judiciously, too?
Oh, the outwage!! Oh, the inthult!! Oh, the injuwy to dewicate thensibiwities; I tink I'm gonna cwy!! What cwap!!
Oh please Michelle, Ann Coulter just lays it on the line. The Dims are trying to serve up ambulance chasers, Commie lovers, and assorted scumbags to their union thug loving costituents.
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