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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
I, for one, will not do what the Clinton people did when he did things that were wrong .. approving of everything just because he was a Democrat.
Right is right and wrong is wrong. When Ann does things like this she embarrasses the honest conservative who will not defend her when she does something that is wrong.
Let me get this right Mr. Coulter fan.
You think Ann should have the right to be as nasty as possible to whomever she wishes, and yet no one may point out any flaws of Ann?
I would think a Coulter fan would have stronger stomach than you.
Are you calling me a dishonest conservative?
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I cannot believe you just uttered those foul words on this most public of political discussion boards. You, sir, are a damned racist.
Police! Arrest this racist!
Brave enough to do the dirty work, while the more delicate can avert their eyes and pretend they reap no benefit.
Every weapon she lobs hits a mark, but it's just too messy for some.
I admire Michele, but she's a different kind of ordnance, and she and Ann are both valuable components of the arsenal.
Yep, the nasties are out in force this Sunday morning.
Clever.
Amazing, aren't they? The stink of hypocrisy is strong today.
Come on. Dip into your nasty bag for some more personal and gratuitous insults to hurl at Ann Coulter for using a word you found personally and gratuitously insulting.
Careful, ethnic jokes are verboten. There is no racism since the libs made all those PC protected groups. Polak jokes used to be the best ones in the world.
Pray for W and Our Troops
You didn't get it right.
Coulter made a joke about how we are now so political correct (or twisted) that one goes to rehab for calling somebody a faggot.
What is the outrage? That she used the word faggot? Then where was the outrage at the news reports that reported that incident and the actor's pledge to go to rehab?
Was the outrage that she said that kept her from talking about the Edwards campaign? Nobody truly believes that Edwards is gay. No sane person would. That's why she picked him, because it was close enough to be funny, but clearly not true. That is what is known as humor.
Is that outrage that Coulter is a gay basher? On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays she is usually called a fag-hag by people like yourself and the rest of the Coulter FR stalkers.
Even on these recent Coulter-bashing threads there are snide posts about her dating a female radio host and her relationship with Matt Drudge -- from a Coulter-basher.
The point is you either too stupid to get an obvious joke, the truth of which has been proved by this and a dozen other threads.
Or, more likely, to pretend to not realize that it was a joke, so you can be self-righteous and superior. For what? For your good taste and high mindedness?
We've all seen that.
Did you hear the one about the Pollock Kamikazi pilot that flew 125 missions?
Michelle's turning just a little bit green.
Is it that she doesn't have blond hair?
Or a quick wit?
you people are too funny!!!
somehow I don't think Coulter would take offense at this criticism as much as all of you.
She is, after all, very used to doling it out to others and I assume she knows how to take it as well.
Very well...have it your way.
I pledge to never again post anything remotely critical of the untouchable Ann as I might cause such distress in her die-hard fans.
I will pledge to this despite the vileness and nastiness she exhibits on a regular basis.
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