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
That's not the case. I'm upset by Coulter, and I don't favor gay marriage at all.
Quite frankly, I don't care for me or my philosophy to be represented by that sort of trash. I'm perfectly capable of opposing legislation without getting in the gutter. I'm also quite aware of how this sort of "faggot hatin'" image plays into the hands of our enemies, and turns independents against us. It puts us a footstep away from the Westboro Baptist wackos, and the MSM just loves it. I'm quite glad that a large number of responsible conservative voices spoke out already, and I'll be happy to see any that don't see the big deal to see themselves out.
Ann Coulter is one cool lady. Anyone who gets all frantic because she said the word "faggot" is not.
Yep, how about we just call it a "botched joke" and move on. At least she didn't call for Cheney to die to make America better.
Change starts at home.
Thanks, cgk. It is a great pic and a keeper.
Then do not vote for Ann Coulter...
We have a presidential candidate who is just like Clinton with women, dresses up like a girl and lived with two homosexuals.
Oh yeah. And the difference between your comment and what she said is what, precisely?
One could make the case they are both hateful.
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?
You didn't read the article?
Catfight ...
You did not see my follow up post right after that?
(Are 2,000 years of Western Civilization wrong on this, or are we in the Twilight Zone right now?)
You think homosexuality hasn't coexisted within western society for the past 2,000 years? We have survived just fine with this so called public health menace. "Sodomites" have contributed great things to Western society. "Sodomites" have always been around and will always be around. I bet you come in contact with "sodomites" everyday. I bet that some of the people you come in contact everyday are "sodomites".
The right needs to get over the whole gay issue. You are on the wrong side of history.
I posted before I read further. Sorry.
This is bizarro world...go to any leftist event and people on our side are called everything from Nazi's to murderers. We call someone a faggot (which, I thought we've been taught is not a bad thing) and all hell breaks loose. Let's not buy into the hysteria. The longer this stays in the news, the longer the real story is not revealed. The story being how Rudy is being warmly received by Conservatives.
"its practicioners don't reserve any respect at all.
You sicken me. I'm ashamed that anybody that would believe this would vote the same way I do.
Johnny Cash sang a song about people like you. It's called "God's Gonna Cut You Down." Remember that when he does."
For the record, that comment was made by a poster named "Ikemeister" not me. I happen to agree with your sentiments on this issue.
michelle nails it.
Marriage is a man made institution (unless you are a "religious" person).
Human beings are mammals. Mammals reproduce only one way. Anything outside of that is human perversion. It is an axiomatic reality of mammalian reproductive anatomy.
It is crystal clear and has no exception. There has never been a hermaphrodite.
I could go into the genetics of it, but you don't have three hours to sit here and read it and I don't want to do all that typing.
It is just the facts.
Puh-LEEZE!! Hugh Hewitt, that paragon of conservative thought?
Give me a major break!
I agree. Ah well. ;)
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