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
Oh, Our Lady Of The Internment Camps all of a sudden wants to play the vague high road. PLEASe Michelle, go somewhere with the PC mess.
Heck.. he don't even know what the f-word is.
Marriage is a man made institution (unless you are a "religious" person)........
Yes, I am a religious person, and no, I will not put that in quotes. I am not a mammal, I am a human being created in God's image.
She certainly can. This was probably not what Howard Dean was looking for (heh), but it was her response all the same:
If these are bad times, why is Ann laughing so hard?
Since you apparently insist on rehashing what has been posted on other threads, I'll give you my response to this originally posted yesterday about Ann Coulter vs other public nastiness:
She has not had a meltdown on TV like Susan Estrich or Lawrence O'Donnell, who shouted down John O'Neill prior to the '04 election.
She has not called the Bush administration a bunch of "liars" and "murderers" like Joy Behar did recently.
She has not foamed at the mouth and yelled that Bush "betrayed his country" like that buffoon Al Gore did at a MoveOn event.
She has not stated that Republicans like to "hide the salami" like Howard Dean did on Chrissy Matthews show.
She did not smear our volunteer Army with a sneer, declaring them to be too stupid not to end up in Iraq like Effin' did in October of last year.
She did not refer to the Alito nomination for SCOTUS as "sloppy seconds" as did a national television news reporter did.
She did not drive Alito's wife to tears unlike the 'Rats on the Senate Juidiciary Committee did.
Politics ain't beanbag. I agree with her Jersey Girls remark in "Godless" and don't think her remark about the Breck Girl deserves all this calumny. Sorry your panties appear to be in a bunch. Perhaps we can find a fainting couch for you. 'Pod.
Great post! Michelle needs to take a break
Yep. Besides, our children who might be in the audience need to know what fags are and learn to shun them.
Our Lady Of The Internment Camps has a lot of nerve
All the handwringing about this on the forum makes me wonder who among us can fight all this PC crap!
Me too! Conservatives are more PC than they think.
Ann=Madonna
Look at me!!!!!!!
It would seem Mr. Hewitt has bought into the leftist dogma that says they are.
That's a shame, I really enjoy his program. But I won't be tuning in for a while.
Don't you mean "THOB"?
Got a source for that?
Black people resent it bitterly when they are equated with perverts... They do not like it one bit.
The CPAC I saw (Michelle Malkin shares her thoughts on Ann Coulter) ^
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3318-2005Feb6.html
http://www.slate.com/id/2108724
Time to get out of 1985, it's no longer the "Gay Cancer".
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