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 called you nothing.
Anyway, she's badly hurt her career with this....
LMAO, that is the funniest things I have heard yet. That is her career. And you are RIGHT (hehe, pun intended), she is our designated hitter. There is nobody out there who could do a better job. My favorite book of hers was Godless. She does not mince words!
Malkin is a hyperventilating idiot. I think she's been hanging around Bill O'Reilly too much. She really needs to get over herself.
Hey we're okay. Sorry you won't be my future Daughter-in-law. God has someone in mind for you, just keep praying.
Thnx blue.... I think ajoly was referring to your post #349. He just saw the word faggot and got all sensitive.
Non-factual? She didn't call the faggot a practicing sodomite. Come to think of it, she didn't even call him a faggot.
Well, I've been exposed to politics since I was a kid. I think Michelle is overreacting a bit regarding children and CPAC being a family-friendly event. Children hear comparable stuff like this on TV. That doesn't justify what Ann said, as she was wrong and it was a totally stupid thing to say. Now the enemies of conservatism will be pointing fingers at Ann as an example of what they believe conservatives to be – intolerant individuals.
Sodomy has always been around, just like cancer, but we should make every attempt to keep both in check.
You are bad!
God certainly didn't destroy Sodom and Gomorrah because they were acting "naturally", as some would like us to believe.
Please tell me you're kidding. You can't be serious about wanting your children to feel comfortable using filthy pejoratives towards anyone, especially regarding people they disagree with. Michelle has decorum and grace that Ann Coulter dreams of having. Michelle, as a mother, understands the value of character, reputation, grace and good manners.
Ann conducts herself & speaks, many times, like a single, party-animal, bar hopping loose girl my mother warned me not to be, who would step over any dead body to be admired, to make a buck, and to get ahead. And while she did it, she would kick the body and mock it for being stupid enough to just lay there.
From one former fan of Ann...but no more. 100% agree with Michelle..but then, i usually do. She is a role model in full.
I agree and Ann Coulter's tired old shtick is promoting the fortunes of Ann Coulter at the expense of other conservatives.
I don't think I've ever met a sodomite in my life that didn't have a kind of shrill, unbalanced, slightly wacko quality, and I'm really tired of politicians scraping to the Abomination lobby.
Well farmer, you and I better both strap on our seatbelts because things only seem to be getting worse. Allowing homo's to get married would be such a slap to the face of God. I hope that day NEVER comes.
While she simultaneosly razed the CPAC meeting.
PJ-Comix's tired old shtick is failed attempts at promoting the fortunes of PJ-Comix at the expense of a conservative who actually has talent and success.
Ann's point: Notice MEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Just tell me when Ann meets a nice guy and settles down, and I'll take it back.
"Michelle, quit being a drama queen"
Agreed. Malkin is a class act, and this time she over reacted to Coulter's gag. Ann probably would have skipped this if she thought about it, but like you said, who cares ? : )
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