There can never be enough pictures of her on the net.
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
Because of the Peter & the Wolf effect. My parents exposed me endlessly to that crappy Peter & the Wolf record album where each instrument is supposed to represent a different forest animal. As a result, I have a lifelong REVULSION to Peter & the Wolf.
indylindy...... HIGH FIVE, well said.
"Just tell me when Ann meets a nice guy and settles down, and I'll take it back."
I take it you are a gay basher. How ironic that you are scoring points on these threads-- where Coulter is being criticized for "gay-bashing."
But the irony probably never entered your hate-filled brain.
As for your claims, the date with the FEMALE radio host was A JOKE the host made.
You can find the clip with one or two mouse clicks.
So you are a gay basher and a LIAR.
So you'll fit right in on these threads.
Sometimes it feels like Democratic "statesmen" are satirists, so you'll have to excuse the confusion.
Oh, really? Fortunately your type is not the Final Arbiter of such things. Remember, motes and planks, 'n all that...
;^)
I disagree with Hewitt quite often. This little outburst doesn't surprise me at all.
*snore*
I have problems with conservative homosexuals-in-the-closet who attack gays and gay marriage. Eventually it comes out that they themselves are gay and it makes conservatives look pretty bad. David Dreier, Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, Ken Mehlman, Jeff Gannon, congressmen like Denny Hastert who live in the same house with their gay "chiefs of staff"(!) and yeah what about Ann Coulter? Sure, I loved her when she was photographed at Joe McCarthy's grave. But now she's calling people faggots? Dude! Is she straight?!?
Hugh who?
"Democratic statesmen"... hmmmm... I'm don't think I'm familiar with the term.
"I have problems with conservative homosexuals-in-the-closet who attack gays and gay marriage."
Since Coulter is neither that's not much of an excuse for your smearing her from thread to thread with lies.
Dude.
"David Dreier, Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, Ken Mehlman, Jeff Gannon, congressmen like Denny Hastert who live in the same house with their gay "chiefs of staff"(!)"
But you're not a DU troll.
No way!
We eschew being part of a mob, or parrotting a party line.
BUMP
Yep.
To the Religion of Liberalism, homosexuals are superior to normal people. Ever been to a lib party where you weren't introduced to the token fag?? They celebrate homosexuality as a weapon to break down family values.
Pray for W and Our Troops
The problem for her is that you can't be both an insider and an outsider at the same time. You can't speak at the same dais with serious political figures and talk like that. You can't talk like that and expect to hobnob with people who want to get elected.
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I think that yours is the best analysis I have seen here. Coulter got a lot of attention for this and, thereby, drew a lot of attention away from the legitimate candidates and ideas.
And she probably could have gotten away with the whole thing if she had used another word, e.g., "metrosexual" or "girly-man".
I suspect that Coulter really does not care about the end result and just loves all of the publicity.
because i live here, i have been to CPAC a few times, when work has permitted, couldn't get there this year. it is the perfect place for kids of political junkies. for the 2004 election, my then 9 yo brought in to school the bill clinton and john kerry dog chewtoys and the talking George Bush doll. The teacher asked her why she didn't have a Geo Bush CHEWTOY. my daughter came home and said, well i guess we know Ms. Kull is a DEMOCRAT! i bought the Geo Bush doll at CPAC a few years before that. they have vendors as well as speakers. i highly recommend that you go.
I very much want to attend and enjoyed most of the speeches. I have the event on Tivo and it's a treat!
Yhello!
That's why all the "right wing" bloggers joined hands in rebuking Coulter?
There can never be enough pictures of her on the net.
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