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
Maybe Ann looked around too and noticed that she was in an adult setting and then spoke her mind. Give me a break!
"As usual, Ann has used controversy and ridicule to score a valuable point. It's fine that Michelle Malkin and all the candidates now make a show of taking Ann to the woodshed: tha damage is done-- to Edwards.
Thank you, Ann Coulter."
THANK YOU!
It is all about the children, don't you see? Where have we heard that one before?
I had to watch Coulter on one of the closed circuit TVs located around the hotel. Only a relatively few could get into the Regency room, which was SRO packed. There were over 3,000 college kids at the conference. Ann was clearly the rock star of the conference, even more than the political candidates. I think Malkin suffers from Coulter-envy.
As I have previosuly stated on another thread. This was the wrong palce and poor choice of words. Now knowing that children were present, that just reinforces it for me. We should be better as conservatives, especially when around children.
Do a google search on every nasty word you can think of, and include "coulter" and see how many hits there are.
So aren't terms like sambo, chink, slant, slope, spic and any other term that is used to describe someone else that we want to demean.
I mean, they are only words, no?
Welcome troll.
With her comment Coulter raised one of the critical issues of our time--the hysteria and hypocrisy of political correctness--in a venue perfectly adapted to that purpose.
Will Malkin and other outraged commentators on the right come to their senses and acknowledge the point Coulter was making? Once can hope. If they do not, it is because they have become too cowed and coopted by the left to be of any effective use any more. The left's victory is nearly complete at Malkin's level. Sad.
I re-read the post. Children were not present in the audience at the time, so I withdraw that part of my psot. Sorry. It was still the wrong place and poor choice of owrds.
Sorry, I'm on Team Michelle in this one.
...the insanity and brainwashing of "moral relativism"
You think we need a PC gestapo in the GOP?
He specifically DIDN'T fire them. They finally quit.
And I agree that Edwards getting his panties in a bunch over this and not firing his own employees for Christian bashing hate speech is hypocritical.
From their website:
2% of CPAC attendees were under 18
62% were between 18-25
http://www.conservative.org/documents/3-07_CPAC_Straw_Poll.ppt#17
My grandma taught me the s word was sh*t and washed my mouth out with soap so I remembered this lesson forever.
YOu are insulting the memory of my grandmother and you should apologize.
Why do we need to police ourselves? Coulter is Coulter, Michelle is Michelle. Coulter's livelihood thrives off smashing the sacred cows of liberalism and political correctness. No one does it better.
It interests me not in the least if Malkin sees it differently.
What's interesting about all of this is, the John Edwards camp didn't even bother to force Ann to apologize, they just shot right back at her, and told their donors to pony up more donations.
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