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
Are you now or have you ever been...etc..
slammin' sammy baby boy asked me the same question. My reply is earlier in this thread.
(God certainly didn't destroy Sodom and Gomorrah because they were acting "naturally", as some would like us to believe.)
Well some of us choose not to believe 3,000 year old Hebrew fables and even more of us choose not to make them public policy.
Right here in the USA. You can thank your local welfare office for destroying the Black Family.
Do you mean proportionately? Then perhaps your right. But in raw numbers, SYBF are the highest group and are growing rapidly. Why you ask? Turn on BET and see how Black women are treated. Not to mention that when their boyfriends/husbands comeback from a long night of being a "playa" they bring back a lot of unpleasant things as well.
"You should get in touch with JimRob or the mods immediately, because someone has been posting on this thread using your ID"
you are so witty!!
Really Sam, get a hold of yourself.
You are coming off as a crazy obsessed fan.
Take deep breaths and get a good night's sleep.
Ann will be all right. I have a feeling she can take care of herself.
"As a single woman myself, it is hard to find a "real" man now a days. Society has been turning men into faggots....oops, sorry, I should have used the PC term "metrosexuals", and turning women into men. Men and women are NOT the same. Bluring these lines has turned our society into a state of confusion. In the words of Blanche.... "I don't want to be treated equally, I want to be treated better"!"
I wasn't commenting on single women so much as I was commenting on Ann's treatment of the widows, suggesting that their husband's may have been thinking of leaving of them before they died.
That type of statement has no value - it isn't funny, it isn't smart - it's just plain mean.
I understand the term "faggot" was probably used more in the term of calling Edwards a wussy or wimp...sure.
But again - not funny, just being mean.
I get it that people eat this up and it's the conservative version of professional wresting. Fine - to each their own.
I don't like professional wrestling - I'm simply not a fan.
Sorry I should have made that list longer, add in Edwards, Hillary, and RUDY.
So you are saying that it okay to use such language at conservative family friendly events?"
Not if your gay conservative family friends are there
Or young people for that matter or is that okay in your book?
Or young people for that matter or is that okay in your book?"
Faggot? What's the difference if you tell your kids so and so is a queer or a queen or a faggot?
Any man who likes to suck other men's d!<ks gets NO respect from me and I don't want my kids to respect them either.
Besides, taking kids to a political event is about the same as taking them to a whore house.
agreed!
Not even close...John Edwards is the first and middle names of the man who does "Crossing Over"...his last name, IIRC, is McGee.
and what was the point of the reference?
I have stood in the back of a CPAC room next to Michelle and listened to speakers - what a petite woman she is!
As to her comments on Ann, get a grip Michelle.....it's a joke and WE do not need to go on and on about it......gees. CPAC is an adult function, it would be inappropriate to drag your children to it anyway. Let's all grow up and forgetaboutit.
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