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
Amen
We have a presidential candidate who is just like Clinton with women, dresses up like a girl and lived with two homosexuals...
These same folks upset by Coulter would have us believe government should sanctify perversion with some honorable status equivalent to marriage.
I am tired of these people who try to pass some perversion of nature off as a normal thing. It is a fetish, a religion of deviance and I will not bend my knee in acquiescence to it.
Don't be such a prude!
I was not aware that "f - - - - -" was a bad word. What planet are you living on, you hypocrite!
Yup - but let's deal with the REAL WORLD. I was not aware of the fact that f - - - - - was a bad word.
I don't use language or terms like that in front of my daughter who's 7 years old. My decision.
I don't know if it was a calculated move, but I thought of Edwards' support of his bloggers as well. Wonder of wonders, you can't say anything negative, slur or otherwise, against homosexuals but you can say the most vitriolic, spiteful, hateful, evil lies against Catholics (and I'm not Catholic).
These people are the biggest hypocrites around.
Well, that's very big of you. She will of course, NEVER hear the "fag" word - which, in England, by the way, means a cigarette! Feel free not to bring your kid to CPAC to hear Ann Coulter.
Who would bring a kid to CPAC? Shouldn't he/she be home watching Barney, the purple dinosaur?
You think that is okay to say about five specific people with absolutely nothing to base it on. These women are liberals and it is fine to call them on it. It is fine to call them on the fact that they have become shills for the democrats. But why attack their marriages and their sexual allegiances? That is just pathetic.
The pattern I'm noticing so far is that prominent conservatives who convince folks to join "our side" are speaking out against what Coulter did at CPAC.
She will certainly hear plenty of words and terms and see things that I don't care for but why is it my responsibility to have her hear it from me and at such an early age?
Those who live by the conviction that good will always win over evil know that it's not appropriate nor expedient to lower one's self to that of the "enemy". It never amounts to anything good to lower ones standards based upon that of others.
I can't wait to hear what Laura Ingrahan, Rush, Sean, Levin, Prager, Medved and our local talk show hosts here in Denver have to say.
Jon Caldara of 850am KOA has Ann Coulter on late at night once or twice a month. They are good friends. I can't wait to hear his take on this later tonight.
I think you're missing her point. No respectable person need employ such insinuated name calling of anyone anything of derogatory nature in a public setting when the image and character of all in attendance hangs upon the tempo of the invited guest speaker(s).
This has far less to do with the equivalence of the "slurs" that may have been employed.
We were discussing CPAC - did you bring your young child to CPAC???????? This discussion has veered into a different direction.
"You think leftists would invite Malkin to their cocktail parties? That's absurd!"
Oh, I disagree...the left loves to have a single conservative 'controversial' figure, and if Malkin is polite enough, she's already got the reputation as a racist (which they love). Now that she's playing the PC queen, all she needs is to be deferential enough to let them shout her into submission (ala George Will) and the invites will be mailed.
LOL! More absurdity!
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