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The CPAC I saw (Michelle Malkin shares her thoughts on Ann Coulter)
Michelle Malkin ^ | Sunday March 4th, 2007 | Michelle Malkin

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


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; catfight; coulter; cpac; cpac2007; doublestandard; eatingourown; foxnews; foxnewscontributor; gop; hotair; littleanniefanny; macacamoment; malkin; michellemalkin; zogbyism
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To: LibertarianInExile
"You miss that in defining just which words we can use and having people like you agree with them, the left has defined the debate."

The left has defined even more than the debate when one is reduced to enjoin them in their wallow.

BTW, unlike the Coulter incident, my use of "air-head" wasn't being employed as one called upon to represent YOU nor was I speaking "on your behalf" nor that of anyone else. BIG difference, or so 'tis MY opinion.

However, giving Ann the benefit of the doubt, I did state I believed she is smart enough she could engage in better discourse than she demonstrated.

481 posted on 03/05/2007 6:23:59 PM PST by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: b4its2late
I think this has been blown way out of proportion by some people....

Actually, I am glad it is being blown out of proportion. It shows me who my enemies are.

They will take their Midol and calm down eventually, but I will remember I cannot trust them...

482 posted on 03/05/2007 6:24:40 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: LibertarianInExile
...everyone who has bagged on Ann has encouraged the left to further accumulate them through their 'war by newspeak' tactics.

It shows me who I cannot trust...

483 posted on 03/05/2007 6:29:21 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: azhenfud
<> Uh right. It was a JOKE. Please get a sense of humor (Jesus had one. I'm sure He thinks this tempest in a teapot is a hoot!)
484 posted on 03/05/2007 6:30:02 PM PST by Simplemines
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

Good point.


485 posted on 03/05/2007 6:34:15 PM PST by b4its2late (Liberalism is a hollow log and a mental disorder.)
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To: juliej; misterrob
We were discussing CPAC - did you bring your young child to CPAC???????? This discussion has veered into a different direction.

But it is o.k. to have a presidential candidate in that same venue who dresses up like a girl and lived with two homosexuals???

486 posted on 03/05/2007 6:34:17 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

"I wish TED NUGENT was there at CPAC... That would really make these feminized males want to take their Midol!"

Maybe Nugent could teach them how to be a real man! They could even start by listening to Ann Coulter instead of getting their panties in a wad!!


487 posted on 03/05/2007 6:37:50 PM PST by upsdriver ((Hunter / Thompson......Gonzo politics)
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To: ajolympian2004

Faggot, n. usu disparaging: a male homosexual

Negro, n. sometimes offensive; a member of the black race distinguised from members of their races . . . .

"usu disparaging" "sometimes offensive" Says who?

I thought the homosexuals were proud of their behavior and were above reproach. Why, we've even grossly distorted the word "gay" so that even Rush uses it instead of homosexual.

The only thing I have issue with is that Ann knew she would be tarred and feathered by the Drive-by Media, so she shouldn't have thrown them that bone. Only liberals can trash and destroy people and get away with it.


488 posted on 03/05/2007 6:53:39 PM PST by laweeks (I)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

You are gorssly exxagerating about Rudy. The dress in drag was for a Saturday night Live skit. SNL is for adults and shown at 11:30 PM on Saturday night.

Hey, you hate fags. I get it. Their lifestyle repulses you to the point that seeing them probably ruins your whole day. Sad that you allow people to have that much power over you.

Don't you and your family have a funeral to go protest or something, Fred?


489 posted on 03/05/2007 7:22:34 PM PST by misterrob (Jack Bauer/Chuck Norris 2008)
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To: misterrob

Saturday Night Live is a bunch of perverts on late night television... Have no use for them.

If the axiomatic truth of mammalian anatomical function is so offensive to you, why not just say so?


490 posted on 03/05/2007 7:25:46 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: BMIC
The term "faggot" is not offensive: it's what these people do to one another sexually is a far more offensive!

I agree with your statement 100%! Maybe those who condemn the use of the word faggot need to be educated about the internals of a homosexual love affair????? Maybe the word faggot would be changed to weirdo or queer once again?????

491 posted on 03/05/2007 7:35:57 PM PST by ErieGeno
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To: laweeks

The only thing I have issue with is that Ann knew she would be tarred and feathered by the Drive-by Media, so she shouldn't have thrown them that bone."

Did you see her on H&C tonight?
She's laughing at the people who can't take a joke.


492 posted on 03/05/2007 7:45:22 PM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

good point! And they attack Ann Coulter and my abilities as a mother. For the record, my son has a 96 average in a Catholic School, and is a good and wonderful young man who was great to me during a serious illness. The nerve of any blogger to go after me!


493 posted on 03/06/2007 6:01:42 AM PST by juliej (vote gop)
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To: all the best

For the record I have a very conservative pro life son who has entered a contest on why we should be pro life and has a 96 average in a Catholic school. I do not hang out with "white trash" - although I believe one named William Jefferson Clinton was elected as President. People should not bring small children to adult events where they will be bored to death.


494 posted on 03/06/2007 6:03:26 AM PST by juliej (vote gop)
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To: juliej

Lighten up. You are so uptight.


495 posted on 03/06/2007 6:32:12 AM PST by all the best
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To: misterrob
>> I wouldn't go there. Ann Coulter is no virgin and while that is her choice I don't think going Christian in the discussion is all that fitting. <<

That's an interesting point you raised. How come the "abstinence until marriage" wing of the GOP never condemns "devout Christian" Ann Coulter?

496 posted on 03/06/2007 6:41:29 AM PST by BillyBoy (Don't blame Illinois for Pelosi -- we elected ROSKAM)
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To: BillyBoy

We know she drinks, smokes and fornicates.

But I guess because she's not a fag then the other stuff doesn't matter to some.


497 posted on 03/06/2007 6:46:24 AM PST by misterrob (Jack Bauer/Chuck Norris 2008)
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To: NicknamedBob
You are repeating a MainStream exaggeration. Ann was referring specifically to the select group of five women called "the Jersey Girls." She correctly identified them as publicity hounds and activists in the style of Cindy Sheehan.

It is not being argued whether Ann was correct in labeling the Jersey Girls as opportunists - it is the over-the-top rhetoric. While her overall points made about Islam, Jersey Girls, and now this are generally spot-on logically the rhetoric surely stops many fence sitters from listening any further. It is effective in gaining Ann attention but it costs conservatives in untold ways because of the ammunition that gives the liberal MSM, academia, Hollywood etc.

498 posted on 03/06/2007 7:45:37 AM PST by torchthemummy ("Obamanation" - Whenever Obama Speaks (Hat Tip-Scott Johnson-Powerlineblog.com))
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To: BillyBoy

Because Ann Coulter is over the age of 35 - got it? Is this virginity until the day you die? Should she join the Vestal Virgins - who were pagan??????


499 posted on 03/06/2007 8:11:07 AM PST by juliej (vote gop)
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To: torchthemummy

The liberal "MSM" doesn't need ammunition - they just make it up as they go along. Reasonable people see through them. Speaking of the media, how do you like Bill Mahr's latest disgusting diatribe against Dick Cheney? The man should be investigaged by the Secret Service.


500 posted on 03/06/2007 8:12:39 AM PST by juliej (vote gop)
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