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I disagree with Coulter’s remark, but you guys are starting to sound like the politically correct Left.

I agree completely. Coulter has become the Olbermann of the right; a shrill, mean spirited, specialist of the ad hominem attack. They are both examples of how celebrity erodes integrity. They have become a product or brand rather than a source for discussion of ideas.

Linked at Right Win Nut House.

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Get over it already.

This dead horse does not need further flogging.

Chuck

Oh, for heaven’s sake. I think we should be spending our energy denouncing the slurs against our President and Vice President by the likes of Bill Maher and the Democratic leadership. Too big a deal is being made of Ann’s remark.

Please explain how, in the aftermath of the Oklahoma bombing, the following comment by Ann Coulter inspired “deeper thoughts”: “My only regret is that McVeigh did not bomb the NYT building”?

Or her suggestions that “Murtha should be fragged”, that “someone should poison Justice Steve’s creme brulee”; that “torture should be a spectator sport”, etc… The list is long.

Coulter has never said anything that inspired debates and deeper thoughts. Her latest utterance is par for the course. She is not a pundit, she is a foul-mouthed comedian. She is interested in one thing: getting attention and the money that comes with that attention.

The GOP has legitimized her, and now, it suddenly discovers that Coulter is a loose cannon. Whether you like it or not, Coulter — along with her counterpart, Limbaugh — is the face of the GOP.

Coulter’s vicious word choice tells the world she care little about the feelings of a large group that often feels marginalized and despised. Her word choice forces conservatives to waste time defending themselves against charges of homophobia rather than advancing conservative ideas.

Now, hold on just a minute. I have to call foul here. Sean, i’ve seen you in past entries on this blog refer to homosexual relationships as “less valid” than straight ones (maybe that’s not your exact word choice, but that was the sentiment. I don’t have time to dig up the exact post but i believe it happened during the gay marriage amendment debate). Maybe that makes you a little more civil in that you choose not to use epithets like “faggot,” but from my end of the spectrum, the difference isn’t all that great. You’re still marginalizing a large group by implying that they are somehow less than straight people (and your eventual “yes” vote on that amendment brought that home).

In fact–and this isn’t necessarily my view, but it should be addressed–that Coulter should almost be thanked, in a backhanded fashion, for going about her marginalization and hate in such a crass fashion that it forces people to talk about how disgusting it is, whereas your version of homophobia (and make no mistake, simply saying a gay relationship is “less valid” isn’t “fear” per se, but it does stem from the same place–a lack of understanding) is more subtle, more discreet.

Don’t get me wrong, i appreciate and support your condemnation of “Crypt Keeper” Ann Coulter, but from where i’m standing, based on past blog entries from you, this ultimately looks like a case of a pot and a slightly blacker kettle.

I invite you to correct me and set me straight regarding your newfound support for gay people and your belief that they are deserving of all the same civil rights and priviledges that straight people have.

Absolutely no left wing nut has any reason to throw stones, when their side has the absolute winners trophy for gutter speak in politics hands down.

I take offense to you attempting to equate Rush Limbaugh with Ann Coulter by your phrase:

“along with her counterpart, Limbaugh”

Rush Limbaugh does not comport himself in an anatagonistic manner as Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, and others are known for doing. Rush Limbaugh is mostly patient and very civilized in his discussions with liberals who phone call his show or send him e-mails.

What Ann Coulter said was stupid, however, it is equally dumb for CPAC to advocate banning her over 1 word.

Relentlessly taking Ann Coulter’s statements out of context in order to paint a picture of her as a loose cannon, is also wrong Devil’s Advocate.

There are websites devoted to taking Ann Coulter’s words out of context in order to get people to dislike her. These websites are run not by disgruntled conservatives, but by liberal left-wingers who fear Ann Coulter’s sarcastic wit.

I am hoping that an even larger number of Conservatives create and sign a petition in support of Ann Coulter rather than against her.
If such a proposal exists, I would sign it.

Not to suggest that what she did is correct, but to show that CPAC doesn’t own conservative thought. Conservative thought is owned by the individual. No one should be banned from expressing themselves. Criticized harshly, perhaps, but not banned.

The only thing Ann Coulter has ever added to the political landscape is intolerance and, as usual when her remarks go too far, she claims that she was “only kidding”. You can stop inviting Ms. Coulter to your events but what excuse can you offer for the fact that most of the people in attendance laughed and applauded after her Edwards remark? You can all try to ( finally ) distance yourselves from her ’til the cows come home but I think most Americans have figured out that Ann Coulter SAYS what most of you THINK; otherwise you wouldn’t continue to invite her to your events and you wouldn’t continue to respond to her remarks with laughter and applause instead of getting up and walking out.

Devil’s Advocate is right, this is par for the course. Nonetheless, any efforts by conservatives to denounce bigotry and hate should be applauded, not just questioned. Our country deserves no less.

I hope that you won’t stop with Coulter- continue to denounce the many other conservatives and Republicans in the media who spew hate for a living. If you do, you’ll be quite busy for a while.

I personally think this is the Right’s “Sister Soulja” moment. We either completely toss her, or we accept the fact that she is one of our spokesnuts

Hmm…What is more pitiful is watching so-called conservatives adopting the lefts tactics at stifling dissent and speech. Whats next CPAC outlining some sort of “HateSpeech” code…you should be ashamed of yourself.

Those of us in the trenches wanting to stem the tide of PC nonsense have no one in the leadership willing to challenge the speech codes threatening to stifle free speech as they already have in Europe. Ann Coulter challenges those codes whilst folks like you, Malkin, Captain Ed, Instapundit, embrace them…you are not leaders you are sheep.

In challenging these codes we will from time to time run over the edge but that is far better than sitting around meekly accepting that there are words that cannot be said any more.

“What Ann Coulter said was stupid, however, it is equally dumb for CPAC to advocate banning her over 1 word.”

The post about this one was a litany of “stupid” things Coulter has said over the years. Now, all of a sudden, she is an embarassment?

If the shoe fits, wear it.

Certainly everyone is entitled to “express themselves”. But for conservatives to pay her to express these hateful ideas illuminates their values. As for her being taken “out of context”, that is a common bleat of conservatives called out for these types of statements. Rubbish.

You are free to add my name to the list.I will post it and trackback.

It was great to meet you at CPAC and I look forward doing all over again next March…minus the noise.

xoxoxo
Jane Stewart
http://www.seejanemom.com

“There are websites devoted to taking Ann Coulter’s words out of context in order to get people to dislike her. These websites are run not by disgruntled conservatives, but by liberal left-wingers who fear Ann Coulter’s sarcastic wit.”

Please explain specific comments that have been taken out of context. I’d like to know how I misunderstood telling a widow that she was enjoying her husband’s death, bombing the NYT building, etc.

And as a left-winger, let me say that I don’t fear Coulter’s “wit”, I simply find her dishonest and morally offensive. (I had an ex-conservative friend also say that liberals fear her – is that a conservative talking point listed somewhere?)

Some advocate you are devil.

At the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2006, Coulter referred to Iranians as “ragheads.” She is one of the most prominent women in the conservative movement; for her to employ such reckless language reinforces the stereotype that conservatives are racists.
A stereotype generated by national media.
National media that conveniently forgets how the GOP fought to free the slaves from bondage.
National media that didn’t see a vice in apartheit black codes, and whistled into the air as the Democrats waged a 100 year guerilla war to keep the country from instituting the 14th ammendment. The same media which shuffles its feet when muslims across the planet riot for days over cartoons and turns a deaf ear to the question “what cartoons are the rioting over?” and then tells us there is no such thing as a monolithic muslim movement.
The same media who wouldn’t have mentioned CPAC now or in 2006 if it weren’t for bombastic Ann Coulter.

>>I am hoping that an even larger number of Conservatives create and sign a petition in support of Ann Coulter rather than against her.

And that is why “conservatism” is going down in flames. Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave. The Reagan Democrats, the independents, socially moderate Republicans, and the libertarians are leaving the GOP in droves. And you wonder why? Or perhaps you don’t care? Extremists have taken over the GOP, and while that may delight 25% of the country, the other 75% of us are moving on.

Coulter and D’Souza are the face of the GOP: intolerant, shrill, hate-spewing, calling for people’s deaths, paranoid. Those people exist on the left, of course, but they aren’t the major figures in the “movement” — they are more likely to be anonymous blog commenters or Michael Moore. I don’t see Michael Moore — ever. Few Democrats would be caught dead with Moore. Coulter? She’s a rock star in the GOP.

Coulter is a hack.
And like their hack President, the Right adores her.

…the feelings of a large group that often feels marginalized and despised. Her word choice forces conservatives to waste time defending themselves….

On the defending part, please don’t waste your time or mine on this. Frankly, you could hold CPAC in San Francisco, drop your trousers and walk backwards down Polk St and the count of gays willing to have an open mind about conservatives would still not exceed zero (0).

Group that feels marginalized and despised? Please again. This group has a history of saying the most vile, inaccurate and disgusting things about conservatives imaginable. They virtually own US Universities, the entire DHIMMIcRAT party and most government bureaucracy. Gays may have been marginalized in the ’50’s, but upon having a strong cup of coffee and an open-eyed look around, you’ll find that there is no group less marginalized. Ever been to the Gay Day Parade in San Francisco?

If you want to bash Coulter, bash on, but please spare us the mythology. Tell it like it is, or keep it in your pocket.

For honest conservatives, the problem with Coulter is this: she has been given validation year after year, accepted as one of the luminaries of the conservative Republican movement. Just look at the two comments posted so far on this blog – for every one that decrys her, another one defends her, albeit in the guise of allowing free expression. That’s why this petition will go nowhere, Sean, and why Coulter will continue to be the face of conservatives both within and outside of the party. It’s too late to put the genie back in the bottle – her brand of “conservatism” has struck a positive chord with too many people.

Ann Coulter is out for one thing: the Ann Coulter brand name. By now her modus operandi should be obvious. She will advance that brand without shame and if it comes at the expense of the responsible conservative movement, she could not care less. She is out for herself alone. Anyone who defends her is a fool.

Devil’s Advocate: Is this an officially Politically Communist advisory that sarcasm is no longer permitted?

Yes, Ann Coulter behaved badly, but I had to admit that this reply of hers was funny: “C’mon, it was a joke. I would never insult gays by suggesting that they are like John Edwards. That would be mean.”

The Shunning of Ann a Shame…

As the fallout from Ann Coulter’s remark continues, American Mind wants signatories to a letter to CPAC requesting that they not book her for next year.
An Open Letter to CPAC Sponsors and Organizers Regarding Ann Coulter
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Devil – umm, yeah…

…and Al Sharpton is the face of Black America….
…and Osama Bin Laden is the face of Islam…
…and Babs is the face of Hollywood…

Give it a rest. Whatever happened to the concept of not judging a group by the actions of an individual? …or does that only apply to official, DNC-sponsored special interest groups?

She did make a racial slur: she said that Bill Clinton was the first black president, “half white, half trash”. That means trash equals black.

Coulter never was a “wit”. And for you to quote the fat tub of lard, “Limbaugh has said again and again that ‘words mean things’”, shows you have a mocroscopic set of people to refer to.

Words mean things, how profound! Conservatives are pathetic.

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The things that Ann Coulter says were once a long time ago insightful and edgy. She was able to sell books as a telegenic and provocative speaker/writer. Now she is just lazily using obviously racist/homophobic remarks to keep herself in the news.

She could spend one month writing a good article that is well researched and fun to read promoting a book, or she can go hack off some remark at a CPAC conference. Both get Coulter what she wants. She chooses the lazy low road to get attention. Other, far less cynical and less self involved conservatives, are forced to defend themselves because Ann wants some air time she could get with a little legwork instead of this facile rabble rousing.

One of these examples is Rush Limbaugh. Unfortunately for Rush he just ran a spoof on Fox News with Ann Coulter. Rush does a lot of the research and legwork that he needs to do to get attention without saying stupid things, and is one of those conservatives that is lumped in with her.

I am tired of being lumped in with Ann Coulter because I support the war and the president. It is time for the republican party and the conservative movement to grow up and get over some of the homophobia and racism that this country has dealt with in the past. Ann Coulter is a lazy hack. She should be required to pay all the other conservatives that are forced to deal with her lazy publicity stunts.

Thank you Sean. I agree 100%. I’m sick of having to explain that people like Ann Coulter are NOT the voice of the Republicans or the conservative movement.

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Oh, please, DO try to get over yourselves!

This could easily have been a ploy to get the “so-called” republicans running for president to do a bit of self-culling based on how they will react to her comments.

Personally I found them funny. But that’s me.

CPAC knew exactly what they were doing, too! It’s not like Ann’s previous statements are secret and buried in some vault (like Hillary’s papers at university.)

They knew WHO she was and WHAT she might say. It was just a matter of WHEN she’d do it but they also knew WHY she’d do it.

Now let’s all start growing thicker skins and stop being so easily offended.

/rant off

It would be easier to take this column seriously if there weren’t links to Ann Coulter at the top of this page. She does big business among conservatives.

What is her ringtone anyway? “Hey faggot, pick up the phone”?

She is the face of modern conservativism in all its ugliness – you only now figured this out? Where was this self-righteous posting last year after the “ragheads” statement?

I’m getting fed up with people like Ann Coulter representing “us.” I put the word “us” in quotation marks, because I’m starting to have a hard time feeling included in what used to be a proud movement. The Republican party used to be a coalition of social conservatives and people like me, a libertarian who has been willing to compromise for the greater goods of smaller government and economic freedom. Now, it seems we got the worst of both worlds–Republicans who believe in big government who tolerate all sorts of pork and corruption, and increasingly intolerant social conservatism that I cannot condone or compromise with. People on the left already think the Republicans are a bunch of bigots. If _I_ end up thinking that, I’m gone. I’m still in the party, but I’m hanging by a thread. And people like Coulter are sawing at the edges.

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>>…and Al Sharpton is the face of Black America….
…and Osama Bin Laden is the face of Islam…
…and Babs is the face of Hollywood…

Black America, Islam, and Hollywood aren’t political movements. See the difference? She isn’t the “face” of the new-new-GOP because I say so. She is the face of the GOP because she has such popular support on the right and the “movement” gives her a platform. They are making her the face of the right. Not me. The Democratic party didn’t give Ward Churchill, for example, a platform — no one ever heard of him and no one wants to.

Why soften this criticism by saying “[bigoted fighting words] may be tolerated on liberal websites”? If such tolerance were commonplace Coulter wouldn’t have a stereotype to attack by putting an anti-political-correctness frame around her so-called joke.

“But Johnny did it first!” was a lousy excuse when you were seven. It shouldn’t work at all among adults.

For what it’s worth, I’ve always made my feelings about Ann Coulter perfectly clear.

Lincoln, who spoke with malice towards none and charity towards all, would be aghast at what the Republican Party has become.

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When you run out of ideas, it is easy to make a group “straw men” to knock down and build yourself up.

Every time Limbaugh, or Greg Garrison or Ann use that swishy, lispy stereotypical “gay” voice in referring to a liberal position/speaker they drive me further away from the Republican party. They may be playing to their base, but in doing so they are playing into the hands of bigots and fascists.

Ann isn’t the only “media” face of the Republican Party to be guilty of gay bashing, but perhaps she is the most daring.

People, people.
It’s standup comedy.
The whole routine was outrageous.
Walk away shaking your head and laughing.

Well written letter which echos my sentiments.

Frankly I am disappointed with Coulter. She has become more shtick and less smarts. Her latest book, is a classic example of what’s wrong with Coulter. Specifically, she makes a valid point that the “Jersey Girls” were never elected to speak on behalf of all 9-11 victims, but then goes into this useless diatrobe how these women’s husbands who passed may not have wanted to be married to them. This is absolute idoicy, and worse than that, it pollutes a valid argument, one that Anne Coulter does not own herself.

The thing that annoys real conservatives, is when someone makes arguments we agree with, then pollutes them with self serving nonesence. As the letter states, its becoming more about Coulter and less about the movement.

I wish that someone close to Coulter, perhaps Limbaugh, Hannity, etc… would take her aside PRIVATELY, and read her the riot act.

Simply put Anne is becoming the Conservative’s version of the radical liberal blogesphere.

Let me conclude by saying this. Ann Coulter is a very smart women and excellent orator, when she isn’t acting like a liberal (in the context of behavior). I have watched Coulter Debate, and she is excellent. Her ability to recall facts on the fly, and deliver them in a short yet concise way, is a skill that is rare amongst most individuals. She is a good writer, and does a meticulous job with her research. Why she feels she has to go into the gutter, throwing aroud words like “Faggot” or even, worse writing a book where she personally insults a women who recently lost her husband in a terrorist attack is beyond comprehension. come on Ann your smarter than that!

People, people.
It was stand-up comedy.
The whole routine was outrageous.
Walk away, shake your head and laugh.

PaperTiger said: A stereotype generated by national media.
National media that conveniently forgets how the GOP fought to free the slaves from bondage.
National media that didn’t see a vice in apartheit black codes, and whistled into the air as the Democrats waged a 100 year guerilla war to keep the country from instituting the 14th ammendment. The same media which shuffles its feet when muslims across the planet riot for days over cartoons and turns a deaf ear to the question “what cartoons are the rioting over?” and then tells us there is no such thing as a monolithic muslim movement.
The same media who wouldn’t have mentioned CPAC now or in 2006 if it weren’t for bombastic Ann Coulter.

Uh, dude, do you live in the real world? The GOP defended South Africa’s right to apartheid. The southerners who supported segregation left the Dems and are now Republicans. I saw media coverage of CPAC long before the controversy of Coulters remarks came to light. In facts the media covers CPAC every year, often uncritically. Again, do you live in the real world?

Since 9/11 – when self-righteous anti-war liberals began referring to conservative Christians involved in the political process as “Christofascists”, conservative Jews as “neo-cons”, to Bush as “Hitler”, to 9/11 victims as “little Eichmans”, to America as “AmeriKa”, to anyone who didn’t agree with their peace-at-any-cost ideology as “warmongers”, “reich-wingers”, and “wingnuts” – in my estimation any left-wing fingerpointer whining about Coulter’s comments has no moral authority for doing so. And if they try to claim they’ve never THOUGHT of those despicable labels when “debating” conservatives, then I have a message for you, until you condemn each and everyone of those high profile radical left-wing name callers on your side of the aisle you’ll always be known by the company you keep. Pretty hypocritical coming here to complain about Coulter’s often provocative comments while your side, supposedly populated by “enlightened” “people of peace” continue spewing their name-calling venom. My goodness, what was the response of many liberals after the bombing attempt on Dick Cheney in Afghanistan, too bad the Muslim militants missed? It’s all over the blogosphere and can’t be denied. And if YOU didn’t say it there’s a good chance you thought it.

Given the liberal’s longstanding rhetoric, clearly liberals think conservatives are a bunch of incivil Neanderthals anyway, so why are conservatives being condemned for what comes natural? Like homosexuality, maybe it’s in our genes, right? What’s the liberal’s excuse for their own collective behavior since they’ve long claimed to be so enlightened and above labeling people? Hypocritical bigots!

Coulter has a great future in professional wrestling–just as soon as she learns how to properly work a crowd.

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I see someone put a post on here saying that Coulter should not be punished for her “one word”. I am a gay man, and “faggot” is not just another word. It is a hateful word that, as a teenager, made me cringe everytime I heard it, whether as I walked down the hall or as I was being thrown against my locker. It is the word-of-choice for teen boys when they want to hurt someone. It is well-documented that gay-teens are much more likely percentage-wise to commit (or try-to-commit) suicide than straight teens. So when you hear someone saying the word “faggot” you might want to picture a mother’s son hanging in his closet after the abuse of hearing the word “faggot” one too many times. “Faggot” is not just a word – it is mean and cruel, which is exactly what Coulter meant to be during her speech. And even worse, the room was full of young people that, when hearing a person that they admire use the word “faggot”, assured them that this was okay to call people. In fact, it was some how funny, as you can hear in the video. Shameless. As my name says, I voted for Reagan because of his true Conservative principles of staying out of people’s private lives (i.e., smaller government and less regulations). It seems clear to me that, if you are a true conservative, the modern-day Republican Party has left you. Though you might not agree with homosexuality, it is clear that homosexuality is – and always has been – part of the human condition. Having Coulter as a spokeswoman and role model for your party and its ideals, if you truly support your conservative values, should not and must not be tolerated. This woman is mean and vulgar, and besides the political ramifications of hurting your party, has no idea the harm she might be putting on young gay teens with her caustic words. This woman has no place in the party and ideals of Reagan-conservatism.

Thanks, in advance, for taking the time to read my letter. Sincerely, Scotty

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The fact that Coulter was a huge draw at the convention, even after last year’s “raghead” remark, and the fact that her comment about Edwards was so well-received that she had to stop talking and wait for the laughter and applause to die down, shows that the “age of Coulter” is far from over. She knows her audience, and this publicity will help her sell more books and get more speaking engagements, etc.

You can say she’s not the voice of the republican party or the conservative movement, and that’s true in a purely technical sense, but you can’t deny that she knows her audience and says what many, many of them want to hear. That’s why she’s popular.

If you don’t feel comfortable being part of a movement within which a large number of members like the sorts of things Coulter says, then good for you. But you can’t deny that she knows her audience and says what many, many of them want to hear.

Ward Churchill wasn’t given a platform? Not good enough, I’m not aware of ANY liberal or Democratic mover and shaker in the Democratic Party condemning this man’s unAmerican lies … or his plagiarism. And the same goes for Cindy Sheehan, Michael Moore, or any other left-wing, unhinged rent-a-ranter.

It’s obvious the thing has been coming off the tracks for the far right loons (thanks O’Reilly) since the November election, and now with Coulter at the wheel it’s just a matter of time before she completely derails this thing into the train-wreck
we always knew it was. I say more prime time for Ann is good for America.

First, tell the truth. She did NOT refer to My Little Pony as a “faggot”. The point was, if she did, she’d be forced into rehab, as was the TV actor (who actually DENIED calling a fellow actor “faggot”). If you want to make sure that you have plenty of elbow room at CPAC, go ahead – ban Ann – you and the dozen who agree with you are sure to have a PC-swell time.

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Rush Limbaugh is mostly patient and very civilized in his discussions with liberals who phone call his show or send him e-mails.

Like when he told a black caller to “take the bone out of his nose?”

I guess that does constitute the height of civil discourse on the right.

But, yes, let us keep in mind the context in which Coulter made her remarks – a cheering crowd. And suddenly she’s “not the face of conservatives?” Please. She said what she’s always said – and you guys cheered her, like always, until it became embarrassing.

Well the thing about Anne is this she has a long history of saying vile and meanspritied things about other human beings. Now in and of itself well that is not to bad, every day millions and millions of people say vile and meanspritied things about other human beings. The difference with Anne of course is that she is held in high regard by the conservatives in this country. When she says things of course she is going to be associated with the republican party becasue umm let me think OH YEAH THAT IS WHO IS GIVING HER A PLATFORM FROM WHICH TO GET HER MESSAGE OUT! Now if the Republican party and conservative want to have her around their necks well then they have to take the cosequences of that association and as time goes by the hatred and anger that Ann Coulter throws out into the world has to come back and roost where it was hatched in the first place. Do all republicans have the same sentiments as Anne of course not but if they do not stand up and say NOT AGAIN, then they are supporting her by their silence and that is how you end up with things like KrystalNachts it is a slow incidious porcess that always leads to tragedy. TImothy McVie was a small sampelling of how hatred festers and is fed by the likes of Ann Coulters and conversely Louis Farakhans each side can participate with tragic endings.

C’mon, it’s not easy to do political comedy and get your delivery 100.00% right on every line.

I’ll stand with Ann.

Sign me on.

A healthy development this but I’m not sure whether it’s because you all are truly upset by a stupid and inflammatory remark by Coulter or that you’re embarrassed by the attention it’s caused. I watched the video, the remark was pretty well received. I find that much more offensive than the remark itself.

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First, Kudos to those of you who have started and signed this petition. It’s nice to know that all Republicans aren’t despicable, and you’re showing people that they aren’t. But Jennifer Crawford (Unless she’s kidding) is a perfect example of the pathetic hypocrisy of the Right. And Paul A’Barge’s post is just hilarious! Gays own universties? Who knew? That danged Left wing MSM just won’t report that! Look out Paul, there’s a gay under your bed! He’s gonna eat your children while you go to your male bible study class!

It has nothing to do with politics or ideology. It’s publicity. She makes these outrageous remarks in order to sell books.

You’re being used by someone who doesn’t care a whit about the conservatism. Reread Conscience of a Conservative. Did Goldwater talk like this? 20 years from now she will be retired to her condo by the sea and you will still be trying to explain that hate is not the central tenet of the conservative movement.

PT Barnum would be proud of you. You’re just a bunch of suckers.

Hear, hear. The only pity is that Ann Coulter chose conservatism rather than liberalism as the platform on which to build her public image. I don’t care if, in the depths of her heart, she thinks she isn’t racist, homophobic and violent – in her speech she is all of those things. She promotes evil. I hope she never again appears as an invited speaker at CPAC or any other conservative forum.

[...] March 5th, 2007 Even when calling on a ban from CPAC 2008, critics of Ann Coulter can’t help throwing in a barb at liberals (emphasis mine): At CPAC 2007 Coulter decided to turn up the volume by referring to John Edwards, a former U.S. Senator and current Presidential candidate, as a “faggot.” Such offensive language–and the cavalier attitude that lies behind it–is intolerable to us. It may be tolerated on liberal websites but not at the nation’s premier conservative gathering. [...]

How come everybody applauded when she said that?

Could it be that conservatives don’t like gays and enjoy humiliating them?

Don’t try to pretend that you are some high and mighty people. Conservatives are cruel, racist and hateful people.

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So, in order to “make a stand for political civility,” who do you quote? Rush-freaking-Limbaugh! Funny stuff.

[...] The American Mind’s Sean Hackbarth blogged the most about CPAC by far. Like last year, he was the first (or one of the first) to blog about Ann Coulter’s poor choice of words. Earlier this morning Sean wrote an open letter to CPAC asking them not to invite Coulter back. [...]

Sign me up!

Shunning Coulter has nothing to do with “silencing speech” and everything to do with denying lefties one of their favorite clubs against conservative ideas.

Coulter doesn’t speak for me. She detracts from the marketplace of ideas – every moment spent talking about her is a moment lost for the debate.

Reading the comments above, you can see how much the left would rather talk about Coulter. They don’t have anything new – they avoid debating ideas honestly because they don’t have the ammo to do it.

This isn’t about the First Amendment (no government actor involved) or even the concept of free speech (the audience has the same right; if it wants to boo or disassociate itself with a speaker who offends, it has every right to do so).

This whole notion that criticism from the audience somehow stifles the free speech rights of the speaker is so juvenile I have a hard time believing those who toss the argument out are serious.

Let the McCarthyism roll!

Have you now or ever support Ann Coulter?

She will be silenced, you hear, silenced!
Unite with the wackado left, silence Ann Coulter! Silence her NOW!

[...] CPAC sponsors, the Age of Ann has passed. We, the undersigned, request that CPAC speaking invitations no longer be extended to Ann Coulter. Her words and attitude simply do too much damage. Credentialed CPAC 2007 BloggersSean Hackbarth, The American Mind James Joyner, Outside the Beltway BoiFromTroy, Boi From Troy Joy McCann, Little Miss Attila Kevin McCullough, Musclehead Revolution Fausta Werz, Fausta’s blog Patrick Hynes, Ankle Biting Pundits Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters Jane Stewart, See Jane Mom Alexander Brunk, Save the GOPOther Right-of-Center Bloggers Owen Robinson, Boots and Sabres N.Z. Bear, The Truth Laid Bear Michael Demmons, Gay Orbit Mark Coffey, Decision ‘08 Russell Newquist, The Philosopher’s Stone Marshall Manson, On Tap Rob Port, Say Anything Matthew Johnston, Going to the Mat Timmer, The Daily Brief Rick Moran, Right Wing Nuthouse Rob Port – Say Anything [...]

Coulter isn’t your public face?

C’mon.

Too bad people cheered her. Too bad people laughed when George Allen called the kid “macaca.” Too bad Limbaugh gets taped all the time saying awful things about people and wishing for the deaths of various liberals in the public sphere.

You guys have been quietly standing by while people like Coulter daydream about the assassination of Democratic pols or people from the NYTimes. You’ve allowed your movement to be hijacked by wackos. Now that it’s becoming politically inconvenient to have Coulter slandering 9/11 widows and gays, you want to push her away, but that applause is all the proof you need of how much work you have ahead. Its great that you decry calling John Edwards a “faggot,” but where were you during any of the last 1000 smears?

I used to be more of a conservative, before being conservative meant that you supported the GOP 110% and were an authoritarian cultist. I didn’t think of myself as liberal until conservatives made a habit of supporting bigger and bigger government and abandoning Constitutional principles. Nowadays, if Cheney says the sky is orange and the world is flat, an army of conservatives start demanding that we all believe the same thing and saying that liberals don’t believe it because they hate America and want the terrorists to win.

You guys are reaping the fruits of a climate you’ve allowed to be sown before your very eyes. Hate is not a family value, and I’d put my lefty New York family’s values up against one of those cheering CPAC clone’s any day.

[...] The American Mind is petitioning the Conservative Political Action Conference to stop inviting Coulter to speak at CPAC events, One of the points of CPAC is the opportunity it gives college students to meet other young conservatives and learn from our leaders. Unlike on their campuses—where they often feel alone—at CPAC they know they are part of a vibrant political movement. What example is set when one highlight of the conference is finding out what shocking phrase will emerge from Ann Coulter’s mouth? How can we teach young conservatives to fight for their principles with civility and respect when Ann Coulter is allowed to address the conference? Coulter’s invective is a sign of weak thinking and unprincipled politicking. [...]

I say let her speak every year. She is emblematic of the “ideas” coming from the right these days. Why not throw in that insufferable whelp Dinesh D’Souza who is now slithering around on a book tour claiming that Liberals caused 9-11 — i.e. we need to kill or imprison them. Wasn’t the CPAC convention invented for people like this?

Now granted CPAC has never really been more than an opportunity for the paste eaters in the class to dress up in their blue blazers and feel comfortable and accepted for once — but I was even surprised that a speaker calling one of the opposing candidates a “faggot” would be greeted as discourse worthy of applause. I think Ann Coulter is right at home.

Wow, pulling out something that happened THIRTY YEARS AGO! That’s impressive. From Snopes:

“However, a helpful reader provided us with a copy of that Newsday article (from the 8 October 1990 edition), and that article does report Rush Limbaugh as admitting he felt guilty for once having told a difficult-to-understand black caller to “take that bone out of your nose and call me back.” (This incident occurred not on Rush Limbaugh’s now-familiar talk and political commentary radio program, but at the beginning of his broadcast career back in the early 1970s when he was hosting a Top 40 music show under the name “Jeff Christie” on either WIXZ or KQV in Pittsburgh.)”

Jim – if you think Ann Coulter is the darling of the right, you haven’t been paying attention to things that occur outside the echo chamber…or did you not read Sean’s piece? This whole “face of the conservative movement” is your mental construct…or do you really think that “movements” have “faces”…get real! It’s verbal short-hand for “everyone on the right is just like her,” which is obvious BS…not to mention offensive, intellectually lazy and entirely illiberal.

Good on ye. Coulter is out of control. She does in fact need to go into some sort of rehab. She does a disservice to the noble conservative movement.

Gunga–this may all be true, but i still haven’t read any condemnation anywhere of the audience members who laughed and applauded her comment. What’s your take on that?

Also, please point me to any blogs or pieces that have condemned the audience. I may have missed them.

I consider myself to be a progressive. I live in a very conservative community, and consistently find myself in the minority when it comes to discussing most politically or socially relevant issues. Among my conservative neighbors and co-workers, Ann Coulter is a true celebrity. It’s also clear to me that she is validating many of their core fears and anxieties. They can have it both ways, by dismissing her views and comments as ‘humor’, yet continuing to hold her in high esteem. She is their surrogate hate-monger.

Ann Coulter has become a poster child for conservatism. True conservitives, commited to the causes described in the open letter, would do well to keep her at arm’s length.

Ann Coulter is also the darling of the left because she is the image you seek to tag
to conservatism.

The idea of saying Ann represent’s the “face of the conservative movement” is silly.

The fact that a straw poll conducted over the weekend showing attendees choosing Guliani as there likely nominee for president show’s that not everyone is on Ann’s side.

It is telling that the only Republican candidate to ever where a dress and do drag got the most votes.

“Absolutely no left wing nut has any reason to throw stones, when their side has the absolute winners trophy for gutter speak in politics hands down.”

No “left wing nut” I am aware of has ever even once called for conservatives to be killed, beaten, or tortured. Coulter has regularly stated such things about liberals. Conservatives are far more abusive and hostile in their language about liberals than liberals ar about conservatives.

She’s a man, baby!

Why are the conservative Republicans denouncing Ann Coulter? She is the poster child of your whole movement. Republicans have squeaked out victories in elections from 2000 to 2004 by flogging the gay marriage issue and homophobia. The Karl Roves, Ken Mehlmans, Jeff Manwhore Gannon, Tom Foley, Ted Haggard, Ann Coulter and the whole army of Republican self-hating faggots are the true face of the Republican Party. After the Senate rout in 2008 when you lose half of the 20 seats you have to defend AND the Presidency to Hillary Clinton will spell the death knell of the Republican party. And thank your drunken frat boy idiot manchild president for the leading the charge into oblivion. Why do you hate America? Why did you destroy our country? It will take generations to undo the damage Republicans have done to America. Good riddance.

I have never heard of your blog until just two minutes ago, but I am glad I now do. I am a 39 year old proud father of two, happily married husband for seven years, and a liberal Democrat. Of course, I despise the things that folks like Ann Coulter say, but (A) she of course has the right to say utterly childish and asinine things and (B) I have the right to ignore those things, since they are utterly childish and asinine. While it is easy for someone like me to pass Ms. Coulter off as simply an irrelevant fool, CPAC by definition confers relevance upon her by giving her a plum speaking spot at their annual signature event. Therefore, it is refreshing to see conservatives standing up against such ridiculous dialogue. Her comments do nothing to enhance what should be a viable, serious conversation about the different ways that conservatives and liberals would like to see the nation governed. This is an important debate and is one that should be undertaken with mutual respect, professionalism and vigor. That The American Mind has seen fit to take an important step in furthering such a debate is enough to make me pause, tip my hat and say “Thank you.”

[...] Update:  It’s catching on!  Today I salute righty bloggers who reprinted this: An Open Letter to CPAC Sponsors and Organizers Regarding Ann Coulter [...]

Beating up on one’s own is not smart. You dopes are not advancing the conservative cause with this stupid letter, you are helping to defeat it.

What is wrong with you? Coulter cracked a joke. That’s all. You have created a PR nightmare over the weekend, and end up with an image problem.

The simple fact is that if we conservatives put up with stuff like this from Coulter, we will lack the moral standing to criticize it coming from the left.

For he most part, the right side of the ideological spectrum is, these days, the tolerant, open, live and let live side.

But Coulter is messing with our message, and hurting the cause.

I don’t like Edwards, but I’m now going to contribute to his campaign. I was a life-long conservative pre George Bush. Now his supporers have removed the scaes from my eyes, and I’ll be a flaming liberal until the pendulum swings too far to the left. I will never return to what passes for “conservativism” in this country. The left is not the only reason that capitalism is the unknown ideal.

As a lifelong Democrat (of the middle-of-the-road variety), I think every conservative think tank and political organization in the country should go out of their way to invite Ann Coulter to their various functions, and encourage her to be every bit as “thought provoking” and “edgy” as she cares to be. I can think of no greater ally to the cause of political moderation than to put this coarse, shrill, attention-addicted woman with the snug sweaters and middling intelligence in the absolute forefront of all things Republican. Go Ann!

>> if you think Ann Coulter is the darling of the right

Yeah, of course she isn’t. That’s why she was at CPAC yet again this year. That’s why her books sell so poorly and why she regularly appears on FOX.

>>or did you not read Sean’s piece

I commend Sean for his piece, but he is in the minority on the right when it comes to Coulter. In fact, most of the criticism I’ve seen of her comment is purely a question of tactics: “She makes us look bad by saying what we think too plainly.” I didn’t see any criticism of her when she called Gore a “fag” on national TV.

You would think that someone whose “arguments” consist of calling virtually anyone she disagrees with a “faggot” would lose some credibility. Or someone who calls for the murder of members of Congress and Supreme Court justices, for example. You would hope someone like that wouldn’t still be invited to CPAC. But she’ll be back on Hannity within two days and this whole story will morph into something inane like “liberals hate free speech” or “liberals can’t take a ‘joke’.”

I guess I see how this works: “I would say that Bush should be poisoned, because he’s such a Nazi faggot — but the right would claim I need therapy — so, kind of an impasse here…can’t talk about Bush.” Oh, I was “joking.” Can’t you take a “joke?”

If any pundit on the “left” said that — a pundit, not an anonymous blog commenter — they would be banished, and rightly so, from our political discourse. No one would touch them. Their reputation would be ruined. Funny, I don’t see that happening to Coulter. And this is hardly an isolated case. She has been spewing this venom for years.

>>or do you really think that “movements” have “faces”…

Of course they do. Political movements usually have faces. MLK was the face of the civil rights movement. Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were the faces of the “third way.” Goldwater was the face of a certain strand of Republicanism. Coulter is becoming the face of the new GOP. That doesn’t mean she is the GOP or the right; it means she is a prominent “face” of the right because of her popularity and because the right gives her a platform and a megaphone, usually without any criticism whatsoever.

>>It’s verbal short-hand for “everyone on the right is just like her,”

I said no such thing. However, when you see so many on the right promoting and defending her and her ideas, I think it is safe to say that a large segment of the right thinks like she does.

“First they cam for Ann Coulter…and I did nothing. Next they came for Rush Limbaugh and I did nothing. And then they came for me…and there was no one left to care.” Or something like that.

I am very disappointed with my fellow Republican-Conservatives. How can you abandon Ann, at her time of need? Ann has always been there for us, nurturing and articulating our cherished conservative principles….and this is the thanks she gets?

No one has done more than Ann to give our movement the sweet smell of victory. I regret that you are now flushing our gains down the political toilet.

Yeah, But You All Do it Too!…

Normally, I wouldn’t waste time by writing about Ann Coulter, but the latest controversy is just too rich. No, I’m not surprised that Coulter called presidential candidate John Edwards a “faggot.” That’s mild compared to …

>>Beating up on one’s own is not smart. You dopes are not advancing the conservative cause with this stupid letter, you are helping to defeat it.

Spoken like a true Stalinist. That’s what I love about today’s right wing — the intellectual honesty. Putting truth and basic decency above partisan concerns.

Ann Coulter is 1,000,000 funnier and smarter than the bunch of boring idiots who signed that letter.

Go ahead, make my day! I think you have already made a political harakiri.

I hope that people like these “mooodeeeerates” will die or wither away sooner than I hoped.

Disrespectfully,

Sushizero

I used to despise Ann Coulter. Now I love her. The more press she gets, the more she reveals the darkest, dankest corner of the GOP–the small, hateful minority that would drive a once respectable political party off the edge of a cliff. The more light shined into this corner, the better, for the GOP and the country. So shine on Ann, shine on! And CPAC: please DO invite her back every year, for the remainder of your existence.

Howdy,

After reading and blogging on this whole fiasco, I feel sorry for Ms. Coulter. All her “friends” are distancing themselves from her, and virtually the entire blogosphere, conservatives and liberals, are just trashing her.

What she said was reprehensible and should be challenged, just as John Kerry’s “botched joke” was challenged, but she’s human too ya’know… We can’t very well condemn her for her incivility and commit the same grievance.

All I can say is good for Ann, She’s saying what conservatives are thinking. She’s racist, homophobic, hate filled, anti-science, pro-war, anti-human, anti environment, and an all around horrible person, I think she speaks accurately for all conservatives. Don’t try to silence her just because she voices what your thinking and you don’t want people to know what the republicans are really like.

Bleh. I have a lot of work to do to make sure that every single person that has signed onto this petition is effectively taken off of my Blogroll. I do not and will not support this effort or anyone associated with it.

Ann Coulter was clearly taken way out of context by the “so called” conservatives and conservative web bloggers on the Internet. She was making a joke and now that I had a chance to hear an audiotape of her words, I don’t see this as anything close to warranting this in the least.

Why is Coulter’s brand of hatred (still openly worshipped by so many, even a few commenters here) abruptly considered a liability to the neocons?

Why are you suddenly afraid? I thought neoconservatism (never, NEVER to be confused with genuine conservative values) was this bold, “fearless” (to quote the petition), take-no-prisoners, kill-all-who-stand-against-us movement unified by seething hatred.

Now it’s all falling apart. Your best spokesanimals are snarling bigots like Coulter, hypocritical substance abusers like Limbaugh and Tinsley, disgraced family-values/multiple-divorcees like Gingrich, and cowardly chickenhawks like Jonah Goldberg and–well, almost the entire Bush administration.

It’d be hilarious, if you traitorous filth hadn’t done so much harm.

>>taken way out of context by the “so called” conservatives

More “liberals!” They are everywhere! Look under your beds, comrades! Pretty soon the “true conservatives” will be down to about three people. Then they’ll shoot each other in a triangle like at the end of “Reservoir Dogs.”

>>I hope that people like these “mooodeeeerates” will die

And more “conservatives” calling for the deaths of those they disagree with. Wow. I’m just shocked.

Of course it’s a joke! A skinny guy in a blonde wig and mini skirt (look at the adam’s apple for God’s sake!) making outrageous insinuations. What does “Ann” have to do, put on a clown nose.

Ann Coulter isn’t the face of our “movement” — she doesn’t represent our “values.”

Its that thrice divorced hillbilly heroin addict, Rush Limbaugh!

What a relief.

So where were you hypocrites last year when Ann Coulter was calling people “ragheads” and advocating the murder of a Supreme Court justice in her CPAC speech? Coulter has never been intelligent and witty, she has always been a vicious, dishonest authoritarian smear merchant.

That’s why Conservatives love her. If you’re changing, good for you, but don’t pretend it’s Coulter who’s getting worse.

Oh dear… I’m finding bigotry here as well.

“…she voices what your thinking and you don’t want people to know what the republicans are really like.”

I’ve said it once on my blog and I’ll say it here again. Bigotry is bigotry. When you take a category of people and revile them, as this commentor is clearly doing, that’s bad.

It’s called bigotry.

Leftists might as well reiterate their accusations that President Bush is a fascist and all conservatives are Nazi’s at heart. Most of the people I know are liberals or leftists, and they aren’t evil. I also know a lot of conservatives and they aren’t evil.

(sigh)

Americans, countrymen, lend each other your civility!

Jim – anthropomorphizing mental constructs like “movements” the way you do is amuzing. Pardon me if I find it laughable. Since we’re turning people into body parts for “movements” maybe Ann is actually the butt of the conservative movment…or an elbow…well, she does have nice legs…

Anyway, how did YOU get to decide that? I mean, are you the conscience of the movement? Did I miss a meeting or what? I am, after all, the shoulder of conservatism.

As for MLK being THE face of the equal rights movement, what about Rosa Parks? Many “faces”…many walks…many stories…you aren’t in any of ‘em.

My gosh, you folks have too much time on your hands. Coulter was making a joke! Jokes sting. I did not see that she was calling Edwards a faggot but that she was joking that his web people reacted so foolishly when they got caught really meaning to use their “hurtful” words they way they were intended to insult.
When Conservatives start appologizing for making an off color joke they truely have joined the emascualted mainstream. Get over it

JT is correct. Ann was only making a funny. I hope she comes to next years CPAC, and knocks ‘em dead with a couple nigger jokes.

Oh dear… I’m finding bigotry here as well.

Americans, countrymen, lend each other your civility!

I would love to be able to be civil, I would love it if were possible for so called conservatives so separate themselves from the religious right and actually be conservative (you know, that smaller government, less tax kinda thing that conservatives once embraced). Unfortunately we live in a time where conservative values seem to be focused on restricting personal rights, invading peoples personal lives and personal choices. If people like Coulter, Limbaugh, and Hannity aren’t the voices of the right then who’s writing there paychecks? Republicans are pumping millions of dollars to these horrible people, I can only assume that they are endorsing these statements by paying them. I have no great love for either side of the political arena but it takes a lot more than this to show that you are different from your spokespeople. The left have same problem with that piece of garbage Michael Moore, but at least he isn’t out there making “faggot” and “raghead” jokes on his syndicated talk radio show.

Gunga – You are nothing if not absurdly literal. Perhaps you need to look up the word “face” in a dictionary.

OED – face – Visible state or condition; aspect.

You see, “face” doesn’t always mean a human body part. Most words have more than one meaning. (Crazy, isn’t it?) There are also things called “idioms.” You might want to look that word up as well, since calling something or someone “the face” of something is an idiomatic form of expression. Hope that helps.

Good luck with your English studies!

I see it all so clearly.

John Kerry was a “bad man” for making the “polically incorrect” point that Mary Cheney, she of the Coors Brewing Co. gay/lesbian outreach department was indeed a lesbian.

However Ann Coulter is an avatar of truth speech by calling a man who is clearly heterosexual a “faggot”.

The Republican right is obsessed with gay sex. Obsessed I say. From the pathetic moralizing of closet minister Ted Haggard to the daily rants about the ills of homosexuality by San Francisan and small dog owner Michael Savage to the strange bald head rubbing fetish of George W. Bush to the many secret Whitehouse visits of known gay male prostitute Jeff Gannon. Add a touch of Mark Foleyism and one can see the pathology that has gripped the moral wags.

The anti-gay Republican right has become the very thing they fought…a bunch of creepy closeted fops.

-GSD

We have to remember that they (the libs and Main-Stream Media) WILL throw us under the bus every chance they get. We cannot lower ourselves to their level like this. It provides them the ammunition they need – look at the mileage the the MSM is getting on this! Meanwhile the Moonbat Mouthpiece is openly lobbying for the Vice President to be dispatched.

She is the face of modern conservativism [sic]in all its ugliness – you only now figured this out? Where was this self-righteous posting last year after the “ragheads” statement?

You see, Hackbarth? These are the folks whom you approach as a sycphant.

This nimrod with a computer could have brought up Google and found the rush of outrage and condemnation of Coulter for her “ragheads” comment. Could have, but didn’t.

So, you see the outrage that was ladled on Coulter then did nothing to change this moron’s mind, and your current outrage has likewise fallen on deaf (and very lame) ears.

Do yourself a favor. Write off these folks. If you don’t bend over (no pun intended) to every thing they want, you’re going to be just a lump of disposable conservative meat.

It’s shark-jumping time, pal. Don’t sign anything to make nice to teh gays.

What is wrong with you? Coulter cracked a joke. That’s all. You have created a PR nightmare over the weekend, and end up with an image problem.
Excuse me? WHO created a PR nightmare? WHO has an image problem?
The idiocy of the Coulter defenders is nothing short of breathtaking and heartbreaking! I never would have predicted that there would be so many stark naked hypocrites making fools of themselves over Ann Coulter! You people are like those family members of guilty-as-sin perps talking about how nice and good and decent and God-fearing their son/daughter/relative is regardless of the fact they did something like bomb the Alfred A. Murrah building or something!

Is Coulter’s remark that bad? Of course it isn’t (let’s see if all of you fans of hyperbole, satire, and “jokes” can grasp that one), but none of you seem to be willing to draw a line and say “You must not pass at the penalty of estrangement from the movement.” I wonder if some of you people would be willing to stand up for a dope like David Duke, who, remember, was nominated as the GOP candidate for governor of Louisiana.
You people have to make up your minds what it is you want: Do you want to be an irony-free voice in favor of rejecting the name-calling and death-wishing, and for the left to be held responsible and accountable for its hate-filled and violent free speech, or do you want this side to engage in it too knowing full well that the game is rigged, and the right will always be disproportionately condemned?

Ann Coulter’s comment about The “Breck Girl” candidate and “faggot” may have been in bad taste at CPAC, but it reflects what a large number of people think

However her comment about “ragheads” is right on, IF you believe that muslims who are not terrorists are a “peaceloving group”.

You so called conservative bloggers have got no “BALLS”….it’s about time someone stood up to the damned looney left and punched “them” in the nose…..it’s just too bad that the only REALL MAN at your gathering of supposed leaders, IS Ann Coulter…..
I’m sick of you “girly-men” acting like you know what a real conservative is …it’s time for warriors, not wimps …

I’ve lost a lot of respect for all of you so called voices of conservatism…likes others here have said…you look more like the left every day to me….

GROW SOME BALLS AND FIGHT BACK YOU WIMP>>>>.

I’d vote for Ann in a minute…for any office…

jerry robertson…

After reading Andrew Sullivan’s definition of Rick Santorum I’ll ever be disgusted by any political name-calling again. Coulter sounds positively cultured compared to Sullivan and he’s writing for The Atlantic no less.

[...] An Open Letter to CPAC Sponsors and Organizers Regarding Ann Coulter – The comments are better than the post. Not that the post wasn’t thought-provoking … apparently young college-going Republicans feel “alone” … and JRE’s team sent out a mass email to all his supporters the day after Coulter’s “faggot” remark using the event to help solicit more funds. Your making him money, Ann! [...]

[...] Open Letter to CPAC Organizers Jump to Comments I happily sign on to this, originated by Sean Hackbarth at The AmericanMind: [...]

“I’m sick of you “girly-men” acting like you know what a real conservative is …it’s time for warriors, not wimps …”

Yes. Precisely how I feel.

We have all of these bloggers flocking to sign a silly petition so they can put themselves on some HOLY PEDASTAL and feel “better than that eeeeeevil Ann Coulter person.”

It’s interesting that no one bothered to mention what (else) she said in her speech. Of course not. It all boils down to:

“How dare anyone use the word FAGGOT in a speech! Out to Rehab with you Woman!”

Well… American comedians like Chris Rock have used the term nigger in their comedy acts for years! Chris Rock had a comedy show where he talked about liking blacks, but hating the niggers.

Yet Chris Rock never received a Sean Hackbarth petition of “dismay” signed in blood by Captain’s Quarters.

Maybe it’s time we pulled our heads out of the collective Politically Correct, Hypersensitivity Club, and realized that Ann Coulter does represent a large population of Conservatives who are sick and tired of having to have their toungues policed.

I am not defending her use of slandering John Edwards with that term… But, I am just mad that so many “supposed to be conservatives” have
gone off the deep end here.

The only reason the MSM and the Liberals can make hay out of this is that Conservatives are making it hay out of it.

I support your petition, Sean, and I will be quite interested in seeing who will be joining you…and who will be condemning you… on this statement.

Judging from the responses here, you have gained some grudging respect from the “other side”….but there’s a price you’ll pay for this honesty. You will become even more vilified then us liberals because, while we are the enemy, you are a traitor to the cause. The extremist Right reserves a special kind of hate for those that can break away from the groupthink and take a position contrary to the gospel of the Always Right. You, too, may get some of that “faggot” treatment from the Coulter worshipers here.

Good luck…you’ll need it.

I’m curious – how many of you people now standing up for Coulter stood up for Amanda Marcotte?

Precisely 0%, I should think. Hypocrites, every one of you.

I wasn’t offended by Ann’s use of faggot, of course I don’t like the highjacking (maybe not best choice of words) of the word gay. So now the conservative world wants to send Ann to the methaphorical Rehab center. The NBA is weak and so are most of you bloggers on this. Gay is ok Fag is not, whatever…..You People offend me by your spinelessness…..You know the new thing is to get rid of the word Homosexual. I am sick of people trying to tell you what you can and can’t say. Now the so called champions are just as lame as the Libs.

PS-So gay people smoke the pole and straights like to tap that ass and you bloggers can kiss my ass. Now thats free speech!!!!!

Ann has a way of scaring off the dull eyed KOSmonauts who use liberalism as a closet to hide in. With courage supplied by outraged conservatives, I see a few have put the bong down and found the spell check. Take GSD for example, elucidating on the theory that ‘all conservatives are gay.’:

“to the strange bald head rubbing fetish of George W. Bush to the many secret Whitehouse visits of known gay male prostitute Jeff Gannon. Add a touch of Mark Foleyism and one can see the pathology that has gripped the moral wags.”

Jeff Gannon was a reporter, that’s why he was going the Whitehouse you sorry sack of sh*t. His sin was being a conservative, that got him ostracized from main stream media. Hell, being a “known gay male prostitute” will get you elected in the Democrat party!

Clowns like GSD are much of the reason why many people take a sour pleasure in Ann Coulter – he’s deluded, self – righteous and fanatical – and practices his religion (liberalism) with the spite of the inquisitor and the intelligence of Woody Harrelson (sober). To be lectured by the likes of GSD is bound to drive some people to utter words banned on our freedom loving college campuses nationwide, hence Coulter’s bomb.

I think Ann Coulter has given conservatives a great chance to explain to all those asking what we think of gays. Around the country individual conservatives are voicing loud and clear that we respect the individual – regardless of race, sex or predilection – but abhor the thuggish movement assaulting our values in the name of ‘fairness.’

You want to get rid of Coulter? Then do a better job of getting rid of mental sloths like GSD.

[...] Sean Hackbarth, The American Mind [...]

You guys sound like a bunch of whimps. If this is the core of conservativism, we are in trouble. All Ann does is what the Libs do all the time. You expect the Libs to have double standards, but not so called conservatives. I just want to know if anyone has started a “faggot cash” fund I can contriute to? For Christ’s sake, you can’t handle name calling! Grow up. Until you start fighting the fight that is being fought, being “nice” will get you nowhere!

What the hell is wrong with CPAC. Ann COutler is awesome and the whole faggot thing was nothing more then a joke. Actually anything about Edwards is a joke. Joke aside what’s wrong with calling things how you see them? I hate faggots, queers, lesbians, homosexuals, gays or whatever else you call them. I’m not a homophobe I just hate em plain and simple. To me it’s just wrong. Political Correctness can kiss my a s s. Based on PC I’m also a foregncarphobe, limabeanphobe, hyphenphobe etc. Gotta admit though, the whole homophobe word was brilliant marketing strategy, wish I’d thought of that then I could have copyrighted it.

Yeah.. the hyphen thing offends me but I doubt we’ll see any laws changing that one. How can you be a hyhen-American if you were born in America and odds are you’ve never been to that hyphen country. If you’re born in America you’re American like it or not.

Nothing wrong with hating people, groups, etc as long as you don’t act out on that hate. I surround myself with people I like… just like everyone else does. Nobody surrounds themselves with people they can’t stand.. so I guess that makes us a *****phobe of somekind.

Guess my last comment has to do with any PAC and law makers… why do we need them? Don’t we have enough laws already? Do we really need full time law makers? I’m thinking I could do their job as a collateral duty to my full time job and still have weekends off.. they work like what 2 -3 days a week, talk for hours on end and do little if anything.

I digress… Ann Coulter is one hell of a woman and conservative. I wish 51% of the voting public were just like her!!!

It seems to be that we all want freedom to speak our minds until someone really does. True freedom requires both restraint on the part of the speaker and tolerance on the part of the hearer. I can’t see that we can have it without both.

I quit the Republican Party because of her and because of others like her playing leadership roles in that group. She and so many others represent ignorance, hatred, arrogance, lack of respect for others, above all they represent the damage of divisiveness in this nation that we cannot endure at this time in history.

The real pity of what Ann did at the CPAC? It wasn’t so much of what she said, it was that so many in the audience applauded. That’s the GOP right now: those driven to insult rather than provide any effective input. And you wonder why the Republicans polled so poorly in 2006: they keep applauding Ann like this and 2008 will look worse.

As a liberal, I say hooray for Maddog and his open igorance and bigotry! He is the true face of modern conservatism: a walking, talking Republican dumbass.

Of course he likes Coulter. Of course he hates his betters. He’s a conservative!

Ann Coulter ably proved the hypocrisy of the left wing by showing that the people who tolerate pornography over the internet, bashing of Christians, bashing of Catholics, burning the flag, violent disruptive protest, treasonous remarks in support of the attempted bombing the VP of the USA in a time of war are all bent out of shape because of the use of a word they don’t like. She used the word in a speech, it was clearly a reference to an incident that happened in the news and she accurately used it to show that the left cares nothing about real forms about hate speech. Let’s not be bullied anymore by the left, let’s not disavow her in any way, as a matter of she deserves a medal for having the intelligence and bravery to stand up to the thought police and the real enemies of free speech and thought. Bravo Ann!!

As one who is trying to be open-minded, undecided, and listening carefully to both sides of the issues in this Convention/Presidential election build-up, I have to tell you that Ann Coulter has caused me to turn a cold shoulder to more and more Conservative rhetoric. There is no place in the future I envision for America for bigots, racists, and fear. And Ann Coulter personfiies fear – evidenced by the hatred in her thoughts and words. I think she has done more for the Liberal side – encouraging more people to listen to them – than any one other person.

I here there are some conservatives running around here…don’t see none. Maybe they all ran away in embarrassment because of this sites pitiful catering to speech codes the left dreamed up.

[...] But really, the joke is on the Republican Party, and there’s evidence that they are starting to figure this out. If she is one of their opinion leaders, it kind of explains why they are able to win campaigns, but are so horrifically bad at actual governance. If Ann Coulter is your biggest star, what does it say about your movement? [...]

steve.

Ann Culter is a self promoting machine. She uses Conservatism to make money period.

She could care less about any Republican Conservative values. She uses sex (The shortest minis on T.V.), she uses aggression, she uses controversy, she uses wherever it takes to make herself be noticed.

Republican Conservatives should not allow themselves to be used in this form. If Ms. Culter wants to become a circus act and parade naked on the streets fine with me, just don’t do it under the banner of Conservatism.

Can’t we invite the likes of George Will instead of that air head loud mouth self promoting blond?
She makes Conservatives look like a bad act. And by the way she has an IQ just above a 9 year old… So why all the attention?

Let me add two more things.

1) If ann is not invited to CPAC, this wouldn’t be censureship. No one has an absolute right to be heard. For example CPAC is not going to hire me to speak (they should). Ann’s recent behavior has marginalized herself. Why should an organization invite anyone who will embarass it. Is Ann a racist. No! Her remarks were in a half-assed way making a point to insult Edwards, and his ridiculous campaign. Some argued, including Rush, that we are too politically correct. I disagree, simply put the use of Faggot, was not appropriate. Should Ann have a Scarelett letter attached to her. No, but should she be rewarded for this irresponsible behavior, perhaps if she were a liberal.

2)An argument has been advanced that we shouldn’t pile on Ann because she was only fighting back. I eluded this on my first posting (somewhere in the 40’s). Basically this is irrelevent, you want to fight back, call the Democrats out for being hipocrits on African American issues when they allow a former Klansman leader to be one of their most powerful Senators. Blast Clinton for playing golf right after he left office at an all white country club…there are 1,000 examples…but please its not our job to act like the Bigots (and it goes in more than one direction) the Democratic Party are (and always have been)!

The Truth when it comes to issues of respecting race or religion the GOP are boyscouts as compared to the Democrats. what the Democrats have going for them going is they have no problem keeping minorities uneducated and poor.

The American Conservative Union and the Conservative Political Action Conference today issued the following statement: The just completed 2007 Conservative Political Action Conference on March 1 – 3, 2007, was the largest in the 34 year history of the event, featuring 33 panels on a variety of public policy issues, 24 stand alone speakers including public officials, writers, student activists, media personalities and comedians. ACU, the event’s primary sponsor and CPAC strive to provide a platform and forum for a variety of differing views and personalities. ACU and CPAC do not condone or endorse every speaker or their comments at the conference. As such, ACU and CPAC leave it to our audience to determine whether comments are appropriate or not. “Ann Coulter is known for comments that can be both provocative and outrageous. That was certainly the case in her 2007 CPAC appearance and previous ones as well. But as a point of clarification, let me make it clear that ACU and CPAC do not condone or endorse the use of hate speech,” said David A. Keene, ACU Chairman.

Just a small sampling:

>it’s about time someone stood up to the damned looney left and punched “them” in the nose

> I hate faggots, queers, lesbians, homosexuals, gays or whatever else you call them. I’m not a homophobe I just hate em plain and simple.

>Ann Coulter is one hell of a woman and conservative.

>I just want to know if anyone has started a “faggot cash” fund I can contriute to?

>I hope that people like these “mooodeeeerates” will die

So there you have it. Calls for violence, death, and hatred, and a pathological obsession with homosexuality. And some commenters claimed Coulter doesn’t have a following on the right. She’s par for the course. You people have dragged a once great party into the muck. Enjoy your time in the wilderness.

Laurence.

Ann Culter represents the lowest form of “defense” we can get. The Right does not need her kind of antics. This lady has made a career out of creating controversy. Culter’s act is to make controversial remarks that will propmote her, not the Conservative cause.

I can read her like an open book. She is not a true Conservative. She is just a talking point attack machine with the IQ of a chimp.

There is an enormous amount of true Conservatives with full credentials, high intellect, and much more gravitas than this air head blond. We do not need her!!

What’s next? Ann Culter, the elefants and the clowns and midgets, will give us a talk about Democratic fag Candidates? Is that supposed to make us Conservatives look serious, and viable as a party?

breaking news – Companies to pull ads from Coulter’s Web site -

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/05/coulter.ads/index.html?section=cnn_latest

guess Ann hasn’t gotten the ‘narrative’ that anything less than total approval and acceptance of homosexuality is verboten. These so-called ‘conserative’ bloggers have bought into the dialectic of the left. I’m sure with their denunciation of Ann, they’ll still be able to hold their jobs, and not be ‘beyond the pale’. but the left will still hate these ‘linguini spined conservatives’ as much as if they said the ‘f’ word themselves. But they hasten the day when any speech that upsets any homosexual, including a bible verse, is outlawed.

I’d rather have liberals than these backstabbing gutless ‘conservative’ bloggers. what a joke

[...] Sean Hackbarth, The American Mind James Joyner, Outside the Beltway BoiFromTroy, Boi From Troy Joy McCann, Little Miss Attila Kevin McCullough, Musclehead Revolution Fausta Werz, Fausta’s Blog Patrick Hynes, Ankle Biting Pundits Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters Jane Stewart, See Jane Mom Alexander Brunk, Save the GOP [...]

You cannont justify Coulter’s remarks by claiming the left is worse. That’s getting into a “worse, worser and worsests argument”.
The bottom line for me is, does she help the conservative cause or does she hurt it. I have felt for a long time that she is a net minus. This latest gaff just sealed the deal for me. How many “fence sitters” has she pushed to the left? To applaud or defend her is to have a politcal death wish.

I realize that Ann Coulter’s choice of words were ill conceived and untimely. The problem I have is with the PC police taking over the conservative movement. When you and all the other conservative bloggers start sounding like the politically correct Beltway wags, I get a bit anxious. Because people don’t like the gay and lesbian, trangender folks doesn’t mean they are homophobic. I, for one, have no fear of homosexuals. I just don’t like the lifestyle nor the influence the radicals on the left have brought to that movement. Homophobia is a favorite PC word and makes me want to throw up. Especially, when every conservative blogger I used to respect sounds more like the liberal left, except we are eating our young. As Jackie Gleason used to say,”what a revoltin’ development this is.”
And by the way, I have not heard one of the leading GOP contenders say what they would do about the crisis of our open border policy and the probably 20-million illegals in our country. They don’t need to be deported enmasse. Just enforce our laws and they will leave. President Bush has failed miserably on this issue, and his dereliction is probably the single worst failing of his Presidency. This is an issue for you bloggers to get yourselves all worked up about.
I think you guys have made a major league bad decision to beat up on Ann Coulter. You’ve allowed yourselves to be sucked into the PC game, and turned words into weapons for your way too sensitive thin skin.

[...] As Glenn Greenwald writes, “Several right-wing bloggers have created and signed onto a commendable petition which, among other things, calls for the CPAC to cease inviting Coulter to speak. Several of the more decent pro-Bush bloggers have signed on, though, at least as of now, most have not (and Sean Hannity expressly refused to condemn Coulter when asked about the remark).” [...]

[...] Sean Hackbarth, The American Mind [...]

First of all, From what I heard, Ann did not call John Edwards, or anyone else a “faggot”. She simply made a point, quite cleaverly I might add, about the intollerance of most of the panty waists in the limelight. Frankly, what the hell has happened to the once mighty party I belonged to? The G.O.P. is sounding more like a frightened girl scout campout. Where is the voice? Who will stand up for Americans? The Republicans? I haven’t heard one person with the stones to stand up and shout, “enough” we wont take it anymore. No more lies from the left gone unchallenged, no more smears from the likes of Ted Kennedy and the rest of the gutless liberals. Do you people understand that there is an enemy out there unlike any in history? An enemy who’s goal is to destroy America, and all we have fought for? How are we facing this enemy? By worrying about the fake “Global Warming” nonsense. By wasting our resources on (more talks) with our avowed enemies? Let me say this in closing, if someone doesn’t stand up and put a stop to this nonsense, and soon, we wont have to worry about the price of fuel, only about if we’ll run out of ammo before the mongol hourdes take over this country for good. Think, is it ok with you if your daughters or grand daughters have to wear burkas to school?

What Would We Do Without Ann Coulter?…

If we didn’t have our collective butt cheeks in such a clinch, we’d recognize this as a joke. And a finely crafted joke, at that….

[...] Conservative Bloggers are joining with Sean Hackbarth in calling for CPAC to stop inviting Ann Coulter to speak at their event. An Open Letter to CPAC Sponsors and Organizers Regarding Ann Coulter [...]

[...] Sean Hackbarth, The American Mind James Joyner, Outside the Beltway BoiFromTroy, Boi From Troy Joy McCann, Little Miss Attila Kevin McCullough, Musclehead Revolution Fausta Werz, Fausta’s Blog Patrick Hynes, Ankle Biting Pundits Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters Jane Stewart, See Jane Mom Alexander Brunk, Save the GOP [...]

I’ve just finished reading too many comments, and am convinced that the conservative blogs have converted to lefties. When the left wing trolls start agreeing with all the blog wimps who want to crucify Ann Coulter, you know the infiltration is complete.
Shame on the CPAC bloggers for giving the left all this ammo.

The Lancaster New Era Editorial Board said this when dumping Ann’s column today:

“Coulter’s use of name-calling, sarcasm and overstatement in her columns too often detracts from the arguments she seeks to make. Her writing leads her political opponents to respond with name-calling and vitriol.

The quality of public discussion falls below that which Lancaster County residents expect in the opinion pages of their daily newspaper.

Lancaster County residents of whatever political view – conservative, moderate or liberals – deserve intelligent discussion of issues. Ann Coulter no longer provides that.”

I agree.

[...] 5th, 2007 · No Comments Sean Hackbarth at The American Mind and of the BBA has this up — an open letter to CPAC sponsorsand organizers concerning Ann Coulter: Conservatism treats humans as they are, as moral creatures possessing rational minds and capable of discerning right from wrong. There comes a time when we must speak out in the defense of the conservative movement, and make a stand for political civility. This is one of those times. [...]

[...] Sean Hackbarth and James Joyner have published an Open Letter to the CPAC organizers and sponsors demanding that they not invite Coulter to any future CPAC events, which is a good start. The letter is a firm denunciation of Coulter’s remarks now, and several she’s made in the past that should get as much publicity as Coulter’s remarks (though there’s no chance that it will). I fully endorse it and they may consider me a signatory as well. [...]

Oh my,,, how we eat our own. Yes Ann probably shouldnt have called John Edwards a Faggot. But he is an opportunistic scum bag… get over yourselves. I am a little concerned about how some of the bigger bloggers are beginning to sound a little like the MSM they so love to hate. Do you really think that Ann calling John Edwards a “faggot” is going to set back conservatism??? Are you guys on drugs?? What are they going to do.. start disliking us some more??? Have you guys noticed that western civilization is hanging in the balance? Have you noticed that people are getting their heads cut off for professing Jesus Christ?? Have you even thought about why we got our collective asses handed to us in the last election?? (Hint… Hint.. the reason wasnt because we were being too conservative or because of name calling…) Buck up a little and quit tattling on Ann Coulter… And by the way Ann watch your mouth… Im sure your mother isnt very proud of you today.. but… I still love you…

unreal. so the conservative bloggers are wasting there time trying to incorporate gays in the fold? Thro Coulter to the wolves? pathetic and spineless.

conservatives only have themselves to blame if they loose the next election. do people really think people care what Anne jokingly said about Edwards? so does all this now allow Guliani the ability to dress in drag once hes president?

also, where are the rightwing bloggers on Maher’s deathwish for the VP? It seems like they want to go after one of their own because she doesnt walk their walk. again absolutely pathetic.

how can anyone even come close to comparing Coulter to Olbermann (sp?) is beyond me?

this makes conservatives like a bunch of gay panderers. It was the gay conservatives who got the republicans in trouble in 06 and it looks like they want Couler’s head because she doesnt like girly men. Pretty sick for all the hypocritical “conservative” and “right-of-center” bloggers to go on this witch-hunt. why arent they spending time really doing some defense of real conservative principles.

they and their actions sicken me. what a bunch of conservative phonies.

PS so do conservatives and republicans really need the gay vote to win elections? when did this miracle happen?? thats what all this going after Coulter is about. First walmart, now the republicans. WTF is going on???? let the gays stay in the democratic party. Let them live their lives the way they want, but if they cant take a joke then let them go with the dems.

the “conservatives” who are moral liberals will kill the republican party. plain and simple. to repeat: REPUBLICANS LOST IN 06 BECAUSE OF THE SCANDALS OF ITS GAY MEMBERS. THE REPUBLICANS DO NOT NEED GAYS IN ORDER TO WIN ELECTIONS.

PS: I WILL NEVER READ ANY OF THESE SO-CALLED CONSERVATIVE BLOGGERS AGAIN.

[...] Originally Posted by Just Me 2 I don’t think the republicans should have to apologize for the stuff she says. If Republicans remain silent, or worse yet, express approval of her vicious, bigoted remarks, they allow her to define the entire Republican party as vicious bigots. A group of conservative bloggers understands this and has written an open letter to CPAC: "…Conservatism treats humans as they are, as moral creatures possessing rational minds and capable of discerning right from wrong. There comes a time when we must speak out in the defense of the conservative movement, and make a stand for political civility. This is one of those times. "At the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2006, Coulter referred to Iranians as �ragheads.� She is one of the most prominent women in the conservative movement; for her to employ such reckless language reinforces the stereotype that conservatives are racists. "At CPAC 2007 Coulter decided to turn up the volume by referring to John Edwards, a former U.S. Senator and current Presidential candidate, as a �******"…Coulter�s vicious word choice tells the world she care little about the feelings of a large group that often feels marginalized and despised. Her word choice forces conservatives to waste time defending themselves against charges of homophobia rather than advancing conservative ideas. "CPAC sponsors, the Age of Ann has passed. We, the undersigned, request that CPAC speaking invitations no longer be extended to Ann Coulter. Her words and attitude simply do too much damage (to conservatives)." An Open Letter to CPAC Sponsors and Organizers Regarding Ann Coulter � The American Mind __________________ "How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."- Adolf Hitler" [...]

PSS I Luv all the psuedo-cons posting the CPAC speach(es) of Reagan, and how respectful he was at the “hallowed” CPAC podium…what a bunch of smoke and mirrors these gay panderers are trying to sell.

Why dont they quote how Reagan joked before a presidential radio address about dropping nukes on the USSR!!!! Reagan was human and so is Coulter! they are allowed to make satirical bloopers, and/or commentary/ jokes!

DID REAGAN APOLOGIZE FOR HIS BLOOPER?!! NOOOO!!!! DID IT SHOW A SIDE OF HIM THAT WASNT PERFECT? YOU BET! DID IT GET SOME RESULTS?! YESSIR! AND HOW ABOUT BUSH SR??

QUOTES:
“My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”

__President Reagan on live radio, August 1984

Talking about Geraldine Ferraro, Vice President George Bush bragged that “We tried to kick a little ass last night” and it made the wire service.

oh and the next time the VP drops the F-bomb I want to hear all these “conservative” grand inquisitors go after him to resign.

please…..

I’m a left-wing blogger and of course I find Coulter offensive and destructive.

To those conservative bloggers who have taken a stand against Ann Coulter, thank you. Your actions have enhanced the reputation of conservatism.

If you link Malkin, who did say some thing against Coulter’s remarks, you might footnote it with her more recent comments about Coulter on Fox: “She is very popular among conservatives. I have been a longtime admirer of much of her work. She has done yeoman’s work for conservatism.”

And look at the comments here and elsewhere defending Coulter, saying that it’s great that she speaks her mind so freely, etc. Look at the comments of David Keene, president of the American Conservative Union, and Sean Hannity, and other influential people who decline to say that Coulter was wrong.

And then Coulter herself, predicting that she’ll be as popular as ever and this little incident will blow over. And she’s got a good reason to believe that, since similar incidents have gotten similar token outrage from the right that fades quickly, with the main result being that her book sales and speaking engagements increase.

She knows her audience. It’s not what *all* conservatives are like, of course, but enough for her to be very, very popular.

be nice if the liberal bloggers denounce Olber-blabber and the anti-catholic liberal bloggers that make up their camp once in awhile.

what a bunch of hypocrites.

[...] And then I’m done with Wacky Ann: An Open Letter to CPAC Sponsors and Organizers Regarding Ann Coulter [...]

For Steve Galiucci: I figured that would set off a few. A bigot is a prejudiced person who is intolerant of opinions, lifestyles, or identities differing from his or her own. I’m up front and honest, if you hate someone or group why not just admit it instead of hiding from it or lying about it? Everyone hates somebody for whatever reason. I just admit it. You like pedophiles? If you don’t then I guess your a bigot either that or you believe it’s caused by some home environmental problems, they can’t help it and rehab along with psychological help will help them out.

The point is there’s nothing wrong with hating people, groups or whatever. The problem lies if you act out your hatred in some violent manner which I don’t. I do act out otherwise.. I vote for people who are for and against the same thing I am. I believe marriage is between a man and a woman not anything else so I’d be more likely to vote for people who feel the same way but that’s just one small issue among many.

Liberals and conservatives are intolerant of opinions, lifestyles, or identities differing from their own… that’s why we’re liberals and conservatives. So we’re all bigots like it or not.

WOW ! ANN COULTER ON THE BUTCHERS BLOCK, IN OTHER WORDS ROSIE O’DONNOLD IS FREE TO SPEEK WHAT EVER SHE WANTS,AND ITS OK TO SAY VICE PRESIDENT CHANEY SHULD HAVE BEEN KILLED,OR THAT PRESIDENT BUSH IS STUPED,BUT LORD HAVE MERCY DONT USE THE WORD FAGGOT,YOU KNOW WHAT..IF THE SHOE FITS WAER IT..AS A CHILD I WAS TOLD…STICKS AND STONES MAY HURT MY BONES BUT WORDS AND FACES NEVER HURT ME.HIMMM IM AN OLDER PERSON AND THAT RINGS SO TRUE..WHY DONT YOU ALL GET OFF ANN COULTERS FACE…ENOUGH ALREADY!

[...] *  Part 2:  After CPAC’s experience with Ann Coulter at last year’s convention, you have to wonder why it invited her back.  I confess that I’ve never been a Coulter fan, and I frequently wonder exactly what Ms. Coulter’s histrionics really bring to her side of the debate, though they’re certainly a gift to her opponents.  Not that CPAC cares much what I think, since the candidate toward whom I’m presently leaning at this early date didn’t speak at their convention, but sign me up for booing Ms. Coulter off of the national stage.  The freedom to say dumb things does not convey a privilege to have them broadcast.  Even had Ms. Coulter been trying to debate homosexuality as a social issue, epithets would have been inconsistent with deep-red conservatives’ “hate the sin, love the sinner” mantra, and repellent to more liberatarian voters (me among them) who don’t see the need for government to regulate private behavior among consenting adults.  Ms. Coulter has become an anchor.  Conservatives would be wise to cut the chain and let her fall to the abyss, where she can rest beside Pat Buchanan. [...]

Bob,

You conveiniantly exposed the positive comments Malkin gave about Ann Coulter, which are 100% fair.

You failed to reveal the truth, however, and went on a cherry picking tangent.

Malkin was far more attacking Coulter’s use of the word than she was defending Ann Coulter on Fox News last night.

Had you not clicked off your T.V. set after she spoke 2 sentences, you would know that Malkin was against Ann Coulter and not for her behavior.

Ann Coulter posts Edwards’ campaign manager letter on her website (see below).

Note her comments following the letter that “IT’S ALWAYS GOOD TO DIVERT BONIOR FROM HIS PRINCIPAL PASTIME WHICH IS FRONTING FOR ARAB TERRORISTS.”

That’s Coulter in a nutshell. This comment hardly elicits “deep thoughts”. It is just a gratuitous smear. She is a comedian and a one-trick pony. She is not interested in engaging people in serious debates about serious issues, and neither is her public. She is a bomb-thrower. All she cares about is getting attention and the money that comes with that attention.

This said, I don’t think that she should be barred from the next CPAC. If the right-wing likes her tasteless jokes, let it enjoy it!

Dear [Supporter],

Did you hear about Anne Coulter’s speech this afternoon attacking John? A friend just forwarded me the video and it’s one of the worst moments in American politics I’ve seen.

I can’t bring myself to even repeat her comments. Her shameless display of bigotry is so outrageous you actually have to see for yourself:
This is just a taste of the filth that the right-wing machine is gearing up to throw at us. And now that it’s begun, we have a choice: Do we sit back, or do we fight back?

I say we fight. Help us raise $100,000 in “Coulter Cash” this week to show every would-be Republican mouthpiece that their bigoted attacks will not intimidate this campaign. I just threw in 100 bucks. Will you join me? Just click here.:

Coulter’s attack was no accident. It happened on national television at one of the year’s biggest conservative conferences. Dick Cheney and most of the Republican candidates were in the audience. She was even introduced by Mitt Romney.

John was singled out for a personal attack because the Republican establishment knows he poses the greatest threat to their power. Since they have nothing real to use against him, Coulter’s resorting to the classic right-wing strategy of riling up hate to smear a progressive champion. And the Republican attack dogs will keep playing this despicable trick as long as they think it works.

But this time, you and I can change the game.

If we can raise $100,000 in “Coulter Cash” this week, we can show that bigotry will only backfire on those who use it. John is not the first progressive leader to face this kind of slime, but together, we can make sure he is one of the last.

Tonight, I’ve put in 100 bucks of “Coulter Cash” to get us started. Can you match me, or chip in whatever you can afford? Just click here:

http://johnedwards.com/r/6665/22570:

Thanks,

David Bonior Campaign Manager John Edwards for President

IT’S ALWAYS GOOD TO DIVERT BONIOR FROM HIS PRINCIPAL PASTIME WHICH IS FRONTING FOR ARAB TERRORISTS.

It’s a sad day indeed when Conservatives and the Loony Left sound exactly the same.

Coulter is coarse, vulgar, and childish. I guess she appeals to the same coarse, vulgar, and childish, people who roll on the floor at sophomoric jokes.

What these people do not understand, however, is that she is laughing all the way to the bank on their money. They are the ones paying to attend her speeches and buy her books.

Coulter is also a coward and a spoilt brat. Every time I have seen her being subjected to mild criticism by a TV interviewer, she reacted by whining “You are getting testy” or something equally bratty, and refused to persue the conversation. As for being a coward, she canceled a CNN appearance yesterday — where she would have been mildly criticized for her latest idiocy — and ran into the comforting arms of Hannity at Fox News.

Keep on feeding her coffers, right-wingers! The joke is on you.

An Open Letter to CPAC Sponsors and Organizers Regarding Ann Coulter…

I'm joining with Sean and my other conservative brethren in circulating this letter. Signatures will be added as time permits. Conservatism treats humans as they are, as moral creatures possessing rational minds and capable of discerning right fro…

[...] I wrote Saturday on how Ann Counter alienates the middle.  But last night, a few extra thoughts crystallized while I was out drinking with some good people, including Cantankerous, Sean (who has a very good open letter to CPAC that’s getting a lot of well deserved attention), Owen, Brian, Kevin, among others.  I talked Saturday about how a lot of conservatives tend to sound like little children when in defense of Coulter.  They essentially say that while she’s bad, the other guys are bad too.  Why can’t we have a loud boorish asshole of our very own?  OK, maybe they don’t say boorish asshole, but if the shoe fits… [...]

And then we as a nation are truly lost…

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DJ – Maybe the audience got the joke…I mean, it was a really bad joke, a lame joke, but it was a reference to a recent pop culture event in which a TV actor apparently called another actor the same word that Coulter used…then went into rehab presumably for “re-education.” Should we denouce them because they perhaps understood her reference? And CRAP, there must be thousands of conservative blogs out there…you’ve read them all? I haven’t read any liberal blogs denouncing the eating of unborn fetuses…that must mean that all liberals secretly support it! Hmmm…and why aren’t more liberal bloggers denouncing the use of “undocumented aliens” as an ingredient in soylent green? This whole, “ignore what they actaully say and focus on the important things that they don’t say” has a real up-side…for people with a sense of humor.

Open Letter To CPAC Sponsors posted by cincinnatus on Treated and Released

Jim – Thanks, dear friend, for the English lesson. As it is my third and weakest language, I’ll keep your kind advice in mind. Having folowed your advice and checked the available dictionary, I find that the idiomatic use of the term “face” in the context you suggest is based upon an anthropomorphistic use of the term, which is what I suggested previously…without demeaning your eduction, because I’m just a nice fellow. To the contrary, I gave you credit for understanding prevailing social theory relating to such things as “political movements” and forces for social change. To mis-quote one of my least favorite American sociologists, “I’ve never seen the American conservative movement paint it’s nails.” …or in this case, gloss it’s lips. Believe what you’d like. You are the ultimate arbiter on the matter of movment faces. It is no longer a topic of debate. You and you alone are the determining voice. I yeild my face-naming proxy to Jim for all existing and any movements yet to come. Just stop trying to be BS me that “faces” of “movements” are objective facts or I’ll retract my proxy and nominate you for “face of the booger-eating liberal movement” at the Spring meeting of the EU movement face-naming convention in Brussels (good beer, bad hotels).

Jim, please forgive me for indulging in my humor on you. Let me retract the most unsupportable statement from my last post. The beer in Brussels isn’t really that good…it’s just better than whatever you have available in America.

All this rushing to condemn Ann Coulter is pathetic. She was simply making a reference to the recent leftist thought police assault on Isaiah Washington of Grey’s Anatomy, whose remarks about a co-star resulted in his having to “enter a treatment program as part of an effort to atone for a gay slur.”
Understandably, most conservatives probably don’t spend much time watching the brodcast TV sex-fest Grey’s Anatomy, and wouldn’t get the linkage.

http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/59979

Gunga, we liberals don’t condemn the eating of unborn fetuses for one reason…unborn fetuses are TASTY. Mmmm! Mutton!

But seriously, i remember an episode of “Everyone Hates Chris” where a white kid called him the N-word, and the kid got his comeuppance later. Had Coulter been talking about Barack Obama and said, “i’d talk about Obama, but i’ll get sent to detention if i use the word ‘nigger’,” i doubt many people at the conference would have been chuckling at her pop culture reference.

Lets face it. Ann has more balls than 90% of the wimps who call themselves Conseratives. If I’m going to war with the Libs, (and I have!), I want Ann on my side. The rest of you wimps can blather on, form committies or wring your hands.

>>At CPAC 2007 Coulter decided to turn up the volume by referring to John Edwards, a former U.S. Senator and current Presidential candidate, as a “faggot.” Such offensive language–and the cavalier attitude that lies behind it–is intolerable to us. It may be tolerated on liberal websites but not at the nation’s premier conservative gathering.
>>

On the contrary, video shows that her language and attitude was cheered and widely applauded.

NO! Please, as a liberal I must insist you all continue to use Coulter as your Maiden Masthead! She’s the perfect conservative: uninformed, bigotted, vitriolic and defensive! She’s the perfect symbol of your movement! Keep her coming, she’s one of the few members of your movement who’s consistently honest about the hate and ignorance that underly your beliefs!

The Democratic party won in 2006. They’ll win in 2008. The Republic party is going to be wandering in the desert for a long, long time.

“The Reagan Democrats, the independents, socially moderate Republicans, and the libertarians are leaving the GOP in droves.”

Count me as one…..

I am abandoned by the right, offended by the left and disgusted by both. There is no civil discussion about issues, just filth from both.

And look at all the lefty acclaim your spineless action has accrued to you.

Grovel on your bellies for the crumbs that your left wing masters will deign to spit at you for attacking one of the few people who answers their venom with venom of her own.

Rejoice, and call yourself bold in your surrender to the foes of freedom.

Pathetic.

I hate to have to say this, but in fact she does represent what is called conservatism in the United States.

It should be said that the movement that bears the name of “Conservatism” in the US bears about as much relation to actual conservatism as the lampoon of “Liberalism” bears to actual liberalism.

I spent some time surfing to look at the agitprop wares being offered by companies selling stuff at CPAC, and having taken a look, I can only conclude that that movement thinks civil rights, due process, and government accountability are on a par with toilet paper.

Real conservatives need to think about how they’re going to get the label back from the whackjobs, or else decide that they need to get different label. The people who call themselves “Conservatives” are in fact very radical; just look at how they see the proper place of the Executive in relation to the Legislature and the Courts, and compare and contrast that with what your constitution says about it.

And look at all the lefty acclaim your spineless action has accrued to you.

And then for comparison, look at the righty responses that range from excuses to outright praise for Coulter’s remarks.

Like it or not the “conservative movement” is dominated by those who *liked* the “faggot” comment, who *liked* the “raghead” comment, who like and agree with the sort of things Coulter says. She knows her audience. She’s so popular that CPAC would be foolish to agree not to invite her next year. By next year this will have blown over, and the token objections will have been forgotten, she’ll have sold a bunch more books because of all of this, and gotten a bunch more speaking engagements because of all of this.

She knows her audience. You may not agree with that audience, but if you want to be a part of that audience you can either learn to look the other way, or be satisfied with making symbolic objections that have no consequence.

And look at all the lefty acclaim your spineless action has accrued to you.

Rejoice, and call yourself bold in your surrender to the foes of freedom.

See what i mean in my response to your “Rush’s explanation of Coulter’s fans” post, Sean? Case in point.

Thank you for a very interesting view from the right. I know you exist, I just don’t often meet people that actually say these things in public. I find it hilarious that this is about what Ann Coulter said, but not about the reaction she got from the crowd, which was a positive affirmation with clapping and yelling. If the ideas that are being advanced at the CPAC conference is nothing more than calling someone a faggott, then I assume you are out of ideas and relevant speakers and have sunk to the level of name calling. Your movement peaked in 2004, and Coulter is the proof that there is desperation in the air. People are tired of this kind of talk and BS, but if you put in on a very public pulpit, you will become a minority faster than you thought. Good riddance.

[...] UPDATE #2, Monday 3/5: Little Miss Attila has “An Open Letter to CPAC Sponsors and Organizers Regarding Ann Coulter,” and if you’re as aggravated about this as most people are, head over and add your name to the signatures. (Update within an update: OK, whoever it is with the damn letter, PLEASE add my name to it. The American Mind? Outside the Beltway? What, do I seriously have to ask twice? [...]

I think what I like best are the fools who think that Ann was somehow exposing her own bigotry. That she is a ‘homophobe’

Like you, DJ, with your blithe equation of this to that episode of Everybody Hates Chris. As if she were calling Edwards a faggot.

She wasn’t. She was calling attention to the fit of self righteous pique that so many indulge in whenever a protected group is mentioned in a way that does not drip with sychophantic praise.

She was calling attention to the fact that such an utterance can land one in what amounts to re-education.

And she did so in the crudest, most nasty way possible.

Do you know why?

Because no one has listened to all the reasoned discourse about this insidious danger. Far from it, they’ve internalsed it’s demands. The CPAC issues a statement denouncing ‘hate-speech’–despite the fact that any conservative worth his salt is vehemently against hate-speech and hate crime laws. Laws that criminalise thought that goes against the PC orthodoxy of the day.

Was she rude? Absolutely. Was what she said true? Does using the word faggot ignite a firestorm of condemnation? Absolutely.

You crazed lefties apparently missed the addressee of this letter. See, it’s not addressed to YOU. There’s a reason for that: No condemnation or anything is enough for you. It wouldn’t matter if every single conservative in the country agreed that Coulter is a jerk; you’d still spin it as all conservatives = Coulter = homophobes. And you’d still be wrong.

But go ahead and keep that anger and hate in you. It’s your misery, not ours.

Uh…ok, Jack. Ya wanna tell me why she used Edwards to make that point then, if her objective wasn’t to imply that he is gay (and that somehow, that’s something worthy of insult)?

I mean, i don’t particularly like John Edwards, but what has he ever done to make anyone think he’s gay? Are ambulance chasers gay? Are men who marry women and procreate with them gay? Has he been spotted mincing about in high heels and a miniskirt?

And again, why would being gay be a bad thing?

@Gunga,

>>As it is my third and weakest language,

You speak three languages!?!?! Wow! I’m impressed. That is only two fewer than I speak. Do I win a prize? What a novel high school debating tactic you’ve discovered! (And it really works, too.)

I realize that your inability to think in anything but strictly and absurdly literal terms is somewhat limiting for you, but I’ll try again to help you with your English.

Examples:
“That TV cost me an arm and a leg.”
“You are a breath of fresh air.”

I know, Gunga, can you believe that that TV didn’t really cost me an “arm and a leg?” I didn’t actually pay for it with my arm and my leg. And you aren’t really “breath” when someone says, “You are a breath of fresh air.” But keep on objecting to all forms of insidious anthropomorphism and idioms and figures of speech — “liberal” evils every one.

As to your blabber about me being the “ultimate arbiter on the matter of movment (sic) faces,” you might want to point out where I said that. Oh, but you can’t, because this was your rather feeble attempt to construct a straw man. “Who made you the ultimate arbiter of anthropomorphism?” Wow, what an effective argument! You must be totally stymied by that brilliant argument. And you don’t sound like a junior high school student at all with your debating skills — that’s the best part. More like a trilingual genius, I’d say.

[...] Sean Hackbarth, The American Mind [...]

ironic you have links to two Ann Coulter things on top of your page

As if she were calling Edwards a faggot.

She wasn’t.

You’re an idiot. We all heard what she said. Sure, sure. The woman who’s referring to Edwards as the “Breck girl” didn’t intend to call him a “faggot.” Except that she specifically said that she couldn’t talk about Edwards without saying “faggot”, and the rest of us who still have brains know exactly what she meant.

But, you know. Keep trying the “botched joke” excuse.

The letter claims that Coulter “…referr[ed] to John Edwards … as a ‘faggot.’” Several commenters above (#58, #152, #196) have noted that she did not. Technically, they are correct: Coulter relied on conversational implicature to associate the derogatory label ‘faggot’ with Edwards without directly calling him one. See linguist Geoffrey Pullum’s (definitely not a Coulter apologist) recent post at the Language Log for a more complete explanation.

Note that this point does not necessarily make Coulter’s statement any less offensive. However, if you’re going to criticize what Coulter has done (and believe me, I’m sympathetic to that criticism), at least be sure to make accurate claims about her “crime”, as it were.

[...] Reading through the comments from the letter as well as Captain Ed’s post I detect a disturbing tribalism. We’re excoriated for being “self-righteous,” chided for following “leftwing driven PC”, accused of shoving Coulter under the bus, accept MSM premises, and are too nice when the Left is nasty as all else. [...]

However, if you’re going to criticize what Coulter has done (and believe me, I’m sympathetic to that criticism), at least be sure to make accurate claims about her “crime”, as it were.

Maybe you could point out, Ralph, where anybody’s asserted that Coulter “directly called Edwards a ‘Faggot’”. Otherwise keep whomping that strawman until your arms get tired, I guess.

Maybe you could point out, Ralph, where anybody’s asserted that Coulter “directly called Edwards a ‘Faggot’”.

My earlier comment did not say that anyone directly called him a faggot—Only that Coulter implicated it. But if you want evidence that people have made the stronger claim, let me repeat my original comment: “The letter claims that Coulter “…referr[ed] to John Edwards … as a “faggot.’” Referring to someone as a faggot logically entails calling them a faggot. Thus, the writers of this letter, and presumably all of its signatories, claim that Coulter has done so.

But as I hinted before, I do not believe this distinction gets her off the hook: The gratuitous use of the derogatory label is offensive in its own right.

Let me clarify my comments (#203, #206) above. The author(s) of this letter and its signatories are claiming that Coulter “referr[ed} to John Edwards … as a ‘faggot’.” My goal is merely to make the semantic distinction that Coulter only implicates that John Edwards is a ‘faggot’. I mean this as a minor correction to the statement. Nevertheless, even with this distinction, I find Coulter’s comments offensive and agree with the fundamental point of this letter: that such comments are an impediment to constructive political discourse.

Jim – Take a pill. Is that a literal term or an idiom? Did I forget to mention that my first two languages were baby talk and gibberish? I’m still way better at gibberish than English, btw. As for anthropomorphism, I was merely returning to your dictate that I consult Webster…but then, you might argue, “Who made Gunga Webster-man!” …and why wouldn’t you? It’s so insightful and mind chillingly obvious. Is “put a sock in it” merely an idiom or should you actually cram a sweat-soaked Gold Toe down your gullet? Do you actually have a “gullet” or is that an idiom? Where’s Webster Man when you need him? Again, need I point out how easy it is to “get the goat” of people who are stuck on rage? So watch out Jimbo, I’m coming for your prized toggenburg! You wouldn’t want to end up being the “butt” of a joke, would you? So pardon me for “elbowing” my way into this discussion…only to “knee you in the crotch” because you think your opinion is objective fact. You assume way too much for a guy who can’t debate a half-drunk port-o-potty cleaner like me without stooping to cracks about my intellect. Anger is unbecoming…both to liberals and conservatives (libertarians can carry it off, because…well…they’re crazy anyway). But back to the original post, Ann Coulter does more to stimulate serious debate in this country about than just about any other individaul. Debating the merits of her statements is healthy. Shouting her down is the action of a mob. I don’t much care for mobs, Jim. I’m a Goldwater Republican. I’ve never met a Coulter Republican. Face the facts Jim, the left-wing rage machine (the new face of the liberal left) went into full hyperventilate over a crack by a bomb-thrower at a minor GOP convention that most Americans had never heard of before this past week. Well, it’s over now, but it’s been fun. You’re a peach!

Gunga, you’re making quite a din there. You love how you hate: that’s the definition of a conservative.

But if you want evidence that people have made the stronger claim, let me repeat my original comment: “The letter claims that Coulter “…referr[ed] to John Edwards … as a “faggot.’”

Your own statements don’t constitute evidence that anybody else has said anything.

Again – where, exactly, has anybody claimed that Coulter directly asserted that Edwards was a “faggot” (Christ I hate how many times I’ve had to write that word lately. Thanks, conservatives.)

There’s nothing in Sean’s letter that says that, nor in any statement by anybody else. You’re grappling with a strawman.

Gunga – a question.

Coulter is a best-selling author, multiple times.

Who, then, is buying all those books?

[...] (mehr dazu und noch mehr porno bei den rechten auf: HuffPo [...]

Why don’t you prove your contrition by removing Coulter’s ad for her book on your home page?

DJ, faggot is irrelevent. Faggot wasn’t the point. The point was what happens to you if you dare to say it(if you’re not and enlightened lefty. that is).

Everyone is doing precisely what Ann said they’d do. Having a PC hissy-fit and screaming for her head. Calling for apologies and sensitivity.

And Chet? I hope she does try the botched joke excuse. It works for the left. And when that doesn’t cut it(‘cos she’s not a lefty) I hope she trots out every line of bullshit the left uses to hide it’s bigotry.

And they’re good at it. Black people vote almost as a solid block, for the Party of Slavery

Nice dodge, Jack.

Black people vote almost as a solid block, for the Party of Slavery

Ah, yes, the old “Republicans freed the slaves” card. This always amuses me since back then the Republicans were the progressive party, and the two major parties basically swapped ideologies back in the Dixiecrat era. That’s a simplification, but yeah, that’s funny. Pat your party on the back for being liberal in the 1800s. Hahaha.

Everyone is doing precisely what Ann said they’d do. Having a PC hissy-fit and screaming for her head.

I don’t know what you mean by “PC”. I think we’d just prefer that Ann Coulter not act like an asshole. I guess behaving with decorum is what the right considers “PC” these days.

But, you know, keep pretending like you’re the party of family values.

Chet – Good question! No-one I know! Maybe her daddy. Maybe somebody holding a big bar-b-que. But if I bought her book, would that mean that she’s my idol? That’s a bit over-reaching isn’t it? Are you saying you’ve never read anything by anyone with which you disagree (other than my crack-pot meanderings)? If not, how do you grow?

DJ – Your misrepresentation and oversimplification of history has just made everyone who read your post just a bit dumber. Congratulations…you have a bright future in national politics.

Gunga, i said it was an oversimplification.

I love how “arguing during worktime on an internet blog” is comehow equated to “aspiring for a future in national politics.” Feel free to drop the ad hominems at any point.

DJ – Worktime? You have a job? Can you get me one? I wasn’t referring to your aspirations, I was referring to your abilities. Gotcha on the “oversimplification” but I think I was going for “mis-oversimplification.” mea culpa. Hmmmm… a real ad hominem would be if I were to assert that your ideas are wrong because you are a world class politician. What I did was to deduce that you could be a world class politician because your ideas are wrong. See…the former is a logical falacy, while the latter is just plain funny. I could see where you’d get mixed up on the finer points of logic…what with spending so much time turning a hundred and fifty years of American political history into a phrase that could fit into a fortune cookie. Is that an ad hominem or merely a droll reminder that I find your opinions to be without merit?

Dude, whatever. This has degenerated into a flame war and i’m not interested in trading insults with you.

You’re confounded by your jealousy of Ann because she says what she wants,and you don’t, and can’t, because you’re riddled with fear of offending liberals.

It’s people like you who have prevented the Republican party from ever being successful and victorious over socialists.

Leave Ann alone. She speaks for multi-millions of us, and you don’t.

[...] At CPAC 2007 Coulter decided to turn up the volume by referring to John Edwards, a former U.S. Senator and current Presidential candidate, as a “faggot.” Such offensive language–and the cavalier attitude that lies behind it–is intolerable to us. It may be tolerated on liberal websites but not at the nation’s premier conservative gathering. Read the rest [...]

DJ – See how easy it is to take the high road? Peace, love, and where do I send the resume?…seriously…

But if I bought her book, would that mean that she’s my idol? That’s a bit over-reaching isn’t it?

Funny – I’m looking back and I don’t see where anybody said that.

Do you think Coulter gets less money because you bought her book to give away, or to tear up for toilet paper, or to keep on your nightstand by your bed? No, of course not. She gets the royalties either way, and that’s what eggs her on. If conservatives like you are so tired of her being your public face, then maybe – just a thought – you should stop rewarding her for her behavior? And even if you specifically aren’t doing it, who do you think is? I ask you again – who’s buying all her books?

Are you saying you’ve never read anything by anyone with which you disagree (other than my crack-pot meanderings)?

I try not to enrich idiots. There’s plenty of ways to get your hands on Coulter’s book without paying for it.

Of course, as a conservative you’ll probably melt or something if you step into a library, so maybe you have fewer options. You’re a dumber man than I, Gunga Din.

There’s nothing in Sean’s letter that says that, nor in any statement by anybody else.

Reread paragraph 4 of the letter. Therein you will find the claim that Coulter “…referr[ed] to John Edwards … as a ‘faggot’.” That is my evidence. My reasoning is above in #203 and #206. I have nothing more to say on the topic. But since you insist that nobody, nowhere has made this claim, and if you wish to continue the discussion by yourself, then you might explain why the above quotation does not make the claim that Coulter called Edwards ‘a faggot’. [And don't substitute 'assert' for 'call'---I didn't write 'assert' in my previous comments.]

[...] A number of high-profile conservative bloggers declared war on Ann Coulter in the wake of her controversial CPAC speech, but that hasn’t stopped conservative media organizations from continuing with business as usual. [...]

Smart (and tasteful) people don’t air their dirty laundry in public.

Better to direct more energy toward defending against the enemy,rather than eating our own.

As Reagan said, the Eleventh Commandment is not to speak ill (publicly) of our fellow conservatives.

Besides, if you really wanted to take the high road, you’d register your disapproval to Ann privately.

An Open Letter to CPAC Sponsors and Organizers Regarding Ann Coulter…

Note: This letter appeared simultaneously on many Conservative Blogs on 03/05/07. I am reproducing it here so as to add my voice in agreement and support. Conservatism treats humans as they are, as moral creatures possessing rational minds and capable…

Therein you will find the claim that Coulter “…referr[ed] to John Edwards … as a ‘faggot’.” That is my evidence.

I still don’t see where it says “directly asserted John Edwards is a faggot.” Can you point it out to me?

Or else admit that you’re arguing a strawman?

But since you insist that nobody, nowhere has made this claim, and if you wish to continue the discussion by yourself, then you might explain why the above quotation does not make the claim that Coulter called Edwards ‘a faggot’.

I never said that it didn’t. This is another one of your strawmen.

Coulter did call Edwards a “faggot.” That she used a construction that didn’t, literally, put Edwards as the subject and “faggot” as the object of a transitive verb is irrelevant, but it’s the distinction you’ve replied to as though someone besides yourself was making it.

But you say differently, so I’m asking you for the evidence. For the third or fourth time now, actually. Why are you having such a problem with this?

[...] The Log Cabin Club response to the Coulter comment was not unexpected. They were not alone, thank goodness. Some Conservatives, finally fed up with Coulter and her behavior have launched a petition of Conservatives who attended the conference. Sean Hackbarth, The American Mind wrote an open letter. He has been joined by over 200 others, a good thing and long awaited. A return to civility in politics and all social intercourse is long overdue. [...]

Ah, the Great Dixiecrat Switch. Funny, did Kleagle Byrd not get the memo? Al Gore Sr.? The Civil Rights Act passed with Republican support–would have been defeated without it? And yet, all the racist Democrats decided to switch parties. Go figure.

But I digress. My point was that the party that filibustered the Civil Rights act–including the man who spoke for a record length of time to keep it from coming to a vote, has magically transformed into the party that cares about black people and Civil Rights–and this while some of the same people who argued against the very idea of blacks having civil rights still hold leadership positions and positions of esteem within that party.

And somehow it’s all accepted as a matter of course. They’ve got to be good at hiding what they really are, doncha think?

Chet, I’m not the party of family values. I think Ann should be able to use every tactic in and out of the book to get you creatures riled up and whining–as I do. There is no party of ‘family values’–no matter what ’social conservatives’ might think. Family values are a private thing that vary between one family and another. And mine are rude.

I agree with 3reddogs:

“You can stop inviting Ms. Coulter to your events but what excuse can you offer for the fact that most of the people in attendance laughed and applauded after her Edwards remark? You can all try to ( finally ) distance yourselves from her ’til the cows come home but I think most Americans have figured out that Ann Coulter SAYS what most of you THINK; otherwise you wouldn’t continue to invite her to your events and you wouldn’t continue to respond to her remarks with laughter and applause instead of getting up and walking out.”

I think she did us all a great service showing the restrictive, unloving, bigoted heart of modern Republican Conservatives.

If you agree with this type of rhetoric as well as Orwellian spying networks, forever wars, and a new aristocracy of haves while masses of havenots suffer, continue voting for Republicrats who all dance to the same tune of various corporate and foreign moneyed interests.

I would like to say something about Ann Coulter, but I can’t, because if I use the term “dirty cunt” I will have to spend time in rehab.

At CPAC 2007 Coulter decided to turn up the volume by referring to John Edwards, a former U.S. Senator and current Presidential candidate, as a “faggot.” Such offensive language–and the cavalier attitude that lies behind it–is intolerable to us. It may be tolerated on liberal websites but not at the nation’s premier conservative gathering.

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Why did you have to throw that bit about offensive language and cavalier attitude being tolerated on “liberal websites”? Is this another lame attempt at asserting conservative “moral superiority”? Many people associate racism and intolerance with Republicans because of the fact that Republicans have pandered to the racist and intolerant in our society.

Although I applaud your call to reject Coulter – please GROW UP and take a good hard look at yourselves before you start pointing fingers.

[...] They also missed the biggest story by a Wisconsin weblogger. The open letter by conservative webloggers asking that Ann Coulter not speak at future CPACs. I, a Wisconsin weblogger, organized that effort. [...]

[...] But I digress, really.  What this group of bloggers did was put their names to a Open Letter to CPAC Sponsors and Organizers roundly condemning Coulter’s antics. [...]

[...] At last count 43 conservative bloggers have written an open letter protesting the keynote speech (in consequence if not formally) by Ann Coulter at CPAC. Their entirely reasonable complaint was that CPAC, possibly the most important annual gathering of conservatives and their higher office hopefuls, legitimizes Coulter and presents her as the public face of conservatism despite her being a spiteful harridan who defines the bedrock floor of intellectual credibility. Some of us used a basic rule to predict that the petition and every other aspect would do little to blunt Coulter’s presence either in the national media or at major conservative gatherings. [...]

[...] In the aftermath, she was loudly denounced by liberals and some conservatives. Some right wingers even launched a petition to put pressure on conservative and university organisations to stop inviting her to deliver speeches (h/t Tim F. at Balloon Juice). [...]

[...] It’s obvious WisPolitics.com doesn’t give a damn about weblogging experience. They aren’t interested in a weblogger who’s followed a governor candidate during the last days of a campaign outlasting professional reporters. They must figure annually covering a conservative confab in Washington, D.C. wouldn’t add value to a Mike Gousha-led discussion. As for newsworthiness, WisPolitics.com doesn’t care about the view of a conservative weblogger who led a revolt against prominent talking head Ann Coulter. [...]

It’s an opportune time to slowly back away from Coulter, now that she’s becoming a liability to the Right. Were her other, even more outrageous statements over the past decade not enough to provoke such a formal response? I sure hope all that laughter in the CPAC audience after Coulter delivered her punchline was merely tittering–but somehow I doubt it.

Boycott Ann Coulter…

An open letter to CPAC sponsors. Count us in!

And let’s not forget her 2005 CPAC speech….

[...] Another action that can be done is gathering voices together to decry incivility. An open letter like the one a group of conservative webloggers signed asking that Ann Coulter never be invited back to CPAC is such an example. [...]

But conservatives ARE racists! Wherever did you get the idea that Ann Coulter doesn’t speak for all of you? You’ve been looking under her skirt for YEARS, snuggling up to those bony tobacco-scented shanks of hers. You BOUGHT AND PAID FOR HER. She’s YOURS. Sillys.

[...] Open Letter to Sean Hackbarth Do you care to make public the amount of time that elapsed between your letter to CPAC and your making it a bullet point on your resume in an attempt to cash in on it? Or is that too much to ask of a blog “Pioneer”? [...]

[...] Peter Pace said that he believes homosexuality to be wrong. Ok? We have freedom of speech in this country, people can say what they like. Ann Coulter got away with her comments at CPAC? Hardly. I joined many other bloggers in signing this letter calling for Coulter to not be invited back to CPAC next year. It got lots of positive media coverage. Ann’s speech has been stricken from the CPAC audio tapes that the ACU is selling of the conference. I and others will continue to push for her exclusion from future conservative movement activities. She is quickly becoming marginalized from the conservative movement. Gays should not vote for any of them. There is not a candidate or major public figure who would not sell gays down the river. We have seen this time after time, even from supposedly progressive politicians such as President Clinton with his “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military and his support of the hideous Defense of Marriage Act. Of course, it’s possible that being shunned by gays will make politicians more popular, but at least we will have our self-respect. To vote for them is to collude with them in their utter disdain for us. [...]

[...] Like her March gaffe Coulter was surrounded by young people. In the open letter to CPAC I wrote: One of the points of CPAC is the opportunity it gives college students to meet other young conservatives and learn from our leaders. Unlike on their campuses—where they often feel alone—at CPAC they know they are part of a vibrant political movement. What example is set when one highlight of the conference is finding out what shocking phrase will emerge from Ann Coulter’s mouth? How can we teach young conservatives to fight for their principles with civility and respect when Ann Coulter is allowed to address the conference? Coulter’s invective is a sign of weak thinking and unprincipled politicking. [...]

Thank you for standing up for values and proving that not all conservatives idly tolerate Coulter’s hatred and bigotry.

I think that this is an excellent petition. Both Democrats and Republicans need to police our own parties and keep them free from people like Ann Coulter, or for the left Cynthia McKinney, unless by choosing not to do so, we allow ourselves to become aligned with them.

[...] After consecutive Coulter controversies and embarrassments at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2006 and again in 2007, many conservative bloggers and sponsors of, arguably, the most important conservative national annual gathering, beseeched CPAC not to invite her back in 2008. [...]

[...] CPAC should un-invite her immediately. She adds nothing to the conservative cause. [...]

[...] If she does cross the line you can be sure I’ll be organizing another anti-Coulter effort. Save and Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

[...] Originally Posted by Michael600r I’ve seen absolutely no evidence of bigotry on her part at any time. I read her column weekly. Quotes/Ann Coulter – dKosopedia Coulter Racist Remarks Draw Cheers at Conservative Event | Progressive U Joseph A. Palermo: Ann Coulter Starts Early with Racist Slurs Against Obama – Politics on The Huffington Post And in case the links above might be considered as only coming from the left, let’s add the comments from the right: The American Mind (see also An Open Letter to CPAC Sponsors and Organizers Regarding Ann Coulter � The American Mind ) Summary of conservative reactions against one of her comments: GayPatriot � Ann Coulter Calls John Edwards The “F-word” —————————————————– Google and "Ann Coulter", plus your choice of "reactions", "bigot", "conservative reaction" and many other search phrases is your friend [...]

[...] But Steve also ignores another response from conservatives regarding Coulter’s comments.  They’ve been widely condemned by other conservatives.  [...]

The conservative party is based in Biblical principles and morality. That is where any true conservative MUST get their view on things, otherwise the whole things falls apart. Ann Coulter, Pat Robertson, Bill O’Rielly don’t express a Biblical respect for others, or the peace and power that come with a healthy relationship with God. They may claim these things, but a tree is known by it’s fruit, and theirs smells like sabotage. I think Ann is truly a liberal who’s realized that she can do more harm to the conservative movement from within it than from the outside.

Wow were you totally wrong about Ann Coulter!

TWO YEARS LATER and Coulter’s “era” has anything but passed with her most recent having made her 7th New York Times best seller…..

I wonder how many of you twits are still around fighting for Conservative values?

Hmmmmmmm……..

Hey, do you guys also call for shunning and boycotting Red Eye and the people that appear on that show?

BWA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!

[...] What we’re doing, in attacking her in response to her spats with the likes of Ann Coulter is to further the liberal meme that the Coulters of the world represent American conservatism. They don’t. I’ve encountered many more conservatives than liberals who really despise Coulter, because she discredits us much more than she helps further our cause. [...]

[...] Sean Hackbarth, The American Mind James Joyner, Outside the Beltway Steve Verdon, Outside the Beltway BoiFromTroy, Boi From Troy Joy McCann, Little Miss Attila Kevin McCullough, Musclehead Revolution Fausta Werz, Fausta’s Blog Patrick Hynes, Ankle Biting Pundits Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters Jane Stewart, See Jane Mom Alexander Brunk, Save the GOP Mark Harris, Save the GOP Ace, Ace of Spades HQ [...]

[...] Now they band together to   []   write a letter condemning her slur that Edwards is a faggot.   Where were they when she was calling for the deaths of New York Times personnel and all the other hate speech that she has made famous…?   It was OK then because she was pampering to the base and the NeoCon – ‘good old boys’ network at the top thought that was just fine…   My my my…   What a difference a Democratic Landslide Election in 06 and the prospect of more to come in 08, will make… [...]