On Ann Coulter - Idiotic. Disgusting. Stupid. Moronic. (conservatives respond)

Hugh Hewitt Townhall site ^ | Friday March 2nd, 2007 | Dean Barnett

[ajolympian2004]

Idiotic. Disgusting. Stupid. Moronic.

I guess you could say that Ann loves to shock us, but at this point, who’s shocked? She obviously can’t behave well enough to attend a respectable political gathering. It’s not a lack of intelligence. It’s an indifference to self-control and a preening sort of narcissism that compels her to need the spotlight, even if it’s unflattering.

(For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s audio of her calling John Edwards a “faggot” at CPAC today.)

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Michelle Malkin -

***4:15pm update***

Ann Coulter just finished her riff on Al Gore, tossed out some cute jokes ("You can understand why Hollywood is concerned about global warming. You know what heat does to plastic."), and ended with a cheap one-liner about John Edwards being a "faggot." (Paraphrasing) She said she would refrain from commenting on Edwards because "if you say faggot, you have to go to rehab."

A smattering of laughter.

Not from this corner.

Crickets chirping.

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006976.htm

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Bryan Preston of 'Hot Air' -

Ann Coulter is speaking at CPAC as I write. As is typical, she gave a brief speech full of her usual witticisms, including a few brilliant attacks on Al Gore’s green hypocrisy. All was good. Untill the last few seconds, when she launched into a joke about John Edwards.

Here’s what she said.

“I’d say something about John Edwards, but if you say ‘faggot’ you have to go to rehab.”

I’m no fan of John Edwards, but that’s just a stupid joke. It’s over the line. The laughter it generated across the room was more than a little annoying.

Last year it was “raghead.” This year it’s calling John Edwards a “faggot.” Two years in a row, Coulter has finished up an otherwise sharp CPAC routine with an obnoxious slur that liberals will fling at conservatives for years to come.

Thanks, Ann.

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/03/02/thanks-ann/

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My comments... what should have been a day to celebrate a Reaganesque speech by Duncan Hunter, and good speeches by Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee was overshadowed by an unhinged comment by Ann Coulter. She is an absolute idiot for saying something like this at CPAC.

[Little Ray]

Bull.
In a line where a Democrat supporter like Baldwin can suggest that a Republican official and his family should be stoned to death, THERE AIN'T NO LINE.

[lawdude]

"I did not say he was gay you idiot, I sid he was a faggot."
Spelling aside, you are playing 'antics with semantics' and you know it. You also know that 99.9% of people equate faggot with gay.

[blue-duncan]

"Too late - Dr. Eckleburg has fully matured into an honest respected gadfly"

Say it isn't so, please, it can't be. That would mean that we have to grow up too and we are too young to be taken seriously or to accept the responsibility for our words, thoughts and actions. Can't you do something to raise the age or at least leave it to our peers to decide?

[bray]

Watch out, Duncan will call you an Indian Giver!

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I'm listening. 8~)

I like your homepage.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

so we have a bench mark from which to measure our lack of maturity.

My bench is not that big.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Was it the "honest" or the "respected" that got to ya?

I've learned to like peas and I floss. Does that count for nothing?

[blue-duncan]

"My bench is not that big."

I may be dumb and immature but I'm not stupid, so let's move on to another subject like world peace or global warming or whether the Fermat theory was really solved.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I have little tolerance for Coulter's immaturity.

Immaturity?

What would you call a grown man who crams foreign objects or bodily appendages into his digestive tract? Well adjusted???

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

...her commment and the venue she said it in was at the wrong time and place. But it is o.k. to have a presidential candidate in that same venue who dresses up like a girl and lived with two homosexuals???

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

...her commment and the venue she said it in was at the wrong time and place.

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

[coon2000]

wots rong with my spelling?

[coon2000]

wots rong with my spelling?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I am sick of the perverts (YES, I SAID PERVERTS) running this country into the ground... If they don't like what Miss Coulter says, they can go kill themselves for all I care...

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I don't care what the PERVERTS think...

[zbigreddogz]

Yah, well, the rest of us sane, reasonable people, who treat people with respect regardless of their opinions, are sick to death of you.

But I'm too polite and reasonable to suggest you kill yourself. Which you shouldn't do. But you should seek professional help.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

I don't care what the PERVERTS think...

In other words, you don't care what you think.

[soccermom]

You know it is funny how people look at the same thing entirely differently:

"I'm not spinning anything. She was not implying Edwards was gay" Sure she was. She could have hammered Edwards about any number of weaknesses -- his ambulance chasing, his Wal-mart hypocrisy, his 2-Americas-while-I-build-a-new-mansion hypocrisy. Any of those things apply directly to Edwards. Yet she pulls this of all things. Why?

"nor was she implying those husbands were preparing a divorce." She was engaging in baseless, inflammatory speculation. It is perfectly fine to question the audacity of these women, it is yet another thing to engage in baseless speculation. There were a lot of Coulter's critics who used those words as an opening to engage in baseless speculation about Coulter's personal life. It could be argued that she invited such speculation, but I wouldn't defend that either.

"So Ann wrote what she wrote which was a bit mean but still needed to be said." She could have said what needed to be said without being mean. Being mean only distracted from her valid points.

"And it appears to have worked somewhat. The Jersey Girls have piped down quite a bit." Again, funny how people perceive things differently. As I recall, the Jersey Girls were running around, campaigning for Kerry, and got very little attention. Most people didn't have a clue who they were. Then, Coulter made her personal attacks and, suddenly, they were a household name and every woman watching The Today Show and The View knew all about them. They made the rounds and were portrayed in a sympathetic light. They may have faded to the point where they were before the Coulter comments, but they've already inflicted their damage. It was a net PR bonus for the left, just as this is a net bonus for Edwards.

When conservatives chose to rise above the smear-through-victim strategy, rather than resort to their level, we did well in the elections. The American people saw the Wellstone funeral for what it was and voted heavily GOP. And, again, when the Jersey Girls were bashing Bush before the 2004 election, along with Moore etc., President Bush didn't dignify their attacks with a petty response. The people saw that for what it was and he got more votes than ever. Now we see the tide has turned against Bush and against the war and it isn't for a lack of fighting back. Certainly there were many factors that hurt the GOP, but I think comments like Coulter's helped to make the GOP look like the bad guys.

"Thank you, Annie!" Yes, thanks, indeed! Keep it up and you can screw up the 2008 election, too. Thank you, Annie!

[zbigreddogz]

That's interesting, seeming as how Michelle has denounced Ann's remarks.