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.

[Clara Lou]

Really? So, you have information that Ann has information that Edwards is a "faggot"?
BTW, bringing the OT into your comment doesn't give your comment any value.

[cgk]

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[Fresh Wind]

It was just a botched joke. Can't we just move on?

[Trailerpark Badass]

I guess I'm an uncouth Republican, because I thought it was funny. Republicans act like there are Queensbury rules for a street fight. Democrats seem to have no such inhibitions, and as a result, they win a lot more than their bankrupt policies justify.

[Garvin]

Even though I disagree with Ms. Coulter comments, I'm going to give this the same amount of attention the MSM gave the hate-speech that the two bloggers who worked for John Edwards produced.

chirp...chirp...chirp

[ajolympian2004]

This whole defense of Ann Coulter by pointing out what liberals have said over the years is really pathetic. I'll stand by fellow conservatives Michelle Malkin, Bryan Preston, Dean Barnett and others who will not use delection tactics to defend the indefensible. This was at CPAC!

[George W. Bush]

Can you help us raise $100,000 in "Coulter Cash" this week...

Maybe he can give Ann a fat commission.

[BUSHdude2000]

Best-selling right-wing author Ann Coulter, speaking to a conservative audience in Washington Friday, called former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., a "faggot."

I realize there is a bigger point to this thread, but WTF is going on in journalism when in this one sentence they can label Coulter "right wing author" yet there was not a "left-leaning" "left-wing" "leftist" or "liberal" to describe Edwards? This is where we are losing the war of words.

[NordP]

I thought dear Ann was a BIT nasty about continuing to talk about candles the night she was on H & C and Ed B and his wife were on with her. She had so much other ammo (like the Crawford Ranch being so green) that she didn't need to keep hammering a clearly simplistic point.

My concern is that she is falling into a Dem trait---symbolism over substance. Ann is too smart and can fill the room with substance (facts)...she shouldn't resort all her talents to symbolism. She's better than that.

Ann's smart enough to work with facts and not over sensationalize, but then...sensationalism is all that counts in the media anymore. I guess we can't blame Ann for that...now, CAN we?

AND...Thanks for my new tag line, Ann!!!

NordP

[MNJohnnie]

Yeah, instead of talking about the real meat of the day, the Idiot wing of the Conservative Media Establishment YET AGAIN spend all their time shooting at each other instead of the real enemy

How about this. HOW about all you whiny losers ONE time attack the Democrats on ANYTHING instead of constantly finding reasons to snipe at your own side? How about you quit doing the Democrats PR dirty work by ignoring ALL that was said yesterday to fixate on ONE 2 sentence joke.

Until the Conservative Movement gets over this petulant childish need to spend all their time sniping their OWN side, NO Center Right candidate is going to win Nationally. Not 2008, not 2012, 2016....

[trisham]

I'm not sure I could care less whether she did or didn't.

[HEY4QDEMS]

I know what she said and I know what the reference was to, thank you very much.

It was hateful and stupid.

I can't believe anyone would defend her.

[Spok]

Ann Coulter fires back at the left, tongue-in-cheek, in their own vernacular. Lefties have no problem criticizing sexual orientation, race or developmental disabilities so long as they're targeting their ideological enemies. IMO, she knows better, but just can't resist the temptation.

[RaceBannon]

Tell those detractors to bite me.

When AL GORE states that republicans want to kill people , starve children and throw old people in the street, where is the media outrage?

Giving it back with a lesser insult is not more of an insult.

[Graybeard58]

One person at D.U. asks:

Can't we just shoot her?

Another, who proudly admits to his faggotry says:

I'd like to drag her out to a parking lot and kick her bony ass.

[jellybean]

The website has come to a screeching halt so mnay folks are trying to access it.

Ninty percent are probably republicans wanting to see the video. To me it's much ado about nothing. The terminally offended are offended again. Big deal!

[MountainDad]

"Dire Straits"

My kid used to love that music video back when MTV actually played music video's.

[stentorian conservative]

BINGO!

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Did you read the phrase???? What was hateful and stuipd about that? Get a grip.

[MNJohnnie]

yes, thanks to the incompetence of rumsfeld and bush and cheney the next u.s. president will be a democra

Nope thanks to the gutless incompetence of supposed "Conservatives" who spend all their time whining at their own side because that is so much easier then taking on their neighbors, co workers or other Leftists when they start screaming utter lunatic nonsense.