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

Posted on 03/04/2007 8:28:45 AM PST by ajolympian2004

Enter Ann Coulter.

Her "faggot" joke was not just a distraction from all the good that was highlighted and represented at the conference. It was the equivalent of a rhetorical fragging--an intentionally-tossed verbal grenade that exploded in her own fellow ideological soldiers' tent.

There are countless conservatives who bring their children to CPAC. It's a family-friendly event. I brought mine last year and the year before. I met several parents with their kids there this year. We expect CPAC to be a place where conservative role models speak with clarity, passion, and integrity. There are enough spewers of mindless filth, vulgarity, and hatred on TV, at the movies, and in the public schools. We don't expect our children to be exposed to that garbage at the nation's preeminent conservative gathering.

I was in the back of the ballroom and did not see any children in the audience during Coulter's speech. But what if there had been?

Would you want your children hearing the word "faggot" spoken in such a casual and senseless manner? Would you like your first-grader or three-year-old running around the halls of CPAC singing "faggot, faggot, faggot?" Not me. Not anymore than I'd like my toddler singing "gook, gook, gook" or "sambo, sambo, sambo"--favored epithets hurled at conservative minorities by leftist haters groping around in their empty intellectual quivers. There were hundreds of young conservative college students in the ballroom. Would you be proud of your college-age daughter spewing such epithets in her campus debates with leftists?

With a single word, Coulter sullied the hard work of hundreds of CPAC participants and exhibitors and tarred the collective reputation of thousands of CPAC attendees. At a reception for college students held by the Young America's Foundation, I lambasted the substitution of stupid slurs for persuasion-- be it "faggot" from a conservative or "gook" from a liberal--and urged the young people there to conduct themselves at all times with dignity in their ideological battles on and off campus.

I made something else explicitly clear: Not all of us treat the communication of conservative ideals and ideas as 24/7 performance art. You can and should use humor to convey your message. You can enlighten and entertain--without becoming a tired old schtick. You can joke without becoming the joke.

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The rest of her coverage, great pics from the event and photo album link here -
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006981.htm


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; catfight; coulter; cpac; cpac2007; doublestandard; eatingourown; foxnews; foxnewscontributor; gop; hotair; littleanniefanny; macacamoment; malkin; michellemalkin; zogbyism
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To: ajolympian2004


Yeah!...Girl fight!

;o)
141 posted on 03/04/2007 9:13:35 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Happy Birthday Texas!)
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To: Registered

Those of us who have been in the self-promotion business ;-) know that one takes every opportunity one can to self-promote. :)


142 posted on 03/04/2007 9:13:54 AM PST by Mr J (All IMHO.)
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To: ajolympian2004

Coulter is our Jimmy Carter ... she keeps on giving stuff to the other side.


143 posted on 03/04/2007 9:14:04 AM PST by aculeus
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To: ajolympian2004

Let the record show that you will not answer what your relationship with Michele Malkin is.

Anyone can look at your posting history and see that you post mostly material from Michele Malkin's site.

You post a lot of things, such as the notification of her book release, that might not be known to the general public.

You seem to be her sock puppet at best.

Is she telling you to post all of these threads attacking Coulter?

If so, why?

By the way, whatever happened to that source for the Associated Press that Malkin said didn't exist?

Didn't Malkin go to Iraq to find him? Funny, I don't recall hear much more about that.

Since you are an insider, perhaps you can tell us?


144 posted on 03/04/2007 9:14:41 AM PST by Sam Hill
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To: ajolympian2004
Would you want your children hearing the word "faggot" spoken in such a casual and senseless manner?

Thank goodness kids don't go on the Internet, visit her site or know how to read.

145 posted on 03/04/2007 9:15:34 AM PST by Mojave
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To: ajolympian2004; misterrob
the high priestess of biatch, Anorexic Coulter."

And you're outraged by the word "faggot"?

Morons.

146 posted on 03/04/2007 9:16:39 AM PST by JCEccles
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To: JCEccles

your post says much more about you than it does about me.

I have said nothing vile or nasty...and certainly nothing that remotely approaches the nastiness of Coulter.

I want to like Ann but she makes it so difficult.

You apparantly don't mind rude and crude.
Bully for you.


147 posted on 03/04/2007 9:16:39 AM PST by Scotswife
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To: Sam Hill

Let us sitpulate now that anyone posting in favor of Coulter will be deemed a Coulter operative -- likewise for Malkin.

With that out of the way, the thread can continue. ;-)


148 posted on 03/04/2007 9:17:09 AM PST by Mr J (All IMHO.)
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To: stm

I gather you are not to fond of Asian people, words like that hurt, plain and simple. I have been the target of those very hurtful words, by White people and I did not call them in return: hateful whitey or hillybilly cracker, because My Father - an Army Veteran, may he rest in peace, was White!!!!!!!! and My Mother was Japanese - I have the best of both worlds!!!!!!!/seoul62........


149 posted on 03/04/2007 9:17:10 AM PST by seoul62 (Just asking, Seoul62)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Exactly.
Think Edward's former bloggers qualify?


150 posted on 03/04/2007 9:17:24 AM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: aculeus
Coulter is our Jimmy Carter ... she keeps on giving stuff to the other side.

Jimmah has never said one memorable thing in his life. Well, maybe "nuclear".

151 posted on 03/04/2007 9:18:02 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: ajolympian2004
Wow! After reading all the comments, there is a decidedly different contingent at work here than usual. Are we inundated with trolls? What Freepers have understood, at least until now, is that class and a certain decorum gets one farther in life than degrading each other. That goes for Anne's comments, and many on this thread as well. The high road is often more difficult to travel, but is always well worth the effort.
152 posted on 03/04/2007 9:18:52 AM PST by Melinda
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To: ajolympian2004
We don't expect our children to be exposed to that garbage at the nation's preeminent conservative gathering.

Pul-leeze. I was there. Everyone was so offended that they stood on their feet when Ann was done and gave her a standing ovation for her performance art. Yes, that's what it is.

Boys and girls, this ain't beanbag. It ain't even politics. We're at war with traitors, and Edwards is in fact a dangerous man. She just got a nation thinking about what a wussified dork Edwards is. God bless her.

153 posted on 03/04/2007 9:19:19 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: Sam Hill

Freeper nazi.


154 posted on 03/04/2007 9:19:20 AM PST by Misterioso
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To: rom
May I refer you to two exceptional pieces of media. One, Where John Edwards lies cuddled in the arms of John "Treason" Kerry (by the way, you may not know this but Kerry served in Viet Nam,...for 3 whole months!) as Kerry lovingly kisses his forehead (being very careful not to mess up his hairstyle!). Two, the video of the Silky Pony brushing his hair and applying hairspray for 30 minutes prior to a campaign appearance, all the time gazing lovingly into a mirror at his lovely face and coif.

Now I don't know if the word faggot is appropriate in describing Silky, but God knows I would not want this creep sideling up next to me at a urinal!!

155 posted on 03/04/2007 9:21:05 AM PST by Doc Savage ("You couldn't tame me, but you taught me.................")
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To: Scotswife
"I have said nothing vile or nasty..."

No, of course not.

The CPAC I saw (Michelle Malkin shares her thoughts on Ann Coulter) ^

  Posted by Scotswife to misterrob
On News/Activism ^ 03/04/2007 12:03:42 PM EST · 106 of 150 ^

"She's a terminally single women with no husband or children that allows her to participate in or experience love"

Good point.


156 posted on 03/04/2007 9:21:19 AM PST by Sam Hill
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To: Sam Hill

I've never met her in person nor have I ever had a personal phone conversation with her. From time to time I've received a thank you reply in email for a story idea or news tip. I did get to ask Michelle a question LIVE on the air when she was on the Mike Rosen show (850am KOA) promoting her book "Unhinged". I asked her about how the folks at Free Republic and her worked to get the story out about Ward Churchill's fake art.


157 posted on 03/04/2007 9:21:31 AM PST by ajolympian2004
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To: ajolympian2004
Would you want your children hearing the word "faggot" spoken in such a casual and senseless manner?

Michelle, do you have "bubble children"? I distinctly remember hearing the likes of this word when I was in grade school.

I doubt if much has changed (other than the precipitous decline in literacy) in the schools since I was in them.

158 posted on 03/04/2007 9:21:32 AM PST by an amused spectator (The 1st Minnesota Regt died fighting a culture which embraced slavery. Think about it, Ellison.)
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To: xcamel
Think Edward's former bloggers qualify?

Of course.

159 posted on 03/04/2007 9:22:23 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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To: misterrob
She's a terminally single women with no husband or children that allows her to participate in or experience love.

Is that the only way one may experience love? What a nasty comment.

160 posted on 03/04/2007 9:22:25 AM PST by AnnaZ (I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
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