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
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How about some standards?
yes, and if I were part of the DNC I would have done the same. They're right politcially to take advantage of it.
Nonsense..
There are more than enough of us to be offended at just about anything anyone at all might say..
Seriously, you can generally find someone here on FR that is diametrically opposed to anything you might say, any position you might put forward, any opinion you might wish to express.
I would call it diversity but that offends many here in the forums..
whatever...
"The only thing missing from Malkin's tirade is telling Ann she should go to rehab to atone."
Maybe she can start up a petition to have CPAC not invite Ann next year, and invite her to speak instead.
(Or has she in effect already done that?)
This is inanity at its finest.
And yes, MM is proving AC's point. A point that was far too subtle for MM to get.
But, man, don't photo-shop MM's head onto a bikini, whatever you do.
"I am getting a bit tired of Ann's over the top rhetoric. Was it really necessary for her to refer to the 911 widows as harpies and say for all we knew their husbands were about to divorce them. She seems to have lost her ability to make points without going over the top. It is a shame because I generally enjoy her shtick."
I'm with you.
She can usually be deliciously vicious while still making very important points.
She lost me along the way...maybe it was the "raghead" comment. Maybe it was stooping so low as to suggest the husbands of the 9/11 widows were planning on leaving them (Hey Ann!!! at least they HAD husbands!)
There seems to be something rotten at her brilliant core.
Oh that's right anyone who would even dare utter a BANNED word like 'faggot' couldn't possibly care who heard them say it!!!
The conservatives unlike leftists love to pile on their own. If this was a Dim who uttered a banned word the entire msm and Dim party would be defending him/her by ATTACKING the other party, not its own.
And the same garbage that people get pissed at the left for doing.
She could very easily have questioned his manliness and had that create an even better effect.
Uhh, that's what's going on here. Did you ever stop and think of all the vitriolic nonsense said by the left during the 2004 campaign, going so far as to issue assassination threats on the President, and no one on our side said a thing, aside from "how low can they go"?
Now, I'm not advocating death to anyone, but it's high time our side stood up and fought against the left.
The left can foam at the mouth at their hypocrisy. I just find it funny as hell.
The left made that bed, and they're gonna sleep in it.
He's so pretty!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AE847UXu3Q
Gee, another thread started by ajolympian2004.
Everyone should look at this guy's posting history and see what he is up to.\:
http://tinyurl.com/2czpzt
You should also be aware that this poster is closely associated with Michele Malkin's operation. He sends her many tips, etc.
So you have to wonder what is actually going on here?
DU trolls????
Been here longer than you bud.
Being politically incorrect and shocking people with her directness in Ann's JOB. Talking about it is Michelle's JOB. I would not have said what Ann did, but then my JOB requires a great deal more diplomacy.
BTW, I like them both. A person cannot live on one type of ice cream alone. (There, I've made a shocking politically incorrect statement)!
She's a terminally single women with no husband or children that allows her to participate in or experience love.
Hey...Edwards loved it.
He loved it so much he has the video of Ann's speech on his campaign internet site.
SOOOOOO..if Edwards likes it...who are we to complain?
That is EXACTLY right. As if Michelle is somehow more conservative by joining those doing exactly what Ann said would happen--flailing Ann for daring to use a word the left finds offensive only when it comes from conservative lips.
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