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.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Why don't you go complain about something that matters?

Sadly, to some people, this is all that matters.

[Leatherneck_MT]

Well....

I'd be concerned....


because obviously she missed :P He's still talking ;)

[HEY4QDEMS]

Why don't you go complain about something that matters?

Seeing someone bring unwanted harm to the Republican party happens to matter to me.

Perhaps I'm over reacting, only time will tell but it seems to me the defense de-jour on this thread is "they do it too".

My point is, why give the Dems something to attack? The media has become their mouthpiece and now we are here bitching at each other on a subject that completely detracts from the real issues and that's really too bad.

[Clara Lou]

The dictionary of actual life usage.
I see...your own personal usage. I've never heard anyone use it with the very loose definition you give it. In my part of the world, Texas, fag and faggot mean homosexual ("queer," in the old days).

[alice_in_bubbaland]

"Their "play nice" approach to politics has never worked."

And it's not and never has worked for Pres. Bush. I sure wish W would adopt another "new tone" and rip the libs a new one.

[Sam Hill]

"Wormwood is a DU troll."

You've got that right. He also has gone all apoplectic over Ms. Coulter's joke.

And yet, as I pointed out on another thread (after which he disappeared) he had no problems posting this just a few days ago:

Attack of the Red-Carpet-Munchers! Hollywood Finally Gushes Over Dykes ^

Posted by Wormwood to HOTTIEBOY On News/Activism ^ 02/28/2007 11:54:18 AM EST · 13 of 121 ^ i thought the headline was funny. That's because you have a sense of humor.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

In Great Britain a fag means a cigarette. I guess it all depends on where you come from. :)

[MilleniumBug]

"See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup
Yeah buddy that’s his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot he’s a millionaire"

This wouldn't be an issue if faggots weren't millionaires
who buy into political parties. In importance it falls somewhere below Anna Nicole Smith and Global Warming Hype.

[Tallguy]

Hardly a new low. While Ann may have crossed the line, Mother Sheehan called Bush the "worst terrorist in the world" recently.

Hey, you can turn on Bill Maher on HBO almost any night & get the same kind of verbal assault from the other side.

[HEY4QDEMS]

>>>And a perfect description of yourself. (In addition to being a self-righteous hypocrite.)<<<

Wow, I've really gotten under your skin. LOL

[Churchillspirit]

He is a faggot

Edwards is a faggot?

How do you know.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Must be a lib, you're acting as childish as they do.

[Clint N. Suhks]

When was the word "faggot" ever acceptable to describe a homosexual?

Homosexuality is a grave sin and has its own keyword on FReeRepublic. Would your undies be in such a bunch if some here described those who commit adultery as whores?

I'm pretty sure you wouldn't.

And if you did perhaps you should play somewhere else.

[x]

It's not the worst thing in the world one could say. And it's not like Edwards really is homosexual. But it is yet another indication that the woman has a screw loose.

When people first get interested in politics, they assume that all the good guys are on one side and all the bad guys on the other, that any abuse thrown and the other side is just and all abuse received by one's one side is unfair, and that if people don't like oneself it's because of politics, rather than personalities. If one stays with politics long enough, that comes to look like a simplistic way of looking at the world.

Ann just hasn't gotten to that point, in part because people encourage her whatever she says. So she comes across looking like some deranged caricature. "Rehab" would be going too far, but for starters, how about rethinking the mandatory picture posting policy?

[Sam Hill]

"My point is, why give the Dems something to attack? The media has become their mouthpiece and now we are here bitching at each other on a subject that completely detracts from the real issues and that's really too bad."

Look who posted this thread. (It's a repost of a repost of a blog post.)

Look at who is so worked up about it.

It's you and your ilk. Sensible people, and real conservatives, see it for what it was -- a joke about the criminalization of speech.

Idiots and DNC stooges (but I repeat myself) are the ones who are pretending it is the end of the world.

[Beagle8U]

"Ummmm, because the conservative movement and the antimoral wing of libertoonians are quite different things. LC candidates are nominated and get 1% or so of the vote. Ronaldus Maximus would get 60% as a Republican. The GOP talent pool is a bit thin at the moment----for the GOP. No GOP talent pool is EVER less than 40 times as effective as that of the libertoonians.

That you laud Goldwater while heaping praise on the rumpranger tumor on the GOP, known as Log Cabin "Republicans" is no surprise. Discovering lavenders in his own family, he embraced their "rights" as he and first wife Peggy had long embraced the "right" to mass slaughter of innocent unborn children.

Your granddaddy's white shoe "do what you please" GOP is dead meat, slain by Ronaldus Maximus.

Let the GOP receive the votes of Catholics, Orthodox Christians, the Mormons, the Bible-believing Christians of all denominations and none, conservatively inclined Jews including the Orthodox, the Chassidic and others, and anyone else who values the traditions of our society, those who work too hard for a living to want their earnings squandered on "fisting classes" for crumb crunchers at PS 666, the military folks, the police, people who know what goes where after dark, and socially normal folks.

Let the Demonrats have the communists, the socialists, the pacifists, the anti-military folk, the Kumbaya spineless, the welfare queens, the Mother Jones crowd, the Mother Earth worshippers, the Snail Darter Protective Association, PETA, anti-nuclear "activists", street criminal thugs, prisoners (without "voting rights"), blame Dubya for everything club, and the remnants of the old New Left exotic Marxist/Leninists and "anarchists."

Let the Demonrats and the libertoonians squabble over the votes of those who do not know what goes where, the lavender queens, the baby-killers, the Dykes on Bikes, the Blame America First crowd, the octo/lavo/vegetarians, the white wine & brie set, the crunchy granola back to the 12fth century living standards set, and those who feel deprived of what the fantasize as an obvious "constitutional right" to be more in the way of "animal lovers" than even PETA imagines/wants/could stand or to engage in interspecies twelvesomes and the rest of the Wierdo-"American" "community.".

Ann's agenda is the defense of Western Civilization. Our agenda ought to be the same and defending Ann's defense.


340 posted on 03/03/2007 8:28:30 AM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)

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I liked that so much I just wanted to see it posted again...lol

[Churchillspirit]

Just what the GOP needs. Our own Cindy Sheehan.

LOL!

[ryan71]

What she said hurts the conservative cause.

[Tx Angel]

Nope. It's all Republicrats and Democans.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

FAGGOT is one of those no, no words like NIGGER

No, "faggot" is not like "nigger." I doubt you would hear Coulter saying or writing "nigger."

Nigger is a slur against someone's race. It cannot be changed.

Faggot is a descriptive word used about one's habits, temperament and life-style -- all of which can (and should) be changed.

We shouldn't mix rotten apples with fresh oranges. One word is truly reprehensible. The other word is simply...poetry.