Posted on 03/03/2007 6:46:09 AM PST by 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.
She just says what most of us with eyes think. He is a very girly guy
I don't know why you are grouping me with Giuliani supporters, I'm not one. I'm undecided and am having some very real issues deciding if I can in good conscience vote for Rudy in the primary, although I do like many things about him.
Like I said, spin it like you want.
Let me get this straight Ann Coulter using the word “Fagot” is bad, but Bill Maher saying Sorry the Assassination Attempt on Dick Cheney Failed is acceptable? Look at the number of comments on the two stories Ann has 660 plus Maher 86. I think there are a bunch of RINOS or Liberal commenting on Coulter.
Shhh... you're making sense. That'll make some folks' heads explode on contact.
I see explosions all over this thread.
Of course, the PC worshipers are right.
Ann should have waited to be invited to LPAC.
Extreme < /sarc >
Well .. Arnold said it - he rightly called them "girlie men" .. what's the difference between that and "faggot" ..?? NOTHING!
"Michelle Malkin is correct. Ann's comments are not helpful. I would hope that in the future she is not invited to speak at CPAC. She has become a political liability."
Maybe you can work with the Soros front Media Matters to make sure Coulter doesn't appear there or indeed anywhere on TV or the lecture circuit.
Isn't it funny how your interests and George Soros' coincide here.
Clearly you both have the best interests of conservatism at heart.
The real scandal is that she thinks Mitt Romney, America's most liberal Governor for the last four years, is "our best candidate."
"Let me get this straight Ann Coulter using the word “Fagot” is bad, but Bill Maher saying Sorry the Assassination Attempt on Dick Cheney Failed is acceptable? Look at the number of comments on the two stories Ann has 660 plus Maher 86. I think there are a bunch of RINOS or Liberal commenting on Coulter"
That is my point. The media throws a hissy fit about Coulter but gives the Lib Maher, and his Mao supporting audience a pass.
So what's the FULL quote?
Goldwater's grandson, and it is likely that he is not the only Goldwater descendant so afflicted, is certainly lavender and has outed himself with BMG's enthusiastic approval at the time. Goldwater's first wife, Peggy, was a member of the homicidal and infanticidal national board of directors of Planned Barrenhood from about 1940 until her death in 1975. Barry the Elder also entusiastically gushed publicly over how proud he was to have taken his daughter for her abortion of an "unwanted pregnancy." Whatever happened to Barry Goldwater, Jr., who served in Congress from California and lost a Senate nomination bid???? Why did he never run again?
One of Dick Cheney's daughters is a lesbian and the other is not. That one is a lesbian will be the private tragedy of the Cheney family. It will not be the policy of the GOP. Nor will you catch Dick Cheney or his wife Lynne publicly applauding that daughter's lesbianism. I suspect that the daughter in question is beyond Dick Cheney's control since she is in her 30s. He loves his daughter. That may be easily distinguished from loving her behavior.
The parent of one who gets drunk, drives and, in so doing, collides with and kills another motorist may well continue to be loved by his/her parents as Cheney's lesbian daughter is loved by hers. The parents of the drunk driver do not thereby endorse drunk driving. The Cheneys do not endorse lesbianism.
Barry Morris Goldwater gushily supported not merely his descendants but the premeditated killing of a grandchild by his daughter the guilt for which he shared by facilitating the killing, and the homosexuality of his grandson by applauding it. Finally, his spousal connection to Planned Barrenhood is the functional moral equivalent of backing Murder, Inc. back in the 1930s except that Louis Lepke Buchalter and his associates never dreamed of being responsible for tens of millions of homicides.
" Believe me, if we allow the Democrats to regain full control of the Federal government, you can expect to eventually see hate speech legislation, which will give them carte blanche to restrict any political speech that they think is dangerous to crating their new socialist utopia."
In fact, there are bills before Congress NOW for those very things. No need to wait for "eventually"
"Look at the number of comments on the two stories Ann has 660 plus Maher 86. I think there are a bunch of RINOS or Liberal commenting on Coulter."
And that's just this thread, which is a dupe of an earlier thread.
There are probably a dozen more on the same theme. On which you will see many of these same self-righteous "conservatives."
But FR has always been good at eating its own. And the Soros and Moby plants here help too.
This is a non-story about a joke. But it is also a clarion call for all of the sleeper trolls and pretend conservatives to was indignant yet again.
You are such a troll. No, honey, I don't think meanness and hatred are conservative values. I don't think what Ann said was mean or hateful. She was making a point.
Was Rush being mean and hateful when he offered to buy his mother a new can opener?
You might want to go back to fairy land with your puppies and butterflies and nice, pretty rainbows. Politics is too harsh for you.
After reading her comment/joke, I'm still trying to figure out what she said that was so bad and why your and the MSM's panties are in a wad.
Should have been:
to wax indignant...
That's a classic troll response.
As you said about "dirty perverted homosexuals," if it walks like a duck...
Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can destroy your career.
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