What Ann Coulter really is
Jeebus H. Christ on a Triscuit, are there no depths to which this abomination won’t sink? At Friday’s session of this year’s CPAC, the single most important and influential event on the conservative movement calendar, Ann Coulter made her annual appearance and called John Edwards a “faggot.”
UPDATE: Oh, why just read about it when you can see and hear it for yourself? Note especially the volume of the cheers that she receives for her brave and witty slur. The sound of those cheers tells you everything you need to know about Ann Coulter’s distinguished conservative Republican audience.
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Immediately and predictably, outraged Democrats and Lefty Blogistan hollered.
But then, wonder of wonders, Republican presidential candidates McCain, Giuliani and Romney — most of whom had been at CPAC; Romney even introduced her at Friday’s event — also denounced Coulter’s comments in no uncertain terms.
Wow. I though it’d never happen but it seems that at last Ann Coulter has gone too far. This was the last straw; the last futile grab at our lapels by that desperate harpy attention whore, and now Coulter will finally sink into her well-deserved, eternal ignominy never to be heard from again. She had a good run, well exceeding her 15 minutes, but at last it’s over.
Reason has prevailed for once, and we can finally be rid of that meddlesome skank ho psycho. Celebration anyone?
Oh, and as a public service safety announcement I remind you all to please stand back and leave plenty of airspace for the flock of winged simians as they exit my ass.
I read only one truly accurate account of Coulter’s 2007 CPAC money quote moment. Glenn Greenwald nailed it.
[Coulter] is the face of what the hard-core Republican Party has become, particularly during the Bush presidency. That is why she holds the position she holds in that movement. That’s why Mitt Romney was giddy with glee when her name passed his lips. He knows that her endorsement is valuable precisely because she holds great sway within the party, and she holds great sway because the hard-core party faithful consider her a hero for expressing the thoughts which they themselves believe but which other, less courageous Republican figures are afraid to express.
This is not about a single comment or isolated remark. The more Ann Coulter says these things, the more popular she becomes in this movement. What this is about is that she reflects exactly what sort of political movement this is. She reflects its true impulses and core beliefs. If that were not the case, why would she continue to receive top billing at their most prestigious events, and why would she continue to be lavished with rock star-adoration by the party faithful?
Exactly. Oh, let the candidates clutch their pearls and broadcast their outrage in full-throated cry. As usual with Republicans, that outrage is all for show; it’s strictly for the rubes. It doesn’t mean a thing. Wanna know how I know this to be true? Answer me this:
Is there any doubt that Ann Coulter will be a featured speaker at next year’s CPAC? And what about the year after that? And the one after that?
Is there any doubt that, whenever it’s time for one of her publicity ops, she’ll always have a new, farther over the top quote about the Democratic target du jour?
Is there any doubt that she’ll continue to receive enthusiastic, standing O receptions from audiences at CPAC and all the other prestigious, conservative, Republican events that she will continue to be invited to?
Of course not. Absolutely no doubt. And why? Because, as Glenn pointed out, Ann is the face, not to mention what passes for the heart and soul of the new Republican party.
Instead of paying lip service to the outraged multitudes by assuring us that Coulter is nothing more than a fringe wacko, a minor character, a mere entertainer who lays it on a little thick at times, Republicans should embrace Ann Coulter as the poster girl for true core Republican beliefs and values that she actually is.
To that end, I want to offer my help. To further this true identification of Ann Coulter and the Republican party as indistinguishable one from the other, I will from this day onwards always identify Ms Coulter as a spokesperson for the Republican party, or in other ways make clear that when she speaks, it is the Republican party that is talking.
Let’s get this ball rolling, shall we?
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Add this button to every picture of Ann Coulter you can find. It has a transparent background and can be easily re-sized..
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OK everybody: Let’s spread the word!
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Posted: March 4th, 2007 under General.
Comments: 9
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Pingback from Expletive Deleted: Coulter Attacks John Edwards : John Paul McCarty
Time: March 4, 2007, 7:28 pm
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Comment from John Paul McCarty
Time: March 4, 2007, 8:01 pm
My God, I thought you were a gay man until I read your “about.” You reminded me of a dear departed friend whose speech and writing styles were so over-the-top and so wonderful.
You also reminded me a bit of dear Molly Ivins.
Now that I’m done reminiscing I’ll read you for your own words.
I have your badge to put on my Coulter photo and will apply it right away. Hope to stop in again and see what you’re up to.
Comment from Tild
Time: March 4, 2007, 10:58 pm
What nice things you say, John Paul. Thanks and welcome!
Believe me, stranger things have happened to me than being mistaken for a gay man based on my writing style..
Many, many years ago the first man I had truly fallen in love with and was in a serious relationship with came out to me after 5 years of cohabitation. This knocked me for a loop temporarily (I was completely surprised by his revelation and then wondered how I could have been so clueless for so long.) We stopped sleeping together but continued to share an apartment for another year or so.
Around this time the bf introduced me to a new acquaintance of his who happened to be working towards becoming a licensed massage therapist. The guy was always looking for chances to practice his training and offered us free massages if and when either of us should ever want one.
I threw my back out shoveling snow that winter and after a week of excruciating aches and pains decided to take this guy up on the free massage offer.
It turned out that this guy’s specialty was nude full-body massage, which freaked me out a bit, but knowing that he was a gay guy and seeing how totally professional and knowledgeable he was, I was eventually able to relax and go ahead with the massage. –Which was GREAT. I was able to relax so completely that I actually fell asleep. It did wonders for my back pain; it was a completely wonderful, therapeutic experience.
Some time later, my bf came home laughing one day, and told me he’d run into the massage guy, and the massage guy had said something so funny the bf couldn’t stop laughing about it for the rest of the day.
In short: when I was introduced to the massage guy months earlier, he had somehow gotten the impression that because I lived with a gay guy, and probably also because I’m nearly 6 feet tall, I must be a transgender person. Later when I went to him for the (nude, full-body) massage, he could not help but notice my, shall we say, personal plumbing arrangement, and figured that I must be “post-op.”
So, months later when he ran into the bf that day, Massage Guy asked the bf to please say hello to me from him. Then Massage Guy commented: “You know, your friend obviously had a great surgeon–that’s the most perfect work I’ve ever seen.”
Hee! …Over 30 years later and that story *still* gives me the giggles. 
Pingback from Blog of the Moderate Left » Coultergeist
Time: March 4, 2007, 11:11 pm
[...] (Image by Tild)As you no doubt know, Ann Coulter made a funny at the CPAC conference, saying, “I was going to have some comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you say the word faggot — so I am kind of at an impasse.” [...]
Comment from Mullah Cimoc
Time: March 4, 2007, 11:22 pm
Mullah Cimoc say this example how woman of ameriki become filthy and dirty and not having the baby and this woman she having so big adam’s apple.
This process for making the ameriki man to be like homosexual and passive for woman command all usa man. calling it the training of pavlov dog.
me not knowing why this happen but knowing this sign of collapse the great empire like roman time but now so fast in computer communication time. not the 500 years.
Comment from Douglas Steward
Time: March 5, 2007, 9:44 am
Enough of Ann Coulter. My advice: Ignore her. Don’t listen to her. Don’t buy her books. Don’t read her columns. Turn off the TV when she is on.
Soon enough, she will go back to being a law clerk or whatever she did before she became a public figure.
Comment from Tild
Time: March 5, 2007, 1:35 pm
If ignoring her worked, she’d have been long gone by now.
No, the problem is that despite all the abhorrent, vile, hate-mongering things she spews, she STILL continues to appear on TV, on radio, at very high-level and prestigious Republican and conservative events, and continues to get lavish press for every book she writes.
These things would not be happening if she did not have the tacit approval of the Republican party. Yes, I said Approval. The Republicans APPROVE of her vile, hateful spew, no matter what they say to the contrary. Their words of disapproval are meaningless because they’re not backed up by action.
I say: since the Republicans give her de facto approval, why not advertise that? Say it loud:
Ann Coulter is a spokesperson for the Republican Party.
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Time: March 10, 2007, 12:42 pm
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Comment from Ann Fan
Time: November 8, 2007, 10:45 pm
I just bought 4 copies of Ann’s new book today for some friends. Gonna buy a few more this weekend. :) :)
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