Tuesday, March 06, 2007
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Here's somebody who won't abandon Ann Coulter
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Posted by:
Mike Gallagher at
6:55 AM
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I'm positively amazed at all the serious American conservative voices who are throwing right-wing flamethrower Ann Coulter under the bus for her schoolyard joke about political correctness and the word "faggot."
The snorts of disapproval and huffs and puffs are pouring in. "I was not amused." "She hurts the conservative movement." "We should never name-call." "She was a distraction from the serious straw poll that featured strong showings by Romney and Guiliani." And on and on...
Why are so many conservatives afraid to fight back?
Time and time again, we're called a variety of names by liberal Democrats. We wag our finger at them and warn them to stop calling us Nazis and liars and warmongers and the like.
So when one of our own gets under the skin of wimpy liberals, we burn her at the stake?
I hope everyone who wants to bash Ann Coulter had a chance to see her on "Hannity and Colmes" last night. As the videotape proved, her entire speech to the CPAC crowd included a series of zingers and punchlines and potshots at the other side. And as she said on the show, her joke was intended to be a commentary about the idiocy of sending a Hollywood actor into rehab because he used a bad word. Besides, unless John Edwards was preparing to announce that he's coming out of the closet, the happily married man with children should have no real worries about being called something he's not. She intended it to be the schoolyard taunt of "wuss", something said all the time.
Well, I'm not going to cave with the rest of the weenie liberals and pompous conservatives who like to eat their own. I think Ann Coulter is gutsy and terrific. Besides, she's a commentator, not a U.S. Senator.
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I can't believe how many people have made this a "gay" issue. When I saw the video clip it was clear to me that she was making two points:
1- She doesn't like John Edwards.
2- She has no respect for the self-appointed thought police who publicly excoriate anyone who violates PC principles to the point that they have to make a nationally televised mea culpa, admit some serious illness or addiction and then check into rehab in some sort of bizarre cultural version of "say two Hail Marys". (See the latest Grey's Anatomy news blurbs)
I didn't think for a second that the comment was homophobic or that she implying anything about Edwards.
And on both points, I agree with her wholeheartedly. |
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Amazing is it not?
Poltical Commentators can no longer exercise their 1st Ammendment rights to speech.
This country is going to hell and a handbasket if your ask me. |
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I don't know who initially said it but it applies here. "Just because you are offended, does not make me offensive". People use words as they see fit. They are just words and Ann, or anyone for that matter, should not have to rationalize each utterence we speak. |
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Shorter Mike Gallagher:
"But Mommy, they do it too!"
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...there is a difference between conservatism and liberalism, as introduced by a petition of right-wing bloggers:
"Conservatism treats humans as they are, as moral creatures possessing rational minds and capable of discerning right from wrong...."
To put it another way, there's no right way to do the wrong thing, so do the right thing. That we all speak out of turn at one time or another is understood. That the stakes are higher in the public eye, also understood. So it's a matter of owning up to it, which would already be more than John Edwards ever did. And more than Ms Coulter did in the interview in question. (Notice she stuttered a lot? This is a smart gal, and even she knows she can't wiggle out of it.)
ssean1 writes: "They are just words and Ann, or anyone for that matter, should not have to rationalize each utterence we speak."
No, they are NOT just words. Words have meaning. Liberals use words as a bludgeon, to call attention to themselves; conservatives use words for their meaning. The meaning, in other words, is not manipulated for the moment, but is CONSERVED.
Besides, everyone knows that "wuss" is a much better choice. |
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The use of vulgar language in public oratory, particularly in the presence of ladies of stature and of children of tender years, is not necessarily an "American and Conservative value," let alone has it ever been.
Unless you have some insights into the great orators of American history which some of us have missed.
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You wrote:
"Had Ms. Coulter opted to replace the word, "Faggot", perhaps with another; "Wuss", "Pansy", "Pantywaste", do you think it might have communicated the same message without the opportunity for, misunderstanding?"
You're completely missing the point of the joke. It was a reference to Isaiah Washington's use of that word and his strange penance via rehab. If Ann had used another word, it no longer would have been a reference to that incident. In fact, that would have made it simply a barb against Edwards without any joke, unlike the rest of her comments before and after.
Let me repeat for those of you who like to ignore everything but a single word that was used: The only reason Ann used that word was to refer to the Isaiah Washington incident.
Further, Ann chose to connect the joke to a candidate who obviously is not gay, but who she thinks fits another use of the word: "Wuss", "Pansy", "Pantywaste."
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I agree with many who say that CPAC was the wrong forum for such a joke, if only because she should have known that the MSM and Democrats would ignore the context and blow the story out of proportion.
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I know there are some liberals who understand these points, but the hateful left is too blinded by rage to engage in honest debate about anything. There are others on the left and right who are making a knee-jerk reaction to the use of that particular word and ignore the context. Get a sense of humor and abandon your eagerness to become outraged at the drop of a hat. |
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You know, I listened to the entire statement as recorded, and for many of the reasons discussed in forums such as this (family audience, what Reagan would say, what I just said), the remark is still a problem.
Of course, Ms Coulter may be right about one thing; people will forget about it in six months, and the CPAC Powers That Be will once again be begging at her doorstep for more crumbs from her table. (Wow, did I just write that? Did I just become an issue???) |
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. . . than most conservative males. The feminization of American males is nearly complete. Now we have to rely on gutsy women like Ann to fight our battles for us.
I weep (in a manly way) for my conservative brothers. |
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David L Alexander says: "The use of vulgar language in public oratory, particularly in the presence of ladies of stature and of children of tender years, is not necessarily an "American and Conservative value," let alone has it ever been."...
Well now David, Ms. Coulter DID NOT use a vulgarity by using the name, 'Edwards' and, 'faggot' in the same sentence so let's get that detail straight...
Second of all Ms. Coulter was speaking to a large room of, "ADULTS" (supposedly) so mentioning children was a waste of bits & bytes...
BTW what authority has said that vulgarity isn't an 'American' value or a 'conservative' value? Pray tell where is this written?
The only thing we have from the great American orators that went before are the, "recorded" speeches but who's to say these weren't vulgar speakers in other situations?
When describing libtards or members of the Party of the Seditious & Sleazy (a.k.a. Democrat party) there is NO such thing as a description to vulgar, tasteless, or (my favorite) "MEAN"...
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"Well now David, Ms. Coulter DID NOT use a vulgarity by using the name, 'Edwards' and, 'faggot' in the same sentence so let's get that detail straight..."
No, I don't believe I will. The term is crude, and unsuited for some forms of polite company (and if you have to ask what that means, I can't explain it to you).
"BTW what authority has said that vulgarity isn't an 'American' value or a 'conservative' value? Pray tell where is this written?"
If it had to be, you'd probably find an excuse to ignore it. But George Washington did pen a guide to civility in behavior as a young man. I believe it was Mrs Malkin who, besides being at the event in question, went to the trouble of mentioning this volume in her commentary on this subject.
"The only thing we have from the great American orators that went before are the, 'recorded' speeches but who's to say these weren't vulgar speakers in other situations?
History also mentions some of those "other situations," and "other" is what they were. |
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"Second of all Ms. Coulter was speaking to a large room of, 'ADULTS' (supposedly) so mentioning children was a waste of bits & bytes..."
Mrs Malkin will be sorry to hear that, as she "wasted" her share of them (and I hope I do justice to what she has written) on account of her children being there for part of the event. |
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