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From Americablog, correspondent Joe Sudbay:

Okay. I am actually watching Fox News right now. Coulter isn't backing down. It was just a joke. See, to her, this is just the "same people becoming hysterical" and she thinks that the lesson young right wingers "ought to draw is that it's not that scary to attack liberals." Yeah, fag jokes are so funny -- really attack them.

*** Verbatim quotes:

  The word I used has nothing to do with sexual preference. It is a schoolyard taunt.

And:

  It isn't offensive to gays. It has nothing to do with gays.

Huh? Apparently, Ann Coulter has never been on the receiving end of that schoolyard taunt -- but Ann Coulter, like so many in the GOP, has made it acceptable to use that taunt against kids all over America. Just a schoolyard taunt? Say that to some kid who's had his face bashed in.

Words matter. She thinks it was "an excellent joke."

...and another excellent example of participatory democracy in action.

Agreed; there is nothing funny about such so-called "schoolyard taunts", but one should make note of that setting for this type of infantile behavior and name calling. 

Unfortunately for Ms. Coulter, one would also hope that she might have outgrown such tendencies by now but, apparently and regrettably, she has not.

Ms. Coulter may not back down from those statements, but when her current sponsors no longer support her financially, she will slowly and quietly disappear from the airwaves, just as it should be.

Ah, yes; participatory democracy in action...

Thanks!

Steve

When David Keene, the "mainstream" head of the American Conservative Union, invited and paid Ann Coulter to speak at CPAC, surely he must have known that Coulter had previously said (and this is only up to 2001):

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"[Clinton] masturbates in the sinks."---Rivera Live 8/2/99

"God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'"---Hannity & Colmes, 6/20/01

The "backbone of the Democratic Party" is a "typical fat, implacable welfare recipient"---syndicated column 10/29/99

To a disabled Vietnam vet: "People like you caused us to lose that war."---MSNBC

"I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote."---Hannity & Colmes, 8/17/99

"I think [women] should be armed but should not [be allowed to] vote."---Politically Incorrect, 2/26/01

"I think we had enough laws about the turn-of-the-century. We don't need any more." Asked how far back would she go to repeal laws, she replied, "Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start."---Politically Incorrect 5/7/97

"If those kids had been carrying guns they would have gunned down this one [child] gunman. ... Don't pray. Learn to use guns."---Politically Incorrect, 12/18/97

"The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail."---Hannity & Colmes 8/24/01

"I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood to be flogged publicly."---MSNBC 3/22/97

Why aren't we holding him to the fire also?

was destroyed and laughed at on Scarborough last night. What was great about Scarborough is that he was on Bill Maher the other night, so the claim that Bill Maher acted worse than Coulter was shot down hard as well.

Did anyone see Anne on Fox?  She looked like she knew she was in hot water this time.  Tryning to act confident, but also pretty scared.

David Keene, ACU head

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From Daily Dish:

I just got an email from the American Conservative Union. They won't say if they'll disinvite Coulter from CPAC next year. They won't actually condemn Coulter's speech. Money quote:

  "ACU and CPAC leave it to our audience to determine whether comments are appropriate or not. "Ann Coulter is known for comments that can be both provocative and outrageous. That was certainly the case in her 2007 CPAC appearance and previous ones as well. But as a point of clarification, let me make it clear that ACU and CPAC do not condone or endorse the use of hate speech," said David A. Keene, ACU Chairman."

I fully concur with Sullivan's assessment:

Does that mean he believes her speech was "hate-speech"? Why can he not just say so and disinvite her in the future? The answer: because the base would explode. Coulter is central to a core element of the conservative movement today. And Keene can't risk taking her on.

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Emmett Tyrrell makes the worst excuse -- he should go to work doing publicity for Dick Wadhams:

"Ann made an honest mistake," said American Spectator editor-in-chief R. Emmett Tyrrell, author of "The Clinton Crackup" and other conservative books, suggesting that Miss Coulter intended the slur in its original dictionary sense as "a bound bundle of sticks."
  "She was trying to discuss Senator Edwards' environmental policies and now ... even so-called conservative commentators are kicking her when she is down," Mr. Tyrrell said and added -- referring to a 1999 incident when the use of a word meaning "cheap" cost a top D.C. official his city job: "All I can say is that it is a good thing she did not call Edwards' tax policy 'niggardly.' "
  Jason Mattera, spokesman for the Young America's Foundation (YAF), a conservative group that frequently sponsors Miss Coulter's speeches on college campuses, said he "was one of the people who laughed right away" at her CPAC remark.
  "She was pointing out how political correctness stifles speech," said Mr. Mattera, referring to a recent incident in which actor Isaiah Washington was required to go into "rehabilitation" for using the same slur against a co-star on the popular ABC-TV drama "Grey's Anatomy."
  Appearing with Mr. Lowry on the Fox program "The Big Story" with John Gibson, Mr. Mattera said YAF will continue to book Miss Coulter, who he said "packs out college auditoriums every time. ... You would think we're handing out condoms."
  Conservative columnist Joe Sobran -- cited as a mentor in Miss Coulter's most recent book, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" -- defended her yesterday.
  "I'm proud of her as always. ... I'll never get over her," said Mr. Sobran, who said he had never been invited to speak at CPAC. "I would burn the invitation if they invited me. ... I just don't regard those people as conservatives."
  In her CPAC speech, Miss Coulter said that she was not "anti-gay" and asserted that conservatives "have the pro-gay position, which is anti-crime and for tax cuts."
  Last night, she refused to apologize and promised more of the same.
  "Even if you think that it was a joke that didn't work, it was a joke," Miss Coulter said.
  Noting that some Republican presidential candidates had issued statements denouncing her over the weekend, she warned they had "better keep that statement handy because there's gonna be a lot more in the next year."

 

bombastic condemnation of Jim Webb as a dinner companion, claiming that because Webb wasn't enthralled by Tyrrell's witty repartee he was the worst dinner companion ever?  Apparently one can be a name-calling harpy bully and still get Tyrrell's approval, but heaven forbid that you find his company boring.

I went back and found the tripe he wrote.  http://www.cnn.com/2...

I actually don't recommend reading it.  Tyrrell writes for the American Spectator, which intellectually ranks somewhere between Malkin and the Archie comics.

PM showed that she also used "raghead" last year, a term used to slur millions of people in dozens of religions. Write to the sponsors and complain!  Ratherthan embed all the links again, here's my comment with links on each sponsor.

Aside from the usual suspects who aren't going to care, there's
Entertainment software,
NCC Cable,
NRA,
a PR firm for among other things, insurance companies,
a polling group
National "Right to Work" foundation (hi, James Young!),
a direct mail company
Here's the whole list:  http://cpac.org/spon...

Here is the sponsor list: http://cpac.org/spon...

nor is she what many would call "a member of polite society."