Ann Coulter again gave new meaning to the word “classy” today when she addressed the American Conservative Union-sponsored Conservative Political Action Conference. The skeletal pundit mused:
I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I – so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards.
Not surprisingly, the kids of Human Rights Campaign had something to say about it. Read their full release, after the jump.
Also, watch the video her remarks and Mitt Romney’s introduction here.
(PS: Could Coulter be Silly Monkey and Silly Kitty’s love child?)
WASHINGTON – Today, at the Conservative Political Action Conference sponsored by the American Conservative Union, right-wing pundit Ann Coulter spoke saying, “I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I – so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards.” The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay civil rights organization, strongly condemned Coulter’s remarks and called on those Republican leaders in attendance to follow suit.
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“To interject this word into American political discourse is a vile and disgusting way to sink the debate to a new, all-time low,” said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese. “Make no doubt about it, these remarks go directly against what our Founding Fathers intended and have no place on the schoolyard, much less our country’s political arena.”
“It is clear that some in the Republican Party plan to run in 2008 the same way they did in 2004, by using discrimination to divide the country and rally their base,” said Solmonese. “But, 2008 is not 2004, and this time the politics of fear and smear will not work. The American people are tired of those who would rather divide than unite.”
The Conservative Political Action Conference was attended by 2008 Republican Presidential candidates: Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) and former Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA). Vice President Dick Cheney also attended the event.
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney spoke before Coulter saying, ““I am happy to hear that after you hear from me, you will hear from Ann Coulter. That is a good thing.”
“We demand that every single Presidential candidate in attendance at this conference, along with Vice President Cheney stand up and publicly condemn this type of gutter-style politics,” continued Solmonese. “If not, then their silence will be deafening to the vast majority of Americans who believe this type of language belongs no where near the discussions about the future of our country.”
Jerry
Thanks, Joe. Why don’t you sell some more books for Coulter, eh?
ChristopherM
You know, it is little wonder that Mary Cheney campaigns for people that hate her life…imagine what it must be like to have a father who will sit, listen, and probably laugh as you are denigrated in front of an audience.
Carl
Coulter should receive a nauseater award for making asinine statements.
poodle
is it inappropriate to think her a cunt?
Steve Rinehart
Coulter calls it like she sees it. Nobody tells her what to think or do. I wish I had the courage to say the things she does . . . I’m just glad somebody’s out there who’ll say them. She’s the exact opposit of most everyone else: independent, brilliant, and powerful.
Sean
In all fairness, John Edwards does look like that guy John Ritter and they do have the same first name. Maybe she was thinking of Three’s Company.
When I think of John Ritter or John Edwards as president, I just think of a weak and meek presidential candidate. Enemies of the United States of America would fear Hillary Clinton’s mean face and evil demeanor exponentially more than John Edwards.
ST
MAnn Cunter tucks back her penis to appear to look like a woman, so how can (s)he talk with her large hands and adam’s apple?
alexa
John Edwards really just needs to publicly refer to her as a coked-up horse-faced whore, then they’d be even.
No, wait, that wouldn’t work because Edwards isn’t actually gay.
LittleBigChris
I want this whore beatup up by Rosie.
Paul Raposo
Steve Rinehart, I’m sure you’re also happy that there is someone out there doing your thinking for you, so you don’t have to.
Where is the progressive/liberal Ann Slanders? We need someone calling Bush, President Cokehead. Somebody like John at bartcop.com who has the balls to get in the gutter and battle with this trash.
Using Little Big Chris’ idea, Rosie shouldn’t beat her up, but use her spot on the wildly popular “View” to trash the skank like only Rosie can do. Fortunately, Ann The Man has been reduced to right-wing events and only gets mainstream coverage when newspapers desperate for sales quote her in big type.
KC
Just as I always suspected, Ann Coulter is really Fred Phelps in drag.
TomChicago
Coulter’s snideness notwithstanding, can anyone doubt that she did in fact call him a fag? I think we’re all, gay and straight, sick of the sliminess in public life and repudiated it in the midterm elections. Hopefully, this relegates piggishness like Coulter’s to the fringe.
David M
Hey Tom Chicago,
I don’t doubt that she’d call him a faggot. However, I don’t think that the straights are sick of the sliminess. You heard the applause. If anything, I bet they want more, more, more.
Anything goes. It’s a free-for-all.
Sven
John Edwards is a “sissy boy”.
America does not need a “sissy boy” as our Commander-in-Chief.
harry me
Maybe she’s right … could Edwards be walking the other side of the tracks? He is a little on the fem side. Maybe on weekends he does a little meth and has a wild night out on the town …
ChristopherM
Why is it right for gay folks to respond to her vile spew by reducing women to a body part? Why is it an insult to associate her with the transgendered. Come on people, there are a million better ways to respond to her big old bag of bullshit than to resort to sexism and homophobia.
michael782
ChristopheM: Totally agreed.
And I think we need to hold the Republicans in attendance responsible for condoning her remarks with their silence. It’s unbelievable that this woman still gets a stage.
Dawster
Anne Coulter does more for gay rights then GLAAD will ever do.
I understand Anne… I really really do. But I can’t help but think that every time she open her mouth, an angel looses his wings.
danifesto
Her comments were supposed to be a funny poke about how someone would go into rehab for calling someone a name. Problem is, she used it in the context of John Edwards and it not only was unfunny, it came off being meanspirited and fell flat. It was like when saw Michael Richards who was so far off his game. It actually *hurt* me to see him stumble so badly.
Why is this lady even popular? She’s not witty, smart or insightful.
Charlie Parisek
Ann Coulter is a man trapped in a woman’s body.
That thing in her throat is a gerbil that is slowly being suffocated.
John
Ann Coulter is of the undead, and yet she can appear in sunlight. Why is it that nobody ever comments on that?
Paul Raposo
harry me, if that’s the case, then why didn’t Bush make him his VP? Everyone knows Bush is bi. Maybe you’re pissed because he doesn’t want Ann “The Creature That Time Forgot” Coulter. If you right-wingers can accept a bisexual prez, why can’t you accept gay rights?
Paul Raposo
Dawster when you grow up and learn to think critically, you will understand all the subtle homophobia that pervades our lives everyday. By giving it a pass and attacking other GLBT’s, you’re allowing the very element that creats all the obstacles that you feel cause GLBT’s harm, as per your blog. In the mean time, plase continue being a lapdog for your straight friends. I’m sure your hags will love you for it.
Rev. Spitz
Either Edwards is a faggot or he is not a faggot. I hope he is not, because being a sex perverted faggot is a despicable and disgusting thing to be..
SAY THIS PRAYER: Dear Jesus, I am a sinner and am headed to eternal hell because of my sins. I believe you died on the cross to take away my sins and to take me to heaven. Jesus, I ask you now to come into my heart and take away my sins and give me eternal life.
jack e. jett
i assume if she had made this comment in black face that
glaad would have got involved.
this is why we need “queer nation” and “queer fist” and more radical organizations to fight fire with fire.
it does nothing for someone in an office to issue a slap on the hand.
we need action! protest! organized boycotts.
jack jett
Dawster
Paul Raposo read my blog!! how cool! thank you!
but… i don’t actually hang around a lot of straight people (i used to – i think they’re nice and should not be judged because of who they go to bed with) and i certainly don’t hang around any ‘hags’ because… well, viginas make me nervous.
the difference with me is that i see a bigger picture and a larger, winnable battle. this is Anne using her freedom of speech, and i’m okay with that because every time someone like Anne opens her mouth, she shows what an idiot she is… and that is GOOD for us. the more holes people like her dig, the more we as a group can gain ground…
in the back of my mind, i do agree with Jack Jett’s idea of “fighting fire with fire”… someone should have held a press conference and said “Anne Coulter is a bitch. the sooner she dies, the sooner Al Gore can have a cleaner earth with less hot air.”
but that’s just me….
Hephaestion
Coulter is ” the exact opposite of most everyone else: independent, brilliant, and powerful”?? Holy shit!
Calling Ann Coulter brilliant is so hilarious I may not be able to stop laughing for several years now.
Ann Coulter just packs her books with non-stop lies and bullshit which she MAKES UP and then says it was in the New York Times, when it wasn’t. The woman is the opposite of brilliant. And since 99% of the populace has no idea who she is, I don’t think anyone will call her “powerful” in THIS lifetime.
And independent? Hell, she defines the word “dependent.” She is so pathetically needy it makes me sad to see her.
But the main thing is this: Nobody but nobody has the right to call anyone but anyone the “f” word. Period.
I do wish Edwards was gay, though, ’cause I think he’s hot!
C.F. Lag
Call it like it is and let the chips fall where they will. We Americans don’t need pussy-footing, we can handle TRUTH — “Just the facts ma’am, Just the facts.”
nystudman
I’m not sure but wasn’t she making fun of Isairh Washington “rehabilitation” rather than calling Edwards a faggot? I mean, I think she was saying that she couldn’t call him a faggot because she’d have to go into rehab; not to say he WAS, but she was saying she couldnt’ he was or wasn’t becusae of the p.c. crowd. I think.
queers first
“this is why we need “queer nation” and “queer fist” and more radical organizations to fight fire with fire.
it does nothing for someone in an office to issue a slap on the hand.
we need action! protest! organized boycotts.”
Create the organisation and we’ll join in!!
We need someone with the vision to regroup the troups, so we can follow.
jack jett
Well guys, I tell you that I am giving some thought to creating some sort of activist group that oversees where the political gay $’s. are going and using less money of
pissy dinner partys and more on orgazinging marchs whenre these bigots appear.
i want to reach out of our frineds in queer fist and an other gay activists groups out there that do more than drink absolute vodka.
we need people that are willing to protest and be thrown in jail.
if you know any larry kramer types, please have them reach me.
i think it is time to fight fire with fire.
i think it is what our brothers who have gone on before us would want. we can’t let these idiots get away with the slurs.
jack jett
jack davis
Okay, stop me if you’ve heard this one …
Five fags are in a hot tub.
At some point a big blob of cum floats to the surface.
“Alright,” squealed one fag, “who farted?!”