CPAC Organizers Dump Ann Coulter From This Year’s Speaking List
CPAC Organizers Dump Ann Coulter From This Year’s Speaking List
On February 7-9, conservatives from around the country will gather in Washington, D.C. for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). This year, one of the darlings of the far right’s oft-distasteful and unpleasant punditry will not be invited:
She’s always been outrageous, but when conservative Ann Coulter talked of 9/11 “rag heads” at the 2006 Conservative Political Action Conference and linked the slur “faggot” to Sen. John Edwards in a 2007 speech, CPAC’s organizers decided to cut her from the list of speakers at the February 7-9 conference expected to draw 6,000.
At CPAC 2006, Coulter referred to Muslims as “raghead[s].” At CPAC 2007, she said she couldn’t “really talk about” then-Democratic presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards because “you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot.’” Watch it:
Coulter may not be a part of the formal CPAC program, but rest assured that the presence of this “great American” will still be felt.
A few of Coulter’s supporters found a way for her to appear at the conference. Five of this year’s CPAC sponsors — the Young America’s Foundation (YAF), Human Events, Townhall.com, Citizens United, and Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute — have decided to hold a “Q & A session” with Coulter that “is not part of the general sessions.”
YAF president Ron Robinson said “it’s unfortunate that Ann Coulter is not speaking at CPAC” because she is “a powerhouse for young people” and “one major reason that CPAC is so successful.”
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“powerhouse for young people”???
She’s 47 freaking years old!! Is this what the Conservative movement considers young?
February 1st, 2008 at 11:29 amWell hell. I really don’t want these people to catch on that they are a distinct minority and that the great bulk of America is beginning to regard them as buffoonish, dangerous, and in need of marginalization.
So I say . . . invite AC! Hell, let her set the program. Maybe she and Savage can do a duet. And for god’s sake televise that stuff worldwide and then put it on YouTube for everyone to see.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:29 amshe is “a powerhouse for young people†and “one major reason that CPAC is so successful.â€
Yeah, nothing like some good wholesome hate speech to bring the kids together.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:30 amNelson Muntz says, “HA-ha.”
February 1st, 2008 at 11:37 amI’m glad mANN is endorsing shrillary…. hilarious! whose gonna vote for anyone who has mANN’s endorsement? we’ll see.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:38 amAnne’s face hasn’t thawed out from the winter yet..
February 1st, 2008 at 11:43 amThis whole hate-schtick thing is wearing out. Things will only go downhill from here for the likes of Coulter and her racist hate-mongering ilk.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:45 amAnn or Andrew? It’s just to bad ‘IT’ won’t get a chance to spread ‘IT”S’ hate.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:46 amAmerica is wising up and the CPAC knows it.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:49 amVerbalKint, I hope that you are right about the hate-schtick wearing out but I am not as optimistic as you in that regard.
Unfortunately, stupid is forever and we will always have buffoons like Coulter, Limpballs and Little Seanie around. Somehow or another, they attract pea-brains and make money for radio stations. Go figure.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:49 amWho is this Ann Coulter chick?
February 1st, 2008 at 11:51 amWho is this Ann Coulter chick?
Comment by DRxJ — February 1, 2008 @ 11:51 am
its not a chick, its a man baby!
February 1st, 2008 at 11:53 amNever heard of her~
February 1st, 2008 at 11:53 amShe had had a new prosthesis attached and wasn’t feeling up to it.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:55 am“… it’s unfortunate that Ann Coulter is not speaking at CPAC†because she is […] “one major reason that CPAC is so successful.â€
The CPAC has a strange measure of “success”…
February 1st, 2008 at 12:09 pmIs s/he still relevant? …..wait, was s/he EVER relevant?
February 1st, 2008 at 12:11 pmThe block quote suggests that CPAC decided that Coulter’s rhetoric suddenly crossed some heretofore non-existent line of decency.
You don’t suppose the fact that she just annouced on Hannity that she’d both vote for and campaign for Hillary Clinton if McCain became the GOP nomination had anything to do with it instead, do you?
February 1st, 2008 at 12:12 pmyea, the hate schtick is not going away any too soon…
this would be a good thread to post my ditto-head-in-law’s latest…
sorry it’s so long and dumb, but you gotta read it :
Regardless of whichever side of the aisle you believe can do the job, (I’m beginning to doubt ANY of them have anything in mind besides getting elected/reelected), I thought this was timely with all the talk of “free healthcare”. :
There was a Chemistry professor in a large college that had some
exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab
the Prof noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist government.
In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a
strange question. He asked, ‘ Do you know how to catch wild pigs?’
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.
The young man said this was no joke. ‘You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in The last side.
The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate
to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn.
They are so used to it that they have forgotten how To forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees
happening to America. The government keeps pushing us toward
Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, free medical, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms - just a little at a time.
One should always remember ‘There is no such thing as a free Lunch!
Also, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you
can do it yourself. Also, if you see that all of this wonderful government
‘help’ is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you
might want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is
essential to your way of life then you will probably delete this email, but
God help you when the gate slams shut!
‘A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough
February 1st, 2008 at 12:13 pmto take away everything you have.’ …….. Thomas Jefferson
“a powerhouse for young peopleâ€
May I suggest a new name for their organization?
The NeoHitler youth groupies?
February 1st, 2008 at 12:14 pmDon’t know, 5th Estate, but if Tranny Annie actually said that, and meant it, then I fear we really are approaching the End Times.
Perhaps the Rapture is finally upon us!
February 1st, 2008 at 12:15 pmI gotta tell you that I saw her last night on FAUX endorsing Hilliary? and she was IMHO wiped out on some kind of drug or multiples of drugs.
It could be something else like voodoo or whatever, but she need to go get a Kar-ma wash, then go from there.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:15 pmCongress should investigate the use of steroids by political speakers.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:16 pmthe first thing i took apart was that the jefferson “quote” was not
attributable to him…
and the rest is just really stoopid garbage that totally ignores all the corporate welfare that the righties have been backing for decades…
so, we are all pigs because we want to do what’s best for ALL of
February 1st, 2008 at 12:17 pmour fellow beings… ok, i’m a pig…
…
Shhh… Specter is busy investigating the NFL over destroyed tapes.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:18 pmCongress should investigate the use of steroids by political speakers.
Comment by jb — February 1, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
I think the rampant abuse of hallucinogens by pundits is a much greater problem.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:19 pmAnn Coulter is to punditry what the plague was to the middle ages.
Strap-On Veterans for Truth: An organization dedicating to exposing the truth about the former drag queen now known as Ann Coulter. We are a coalition of former friends and co-workers of Ann Coulter who are upset by her vicious anti-gay, anti-muslim, anti-feminist rhetoric and feel the truth should be told. Our organization, Strap-On Veterans For Truth, is dedicated to exposing the true past of America’s number one hatemonger. For more info follow this link…
February 1st, 2008 at 12:24 pmYou know the reich-wingers are worried and desperate when they start distancing themselves from their icons.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:24 pmI think the rampant abuse of hallucinogens by pundits is a much greater problem.
Comment by ralph the wonder llama — February 1, 2008 @ 12:19 pm
Somebody above already noted than mAnne Colter appears to be barely functioning possibly due to a cocktail of drugs, hormone therapy, or steroids. The thoroughly icky Coulter is a fine representative of the Republic Party. Talk about putting the party in Party! Barf.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:25 pmI have a Log Cabin friend who loves the shit out of her. Has all her books. It’s a “Mommy Thing” I think~
February 1st, 2008 at 12:29 pmoh, and i also stated that NO one on MY “side of the aisle” has
ever talked about FREE health care… we know better…
and i passed along the “cheney healthcare” link:
http://www.guaranteedhealthcare.org/
i want what HE’s got…
February 1st, 2008 at 12:31 pmIt’s a “Mommy Thing†I think~
Comment by Guido OBGYN Lover — February 1, 2008 @ 12:29 pm
To each his own.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:31 pmMy first guess is that she was doing lines of Asmtha-derm cus she likes the bellodona high, or perhaps animal tranks?
February 1st, 2008 at 12:32 pmIt’s been about 6 weeks since she has published a book….what’s she waiting for? Possible titles for her next book:
1. God, I really do hate libruls
February 1st, 2008 at 12:34 pm2. Libruls eat aborted fetuses
3. 1001 ways to cook a librul
4. Libruls and the Terrorists: Is there really a difference?
5. How to talk to librul, part 2
6. Godless talking libruls and their brains are treasonous
7. Bush is a librul
8. 100 new jokes about Ted Kennedy
9. I can’t reproduce because of Libruls
10. My secret crushes on Hillary and Bill.
Who is this Ann Coulter chick?
Comment by DRxJ — February 1, 2008 @ 11:51 am
Never heard of her~
Comment by Guido OBGYN Lover — February 1, 2008 @ 11:53 am
Ann Coulter is a typical wingnut talking (pin)head who manages to stand out from the rest of them because she is tall, blonde, and (apparently) a woman. Unfortunately, like so many people who depend on shock to make a living, she finds she must be more and more outrageous as the public becomes more and more desensitized from that sort of thing. She has written a handful of rather hateful books and writes a weekly column, which appears in a number of newspapers across the country and her own website.
Some of the more outrageous things she has said:
“I don’t know if [former U.S. President Bill Clinton is] gay. But [former U.S. Vice President] Al Gore - total fag.”
“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”
“[Canadians] better hope the United States does not roll over one night and crush them. They are lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent.”
“There are a lot of bad Republicans; there are no good Democrats.”
“They’re [Democrats] always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let’s do it. Let’s repress them. Frankly, I’m not a big fan of the First Amendment.”
“My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building.”
Anyway, you get the idea. Her whole shtick is hatred for anyone who doesn’t possess the extreme right-wing view she has.
If you really want to read her stuff, go to http://www.anncoulter.com.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:45 pmShe’s why CPAC is successful, and America is NOT.
Makin a buck off hate and ignorance, great job mAnn!
February 1st, 2008 at 12:45 pmComment by missmolly — February 1, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
I took those “never heard of her” comments to be sarcastic.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:48 pmWhy can’t someone yank that broom she’s riding out from under her, and jam it up her a$$??
February 1st, 2008 at 12:50 pmShe’s 47 freaking years old!! Is this what the Conservative movement considers young?
Comment by raynman — February 1, 2008 @ 11:29 am
No defense of AC, but 47 is extremely young! :-)
February 1st, 2008 at 12:51 pmThat’s really too bad. I enjoy people’s reactions when the thugs show what they’re really made of - hate and bigotry. I say the more outrageous the better as long as its at some high profile right wing function. Its hard to beat the 1992 GOP convention but they shouldn’t stop trying.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:53 pmIn my best Austin Powers voice…”that’s no woman, that’s a MAAN BABY!”.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:55 pmAlso “a powerhouse for young peopleâ€,you mean the Chicken-hawk college republicans,you know the priveledged pussys who cheerlead for this Iraq-folly but always have an excuse not to join the military?
Maybe it’s because her endorsement of Hillary over McCain .. check the video at HuffingtonPost
February 1st, 2008 at 1:02 pmIf you really want to read her stuff, go to http://www.anncoulter.com.
Comment by missmolly — February 1, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
Why on Earth would anybody willingly subject themselves to that?
February 1st, 2008 at 1:26 pmYAF president Ron Robinson said “it’s unfortunate that Ann Coulter is not speaking at CPAC†because she is “a powerhouse for young people†…
“Powerhouse”, eh? ‘Top’ or ‘Bottom’? And … how young?
… and “one major reason that CPAC is so successful.â€
“… She exemplifies the principles and the spirit of our organization, and is a shining beacon as to what can be accomplished.”
Cheers,
February 1st, 2008 at 1:27 pmCoulter, Regarded as the strong moral compass of the GOP and the Gop’s intellectual strength and savvy.
Whining on H & C that she will campaign for Hillary.
I just want to make clear right now to the GOP.
**Put your dog on a tethered leash that restrains it from crapping in the Democratic yard. Get a shovel and pick it up the mess dropped already,
Don’t make me call the pound on your mad dog crapping and threatening in my yard
February 1st, 2008 at 1:28 pm“She’s 47 freaking years old!! ”
Old or young, at 47 we can look forward to a genetic end to her direct line.
And BTW, #11 in the list of book titles from the author whose mouth moves faster than her brain: “If Christians Had Any Brains They’d Be Jews” well, whatever.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:34 pmSomebody put a fence up around that conference and don’t let any of them out ever again. That’d be the very quickest, easiest possible method of getting our country back on the right track. Psycho-sickie-manson-family-righty-hatemonkeys.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:35 pm“Young America’s Foundation” (YAF) - how about “The Brown-Shirt/Jack-Booted Young Nazi’s for a Fascist America.” Why beat around the bush, they personify fascism, name them accordingly.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:41 pm“if Tranny Annie had a vagina He’d be a woman”
February 1st, 2008 at 1:41 pmMr. Coulters fancy new vagina. (borrowed from South Parks Mr.Garrison)
February 1st, 2008 at 1:51 pm“She’s 47 freaking years old!! â€
She looks younger than the president of YAF, Ron Robinson. You’d think a group of young Americans for freedom would have a young president, not someone’s grandfather. Guess they got that daddy thing going on.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:52 pmAwwwwww. My heart’s breaking for poor, downtrodden, put-upon, mistreated little Annie Coulter!
NOT.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:18 pmOh, I forgot “misunderstood”…
February 1st, 2008 at 2:18 pmbagging the coultergeist is as sure a sign as any that the repuglioservativfundi unreality orgy is getting played. Only question is whether progressives, democrats, and run of the mill sane people fill the void or whack pack re-energizes to continue their wilding against humanity.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:33 pm.
Last night on “Hannity & Colmes,” Ann Coulter made a striking announcement: she’ll campaign for Hillary Clinton if John McCain is the Republican nominee. Earlier this week, the New York Observer’s Jennifer Rubin reported that members of the conservative punditry were “beside themselves” over the thought of a McCain nomination, but Coulter’s pronouncement is a new, and surprising, development.
http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=1679
.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:34 pmSo, saying “ragheads” gets her banned, but inciting right-wing terrorism was OK with this group.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:49 pmHillary, this one time I’d really like to see you open your mouth and have at ‘IT’.
C’mon, you know you want to.
I remember when Lush Limpballs threatened to vote for Bill Clinton in ‘92, claiming all the Republics’ candidates weren’t conservative enough…
Right.
February 1st, 2008 at 3:04 pmWho is this Ann Coulter chick?
Comment by DRxJ — February 1, 2008 @ 11:51 am
Gee, you got me there. Wait, she looks like the one in “Jaws” who took off her clothes to run into the water, only to get eaten by a shark.
February 1st, 2008 at 3:09 pmshe looks like the one in “Jaws†who took off her clothes to run into the water, only to get eaten by a shark.
Comment by Wayne A. Schneider — February 1, 2008 @ 3:09 pm
You mean, after the shark got done with her, don’t you, Wayne?
February 1st, 2008 at 3:21 pmShe isn’t getting invited, because she said she’d campaign for hillary of mccain won the nomination!! ROTFL, now unlike most things she says - THAT is FUNNY! ;)
February 1st, 2008 at 3:31 pmComing soon An Coulter’s book “How to Talk to a Rebublican-if You have To”
February 1st, 2008 at 3:59 pmWhy on Earth would anybody willingly subject themselves to that?
Comment by toasterhead — February 1, 2008 @ 1:26 pm
In case you have a medical emergency and you don’t have any syrup of ipecac handy?
February 1st, 2008 at 4:45 pmComing soon An Coulter’s book “How to Talk to a Rebublican-if You have Toâ€
Comment by squidbilly
Or maybe in light of her exclusion from CPAC the book should be:
February 1st, 2008 at 4:52 pm“How to Talk to a Rebublican-if You can.â€
Or maybe:
February 1st, 2008 at 4:54 pm“How to Talk to a Rebublican-if they ever let you back in.â€
Although Ms. Coulter will not be speaking, she is a room-service option at $150 per half-hour session.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:38 pmI wish I everybody had a pair of those sunglasses from the movie “They Live”, so they could see what she actually looks like, without the brain altering field generated by the right wing media.
February 1st, 2008 at 8:25 pmAlthough Ms. Coulter will not be speaking, she is a room-service option at $150 per half-hour session.
Comment by bogtrotters
So, you have to pay extra for transsexual hookers?
February 1st, 2008 at 8:26 pmShe may be 47 but she looks a helluva lot better than the old battleaxe that actually is psychotic enough to think she’s going to be President.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:32 pmAhh look at all the little hate speaking worms on this forum. Outside of one side of their slimy mouths they squack about hate speech which is any speech that they don’t agree with or that goes against their political myopia. On the other side of that scabby little mouth comes the most hate filled speech one will ever see.
Face it you sickening little perverts are pissed off because she learned a long time ago how to play your game and it burns you up.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:35 pmLatest troll reported. Please don’t feed the trolls.
February 2nd, 2008 at 8:08 amThey should have not invited her after her first comment so I’m sorry but they are quite late.
February 2nd, 2008 at 9:29 pmI hope she never gets to be in public again without being scorned for the rest of her life……she deserves every bit of scorn she gets.I’m looking forward to seeing her get ridiculed in the future.
February 4th, 2008 at 12:12 pmOr how about….If Republicans had any brains……they’d be Americans.
February 4th, 2008 at 12:14 pmhow come ann coulter looks like a coke addicted tranvestite?
February 4th, 2008 at 12:24 pmironbob might dig a little chick with dick action. let’s inquire.
February 4th, 2008 at 12:34 pmit’s such a stunningly macho name- IRONBOB- i’m all twitchy in my loins.
February 4th, 2008 at 12:37 pmSo she endorses Hillary Clinton and is left off of the CPAC list of speakers……
February 4th, 2008 at 3:02 pmCongratulations universe…..you win!
While watching cspan one day last fall, I happened across Michelle Malkin addressing the Young America’s Foundation. A young woman in the audience asked Malkin, “who, besides herself and Ann Coulter, could MM recommend to other young women as role models?” Malkin hemmed and hawed a bit (with those crazy eyes!), then replied “Clare Booth Luce and Phyllis Schlafly”. So, yes, raynman, Ann Coulter IS considered young by the Conservative movement!
February 4th, 2008 at 5:22 pmDoes ann coulter put her makeup on with a Trowel?
February 4th, 2008 at 8:57 pmIf Ann Coulter had any brains, she’d be a brunette.
February 9th, 2008 at 11:40 pmDon’t know where you get your info. Ann not only WAS invited to speak at CPAC this year but, as usual, was the most popular speaker. The line to get into her event was 900 long.
Seems to me you might want to do a little research before popping off next time.
February 19th, 2008 at 1:55 pm