Slog - Comments on Polite Political Discourse http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse Right-wing hack Ann Coulter (best described by the Atlantic Monthly a few years ago as a "hate crime on heels") gave her early endorsement to Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. It went well: "I was going to comment on John Edwards,'' she told the crowd here at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, "but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you say the word faggot.''... Copyright 2008 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:09:49 -0800 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:17:11 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by COMTE Yeah, I heard Romney was so shocked by her remarks that he forgot to stop clapping when she was done.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653780 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653780 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:22:20 -0800 Comment by rubyred That is one classy broad.

]]> rubyred http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653783 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653783 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:23:58 -0800 Comment by Kate I just saw the video. Did you hear the applause and cheers? These people are deranged.

]]> Kate http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653785 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653785 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:24:50 -0800 Comment by dwb She's really giving trannies a bad name.

]]> dwb http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653796 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653796 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:29:45 -0800 Comment by jay what a banshee....can't find the video anywhere tho.

]]> jay http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653820 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653820 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:40:32 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale Face it, she's a man who can have babies.

Contrast that to Billy Crystal, who can only have pee drops in his panel when she appears on the screen.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653834 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653834 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:55:24 -0800 Comment by Max Solomon my stepson just heard Mann for the first time (he's 20). it took a while to calm him down - first time he's been accused of thought crime.

]]> Max Solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653838 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653838 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:00:59 -0800 Comment by It's true. The video is up at Crooks & Liars
www.crooksandliars.com

]]> It's true. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653839 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653839 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:01:34 -0800 Comment by him Well, in Ann Coulter's defense, she is a raging, nutjob bitch.

]]> him http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653859 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653859 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:23:34 -0800 Comment by monkey You know, I can't think of a word bad enough for her. I like the word "cunt" far too much to waste it on her.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653866 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653866 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:29:32 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Lloyd @ 6,

Do you mean Bill Kristol by any chance?

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653867 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653867 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:32:37 -0800 Comment by elswinger I can't think of a more appropriate word than cunt, but I am guy so I don't know what I am allowed to call her.

Coincidently, while reading the initial post I was listening to Body Count playing "KKK Bitch." I don't think even Ice-T would fuck that.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653884 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653884 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:46:16 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew I realized awhile back that Republicans are only a smidge to the left of the Daleks. So, whenever I read a quote from , I always hear that screeching, metallic voice:

Aliens! Aliens!

Exterminate! Exterminate!

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653905 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653905 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:07:01 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale Keshmeshi, good one. I bet she calls him Mr. Mom.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653906 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653906 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:09:55 -0800 Comment by MM I saw more of her on CSPAN. She bashed Gore too & categorized Democrats as heartless atheists. Typical Coulter...

]]> MM http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653964 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c653964 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:51:28 -0800 Comment by truthseeker She wreaks of santorum.

]]> truthseeker http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c654025 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c654025 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:10:06 -0800 Comment by catalina vel-duray Can you imagine how much energy it must take to be as vile as Ann? I don't know how she does it.

I think it's Meth.

]]> catalina vel-duray http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c654044 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c654044 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:35:03 -0800 Comment by Laurence Ballard It must have another "book" due soon.

]]> Laurence Ballard http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c654081 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c654081 Politics Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:13:22 -0800 Comment by jonathan And let's not forget that Andrew Sullivan defended poor Ann by downplaying just how obscene she is. Indeed one reader of his blog called himon it. Here's the reader's skewer and his pathetic response:

Schizoid On Coulter?

02 Mar 2007 07:31 pm

A reader writes:

I'm confused. Wasn't it Andrew Sullivan who declared Ms. Coulter to be nothing more than a "performance artist" who need not be taken seriously? I believe that, in July 2006, when Ms. Coulter referred to Al Gore as a "total fag," liberal commentators were aghast. But you dimissed her anti-gay hate as "high camp," a mere "vaudeville act." After all, it wasn't as if she used the word, "fag," in a perjorative way - it was just an inside joke, right?

Now comes Mr. Sullivan to declare Coulter the "standard bearer [of] the new Republicanism, one who "truly represents the heart and soul of contemporary conservative activism." Presumably that heart and soul includes hatred of homosexuals.

Well, which is it -- high camp vaudevillian or true face of the conservative movement? And where does that leave you?

It's a fair point. I once called her a "drag queen posing as a fascist." But I didn't mean that as a compliment. My only response to my reader is that seeing her live in front of a young, cheering crowd made me feel a lot less complacent. Being a gay man in a crowd that cheers a woman denigrating someone for being a "faggot" is an educative experience. Seeing college kids line up to worship her tore me up. These kids deserve better. They're young and smart enough to be interested in conservatism - and this is what they are getting? From a stage where two presidential candidates just spoke? I guess I've been a bit of a smug ironist who just got mugged by conservative reality.


]]> jonathan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c654239 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c654239 Politics Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:33:13 -0800 Comment by Jean Paul wonder when old Andy is going to at long last break down and call the gang of neo cons neo fascist

past time Andy

Andy likes Romney - I would too - in the alley late at night after closing for about 20 minutes

his politics stink Andy - make the break give up being a Gay Republican, it doesn't work - the second coming out for you, honey

]]> Jean Paul http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c659148 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/polite_political_discourse#c659148 Politics Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:17:11 -0800