Will the Corner Condemn Coulter? Posted by Shadi Hamid

I'm sure you've heard by now that Ann Coulter, our favorite conservative, called John Edwards a "faggot" at the CPAC conference. Watch the video. It's very awkward. The Corner, that bastion of rapid-fire conservative blogging, has done a good job of covering the conference, but (surprise) nothing yet on this. Let's see if anyone on the Corner condemns her. Don't hold your breath. 

On a different note, can someone please explain to me what Coulter meant by her comment? It seemed like a bizarre thing to say, since, um, Edwards isn't gay. If any of you can enlighten the rest of us out-of-touch liberals, that would be greatly appreciated. 

The Edwards campaign responds by trying to raise $100,000 in "Coulter Cash."

UPDATE: I've been pleasantly surprised. Maybe there is hope after all. There are now several condemnations on the Corner. See here and here. And it's good to see that the three major Republican campaigns have distanced themselves as well. But don't expect to hear anything from Tom Tancredo.

Comments

[Aunty Em Ericann]

As a comedy writer I can explain her attempt at the joke:

It is a pop-cultural reference to that Black actor on Grey's Anatomy (sorry, I don't recall his name, nor do I care) calling another cast member a "faggot." After denying he said it, he then admitted it and, like so many others who have recently made a public boo-boo, announced he was going into rehab.

Stop. My sides.

As a comedy writer I can also tell you why the so-called joke is not a joke and, therefore, is not funny:

Replace "faggot" with any racial epithet and the sentence is simply hate speech. So is using this slur to describe anyone. It's an attempt to shame the candidate by calling him something hated by a segment of the population. Therefore, the speaker's definition of "faggot" is the one that matters and the speaker clearly believes it to be a bad thing to be gay if the word "faggot" can be thrown around as a slur. Hence, hate speech.

With all my love,

Aunty Em

[Sven]

Alleged Presidential candidate John Edwards is a "sissy boy".

America does not need a "sissy boy" as our Commander-in-Chief.

[Brendan Steinhauser]

Ann Coulter should not speak at CPAC
http://theconservativerevolution.com/?p=390

After last year’s remarks, calling Muslims “ragheads” and this year’s remark, calling John Edwards a “faggot” at CPAC, Ann Coulter has solidified her reputation as a bigoted, loud-mouthed shock pundit whom true conservatives should ostracize.

As I watched her on C-SPAN today I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. On national television Coulter went out of her way to use a word that has no use, other than to hurt, offend and degrade. It wasn’t funny, and it wasn’t cute. It was stupid. The sad part is that some self-professed conservatives clapped and laughed and cheered for her. Shame on them.

CPAC should not invite Coulter back to speak, and organizations should not promote her as a writer nor as a speaker. I used to recommend her to students as a resource, but I will no longer do so.

Even more disturbing were conversations I had at a bar in Adams Morgan later on. There were a handful of kids wearing George Wallace buttons who were extolling the virtues of segregation and saying blacks and Hispanics had lower intelligence quotients. Their racism clearly influenced their views on illegal immigration policy. By the way, these guys were the loudest supporters of Tom Tancredo for president.

How, in 2007, anyone could hold such views and proudly display the image of a man (George Wallace) who represents hatred, discrimination and white supremacy is beyond me.

I certainly do not want to be associated with such ideas. Their thinking is tribalist, collectivist and deterministic. It stems from the identity politics and conflict theory that Marx devised and his intellectual descendants promote. How anyone who holds such anti-freedom and anti-individualist ideas can call themselves conservatives is perplexing. The whole reason conservatives should oppose affirmative action and multiculturalism is because we base our judgments of people on their individual merits, and not on their artificial “ethnic group.”

This was the first CPAC I attended and it very well could be the last if Ms. Coulter, Mr. Tancredo and their minions continue to hold center stage.

[JeffL]

http://corner.nationalreview.com/

Ann Coulter’s CPAC remark about Edwards was despicable—completely out of bounds for civil political discourse. Like Kathryn said, it’s not surprising coming from Coulter, but that doesn’t make it any more tolerable

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