'Conservative' Bloggers Call on CPAC to Exclude Ann Coulter, But Give Themselves a Pass for Enabling Her For Years
The Sad, Discredited Republican Clown's Long Documented History of Vile Hate Speech and Rhetoric Conveniently Ignored by Newly Converted 'Conservatives' Conveniently Now Declaring 'the Age of Ann Has Passed'
Credentialed "Conservative" bloggers from last weekend's CPAC have created
calling for "speaking invitations [to] no longer be extended to Ann Coulter" at the conference. They declare that "the Age of Ann has passed." You'll pardon us if we're less than impressed by the call. The "Age of Ann" has been in full swing for years, in no small part, due to folks like the ones signed onto this "open letter", and only now that she's uttered a line that even
they
can't apologize for -- in calling John Edwards a "faggot" -- are they hoping to protect
themselves
by disassociating. Where were they after she referred to Arabs as "ragheads"
and joked about "taking a shot" at killing Bill Clinton? Or when she joked about assassinating Justice John Paul Stevens? Blowing up the
NY Times
building? Bludgeoning Democrats with baseball bats? And claiming that 9/11 widows were "enjoying" their husbands' deaths? Where were they when
the private, unpublished family
phone number
of
Guest Blogger Lydia Cornell in retaliation for us having posted her responsible, journalistic
which was critical of Coulter? (Coulter was able to run Lydia's phone number on the front page of her website for days, since Lydia mistakenly offered her the courtesy of commenting on the charges prior to running the article and so had emailed her private phone number to make responding easy. The
and visits to Lydia's house received in return thereafter, we suppose, are thanks for that professional courtesy.) In February of 2006,
, revealing Coulter's
long-documented
record of hate-speech, as compiled by
true conservative
, Daniel Borchers of
. Prior to that, in 2005,
documenting her hypocritical claims of "Christian Values"? Borchers has been calling on conservatives to rid the poison that is Coulter from their movement
,
long
before it's now gotten so hot that these "conservative" bloggers have little choice but to do so in order to save
themselves
. All throughout, these phonies have been welcoming her, and apologizing for her, as one of the GOP's top draws at political fund raisers from coast to coast. Where are the
mea culpas
from these newly-ashamed "conservative" bloggers for having given Coulter a pass
themselves
all of these years? Why is it that they've
suddenly
discovered Christian and/or Family and/or Human Values? Will they be issuing
their own
apologies for enabling such a vile person for so long? And while we're at it -- since it's been shown, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that
down in Florida, will these "law and order conservatives" be condemning her for that as well? Even while they support
supposedly meant to curb such fraud (but in actuality devised solely to help keep legally-registered voters away from the polls?) Somehow, we doubt it.
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