{"id":10256,"date":"2007-03-06T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/03\/06\/lie-down-with-dogs-get-up-with-fleas.html"},"modified":"2007-03-06T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T01:26:00","slug":"lie_down_with_dogs_get_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/06\/lie_down_with_dogs_get_up.html","title":{"rendered":"Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boy, you’re out of town then down sick for a couple of days and you miss all sorts of things. Like Ann Coulter demonstrating … her … Ann Couterishness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Speaking Friday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., Coulter closed her remarks with: \u201cI 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 \u2018faggot,\u2019 so I\u2014so kind of an impasse, can\u2019t really talk about Edwards.\u201d <\/p>\n

Audience members appeared startled, then many clapped, and she opened the floor to questions. The event was carried on C-SPAN.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hardly the worst thing Coulter’s ever let out of her mouth, but … jeez, what was CPAC thinking, inviting her to speak at their gathering … again?<\/em> Evidently they were expecting just some Coulterish zaniness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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ACU, the event\u2019s primary sponsor and CPAC strive to provide a platform and forum for a variety of differing views and personalities. ACU and CPAC do not condone or endorse every speaker or their comments at the conference. As such, ACU and CPAC leave it to our audience to determine whether comments are appropriate or not. \u201cAnn Coulter is known for comments that can be both provocative and outrageous. That was certainly the case in her 2007 CPAC appearance and previous ones as well. But as a point of clarification,
\nlet me make it clear that ACU and CPAC do not condone or endorse the use of hate speech,\u201d said David A. Keene, ACU Chairman.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Then why do you invite someone who’s known for it? <\/em>And, as importantly, will you invite her again?<\/em> <\/p>\n

Because if you don’t disapprove of using an anti-gay slur, and using it against a political oppontent just to be namecalling, then obviously you “condone and endorse” it. Not much wiggle room there. And if you invite her back again, we have to assume you support her “provocative and outrageous” discourse. C’mon, people — take a stand and let America know what you really<\/em> believe.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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