CPAC: Ann Coulter (Live Blogging)
Ann Coulter has just started speaking. She’s attracting a lot of attention from convention goers ready for some red meat. (I’m watching via closed-circuit so that I can live blog, so no photos.)
Not shockingly, her speech so far has been a collection of one-liners, mostly around gay marriage and Hollywood elites, including something to the effect that “Nuts are the entirety of the Democratic Party.”
“Barbara Boxer is a great candidate for the Democratic Party: female and learning disabled.”
More Kennedy jokes. They think he’s middle-of-the-road. “Didn’t he have trouble once sticking to the middle of the road?”
“David Duke can’t speak at American universities, neither should Ward Churchill.”
“We have a lot further to go in the censhorship department in a country that allows Will & Grace on television.”
She ends her speech by renewing her call for a New McCarthyism, saying any “equivocation” on the terror issue is ” beyond the bounds of rational discourse.”
She just brought Matt Drudge out to help her answer questions, to great applause.
She got some sort of gender-based question from a student and answers that “Their glands prevent [males] from becoming Democrats.”
I thought Drudge broke some news about David Geffen eating Hillary Clinton last night in New York. Apparently, though, he merely said that she’d make a poor presidential candidate. (Update: Drudge has the story on his site)
Radley Balko, blogging this next to me, dubs her MoDoCon (the conservative Maureen Dowd).
It’s very much a contest right now as to who is more annoying: Coulter or the people feeding her these idiotic questions. I’m leaning toward the latter.
Oddly, the woman who calls everyone who disagrees with her on international affairs a “traitor” and idiotic comments by college professors “treason,” is a big supporter of the Confederate flag. Even divorced from its civil rights era racial connotations, the flag represents treason against the Union in the most literal sense.
Coulter’s shrill style of punk journalism has offended a lot of conservatives. MoDoCon is not too harsh an epithet.
“Oddly, the woman … is a big supporter of the Confederate flag.”
I have to disagree with this. While Coulter is fairly tall — taller than the average woman, to be sure — she’s skinny as a rail. Calling her “big” is simply inaccurate.
As for her political style… I’m not the biggest fan of Ann Coulter’s rhetoric. That’s because I am a male who is 5 feet 4 inches tall, 130 pounds. There are fans of Ann Coulter’s rhetoric who are much bigger than me.
Hey, you mentioned my Confederate flag question to Ann! Bravo!