Conservatives -- even the most fanatical (Malkin) -- begin bashing Coulter

[2008]

Since dropping the F-bomb heard 'round the world at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, Ann Coulter has had a rough few days. Three advertisers have dropped from her site, and three newspapers have decided to no longer run her column. Even her fellow Republicans couldn't keep their mouths shut about how far the radically conservative commentator went this time.

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Coulter should walk the plank: Minnesota-based right-wing blogger Ed Morrissey, of Captain's Quarters, sarcastically applauded the conservative pundit, saying, "Yeah, that's just what CPAC needs—an association with homophobia. Nice work, Ann." Morrissey proposed the bigoted blonde be dropped from CPAC next year. "Ann Coulter can be an entertaining and incisive wit ... she can also be a loose cannon, and CPAC might want to consider that the next time around."

The violent approach, courtesy of Michelle Malkin: "Her 'faggot' joke was not just a distraction from all the good that was highlighted and represented at the conference. It was the equivalent of a rhetorical fragging—an intentionally tossed verbal grenade that exploded in her own fellow ideological soldiers' tent ... sullied the hard work of hundreds of CPAC participants and exhibitors and tarred the collective reputation of thousands of CPAC attendees."

Conservative pile-on, courtesy of John Hawkins, RightWingNews: "What's on tap for next year? Will she drop the N-bomb? Will she use the C-word to describe Hillary Clinton? Whatever her plans are, after being burned twice in a row, CPAC shouldn't invite her back next year."

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Three regional newspapers said they will drop Ann Coulter's column after the conservative author referred to U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as a "faggot," reports Reuters.

The Mountain Press in Sevierville, Tennessee, The Oakland Press in Michigan and the Lancaster New Era in Pennsylvania have pulled the plug on running Coulter's syndicated column because of what she claimed to be akin to a "schoolyard taunt."

Coulter has come under fire by both Democrats and Republicans for using the word in reference to Edwards, a former U.S. senator, during a speech March 2 at the American Conservative Union's Political Action Conference.

"We will not continue to publish the columns of someone who uses people as a punch line to get a cheap laugh and who so freely uses an offensive term to describe another human being," Mountain Press Editor Stan Voit wrote in his paper.

http://people.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1274318.php/Ann_Coulter_backlash_begins

[blondeatlast]

1. They're eating their own, eating their own, eating their own!

I love watching all the poo and blood fly. I just left the book business--too bad. I would love to see her publisher give her the heave-ho!

So now Malkin gets her day in the sun by criticizing her comrade-in-arms.

What fun this is going to be! Pass the popcorn, I'll pour the Coke!

Edit: her publisher is Crown--almost equally as bad as Regnery, but not a fully funded arm of the tax-exempt Heritage Foundation to my knowledge.

[americanstranger]

16. Malkin sees an opening. She's an opportunist.

She sees herself as the Queen Bee Loony-ette of the Freeper Right - but only if she can dislodge Coultegeist from that position.

Malkin is a typical young conservative - looking at the situation and calculating what's in it for her.

- as

[susanna]

2. I'm so torn.

If Malkin hates her, I kinda want to support her. JUST KIDDING. Coulter's vile, so is Malkin, and one can only hope for the day that MM shoots herself in the foot a la Ann. And she will. :-)

on edit: piling on

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. I took a childish insult for them to realize that coulter is a nut?

That's one god damned dense bunch, isn't it?

[2008]

4. yes, that is

they looked at GWB twice and said, "hmm, not bad, I think he'd make a fine president"

[knight_of_the_star]

5. Like her other slurs weren't childish

I think it's the timing of doing it while the entire Reich Wing is under a cloud and she isn't helping them look better.

[Buzz Clik]

6. Malking throws a rock to a drowning woman.

Malkin is criticizing Coulter simply because she wants to be Ann Coulter.

Fucking phony.

[blondeatlast]

7. Yup. She can smell the pancake make-up in the water. nt

[2008]

9. yep, she's next

Malkin has been second-in-line for the coveted title of Most Insane Right-Wing Nutjob

this is her big shot at the title

[samq79]

8. I think Nostradamus wrote about this...

We're really in the end times when Malkin turns on Ann Coulter.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

11. Yes. I believe it was in the same quatrain as " The Village Idiot

will come forth and be proclaimed leader."

[2008]

12. "In the distant year of Seven-and-Two-Xs...

...when an imaginary president from Texas
sees his house of cards beginning to come down
we'll see a power struggle between a jester and a clown"

[magellan]

10. Where's Ed Morrissey been?

"Yeah, that's just what CPAC needs—an association with homophobia. Nice work, Ann."

WTF is he talking about? Gay-bashing is an ever present tool in the RW fear-mongering toolkit.

[2008]

13. not anymore ... this is a two-fer

we get to see Ann slink away to obscurity, and the right has to stop gay-bashing

thanks Ann! :hi:

[americanstranger]

18. Captain Ed has just about hit the limit, I think.

He's one of the few Rightie bloggers that is actually capable of a small amount of independent thought.

He really took a lot of shit on his own blog for saying that about Coulter, and he called out his own readers for being hypocrites. You gotta admire that.

- as

[Richard D]

14. Tarred the reputation of thousands of attendees . . .

. . . who I seem to remember laughed and cheered after mAnn said what she said.

[2008]

15. that's a very good point (nt)

[Warren DeMontague]

17. There's only so much valence available for "Scary, Crazy-Ass GOP Pundette"

Malkin wants her turn.