They didn’t dump her as a columnist, because World Net Daily editor Joseph Farah thinks his website is ideologically diverse, and he wants to keep it that way, but they’ve kicked her of the roster as a speaker at THEIR wingnut party:
Conservative superstar Ann Coulter today was dropped as a keynote speaker for WND’s “Taking America Back National Conference” next month because of her plan to address an event titled “HOMOCON” sponsored by the homosexual Republican group GOProud that promotes same-sex marriage and military service for open homosexuals.
Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND, said the decision was a gut-wrenching one for his team because of their fondness for Coulter as both a person and writer-speaker.
“Ultimately, as a matter of principle, it would not make sense for us to have Ann speak to a conference about ‘taking America back’ when she clearly does not recognize that the ideals to be espoused there simply do not include the radical and very ‘unconservative’ agenda represented by GOProud,” said Farah. “The drift of the conservative movement to a brand of materialistic libertarianism is one of the main reasons we planned this conference from the beginning.”
Asked by Farah why she was speaking to GOProud, Coulter said: “They hired me to give a speech, so I’m giving a speech. I do it all the time.”
Farah then asked: “Do you not understand you are legitimizing a group that is fighting for same-sex marriage and open homosexuality in the military – not to mention the idea that sodomy is just an alternate lifestyle?”
Coulter responded: “That’s silly, I speak to a lot of groups and do not endorse them. I speak at Harvard and I certainly don’t endorse their views. I’ve spoken to Democratic groups and liberal Republican groups that loooove abortion. The main thing I do is speak on college campuses, which is about the equivalent of speaking at an al-Qaida conference. I’m sure I agree with GOProud more than I do with at least half of my college audiences. But in any event, giving a speech is not an endorsement of every position held by the people I’m speaking to. I was going to speak for you guys, I think you’re nuts on the birther thing (though I like you otherwise!).”
Funny things about this:
A. It’s always funny when wingnuts fight.
B. Ann Coulter declined to endorse GOProud, which continues GOProud’s long tradition of getting all a-flutter over people who haven’t even given any indication that they even like them, aside from a completed cash transaction.
C. Ann Coulter doesn’t endorse “Harvard” or “college campuses,” either. What she’s opposed to is information and learning, you see.
Also: I figured Joseph Farah would be going to Homocon?
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No?
We’re going to need more popcorn, because this isn’t over.
Wait, he thinks Coulter speaking at something will legitimize it?
…the idea that sodomy is just an alternate lifestyle?”
Only a wingnut would think that private sexual activity constitutes a lifestyle. I wonder if they realize that heterosexual oral and anal sex is also considered ‘sodomy’? Since I wear contact lenses, does this mean that I have ‘an alternative vision lifestyle’?
“Only a wingnut would think that private sexual activity constitutes a lifestyle.”
You raise an interesting point there, Gary. Screwballs like that know perfectly well that straight people’s lives and relationships don’t revolve simply and solely around sexual acts, but for some reason they assume that gay people’s lives, and certainly their relationships, do.
On the other hand, strangely enough, they seem to assume that gay people have the same hang-ups as they have, but in reverse. For example, just as they think that everyone ought to be heterosexual and want to turn all gays straight, so they imagine that we think that everyone ought to be homosexual and that we want to turn all straights gay.
Their twisted way and incoherent way of thinking intrigues me.
I would like to see a survey done, comparing bigots’ satisfaction in their marriage and sex life with the same satisfaction levels among people who affirm equality and repudiate prejudice.
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