The Fox News host Sean Hannity, who had been enthusiastic about a Cain candidacy, said the latest accusations “created doubt in people’s mind whether or not another shoe will drop.”
Give me a break! If any more shoes drop, the Cain campaign will be mistaken for the Nike assembly line.
What a predictable GOP apparatchik hack Sean Hannity has become. Does he ever surprise people by not parroting Republican Party talking points?
When Cain finally stops his denial act, his wife finally smacks his guilty face, and the “Christian conservative” finally drops out — I hope all of the right wing commentators who reflexively defended this fiend and smeared his victims will apologize to the American people.
Foremost among the sleaze peddlers was Ann Coulter, who said after the first allegations oozed out: “It’s outrageous the way liberals treat a black conservative. This is another high-tech lynching.”
This was not a “high tech lynching,” it was serial low tech ass pinching by an out-of-control misogynist who believed his personal power and connections made him immune to the rules of order and civility. It’s the oldest story in Washington, really.
It boils my blood and turns my stomach to see how these hacks had no regard for the women who bravely came forward to tell their traumatic stories. When will the media stop quoting these clowns who lack integrity and have no credibility?
Truth Wins Out sent out a press release excoriating Coulter for her cavalier statements about the accusers. The media blindly regurgitated her wounding and wicked words, but ignored legitimate criticism of these mindless and mean-spirited attacks.
When the Cain Train finally derails — the media should hold his defenders accountable for undermining the reputations of the women who spoke up in the face of conservative mud slinging and character assassination.
But it’s okay, you guys, because gay wingnuts aren’t like those whiny liberal gays who think the rights laid out in the Constitution apply to them! Silly liberals.
“Ann’s position on this clear, and so is GOProud’s,” says GOProud chairman Chris Barron. “We respectfully disagree. We aren’t the pod people here at GOProud. We can disagree among ourselves. Unlike the left and their RINO enablers we don’t believe that every person who opposes DADT repeal is anti-gay. Indeed Ann has done more for gay people — courageously speaking out at CPAC, for example — then most of the gay organizations here in D.C.”
The people who oppose gays in the military are not anti-gay, you guys! They just think that the military should be open to only some of the most qualified people in this country, not all. The fact that the ones they want to keep out are gay people doesn’t mean they’re anti-gay! Not in the slightest! Why, I bet some of those anti-DADT-repeal people would piss on gay people, if they were on fire!
But as I said weeks ago, Barron and Coulter look like they just might share a plastic surgeon, so we can understand why he would want to keep Waiting Room Time from getting awkward.
As I said the other day, in reference to Ann Coulter joining GOProud’s advisory board, nothing about it is surprising. I’ve never thought that she believes anything she says, but rather knows that wingnuts will lap her incendiary bigotry and ignorance up like feral cats.
Exhibit A: The brain trust at the American Family Association, who are oh-so-confused by this move and questioning Ann Coulter’s commitment to the Evangelical Christian lifestyle:
Vitagliano: Ann Coulter is hard to read but if you’re a Christian, I think you should take more care to tailor your commitments in things like this to your Christian views. I don’t know whether she just hasn’t thought this through or what, but this is kind of disappointing to me.
This is not an issue, I don’t think, that you clown around with. This is a very serious issue. I know she likes to laugh, she likes to have fun with her politics, but this is not an issue that you clown around with. It has serious real-world repercussions.
Jackson: I think it begs the questions then Buster: how must Ann Coulter feel about the authority of Scripture? How can you join a group like this and allowed to be called the honorary chair and gay icon of the group and still feel comfortable calling yourself an evangelical Christian? There’s a gap there in the reasoning.
Wilson: I don’t know. It raises a huge red flag for me. The Bible has got to be the standard and it’s not.
Earlier today John mentioned that GOProud announced their appointment of Ann Coulter to their advisory board.
There are obviously so many jokes that can and will be made about this, but here’s what I think:
I have long suspected, based on what I’ve read and heard about her, that Ann Coulter hardly believes a word she says or writes, but rather has found a niche where she can exploit the bigotry and bitterness of wingnut shut-ins in order to pad her bank account. It’s a schtick, a business strategy. As Kathy Griffin memorably noted one morning when they were both booked on the Today Show and Ann showed up that morning in what looked like last night’s little black cocktail dress, she looked like she had come directly from the club.
GOProud is a motley crew of bitter, mostly white, male, allegedly homosexual men who value their white male privilege and their tax cuts far more than they value anything resembling principles. They’re willing to advocate against the equality of their fellow LGBT people because, you see, they don’t see the rest of the gay community as their “fellow” anything. Like other country club wingnuts, they’ve got theirs and screw the rest of you.
So let’s see: devoid of principles? Check. Willing to throw whomever and whatever in front of a bus to protect their own paychecks? Check.
Oh, and Chris and Ann look like they just might share a plastic surgeon.
No, folks, you’re not reading an Onion article: in a press release today, the folks at GOProud announced the appointment of polemicist Ann Coulter to the post of “Honorary Chair and Gay Icon” of that organization’s Advisory Council. Coulter joins other wingnuts notable conservatives including Andrew Breitbart and Grover Norquist on the council.
Apparently, as far as the self-loathing conservative gays at GOProud are concerned, being on the wrong side of every major LGBT rights issue (opposing the repeal of DADT and DOMA and the passage of ENDA and hate crimes laws, endorsing “reparative therapy,” etc.) presents absolutely no impediment to a person being arbitrarily declared a “gay icon.”
For a refresher course on Ann Coulter’s long history of homophobia, check out this list compiled by Media Matters.
Ann Coulter, gay icon? Who’s next, Anita Bryant? If anyone out there still believes that GOProud serves any function other than being a shill for the extreme anti-gay right wing, today’s insanity should put those misguided views to rest. Perhaps it’s time to break out the straitjackets for Barron & Company.
Roy Edroso compiled his favorite twenty-five quotes from CPAC for Esquire, and my goodness, this is really all you need to know about what appeals to a large portion of the citizenry. For instance:
22. “I refer to the debt — the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.” – Mitch Daniels.
21. “[Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism.” – Mitch Daniels.
And, on the subject of marriage equality and the like:
17. “Our liberties, which have made us great, are now destroying us.” – Rev. Michel Faulkner, at the CPAC “Traditional Marriage and Society” panel.
Weep for the stupid. One more, from the queen of the morons, then click over and read the rest:
3. “That is [liberalism's] goal — to destroy the family… [liberals] just made up this gay marriage thing… gays are natural conservatives.” – Ann Coulter.
What’s frightening is that gay conservatives actually think she’s onto something. Stupid liberal gays, wanting to be treated with dignity and equality, rather than just being offered a seat at the table and a semi-promise that nobody will punch them.
Okay, so Kyle at Right Wing Watch suggested that, since the HomoCon crowd was so excited to have a bigot like Ann Coulter speak to them, that maybe next year they should invite Bryan Fischer. Kyle was kidding, you see.
Obviously, Bryan Fischer got a thrill up his leg at the prospect of a bunch of gay men watching his mouth move, because he’s now accepted Kyle’s tongue-in-cheek invitation, and is offering his “services” to the rich white people at GOProud.
It’s probably a good thing that Bryan’s sitting behind a desk in that clip, if you know whadda mean.
One more thing.
Dear Chris Barron:
Please invite him, for it will entertain me endlessly.
Bryan Fischer is SO in love with Ann Coulter again, after her speech at HomoCon! There’s only two quotes here that entertain me, so let’s look at them:
Ann took them straight on and gave them some straight talk I doubt they were ready for. There is no amount of sugar that will help this medicine go down … This from the keynote speaker at HomoCon, who got at least five figures to get right in the grill of her hosts.
GOT UP IN THEIR GRILL!
Apparently Bryan Fischer, he of the American Family Association, weird hair and Idaho pedigree, talks street when he’s happy. Good to know.
You are no longer the “Joan of Arc of homosexuality,” as I described you last month, you are now Daniella of the Lion’s Den. Good on ya, lass.
Yeah, if Daniel had taken home a big fat check for going to the lion’s den…
Also, funny how wingnuts are so obsessed with genitals that he has to feminize “Daniel” in order to make the comparison. Can’t have a Christian fundamentalist wingnut getting caught comparing a woman to a man favorably, can we?
You didn’t think I forgot, did you? Nah. It’s just on Wonkette, silly! Here’s your preview, and then click the clicky to read the rest:
When GOProud, the only American group catering to the feelings of wingnut butt goblins, announced that they were going to have a big “HomoCon” party this past weekend, the Internet said “whatever” and went back to fantasizing about Justin Bieber. When it was announced that the expired entertainer known as “Ann Coulter” would be headlining, and moreover that they were referring to her as “The Judy Garland of the Right,” the Internet stopped and laughed, as she, with her appearance, caused the Gayest Wingnut Slapfight Ever, as wingnuts of all shapes and sexual malfunctions sniped at each other over who Ann Coulter loves more: GOProud or the bigots? That was the question.
HomoCon is tomorrow! Ann Coulter is speaking! The gay wingnuts are all excited about it!
Kyle at Right Wing Watch points out, for contextual purposes, that Ann’s latest column explains why Reagan was awesome, and why Goldwater sucked:
So what was the difference between Goldwater and Reagan? Had the country changed that much in 16 years?
The social issues were the difference. Reagan agreed with Goldwater on fiscal and national defense issues, but by 1980, social issues loomed large and Reagan came down mightily on one side — the opposite side as Goldwater, as it turned out.
Unlike abortion-loving Goldwater, Reagan said, “We cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide.”
And unlike gay-marriage-loving Goldwater, Reagan said: “Society has always regarded marital love as a sacred expression of the bond between a man and a woman. It is the means by which families are created and society itself is extended into the future. … We will resist the efforts of some to obtain government endorsement of homosexuality.”
“But, but, but!”, they will say, “Ann Coulter is speaking to us! She is taking our money! She is our divvvvvaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
Of course. It’s a paycheck to her. She has no principles. Duh.
Anyway, have fun worshipping the lady who, this very week, extolled the virtues of a man saying “we will resist the efforts of some to obtain government endorsement of homosexuality.”
The Fox News host Sean Hannity, who had been enthusiastic about a Cain candidacy, said the latest accusations “created doubt in people’s mind whether or not another shoe will drop.” 
