Posted by
Maudie in Mandeville on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:30:25 AM
I received my gopusa.com email yesterday to find comment from Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid entitled 'The Britney Spears Of The Right' . I knew then, Cliff didn't like Ann. In the high school locker room, we called this penisEnvy. We have it even within our conservative circles. No one knows Cliff; everyone knows Ann. Cliff is jealous and angry.
Cliff isn't content to question Ann's use of the word 'fagggot'; no, he goes on like a whiney liberal pointing out that Ann has, I hope you conservatives are sitting down for this one, broken off three wedding engagements. Yes, that's right! Just as if the Pope had divorced three times (for my Protestant, Jewish, and Novus Ordo readers, that's a joke, everyone knows the Pope is excommunicated after his second divorce). Then the invidious Cliff goes on to nail Ann (he only wishes) by demanding she remove the cross she wears around her neck. He also can't understand why Human Events, a conservative weekly publication, "continues to feature her on the masthead as a "legal affairs correspondent". If only they will now choose him for the masthead. He relishes that his Accuracy in Media will be discontinuing sales of books by or merchandise promoting Ann Coulter and hopes other conservative groups follow his lead. Goodness gracious.
The next day, Bobby Eberle of gopusa.com (who is also unknown) was shocked, shocked I tell you!, that his conservative readers sided with....Ann! Oh no, you can imagine Bobby's depression. He mentions his conservative babe of choice, Michelle Malkin, who has also gotten her shot in at her competition. Michelle says she has taken her children in past years to the event Ann spoke the 'F' word and would have been offended if Ann had used the word in front of them. It seems Michelle laments that her kids weren't there to hear the word so she could become the new Jersey Girl of the Right.
Amy Ridenour of the National Center for Public Policy Research says it would be better not to have a CPAC than to have one that presents conservatism as a hostile, people-hating ideology.
The American Conservative Union, the primary host of the event, issued a statement in which ACU Chairman David Keene said, “Ann 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."
So let me get this straight. Everyone knows Ann and her firebrand rhetoric, yet the ACU still featured her, Amy Ridenour is an unknown but can now claim her 15 minutes of fame, Michelle Malkin still might have taken her kids to hear Ann, and Cliff Kincaid would be in the Mens Room with a bookcover of Ann.
PenisEnvy.