In which Ann Coulter complains about the competition
Joseph Farah, the nutty editor of the far-right WorldNetDaily, has gotten himself into an amusing little spat with Ann Coulter, a woman who lives in terror that somewhere there may be a spotlight that she can’t grab.
Coulter had been hired to speak to a group of gay Republicans at their annual convention in New York next month, an event that they have apparently dubbed “Homocon”. (Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee back in the Bush years, may or may not be in attendance.)
Farah then notified Coulter that he was canceling her speaking appearance at a WND event, accusing her of “legitimizing a group that is fighting for same-sex marriage and open homosexuality in the military.”
“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,” Farah said.
That in turn set off Coulter, who called Farah “a swine” and accused the WND folks of being “fake Christians.” Farah “is doing this for PUBLICITY and publicity alone,” Coulter complained, going so far as to call him “a publicity whore.”
You heard that right. Ann Coulter called someone a publicity whore, and she wasn’t even looking in the mirror at the time. (I’m not sure she can even SEE herself in a mirror, but I digress.)
So here’s your morning assignment, class, a “fill in the blank” exercise. For example:
Getting called “a publicity whore” by Ann Coulter is … like being called tall by Sultan Kosen.
OK, now it’s your turn.
Getting called a publicity whore by Ann Coulter is like ….
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Doggone/GA
August 26th, 2010
9:54 am
Thank you @@. As I said, I am only 1 of two children, but before we moved to GA I got a lot of the benefits of being in a larger family. When all my cousins were alive, I was one of 40+!
Tropunlim
August 26th, 2010
9:54 am
….. is like being called transexual by Ann Coulter.
larry
August 26th, 2010
9:55 am
You have to believe that they are nicer in person……..ya think??
I believe most of the regs are nice people, we just agree to disagree.
Saul Good
August 26th, 2010
9:55 am
…Is like saying Joey “The Stash” Farah is not himself gay (and obsessed with ALL things gay).
Saul Good
August 26th, 2010
9:56 am
(not that there’s anything WRONG with that).
Disgusted
August 26th, 2010
9:56 am
Just a horny conservative talking, but Mary is waaaay hotter than Ann Coulter.
I saw Mary without make-up during one of those Gulf Coast oil spill broadcasts. You definitely would not want to wake up to that beside you in the morning.
Normal
August 26th, 2010
9:57 am
Bruno
August 26th, 2010
9:53 am
BRAVO!!
Doggone/GA
August 26th, 2010
9:57 am
“Doggone – considering the oldest is only 22 (yet already married with a kid), I’d say that it’s too early to make any kind of call on how they “turned out””
Again, I don’t agree. I don’t see anything wrong with being 22 and married and having a child. Seems like a good age to me. And yes, maybe it’s too early to call it for all of them, but so far they seem like pretty normal children to me, and better than a lot I could point to.
Scooter (the Original)
August 26th, 2010
9:58 am
WOW, you all are Jay’s Class? Well the teacher professes to support gay issues against the onslaught of conservative attacks but can’t find it in his finger tips to commend Ann Coulter for sharing his support for that cause? Nope, the teacher has to keep the focus negative and divisive… JUST WOW… so petty.
Bosch
August 26th, 2010
9:58 am
Disgusted,
“You definitely would not want to wake up to that beside you in the morning.”
Dude. She wakes up next to James Carville…….
barking frog
August 26th, 2010
9:58 am
being told to man up by Barney frank
Aquagirl
August 26th, 2010
10:00 am
I loves me some Clark Howard too, but if he calls you cheap, it’s time to loosen the purse strings.
If God gave researchers the talent to understand basics of modern biology (which lead to many of those things,) then you’d think the Duggars would celebrate the understanding of evolution as an equal achievement. Funny how they benefit from modern biology while rejecting the ideas.
Joe
August 26th, 2010
10:00 am
thanks for this fun
getalife
August 26th, 2010
10:01 am
“She” did not get married because “she ” is a he.
It is illegal in his State.
USinUK
August 26th, 2010
10:02 am
Bosch – 9:58 – seriously. ew.
Doggone – we’ll have to agree to disagree. IMO, it’s irresponsible to bring kids into the world, then rely on the “buddy system”, where the older kids take responsibility for the younger kids. It’s not the parent’s job to be their kids’ best friends/peers/siblings, but it is their job to be the PARENT (as opposed to the cowboy, herding them around) – and, when you have that many, I just don’t think you can.
Doggone/GA
August 26th, 2010
10:03 am
“Funny how they benefit from modern biology while rejecting the ideas.”
Well, I could agree…but in the grand scheme of things, does it really matter? It’s not like they’re out there trying to change the world to agree with them. They have their beliefs, and they live by them. No one has to agree with those beliefs…but the world might be a lot better place if more people would actually LIVE by the beliefs THEY claim to have.
larry
August 26th, 2010
10:04 am
Every time i see Coulter i think of this……………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf0oXY4nDxE&ob=av2n
ty webb
August 26th, 2010
10:05 am
…like being told to keep your thoughts to yourself by Anne Frank.
Doggone/GA
August 26th, 2010
10:05 am
“It’s not the parent’s job to be their kids’ best friends/peers/siblings, but it is their job to be the PARENT (as opposed to the cowboy, herding them around) – and, when you have that many, I just don’t think you can.”
But you see, you THINK they can’t do the job. I *know* they can…because they HAVE, and because I have before me the examples of both my sets of grandparents who DID raise a lot of children. Granted, not 19 for each set…but 19 total, with only 2 sets of parents. That’s close enough.
retiredds
August 26th, 2010
10:06 am
… is like being called a quitter by Sara Palin
… is like being called anything negative by John Boehner
… is like being called insane by Michael Steele
USinUK
August 26th, 2010
10:06 am
like being told that you’re a freak by someone who thinks that crop circles are signs from aliens
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/5420819/Crop-circles-in-rapeseed-fields.html
barking frog
August 26th, 2010
10:06 am
USinUK did you get the ‘golf clap’ from tiger or did you
have it before he came along?
Bosch
August 26th, 2010
10:07 am
ty webb @ 10:05 – damn!
USinUK
August 26th, 2010
10:09 am
Doggone – like I said, we can agree to disagree. the church I was raised in had 3 families that took up entire pews each (8 / 10 / 11 kids … yep, Catholic) — we were good friends with them – while they all loved their sibs and parents, they all said they would never have families that big, themselves. Same with a former 1-of-9 coworker.
it doesn’t mean that their childhood was horrible – but they all said that they wanted to be able to give their kids the attention that they never got from their parents.
paleo-neo-Carlinist
August 26th, 2010
10:10 am
in all seriousness, I think this (possibly) staged spat; or more accurately the Ken Mehlman bit, is the fact that the neo-cons have lost a weapon in their arsenal. hopefully, by 2012, or the next election cycle, the “gay vote” will become just another piece of the demographic pie to be courted, as opposed to villified by the right. and gays will be free to “come out” as conservatives. as Mehlman’s comments about Karl Rove indicate, the “gay issue” was employed to divide and conquer, and had nothing to do with the “ideology” of homosexuality. it is also interesting to note that Mehlman suggest George Bush “was no homophobe” which is something like a left-handed compliment, as it reveals he had not feelings about homosexuals as people, but was OK with slander and libel; if it helped him get elected. plus, once the GOP de-weaponizes homosexuality, it can focus the necessary hate energy on Muslims and illegal immigrants.
USinUK
August 26th, 2010
10:11 am
barking – baaahahahahah. (sigh)
Atlas Shrugging
August 26th, 2010
10:12 am
It’s like being told you don’t understand economics by a community organizer.
Bruno
August 26th, 2010
10:12 am
“BRAVO!!”
Normal–I think it’s fair game to criticize Jay all day because he has put himself in the public limelight, not to mention that he’s not shy to criticize posters here. But, for God’s sake, leave the man’s children out of it. Ditto for politician’s families.
Jay did mention that his daughter recently won some kind of award, but even if she were the wost poet in the world, she would be the best in his eyes. Erudite should respect that.
sp
August 26th, 2010
10:12 am
Saying I have too many zits be a McD’s cook
Being called lazy by a Home Depot employee
Doggone/GA
August 26th, 2010
10:13 am
“it doesn’t mean that their childhood was horrible – but they all said that they wanted to be able to give their kids the attention that they never got from their parents.”
But that might only be in indictment of THOSE parents. The Duggars, just as an example, home school their children (well, she does anyway) so she is with them FAR more than are most mothers.
Plus, having grown up in a large extended family, it’s my experience that children that grow up in a larger family wish it had been smaller…while those in a smaller family wish it had been bigger.
There’s always going to be something of the “the grass is always greener…” syndrome.
Jonathan
August 26th, 2010
10:14 am
The waters towers are coming down- things are changing and Gwinnett will no longer be great.
Bosch
August 26th, 2010
10:16 am
…being told you’re disgusting pieces of trash by these people:
Uncle tipped cops off about little girls in filthy Marietta house
http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/uncle-tipped-cops-off-599644.html
@@
August 26th, 2010
10:17 am
After checking out all the sites covering this topic, I’m surprised Coulter is the target. She’s defending her right to speak before a group of gay Republicans and outing Farah on his support of birthers.
Sounds like jay and his left-wingers should be supporting her courage.
Bruno
August 26th, 2010
10:18 am
“it doesn’t mean that their childhood was horrible – but they all said that they wanted to be able to give their kids the attention that they never got from their parents.”
Just my two cents, but I agree with Doggone and @@ on the issue of parental attention. Being one of 5 kids who were always busy working, I got little to no parental attention, and look how well I turned out! (j/k) Seriously, though, I wouldn’t trade the independence I had as a kid for anything.
Interestingly enough, the five of us have only had three offspring between us.
barking frog
August 26th, 2010
10:18 am
a child being told not to cheat by an Atlanta teacher
Swede Atlanta
August 26th, 2010
10:19 am
While I agree with Jay that “he man” Coulter is an attention “whore”, I commend her for agreement to speak with the Log Cabin Republicans even though being a Republican and gay often seem polar opposites. I do wonder her sincerity on this since a couple of years ago she was mocking someone for being a “fag”…perhaps it was John Edwards.
USinUK
August 26th, 2010
10:19 am
Doggone – yep – you’re right, the grass is always greener. but, I do find it an interesting constant that all 4 families had kids who wouldn’t want to have that many children of their own because they wanted more attention. and those families were half (or less) the size of the Duggar clan.
Swede Atlanta
August 26th, 2010
10:19 am
Enter your comments here
ty webb
August 26th, 2010
10:19 am
Bosch,
yeah… that might have gone over the line.
Bruno
August 26th, 2010
10:20 am
sp:
….being told I have bad dental hygiene by a Waffle House employee.
Doggone/GA
August 26th, 2010
10:20 am
“Interestingly enough, the five of us have only had three offspring between us.”
The largest number of children among my parents siblings was 6…but one of those 6 now has 10.
Peadawg
August 26th, 2010
10:21 am
….is like getting told “you can’t sing” by Myley Cirus or Taylor Swift.
Saul Good
August 26th, 2010
10:21 am
Ann getting “schooled” on the BBC by Jeremy Paxman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aiHbUplz3k&feature=related
You can SO tell she’s not used to being asked questions and being called out for her beliefs (and her BS). I also love how she “puts down” government schools…yet SHE went to “government schools”…so? If SHE is so smart…just WHERE and WHAT KIND of schools did she attend? Public schools… Always “amused” by those on the right who put down the very “government schools” they attended. Yeah… many are not “fans” of being in school…but she obviously obtained an EDUCATION… one good enough to get her into Cornell. Hypocrite? ALWAYS….
Erudite Erasures
August 26th, 2010
10:21 am
…is like a drunk driver complaining about handicapped parking spaces. (IQ minimum to get this joke: 40)
Bosch
August 26th, 2010
10:23 am
Peadawg,
I saw Taylor Swift on SNL and it was like listening to cats screeching.
USinUK
August 26th, 2010
10:23 am
mmmmmm … Jeremy Paxman … he’s dreeeaaaammmmyyyyyy …
barking frog
August 26th, 2010
10:24 am
how about fertilizing the pond…ribbit..ribit
Doggone/GA
August 26th, 2010
10:24 am
“but, I do find it an interesting constant that all 4 families had kids who wouldn’t want to have that many children of their own because they wanted more attention. ”
I’d have to know more about the families before commenting on their situation. I do have to wonder though, if they had so-called “super moms” who thought, or who thought they ought to be able to work AND have multiple children.
Being a firm feminist myself I applaud the efforts of my sisters to open closed minds about the “role” of women…but I have ALWAYS thought the too many of them did a disservice to the children of the world by denigrating the job of being a mother.
Bruno
August 26th, 2010
10:24 am
…..like setting an IQ bar by Erudite.
Jan
August 26th, 2010
10:24 am
Like being called one-dimensional by Jay Bookman
USinUK
August 26th, 2010
10:25 am
Bruno – 10:20 – what has 6 breasts and 3 teeth?
the Waffle House night shift …
thankyew! thankyewverymuch …
Erudite Erasures
August 26th, 2010
10:25 am
.
Is like someone shaving his balls and then criticizing bikini waxing.
Peadawg
August 26th, 2010
10:27 am
….is like David Hasselhoff calling someone a drunk.
Bruno
August 26th, 2010
10:27 am
“I saw Taylor Swift on SNL and it was like listening to cats screeching.”
Um, who’s focusing on singing ability when Taylor Swift is in the house, Bosch??
Saul Good
August 26th, 2010
10:27 am
…is like saying that Paul Broun is a great dad….
…Bristol Palin is a good “role model” for abstinence (at $14k-$30K per speech)…
…is like saying Dick Cheney “needed” those 5 deferments….
TM
August 26th, 2010
10:27 am
like being called muslim by Obama
like being called born outside the USA by Obama.
Peadawg
August 26th, 2010
10:27 am
….is like Hulk Hogan calling someone “a dumb blonde w/ big t*ts”
Saul Good
August 26th, 2010
10:28 am
Peadawg
August 26th, 2010
10:27 am
good one!
Peadawg
August 26th, 2010
10:28 am
“Um, who’s focusing on singing ability when Taylor Swift is in the house, Bosch??”
OOOh yeah…nothing gets me going like a grown woman built like a 10 year old boy!!! No thanks!
USinUK
August 26th, 2010
10:28 am
“like being called born outside the USA by Obama”
(pssst … the joke would have been funny if you had used the word “foreign” … nevermind … no it wouldn’t)
Bruno
August 26th, 2010
10:29 am
Special for you, Bosch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwQ8kU9K0l0
USinUK
August 26th, 2010
10:29 am
… is like being called a flake by Orly Tait
Kamchak
August 26th, 2010
10:32 am
…is like being called a sociopath by Ayn Rand.
Bruno
August 26th, 2010
10:32 am
“OOOh yeah…nothing gets me going like a grown woman built like a 10 year old boy!!! No thanks!”
Well, let me try again, then:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RGvu75ZEuw&NR=1
Thankfully my girl USinUK can’t view youtube at work, or I’d be in the doghouse permanently for this one ^^^^^^
Actually, she’s probably the type of gal who points out the lookers to her hubby. My mom has to do that for my stepdad since his eyesight isn’t good.
Peadawg
August 26th, 2010
10:32 am
…is like Kamchak telling someone they have a weird fetish.
USinUK
August 26th, 2010
10:33 am
KAM!!!
did you see my boy scored a hat trick???
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/tottenham-hotspur/7964230/Tottenham-Hotspur-4-Young-Boys-0-agg-6-3-match-report.html
(okay, yeah … the shine is a bit diminished with the whole prostitute thing, but I still think he’s a good player)
Bosch
August 26th, 2010
10:34 am
Bruno,
Not saying she’s not cute, but it’s hard to watch her while singing when you are covering your ears with pillows.
Saul Good
August 26th, 2010
10:35 am
USinUK
August 26th, 2010
10:29 am
Leave Orly ALONE! I mean…Joey Farah dumped her after raising all of that money with his billboard campaigns… which he’s pocketed over 100K personally from… you’d think he would have paid her fine… now she’s all alone.
Based on her law skills… would you DARE have her do ANYTHING with a dental instrument inside of your mouth? I can only imagine having to sit in a chair and have her walk in….sheeeesh!
Bosch
August 26th, 2010
10:35 am
PETER CROUCH!!! Good, good, good.
Bosch
August 26th, 2010
10:36 am
Damn Bruno!
Aquagirl
August 26th, 2010
10:36 am
Doggone 10:03, can’t disagree with ya there. I’m still waiting for Creflo Dollar to sell all his goods and live like a pauper. That oughta happen about the time Clark Howard purchases an airline ticket in First Class.
USinUK
August 26th, 2010
10:36 am
Bdog – don’t point ‘em out, but we do talk about who our celebrity free passes would be!
@@
August 26th, 2010
10:36 am
Waffle Houses are great when on a road trip. Hot coffee available 24/7. Never have I been to a Waffle House that the staff wasn’t personable and eager to accommodate. Much like sitting around your own kitchen table.
Good, hardworking people…but that’s just my opinion.
Erudite Erasures
August 26th, 2010
10:37 am
Is like Rolling Stone Magazine pretending to know the top ten Beatle songs of all time. (Let it Be is in there along with Yesterday and While my Guitar Gently weeps, hey jude, I wanna hold your hand, strawberry fields, and a day in the life)
please. (they include In My Life, and I agree that’s a great one)
There are only five Beatle songs that I can even stand to listen to anymore: Yes it is. I don’t want to spoil the party. Dr Roberts. Old Brown Shoe. and Mean Mister Ketchup.
THere’s one more. See if you can guess the last great beatle song that I just can’t get sick of……Hint: being a musical genius is a curse. It’s not Lucy in the Sky with Cubic Zirconias.
USinUK
August 26th, 2010
10:37 am
Saul – “Leave Orly ALONE!”
dude. I would so pay good money to see that done in the “leave Britney alone” style …
well, I wouldn’t pay much … £0.50 or so …
Saul Good
August 26th, 2010
10:38 am
@@
August 26th, 2010
10:36 am
Yeah…but can you really call it….FOOD that they serve there????
Bruno
August 26th, 2010
10:38 am
“but we do talk about who our celebrity free passes would be!”
Ooooh baby, hope that Robin Williams is high on your list since I’m often compared to him.
For the record, Meredith Baxter-Birney is hot, hot, hot!!
(crossing fingers behind back)
Peadawg
August 26th, 2010
10:38 am
“Not saying she’s not cute”
But I am.
….is like being called obnoxious by Phil Hellmuth. (for the poker players out there)
USinUK
August 26th, 2010
10:39 am
Bruno – nope. still in the doghouse
Kamchak
August 26th, 2010
10:40 am
…is like Arthur Laffer on CNBC in 2006 telling Peter Schiff, “I’ve never heard so many mistakes!,” while saying such things in the same segment as:
-”The United States economy has never been in better shape!”
-”Monetary policy is spectacular!”
-”This economy…is working beautifully!”
barking frog
August 26th, 2010
10:40 am
@@ 10:36 Waffle Houses are the favorites of Many politicians
but the Southern pols usually go for Cracker Barrel
mm
August 26th, 2010
10:40 am
like being called a spendaholic by a republican
like being called a quitter by Sarah Palin
being called crazy be Glen Beck
being called unamerican by Michele Bachman
Peadawg
August 26th, 2010
10:41 am
…is like Tiger Woods giving marriage advice.
(too soon?)
Saul Good
August 26th, 2010
10:41 am
Hey guys…if you’re going to post vids/pics of girls in Bikinis… find one of ANN…. I’m interested in knowing if there’s a “bulge” down there that goes along with the Adam’s Apple.
Hey…maybe Joey Farrah can ask for HER Birth Certificate… (real) first name Andy?
Sick of Repubs
August 26th, 2010
10:42 am
….is like finding out new info about the President…..
http://historycoalition.org/2009/01/21/president-obama-revokes-bush-presidential-records-executive-order/
midtownguy
August 26th, 2010
10:42 am
. . . is like being called a closet case by Ken Mehlman.
I have always thought Ann Coulter plays on my team. She sets off every button on my gaydar. A woman that beautiful who has never been married? Perhaps she should marry Ken Mehlman, that would be the perfectly evil union. They could build the world’s biggest closet and live in it together.
@@
August 26th, 2010
10:42 am
Saul:
Do you really know what you’re getting when the cooking goes on behind the scenes?
I can cook with the best, but I’m not what one would call a “foodie”. To me it’s nothing more than fuel for the body.
Erudite Erasures
August 26th, 2010
10:43 am
Is like Kanye West saying that I hog this blog. I might rule it, but I don’t hog it. (Lowest Emotional Stability ranking necessary to not lash out at me after reading this: Psyco-sociopathic mass mooner and serial brown-eyer (and idiot)
Peadawg
August 26th, 2010
10:43 am
” I’m interested in knowing if there’s a “bulge” down there that goes along with the Adam’s Apple.”
Take a look at Lady Gaga if you’re interested in that kind of stuff.
Jack
August 26th, 2010
10:43 am
I don’t think Bookman ought to mess with Ann Coulter. She’s way out of his league.
ty webb
August 26th, 2010
10:45 am
okay, I’ll see your “ann is a man/tranny/heshe”, and raise you a Janet Reno.
jewcowboy
August 26th, 2010
10:45 am
This has probably been one of the most puerile posts I’ve seen here.
Not your finest hour Mr. Bookman.
@@
August 26th, 2010
10:45 am
barking frog:
I’ve been to Cracker Barrel….the service is horrible. When I’m on the road, I wanna get in and out in a hurry.
Saul Good
August 26th, 2010
10:45 am
@@… I guess it all depends upon where one dines… I try not to hard to think about it…and I treat the waitstaff VERY well!
Bruno
August 26th, 2010
10:46 am
“….is like being called obnoxious by Phil Hellmuth. (for the poker players out there)”
….like being called too introverted by Mike Matusow.
BTW, Peadawg, if you haven’t read Matusow’s book “Check-Raising the Devil”, order it immediately. The only more interesting poker book out there is “One of a Kind”, which is the life story of Stu Ungar. Stu and I have a lot of parallels…..
Game at my place this weekend. Bring your cash.
Peadawg
August 26th, 2010
10:47 am
“okay, I’ll see your “ann is a man/tranny/heshe”, and raise you a Janet Reno.”
I’ll put you all-in w/ Elan Kagan. Booya!
Saul Good
August 26th, 2010
10:47 am
Cracker Barrel?
SAT kinda question:
Cracker Barrel is to restaurant as food is to:_______
USinUK
August 26th, 2010
10:48 am
jcb – peurile, maybe … but a fun exercise in comparisons
barking frog
August 26th, 2010
10:48 am
being called unworthy by Kanye
Bruno
August 26th, 2010
10:48 am
….like being told your mind is in the gutter by jewcowboy.
Lighten up, dude!!!