Traffic bait: How much applause did Coulter’s Edwards “joke” get?
posted at 9:22 pm on March 6, 2007 by Allahpundit
A hell of a lot more than her cracks about the Gorebot’s bloat but a darned sight less than the evergreen Billy Jeff “white trash” gag.
What, no Lewinsky humor?
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You’re a traffic whore.
Metro on March 6, 2007 at 9:31 PM
What I heard was mostly a collective groan, with some applause and whistles. But I’m told it was thunderous applause, so what do I know?
Pablo on March 6, 2007 at 9:31 PM
Hahaha. Well, Bryan and Ian have racked up most of the Coulter posts. I need to get in on this action.
Allahpundit on March 6, 2007 at 9:32 PM
Too bad for Law and Order, they already did their Ann Coulter episode.
- The Cat
MirCat on March 6, 2007 at 9:35 PM
Shameless! Are we low on the posting quota this month? Okay, I’ll bite – anything to do my part in keeping Hot Air a top blog.
I’d say it was low on the laughometer. Edwards? You can make fun of his hair and wimpyness, but come on…Clinton was a running gag for years! Late night talk shows still get mileage out of Billy Jeff’s sex life and those jokes are still funny. Coulter’s joke on Edwards will soon die – as long as Allah can just let it go.
thedecider on March 6, 2007 at 9:35 PM
What is this, sweeps week for blogs or something?
JetBoy on March 6, 2007 at 9:35 PM
I’d much rather rather have Ann watching my back, than the “silky pony”. I’m afraid he might fumble around in his purse for a gun and come out with lipstick.
R D on March 6, 2007 at 9:40 PM
I think this joke was her funniest on that list.
thedecider on March 6, 2007 at 9:40 PM
So John Edwards was ***** with John Kerry, when all of a sudden, a midget clown with a huge **** comes in and **** a **** on Kerry’s ****. They both go forward and start to **** on top of all of it, and **** on their **** goes and **** all across the **** pink room. The midget then ***** Edwards on the **** and eats his entire **** in a single bite. Bill Maher bursts into the room wearing **** and a leather **** and yells, “****! You ****ing *******s, why the **** is that midget ****ing and eating your ****?” “Because,” Kerry says, “We have to **** the doctor in the **** to know who to **** and raise taxes on.” “Well?” asks Maher, “Who is it?” Kerry and Edwards look at eachother, and both exclaim at the same time, “The aristocrats!”
Savage on March 6, 2007 at 9:42 PM
Savage, I hope you know how stupid that looks after posting it.
R D on March 6, 2007 at 9:44 PM
Yeah, that’s a winner.
Pablo on March 6, 2007 at 9:45 PM
Now it makes sense why all these conservatives are mad at Ann Coulter–they aren’t as funny as she is!
Please tell me another conservative commentator (aside from Dennis Miller) who could get up there and make jokes for 1/2 hour?
It’s just she did this big long serious speech and then busted out the Edwards joke.
Ann, you are still numero uno conservatita
wryteacher on March 6, 2007 at 9:50 PM
Classic, you even included a Midget……
PinkyBigglesworth on March 6, 2007 at 9:58 PM
But see what the Left does? (or doesn’t , I should say)
It’s not often you’ll see a lefty like Gross criticize one of their own…
That’s what makes us as conservatives better than that…when one of ours messes up, we’ll call them on it. Publically. Loudly.
If we put partisan political gain ahead of simple human decency, we’re no better than them.
JetBoy on March 6, 2007 at 10:00 PM
Traffic whoring definitely comes to mind here…
Let it go already.
wccawa on March 6, 2007 at 10:07 PM
Carbon footprint was my personal favorite.
If only there was a “shocked-and-appalled-ometer” in the room to counteract the score for the Edward’s joke.
tikvah on March 6, 2007 at 10:10 PM
Ann has more balls than all the leftie faggots…opps…sorry, I mean all the leftie nancy girls
Wade on March 6, 2007 at 10:38 PM
No, no. You don’t understand. They were applauding because it was her LAST joke. The audience was THRILLED that she was FINALLY going to reliquish possession of the microphone.
CyberCipher on March 6, 2007 at 10:46 PM
AP you’re such a good team player (I hate corporate and consulting platitudes :)
If anyone is waiting for one, I think we’ll win the lottery before one will come…
Entelechy on March 6, 2007 at 11:04 PM
So the “Applause-O-Meter,” does it qualify as U.S. news or a world report?
I wonder what life in this country was like when media outlets like USNews&WR actually tried to be respectable?
billy on March 6, 2007 at 11:04 PM
Heh. I’m tired of getting dubbed a RINO. This story is all yours, AP.
Bryan on March 6, 2007 at 11:13 PM
I like Savages’ post. I had my young son read it to show her how badly the ****s are treated in our society.
dingoatemebaby on March 6, 2007 at 11:17 PM
Republicans have become a bunch of limp-wristed wimps since the November elections. If they’re going to keep kowtowing to the left’s hypocritical outrage, they’ll just keep losing elections. This extends to the quotes around “joke.” STOP PLAYING INTO THEIR HANDS!!!
JinxMcHue on March 6, 2007 at 11:19 PM
It was President Truman who said: “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen”, suggesting that if a politician can’t take the constant slings and arrows coming his or her way, get out of politics.
Well, Ann Coulter, once again, put out some heat at the CPAC meeting, and all we’ve heard since is a lot of whining, cringing, and hand-wringing from both the left and the right – bloggers included.
What would have bloggers said in Lincolns day when he was called a child-molester?
I must remind the blogosphere that we are in a political season, and the heat generated by Coulter will be mild compared to what is coming between now and 2008.
So lighten up on Ann, the worst is yet to come.
pocomoco on March 6, 2007 at 11:32 PM
So which is worse?
1) being called a RINO,
2) being told that you are a Politically Correct weakling,
3) being called a fagg*t,
4) being told that the world would be better off if you were already dead.
CyberCipher on March 6, 2007 at 11:33 PM
>So which is worse?
The answer is “2) being told that you are a Politically Correct weakling,” since it includes the other three.
Doghouse on March 6, 2007 at 11:47 PM
It was a groan, but then after about 10 seconds when everyone realized her point, it turned into a huge applause. The media just cut the sound bite short.
Tim Burton on March 6, 2007 at 11:49 PM
If this gets enough traffic to replace the “Scooter Libby” story, Top Picks will get the Ann Coulter trifecta!
Coyote D. on March 6, 2007 at 11:58 PM
At this point, it seems that all HA threads (no matter what the subject is) include some Coulter disputing.
Rick on March 7, 2007 at 12:52 AM
Whether you’re insulted, angry or appreciative of Ann Coulter’s remarks, it’s true that Republicans by and large still suffer from an inferiority complex from 40 years of exclusion by majority institutionalized liberals.
Republicans need to get over it and realize it’s OK not to be afraid to attack liberals and shine the light of day on their lies and corruption for the good of the country.
It’s good to point out their failings and nobody knows what they are better than Republican lawmakers.
Don’t underestimate the power of ridicule-Saul Alinsky.
Take a page from the liberals’ play book.
Even if you dislike Ann, she is right about that much.
Speakup on March 7, 2007 at 1:21 AM
Nail on the head, Bry. Coulter understands that people feel compelled to defend her, whatever she does, because to criticize her is derided as being PC/RINO/weakling and … uh, a faggot. But this creates a power dynamic in which you’re just a pawn to Ann’s queen.
By putting yourself in this inferior postion, where you are required to defend her unconditionally, you see, you are actually emasculating yourself. She wants to make you her beeyatch.
Ali-Bubba on March 7, 2007 at 2:36 AM
And before anybody can say, “Yeah, but what about Malkin, Bry, AP and Ian?” Malkin actually pays these guys and, more importantly, she gives and she builds — she graciously highlights the work of unknown nobodies, so long as they do good things.
I want only the best for Ann, who has done important work for the cause. But she’s got to realize that she’s making life very difficult for committed conservatives who only want to help her and, more importantly, help the cause.
Ali-Bubba on March 7, 2007 at 2:45 AM
You’re missing the point, Pomo. Malkin takes risks, too, and Malkin makes mistakes, just like anyone else. But using “faggot” on stage, at the biggest conservative convention ever, with so much media in the house?
It was actually a clever joke, but that kind of gutter-talk is just not fitting for an occasion as prestigious as CPAC. She may as well have made a fart joke while she was at it.
Ali-Bubba on March 7, 2007 at 2:58 AM
“Hahaha. Well, Bryan and Ian have racked up most of the Coulter posts. I need to get in on this action.”
SLUT!!
georgej on March 7, 2007 at 5:40 AM
Does this mean that Michelle is yo pimp?
(/wink)(/grin)
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GT on March 7, 2007 at 6:37 AM
Who’s playing whom for suckers?
TheBigOldDog on March 7, 2007 at 7:16 AM
I think that the preceding is the essence of Coulter’s joke, not just a perceived effeminacy on Edwards’ part.
I think the joke fell flat because it just isn’t there. I don’t think AC would have said the same about Barney Frank for example. Casting Edwards in that light, didn’t ring true.
(Subtitute “wussy” for “faggot” in the joke and you lose the joke because you won’t go to rehab for that, yet.)
But the PC part? OMG! Three days of heavy traffic on all the poli-blogs seem to bear that out. Coulter was spot-on there, wasn’t she?
DuffBeer on March 7, 2007 at 7:50 AM
anyone notice Megyn Kelly today. WOW!!!!!
Sammy316 on March 7, 2007 at 9:46 AM
Ali Bubba
You missed the point of Coulter’s point.
Coulter’s reference to ‘rehab’ had to do with the fact that an actor in Hollywood was required to go into rehab because he used an un-PC word about another actor. It was either rehab, or look for another job.
Talk about censorship Hollywood style. This is ‘black listing’ in reverse.
As far as I’m concerned, ‘faggot’ is a term of endearment in Hollywood.
pocomoco on March 7, 2007 at 9:56 AM
B*LLS.
thegreatbeast on March 7, 2007 at 11:06 AM
Too many American voters suffer from short-term memory problems. Remember this blast from the past?
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/kerryedwards.php
Living in NC, I and many others had to tolerate six years of Senator “No-Show and Do-nothing.” It was very sickening for most of us, when he attempted to run for President. As Kerry’s running mate, he couldn’t even delivery North Carolina.
Wuptdo on March 7, 2007 at 12:38 PM
Oh and, um, I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot.’”
Hey USNews actually quoted her correctly, I would have expected it to say “John Edwards is a gay faggot”
jjjen on March 7, 2007 at 3:38 PM
Question:
Which is worse: Ann’s joke or Rick Santorum’s name being used as a vulgar reference to gay sex?
santorum – Wikipedia
JinxMcHue on March 7, 2007 at 4:02 PM
And your advice to me was to “let it go”?
Harrmmmph! :-)
csdeven on March 7, 2007 at 9:18 PM
I waiting for the groan around here to turn into applause. It wont happen on this topic, but I guarantee the next time this happens, many of the PC semi-pseudo-conservatives here who have realized their error, will think twice next time.
csdeven on March 7, 2007 at 9:30 PM
Smart (and tasteful) people don’t air their dirty laundry in public.
Better to direct more energy toward defending against the radical left, rather than eating our own.
As Reagan said, the Eleventh Commandment is not to speak ill (publicly) of our fellow conservatives.
Besides, if folks really wanted to take the high road, they’d register their disapproval to Ann privately, rather than make a public display of it.
petefrt on March 8, 2007 at 12:07 AM
This offends me more than Coulter’s comment. Why are we having “the biggest conservative convention ever” in left wing DC, where only the elites can show up. These people don’t represent me or the other grass roots conservitives out here in the mid-west and south. I’m offended by them pretending to.
Gianni on March 8, 2007 at 1:39 AM