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The Gay Republican group GOProud will host its Homocon 2010 convention in New York City on September 25. Headlining this bash will be none other than "the right-wing Judy Garland" and conservative author Ann Coulter.

"Our gays are more macho than their straights!" the event invitation declares, apparently comparing gay Republicans to straight Democrats.

"This will be a party that celebrates gay conservatives," Christopher Barron, chairman of the GOProud board, told TPM. "The gay left has done their best to take all the fun out of politics, boycotting and protesting one thing after another. [Homocon] is our effort to counter that."

Coulter seems to be an odd choice to headline the event. In the past, she's gotten in trouble for dropping the gay equivalent of the f-bomb in public. She called 2008 presidential candidate John Edwards a "faggot" at the March 2007 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington D.C.: "I was going to have a few comments on the other presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot.'"

At the time, Edwards fired back on his campaign website: "Ann Coulter's use of an anti-gay slur yesterday was un-American and indefensible."

The Log Cabin Republicans, another gay conservative organization, also denounced Coulter afterwards. "Coulter's words are not worthy of this event or our nation's political dialogue," President Patrick Sammon said in a statement.

Coulter tried to clarify on Fox News: "'Faggot' isn't offensive to gays; it has nothing to do with gays," she explained. "It's a schoolyard taunt meaning 'wuss,' and unless you're telling me that John Edwards is gay, it was not applied to a gay person."

The GOProud's Barron accepts that. "She came out and said that she was not calling him gay," he said. "She said it would have been an insult to gay people to call him gay."

Liberals in this country want to view conservatives in a narrow prism, but we are a tolerant, accepting group. The fact that she's doing an event for a traditional conservative group speaks volumes for how she feels about gay people.

Here's the invitation:

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eve

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August 6, 2010 2:30 PM   

the right wing judy garland

Does this mean Ann really is a drag queen?

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August 7, 2010 3:45 PM    in reply to eve

Look at her Adams Apple and make up your own mind.

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August 7, 2010 11:20 PM    in reply to Peter

No, but it makes me wonder about those rumors of her drinking problems...

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August 6, 2010 2:32 PM   

wow...why do i sense this might be a flaming disaster?

(pun intended)

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August 6, 2010 3:40 PM    in reply to Josh

I wonder who she's going to call a "faggot" at this one.

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August 6, 2010 3:49 PM    in reply to SkepticalCidada

Probably the MC introducing her as he fists her bung-hole.

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August 6, 2010 2:37 PM   

Hm. Is this an admission from Annie?

If so, that has to be the least surprising revelation in quite some time.

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August 6, 2010 3:51 PM    in reply to EnnuiDivine

It makes sense, she's pushing 50, never married, no kids, and she seems like she has really deep seeded issues with self loathing.

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August 6, 2010 2:37 PM   

Maybe I've misunderstood the whole GOP family-values wedge issue effort for the past 25 years or something, but I just cannot understand how a gay person can embrace the Republican Party.

And the Right-Wing Judy Garland? Why? Can she sing? Does she have a discernable talent that I'm not aware of? Are her public appearances usually a must-see event in the gay community?

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August 6, 2010 3:20 PM    in reply to braveomatic

The only real difference between a member of the ruling race/class and a gay republican is sexual orientation. Granted, that has frequently been a significant obstacle to acquiring power in the gooper world. But most gay republicans, on an individual basis, have probably benefited from the demographic privileges that the reactionary right is trying to safeguard (white, upper-middle class, christian background, etc). Gay rebublicans are probably more like establishment libertarians.

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August 7, 2010 11:00 AM    in reply to AndrewT

"Gay rebublicans are probably more like establishment libertarians"

There are some occupations which are stereotypically gay, but librarian is not one of them. They also have a very honorable history defending the freedom to read.

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August 9, 2010 8:34 AM    in reply to Mooser

what?

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August 7, 2010 12:56 AM    in reply to braveomatic

Are her public appearances usually a must-see event in the gay community?

That'd be the Right-Wing Liza Minelli.

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August 7, 2010 2:23 AM    in reply to braveomatic

Will she excoriate the Judge Vaughn Walker and say he should not have been allowed to decide the case because he is gay? In FRONT of that audience?? Will she call Walker a practicing homosexual???
Will she mention the "gay agenda"?

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August 6, 2010 2:48 PM   

Our gays are more macho than their straights!

Yeah, it takes a real man to let someone call you a faggot and a pervert, and then to laugh along with it, or pretend you didn't hear it.

As for "right-wing Judy Garland": if it means substance abuser with dysfunctional personal life, many Republican opinion leaders would qualify (definitely including the coke/speed-freak spinster Coulter).

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August 6, 2010 2:48 PM   

You wonder how a gay person can embrace the Republican Party? I know some people who are not gay, but are closely involved with the Log Cabin Republicans.

The answer is GREED. The Republicans are anti-tax, and the US tax rate (one of the smallest in the industrialized world) is so high, and so onerous, that these gays are willing to join an organization that relegates them, by definition, to the back of the bus, due to GREED. They are quite willing to sacrifice any non-wealthy gays, in the hope that they themselves will one day join the ranks of the ruling, wealthy elite. Yeah, guys, you will be soooo welcome in the halls of power. Just like J.C. Watts was a few decades ago.

It's really pathetic.

Although it is extremely difficult, I am going to avoid Godwin's Law here. (See what I just did?)

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August 6, 2010 6:21 PM    in reply to farnsworth

The log cabin Republicans are downright logical in comparison to GOProud. The latter are filled to the brim with the usual crowd of teabaggers.

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August 6, 2010 2:48 PM   

Here's a video of another right wing femme fatale, Laura Ingraham, getting raked over the coals by Stephen Colbert the other day - he's not holding back at all, you almost feel bad for her. ALMOST.

http://www.newslook.com/videos/236672-laura-ingraham

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August 6, 2010 2:57 PM    in reply to SemperStank

I really want to watch that vid, but the thought of actually seeing Laura Ingraham makes my stomach turn.

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August 6, 2010 3:07 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

it was worth watching her

she was awful

and Colbert was wonderfully snarky about her book

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August 6, 2010 2:54 PM   

On a blog I used to post on - and long since renounced (*cough* rhymes with "stuffington host" *cough*) - I actually met a right wing homosexual male. Being LGBT myself I was fascinated. It seems to me the right does everything in their power to denounce them in public, but try to act friendly in private. I personally could not understand how in the world he could be gay AND republican! To me the very idea of the right is pure hate. Need I remind anyone of the evil witch Virginia Foxx and her comments about Mathew Sheppard?

Personally, even if I WERE conservative I would NEVER go to ANY convention at which Ann was scheduled to speak! Any LGBT who goes to that convention is a SELLOUT! It's that simple.

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August 6, 2010 3:26 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

It's akin to self-mutilation, and so complex that normal people cannot rationalize it. As Wikipedia cites, "Self-harm is often associated with a history of trauma and abuse including emotional abuse, sexual abuse, drug dependence, eating disorders, or mental traits such as low self-esteem or perfectionism. There is also a positive statistical correlation between self-harm and emotional abuse."

Or they're just daft.

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August 7, 2010 7:23 AM    in reply to Scheherazade

Are conservative gays self-haters. To let someone headline your event that belittle you at every time is degrading.

BTW: I remember your wonderful posts on that other site and wondered what happen to you. Glad you are back.

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August 7, 2010 12:21 PM    in reply to Loner

Hola!

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August 6, 2010 2:56 PM   

That can't be Man Coulter in that photo. The woman in the photo has breasts. Man does not. Coulter still looks like an Afghan. The dog, not the people. Check this out:

http://www.grizzlyrun.com/pets/dogs/hound_dog_breed_group/afghan_hound/default.htm


also, see Bitch!

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August 6, 2010 3:09 PM    in reply to roxsteady

the poster also left off her adams apple

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August 6, 2010 3:22 PM    in reply to eve

And the sneer...

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August 6, 2010 5:55 PM    in reply to TruthWithoutFear

They are air brushing out her faults like republicans always air brush out anything which upsets their teeny tiny narrow minded worldviews.

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August 6, 2010 3:15 PM   

"Gay Republican" seems like an oxymoron to me in today's politics. But that wouldn't matter to Coutler. She thinks an oxymoron is a stupid bovine.

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August 6, 2010 3:16 PM   

Yeah, their gays are much tougher than our straights. Our straights and our gays could NEVER tap dance while blowing someone in a men's lavatory while taking a dump. It takes a special kinda tough guy to give a bj to the manly scent of feces.

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August 6, 2010 3:18 PM   

To quote the character "Christmas Eve" from the musical "Avenue Q", when her closeted friend Rod asks for advice on what to tell his "friend", a closeted gay Republican investment banker:

"Tell him to stay in closet! A Gay Republican good for nothing! I wouldn't want a friend like that!"

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August 6, 2010 3:21 PM   

She really is a he, isn't he?

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August 6, 2010 3:35 PM   

C'mon, folks! Let's get some class! Who couldn't take one look into those limpid eyes, porcelain skin and flaxen hair, and not fall... under... her... uh oh... oh no... rrrrrrrup rrrrrrrrup rrrrruuu-blaaaaaaa OH MY GOD rrrrrrrup rrrrrrrrup rrrrruuu-blaaaaaaa OH GOD OH GOD OH rrrrruuu-blaaaaaaarrrrrrrup rrrrrrrrup rrrrruuu-blaaaaaaa OH MY rrrrruuu-blaaaaaaa!

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August 6, 2010 3:44 PM    in reply to TruthWithoutFear

Are you being attacked by a vuvuzela?

Still preferable to a night with Ann Coulter and the last remaining gay Republicans. This is ... whatever the opposite of gay pride is.

Bart: Wow, my father an astronaut. I feel so full of...what's the opposite of shame?
Marge: Pride?
Bart: No, not _that_ far from shame.
Homer: [quavering] Less shame?
Bart: [happy] Yeah...

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August 6, 2010 3:37 PM   

I can hear the crickets already...

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August 6, 2010 3:46 PM   

A wonderfully precise characterization of the "gay republican" type can be found in the "A-Listers" of Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City". Combine equal parts of snobbishness, disposable income, intellectual shallowness, and self-absorbtion.

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August 6, 2010 8:19 PM    in reply to pluky

Yes, and, as noted above greed (these are libertarian conservatives - they just want to have a good time...with their money). And then you could probably fill a book on the many ways in which this is a reflection of their self-hatred.

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August 6, 2010 3:51 PM   

It doesn't matter if Ann Coulter hangs out with straight men or gay men. She's not going to get hit on either way.

But at least if she hangs out with a gay crowd, she can rationalize why she's going home alone. Again.

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August 6, 2010 3:54 PM   

"Gay conservatives," kind of sounds like a group masochists, they come to the meeting to feel bad about themselves. I suppose there are black conservative groups and Hispanic conservative groups. There are stupid folks everywhere.
She is the ugliest woman in the country. Beauty is only skin deep but ugliness goes clear to the bone. Glen Beck with lipstick.

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August 9, 2010 12:31 AM    in reply to Spyder308

I'm pretty sure Glenn Beck is Glen Beck with lipstick.

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August 6, 2010 3:57 PM   

Looks like something an 8-year-old made using MS Paint

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August 6, 2010 4:28 PM   

Switch the letters of her name around...

NO REAL ----!

yep.

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August 6, 2010 5:08 PM    in reply to buddy66

OK, so how do you clean Mountain Dew out of a keyboard?

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August 7, 2010 5:03 PM    in reply to buddy66

Other popular anagrams for the queen of Right Wing Stupid include

Unclean rot
Rectal noun
Cannot rule
Loaner c*nt

and my personal favorite...

Rant Clue No


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August 6, 2010 4:56 PM   

In that picture: are they about to barbecue her? She looks freshly basted!

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August 6, 2010 5:31 PM   

Would love to see a debate between AC and Rachel Maddow.

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August 6, 2010 5:49 PM   

"So what if they want us herded into ovens? I want tax cuts! Tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts!! ...Besides, they won't execute ME! I'm loyal party member!!"

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August 6, 2010 8:26 PM    in reply to Grokenstein

+1

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August 6, 2010 5:57 PM   

And Ann's now officially a fag hag. Twisted sisters these Homocons and Coulter.

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August 8, 2010 10:03 AM    in reply to boredwell

Hell, she's been one since her days at Cornell.

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August 6, 2010 6:36 PM   

Man, what a scary looking broad.
I bet her mate makes her wear a bag over her head when
they do it.

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August 6, 2010 6:43 PM   

That's gay.

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August 6, 2010 7:14 PM   

Does it strike anyone else as weird that a gay event aiming itself towards men (use of the word "macho") prominently displays a woman shoving her chest out in it's artwork?

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August 6, 2010 7:48 PM    in reply to Kuyleh

Now that you mention it...

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August 6, 2010 8:30 PM   

I think he's a fine choice. Only they should change the name to HomicidalCon.

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August 6, 2010 9:58 PM   

How interesting it must be for the Log Cabin Republicans to learn at this late date that the school yard taunt of 'faggot' was applied to them not because they were gay but because they were wusses.

And some of them were recently found inquiring about the price of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Alternatively, how much of a wuss do you have to be to accept this excuse from Coulter without cracking up?

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August 6, 2010 11:01 PM   

I don't understand. Is Coulter a transvestite, a transsexual, or just really really ugly? I mean, I have dated some homely women, but that one has a fuggin adams apple for christs sake.

I always assumed that she never had children because the equipment she has is not the equipment that she was born with.

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August 6, 2010 11:04 PM   

In related stories, Sarah Palin will deliver the keynote address at this year's Sierra Club symposium, Dick Cheney will chair the annual Amnesty International fundraiser, and Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh will co-host a television special dealing with "Bigotry against ethnic minorities in today's society" on the BET cable network.

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August 6, 2010 11:45 PM   

I'd love to hear Judy's reaction to the association of her name with the likes of Mann...

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August 7, 2010 1:15 AM   

Mr. Coulter could not possibly be anything like Judy Garland. Judy was married several times to males and she bore children. I doubt Ann will come out during the speech, but it certainly seems she talks bad about folks she is actually more like than unlike.

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August 7, 2010 1:20 AM   

That's like inviting Rush Limbaugh to the NAACP Image Awards.

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August 7, 2010 2:22 AM   

Coulter tried to clarify on Fox News: "'Faggot' isn't offensive to gays; it has nothing to do with gays," she explained. "It's a schoolyard taunt meaning 'wuss,' and unless you're telling me that John Edwards is gay, it was not applied to a gay person."

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And the word "nigger" isn't offensive to blacks. It has nothing to do with blacks. If you call President Obama a "nigger," it means he's stupid and lazy and fond of watermelons.

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August 7, 2010 3:35 AM   

What is it with right wingers wanting to be so "macho" all the time? Why do they have to posture like male gorillas so much? What are they so afraid of, why do they feel so threatened that they have to try to puff themselves up so much?

Amazing.

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August 7, 2010 9:59 AM    in reply to splashy

yes the old thing he doth protest too much

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August 7, 2010 11:08 AM   

And in other news, Micheal Steele today is reported saying he is going to send Pelosi and the Democrats "to the back of the bus!"
I bet you think I'm kidding, huh? Go to the main page.

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August 7, 2010 11:27 AM   

Her looks, her sex life, speculation that she is a closet lesbian, her childless status??? Do you realize that these are exactly the criticisms aimed at Elena Kagan by the most repulsive members of the right wing? What is wrong with you guys?

I don't like Ann Coulter any more than any of you, but I hate the disgusting sexism used to criticize her. Aren't TPM readers at least nominally progressives?

Ann Coulter's books, speeches and career are horrifying enough. There is PLENTY to criticize about her without going for the weapon of choice against any woman. Sexism is wrong no matter who its weapons are deployed against.

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August 7, 2010 7:27 PM    in reply to Mad Librarian

Hear, hear.

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August 8, 2010 10:06 AM    in reply to Mad Librarian

Agreed.

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August 7, 2010 12:17 PM   

She has been out of the public eye for sometime now, hardly on the tube at all. Lost her column, and not writing as much. Perhaps, this is the only gig she can get.

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August 7, 2010 1:22 PM   

Hey, gay conservatives can waste their money just as well as anyone else. One more reason why the establishment GOP are foolish to distance themselves from the LCR's.

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August 7, 2010 1:57 PM   

Edwards fired back on his campaign website: "Ann Coulter's use of an anti-gay slur yesterday was un-American and indefensible."

To be honest, I'm less offended by Ann Coulter's use of the word "faggot" than by John Edward's calling it "un-American". Please leave that kind of rhetoric to Sarah Palin and other Republican halfwits.

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August 7, 2010 2:30 PM   

It's that sense of humanity I like about Coulter:

http://www.light-to-dark.com/ann_coulter_republican.html

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August 7, 2010 3:43 PM   

I love that she clarified her use of "faggot" as a school yard taunt. What she actually clarified was the fact that her whole career and existence is based on school yard taunts. She is a one-trick pony. She emasculates Democrats, that's it. I would love to bring her to Pittsburgh and introduce her to some REAL Democratic voters. Our democratic voters include a lot of guys from the Ironworkers, Boilermakers and Pipefitters locals who have wrists bigger than her anorexic transvestite chicken neck.

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August 7, 2010 8:16 PM   

If the gay Republicans who are still in the closet showed up they'd triple the attendance.

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August 8, 2010 2:01 AM   

Poor, poor Ann, you thought you had the market on snarkey hate covered, now your just one of the crowd, a also ran.

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August 8, 2010 10:31 AM   

There's still enough self-hatred to warrant such an event?

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August 9, 2010 2:30 AM   

Ann in drag, is Ann for real.

In a reverse paralell universe, Ann blows himself.

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August 10, 2010 11:58 PM   

So,... Ann Coulter really is a man in drag!... No wonder she always reminded me of that British celebrity " Dame Ettna "...

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