Yeah. Ann Coulter has a friend who was a gay porn star/manwhore. And this is supposed to be a shocking revelation?
I suppose in certain circles–the really dumb conservative circles I mentioned earlier–this might be a shocking revelation. But to us cognoscenti? Come on.
How do I know Ann Coulter doesn’t really believe her schtick? Well, I guess it depends on what I mean by “believe”? The shocking revelation that one of her best buds is a former manwhore is one piece of evidence I suppose. As far as hating gays, I suppose only a minority of the conservative leadership really deep-down has a problem with gays. Most are closet tolerants, to borrow Andrew Sullivan’s phrase. Now, in some ways this makes their public gay bashing (or cowardly refusal to oppose public gay bashing) worse, because they do it out of political calculation rather than sincere belief. But the bad thing is not that they’re hypocrites, the bad thing is that they publicly bash gays. Which guy is the bigger scumbag, a conservative who casts his lesbian daughter out of the family, or a conservative who refuses to cast her out of the family? Of course the best would be a conservative who privately embraces his gay daughter AND publicly embraces gay rights, but still.
Wait, this is about Ann Coulter, not Dick Cheney. Of course she’s an evil harpy. But what matters to her isn’t that she insult liberals, what matters is that she gets to insult SOMEONE, and her chosen target turns out to be liberals. Her motivation isn’t ideological, it’s sadism and ego gratification mixed with a heaping helping of publicity whoring.
Personally, I think that every time Coulter shows up at a prominent conservative function or in a right-leaning media outlet, we need to bring as much attention to it as possible.
The only thing Coulter has to do with this story is that Sanchez was given an award on the same afternoon that Coulter showed us her inner sixth grader, and they happened to get a picture together. The story doesn’t need Coulter to be good.
I’d like to know whether the Jeane Kirkpatrick estate approved or got a payment for allowing this award to be named after her, or if CPAC just pulled the title out of their ass and ran with it.
In her will Ambassador Kirkpatrick set aside money to
Well, according to his escort page (accessible through Wikipedia and COULD NOT BE LESS WORK SAFE so I won’t link), he is a total top who’s “not even remotely interested in being versatile”.
Bumping after a couple of days because this guy is on the news network talk show circuit again. He used the phrase again (as in his Salon article) of how “we all have things from our past we don’t want advertised” with no sense of irony of the fact that HE ADVERTISED IT! [spoiler]Wanna see? I won’t hyperlink because it’s explicit and [SIZE=6]it could not be less work safe[/SIZE=6] You can go to this web-site by removing the 3 SDMBs from this address and putting it in your tool bar
He also continues to talk about the judgment of the left and how all his buds on the right have been supportive.
Matt, dude… dear, sweet, simple, hung, naive Matt- a word about scandals such as this.
They are embarassed. However, IF they were to go on TV and to the blogs and say “We’re embarassed… man, how’d they let him in there?” then that’s gonna make them look worse. They’re currently in Nathan Thurm mode (“I knew he was a former gay porn star… didn’t you? How silly you wouldn’t think I’d know he was a former gay porn star… is it me or is it you? It’s you isn’t it? I’ve no problem with gay porn stars… as long as it’s former…”) because to be denouncing you would be drawing more attention to their own silliness and make them look like bigger dunces than they already are. If they’re smart they’re just going to not make a sound and let the whole affair go away because this is a very low grade scandals and those are quickly forgotten- you just have to ride them out. They’re going to be announcing Anna Nicole’s cause-of-death soon and you’ll be singing “You can like the life you’re livin’/you can live the life you like/you can even charge $250 an hour to Harry/while embracing the party of Ike” into a fading spotlight til your mike gets clicked off.
The phones will stop ringing in days if they haven’t already. A year from now your friends will be giving the Second Annual Jeane Kirkpatrick Award to a student expelled for claiming Barack Obama is Hillary’s lovechild with Louis Farrakhan and you’ll be starring in **BLACK TROUSERSNAKE MOANS 2 ** with new friends Hubert Humpme, Rusti Nayle, and Puck from Real World. I don’t know if you’re stupid enough to think you’re still in with the right crowd or if you think we’re stupid enough to believe it, but in either case you’re a fool not to use this to up your escort price while you still have a tad of fame.
I saw that. He was talking about the number of fiances and wives he’s had. His agent really should have told him that there’s at least rumored to be a hetero porn market and women who will pay for sex out there. (I guess he’s a Roman- “It ain’t gay unless you’re the bottom”.)
OK, so she gets to peddle her act - whether or not it’s an act - to the rubes, and we can’t hold her responsible for that because we’re ‘cognoscenti’?
No, I don’t think that’s how it works. In fact, it’s about as unprincipled a stand as I can imagine.
You forgot, “and misleads millions of voters into voting for him and his running mate on false pretenses.”
But I’m sure that omission was completely inadvertent.
Yeah, we’d ALL like a pony.
What evidence do you have for this, besides her willingness to compromise a weakly-held principle when caught?
Increasingly, ISTM, the one remaining conservative principle besides ‘no new taxes’ is ‘stick it to libruls.’ The point of global warming denial, for instance, amongst those who don’t have a particular economic interest at stake, seems to be ‘it’ll piss off the left.’ Coulter may have a completely honest desire to demonize libruls, without any deep attachment to conservative positions she’s given lip-service to.
When I first heard the Coulter remark I dropped into the Pit looking for a place to scream at or about her. But several of you cooler Dopers made a good point. Coulter making outrageous remarks is just Coulter being Coulter. Getting pissed at her for it would be like getting pissed at a dog that eats its own vomit. It’s just being a dog. Come to think of it. . . so is Coulter! Thanks for cooling me down. My blood pressure is high enough.
