I hate saying I told you so, but I did.  In all my posts, comments and responses to Ann faggot joke, I have consistently maintained she was making an attempted joke using the Greys Anatomy star Isaiah Washington's rehab for saying fag as her barb against political correctness.  I understood the context, even if it was so obscure it fell flat and bombed.

Ann appeared and defended her remarks on Hannity and Colmes tonight and validated my analysis.  Democrat Pat Caddell even got it.   He also gets the money quote by noting that people take this stuff too seriously.

Ann's only disconnect is that she just didn't think it (her joke) bombed, but what comedian likes to admit they bombed? 

Video is at Hot Air. Here is a poor quality You Tube version. The video is shakey, but the audio is clear.

A summary:

Ann Coulter appeared on Hannity & Colmes tonight, her first television presence since making her infamous “faggot” remark at CPAC last week. Coulter said she used “faggot” in the context of “wuss” and added it was a “schoolyard taunt” and a “sophomoric” joke. Hannity brought up all the names Ann has been called over the years. One of the left’s favorites seems to be “Man Coulter.” Haha, get it?

Democrat Pat Caddell, certainly not a “Fox News liberal”, thought Ann was joking. To be honest, I don’t think Ann’s remark was anti-gay, I really don’t. I do think the remark was hurtful and shouldn’t have been used, though. The panel brought up words Democrats have used in the past, including Senator Dick Durbin’s infamous comparison of the US military’s treatment to detainees at Gitmo to Nazis, Soviet gulags and Cambodia’s Pol Pot.

Exit question: What’s worse: John Kerry calling our troops dumb or Ann Coulter’s use of “faggot.”

Whenever I see a post on Memeorandum, and I see equal numbers of liberal and conservative bloggers referenced, I get nervous.  Seeing such unity should be a good thing, but while I trust the motives of many conservatives to be at least marginally altruistic, I do not trust the likes of HuffPo or Wonkette to be anything of the sort, and if they team up with conservatives, it is because they see a way to slap the conservatives down.

Such is the case of Ann Coulter.  Leaving the content of her remarks aside, and if you are curious, I blogged my thoughts several times previously, the big issue now is what to do about what she said.

As she spoke only for herself, I have no need to do anything but blog and behave in a manner that represents my true values.  Neither does any other blogger on the face of the earth, including Ann.  

And I appreciate how so many conservatives took time to condemn her remarks.  But it should end there, end with her rebuke by her peers.  Instead the conservatives are planning a boycott of Ann from speaking at the next CPAC:

CPAC sponsors, the Age of Ann has passed. We, the undersigned, request that CPAC speaking invitations no longer be extended to Ann Coulter. Her words and attitude simply do too much damage.

I will not sign it.  Nor will I link to it beyond this quote.  Why?

Because they are doing it for the wrong reasons.

If you feel offended by her remarks, and think they were wrong, stand up and say so.  Deal with it on the merits of it.  Speak against it and move on. 

Instead we are seeing it being condemned , not solely for its moral qualities, for the right and wrong of it, but for the impact on all conservatives, for the damaged to CPAC and to conservatism.

And in that, my conservative friends, is pandering to the left and giving them a win.

Hillary has earned a new nickname-  The Kentucky Fried Yankee.

In a speech in Selma Alabama this weekend, Hillary and Obama took a turn to the south in their focus, in their speeches- and in their accents.

Hillary, the Senator from New York adopted a noticeable southern drawl, as did Obama.

I can't say too much about it in outrage really, I have seen countless people do the same thing.  A southern accent is almost contagious.  In Gore's case it is hilarious.

But It bears noting that the only reason they did was to seem more earthy and appealing to that southern audience, making them Gasp!:

Politicians.

Go figure.

Obama may have pushed the truth buttons a little hard, evoking several images and stories, which were later shown to be false.  Reminds me of Gore in 2000 with the Internet claim and the union label song.  Not to mention his picking tobacco stories.

He excused it as speaking rhetorically.  You must appreciate the effective use of nuance, making him a Gasp!:

A Politician.

Next up for Hillary, a concentrated effort to get women involved in her campaign.

Again, no real surprises.  So why mention it?

Just keeping track of the exploits of the chosen ones.  I wonder if they are ready for the Goracle?

All things to all people.