Ann Coulter to WND: ‘I Speak at Harvard and I Certainly Don’t Endorse Their Views’

Posted on | August 18, 2010 | 53 Comments

The news that Ann Coulter would headline next month’s “Homocon,” a conference of gay Republicans in New York, has caused her to be dropped as a speaker at WorldNetDaily’s “Take Back America” conference:

“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,” said [WND publisher Joseph] Farah. “The drift of the conservative movement to a brand of materialistic libertarianism is one of the main reasons we planned this conference from the beginning.”
Asked by Farah why she was speaking to GOProud, Coulter said: “They hired me to give a speech, so I’m giving a speech. I do it all the time.” . . .
Coulter responded: “That’s silly, I speak to a lot of groups and do not endorse them. I speak at Harvard and I certainly don’t endorse their views. . . . The main thing I do is speak on college campuses, which is about the equivalent of speaking at an al-Qaida conference. I’m sure I agree with GOProud more than I do with at least half of my college audiences. But in any event, giving a speech is not an endorsement of every position held by the people I’m speaking to. I was going to speak for you guys, I think you’re nuts on the birther thing (though I like you otherwise!).”

Staunch conservative John Hawkins of Right Wing News has signed on as a Homocon sponsor, so turning this into a litmus test in a “More Conservative Than Thou” game is ridiculous.

UPDATE: I explore this dispute in more depth at The American Spectator.

Category: Ann Coulter, Gays

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53 Responses to “Ann Coulter to WND: ‘I Speak at Harvard and I Certainly Don’t Endorse Their Views’”

Live Free Or Die
August 18th, 2010 @ 5:13 pm

Camel’s Nose Under The Tent: Get Ann Coulter and John Hawkins to speak at/sponsor an event for Homosexuals.

John Hawkins is now a Pimp for Homosexuals, and Anne Coulter gets to be the woman that Winston Churchill told,”Madam, we’ve already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.”
Live Free Or Die
August 18th, 2010 @ 1:13 pm

Camel’s Nose Under The Tent: Get Ann Coulter and John Hawkins to speak at/sponsor an event for Homosexuals.

John Hawkins is now a Pimp for Homosexuals, and Anne Coulter gets to be the woman that Winston Churchill told,”Madam, we’ve already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.”
Jack Okie
August 18th, 2010 @ 5:47 pm

Every speaker lined up at the WND affair should cancel unless Coulter is re-invited.

LFOD:

WTF?!? Do you say the same thing about Ann when she speaks at Harvard?
Jack Okie
August 18th, 2010 @ 1:47 pm

Every speaker lined up at the WND affair should cancel unless Coulter is re-invited.

LFOD:

WTF?!? Do you say the same thing about Ann when she speaks at Harvard?
Michael Bates
August 18th, 2010 @ 6:25 pm

There is a distinction to be made: I suspect that when Ann Coulter speaks at Harvard, she hasn’t been hired by the university, but by a conservative student group there, which uses her speech to raise awareness of the group and energize the group’s membership. Coulter might not be endorsing Harvard, but isn’t there an implicit endorsement of the group that invited her to speak?
Michael Bates
August 18th, 2010 @ 2:25 pm

There is a distinction to be made: I suspect that when Ann Coulter speaks at Harvard, she hasn’t been hired by the university, but by a conservative student group there, which uses her speech to raise awareness of the group and energize the group’s membership. Coulter might not be endorsing Harvard, but isn’t there an implicit endorsement of the group that invited her to speak?
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jefferson101
August 18th, 2010 @ 7:05 pm

Farah has been exhibiting symptoms of OCD for a good while now. Even when I agree with his position on the issues, he quite often starts grating on me with his approach.

There’s a difference between having principles and being fanatic. It’s hard to have much confidence in the fanatics, even the ones on our side of the fence, because one just cannot be sure what they are going to decide to go bat-crap crazy over.

It’s usually safe to predict that it’ll be something that really isn’t an issue in the first place, though.
jefferson101
August 18th, 2010 @ 3:05 pm

Farah has been exhibiting symptoms of OCD for a good while now. Even when I agree with his position on the issues, he quite often starts grating on me with his approach.

There’s a difference between having principles and being fanatic. It’s hard to have much confidence in the fanatics, even the ones on our side of the fence, because one just cannot be sure what they are going to decide to go bat-crap crazy over.

It’s usually safe to predict that it’ll be something that really isn’t an issue in the first place, though.
Brian
August 18th, 2010 @ 7:07 pm

Coulter also endorsed Romney AKA “The father of gay marriage, tax funded abortion, and socialized medicine”, in Massachusetts. It’s like bizzaro world.
Brian
August 18th, 2010 @ 3:07 pm

Coulter also endorsed Romney AKA “The father of gay marriage, tax funded abortion, and socialized medicine”, in Massachusetts. It’s like bizzaro world.
nicholas
August 18th, 2010 @ 7:17 pm

Good for Ann. She is unapologetic and no nonsense in her response.
nicholas
August 18th, 2010 @ 3:17 pm

Good for Ann. She is unapologetic and no nonsense in her response.
just a conservative girl
August 18th, 2010 @ 7:21 pm

This is so silly. Gay people aren’t going anywhere. Get over it.
just a conservative girl
August 18th, 2010 @ 3:21 pm

This is so silly. Gay people aren’t going anywhere. Get over it.
molonlabe28
August 18th, 2010 @ 7:34 pm

As a paleo conservative and a Catholic, I have always had considerable disdain for self-proclaimed “Christian right” who have from time to time tried to hijack the GOP.

I wish them well with their faith, but I don’t need to be clubbed over the head with it.

What is it with someone else’s homosexuality that gets these people so upset?

In addition to proscribing homosexuality, the Bible says that masturbation is morally wrong and there is even a specific commandment forbidding us to commit adultery.

But, we seldom see the stadium preachers and televangelists of the Christian right admonishing us about masturbation and adultery to an even remote extent to which they make their own (not God’s, which is His business) persecution of homosexuals.

Even in the last election cycle, John Hagy, the 400 lb preacher from Texas (I believe) who endorsed John McCain, called the Catholic Church “the great whore”.

When pressed on his outrageous accusation, he explained that he meant “the great whore” in the kindest possible way (not really, he just said he sure didn’t mean what he said).

If the people to whom Ann Coulter are speaking are in favor of governmental fiscal responsibility, interpreting the Constitution in accordance with the intent of its drafters, and standing up for the Bill of Rights, they are clearly people I want on our side.

What part of the Bible says that we shouldn’t speak to homosexuals?

I would think that Farah would want to augment his base of political believers, but it he wants to narrow that base he has made a good start.
molonlabe28
August 18th, 2010 @ 3:34 pm

As a paleo conservative and a Catholic, I have always had considerable disdain for self-proclaimed “Christian right” who have from time to time tried to hijack the GOP.

I wish them well with their faith, but I don’t need to be clubbed over the head with it.

What is it with someone else’s homosexuality that gets these people so upset?

In addition to proscribing homosexuality, the Bible says that masturbation is morally wrong and there is even a specific commandment forbidding us to commit adultery.

But, we seldom see the stadium preachers and televangelists of the Christian right admonishing us about masturbation and adultery to an even remote extent to which they make their own (not God’s, which is His business) persecution of homosexuals.

Even in the last election cycle, John Hagy, the 400 lb preacher from Texas (I believe) who endorsed John McCain, called the Catholic Church “the great whore”.

When pressed on his outrageous accusation, he explained that he meant “the great whore” in the kindest possible way (not really, he just said he sure didn’t mean what he said).

If the people to whom Ann Coulter are speaking are in favor of governmental fiscal responsibility, interpreting the Constitution in accordance with the intent of its drafters, and standing up for the Bill of Rights, they are clearly people I want on our side.

What part of the Bible says that we shouldn’t speak to homosexuals?

I would think that Farah would want to augment his base of political believers, but it he wants to narrow that base he has made a good start.
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Estragon
August 18th, 2010 @ 7:57 pm

Farah is a nut case, period. Mentally disturbed.

Coulter is better off without that bunch.
Estragon
August 18th, 2010 @ 3:57 pm

Farah is a nut case, period. Mentally disturbed.

Coulter is better off without that bunch.
Wondering Jew
August 18th, 2010 @ 8:35 pm

To quote MolonLabe28

“If the people to whom Ann Coulter are speaking are in favor of governmental fiscal responsibility, interpreting the Constitution in accordance with the intent of its drafters, and standing up for the Bill of Rights, they are clearly people I want on our side.”

One can have varying views about homosexuality and the gay rights movement while still looking at a group like this and deciding that they are far more the allies of conservatives than enemies. And boycotting speakers who would address such a group is ridiculous.

I’m a pretty conservative guy both economically and socially, but we gave the fundamentalists the key to the bus during the Bush years, and they drove it into the ditch, to the lasting damage of the conservative brand.

If saying that makes me a “materialistic libertarian” then so be it.
William
August 18th, 2010 @ 8:35 pm

If we can’t live in a world where you can be allies with someone who agrees with you 80% of the time, we can’t live in a civilized world.
Wondering Jew
August 18th, 2010 @ 4:35 pm

To quote MolonLabe28

“If the people to whom Ann Coulter are speaking are in favor of governmental fiscal responsibility, interpreting the Constitution in accordance with the intent of its drafters, and standing up for the Bill of Rights, they are clearly people I want on our side.”

One can have varying views about homosexuality and the gay rights movement while still looking at a group like this and deciding that they are far more the allies of conservatives than enemies. And boycotting speakers who would address such a group is ridiculous.

I’m a pretty conservative guy both economically and socially, but we gave the fundamentalists the key to the bus during the Bush years, and they drove it into the ditch, to the lasting damage of the conservative brand.

If saying that makes me a “materialistic libertarian” then so be it.
William
August 18th, 2010 @ 4:35 pm

If we can’t live in a world where you can be allies with someone who agrees with you 80% of the time, we can’t live in a civilized world.
Michael Bates
August 18th, 2010 @ 9:20 pm

To MolonLabe28: I don’t recall reading that there’s an Association of Conservative Adulterers demanding spousal benefits for the Other Woman and an end to the military ban on adultery. Or a Right Hand League, demanding the right to marry their Fleshlights.

It’s fine for conservatives to welcome as allies those who will stand with them in support of conservative issues. But that’s different from conservatives lending their name and credibility to promote an organization that has among its principal goals radical social change.
Michael Bates
August 18th, 2010 @ 5:20 pm

To MolonLabe28: I don’t recall reading that there’s an Association of Conservative Adulterers demanding spousal benefits for the Other Woman and an end to the military ban on adultery. Or a Right Hand League, demanding the right to marry their Fleshlights.

It’s fine for conservatives to welcome as allies those who will stand with them in support of conservative issues. But that’s different from conservatives lending their name and credibility to promote an organization that has among its principal goals radical social change.
jefferson101
August 18th, 2010 @ 10:05 pm

@Michael Bates, #14:

I’m as capable of being a Social Conservative as anyone on the planet is. I belong to a Missionary Baptist Church. We’re the folks who think that the SBC is too liberal, on religious matters.

I don’t “approve” of homosexuality. But there are a whole lot of other things that I equally don’t approve of, either. My Bible says that there are no better or worse levels of sin.

Be that as it may, however. My beliefs also tell me that there is no way that any Human Government is perfectible. We are not going to elect anyone who is going to install The Lord’s Kingdom here on earth. We get that one when Jesus comes back.

In the meantime, we have to go with what we can do, and having the .Gov leave me alone and let me find my own way in this world is the best I can hope for.

I’ll accept any allies who want the same thing. As far as their personal lives? It’s their handbasket, and they can go wherever they want to go in it. While I don’t have to approve of or condone their lifestyle, I don’t see anywhere in my copies of the Scripture that it says I’m supposed to pass laws against them. I may preach to them, and I’ll pray for them, surely. But in the Political arena, if they want to be on the same side I am, they are welcome to be.

A Government that can oppress them can equally oppress me. We’ll discuss the social issues once we have the important ones (Socialism, debt, foreign policy, and so on) taken care of. We have bigger fish to fry right now.

Religion is for my eternal life. Politics is just for this one. If I can’t keep the two areas separated, I’ll give up on politics.
jefferson101
August 18th, 2010 @ 6:05 pm

@Michael Bates, #14:

I’m as capable of being a Social Conservative as anyone on the planet is. I belong to a Missionary Baptist Church. We’re the folks who think that the SBC is too liberal, on religious matters.

I don’t “approve” of homosexuality. But there are a whole lot of other things that I equally don’t approve of, either. My Bible says that there are no better or worse levels of sin.

Be that as it may, however. My beliefs also tell me that there is no way that any Human Government is perfectible. We are not going to elect anyone who is going to install The Lord’s Kingdom here on earth. We get that one when Jesus comes back.

In the meantime, we have to go with what we can do, and having the .Gov leave me alone and let me find my own way in this world is the best I can hope for.

I’ll accept any allies who want the same thing. As far as their personal lives? It’s their handbasket, and they can go wherever they want to go in it. While I don’t have to approve of or condone their lifestyle, I don’t see anywhere in my copies of the Scripture that it says I’m supposed to pass laws against them. I may preach to them, and I’ll pray for them, surely. But in the Political arena, if they want to be on the same side I am, they are welcome to be.

A Government that can oppress them can equally oppress me. We’ll discuss the social issues once we have the important ones (Socialism, debt, foreign policy, and so on) taken care of. We have bigger fish to fry right now.

Religion is for my eternal life. Politics is just for this one. If I can’t keep the two areas separated, I’ll give up on politics.
Live Free Or Die
August 18th, 2010 @ 10:06 pm

“They hired me to give a speech, so I’m giving a speech. I do it all the time.”—Anne Coulter, the self-professed Right Wing Judy Garland.

Why it’s almost as if she’ll go anywhere and do any thing at all, if the price is right!—
New York Magazine
Live Free Or Die
August 18th, 2010 @ 6:06 pm

“They hired me to give a speech, so I’m giving a speech. I do it all the time.”—Anne Coulter, the self-professed Right Wing Judy Garland.

Why it’s almost as if she’ll go anywhere and do any thing at all, if the price is right!—
New York Magazine
Live Free Or Die
August 18th, 2010 @ 10:17 pm

Coulter ripped into WND editor Joseph Farah, calling him a “publicity whore”.—The HuffPo,
with much glee, in an update, via The Daily Caller.

Pot Meets Kettle, Calls Kettle Black!
Live Free Or Die
August 18th, 2010 @ 6:17 pm

Coulter ripped into WND editor Joseph Farah, calling him a “publicity whore”.—The HuffPo,
with much glee, in an update, via The Daily Caller.

Pot Meets Kettle, Calls Kettle Black!
jefferson101
August 18th, 2010 @ 10:28 pm

Ann has never claimed to be anything but a Mercenary. A conservative Merc, granted, but still…..

Farah, OTOH, masks his quest for the lucre in a fog of righteous indignation. Actually, he’s just jealous because Ann makes more money than he does.
jefferson101
August 18th, 2010 @ 6:28 pm

Ann has never claimed to be anything but a Mercenary. A conservative Merc, granted, but still…..

Farah, OTOH, masks his quest for the lucre in a fog of righteous indignation. Actually, he’s just jealous because Ann makes more money than he does.
Kojocaro
August 18th, 2010 @ 11:16 pm

um GOProud supports big government in regards to gay marriage um i thought we were against that in regards to not forcing gay marriage down our throats btw i agree with her on farah btw
Kojocaro
August 18th, 2010 @ 7:16 pm

um GOProud supports big government in regards to gay marriage um i thought we were against that in regards to not forcing gay marriage down our throats btw i agree with her on farah btw
Bob Belvedere
August 18th, 2010 @ 11:52 pm

Stacy Twittered: My efforts are aimed at ENDING fights between religious conservatives and libertarians.

Good luck with that one, Stace.
Bob Belvedere
August 18th, 2010 @ 7:52 pm

Stacy Twittered: My efforts are aimed at ENDING fights between religious conservatives and libertarians.

Good luck with that one, Stace.
ccoffer
August 19th, 2010 @ 12:04 am

WND’s decision is neither Christian, nor conservative (and it sure as hell isn’t libertarian.)
Do those assholes even know what she’s going to say? They’re angry because they think homos should be treated as lepers.
ccoffer
August 18th, 2010 @ 8:04 pm

WND’s decision is neither Christian, nor conservative (and it sure as hell isn’t libertarian.)
Do those assholes even know what she’s going to say? They’re angry because they think homos should be treated as lepers.
ccoffer
August 19th, 2010 @ 12:09 am

Just imagine if she were to speak to the NAACP!!

That would be like double-treason to the cause of limited government!! After all, how can the cause be furthered unless we limit our audiences to those who already agree with us universally?

Geez.
ccoffer
August 18th, 2010 @ 8:09 pm

Just imagine if she were to speak to the NAACP!!

That would be like double-treason to the cause of limited government!! After all, how can the cause be furthered unless we limit our audiences to those who already agree with us universally?

Geez.
Michael Bates
August 19th, 2010 @ 3:00 am

GOProud wants to use government power to force all Americans to honor sham “same-sex marriages” as if they were real marriages. If they get their way, employers, landlords, and other businesses wouldn’t be allowed to give benefits or provide services for real married couples without also providing them to “gay married couples.” There’s nothing conservative about that cause.
Michael Bates
August 18th, 2010 @ 11:00 pm

GOProud wants to use government power to force all Americans to honor sham “same-sex marriages” as if they were real marriages. If they get their way, employers, landlords, and other businesses wouldn’t be allowed to give benefits or provide services for real married couples without also providing them to “gay married couples.” There’s nothing conservative about that cause.
Estragon
August 19th, 2010 @ 4:36 am

Hey, I’m a social conservative down the line – pro-life, for traditional marriage, against the hedonistic popular culture which demeans our humanity. So what?

I am NOT a nut who will not ally himself with someone who agrees on other issues because of one – or in Farah’s case, refuse even to hire someone who spoke to a group not in lock-step with my own.

In fact, I go to great lengths to disassociate myself from such people. Farah is one such.
Estragon
August 19th, 2010 @ 12:36 am

Hey, I’m a social conservative down the line – pro-life, for traditional marriage, against the hedonistic popular culture which demeans our humanity. So what?

I am NOT a nut who will not ally himself with someone who agrees on other issues because of one – or in Farah’s case, refuse even to hire someone who spoke to a group not in lock-step with my own.

In fact, I go to great lengths to disassociate myself from such people. Farah is one such.
Thomas L. Knapp
August 19th, 2010 @ 6:28 am

I’d hate to break my habit of never saying anything nice about Ann Coulter, so I’ll limit myself to noting that she’s being far too kind, understanding of and accommodating toward Farah.
Thomas L. Knapp
August 19th, 2010 @ 2:28 am

I’d hate to break my habit of never saying anything nice about Ann Coulter, so I’ll limit myself to noting that she’s being far too kind, understanding of and accommodating toward Farah.
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Kojocaro
August 19th, 2010 @ 2:00 pm

ccoffer if she were to speak at the naacp awards she would be branded a racist and get thrown in front of a speeding bus just sayin btw if homos do not want to be treated as worse than lepers they shouldn’t sue people for disagreeing with them