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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

World Net Daily Partially “Dumps” Ann Coulter Over “HomoConflict” (Mediaite)

by Tommy Christopher
August 18th, 2010

Conservative website World Net Daily has scored another meta-exclusive, announcing that World Net Daily has “dumped” lightning rod Ann Coulter over a “Homoconflict.” CEO Joseph Farah told his own website that it would be dropping Coulter as keynote speaker at its “Taking Back America” conference because she has agreed to headline GOProud’s Homocon 2010.
Lest you think that Coulter has defiantly pitched a rainbow flag, however, she will continue as a WND columnist, and in remarks to WND, doesn’t exactly lock arms with GOProud.

Coulter took fire from gay conservatives a few years back when she used an anti-gay epithet in reference to then-candidate John Edwards. According to The Daily Caller, though, some think that Coulter has changed her stripes:
“If she can help other conservatives turn the corner on equality for gays and lesbian Americans … then more power to her,” said R. Clarke Cooper, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans. About Coulter’s comments three years ago: “People are allowed to evolve.”
In an update to the same piece, however, GOProud seems to disagree:
GOProud Board Chairman Christopher R. Barron issued this statement Wednesday morning: “We did not invite Ann Coulter to speak at Homocon 2010 because we believe she has ‘evolved.’”
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Monday, May 24, 2010

Did Rand Paul Cancel Meet The Press Under Orders From Karl Rove? (Mediaite)

Karl Rove Assistant to the President, Deputy C...Karl Rove, image via Wikipedia
by Glynnis MacNicol  
Mediaite  
May 23rd, 2010

It’s hard to blame Rand Paul for pulling out of a Meet the Press appearance on Friday after the kind of week he’d had following Tuesday’s Republican primary election in Kentucky. His scathing interview with Rachel Maddow on Wednesday night will probably go down as a lesson in what cable hosts are supposed to do, and what newbie politicians will now look to avoid at all costs (hopefully not to the detriment of her show). On today’s MTP roundtable even Bob Woodward noted that it was a pragmatic decision on Paul’s part.


But was it Rand’s decision? Politico is reporting this morning that Paul canceled the appearance because “senior Republicans” told him to do so. Two senior Republicans in particular: Karl Rove and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
Karl Rove, the former top adviser to George W Bush, called Paul’s campaign manager this week and said the candidate was hurting himself with all the exposure, according to a source familiar with the conversation (In an email, Rove only said “no comment” when asked about the matter)
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Monday, May 3, 2010

Florida State Senator Videotaped Surfing Porn Mid-Session Threatens Reporter (Mediaite)


By Colby Hall
May 3rd, 2010

If ever there were a news story that sums up the strange times we now find ourselves, this is it. Elected official acting inappropriately? Check. Digital communications devices used in a private manner but revealed publicly? Check. An invasive news media getting a salacious shot at an unaware public figure? Yup. For more about the Florida State Senator who was videotaped surfing pornographic images mid-session, and the reporter who he later threatened, please continue…


First the video of Senator Mike Bennett was first reported in a story entitled “Sen. Mike Bennett Caught Looking at Porn on Senate Floor

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