With Allies Like These…

As long as we’re bringing up Confederate Americans and other oxymorons, I’ve got this hilarious story about gay conservatives c/o Shakesville.

GOProud, which describes itself as representing “gay conservatives and their allies”, invited Ann Coulter to speak at their event. Here’s the poster:

That’s not the funniest part.

After word got out, Ann was disinvited from an event hosted by conservative cacophonic orchestra of nutzoid, WorldNetDaily.

WND says that Coulter’s decision to speak at Homocon, an event sponsored by a gay Republican organization called GOProud, disqualifies her from speaking at their “Taking America Back National 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,” WND editor and CEO Joseph Farah said. “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.”

That’s not the funniest part.

The funniest part came when Coulter stuck up for gay conservatives like the ally she is:

“They hired me to give a speech, so I’m giving a speech. I do it all the time,” she said. “I speak to a lot of groups and do not endorse them. I speak at Harvard and I certainly don’t endorse their views. I’ve spoken to Democratic groups and liberal Republican groups that loooove abortion. 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.”

She doesn’t really like queers, but by God she’ll take their money. Just like Judy Garland!

Now that’s funny.

Another Thing You Need to Shut Up About

I keep saying to myself, “you know, self, you are technically a community blogger. You should blog more about local issues, instead of prattling on about confederate Mohammad cartoons and feminist critiques of prehistoric geography.” But then, some mook writes something stupid about a non-local-interest subject that they know nothing about, and I can’t help but swoop in.

Anyway, Cordoba House. Shut up about it.

15 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD SHUT UP ABOUT CORDOBA HOUSE

1. You are not a New Yorker.

2. You’ve never been to New York for longer than two weeks.

3. You are not a New Yorker.

4. You refuse to learn anything about the subject and just go “OMG MUSLIMS!!”

5. You are not a New Yorker.

6. It is not “next to WTC.” It’s two blocks away.

7. There’s already mosques in that neighborhood. Along with strip clubs, gay bars, tacky souvenir shops and all sorts of national monument disgracing places.

8. The people building this thing are the moderate Muslims you keep saying that you want other Muslims to be like. At least, that’s what you say, Herb van Fleet*. They’re as militantly Muslim as the YMCA is militantly Christian. You know I’m no fan of Islam, but I can’t get worked up over a YMMA.

9. You are not from New York.

10. You can’t even see the WTC crater from this site. I know this because unlike you, I have gone to New York on several occasions, and have been to that neighborhood on our way to see the crater.

11. This obscure thing called the First Amendment.

12. Teabaggers are driving this, and teabaggers are always wrong.

12. You are not from New York.

14. If you did go to New York, you would pee yourself as your xenophobia circuits would overload. People of all sorts of scary colors and origins, in close proximity of each other?!? How can this BEEEEEEEEEE

15. You don’t give one iota of a hoot about New York, because you are not a New Yorker and the only time you feign interest in it is when it gives you a chance to put a full window Bald Eagle/American Flag decal on your camper shell. Otherwise you just have a thinly-veiled disdain for it.

*This has nothing to do with anything, but I love this guy’s name. I imagine him as this portly retired sailor, reminiscing about the Great War while fiddling with his huge handlebar mustache.