Senator Clinton doesn’t seem overly concerned about the views of her supporters. The following clip is from This Week with George Stephanopolous:
When Ann Coulter implied last year that John Edwards was gay, liberals excoriated Republicans who failed to disassociate themselves from her. Glenn Greenwald captured the sentiment on the Left pretty well when he said:
Everyone knows what a rancid hate-monger she is, yet (or rather: “therefore”) she continues to be invited to the highest-level “conservative” events, be drooled on with admiration by presidential candidates like Mitt Romney, and have little right-wing warriors wait in line around the corner to get her signature on their copies of the books she wrote… And after she does that, she is cheered wildly by an adoring conservative movement that has made her bigoted and hate-mongering screeds best-sellers… The more delicate ones will claim to repudiate her comments in the most limited terms, but their actions speak far louder than their cursory and reluctant words. Anyone who went to this event — and that includes Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and Dick Cheney — knew exactly what they would be getting. Coulter’s face was prominently plastered on the promotional material. The right-wing political candidates who accepted the invitations to speak there knew exactly the type of people would be there – namely, the type who continously cheer on Ann Coulter’s bigoted and nakedly hateful screeds. Anyone who makes themselves a part of that event is purposely associating themselves with those sentiments.
Does Senator Clinton not know who Ann Coulter is, or why her past statements led her not to be invited to CPAC this year? Or does she simply disagree with Glenn Greenwald and his fans over the definition of a rancid, right-wing, bigoted hate-monger? Hat Tip: Newsbusters
