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Members of the audience seemed startled, then many clapped, and she proceeded to open the floor to questions, reported EditorandPublisher.com — After her comments, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued a press release expressing his outrage. Dean called Coulter's remarks 'hate-filled and bigoted.'
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Coulter Said What? (Bumped) — Ann Coulter is speaking at the moment, and drawing a huge crowd — with longer lines than those for the Rudy Giuliani. She's definitely one of the stars here at CPAC, and I listened to the audio stream for a bit while she opened her speech.
Bryan / Hot Air:
Thanks, Ann; Update: Audio added; Update: Video added — Ann Coulter is speaking at CPAC as I write. As is typical, she gave a brief speech full of her usual witticisms, including a few brilliant attacks on Al Gore's green hypocrisy. All was good. Untill the last few seconds, when she launched into a joke about John Edwards.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:Coulter In Her Element — "I was going to talk about John Edwards …
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Media Matters for America:Coulter reference to Edwards as "faggot" gives rise to questions for media
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Tracy Russo / Democratic National Committee:Governor Dean Blasts Coulter's Slur, Calls on GOP Presidential …
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:Cheney, GOP prez candidates, called on to condemn Ann Coulter …
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
THE PURGE OF U.S. ATTORNEYS (PARTIALLY) EXPLAINED. — The more we learn about the purge of at least eight U.S. attorneys around the country, the bigger the mystery becomes. Not so much the "how" of it all: It's clear that GOP staffers slipped unnoticed language into the about-to-be-reauthorized Patriot Act …
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Washington Post:
White House Backed U.S. Attorney Firings, Officials Say — The White House approved the firings of seven U.S. attorneys late last year after senior Justice Department officials identified the prosecutors they believed were not doing enough to carry out President Bush's policies on immigration …
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David S. Cloud / New York Times:
Army Secretary Is Ousted in Furor Over Hospital Care — Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey was forced to resign Friday over the handling of revelations that wounded soldiers were receiving shabby and slow treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. — Even as the grim-faced defense secretary …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Justice Department takes aim at image-sharing sites — The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, CNET News.com has learned.
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Romney and Giuliani Make Pitch to Conservatives — Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York are both Republican presidential candidates who have been voted into office by largely Democratic electorates. They both have a history of taking liberal positions on social issues.
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Matt Browner Hamlin / The Huffington Post:
CPAC: Romney Wants Extremist Love — I've been highly critical of Romney's campaign for the last four months. I find it tremendously hard to believe that a candidate who was fundraising and voting for Democrats fifteen years ago and arguing that he was to the left of Ted Kennedy would ever …
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Editor and Publisher:
UPDATE: Ann Coulter Suggests John Edwards Is a 'Faggot' — Now The Backlash Begins — NEW YORK In recent years she has suggested that Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Al Gore have or may have homosexual tendencies. Now columnist/author Ann Coulter has targeted former senator (and current candidate for president) John Edwards.
David Lightman / Hartford Courant:
Lieberman To Deliver Democratic Address — WASHINGTON — Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman plans to deliver the Democrats' radio response to President Bush Saturday and urge that the president and Congress "hold the Pentagon and Army chain of command accountable for the neglect of our soldiers at Walter Reed" Army Medical Center.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Unnervingly creepy photo of the day — Bryan will write about this later, I'm sure, but let me tell you: I was eating dinner when Charles sent me the link to his post, and when I saw the picture I literally dropped the fork and scrambled to the phone to call MM's husband. My hands were still shaking 15 minutes later.
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Guardian:
Liechtenstein: no retaliation for Swiss 'invasion' — Mark Oliver and agencies — The Swiss army is not renowned for its aggressive expeditionary adventures - but it does appear to have accidentally invaded Liechtenstein. — According to the Swiss daily Blick, around 170 infantry soldiers …
New York Times:
Noticeably Absent From the Giuliani Campaign: His Children — Rudolph W. Giuliani at his inaugural as mayor of New York in 1994, where his son, Andrew, 7, captured the show. But Andrew was not at events like the one in Spartanburg, S.C., last month, right, part of Mr. Giuliani's bid for the presidency …
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