“I’m looking at the blogs, and the bloggers are uniform in their condemnation of Ann Coulter. “This is disturbing and it’s distracting to the conservative movement. This is not what we’re about. It unnecessarily makes all conservatives a target for continuing attacks by the left,” and so forth and so on. Then some time passed and the bloggers began getting comments from their readers. After a couple of hours, I checked back, and the bloggers were mostly writing about how they were being excoriated by their readers for criticizing Ann Coulter; that finally somebody like Coulter had the guts to stand up and say what things are for, because the left gets away with this and does it all the time. The bloggers admitted that they were taking it on the chin from their readers in the comments of all their blogs from people who were very supportive of Coulter. I went to my own e-mail, and the vast majority of e-mail I got was, “Rah-rah,” and, “Right on!” I’ll tell you what I think this means.

There is free speech out there and there’s no question you can say what you want to say and you should be able to when you want to say it, but you can’t because of political correctness. I think that what inspired so many people to be supportive of what Ann Coulter said was — and I think this is something that Republican candidates need to understand. I’m sure many of you in this audience, not all of you, are fed up with the imbalance. For example, Bill Maher. Bill Maher can go out on his show on Friday night and basically say that it’s a shame that Dick Cheney wasn’t killed in the assassination attempt at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, that there would be a lot more people alive today if Dick Cheney were dead. He is asked if he really means it, and he said yeah. Even Barney Frank understood, who was a guest on the program. Even Barney Frank understood what Maher was saying. But take a look at the difference in coverage that the Bill Maher example got (hardly any) to Ann Coulter and her remarks about the Breck Girl. I think she might have been able to say it better. She might have been able to say that she was making a point about free speech and how you can’t say certain things without getting sent to rehab and this sort of thing.”

Now get back to your rehab you mouth breathing, scrotum scratching nincompoop!