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World Net Daily announced that it had dropped Ann Coulter from the speaking roster of its upcoming ultra-conservative Taking America Back conference. WND is an online news source that regularly features editorials from right-wing pundits like Pat Buchanan, Pat OReilly, and Chuck Norris in addition to news articles of interest to conservatives. Coulter has been writing for WND for more than a decade, and was lined up to be the keynote speaker at Taking America Back in Florida.

But last night, the website broke a story about the ousting of Coulter from the conference (can you break a story about yourself?), citing her involvement with another conference as the reason. Coulter (who has used derogatory, homophobic language publicly) is booked to speak at GOProuds upcoming HOMOCON. GOProud has even gone so far as to call Coulter the right wing Judy Garland.

None of this sits well with WND. The article includes the follow excerpt of the dialog with Coulter regarding HOMOCON:

WND founder Joseph Farah asked: Do you not understand you are legitimizing a group that is fighting for same-sex marriage and open homosexuality in the military not to mention the idea that sodomy is just an alternate lifestyle?

Ann Coulter responded: Thats silly, I speak to a lot of groups and do not endorse them. I speak at Harvard and I certainly dont endorse their views. Ive 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. Im 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 Im speaking to.

So shes relieved of keynote duties. The upside for Coulter? According to WND, they are going to retain her as a weekly columnist.

Read the full article here: WND dumps Ann Coulter from Miami due to Homoconflict.

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Ann Coulter loses conservative speaking engagement due to involvement with HOMOCON - Wisconsin Gazette