Some of the speakers:

Newt Gingrich
Ann Coulter
Fred Thompson
Dutch politician Geert Wilders
Phyllis Schlafly
Jonah Goldberg
Frank Gaffney
Steve Moore
Andrew McCarthy
Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.)
Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio)
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.)
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)
Liz Cheney
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)
ACORN videographers James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles
Democratic pollster-turned-Fox News pundit Pat Caddell

The speeches, according to Twitter accounts, provided naught but red meat.

From Pat Caddell: Conservatives need to financially support the efforts of Andrew Breitbart and David Horowitz. “You people aren’t doing enough.”

From Jonah Goldberg: Republicans need to start campaigning on repealing any health care bill that passes.

From Michele Bachmann: “I’m waiting for Newsweek’s series of Secs of State in running shorts. Think [Hillary] Clinton and [Madeline] Albright will sell copies?” According to Rosenblum, Bachmann told the crowd that Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) had stolen his election.

And for a flavor of the proceedings, here’s video of “Islamofascism” critics Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer.

To some media professionals whom I admire because you don’t let anyone tell you to sit down and shut up, please keep making the idiots’ heads spin. Thank you for not taking our Freedom of the Press for granted, you bold and patriotic, fair and balanced media folks. Keep calling it like you see it: Amanda, Andrew, Ann, Bill(s), Bob, Cal, Dennis, Dick, Eddie, Fred, Glenn, Greta, Hugh, Joey, John, Jonah, Larry, Laura, Lou, Mark, Mary, Michael, Michelle, R.A.M., Rich, Rush, S.E., Sean, Tammy, Walter… and there are more. I join you in standing up for what is right. Remember that as your voice is heard and your spine is stiffened, the spines of others are stiffened, too.

Who’s who? Here are my best guesses for most of them: Amanda Carpenter of The Washington Times, Ann Coulter, Bill Kristol, Bill O’Reilly, Cal Thomas, Dennis Miller, Fred Barnes, Glenn Beck, Greta Van Susteren, Hugh Hewitt, Jonah Goldberg, Larry Kudlow, Laura Ingraham, Lou Dobbs, Mark Levin, Michael Reagan, Michelle Malkin, Rich Lowry, Rush Limbaugh, S.E. Cupp, Sean Hannity, Tammy Bruce, and Walter Williams. Why not use their whole names? Good question.

Ann Coulter might be extreme, but damn the woman is intelligent in ways that piss so many people off. You have to think that with as much anger and hatred as she elicits, she has to be hitting too close to home for some.

I disagree with some of what she says, I do wish she was more subdued so more people would listen to the actual content of what she says, but she has an opinion and really doesn’t give a damn what people think, there’s something admirable about that….most of the time.

Coulter actually considered a run for Congress in Connecticut in 2000, to take out  “pantywaist” Rep. Chris Shays (R-Conn.) for voting against the impeachment of Bill Clinton. She balked over disagreements with the state Libertarian Party regarding drug legalization.

Ultra-conservative Christian talk-radio hosts are taking a new approach to get their message out — ambushing right-wing pundit Ann Coulter for supporting 2008 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Absolutist anti-abortion activists accuse Romney of being “willing to sacrifice children for your vote.”

The Denver-based American Right to Life Action (RTL) leads the charge against Coulter with a YouTube video that shows excerpts of Coulter’s on-air radio freak-outs and calls on the acid-tongued author to apologize and retract her support for Romney,

In typical Coulter fashion, she calls the critics “crazy Romney froofers,” “fanatics” and “on the order of 9-11 conspiracy theorists” before hanging up.

In the timeless words of Nelson Munz: “Ha, ha!”

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Rush Limbaugh – 26 percent
Glenn Beck – 17 percent
Sean Hannity – 11 percent
Bill O’Reilly – 10 percent
Ann Coulter – 7 percent
Laura Ingraham – 4 percent
Michael Savage – 3 percent
Mark Levin – 2 percent
Michael Medved – 2 percent
Neal Boortz – 2 percent
Bill Bennett – 2 percent

A couple of things here. First, Ann Coulter’s 7 percent is strikingly low, given how CPAC is her natural habitat. She can, as she did on Saturday, give a contentless Henny Youngman routine of rehashed jokes and get an overflow crowd screaming. Second, Michael Savage’s 3 percent is sort of reassuring, given that Savage is a conspiracy theorist whose hatred of Islam goes well beyond simple bigotry.

The most interesting thing is the ranking of Glenn Beck over Sean Hannity. Hannity is far more famous, his show gets better ratings, and he’s better-respected within a Republican Party that hands him top-tier guests. I remember driving through Fulton County, Ga. on Election Day 2008, listening to Sen. John McCain appear on Hannity’s radio show and beg voters to turn out. But Beck is a strange populist conservative who, in February, dedicated an episode of his TV show to the coming American meltdown and civil war.

How to explain Beck’s popularity? First, the Ron Paul supporters. Paul scored 13 percent of the CPAC straw poll vote, higher than his 2008 showing of 10 percent, even though there were more voters this year. Paul supporters adore Beck, because he (like Lou Dobbs) will talk about more fringy worries of the right, like a possible union between America, Canada, and Mexico.

Second, the Bush/McCain amnesia effect. Hannity is seen, correctly, as a partisan talker who promotes whatever Republican is in power or leading the party’s ticket. He was one of the few radio hosts, along with Hugh Hewitt, who backed the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers. As memory of Bush fades, perhaps Hannity will make a comeback with this crowd. Or perhaps they will become still more conservative and more aligned with the likes of Beck.

Coulter handed in her first column closer to the deadline then we’d expected. She also came in short. And she came in … well, what’s the opposite of readable? The column that began “Here at the spawn of Satan convention” was a phoned-in collection of anonymous anecdotes and lazy writing. No problem, we thought: We’re editors. My bosses immediately suggested fixes to the column — some of them asking whether Coulter could touch up her jokes, some correcting bad writing, and some asking for more content.

Coulter flipped. She refused to answer all of the edits. The next thing we knew, she had left Boston. The next thing we knew after that was that Matt Drudge and other conservative news site editors had learned that we had “fired” Coulter. She was in New York hours later to bash us on Fox News’ “Hannity and Colmes.”

This is all a way of saying I don’t believe that NBC News “banned Coulter for life” for one second. She doesn’t really worry about taking advantage of news organizations’ standards and confidentiality to paint herself as a victim.

From The New York Post’s Page Six:

[A]lthough we didn’t think it would be possible to silence Ann Coulter, the leggy reactionary broke her jaw and the mouth that roared has been wired shut . . .

The report is yet to be confirmed, but the silencing of Coulter may prove to be one of the most significant, and welcome, events of the Obama era. Yes, we can!

[Via The Huffington Post]