<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[&#8220;Inexplicable, Masochistic Affection&#8221;]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>That&#39;s how Marty Beckerman <a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/ann-coulter-goproud-speech-092710#ixzz10jnC80v0" target="_self">describes</a> the dynamic between Ann Coulter and gay attendees of Homocon 2010:</p> <blockquote> <p>In her speech on Saturday, Coulter says that &quot;not only <em>can</em> gays be conservative, you pretty much have to be,&quot; because they are the &quot;highest income demographic,&quot; because &quot;gays are too stylish to work for the federal government,&quot; because radical Muslims want to execute them, and because &quot;once [scientists] find the gay gene, guess who&#39;s getting aborted?&quot;</p> <p>This is the same Coulter, of course, who is comfortable with the word &quot;faggot,&quot; wrote that Rick Santorum&#39;s comparison of gay sex to bestiality is an &quot;indisputably true point,&quot; told an interviewer that sexually active gay men should &quot;feel guilty about it,&quot; and mocked the &quot;irritating lesbian&quot; teenager in Tennessee who wanted to bring her girlfriend to senior prom.</p> </blockquote>]]></html></oembed>