Look, a falling star!

Following her use of a homophobic slur at last year's conference and the resulting media firestorm, CPAC organizers disinvited rightwing nutjob Ann Coulter from appearing at this year's conference.

One wonders what took them so long. The previous year, she used racial slurs and received mass applause from the conservative group. They had no problem inviting her back for 2007. They even got conservative also-ran Willard Mitt Romney to introduce her.

Anyway, desperate to remain relevant, the spokeswoman for Republican values gave a video "speech" (if you can call it that) 50 yards away from the conference today.

Ann Coulter wasn't invited to CPAC this year but she came to CPAC anyway and gave a speech just down the hallway from the ballroom where John McCain spoke Thursday. [...] I guess we'll name this speech, "Ann Coulter's 2008 not-at-CPAC-CPAC speech."

As her 15 minutes of fame run out, I'm reminded of a favorite headline from The Onion a few years ago:

Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People