Posted on 03/04/2007 12:56:27 PM PST by Sam Hill
Come along with me if you will, to a time long ago. Well, actually just a few months ago. But apparently, it was seemingly a more innocent age:
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On the July 27, 2006 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews asked Ann Coulter, "How do you know that [former President] Bill Clinton is gay?" -- referring to her comment the night before on CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch that Clinton "show[s] some level of latent homosexuality."
Coulter responded, "I don't know if he's gay. But [former Vice President] Al Gore -- total fag."
She went on to defend her theory about Clinton's sexuality by stating that "everyone has always known, widely promiscuous heterosexual men have, as I say, a whiff of the bathhouse about them."
Coulter claimed she was "just kidding" about Gore, but said of her theory about Clinton, "It's not only not a joke, it's not even surprising."
As the world now knows, Ann Coulter made a similar joke at CPAC a couple of days ago. But this time our watchdog media were looking for dirt from CPAC, so they latched upon her joke, and pretended she was calling Edwards a faggot -- and of course indulging in hate speech.
But where was their outrage last July?
Where was outrage here at Free Republic?
(I believe some of the members of the audience were even Freepers.)
How time flies.
Don't forget that Malkin stands to gain professional by the exile of Ann.
Every post you make,
Every link you take,
Every sound you make,
every lie you fake,
I'll be watching you.
"I imagine you would be hard pressed to find a liberal who Coulter has not called a faggot at some time or another."
I don't know about that. But I do know that she is said to be very popular with homosexuals. And that she has gotten much of her more fair even positive press coverage from homosexual reporters.
She's not a gay-basher, and she never has been.
Did you note that? Damn you're good. Congratulations!
Male or female?
"Don't forget that Malkin stands to gain professional by the exile of Ann."
That had crossed my mind.
And, even apart from motives, Michelle has been wrong before. (Quite often, in fact.)
And even apart from that, there is no reason on her why her take on this should carry any more weight than anybody else's.
I have to wonder if it was such a shock to the CPAC audience, than why did nobody ask Coulter about it in the Q&A that immediately followed?
And as FR's Kristinn and others have reported, it wasn't even talked about by anyone he heard for the rest of the time at CPAC. So this outrage seems to have been discernible only to a few.
Lastly, Malkin keeps stressing the irreparable harm this will do to the children in the audience. Well, I didn't see any in the clips I've seen. And I have seen very few children in the photos I've seen from CPAC.
But moreover, how many children are going to be traumatized by hearing that word? I can't imagine them having a clue about it. And they surely hear far worse than that on the radio and TV every day of their lives.
It's not like Coulter set up a screen and started showing her vast internet porn collection for the audience.
Just an admirer. But I have heard about his exploits. Thanks.
That would not have been the first time someone has joked about a candidate or politician not being manly enough. While the '84 Doonesbury strip triggered some liberal snickering about George Bush's "manhood" being placed in a blind trust, there were not politically correct complaints of the type following Coulter's F-bomb.
Google news search:
Results 1 - 10 of about 451 for ann-coulter edwards
Results 1 - 10 of about 39 for bill-maher cheney
Actually, youngster, my original use of the phrase 'defense fo the indefensible'came from another thread & post at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1795458/posts
POST #122 AT 10:52 AM. [Now we're gonna see all these guys who lust for Coulter come out of the woodwork to defend the indefensible.]
And sure enough, there you are. I don't need any help to pin the tail on an ass. That's my final word on the subject of Ms. Coulter and her ad hominem bigotry. Thank you for your thoughts on the matter.
Thanks for posting that and reminding some that proven conservative commentators, as well as ALL of the Republican candidates, do not condone the politics of personal destruction - even under the guise of humor - and that we can indeed take a higher road than the liberals.
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