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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 do that again.
I completely agree with you. It's not wit or humor to call John Edwards a "faggot" at a conservative forum. Not only does it lower the level of all political discourse but it makes such no better than those who call Bush "Hitler" or indulge in similar gutter name-calling.
Speaking of macros, I should probably make one asking if you are sure you got the joke?
The "butt" of the joke could have been anyone. It could have been Al Gore again.
The "premise" of the joke was that an actor who called someone a faggot had to go to rehab to keep his job.
The "point" of the joke was how absurd that is. Which is true. Not that Edwards is a homosexual, which is obviously not true.
And in any case irrelevant.
Now, given the context, tell us again exactly what was so wrong with it as a joke?
Very well said and explained, Miss Marple.
I watched the entire episode and it wasn't a "joke" to me, and clearly was a slanderous reference to Edwards. If your convoluted rationalization is correct then her subtlety is too much for most audiences.
"I watched the entire episode and it wasn't a "joke" to me, and clearly was a slanderous reference to Edwards."
Well, I'm afraid that says more about you than it does about the joke.
But, hey, maybe Edwards will sue her for slander.
Go Ann!! With you all the way!!
I forgot you and I were both Wisconsinites and Packer guys. Plus we certainly agree on a lot.
I was in Green Bay and Appleton last September. Absolute paradise, but my wife won't let me move back there.
Mirabile dictu, this thread has been moved out of the blogger ghetto and back to the news/activism section.
I wonder why that happened? (LOL)
"Go Ann!! With you all the way!!"
The cavalry at last!
I hope you get a chance to talk to the mods about the way they have been deleting Ann defending (and civil) posts and allowing the most outrageous slanders against her to stand.
Sorry for being so late to this: I was at work and when I got home my internet connection was down.
Let me know if you'd like to be added to the Ann Coulter ping list.
This is MSNBC you're talking about here. Try more like 300,000
While I enjoy Ann's comments, I have to say that, when someone becomes overly interested, in the sexuality of a distant person, then I, become concerned about the sexuality of the person voicing the comments....
We have a presidential candidate who is just like Clinton with women, dresses up like a girl and lived with two homosexuals...
These same folks upset by Coulter would have us believe government should sanctify perversion with some honorable status equivalent to marriage.
I am tired of these people who try to pass some perversion of nature off as a normal thing. It is a fetish, a religion of deviance and I will not bend my knee in acquiescence to it.
The subject at hand was Coulter's comment about John Edwards. It is poor form to bring other subjects up and try to hijack the thread.
But it is o.k. to have a presidential candidate in that same venue who dresses up like a girl and lived with two homosexuals???
Take it to another thread. You are trying to hijack this one.
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