Blogosphere Is Quick to Criticize Ann Coulter (Use of a Certain 'F' Word at CPAC)

various | 3/2/2007 | n/a

[bray]

Is there an F word to go with the N word. Could some Fag please make of list of words that are too offensive to say. Who cares about the word faggot? PCism is not a Conservative value. Ann Rox!

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[blaquebyrd]

"It was unnecessary. Unless the charges are true ... and we have no indication they are, then what is the point. It wasn't even funny!"

I agree, her comments add nothing to the political debate. How many FReepers would be singing her praises if she called Mary Cheney a faggot?

[mathluv]

'We can argue that homosexuality doesn't require legal protection, but not when we have our front-line activists referring to them as "faggots" or worse. That indicates a disturbing level of animosity rather than a true desire to allow people the same rights and protections regardless of their lifestyles.'

I am sick of people claiming 'special' rights due to their life style choices.

[BunnySlippers]

I agree, her comments add nothing to the political debate. How many FReepers would be singing her praises if she called Mary Cheney a faggot?

Sadly, quite a few.

Problem here is she was just using the term faggot as an epithet against a man for which there is not even a hint that he is gay.

Coulter has jumped the shark.

[meyer]

They are way over sensitive and I think what she said is funny.

Indeed, they are oversensitive. And they're lucky that I wasn't the one speaking. My version of words that start with the letter "f" and are used to describe liberals are much more colorful. Indeed, my vocabulary can get downright nasty. Which is why I would never run for office.

[meyer]

In other news, the sun will come up in the East tomorrow, and Nancy Pelosi is a Woman.

Of the former, I can agree. But the latter is potentially debatable.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

[Pyro7480]

IMHO, Eowyn (Miranda Otto) is MUCH BETTER-LOOKING than Ann Coulter.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

unless one is a Brit, a fag and a faggot aren't the same thing.

Thought I once heard fag used in British English (perhaps obsolete) referring to someone who was one's chum in one of those all-male British "Public Schools" (= "Private Schools"). And I didn't get the impression at the time I saw it that there was any sexual connotation.

Also, I know I've seen faggots used to describe a bunch of sticks or kindling or similar.

I wonder if these usages led indirectly to the common meanings for these words as we know them today? I can see how a word for a close friend in an all-male school might eventually morph into some other meaning. But as far as the sticks go ..... no! I won't go there!

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

How many FReepers would be singing her praises if she called Mary Cheney a faggot?

I think it is just fine... perverts are filth...

[Palladin]

You are right. In those Brit boarding schools, underclassmen had to "fag" for a particular upperclassman. Run errands for him, etc.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

IMHO, Eowyn (Miranda Otto) is MUCH BETTER-LOOKING than Ann Coulter.

What both of them represent on the stage is what I am alluding to... Ann Coulter is the shield maiden of the GOP like the character Eowyn is shield maiden of Rohan...

[Vision]

and ended with a cheap one-liner about John Edwards being a "faggot." (Paraphrasing) She said she would refrain from commenting on Edwards because "if you say faggot, you have to go to rehab."

Metrosexual journalist.

[Palladin]

Some definitions of "faggot":

"faggot" is a term which over centuries has had a number of legitimate meanings, as chronicled by dictionaries and wordsmiths.

In medieval times, faggot referred to a bundle of sticks or firewood. In the 18th century the term described an underclassman's status in relation to an upper classman at an English boarding school. In the 1800's a shrewish, ill- tempered woman could be called a faggot. And in contemporary British slang, a " fag " is a cigarette.

[ApplegateRanch]

From the small, flaming sticks, the word morphed to cover a smaller, white smoldering stick upon which one sucks, emitting smoke, coughs, wheezes, and "second hand carcinogens".

We need not explore further morphings & mergings, into the full blown phase, "flaming faggot".

[blaquebyrd]

At least you are honest and consistent. Unlike the majority of posters I read here on FR when Wolf Blitzer asked Cheney about his "fagot" daughter's choice to have a baby with her lesbian lover.

[blaquebyrd]

fagot = faggot

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

I wonder what would have happend if she had said "girly man"

The first words popping into my head when I read these bloggers' reactions was, "GIRLY MEN!"

The only one of these bloggers I've ever heard of is Michelle Malkin. It's her I'm disappointed in, and not in Ann. At least M&M's reaction was the mildest of the lot. So I'm not hugely disappointed in her.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Nature defines what is normal... Homosexuals are perverts... Edwards is a pervert lawyer...

[blaquebyrd]

"Homosexuals are perverts... Edwards is a pervert lawyer..."

Ok, personally I don't agree with the lifestyle. Having said that, understand that Cheney was also a speaker at CPAC and believe you me he will be asked to defend or condemn Ann's comments as he is the father of a "faggot". That's why I believe Ann's comment adds nothing to the political debate.