Ann Coulter Slams Edwards With Anti-Gay Slur

Hotline ^ | 3/2/07

[areafiftyone]

"I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I — so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards," Ann Coulter said today at CPAC. Her audience seemed to to evince both shock and delight.

The Human Rights Campaign's Joe Solomnese was not happy.

“To interject this word into American political discourse is a vile and disgusting way to sink the debate to a new, all-time low. Make no doubt about it, these remarks go directly against what our Founding Fathers intended and have no place on the schoolyard, much less our country’s political arena.”

Next, there'll be calls for Republican candidates to disassociate themselves from Coulter's remarks. Unfairly, ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney faces the biggest burden: he spoke right before Coulter and praised her... not knowing what she planned to say.

[LexBaird]

I thought she was referring to a small bundled of sticks.

Proof that Edwards is a burden on the back of the elderly.

[paulat]

I know what you mean about friends.

One of Ann's best friends in the world is Matt Drudge.

There is nothing on his site about this.

Long-time FReepers might see the significance.

[paulat]

If you think Ann's over the top remarks are okay

No, I don't.

[NorCalRepub]

...that is what Cecily was saying....think you misread it

[inkling]

What a loathsome woman. I wish Ann and Michael Moore would go elope to a little island somewhere the media can't find them.

Thanks again for damaging the conservative movement, Ann.

[paulat]

I wish Ann and Michael Moore would go elope to a little island somewhere the media can't find them.

LOLOLOL!!! If they bred...they might have a normal-weight child!!!

[cubreporter]

no matter how he combs it or fluffs it or sprays it or looks at it in the mirror...he is still who he is and no amount of primping will change that. Personally, I want my President to look confident and strong not delicate and poofing about his hair.

[Cecily]

Rephrased:

If one thinks Ann's over the top remarks are okay, then one can't really call Mikey and Janeane down when they speak the same way about "our" crowd.

In other words, the "Go Ann!" crowd can't complain the next time Mikey Moore calls George Bush a drunk or a Nazi.

[Little Bill]

I prefer quean, myself, the Bard is always best.

[razorback-bert]

Seventy four posts before someone gets it.

[paulat]

Got it. I agree. :)

[SteveMcKing]

"so many espousing Christian values here but then defending Ann for these crude, tactless remarks..."
 

Perhaps crude and tactless, but much more importantly - accurate.

Truth is an absolute defense.

There is no standing for complaint unless you think that John Edwards is not actually a faggot.

[paulat]

Seventy four posts before someone gets it.

We got it...it was just Captain Obvious-time.

[raybyrd24]

or a seaman

[Pukin Dog]

You and others are contributing to what will probably go down as the dumbest set of comments ever posted on Free Republic. What Coulter did has gone so far over your heads, that it should cause you great embarrassment should you EVER figure it out.

Once again Genius, Ann Coulter used the word, in the EXACT same manner as the two bloggers that John Edwards felt it safe to hire as his representatives.

What you and others have so stupidly done, is help to point out the hypocrisy on the RIGHT and LEFT in your self-rightous and pious attitudes.

The left said NOTHING about the content of those two bloggers and Left it to the Right to expose their commentary. And I dare say that there in this single thread has been more mud slung about Coulter doing this than anything said here about what the bloggers did.

Eventually Ann will clue in those of you too silly to figure this out on your own, where stuck in your Holiness, you didnt even take the time to notice that she didnt call anyone ANYTHING.

The sheer cluelessness of some of you is BLINDING!

[Pukin Dog]

Just insane, aint it?

What an embarrassing thread.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Why should we give Ann a pass when we condemn Michael Moore, et al?

I would think we should be consistent!

Sex perverts are filth... nothing crude about the truth... Edwards is a scum... filth and scum... who cares???

[paulat]

There is no standing for complaint unless you think that John Edwards is not actually a faggot.

My standing for complaint?

Ann hogged the spotlight from the speakers at CPAC today...and she knew what she was doing.

Just watch and see how much content of the speeches will be on the MSM...nada.

I am not yet a Duncan Hunter supporter, but if I were, I would be furious. Rudy will get press time...but Ann sucked all the other oxygen out of the room.

[NorCalRepub]

..well if you are going to go there, then being married and supposedly loving his wife, would make Edwards bisexual which is different than a "faggot"....either way, using divisive words as slurs is immature and childish....but then again, you might just like that kind of thing.....good for you.....

[SteveMcKing]

"What most people do not understand is that we need people like Ann to push the envelope."

Ann pushes the narrow envelope of media.

No envelope can contain the actual thoughts and feelings of real Americans, to whom "faggot" is not a slam but a fitting description.