Posted on 03/02/2007 3:46:10 PM PST by 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.
I learned that wonderful descriptive term Poofter or poof, as in, "He seems a bit fey, must be a poof.", from the limies when I worked for an English Company.
Needs to be 'controversial' = books bought = cash.
yep, remember the great old days, when, for that first deliriously happy campaign week, Kerry and Edwards just couldn't seem to keep their hands off each other? I cautioned people to not mention it too much, just enjoy it while it lasted.
yep, remember the great old days, when, for that first deliriously happy campaign week, Kerry and Edwards just couldn't seem to keep their hands off each other? I cautioned people to not mention it too much, just enjoy it while it lasted.
..so you are saying bad behavior is OK if you point to other bad behavior?....I thought conservatives were above that kind of crap.... Most people won't get it....they only see the crude remark
Oh, come off it...
Middle America has NO FREAKIN' IDEA that Edwards hired those bloggers.
Ann is stuck so inside the Beltway, she can't see out.
All people are going to hear is the "F" word...and you know what?? The MSM will be happy to make that catch.
You really don't understand politics and the American people.
Political bloggers are SOOOOOOO not registering....
You're kidding, right?
Ann has brought the issue front and center, and now we will get to sit back and watch the media do their attacks on her, and then Ann (and hopefully some of YOU when you wake up) can ask why there was none of this shock and anger at John Edwards for hiring people who said the same things and worse.
Non.
Thinking about it even further, I am SURE Ann was referring to that black actor I mentioned in my other reply to you, from the soap-opera Medical show, Grey's Anatomy, who called T.R. Knight a faggot during a taping of the show, then publicly when questioned with mikes in front of him, said he didn't call anyone a 'faggot', thereby calling him a faggot by indirection, and winding up in a remorseful rehab.
I wonder what conservatives Dick and Lynne Cheney think of the word "faggot" used as a jokey slur considering their daugher Mary's lifestyle. If Ann really wants to go for broke, maybe next year she can make a crude reference to women of the Sapphic persuasion in one of her laff riot (not) jokes.
"... thereby calling him a faggot by indirection ...."
Which is what Ann just did to John Edwards.
I don't know why she should. She's always had my strict attention -- along with the attention of millions who read her column and view her many TV appearances. Her facts and logic are in perfect order, her wit is always sharp and she's the living antidote to the well-mannered, politically correct, country club "conservative" who meekly submits to beatings from the left.
Because it was two little twinkie-girly potty-mouth bloggers...you twit!! Insignificant specks!!
Ann misread her audience...misread the Internet.
Hardaway, at least, is a relatively well-known figure who lost some serious endorsements in the aftermath.
Ann sucked the air out of CPAC for Hunter...and she wasted good-will on a third-rate candidate. For what??
Just to have folks twitter in the Beltway.
waaaahhhh she called him a fudge packer wwwwaaaaaah (to quote artie lange)
A girl just called a grown man a faggot, and the imp is going to take it apparently...
(What is he going do, cry?)
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