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Ann Coulter Slams Edwards With Anti-Gay Slur
Hotline ^ | 3/2/07

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; breckgirl; coulter; cpac; edwards; heterosexualagenda; homosexualagenda; hrc; pottymouthann; thesilkypony
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To: scouse

Text of the First Ammendement: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Text of the Second Ammendment: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

The only time the phrase "shall not be infringed" is used is in the Second Ammendment.


281 posted on 03/03/2007 6:35:49 AM PST by ops33 (Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
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To: doug from upland

Priceless!


282 posted on 03/03/2007 6:42:30 AM PST by glegakis
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To: Pukin Dog

I read everything on this thread and marvel at the comments.

Ann lives in the beltway world and knows exactly what it takes to get under their thin skin.

Sometimes crude and rude is what it takes.


283 posted on 03/03/2007 6:43:44 AM PST by razorback-bert (Posted by Time's Man of the Year)
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To: areafiftyone
...these remarks go directly against what our Founding Fathers intended...

Indeed, wasn't it Thomas Jefferson who was part of a group that support hanging for sodomites? Sounds as if the quote was too polite then!

284 posted on 03/03/2007 6:47:35 AM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: Liz

I remember that video - and how long it was.


285 posted on 03/03/2007 7:00:17 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Just Lori

Is that a pic of you with Pres. Bush?


286 posted on 03/03/2007 7:17:57 AM PST by uptoolate (If it sounds absurd, 51% chance it was sarcasm.)
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To: Republican Wildcat


It's been rumored it takes Johnny twice a long as a Playboy Bunny to put on makeup for personal appearances.....and Johnny doesn't have to apply makeup to his cleavage (I don't think?).


287 posted on 03/03/2007 8:04:33 AM PST by Liz (Hunter: For some candidates, a conservative constituency is an inconvenience. For me, it is my hope.)
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To: areafiftyone
So doing what they do is not vile and disgusting? But a silly title for the nasty deed used as humor is vile and disgusting? Interesting ethical code there.
288 posted on 03/03/2007 8:56:29 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: ItsForTheChildren

The second "g" is optional in Canada. ;-)


289 posted on 03/03/2007 12:13:01 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: fish hawk

"it was a blown joke!!! "

Given the context, that turn of phrase could cause more problems.


290 posted on 03/03/2007 12:15:51 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: areafiftyone

John Edwards is a very effeminate man, so what? Why are all the PC goons out in force on the left and right over a statement of fact?


291 posted on 03/03/2007 12:21:01 PM PST by junta (It's Jihad stupid! It's the borders stupid! It's Political Correctness stupid!)
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To: areafiftyone
"these remarks go directly against what our Founding Fathers intended"

True. I suspect that our founding fathers would have used more "colorful" terminology, right before brainstorming suitable ways of purging the population of the unacceptable perversion by enacting laws with sufficient consequences to serve as a deterant for such abhorent behavior, or at least keep it behind closed doors where it belongs.

292 posted on 03/03/2007 12:33:42 PM PST by sweetliberty (Stupidity should make you sterile!)
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To: Cecily

I think "faggot" only pertains to homosexuals of the male persuasion.


293 posted on 03/03/2007 2:02:47 PM PST by Palladin (You cannot glorify God better than by a calm and joyous life.--Spurgeon)
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To: SteveMcKing

Oh my God, it just occurred to me the opportunity Ann missed/ she could have woven in a tit for tat, and claimed that Edwards was "fair game", just as Edwards' disgusting and thuggish wife did when she and the Kerry campaign just couldn't seem to leave Mary Cheney alone in her lesbian-ness/ Ann I am sure said something about this THEN, but it would have made a nice historical update if she had mentioned it NOW, as a way of tying all this kind of rhetoric together.


294 posted on 03/03/2007 4:08:23 PM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: garbanzo
I have no idea if it benefits society, nor do you, that is yet to be seen in the big picture of things.

Additionally, not everything needs to benefit society. Some things need to shake society to it's very foundations. Excuse me for pointing out the obvious, but an on-going conservation which involves large issues sometimes gets testy, and well it should.

Degrades political debate? Where have you been? Political debate has been historically and is now a verbal contact sport. And, governance is not supposed to be easy. If it were, we would not be having a discussion.

So, go Ann. Shake em' up, irritate em' and more power to her. Those that can't take the heat should get out of the kitchen.
295 posted on 03/03/2007 4:27:46 PM PST by alarm rider (Why should I not vote my conscience?)
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To: shrinkermd
"Bad manners is part of the problem we should be trying to remedy rather than encourage."

A much larger problem is how Americans restrain themselves when plain truth is stifled for manners' sake.

People can't even say "bad" anymore. They giggle and drool, "That's not good!" More than colloquialism, it is actually straight cowardice.

The absurdity is approaching Orwellian levels. Even the First Amendment was degraded in the liberal response, by denying the intent of our "founding fathers" to protect Coulter's statement.

296 posted on 03/03/2007 4:40:56 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: William Terrell
Yep...whenever I refer to those pole-smoking, faggot homosexuals, I always call them sodomites. Among other things. Go Ann!

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

297 posted on 03/03/2007 4:45:36 PM PST by wku man (Claire Wolfe's "awkward time" is quickly coming to an end!)
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To: supremedoctrine
Quite right- Edwards has painted himself into a corner. His only defense against Ann is to assume fetal position and hope that people feel sorry for him.

There was a time when wit, politics, and biting personal remarks were all the rage. In this context, Edwards would not be viewed as "too good" to respond -- he would only be seen as incapable of it.

To the truly enlightened, it is so greatly amusing that a "classless girl" is now picking on a grown man within the public forum - and he is taking it.

298 posted on 03/03/2007 4:55:08 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: junta
Why are all the PC goons out in force on the left and right over a statement of fact?

They feel guilty due to PC brainwashing.

Call a fag a fag. It's liberating.

No, can't do that... must impress friends with "tolerance"... my kids might actually learn something too...

299 posted on 03/03/2007 4:56:36 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: alarm rider
Excuse me for pointing out the obvious, but an on-going conservation which involves large issues sometimes gets testy, and well it should.

Conversations require listening carefully to the other side and making considered judgements. Calling someone a "faggot" isn't a considered judgement - it's juvenile and does nothing to advance my beliefs or political goals. My political goals aren't to "irritate" my political opponents but rather, I hope, to convince them of the rightness of my beliefs. Namecalling virtually never helps.

300 posted on 03/03/2007 5:20:48 PM PST by garbanzo (Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.)
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