[BUSHdude2000]

Best-selling right-wing author Ann Coulter, speaking to a conservative audience in Washington Friday, called former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., a "faggot."

I realize there is a bigger point to this thread, but WTF is going on in journalism when in this one sentence they can label Coulter "right wing author" yet there was not a "left-leaning" "left-wing" "leftist" or "liberal" to describe Edwards? This is where we are losing the war of words

[M1911A1]

You've nailed it, and there really isn't a bigger point to this thread. The article that identifies Coulter as right-wing and her audience as conservative, while leaving Edwards merely a former Democratic Senator, is clearly biased, more so when you know that the author expects Coulter to be vilified for her comments.

I can understand the debate over tactics, and there is real danger that Coulter's message is lost due to the firestorm it has raised, but perhaps it is gone so far for so long that it takes some manufactured outrage to make people take a look at what has become the norm.

Jonathan Swift wrote about eating the children of the poor with similar intent. There comes a point where the noise made by the Left drowns out any reasoned, quiet response and the only way to be heard is to be stunning.