Posted on 03/03/2007 2:05:46 PM PST by pissant
There’s some big fallout from the meeting in Washington of the Conservative Political Action Conference, three days of conferencing, caucusing, presidential addressing and book-hawking. These conferences have historically been known for displaying what its own organizers would describe as over-the-top behavior, and one of the regular speakers – Ann Coulter – offered an example of it when she used an anti-gay epithet on Friday to describe John Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina and Democratic presidential contender. “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,” she said, speaking to an overflow room of activists. That rehab remark was apparently a reference to Isaiah Washington, one of the stars on Grey’s Anatomy, a television series, who called a co-star T.R. Knight anti-gay names and went to rehabilitation over it. Mr. Edwards’s campaign quickly responded. “John was singled out for a personal attack because the Republican establishment knows he poses the greatest threat to their power,” said his campaign manager, David Bonior. “Since they have nothing real to use against him, Coulter’s resorting to the classic right-wing strategy of riling up hate to smear a progressive champion.”
Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman, said: “There is no place in political discourse for this kind of hate-filled and bigoted comments. While Democrats and Republicans may disagree on the issues, we should all be able to agree that this kind of vile rhetoric is out of bounds.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
So what is it about me that you DON'T like?
IIRC, Rush called him the PIT Yorkie.
More like a flea berates an albatross.
Get used to it , we don't hate but just tired of having this crap shoved down our throat.God Bless
How about someone who buggers subtlety?
Sometimes subtlety can be a bitch...
Earth to you: Ann Coulter isn't a politician, but if she was 'just' a private citizen, she wouldn't giving a speech at CPAC. The difference between her and a "private citizen" is that millions of private citizens use the word "faggot" every day and it doesn't make the newswires.
Professional America-and-homosexual hater Fred Phelps is a registered Democrat and was even an Al Gore delegate at the 1998 DNC convention. The only Dem idiotic enough to possibly allow him to speak before a liberal forum is John Edwards, who hired two foul-mouthed virulent atheists with a history of Christophobia. Now, she's given Edwards the high ground.
What a stupid bee-itch.
It is way past time for us to stand firm and FORCEFULLY remind the PC hysterics, whenever these types of incidents occur, that there is no such thing as a RIGHT, "Constitutional" or otherwise, to not be offended.
Yeah, everybody knows private citizens aren't allowed to speak at CPAC.
/sarcasm
I think "metrosexual" aplies.
This column was oh, so, predictable! Any one of us could have written the NYT coverage of this story as soon as we heard Coulter's remarks.
What's kind of astonishing is the response of Bonoir speaking for the Edwards campaign ... why wouldn't he have said something like "Sen Edwards is a married father of three ... Ms. Coulter knows her slur is not true and should apologize." ??? [leave aside that being gay can hardly be called a 'slur' by any Demorat]
The left is indignant. Imagine that.
I thought that video was hilarious and revelatory. In the end his hair looked just the same. That spoke volumes about his insecurity and ego.
True, in her book discussing that case, she called him the fetus whisperer. He told the jury the fetus spoke to him from the womb.
Hey, genius, re-read my post. I wrote "'just' private citizens." Don't you understand what single quotation marks mean?
Love that gal.
As used? Nothing.
She made it about her rather than the speakers.
"Why don't you go back to DU where you belong!"(That's today's charity done)
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