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.”
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Were was H Deanw hen Michael Steele was being pelted with Oreo cookies?
Hipocrite! Two faced liar, off with your stank!
Howard Dean complaining about "Vile comments"?
The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
No. The sky is the limit.
Howard Dean is nuts. Can we all agree on that?
I can't wait for her responses to these clowns. LOL
True, but as she's not running for any political office, she suffers nothing for it.
Uhh ... yeeeeah. Howard Dean:
Well, Republicans, I guess, can do that, because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives.Or:
[Republicans] are mean. They are not nice people.Or:
I hate the Republicans and everything they stand forOr:
You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here.
ALas, many have. I don't care, though, and neither does Ann.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Yeah. The doo-doo that fell out of her mouth for OTHER conservatives to have to clean up afterwards.
Devastating.
I think it was a masterpeice of wordsmanship, myself.
Well, I guess the DemRats had better 'put some ice on it' then.
Straight from the mouth that got him un-nominated...
HIS OWN!!!!!!!
You're making a mighty big assumption with the humor part.
You noticed that. What happened to the "botched joke" defense, now that it actually applies? sheesh.
Very well-put. Coulter shouldn't have said it, and she has distracted the coverage from what really matters. Now, GOP Presidential candidates may come under pressure to distance themselves from her. She really should have known better.
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