I must have missed that minute. Ann, on the defensive? Quite properly, when the liberals (or the girly boys on the semi-right) huff and puff that she's not showing good dhimmi manners, she always takes the opportunity to twist the knife a quarter-turn more.
I like that in a girl.
I also don't follow the argument that "faggot" is "tone-deaf" talk for a political humorist. She's not running for office, last I checked. You might prefer she refer to Edwards as a "metrosexual twit," but hang on, I'm sure she will.
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So you were a supporter of Ms Colter all along, through all the other media manufactured "scandals", and the word "fagot' pushed you over the edge, and now you think she's "selling us out"?
How many people do you know that go around using the word? If you know anybody, what is your opinion of this person's level of sophistication? You don't have to be a gay rights advocate, or a liberal, or even slightly tolerant of homosexuals and their agenda to understand it is a fighting word, usually heard coming out of the mouth of someone who also only takes a break from the f-word to use the mother f-word, and frequently combines his f-words with coughing up loogie. It doesn't look good on anyone. There are a million clever and subtle ways to describe the proclivity. Some pithy turn of phrase concerning loafers or some such thing could have brought down the house and possibly had the desired effect of sending the lefty moonbats into a tizzy of foolishness. What could have been.
If you are proud of your unwillingness to buckle to the PC crowd, and you reserves the right to call anybody you please a faggot whenever you like, well good for you. But would you please shut the hell up so as to not further the agenda you disdain? Inflammatory adjectives never persuade anybody of anything. Their use allows your opponents to easily caricature you.
Ann screwed up. If you can't see that she did, and that she and her cause are worse off for her gaffe, you can't see anything.