"What has changed is that she is not joking about someone who has been caught in an adulterous relationship in the Oval Office, but rather a presidential candidate who, although someone I find repellant politically, is pretty much a family man. In addition, her "joke" used a socially unacceptable epithet."
Huh? She called Gore a fag. That is short for "faggot."
Did you look at the clip?
Gore is a family man, too.
They were both JOKES.
Sheesh.
Because you guys just don't get it. You keep falling for this like Charlie Brown trying to kick Lucy's football. Besides, Ann didn't even call Edwards a faggot directly, her interpretation is that if she did, she'd be penalized by the thought police.
Conservatives keep fighting by British gentlemanly debating rules, we're going to keep losing battles to the Left.
Sam, you are too subtle for some, excellent comment by EEE.