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Controversial columnist draws fire for gay slur
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| 3/4/07
| Reuters
Posted on 03/04/2007 2:52:03 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outspoken U.S. conservative columnist Ann Coulter is drawing fire from Republicans and Democrats alike after publicly using a derogatory gay slur in reference to Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards.
"Ann Coulter not only once again went out of her way to use a nasty epithet, she pushed her offensiveness up a notch," Amy Ridenour, president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, said on Sunday.
Coulter made the comments on Friday during a speech at the influential American Conservative Union's Political Action Conference, calling Edwards a "faggot."
"We conservatives have enough trouble overcoming the false things that are said about us without paying for a platform upon which we shoot ourselves annually in the foot," Ridenour, whose group helped sponsor the conference, said in a statement on the center's Web site.
Coulter said the comment was a joke and on her Web site she carried the speech with the comment, "I'm so ashamed, I can't stop laughing." She then said Edwards' campaign chairman's main job was "fronting for Arab terrorists."
Edwards, a 2008 presidential contender and the party's 2004 vice presidential candidate, said Coulter's comments were "un-American and indefensible."
"The kind of hateful language she used has no place in political debate or our society at large," he wrote in comments posted to his Web site on Saturday.
"I believe it is our moral responsibility to speak out against that kind of bigotry and prejudice every time we encounter it," Edwards added.
The candidate also posted a video of Coulter's comments, asking supporters to raise $100,000 in so-called "Coulter Cash" for his campaign to "fight back against the politics of bigotry."
Coulter's Friday speech raised objections from Republican presidential hopefuls Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) of Arizona, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as well as Democrats.
In a statement on Sunday, Romney spokesman Kevin Madden said, "It was an offensive remark. Political discourse ought to be more substantive and thoughtful." McCain, the only contender who did not attend the event, and Giuliani called Coulter's words inappropriate, according to the New York Times.
"Ann Coulter's words of hate have no place in the public sphere much less our political discourse," Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) of Massachusetts said in a statement released on Saturday.
Several conservatives were also quick to denounce Coulter's comments in a variety of online columns.
Coulter is no stranger to controversy.
At the same conference last year, she used the word "raghead" -- a slur against Muslims -- in referring to U.S. homeland security policies. In a column published in the National Review after the September 11 attacks she urged an invasion of Muslim countries and forced conversion to Christianity.
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To: NormsRevenge
Yawn. It ain't gonna stick.
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
03/04/2007 2:53:42 PM PST
by
rockrr
(Never argue with a man who buys ammo in bulk...)
We live in interesting times.
Political commentator Ann Coulter is seen in Tyler, Texas in this Nov. 17, 2005, photo. Democratic presidential contender John Edwards hopes to make some quick campaign cash off Coulter's slur at a convention of Republican activists. Edwards' campaign sent an e-mail to supporters calling the comment a 'shameless display of bigotry.' It asked supporters to help raise $100,000 in 'Coulter Cash' so that the former North Carolina senator could show 'every would-be Republican mouthpiece that their bigoted attacks will not intimidate' him. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman)
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posted on
03/04/2007 2:54:01 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ......)
To: NormsRevenge
She did not call Edwards a faggot, she said she couldn't.
To: rockrr
lol
Hardly. Reuters had to weigh in and here it is.
I shan't post that f word or the word fairy either,, whether it is considered good political theater or otehrwise.
Ann deals in hyperbole, she lives it too. Occasionally, it lets rip. wonder if her book sales took a tick up yet. ;-)
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posted on
03/04/2007 2:57:17 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ......)
To: InNeedofRWR
words can be twisted to meet one's end,, I have heard what she said, his name obviously was prominent in the previous sub sentence if you will,, it simply allowed folks to make quantum leaps in their own perception of her comments.. the reference to having to go into therapy was befitting of recent events of certain other folks that crossed the Red line of PC.
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posted on
03/04/2007 3:00:38 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ......)
To: InNeedofRWR
well, she could have just wondered out loud if he is "gay", but the faggots would have LIKED it then......besides, it is a legitimate wondering, unless he is one of those guys who likes fat and ugly women.....whatever.....the joke about Political Correctness being a disease wouldn't have flown if she'd have said "gay".
To: NormsRevenge
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This is the left co-opting the right and many on the right couldn't be more willing.
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To: NormsRevenge
Republicans do not need the Liberal Socialists and Rinos permission to apply wit, innuendo, and vitriol to the political opposition.
Why is it that only Dems can slander slash and burn?
The Dems have awoken their moon bat base using vitriol, have called our president names like Nazi, Kerry called our president a terrorist, Murtha has called our president stupid, as has Nacy Pelosi, and we buckle at the use of the word faggot in an off hand reference to gurly man John Edwards?
How have Republicans devolved to have inherited such weenieship?
I say let the games begin, and in doing so, lets awaken the conservative grass roots of the electorate, instead of putting it to sleep like the RINOs want!
Thank you Anne for reminding us!
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posted on
03/04/2007 3:02:44 PM PST
by
Candor7
To: InNeedofRWR
I don't appreciate what Ann said, but, you're right, and the article is not accurate.
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posted on
03/04/2007 3:02:58 PM PST
by
Clara Lou
(Go Fred!)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
03/04/2007 3:03:16 PM PST
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: I see my hands
Why does Howard Dean get immunity?
It's amazing what some would force this nation to become, a nation of those afraid to say anything for fear someone else may construe it as full of hatred.
It's classic, the Nazis used similar techniques. Of course, most folks today have forgotten or never learned much about that era and the use of coercion.
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posted on
03/04/2007 3:03:48 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ......)
To: NormsRevenge
Oh by all means lets not slur the perversity crowd. Be perverse and speak perverse but just don't slur the perverse.
On top of that she didn't slur anyone but a straight, married guy. And it was a joke which means it wasn't even much of a real slur on him.
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posted on
03/04/2007 3:05:17 PM PST
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: xcamel
Good job!
This is a new one,, whew!
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posted on
03/04/2007 3:07:51 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ......)
To: NormsRevenge
"Ann Coulter's words of hate have no place in the public sphere much less our political discourse," Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts said in a statement released on Saturday.At least she didn't murder someone. Olde Ted giving moral advice; this is great theatre.
And the article is wrong. Ann didn't call Edwards a faggot faggot faggot faggot faggot faggot faggot faggot faggot faggot (clack). The new Vista system has a PC filter.
To: NormsRevenge
some of the threads are starting to sound like DU or the daily Cuss...
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posted on
03/04/2007 3:10:52 PM PST
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: Clara Lou
The point for me is, whatever what she said, why is it a national crisis for the conservatives? Why does she have to be denounced, when the Bill Maher's, Michael Moore's, and even more so the Ted Kennedy's, John Kerry's, and like say insulting, derogatory things every day. Who's demanding their retractions, or apologies?
To: xcamel
I usually avoid most of the contentious topic threads,, for just that reason.
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posted on
03/04/2007 3:11:50 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ......)
To: NormsRevenge
Ann, try rehab. You can meet some fascinating people there.
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posted on
03/04/2007 3:13:54 PM PST
by
Jeff Gordon
(History convinces me that bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson)
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