Posted on 03/05/2007 1:12:17 PM PST by Stepan12
Will Ann Coulter never learn?
There are some things you just can't say, not even in jest. And at the top of that list right now is anything derogatory about the "gay" lifestyle or, worse yet, anything that is considered a slur against homosexuals, a protected class of people with special rights which entitle them to live free from all offense.
Ann surely should have known this. After all, hasn't she seen any of the countless films or TV shows produced by Hollywood in recent years which promote homosexuality as a perfectly normal and acceptable alternative lifestyle? Indeed, the homosexuals in virtually every one of these films and TV shows are smarter, funnier, hipper and more humane than the heterosexual characters.
Hasn't she seen or read any of the endless media stories promoting homosexuality in the same glowing manner, with never a critical word to be uttered? Doesn't she know that our schools are teaching children that homosexuality is a completely legitimate practice, and one we must all embrace and support as such whether we engage in it or not?
Yet despite all of this, Ann had the unmitigated gall to get up before an overflow crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, while the cameras were still rolling, and say this: "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."
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To be precise, one goes outside to suck on a fag. :)
Yeah, the special people who live from all offense that helped spread aids into the heterosexual community because of their need to satisfy their bung compulsions.
I didn't see the latest Coulter "outrage" mentioned anywhere on the 3 evening news reports tonight, or by Britt Hume. Maybe some people finally realized this is a non-issue to everybody buy the Ann-haters and jealous women.
guess we better blacklist Dire Staights,too.
Democrats are criminally insane. That is, they cannot distinguish right from wrong. I'd like to hear that said by Ann Coulter or another visible figure.
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Since Guiliani, McCain and Romney immediately distanced themselves from Coulter's remark, the politics of the issue are to divide Republicans which works to the advantage of the Democrats.
Ann is smarter than that as a political operative.
I wouldn't expect the faggot comment for somebody running for office, but Coulter isn't. She is a pundit, and much as Jonathon Swift got attention by proposing the the solution to poverty and hunger was to eat the children of the poor, she has sparked debate on what we have decided is off limits in political speech.
The point she made is that you can't say the word, or you will end up in rehab...a reference to an actor who said "faggot" and ended up in rehab.
I'm glad that the whole issue of PC in regards to buggery is being discussed, since the alternative seems to be a surrender of the language to those who would change it for political purposes. Double plus ungood.
I doubt anyone expects these politicians to endorse what Ann said. However, they know Ann's sarcastic humor as well as we do, and they know she is a defender and supporter of the conservative cause.
They are smart enough to know that she uses sarcasm along with her high public profile to expose the hypocrisy of the left, thus providing an opportunity for politicians like them to confront the issues more tactfully. They are also smart enough to know how to parry the left's predictable false, and politically expedient, interpretation of Ann's remarks without condoning the usage of the word - if not, they are certainly smart enough to figure out how to do it. The fact that they did not take advantage of the opportunity, thus appearing to join in the left's condemnation of Ann bothers me more than what Ann said.
IOW, she's callin' 'em out, and has nothing to lose. Good point. What are the leftists going to do now, stop liking her?
You probably just missed the 'b' key, right?
I have to disagree that it's all that clear. It may very well be as you say, but it's not new. She's used the term before.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256860,00.html
"'Faggot isn't offensive to gays; it has nothing to do with gays," Coulter said on "Hannity and Colmes" Monday night. "It's a schoolyard taunt meaning 'wuss,' and unless you're telling me that John Edwards is gay, it was not applied to a gay person."
http://mediamatters.org/items/200607280001
Summary: Chris Matthews asked pundit Ann Coulter, "How do you know that Bill Clinton is gay?" -- referring to her comment the night before on CNBC's The Big Idea that Clinton "show[s] some level of latent homosexuality." Coulter responded, "I don't know if he's gay. But Al Gore -- total fag." In concluding the interview, Matthews said of Coulter, "We'd love to have her back."
Free speech has nothing to do with this. Liberals bring 'free speech' into it to justify many of their own comments (instead of addressing the content of the comments) as if having the right to say something entails an obligation to say it. Like children rebelling against parental rules, liberals have made it an act of faith that they are obligated to spout any kind of crap in the name of 'free speech'. I don't believe conservatives have any obligation to emulate them nor do I feel it's a good idea.
This entire thing is amazing. More amazing than the left's reaction has been the right's reaction. Hello everone. Exhibit A. We have lost the culture war. It's just about liberals dotting the i's and crossing the t's to get all the details of their agenda imposed. We are ridiculous cowards under their control.
You don't see this kind of outrage over the homosexual's constant attack on the Boy Scouts. BOY SCOUTS!!!! We can't defend kids, but by golly we have got to protect the tender ears of homosexuals from a silly joke that wasn't even about them. Ann Coulter said she was pro-gay in that very same speech.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
This was also part of the same Q&A at CPAC that Ann used the word faggot. You won't see it mentioned much in this debate about her remarks. I was there but forgot about it until a CNN report reminded me of it.
"During a question-and-answer session, Coulter referred back to the issue of gays by alluding to the bid for the Republican presidential nomination being made by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney."
"I do want to point out one thing that has been driving me crazy with the media -- how they keep describing Mitt Romney's position as being pro-gays, and that's going to upset the right wingers," she said. "Well, you know, screw you! I'm not anti-gay. We're against gay marriage. I don't want gays to be discriminated against."
She added, "I don't know why all gays aren't Republican. I think we have the pro-gay positions, which is anti-crime and for tax cuts. Gays make a lot of money and they're victims of crime. No, they are! They should be with us."
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