Posted on 03/06/2007 2:57:24 PM PST by TChris
Ann Coulter fired back at critics who demanded the conservative columnist apologize for comments she made during a speech in which she referred to Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards as a "faggot."
"'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."
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You are a flaming idiot.
Maybe it's me, but I see "faggot" in the same category as I see the word "shit." On the Outrageous Word Scale (OWS), with 0 being not at all outrageous, and 10 being the most outrageous possible, then "faggot" is about a 5 to 7, as is the word "$$$hit" The true "f" word is about an 8 or 9. The "N" word is a 10.
This scale has been scientifically tabulated by Xzins from anecdotal evidence, and is useful for the bottom of the bird cage (no pun intended.)
Sticks and stone can break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
It reminds me of foreign policy dudes at the UN, and the tossing about of words like: "deplore" and "regret."
:>)
"It reminds me of foreign policy dudes at the UN, and the tossing about of words like: "deplore" and "regret."
:>)"
Precisely; indignant, "offended" politicians indeed!
I think referring to Johnny Whiplash as a "pussy" would have been more accurate than "faggot", but, then, that would not have fit with the whole 'Isaiah Washington' joke thing, which was Ann's aim.
I for one am sick of our "leaders" tiptoeing around afraid to "offend" liberals. Screw 'em. Bush has kissed up to RATs and liberals for six years now, and they spit in his and our faces. That by itself proves you can't get along with the sonzabitches.
F the "new tone".
Go Ann!
I see faggot as maybe one point above "limp wristed girly man" and maybe two points above "wuss" and three points above mama's boy.
There are a lot of homosexual perjoratives that are dozens of points above faggot. Faggot is really at the polite end of some of the useful slang phrases to describe homosexuals.
I would put in in the same category as "fairy, nancy-boy, fancy-pants." I will refrain from some of the more descriptive perjoratives that are out there.
I suspect that if you use the above named perjoratives, you would not have to go into rehab. But for some reason (known only to rehab counselors and plaintiff's lawyers) faggott is perjorative de-jeur for instigating sensitivity training.
Frankly I'd be interested in knowing why a reference to Bassoons and sticks would become a perjorative for homosexual.
It could be a reference to the type of guy who would spend his life learning how to play such a useless instrument as the Bassoon. (Sorry if there are any bassoon players out there, but why on earth would anyone take up the bassoon when you can buy an Alto Saxophone for about 1/3 the price?)
"Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets"
"More needs she the divine than the physician.
God, God forgive us all! Look after her;
Remove from her the means of all annoyance,
And still keep eyes upon her. So, good night:
My mind she has mated, and amazed my sight.
I think, but dare not speak."
I liked it.
And for that matter, I like and support Ann also.
Is that meant to be good or bad? I'm not up on my zebras.
FWIW, even Coulter doesn't think Edwards is a fag, and said so last night.
“And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence.”
It's hilarious --- but my Caveman friends are even more offended now. They'll be coming out of the 'cave' by the droves to protest this. ;~))
Tom Daschle is deeply saddened....
But posting about her isn't.
Michelle Malkin puts it best:
'Her "faggot" joke was not just a distraction from all the good that was highlighted and represented at the conference. It was the equivalent of a rhetorical fragging--an intentionally-tossed verbal grenade that exploded in her own fellow ideological soldiers' tent.
'There are countless conservatives who bring their children to CPAC. It's a family-friendly event. I brought mine last year and the year before. I met several parents with their kids there this year. We expect CPAC to be a place where conservative role models speak with clarity, passion, and integrity. There are enough spewers of mindless filth, vulgarity, and hatred on TV, at the movies, and in the public schools. We don't expect our children to be exposed to that garbage at the nation's preeminent conservative gathering.
'I was in the back of the ballroom and did not see any children in the audience during Coulter's speech. But what if there had been?
'Would you want your children hearing the word "faggot" spoken in such a casual and senseless manner? Would you like your first-grader or three-year-old running around the halls of CPAC singing "faggot, faggot, faggot?" Not me. Not anymore than I'd like my toddler singing "gook, gook, gook" or "sambo, sambo, sambo"--favored epithets hurled at conservative minorities by leftist haters groping around in their empty intellectual quivers. There were hundreds of young conservative college students in the ballroom. Would you be proud of your college-age daughter spewing such epithets in her campus debates with leftists?
'With a single word, Coulter sullied the hard work of hundreds of CPAC participants and exhibitors and tarred the collective reputation of thousands of CPAC attendees. At a reception for college students held by the Young America's Foundation, I lambasted the substitution of stupid slurs for persuasion-- be it "faggot" from a conservative or "gook" from a liberal--and urged the young people there to conduct themselves at all times with dignity in their ideological battles on and off campus.'
Ann Coulter is all washed up. She was funny once, but she's run out of good material, so all she can do is hurl insults and epithets. I hope the CPAC people have the good taste not to invite her back again. She's had her run as a political commentator; she needs to return to her day job.
lol right on JB, Right on!!
There's a party at the caveman's apartment. You are invited!
http://www.cavemanscrib.com
ROTFLOL
I just spent the last hour or so there - it's great - lots to see and find.
Thanks for the laughs.
Much ado about nothing.
Everyone just needs to 'faggot about it'.
Hmmmmm.
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