Yes and no. I agree we need more conservatives who come out swinging, but even as someone who defended Coulter on this, I have to admit calling Edwards a fag was childish. I'd have prefered she use her humor (and insults) to get people talking about the Dems attempts to cut off funding in Iraq ala Vietnam, rather than calling names.
"Girlie-man" or Breck girl" would have been perfect in place of the word Ann used. Can you imagine how foolish john edwards would look calling for "Coulter Cash' because Ann called him a "Girlie-Man" or "Breck girl"??? LOL!!!
I'm still trying to figure out where she called Edwards a fag. What I heard was "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'."
Homosexuals use the term to refer to each other, but most schoolkids I knew used it to mean "wimp, mama's boy, pretty-boy", and the like. My stepkids used it the same way, and still use "gay" to describe what we would term "lame".
When referring to a supposed "straight" man, faggot means wimp or pansy. Or she was talking about his 'platform', which resembles another faggot, which is a bundle of small sticks.
This whole controversy is small beer. It's a dog and pony show to distract us from what really matters. If the media is so absorbed in this petty crap, what does that tell you about the surge in Iraq?
Any other stories about CPAC other than the Coulter one. Really have heard any. Shameful!
I agree with you. In my book, this name calling is not necessary, and is actually detrimental to the credibility of the name caller.
All of the criticism of Coulter misses the mark. She made what at best can be claimed as an inferential remark about Edwards. She used the word faggot specifically to throw gasoline on the bonfires of the politically correct. Her thinly veiled complaint was over the moralistic approach to words that demands language be filtered by liberal sentiment. Of course explaining this is too deep for sensitive liberals who have gone from thin skinned to no skinned. There ought to be a celebration of bris for membership in this club.
Insulting presidents and candidates never reached the low point offered up by Whoopie Goldberg on stage in New York. The slimey wench reportedly grabbed at her crotch and was vulgar while making fun of our president. Edwards and Kerry were both there and laughed. It was a fundraiser with moveon.org. I believe and nobody came up with a video of it. Goldberg was disgusting. Coulter never came close to doing what the Democrats did that night in New York.
Ms Coulter has attempted to get people to look at the context of her remarks. The comment first of all was aimed at Mr. Edwards' effeminate characteristics; others do the same; to wit, Rush's Breck Girl, Ms Ingrahm's Silky Pony.
The word "faggot" was meant to shock, nevertheless. The shock was a transition to the real problem of pressuring (forcing?) people into re-hab for the sin of free speech.
Her use of faggot was legitimate. What if she had described Mr. Edwards as a niggard? Valid also, I bet he has never contributed a penny to the poor. The reaction would have been the same. People have lost their jobs over that word.
Free speech is a thing of the past? It can be done but only in "safe" locations? Was he actually yelling, Fire! Really?
Making Ms Coulter the "issue" and deliberately ignoring a serious problem is a trick I've seen the left do to other people / issues for more than 50 years. All during those decades other conservatives have helped the left achieve their skullduggery.