On Friday March 2, after being introduced by Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, Ann Coulter walked to the microphone and uttered the phrase that would shake the political world.
"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."
The quote is an obvious joke and a comment on our times. It's even funnier considering how many outraged people now want to send Ann Coulter to rehab for daring to say it. Her comment also held political implications bringing up issues of the first amendment and freedom of speech as well as questioning the integrity of John Edwards himself.
Of course the usual gang of pot smoking, empty headed morons who wouldn't know a thought if it ran over them with a car were outraged. This is "hate speech." These are the same people who have no problem with university professors calling for the death of Americans simply because they are Americans. Good thing I'm here to bring sunshine onto their hypocritical stances once again. You see, there is another medium that has been using the word "faggot" for a long time now. Several years in fact.
Enter the show "South Park." Just a few years ago there was an episode called "Follow that Egg" (first aired Nov. 2nd, 2005) in which a jealous Mrs. Garrison had the following exchange with her gay ex lover Mr. Slave:
Mr. Slave: Mr. Garrison, there's something you should know. Al and I are getting married.
Mrs. Garrison: Married?
Big Gay Al: Yes.
Mrs. Garrison: You can't get married! You're faggots!
Later while trying to get a crowd worked in to a frenzy, Mrs. Garrison says the following:
Mrs. Garrison: Appeal to the governor? Oh, come on! Where's your balls? Fag drag!
From the episode "Mr. Garrison's fancy new vagina" (first aired March 9, 2005) come the following gems:
Mrs. Garrison: I'd rather be a woman who can't have periods than a fag.
From the show called "South Park is totally gay" (first aired Oct 22, 2003) come the following quotes:
Cartman: Yeah, don't be such a fag, dude!
and
Craig: You'll never be as metro-sexual as us! C'mon fags!
All these episodes came out years before Ann made her joke and the left was silent. No calls for boycotts. No demands for apologies. No crude comparisons to dictators and lunatics. Just utter silence. Why? There is no difference between what Ann did and what "South Park" does. Both make jokes of a political nature. You can't even argue that "South Park" only makes gay jokes at the expense of fictional characters. In the episode "Trapped in a Closet" (which first premiered Nov 16, 2005) several people including Tom Cruise and John Travolta literally become trapped in a closet and refuse to come out.
But if this isn't enough for the hypocrites on the left, I call their attention to "Rolling Stone Magazine" March 22, 2007 issue (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/south_park_still_sick_still_wrong/page/1) that features an interview with "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. In it both Stone and Parker loudly tout their thoughts about lefties.
"...while soldiers and policemen protect me so I can say things like 'fudge-packing faggot' on my television show,..."
-Matt Stone
"...to go up to a tattooed, pierced vegan and say, 'Whatever, you tattooed faggot, you're a pierced faggot and whatever.' '' He looks very pleased with himself. "That's hardcore."
-Trey Parker
So admit it: you hate Ann Coulter and that's the only reason you're mad now. Just admit it, if nothing else to yourselves. If it's okay that "South Park" said it two years ago, then it should be okay to say it today. And if it's not okay to say it today, then where is your outrage over Parker and Stone?
In fact, the feigned outrage of people over this innocuous comment, pretty much makes her point.
>>There is no difference between what Ann did and what "South Park" does.<<
Very true. Both employ juvenile humor that a sixth grader could think of.
Well... yes there is. They have different jobs. Parker and Stone are comedians, with a late night audience. If that's what Ann wants to be, more power to her, but I don't think she has near the talent Parker and Stone do. If, on the other hand, she wants to be considered a serious political commentator at political conventions and Sunday morning talk shows, she can't talk like a stand up comedian on an uncensored HBO special.