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By Stone Martindale Mar 6, 2007, 6:36 GMT
Ann Coulter defends 'taunt for wuss'
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This woman is ugly inevery sense of the word. What a spiteful backward thing to say.
People go to rehab for calling others a wuss? C'mon Ann, stand up for what you said.
Edwards should punch her right in her adam's apple.
Hey, I don't like her either, but she has every right to say what she wants. it is up to the listen to accept it or reject it. We cannot control her or her mouth - but we can collectively and independently ignore her.
It is cheap, easy and kinda fun.
And I would rather have free speech and hear the occasional idiot, than have someone tell me what I can and cannot say.
My 2 cents.
I found that when I enter 'define: faggot' as a Google search, I get several definitions, including the offensive one. The one she came up with is nowhere to be found.
The media tries to hang Ann Coulter for calling a politician a faggot, but spends weeks covering the death of a drug addict that would rather get toasted than take care of her baby. Faggot is similar to calling a person a sissy! Speaking of the media, they fit the bill for both faggots and sissys!
Coulter's justification for her behavior is bizarre. What business does a 45-year-old professional woman have hurling 'schoolyard taunts' at other professionals? If she wasn't being hateful or bigoted, fine. Such language still belongs nowhere near civilized discussion or debate.
Ann aside, I'm more worried by the folks that were in the audience. Thunderous applause turns stereotype into reality.
Go to YouTube... the applause wasn't thunderous. There was clapping, yes, but some moans and groans and embarrised laughing.
Some in the audience didn't like it either.
This isn't about free speech. She is free to say whatever the heck she wants to say. We in return are free to condemn it for the vile trash that it is. To paint the media's response to her as an attack on the first amendment is highly disingenuous.
Yes, just a schoolyard taunt. And bitch is just a female canine.
Consider that the woman could hold the world record of largest Adam's Apple (she has way too much testosterone to be considered female) and the fact that she dresses like a conservative slut (mini's, high heels and pantyhose)...just like they teach the ho's at the Claire Booth Luce Policy Institute...whew! I can just see th CPAC guys wanking off under the tables and all of the female Ted Haggerts wishing that they had Miss Cunter...I mean Coulter...between their legs on the way home brom bible study. If you want to do satire...stick with the morally bankrupt Republicans.
Which is more valuable to the republic for which we stand:
1) What she said, or
2) Her right to say it
American's fiercely defend their rights against any encroachment of their constitutional freedoms. No matter if it is the government or organized groups with their own agenda that attempt to rob us of our rights.
Remember the calling cry of the revolutionists, “Freedom is ours to lose. Not the king’s to give.”
Those who attack her freedom to say what she wants are anti-American!
UpQuark: Yeah I've seen it umpteen times now along with her speech in it's entirety. It was as loud or louder than other points. Feel free to spin it if you really find that necessary.
LibertyMar: 'Those who attack her freedom to say what she wants are anti-American!'
So unless I agree with everything everyone says I'm prohibiting their freedom of speech? Give me a break.
this thread is a study in hypocrisy, if nothing else. It is not the first time nor will it be the last that this popular woman has stunned a crowd who are unaccustomed to her off the cuff remarks that are taken the wrong way or out of context.. these hardly deserve to cast her as a bigot, racist or anything more thn the same kinds of utterances commonly made by talk show hosts, other politicians on both sides of the aisle who express such outrage because it is simply politically expedient to do so. The word, in and of itself, has broad applications, is often heard on late night shows such as Leno, Letterman, and from many others.......it does not make them bigots or racists any more than Ann Coulter.
Excerpted from Wikipedia:
Usage in popular culture
Historically, 'fag' and 'faggot' have been offensive terms when addressed to American males. However in recent years, both terms have been employed by gay men in a defiant, self-consciously empowering or self-mocking way, much in the way some African Americans have taken to using the word 'ni**er' among themselves. A common example of this would be usage of the term 'fag hag' to describe a woman who associates with (and may prefer as non-sexual social partners) gay men, though this use, too, was originally pejorative. When used as a pejorative, however, it is still a term of abuse. The term is often used by young people as a synonym for words such as jerk (i.e. 'What a jerk!' becomes 'What a faggot!'). Some gay men consider this use of the term to be offensive or impolite. The term has been used to describe lesbians or other homosexual women.
In 1995, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey referred to openly gay congressman Barney Frank as 'Barney Fag' in a press interview. [7]
On July 27, 2006 American Republican pundit Ann Coulter said that the former Vice President of the United States (Al Gore) was a 'total fag', and that former President of the United States (Bill Clinton) was a 'latent homosexual', while being inteviewed by MSNBC's Chris Matthews[8]. Coulter caused a major controversy on the LGBT community; and GLAAD and other gay rights organizations demanded to know the reason why such an offensive usage of the word was permitted by the network.
In 2007, Coulter again made headlines when she said, '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.'[9]
The Dire Straits song 'Money for Nothing' makes notable use of the epithet 'faggot' in apparent reference to the singer Boy George, although later version of song have the offending lines excised, and in live performances Mark Knopfler will use such minced oaths as 'mothertrucker' in place of 'faggot'.
Yes Ann we know, you do have a penis ---- please stop sticking in our faces. Over compensating and getting paid for it too, what a smart c_ _ nt he/she is!
So what should we expect from someone who got her world view from watching the Simpsons? Even though Annis a twit, she has a point - she belongs in rehab. And not one of those Betty Ford sissy rehabs, Ann belongs in Abu Ghraib.
pjallittle: So a professional using bad language to address a crowd of other professionals is no different than... listening to a comedian address late-night television audience?
Spin, spin, spin.
Did anyone listen to the comment in full context? I think she made the point perfectly. It's called satire. South Park gets away with it each week.. Wake up people!
Ah, the irony!
When I was a little girl and anti-war liberals and hippies were tearing up the country with their explitive-laced vitriol, conservatives were the ones who stood for decent, respectful speech.
Now I'm a grown-up lady and it is liberals who call for decent, respectful speech. Why? Because it is the conservative media, the conservative readership and the conservative politicos that have made Ann Coulter the movement's mouthpiece (and a millionaire, let's not forget!)
To the concervatives reading this: Ann Coulter may not speak for you personally, but she doesn't care. And as long as she continues to rake it in, it's not unfair to assume she speaks for somebody. A lot of somebodies. Who are they, then, if not the collective 'you'? It's not like CPAC didn't know what she was when they put her at the top of the bill last week.
And you know what? The shoe is on the other foot now. Now it is liberal America that can, with the '08 election just around the corner, say (quietly at first, and only to each other) 'they must be insane - why are they just handing us the country like this?'
Well, I won't worry too long about that; I'll just laugh all the way to the voting booth!
isn't she a sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetheart,spouting of her sweet little ass and whining to her vassals over the treatment she is getting from her own pondscum enumerators. happy tidings my bleached blonde cutie!!!!!
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