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Ann Coulter defends 'taunt for wuss'
By Stone Martindale Mar 6, 2007, 6:36 GMT
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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!!!!!
Seems to me I recall chocolite candy in england called faggot balls and that cigarettes were fags in England. Im not defending but the political correctness pundits go too far.
I have never understood the allure of Coulter, she always seemed like a festering sore to me, contributing nothing good to humanity or even justification for existing. But, what is even worse, is how it seems so many 'do gooder' Republicans and the rightest of the right wing not only salute her but encourage a forum for her...the hypocrisy of such christianity is nothing less than amazing.
Really, can anyone be surprised by Coulter's slur? C'mon, she's been slingin it for years. She's venomous and she's extreme--the serious version of Don Rickles--and to express shock by whatever she says is ridiculous. We'd be remiss if we didn't express outrage, however. And to demand an apology is appropriate, at least from those of us who choose to live in a civil society. I'm trying to think of the equivalent from the Left, and I can't. Al Franken and Harry Shearer are cutting, for sure, and take the mantle of humor to frame their political commentary, but neither of them use slurs in their arsenal.
Yeah, she makes our blood boil, and I think is a total embarrassment to the political Right, but she has the right to say what she does. We're correct in expressing outrage; then we should just turn the station.
Freedom of speech..yes. But she is a person who wants to sensationalize herself. Otherwise she is nothing. Kinda like that other blonde anna nicole smith.
The term faggot means 'a bundle of sticks'. In the days of the Salem Witch hunts when they would burn 'witches' at the stake they would surround the stake with 'Faggots', small bundles of sticks. When the blaze was full on in those days they would also throw on the fire any person suspected or known to be homosexual. Hence the term faggot became commonly attached to homosexuals. By using the term you are essentially saying that you believe homosexuals should be burned alive.
Send her to Iraq.
After reading Ann's column in last Sunday's paper, I am wondering how (or why) she became a novelist. Her remarks are like her writings: incoheriant, inconsistant, scattered and lack knowledge of her subject (s). It would be nice is she would, just, crawl back into the woodwork from whence she came.
She's an opportunist piece of trash who doesn't even believe what she says. She only says that crap to sell books to the idiots in America who believe in the type of venom she spews.
If you are one of those idiots who buys into what she says, you are contributing to the destruction of this country. Grow up.
Why, that Coulter's got real balls! Where are the quotes from Ted Haggerty?
Well, I guess if we call Ann Coulter the c-word, she'll take it OK
Ann is just having her usual fun. So what? Its a big free (we hope) country.
In my schoolyard I would choke a bitch who called me a faggot....maybe Coulter grew up in a schoolyard that didn't teach her this lesson, or maybe she should attempt to rise above the schoolyard IQ.
Ann is great. He was spinning like a mother last night on H&C. You could almost hear his nuts tightening up! That guy has some big balls!
This woman has GUTS! I'm not a conservative or right winger but I admire her courage and wit. She should be running for president. It would be fun!
Right on sister!!! You are great. Dump the politcally correct world!
From answers.com: Faggot is defined as 'Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.'
From Wikipedia.com the first definition of faggot is 'a pejorative term for a gay or effeminate man'.
That is what she said and meant. Now she is trying backpedal like she does not know the definition???? That is disingenuous at best. More like a big fat effing lie.
It is not like she lost her credibility on this one with me though, that was gone a long time ago. This heads toward appalling behavior.
Kevin
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.'.....Huh, so if I were to say that she is a bitch, then it dosent count, because bitch means female dog, and because she is not a female dog it isnt being applied to her, that means I can say that and not care...that makes sense...
on page one is a real riot. That's the funniest thing I've seen in quite a while.
Shouldn’t monsters and critics apologize for using the word succubus as some women find it very offending and refers to women sucking the life out of men? There were many better word choices given a word that has such grossly offensive negative gender connotations. Shame on you.
Are you kidding? What are people so exercised about? Do you people (i.e. Americans) really want to be protected against being offended, or do you just want to hammer someone for expressing a non-PC thought? I also note that apparently the woman got applause. This is what your founders fought for, you ninnies! Personally I enjoy hearing others launch into offensive comments; that's usually a prelude to a fun debate. So enjoy the tussle, instead of being such thin-skinned crybabies whining for state intervention to protect your sensitive ears, and let the debates begin!
It's her right to fling insults but it also serves her right if those insults boomerangs back to hit her adam's apple.
Canadian I was being sarcastic, I find the whole thing a little overdramatic. By the way I totally respect your nations leaders 'Terrence and Phillip' They Rock ehhh… By the way whatever happened to your former leaders Bob and Doug McKenzie?
Canadian... you are just GREAT! What you said is exactly what we Americans needed to hear.
Thanks buddy!
Domingo
Brian--Mar 6th, 2007 - 16:35:59 stop being a wuss. A school yard tough threatening a woman. Dude crawl back into your mother’s basement before she smacks you! Say away from the playground, us bad boys are still her and we will take your lunch money.
Ann is not a conservative. She's an opportunist just trying to make a buck from espousing what she barely understands as conservative ideology. She's a media clown that could just as easily switch and promote liberal soundbites. She thinks it's conservative to be anti-gay and throw around anti-gay slurs. She also probably thinks it's okay to say the 'n' word and define it as a non-racial schoolyard insult, but at least she knows better that most conservatives are not in the KKK. However, she's exploiting the fact that many so-called conseratives are anti-gay. I'd like to label them as socialist Taliban style theocrats and tell them to join the liberals instead. As for free speech, she has the right to say whatever she wants, and we also have the right to condemn her. That's not speech totalitarianism. It's called collective shaming. That's not against the law either.
Hilarious reading all the comments here! Makes the day go by so quick.
Somebody should round up all the O'Reillys, Coulters and Hannitys and send their happy @$ to the Middle East. It's just funny that they are the only ones that would lower themselves like that just to get attention. Oh yeah, don't forget the 'Savages'. Shows lack of professionalism as well as class when you start slinging trash like that around. Maybe someone should refer to Bush that way. I think the applause would indeed be thunderous.
That's not her adams apple. It's Sean Hannity's balls.
And by 'Bush' I was referring to the whole dirty cabinet.
Agreed.
The test I usually use to determine the repugnance factor involves replacing 'gays and lesbians' with 'black people' or 'Jewish people'.
So if placed 'in context', Ms Coulter's witty and courageous satirical banter would read:
'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 'nigger'.'
''Nigger' isn't offensive to blacks; it has nothing to do with blacks. It's a schoolyard taunt meaning 'inferior race' and unless you're telling me that John Edwards is black, it was not applied to a black person.'
I would like to think the days of spewing such loathsome bile as 'nigger-lover' in public discourse were over, but it seems we're going to have to wait another decade or two.
If our country can survive people like Louis Farakan, the Muslim that hates all non-Muslims, I think we can make it past Ann Coulter. The media doesn't get near as upset when the murderers slice the heads off people fighting the terrorist. It also seems OK for some people to call for the death of Bush and Cheney. There's a lot more things to lose sleep over than this.
apologize? Succubus was one of our most favorite schoolyard taunts...I went to a Jesuit school, so our vocabulary bar was a bit higher than Ann's...
get over yourself-this is not Reuters.
picture this, Ann smiling as she bends over and licks herself!
Ann Coulter's comment is valuable in the sense that it represents the obvious preservation of one of our most cherished freedoms - Freedom of expression. Our system allows the airing of all ideas, thus enabling us to identify and elevate the sublime and also identify the repugnant.
Coulter's remarks only remind us of the importance and necessity of preserving the ideas of those who strive to improve our country through inclusion and tolerance.
She's physically and mentally ugly. Ann, all the riches in the world won't help your face or your head.
Never heard of Ann Coulter until recently. She's not bad looking. Wonder if she swallows?
Ann Coulter can say whatever she wants. People take her too seriously. I honestly believe that John Edwards is a 'faggot'. He is a wimp, a pansy, a sissy. Unless they're trying to imply that he is homosexual, I don't think it has any meaning outside of that.
John Edwards and ALL LIBTARDS are Faggots!
get over it. you call her names and your just as bad with the names you call her. your just as bad or worst.
Isn't it funny that the same ones who rally to the banner of 'Free Speech' are the same ones to get into an uproar when someone uses it?
I guess it depends on who you offend. If a someone makes a comment about conservatives, christians, whites, rich people, educated people, people with morals, straights, or a host of others that do not represent what Liberals are trying to abolish then it would be applauded.
Frankly I thought her joke was funny, though instead of 'faggot' she should have said 'rich socialist pseudo-communist who holds the average American in contempt'.
In my opinion, Conservatives are strong, agressive, go-getting, selfish horders who need to control the world because they are afraid of everything.
That's better than being weak, complaisant, lazy, generous with other people's money, wanting to let anything go for not believing in right or wrong.
I'm not weak, complacent or lazy. I do believe that Conservatives are being generous with other people's money to fund a war that lets anything go, namely killing, which of course, is wrong.
These 'Conservatives' you refer to don't seem very conservative to me. True Conservatism means smaller government, less taxes, less social programs, self sufficient economy, strong military for defence not offence, shall I go on?
I am a Conservative, we are however a dying breed.
I take it that you don't vote Republican then, because the things you are talking about are not being done by Republicans, even if they say they are.
''faggot' isn't offensive to gays'??????!!!????
This proves that either Coulter is an idiot or she's lying through her teeth. Or both.
I think she's lying. Her explanation sounds like she's backpedaling through a book of synonyms. It sounds like she can't own up to being a hater of gay people.
all of this Political correctness has gone far enough, you can't say anything with out someone saying that you are a bigot, well tough... if you don't like it, move.....
Her use of this word is poor, very juvenile and childish. As a Conservative I
think we should take the High Road, leave the name calling and vulgar language to the Lefties.
Yes, drop the P.C. Either you're a bigot or you're not. I hope I don't live near you.
She's so infantile -- using a 'schoolboy's taunt.' If she didn't mean it as a slur, she wouldn't have said 'you have to go into rehab' if you use the word.
So childish. Like her thinking.
What a bunch of nancy boys! A woman makes coment to a man who is obviously able to defend himself and you all go crying to your nanny-state mommas that you are offended and this little woman, who has made a carreer out of being stronger than all of you put together, should be punished- to the point of death ('Send her to iraq.') I think that John Edwards, and most faggots, for that matter, are probably strong enough people that they can let a little name calling roll right off their backs. If not, they're probably pantywaists to begin with regardless of whether they prefer prison sex to strait sex.
Grow a backbone and get over it.
Ann Coulter has a Penis. I saw her playing with it at a gay bar where 'she' performs as a drag queen.
I'm not offended. And I think you're right, John Edwards probably doesn't care too much. I'm sure he's just glad that he's not her. What's her career? Being strong? She should go to Iraq if she supports the war, instead of letting someone else die for her.
This is not a reference to gays... Edward's isn't gay! But he certainly is a wus.
Sure it is. The colloquial meaning the word is a derogatory one towards gay people. It doesn't matter if he is gay or not, what matters is that she's a gay hater. I don't think Edwards is a 'wus'; if he were Ann wouldn't be threatened by him.
Why are there so many comments accusing some sort of hostility toward homosexuals that then assert this woman is a homosexual or a transvestite?
Because her opponents want to prove her right?
an incompetent politician who starts a war and, being a coward himself, leaves others to do battle while remaining oblivious to the failing strategy with which the war is waged. Example: George Bush is a faggot.
Would Nancy Boy have been more appropriate for the Left Wing Statist free speech Nazi's?
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