Ann Coulter Calls John Edwards A Faggot Lol

[TraxusIV]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070304/pl_n...coulter_dc

Quote:Controversial columnist draws fire for gay slur

2 hours, 8 minutes ago

Outspoken U.S. conservative columnist Ann Coulter is drawing fire from Republicans and Democrats alike after publicly using a derogatory gay slur in reference to Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards.

"Ann Coulter not only once again went out of her way to use a nasty epithet, she pushed her offensiveness up a notch," Amy Ridenour, president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, said on Sunday.

Coulter made the comments on Friday during a speech at the influential American Conservative Union's Political Action Conference, calling Edwards a "faggot."

"We conservatives have enough trouble overcoming the false things that are said about us without paying for a platform upon which we shoot ourselves annually in the foot," Ridenour, whose group helped sponsor the conference, said in a statement on the center's Web site.

Coulter said the comment was a joke and on her Web site she carried the speech with the comment, "I'm so ashamed, I can't stop laughing." She then said Edwards' campaign chairman's main job was "fronting for Arab terrorists."

Edwards, a 2008 presidential contender and the party's 2004 vice presidential candidate, said Coulter's comments were "un-American and indefensible."

"The kind of hateful language she used has no place in political debate or our society at large," he wrote in comments posted to his Web site on Saturday.

"I believe it is our moral responsibility to speak out against that kind of bigotry and prejudice every time we encounter it," Edwards added.

The candidate also posted a video of Coulter's comments, asking supporters to raise $100,000 in so-called "Coulter Cash" for his campaign to "fight back against the politics of bigotry."

Coulter's Friday speech raised objections from Republican presidential hopefuls Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) of Arizona, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as well as Democrats.

In a statement on Sunday, Romney spokesman Kevin Madden said, "It was an offensive remark. Political discourse ought to be more substantive and thoughtful." McCain, the only contender who did not attend the event, and Giuliani called Coulter's words inappropriate, according to the New York Times.

"Ann Coulter's words of hate have no place in the public sphere much less our political discourse," Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) of Massachusetts said in a statement released on Saturday.

Several conservatives were also quick to denounce Coulter's comments in a variety of online columns.

Coulter is no stranger to controversy.

At the same conference last year, she used the word "raghead" -- a slur against Muslims -- in referring to U.S. homeland security policies. In a column published in the National Review after the September 11 attacks she urged an invasion of Muslim countries and forced conversion to Christianity.

[wokensheep]

so what, shes a transvestite.

[SerialExpLain]

This stuff is made of the shearest fabric, don't you think?

Is there a director, choreographer? Do they practice beforehand?

Is it like: Annie-Boy...we need you to get all indignant and call John a "faggot"

Then you: Johnnie-Boy...we need you to get all indignant about "hate speech"

Then chorus of legislators...We need you to chime in. "There is No Place For Hate Speech Anywhere, neva, eva!!!""

Now media, the rhythm section....spin, bump bump, spin, bump, bump -- Will this last as long as the OJ Trial?

Annie-Boy: I'm so sorry I'm ROFLMAO---good times---show times.

Yawn...

They should just use the pie in the face, buy one to throw and one for them to all eat together after the show.

[shZ]

LOL @ TraxusIV, the thread title, and the artcile :laugh:

[TraxusIV]

This is not just the first time that I havent been saddened by blatantly staged and pointless politics, but it is also the first time that I have thoroughly enjoyed the blatantly staged and pointless politics. The sheer ridiculousness of Ann Coulter is astounding. I sat laughing for quite some time at her comment. Calling a man as unimportant and insignificant as Edwards a faggot is amazing.

[shZ]

LOL

[yeti]

Has anyone else read the book called Blinded By The Right, by David Brock, a former personal friend of Coulter? He claims she's a bisexual hypocrite harpie, who's only in the shock factor "journalism" game for the money.

Go figure.

[shZ]

Quote:Has anyone else read the book called Blinded By The Right, by David Brock, a former personal friend of Coulter? He claims she's a bisexual hypocrite harpie, who's only in the shock factor "journalism" game for the money.

Go figure.

Doesn't seem like such a surprise her being Mann Coulter and all...

[synergy777]

she urged an invasion of Muslim countries and forced conversion to Christianity.


so thats where bush gets his advice from.

[synergy777]

she urged an invasion of Muslim countries and forced conversion to Christianity.


so thats where bush gets his advice from.