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Does that make it OK for me to call her a cunt since she's really a man?

Posted by Curious | March 6, 2007 11:35 AM
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When speaking of A.C. I think George Will said it best: "The less said about him the better."

Posted by Tony Danza's the Boss | March 6, 2007 11:36 AM
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So according to Coulter, it would be just fine to call a white guy the "N-word" if it was just a joke?

Posted by mattt | March 6, 2007 11:41 AM
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To me, the point isn't so much that she called someone a faggot: I've been called a faggot before, I'll be called a faggot again, and that's life.

What bothers me is that conservative "discourse" is so simple-minded and dumbed-down that they stoop to using junior high terms like "faggot". What next? Lezzie? Cootie?

Ann Coulter is the grown-up, bitter version of the kind of pretty, but really bitchy junior high school girl that made fun of people with acne or glasses. Shouldn't we be beyond that as a society? What happened to the grown-ups?

Posted by catalina vel-duray | March 6, 2007 11:43 AM
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Well, these are the people that run our right wing country.

Besides, no actual conservatives read or care what Andrew Sullivan writes anyway. The only people who read his blog or op-eds in middle brow publications like TIME are liberals who are fascinated, curious and horrified that gay conservatives exist, much like the oft compared Jewish Nazis or black Klansmen.

And can we please stop bashing Ann Coulter based on her gender? Calling her a man is really bizarre and pointless. She's a despicable person, period; so are the people she represents.

Glen Greenwald over at Salon got it exactly right:

"The people feigning upset over those matters are either active participants in, or passive aiders and abetters of, a political movement that, at its very core -- not at its fringes -- knowingly and continuously embraces the most wretched and obvious bigotry and bloodthirsty authoritarianism. They love Ann Coulter -- and therefore continue to make her a venerated part of their political events -- because she provides an outlet, a venting ground, for the twisted psychological impulses and truly hateful face that drives the entire pro-Bush, right-wing spectacle.


None of this is news, really. This is a movement propelled by an insatiable hunger for more slaughter and more wars. It is centrally dependent upon hatred of an Enemy, foreign or domestic -- the Terrorist, the Immigrant, the Faggot, the Raghead, and most of all, the Liberal. As John Dean brilliantly documented, that is the only real feature that binds the "conservative" movement at this point, the only attribute that gives it identity and purpose. It does not have any affirmative ideas, only a sense of that which it hates and wants to destroy. So to watch as the crowd wildly cheers an unapologetic hate-monger is perfectly natural and not at all surprising."

Posted by Original Andrew | March 6, 2007 11:44 AM
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She should have just called Edwards a pussy and no one would have cared. If you can say faggot on CSPAN you better be able to say pussy.

Posted by elswinger | March 6, 2007 12:05 PM
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I'm torn. On one hand, she is a cunt that doesn't deserve the attention. On the other hand, as Dan's post on Sunday (There's Something Happening Here) points out, we do have to call them out lest it grow like a malignant tumor. Help me sort it out Citizens of The Slog...

Posted by Mike in MO | March 6, 2007 12:13 PM
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Ann Coulter is one of those people with an awesome anagram for her name: A Loner Cunt.

Posted by DOUG. | March 6, 2007 12:31 PM
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Thank you Ann for being of such service to the "liberals" and us "faggots" by:

1. Becoming the poster child for conservatives that hate homos and being willing to stand by your principals to the end, therefore breathing fresh energy into the gay community about discrimination and its effects;

2. Adding fuel to the fire by claiming it was a joke;

3. Further marginalizing Fox News by only appearing on that program, knowingly running away from an actual debate;

4. Showing our straight allies and others that people like you continue to exist, have an agenda and seek to marginalize a class of people.

Keep up the good work Ann. You've probably shaved 2 years off the marriage trail and I want to thank you personally for that.

Posted by Dave Coffman | March 6, 2007 12:45 PM
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If she had called Edwards a pussy, that probably would have been acceptable. However, calling a man a pussy as an insult is to imply that women are weak. Balls=courage & strength. Pussy=fear & weakness. Sure, it is common place to call a weak man a pussy, but it is sexist. I wish I could say that everyone who is speaking out agaisnt AC calling Edwards a faggot would be speaking out if she had called him a pussy. Homophobia=classism=sexism=racism

Posted by Papayas | March 6, 2007 12:46 PM
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I keep going over the words she used and until I figured out the Isaiah Washington comment, I, too, thought she was over the line.

Reread or relisten (and listen this time). She didn't say or call anyone anything. But, you have to hear it in the Washington context.

Posted by BAFFLES | March 6, 2007 1:02 PM
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To #11
Fine. She INSINUATED Edwards was a faggot.

Right now I'm thinking of a word for you, but I'm told I shouldn't use "Douchebag" in public.

Posted by Colin | March 6, 2007 1:10 PM
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No she didn't. Listen carefully and don't let your emotions get the better of you.

And Colin, your joke would have been better if you said that if you used "douchebag" you would have to go to rehab.

Posted by BAFFLES | March 6, 2007 1:29 PM
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Awesome post, Doug...

Posted by Mr. X | March 6, 2007 1:56 PM
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"Besides, no actual conservatives read or care what Andrew Sullivan writes anyway. The only people who read his blog or op-eds in middle brow publications like TIME are liberals who are fascinated, curious and horrified that gay conservatives exist..."

Um, he's not in Time magazine anymore, and if you bothered to read his blog you would see that he actually does have conservative readers.
The party is splintering, and we have people like Ann Coulter to thank for it.

Posted by julie | March 6, 2007 2:13 PM
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julie @ 15,

My apologies to both you and the other conservative who read Andrew Sullivan's blog. I'm off to rehab!

"This is a movement propelled by an insatiable hunger for more slaughter and more wars. It is centrally dependent upon hatred of an Enemy, foreign or domestic -- the Terrorist, the Immigrant, the Faggot, the Raghead, and most of all, the Liberal. As John Dean brilliantly documented, that is the only real feature that binds the "conservative" movement at this point, the only attribute that gives it identity and purpose. It does not have any affirmative ideas, only a sense of that which it hates and wants to destroy."

Posted by Original Andrew | March 6, 2007 3:19 PM
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"Pro-gay"? What about the time she said she'd lie and tell her son he was adopted if he said he was gay?

Posted by Thor | March 6, 2007 4:16 PM
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Stupid "REPUBLICUNT" nuffsaid....

Posted by Farfel | March 6, 2007 4:26 PM
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Calling her a cunt is an insult to all true cunts, don't you think?

Posted by Gregg | March 6, 2007 5:08 PM
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The truth here is that these right-wingers are *afraid of gays.* They *fear* gays. And you know why? Because if they get out of line and cross some vaguely-defined ideological barrier, then *they too* might end up being called a 'faggot.'

Also. If you wouldn't call a black man a 'nigger,' or a gay man a 'faggot,' who would you call a 'retard?'

Posted by Enoch Root | March 6, 2007 5:26 PM
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It's funny to me that Coulter's defense is to say that her comment was nothing more than a schoolyard pun... because (maybe without knowing it) she's admitting that she's nothing more than an immature bully.

Posted by Jon | March 6, 2007 5:31 PM
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A few years ago I remember seeing people throw squid and many other things on the ice during hockey games - I still don’t know why but I think they were definitely getting a message across. I think we all should start throwing tampons at her. If she wants to act like a c*nt, she should be treared like one! I’ll buy the first box! GLADLY!

Posted by Scot | March 6, 2007 9:27 PM
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I posted this at Pandagon.com, where the Coulter question was framed in the "Politically Correct"
question: "This is one that has pissed me off more and more.
I see this as a general, if stage managed, response to ‘inclusive language’-”senior”, not “old”, “Afro-american” not "Negro"(or worse), “challenged’ not “retarded”..
And any attempt to change abusive language was suddenly called ‘politically correct’.
Fast forward to the the WBush years, when I was told that criticizing the Conduct of the war was helping the Enemy. There has been a attempt to impose another sort of political correctness, more rigid and more malign, in an campaign to end any opposition to the war or Republican policies…But you can’t call it ‘political correctness’ because that only refers to the Left’s attempts at civility.
And as to Coulter: when I get called a faggot, it’s not because I’m gay, because I’m not out to them that’s calling me that. I get called a faggot on the jobsite (I’m in construction) because I’m trying to stop abusive behavior. Bullies use sexuality as a club. Edwards is a successful trial lawyer, calling the powerful to pay for bad decisions (like having a drain in a swimming pool that sucked the guts out of a small girl who sat on it, requiring her to live more or less on life support; Edwards won her that life support, and punative damages). Of course he would seem a faggot in her eyes.
But as she is a sought after media figure, commanding large sums for her appearances, she therefore is validated by the MSM. No corresponding Liberal outrageous slur artist will arise, as no one in their right mind would pay for such bullying name calling."

Posted by MR. Bill | March 7, 2007 3:11 AM
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I would say that Ann Coulter is a piece of shit, but then I would have to go to re-education camp to learn that shit is the normal result of animal digestion, and that Ann Coulter is not normal.

Posted by lawrence clark | March 7, 2007 6:08 AM
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*I think we all should start throwing tampons at her. If she wants to act like a c*nt, she should be treared like one! I’ll buy the first box! GLADLY!*

This degrades women.

How about if we elevate the level of discourse re Ms. Coulter? Or, now that we've pointed out the inappropriateness of her behaviour, we stop feeding into her cries for attention.

Posted by amazonmidwife | March 7, 2007 8:13 AM
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LOL on Alternet.

Mamacita: MRI of Ann Coulter's Brain Reveals Startling Facts

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/48878/

Posted by truthseeker | March 7, 2007 8:41 AM
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Thanks Dan! Your writings are always very logical and help me organize all the frustrations that run through my head when I hear ignorant assholes like AC trying to justify their bigotry.

You deserve a Pulitzer Prize.

Posted by jason | March 7, 2007 9:23 AM
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what the fuck! most of these straight american men are fat, lazy,bald, stupid,and have high pitched voices. I am gay and am like 150 times more manly than any of them.. If I was them, I would consider it a compliment to be called gay. Seriously, being gay is only hard as a youth. Older gay men have it made because the older a straight guy gets, the more he acts like a little girl and looks like a fat troll.

Posted by marcy dingler | March 7, 2007 5:49 PM

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