Potty Mouth Right-Wing Nut Case Ann Coulter Called Democratic Presidential Candidate John Edwards a “Faggot” at the Conservative Political Action Conference
"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," Ann Coulter told GOP activists attending the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday.
Democrats were quick to condemn her remark.
Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman, called on Republican presidential contenders to denounce the "hate-filled" comment.
Edwards' campaign sent an e-mail to supporters calling the comment a "shameless display of bigotry."
It asked supporters to help raise $100,000 in "Coulter Cash" so that the former North Carolina senator could show "every would-be Republican mouthpiece that their bigoted attacks will not intimidate" him.
The Republicans who attended the conference laughed and applauded Ann Coulter’s anti-gay bigotry. She also recently called Al Gore a “Fag,” and mocked the widows of 9-11 victims. She seems to now represent what the Republican Party has become, a party of bigotry and hate. Will the Republican Party and the Republican candidates who shared the stage at Conservative Political Action Conference (Mitt Romney & Rudy Giuliani) denounce Coulter’s anti-gay bigotry, or do they support her hatred of the the people of United States of America?
Will the media hold Coulter and her conservative audience under the same microscope they hold every word of Democratic leaders and candidates?
(I agree with Richard Kim at The Nation Faggot Feud, Ann Coulter has a serious gaydar problem if she really things Al Gore and John Edwards are "fags." More likely, she know they are not, and is using "fag" and "faggot" to refer to "effiminate" liberal men who care about people, the environment, the poor, etc. She equates "liberal" and "faggot".)
Here's more on Ann Coulter's Faggot Remark and Mitt Romney over on Alternet
UPDATE: At least Four Companies have Pulled Ads From Ann Coulter's Website
Daily Kos and has launched a grassroots campaign against her advertisers/supporters, as has the Human Rights Campaign
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The reason Coulter was applauded for her homophobic comments (and for her racist and Christian supremacist comments about Barack Obama) is that bigotry is a core value for the right-wing base of the GOP. People need to realize that Coulter is the epitome of the "conservative movement," not an outlier.
An etymological question here: What, exactly, does "fag" or "faggot" mean, anymore?
Words evolve and change over time. The word "gay" used to mean "happy." The nuance and connotation of words also differs depending upon which circles you run in. As I understand it the term "shag" is a bit more offensive to Britts than it is to Americans.
Is the term "fag" still considered an offensive term? I don't mean to be combative. Really, I'm just curious. If you use the term "fag" is it an offensive term, or does it depend upon who is using it and why. For example, the word "nigger" is highly offensive if I use it (a midwestern white guy), but it is common slang for inner-city black kids. I don't bring this up to whine about "reverse racism" or inequality or anything silly like that. It is just a fact: Words mean different things in different contexts when used by different groups of people.
So, that brings me back to my question: What does "fag" really mean???
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