Reuters: Controversial columnist draws fire for gay slur

[rodeodance]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070304/pl_nm/people_coulter_dc;_ylt=ArlDftiq8oMYQn2BCAHn8jfMWM0F

Controversial columnist draws fire for gay slur

1 hour, 9 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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.
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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."

[tblue]

1. She always says, 'It was a joke'

[zanne]

3. It was a joke the way this is a joke.

"You're fat, old and ugly. Just kidding".

[keepCAblue]

6. Yep...like when she suggested poisoning the liberal Supreme Court justices.

[AngryOldDem]

11. "I'm so ashamed I can't stop laughing" -- her response this time

So says CBS News about a line on her Website.

I do, however, like to see the "mainstream" GOPers like Romney, Guiliani, and McCain scramble to distance themselves from her. Nice, too, to see the tacit admission that she has more followers than they would like to admit, and it IS a problem for the party as a whole.

[benny05]

2. The Shill that Keeps Shilling

The main job of David Bonior, who is a union activist, is "fronting for Arab Terrorists."

I see. Union members are Arab terrorists all of the sudden, according to the Coultergeist.

I would think she would belong to a union of free-lance writers. If she doesn't, she'll want to after those comments.

[tblue]

5. Whatever happened to her voting felony trial? Why isn't she in prison?

[benny05]

8. I wonder too

Some one on Brad Blog wondered the same.

And I wonder what happened to Pastor Ted on this one.

[Why Syzygy]

4. ???

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.


Forced Conversion? What a biddie. She is a dangerous, disgusting, haggard old biddie.

[entanglement]

7. I'd prefer 'Homophobic fascist' to 'controversial', but that's just me

n/t

[truthisfreedom]

9. Tranny Annie is just jealous.

[IndianaGreen]

10. Coulter does have a very large Adam's apple, even for a man

but she did go to school as a female, so I wonder if she was born an intersexed child, which may explain a lot about her conflicted personality.

[carla]

16. Bingo!

We have a winner! That has always been my take on this loathsome person.

[krispos42]

12. Not only is she accusing him of being gay, she's using a slur!

It's like accusing Edwards of having black heritage, but saying 'Edwards is a quarter n1@@3&'

Disgusting.

[annabanana]

13. Well, well, well, Reuters finally heard about it...

(and just a couple of days after CNN had been running with it)

[olddad56]

14. She needs to check into Alcohol Rehab, like all of the others who need an excuse

[The Doctor.]

15. So...

Bill Maher is the only one to have figured it out so far...?

Or am I delusional?

[HuffleClaw]

17. She then said Edwards' campaign chairman's main job was "fronting for Arab terrorists."

meep


she's sure intent on digging her way out of that hole i see.

[benny05]

18. But she is going to be Queen Sisyphus

Moving the boulder again and again.