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from MediaMatters: Coulter: "I don't think there's anything offensive about any variation of faggy, faggotry, faggot, fag" On the March 6 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Sean Hannity featured right-wing pundit Ann Coulter and Fox News contributor Pat Caddell to discuss Coulter's March 2 speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), in which she said she "can't really talk about" Democratic presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards (NC) because "you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot.' " Hannity said, "Most of the speech was about humor. You were telling jokes the whole time here," and went on to discuss Grey's Anatomy actor Isaiah Washington, who recently sought counseling after using the slur. Coulter responded by saying, " hat's, of course, what I was referring to, and I don't think there's anything offensive about any variation of faggy, faggotry, faggot, fag. It's a schoolyard taunt. It means -- it means wussy. It means, you know, Hillary giving a speech in a fake Southern drawl -- that's faggy. A trial lawyer who weeps before juries is faggy. Lifetime-type TV, faggy." Coulter then referred to the word "faggot" as "a totally excellent word."
In the same broadcast, Coulter referred to the conference as "a really fun, boisterous event," saying, "I whip up the crowd with fun speeches, and this was part of one." In response to Hannity's assertion that some people "view" the word faggot as "a taunt against the gay lifestyle," Coulter said that "no one thinks that's what I was saying." Caddell added: "The problem, Ann, is it's old English -- it's English, it's English, it's not American. It's -- you're absolutely right in the English context of the word."
On January 23, in response to the Isaiah Washington scandal, the weblog Think Progress noted that on the January 22 broadcast of CNN's Headline News, host Glenn Beck said the word "faggot" was nothing more than a "naughty name," and was "amaz" at The New York Times' refusal to print the word.
The Human Rights Campaign, a leading gay and lesbian activism organization, issued a press release condemning Coulter's comments as "vile" and "disgusting," and CNN reported that "t least three major companies want their ads pulled from Ann Coulter's Web site" following her March 2 remarks.
From the March 6 edition of ABC Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show:
HANNITY: Ann, what a shock, involved in a controversy. The world is mesmerized by it. Well, first of all, I had an opportunity to speak to you yesterday, and then I spoke to you last night on Hannity & Colmes. I want you, in your own words, to explain what was going on at this event.
COULTER: Seven thousand right-wing news junkies every year -- I go every year, you go almost every year -- most of them college Republicans. And it's a really fun, boisterous event. I whip up the crowd with fun speeches, and this was -- this was part of one. You're going to play more of the speech, right?
HANNITY: Yeah, I think we have the other cut standing by here --
COULTER: In fact, you ought to just, you know, take off the last 20 minutes of the show and run the whole speech and question-and-answer.
HANNITY: Well --
COULTER: I think your listeners would enjoy that. .....more
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