By now you’ve all doubtlessly heard that Ann Coulter indirectly called John Edwards a faggot during the CPAC conference this week.
I’ve always found Ann Coulter amusing and entertaining — I enjoy her shtick, and I enjoy watching the Left fume and writhe in anger every time she opens her mouth. The Left would almost rather repeal the First Amendment than to let Coulter practice it.
But frankly, her “faggot” remark wasn’t funny; it wasn’t appropriate; it’s probably not even accurate.
I’m glad to see that the right-o-sphere is uniformly and roundly criticizing and denouncing her remarks. Jules Crittenden has a good round up.
In fact, after reading through 20-30 righ-leaning blogs, I can’t find a single one supporting her.
What I find interesting though — and I think it’s one the biggest difference between the right-o-sphere and the left-o-sphere — is how quickly and immediately the right condemned “one of their own” who soundly needed to be rebuked.
Many leftwing bloggers have hurled much more vile and inflammatory rhetoric at the right than Ann’s “faggot” or “raghead” remarks (hello, Amanda Marcotte and Shake’s Sister and Prof. Ward Churchill — I’m looking at you). But instead of denouncing them, the Left’s approach is to circle-the-wagons and defend “one of their own” to the teeth.
It’s a mirror of conservative and liberal politics: when a big-time conservative is indicted for unethical behavior (Tom Delay) he is forced to resign. When a prominent Democrat is found with $90K of bribe money in his freezer (William Jefferson) he is given a coveted seat on the Dept. of Homeland Security.
Or when a Republican sends inappropriate emails and IMs to teenage pages, the Republican leadership drop-kicks his ass out of office (Rep. Mark Foley). But when Rep. Gerry Studds admitted to having sexual relations with a 17-year-old male page — Studds was not just communicating with the boy, but involved in a sexual affair — his own party merely “censored” him, and then he was voted back into office his following term.
Wasn’t Mitt Romney just praising her, despite her history of absurd utterances?
GO ANN!
Well, it’s to your credit that you feel that her comments were stupid but you really need to take a look around at your fellow conservatives if you believe she is ‘isolated’. Take a look at the comments in American Soldier for instance or the thousands of books she has sold or her repeated attendence on Fox News. To suggest that Amanda Marcotte has an equally prominent role among progressives is a little off.
How many of those 20-30 bloggers referr to Edwards as Silky Pony or photoshop him as a little girl toy?
Anyway, as someone else pointed out, Coulter stocked up on homo offsets before CPAC so her remark was faggot-neutral.
It’s a serious complaint that people have to be forced into rehab because they don’t meet PC standards. Good on Anne.
That last anonymous comment came here from the alternative universe, where, in fact, it is a serious complaint that people have to be forced into rehab because they don’t meet PC standards.
Tell us more, Mr./Mrs. Anonymous!!
Do Republicans really support the troops there?
Is Jeff Gannon really a journalist there?
Were we greeted with rose petals there?
What color is the sky there?
Did Brownie really do a heckuva job there?
Is there a war on Christmas there?
Tell us more about the fascinating world you live in!
Seriously? The same group of people who draw Hitler mustaches on President Bush; the same group of people who draw cartoons of Condi Rice as a “house nigger”; the same people who think that blackface is the pinnacle of political satire — these same people are offended by depictions of Edwards as a silk pony?
Seriously?
You do know where and why Edwards got the silk pony and Breck Girl monikers, right?
Yeah, I know where the nic came from Are your seriously telling me referring to his as Silky Pony and the photoshops don’t portray him as feminine?
I’m not offended by people referring to him as Silky Pony. Nor am I offended by Coulter’s joke. It’s hypocritical to yuk it up over one and throw Coulter under the bus for the other.