Ho ho ho! It's a joke! Get it?
Well, Ann gets it, anyway. After her March 2 stand-up gig in front of an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the blonde blowhard was besieged by yet another controversy that she has brought upon herself. This time the row was over her use of the word "faggot" in reference to former Senator and current presidential candidate John Edwards (D-NC), a faux pas that she described a few days later as nothing but "a schoolyard taunt" while appearing on Sean Hannity's syndicated daytime radio show. In detail, Coulter defended her words by pretending that they aren't offensive...
"[T]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."
Forgetting for the moment the 30 million Americans -- give or take -- who are almost assured to be personally offended by the slur, up until this week I didn't think that there was anybody in America with the audacity to suggest that the words "faggy, faggotry, faggot, fag" aren't universally known to be cruel and pointed insults to the subjects at which they are aimed. Into this void stepped Coulter, who could appear under the "audacity" entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Speaking of the English language, she was defended -- some may say fawned over -- by another guest on the same radio show, Fox News contributer Pat Caddell. In a daring display of incestuous back-slapping, Caddell squirmed his way to Ann's defense, saying that...
"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."
Hell, maybe she just intended to call Edwards a cigarette. After all, he is from North Carolina. But really, we all knew what she meant, and to her credit, she hasn't apologized or even backed down in any meaningful way. She argued in defense of her statement, and anyone who dared to be offended by her words must not have their heads screwed on straight. She took it like a man.
Still, one wonders where her logic leads. Would she say that she "can't call Barack Obama a 'nigger'" because the PC thought police would take her in the middle of the night?" Give it a shot, Ann, if you've got the balls. You are, after all, the same woman who has made "jokes" about murdering journalists and assassinating Supreme Court justices and Democratic Presidents. Put your money where your mouth is!
Of course, some truly nasty things could be said about Coulter as well. For instance, I could say that she has the intellect of a retard, but I think that the handicapped have enough problems without being compared to Ann Coulter. I could say that she has the personality of a feral dog, but I don't know any feral dogs that have accused 9/11 widows of enjoying the deaths of their husbands. And, yes, I could call her a cunt, but I wouldn't because this simple four-letter epithet does not -- nay, can not -- accuretly reflect the depraved mindset of the abomination known as Ann Counter. In fact, I can't really talk about Ann Coulter, because words do not exist that can describe the ugliness that exists within her blackened soul.
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