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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
I think she set it up as a joke in that she was attacking Edwards as well as the pattern of someone using a slur and then going into rehab as an excuse for it.
Personally, I have no huge issues with "faggot" -- but get that some do and totally agree that Coulter went too far for mainstream America, which was not the audience she was playing to when she made the remark.
Also, I LOVE how Fox News is spinning this into a sep. issue of why don't the liberals get equal bad press when they jokingly call for Cheney's assination a la Bill Maher. I mean do two wrongs make a right  |
I don't have any issues with gays being called "fag" or "faggot", eventhough it's all in bad taste. What I don't like about Coulter's joke was that she used it to describe someone who she hates for his political leanings (as she has done before about Bill Clinton and Al Gore). She keeps referring to them as fags or other gay slurs, so she's expressing her hate for these people by addressing them this way. It's directly a slur meant to express HATE. Not a comment on their sexuality.
And I watched Real Time with Bill Mahr - he never said such a thing. He was commenting on a blogger's statement at HuffingtonPost.com, that said he wished the bomb that exploded near Cheney had killed him. Bill Mahr then said he believes if Cheney were dead there'd be less killing in Iraq.