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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.
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She knew exactly what she was doing. She was showing support for the concept that faggot/homosexual = male weakness. And she was showing support for the ability to use that word as a means to put someone down- menacingly, I might add.
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Personally, I have no huge issues with "faggot" -- but get that some do...
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I can handle my own against it- however, there are a lot of scared teenagers who see that word as quite a threat. Throwing it around as an accepted cheap shot is akin to talking about how great lynchings were with a "wink, wink" and a laugh.
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...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.
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The fact that her audience reveled in it makes it all the more disgusting.
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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.
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Bill Maher making a statement about what would happen if Cheney had died in Afghanistan has no comparison to this. I won't even get into the comments made on Fox Noise. That they would have people on defending her statements is shameful.