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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.

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.

Personally, I have no huge issues with "faggot" -- but get that some do...

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.

...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.

The fact that her audience reveled in it makes it all the more disgusting.

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.

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.