Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Idiot of the Day - Ann Coulter (again)
I know I shouldn’t give her any attention, but she’s already made it onto the Huffington Post, so my blog entry won’t make a difference. This is what she said: “I was going to comment on John Edwards,’’ she told the crowd here at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, “but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you say the word faggot.’‘ It was in reference to that knucklehead from “Grey’s Anatomy”, Isaiah Washington, calling T.R. Knight a “little faggot”, but it has me totally baffled. First of all, the Ann Coulter audience laughed. I don’t get it. At all. What was her point? John Edwards is straight. Was she trying to insult him by calling him a “faggot”? How? Why? It’s not funny, it’s not accurate, it’s just a mean-spirited stupid thing to say. It’s not even something that could make John Edwards mad, except because of the stupidity of it. It’s not insulting to him. It’s not like talking about his money and his big house and calling him a hypocrite. That also isn’t true, but he might find it insulting, instead of just dumb. Does anyone else know what her point was? Am I’m missing part of my Gay Agenda playbook, where we have anything in particular to do with John Edwards? I mean, he isn’t even in favor of gay marriage.
Someday, some conservative with a spine will stand up to the Ann Coulter rhetoric. They’ll say that it doesn’t represent their political viewpoints and that she’s basically a namecalling bully who happens to have long blonde hair and wear mini-skirts. Someday people will be ashamed that they even listened to her, much less laughed at her namecalling. We’re ashamed of children who act like that, and she’s supposed to be a grown up. She’s not stupid, surely she has better retorts than “faggot.”
Bob Geiger does such an all-around better job of this than I did. Luckily, he’s one o’ them professionals. Anyway, read what he wrote. It’s good, and it’s important.
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