Coulter Calls Slur A "Schoolyard Taunt"

(CBS)  Even by the standards of commentator Ann Coulter, this was a stunner.

"I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word "faggot."

The slur against gay people earned Coulter cheers in a young, standing-room only crow at Friday's American Conservative Union meeting.

As CBS News correspondent Joie Chen reports, Coulter insists it was a joke about the Democratic hopeful.

But Republican candidates went looking for cover. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was forced to backpedal away from his enthusiastic introduction.

"After you hear me, you're going to hear from Ann Coulter," he said Friday before Coulter spoke. "That is a good thing. Yeah, I think it's always very important to get the views of moderates."

He later shifted gears to lead the chorus against Coulter, labeling her remarks "offensive."

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani called her "completely inappropriate."

Arizona Senator John McCain went one better with "wildly inappropriate."

"This speaks to the big dilemma for the Republican candidates," said Mike Allen, political reporter for Politico.com. "They have to get the nomination with Ann Coulter conservatives. But they have to win the election with more moderate mainline conservatives, who are going to look at a statement like that and say, 'Ick, that's not what I want to be associated with.'"

For his part, the target of Coulter's barb fired back with the expected indignation and, on his website, a plea for money.

Edwards asked supporters to help raise $100,000 in "Coulter Cash" to
show that he would not be intimidated by "bigoted attacks."

Coulter's response on her Web site: "I'm so ashamed, I can't stop laughing!"

[gunnerv1]

I'm not a politican, so I don't have to be politally correct. So, is John Edwards a ****ot or not?

[jagee49]

With the world groverments failing where do you look for Guidance today?

[jagee49]

With the world groverments failing where do you look for Guidance today?

[jagee49]

With the world groverments failing where do you look for Guidance today?

[phil-in-fin]

"Give her a break !

How come some people *** touchy ? Feelings hurt ?

Get over it, get in line , take your leak and leave."
Posted by trueprogress

Let's spread hate and be total A-holes because we're all mature people?

This is your logic?

[jolsonbear]

what else to you expect from a creature that bleeds for 7 days once a month but never dies. Thank God I'm Gay!

[aztecfighter]

Sorry folks. This is my first time here and I accidently clicked it twice. I'll try not to do it again. Ok? Me bad bad boy! LOL!

[kaliveotin]

Ann Coulter is a nit-wit. It amayzes me how many top Republican Leaders are nit-wits. It's even more surprizing how many people follow, applaud, and even cheer these mentally challenged individuals. You can't be very aware of actual human experience , outside the rhelms of greed, hatred and selfishness and still support the heartless programs of zealots compassionless conservatives, and the Repub party these past few years. Ann Coulter is living proof that someone without any redeaming social value can make a fairly good living simply by spouting ignorance and hatred to those low-lives who get off on those kinds of emotion.

[aztecfighter]

Ann Coulter is the best thing that can happen to the Democratic Party, and here's why. Because of her acute terminal "hoof in the mouth syndrome" disease that she has been addicted to, she has no "cure". She is a terminal hopeless case of "Estupida Paranoia" that ends up in the "Stupidity Ward". Apparently since birth, her human brain cells NEVER did developed to full adult capacity which in the final outcome Coulter has lost all logic of reason. Everything that is bad against anyone by her is a silver lining in disguise to the opposition's advantage. So I hope the Demos will milk her moronic homophobia stupidness to their advantage for EVERYTHING that's worth. So please Ann, don't stop! At least not now that the Demos need you to discredit your own fellow GOP Republican Party powers that be! So blab away girl! You go girl! Hip hip! Horray!

"IF IT'S A GOOD FIGHT, ...I WANT TO BE IN IT", ...Dr. Vernon Johns, Pastor - Montgomery, Alabama
(circa; 1950)

[aztecfighter]

Ann Coulter is the best thing that can happen to the Democratic Party, and here's why. Because of her acute terminal "hoof in the mouth syndrome" disease that she has been addicted to, she has no "cure". She is a terminal hopeless case of "Estupida Paranoia" that ends up in the "Stupidity Ward". Apparently since birth, her human brain cells NEVER did developed to full adult capacity which in the final outcome Coulter has lost all logic of reason. Everything that is bad against anyone by her is a silver lining in disguise to the opposition's advantage. So I hope the Demos will milk her moronic homophobia stupidness to their advantage for EVERYTHING that's worth. So please Ann, don't stop! At least not now that the Demos need you to discredit your own fellow GOP Republican Party powers that be! So blab away girl! You go girl! Hip hip! Horray!

"IF IT'S A GOOD FIGHT, ...I WANT TO BE IN IT!, ...Dr. Vernon Johns, Pastor Montgomery, Alabama (circa; 1950)