In surveying the right-wing crapweasel web sites, as I do more often than I should for the sake of my blood pressure and overall sanity, I've come across a broad spectrum of defenses of Ann Coulter's "faggot" remark. I hereby record them for posterity - paraphrased, but with the basic meaning intact.
- Ann wasn't calling Edwards a faggot - she was referring to Isaiah Washington from "Grey's Anatomy."
- Ann didn't call Edwards a faggot - in fact, she specifically *declined* to call him a faggot.
- Ann was using the word in the "schoolyard taunt" sort of way - not to mean "gay." (This came not only from her defenders, but from Ann herself on "Hannity" last night)
- I thought being gay was great, according to liberals. Is there something wrong with being gay, now?
- Gays call each other "faggot" all the time. What's the big deal?
- Faggot actually means: bundle of sticks, female prostitute, old woman, bassoon (!) etc. etc. ad infinitum.
- The comment didn't have anything to do with Edwards - it was all about media hysteria over language.
- It was a joke!
- There were a lot worse things Ann could have called Edwards, but she didn't.
- Why are liberals trying to take away Ann Coulter's freedom of speech? Liberal Nazis.
- Apparently to liberals, it's OK to say vicious things about Christians, but you can't sneeze in the direction of a gay.
- Ann was taken out of context (again).
- I hate liberals and their manufactured outrage.
- Ann was making a good point. Who wants the Breck Girl as Commander-in-Chief?
UPDATE: Best weblog comment of the week, from Hot Air:
I'd just like to add that liberals don't love to bash Christians, just people who call themselves Christians right after calling someone else a faggot.
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