Hum.
Well, I asked. And one shouldnt look a gift horse in the mouth, as we say.
McGentrix wrote:Nimh, you are usually well read. What do you suppose her point was when she said
"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,'"
Do you think it was to simply call him a faggot, or to make a point about libs going to rehab for using naughty words or other actions? That seems to be the latest fad. Claim an addiction or problem and enter rehab as though that will fix everything after screwing up.
Hmm, like the others already pointed out it seems to be mostly conservatives now who go into therapy to be cured of bad thoughts (Haggard officially declared not gay after therapeutic talks!).
The excuse that most Coulter apologists have come up with on this remark now is rather that she was referring to someone (a sportsman or something?) who was sent to a training or the like recently because he called someone a f*ggot. So, the argument goes, she wasnt
really calling Edwards a f*ggot when she said that she didnt have anything to say about Edwards because you're not allowed to call someone a f*ggot, no, she was merely heckling PC gone overboard!
Now do I think she meant to call Edwards a f*ggot, or to ridicule PC supposedly gone mad?
Both of course - thats a duh question. This is her spiel. She gets to snarkily imply that Edwards is a f*ggot and get the rapturous conservative laughs for that, to phrase it in such a way that she didnt actually literally call Edwards a f*ggot,
and to use this rephrasing to score an additional red-meat point with the audience on the evil of PC. Hattrick! Clever clever
This is what we're dealing with.. a combination of schoolyard bullying, a politician's double-speak, and partisan rabblerousing. Yuk.
McGentrix wrote:I'll not sit by and watch the lynching though, as you seem to be willing to do.
Hm. Coulter calling Edwards a f*ggot to entrhusiastic applause from the country's conservative bigwigs is merely an unfortunate choice of words for the occasion, but Kickycan and co calling Coulter a c*nt is a "lynching"? All in the eye of the beholder I suppose. I think its pretty much the same level, except that, you know, the first bit involves people that matter in the country's government, and the second bit is just random nobodies like us.
But yeah no, I'm not gonna stick around either. I mean, Jesus what am I doing? In the end, who cares whether anonymous conservative forum poster A speaks out about random scandal of the week X to anonymous liberal poster B? Sucked into the evil A2K Politics vortex once again. I mean, here I am spending half an hour documenting Mysteryman's hypocrisy - WTF? Its not like I would give a freak if I'd meet someone like him in real life.
