Ann Coulter: Classless

We've all heard by now that Ann Coulter used the term "faggot" when discussing John Edwards recently, and of course she's already claiming it was all in good fun...a joke. However, it isn't the first time the couthless bitch has used the derogatory term. In 2006 she used it to describe Al Gore. Only she didn't just call him a plain ol' "faggot"; she labeled him a "total fag".

~On the July 27 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews asked right-wing pundit Ann Coulter, "How do you know that [former President] Bill Clinton is gay?" -- referring to her comment the night before on CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch that Clinton "show[s] some level of latent homosexuality." Coulterresponded, "I don't know if he's gay. But [former Vice President] Al Gore --total fag." She went on to defend her theory about Clinton's sexuality by stating that"everyone has always known, widely promiscuous heterosexual men have, as I say, a whiff of the bathhouse about them." Coulter claimed she was "just kidding" about Gore, but said of her theory about Clinton, "It's not only not a joke, it's not even surprising."~

What is it with Coulter and "fag" jokes (although she wasn't joking when she stated that Bill Clinton had a "whiff of the bathhouse" about him)? Is she not aware that the term is just as offensive to the gay community as the "N" word is to the African American community? She's probably aware but most likely doesn't care. It's disgusting that news organizations continue to fawn over her and provide her with a platform to spew her hate speech. I don't see them providing the same platform to the leader of the Klu Klux Klan...as they shouldn't, nor should they provide one to any espouser of hate.


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