Their has been a lot of buzz the last few days over Ann Coulter calling John Edwards a “faggot”. I chose not to cover it because I feel that the more publicity Coulter gets, the more fuel she has for her outlandish comments. Today I had to cave because of Keith Olbermann, who took time from his vacation last night to call in the World’s Worst on Countdown.
We got Limbaugh saying that Obama owns Al Sharpton because Obama has a history of slave owners in his family and Sharpton’s family was once owned by Strom. Coulter and her “faggot” comment earns her the top honor, while Gingrich showed his true hatred with this comment:
How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn’t get out of the way of a hurricane.
Wow Newt. Why didn’t you just say that it was the “stupid niggers” in the 9th ward? Considering the 9th ward is mostly African-American and your use of “uneducated” that is what you were implying.
Back to Coulter. There has been a lot of outrage on right wing blogs over her comments. Some I believe is sincere, but others I believe is nothing more than grand standing. When you watch the video of Coulter making the comment it was met with applause and laughter from the conservative filled room:
It has also sparked some right-wing apologists to come out and defend her comments as a “joke” involving what happened with the actor from Grey’s Anatomy, Isaiah Washington. That is the worse argument of them all. How can they say that when Coulter has made the same comments about Al Gore and Bill Clinton long before the entire Isaiah Washington fiasco?
Coulter even tried to write the comments off on FOX News last night as being a “school yard taunt”. Well it appears that a Scarborough guest, Bob Cohen. has a direct line to the Coulter talking points:
Cohen, also a right wing darling, tries to argue that it was just a schoolyard taunt and goes as far to say it is appropriate in the school yard. So it is ok for our children to go to school and call someone a “faggot” or “nigger”? Now that is the hate filled minds of conservatives right there. What kind of family values it this? I would never want my children growing up thinking it is ok to go to school and call someone one of those names. I doubt most conscious minded parents wouldn’t either.
Cohen also goes on using the “Isaiah Washington” defense also. I have lately gained a lot of respect for Scarborough, but he did not knock that argument down. Instead he let it slide. Scarborough should have been all over it as one of Coulter’s last “faggot” out bursts happened on his own network:
Coulter called Gore a “fag” more than 6 months before Isaiah Washington’s episode, there by negating the argument Cohen was trying to use last night. And you didn’t think of that Joe?
So where has all this lead us? Has this fake outrage boiled over into the CPAC’s organizers? Hell no. CPAC issued a statement this morning
ACU and CPAC leave it to our audience to determine whether comments are appropriate or not. “Ann Coulter is known for comments that can be both provocative and outrageous. That was certainly the case in her 2007 CPAC appearance and previous ones as well. But as a point of clarification, let me make it clear that ACU and CPAC do not condone or endorse the use of hate speech,” said David A. Keene, ACU Chairman.
(H/T AmericaBLOG)
So in other words they want to plead the 5th on the comment at their own gathering yet they want the audience to decide if she should be back or not? Well judging the response from the audience when she made the comments, it appears they are sizing her up for key-note speaker next year.
Race and hate is nothing more than a political issue for the right wing. They love it when one of their own use it because it now provides them ammo to come out looking “compassionate” by disavowing the comments. The only problem is in the transparency of this scam. We can see right through it. If these people were truly outraged then they would tell the CPAC either get rid of Coulter or they will not come back. They would also do the same to Gingrich and Limbaugh for their outrageous comments. But they don’t. Instead they blog about it and try to act like they care, but still turn to these people as their idols.
These lowest forms of apologists are doing nothing but validating Howard Dean when he said the Republican Party is a “white Christian” party. They take little action for such “outrage” and that proves Dean’s point even more.