Okay, so I’m paraphrasing. Still, Technorati’s Buzz TV cites yours truly as the conservative MAVERICK on the issue of distancing oneself from Ann Coulter’s comments—which only makes sense, since John McCain skipped CPAC and was unavailable for comment.
In his defense, of course, rumor has it McCain is busy working on the much-anticipated McCain-Feingold 2: Electronically-equal Boogaloo, which Dennis Kucinich and Taylor Marsh hope will augur a return to the kind of “fairness” that will dictate a commentary spot for the Dixie Chicks at every televised NASCAR event.
Coming soon to a poorly-attended campaign stump speech near you!
Actually, I think Dafydd ab Hugh’s take on it is the best so far:
Big F’ing Deal!
I think Ann just needed to eat a cookie. Her blood sugar, never exactly stratospheric to begin with, was probably down about 30%.
Wow, that’s a lot of props, considering you didn’t even have to say anything “hateful.”
Maverick? You?
That’s just silly. You look nothing like James Garner.
Mojo, you’re being pop-culturally anachronistic. I think you meant to say he looks nothing like Tom Cruise.
On the other hand, you’re talking about a 40-year old TV show, and I’m talking about a 20-year-old movie.
TW: Did you see that documentary on making24? No? me neither.
Any kid with a webcam, huh? Nice hair, junior. Maybe he’ll follow Boogaloo with The Outing of Steve Gilliard…
You know, every once in a while a get this idea that maybe The Hate just kind of stalks PW.
This whole issue is ridiculous. The hidden absurdity here is “ownership” of a word.
When will people stop caring about this sort of nonsense. So Anne thinks Edwards is gay acting… I am sure Edwards doesn’t think to highly of her, and judging by whom he employed as a campaign blogger I am reasonably sure that he has similar incorrect verbage when discussing her. He and THEY just don’t get caught the same way that republicans do.
I used to love “Maverick” when I was a little kid. I liked “Rockford Files”, too.
Okay, so, you’re being broadcast as a maverick. That’s great. Hit count, hit count = $$$.
I think Ann’s campaign to use “faggot” as a shorter form of the word “metrosexual” has failed, although it does save three syllables. I think the forthcoming campaign, to replace the jawbreaking seven syllable “African American” with the 2 syllable N word is also likely to fail ….
If I referred to a certain Democratic candidate as John Enwords would I be subliminally messaging that he is a racist? Or should I just call him a faggot and be done with it?
Maverick? Well he was in a movie with the delicous uber babe Rachel McAdams. So, you know, score!
delicous being idiot code for delicious.
Okay, I’m cracking, here! I can’t stand the concentrated opprobrium of the Voices of Conscience any longer! If crawling is what it takes to get back into Greenwald’s and Maher’s good graces, then cue up the last track on In Through The Out Door, baby, ‘cause I’m gonna crawl!
And I hope everyone will join me in wishing a speedy recovery to the vice-President, what with that blood clot in his leg.
Steve,
How about just being done with it…
Isn’t distance supposed to make the heart grow fonder?
It would seem to be counterproductive, but I am mostly ignorant as to matters of the heart.
No, it’s absence makes the heart grow fonder.
“Distance” means no propinquity with iniquity. Or something like that.
So that’s what I’ve been doing wrong. I thought it was absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
But, but, doesn’t distance equate to absence, although I suppose a complete absence could be such a long distance that the fondness could be multiplied exponetially and … and …
Oooooooooooooooooo! Cupcakes!
Or maybe it will kill him! Yay!
See, I’m feeling progressive already.
Oh, and Technorati is a faggot.
As Patterico has pointed out, stupidity and hate is non-partisan. Of course, Silky Pony has lots of experience in the business of dealing well with potty mouths. This whole piece is wrought with layers of irony.
I’ve always found the word “douchebag” to be a delightful descriptor that has no racial or sexual orientative undertones. So, “John Edwards is a douchebag” would have been a sentence with which both Left and Right would be comfortable.
As Penn & Teller pointed out, you can’t be sued for calling something “bullshit”, since there is no legal definition of the word.
I wonder if the same is true here. What (if anything) is the legal definition of the word “faggot”? How about the colloquial phrase “butt pirate” or the more 60’s-ish “dipshit”?
Just sayin’…
Jeff: I wouldn’t worry too much about your “Hate Footprint”. Cuz now you can balance it out with Love Offsets â„¢! Which is like, y’know, really groovy, man.
For a small fee, my 501(c)(3) foundation can hook you up. The days of distancing yourself are OVER, pal. Now you can indulge all the hate you want completely guilt free.
Next to Coulter, I figure you’ll be my biggest customer. By the way, it’s CASH ONLY for you. Ann, on the other hand, could probably work a trade.
But that’d mean you have to sit on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun.
Still, Technorati’s Buzz TV cites yours truly as the conservative MAVERICK on the issue of distancing oneself from Ann Coulter’s comments
I’m kind of surprised Jeff hasn’t outright backed Coulter on her point, i.e. that certain words and phrases are being taken away by the PC police, aka the media. That’s exactly what happened in this case.
Off topic, Jeff, perhaps you need to make the turning words a little clearer because I’m having trouble making them out. Or perhaps I just need glasses…
I’m sure the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will rule on the question if we ask them.
I predict the ruling will be that bullshit does and must consist exclusively of the shit of a bull.
Bulldog.
Bull elephant.
Bull terrier.
Bulldozer…
WE ARE ALL FAGGOTS NOW.
No one is “taking away” faggot: it means what it has meant for the last 50 years. It’s a vulgar epithet directed towards homosexuals. It isn’t less vulgar now.
No one is “taking away†faggot: it means what it has meant for the last 50 years. It’s a vulgar epithet directed towards homosexuals.
That’s not true, Steve. Faggot actually has two “official” meanings. It also has unofficial connotations such as loser. In Coulter’s case, she pointed it out to: A) take a shot at Edwards’ prissyness and B) make the point that certain words are off limits in the current climate by referring to Isaih Washington’s “rehab” after using the word in a derogatory manner.
Sav: Yes, I have discussed the alternate meaning(s) of faggot. But of course, she was using the vulgar epithet for Edwards. Yes, she’s probably trying to make the word mean something else, like Matrosexual (which I also suggested). It just doesn’t work.
The context is not good. Repubs are being accused, all the time, of hating gays, and wanting to deny them “equal rights” because they hate gays. Then Ann Coulter shows up and deliberately uses a word, that is the most vulgar epithet for homosexuals in common usage, and throws it out at a convention of conservatives. This has nothing to do with “liberating” the language. This is about Ann Coulter promoting herself at the expense of the Republican party.
Like I said, she wants to “liberate” the language, let her start using all the nasty epithets. But of course, she won’t. She says “faggot” because she knows she can get away with it, same as “raghead”. She won’t use the N word, or the K word, or the S word, because if she did, no newspaper in America would publish her columns.
I fail to see how she “got away” with anything. She’s the top story on every political news program and the coverage isn’t positive. And apparently she just had three companies remove their ads from her website over this.
Maybe she won’t use them because those words only really have one mean-spirited meaning behind them (although many blacks use the former in a good natured fashion).
If the argument is that she brought up something she knew would be jumped on and used against conservatives and she didn’t care, I believe that’s valid. If it’s that she was “using” the word as a pejorative, then I don’t.
I have no problem with Coulter using the word, Sav. And how she intended it is what it meant—though it wasn’t entirely clear from the context that she wasn’t using it on multiple levels, one of which was to give air to its denotative meaning.
Still, she has deal with having used it. I, however, shouldn’t have to.
Personally, I think the joke fell flat. And that it was probably conceived to gain buzz.
Do I think Coulter is homophobic? No. Isn’t she close friends with Drudge, for instance?
I do think, however, she hates prissy boys, and I’m sure she thinks Edwards one.
Jeff: Good to see you back on line. I stress, I don’t care if Ann is a homophobe, I don’t know, and I don’t care.
I assume you were off because of the weather. Weather sucks out East also. Fucking global warming …..
If you’ve ever read Coulter’s thoughts on Edwards, you know she likes to poke fun at his effeminateness, the infamous video of him obsessing over his coiffed hair etc. This is what she was doing at CPAC. Perhaps she shouldn’t have used the word she did, but she didn’t pull it out of thin air. The anecdote with Washington proved an important point, and it continues to be proven since she made the comment even though she didn’t use the word the way Washington did. Edwards is quite obviously not homosexual and she quite obviously wasn’t using it as a slur against a homosexual. This is about the meaning of words, not to mention press bias.
That seems the only rational explanation.
No, it’s been around a long time.
I have a video from the 2004 presidential campaign that in fact promoted the idea that Kerry and Edwards were a couple of fags. As a matter of fact.
And the meaning of faggot is clear cut. It’s a slur used against, well, faggots. If you want to say that it was her “intention” to neoplasm “faggot” as “metrosexual”, that’s fine, I can believe that. But you won’t see her doing that with other epithets we have discussed. Because she’d lose her audience if she did.
No press bias on the face of it, I saw the tape, I know what faggot means. So do you.
You COULD say that the blogosphere is making too much of this. At this point, I would agree. But what to do when some of the top bloggers are really into gay rights?
Lots of words have been around a long time. She used this one to bring up the Isaiah Washington episode and make a point. I know you know that.
</blockquote>I have a video from the 2004 presidential campaign that in fact promoted the idea that Kerry and Edwards were a couple of fags.
But you won’t see her doing that with other epithets we have discussed. Because she’d lose her audience if she did.
I know what faggot means. So do you.<blockquote>
We’ll never agree on this issue because we don’t agree that the word has more than one insinuated meaning. Even Democrat Pat Caddell knows what Coulter was saying.
Wow, that post is butchered. I’m suing Goldstein.
Because of the, er, technology.
Sorry to be so un-PC, but what the hell are the “K” and “S” words?
Really.
Link?
lee:
Probably kike and spic.
Most vulgar, Steve?
More vulgar than:
Bone smuggler
Back tourist
Double adapter
Fart knocker
Lucky Pierre
Poof
Pillow-biter
Sausage kennel
Sneaky butcher
Uphill gardener
Sausage jockey
Anal Assassin
BTW: I think the whole discussion is silly and a distraction from things that matter.