Another 'F' word

In response to Ann Coulter's latest comments about having to go to rehab if she talks about faggots our local paper decided to replace her as one of their commentators,.

Generally I agree with her comments but mostly I like that she is a burr under the Liberal's saddle. She is usually over the top and over reactive but it is fun to listen to her and her opponents play verbal tag. On one occasion Larry King of CNN tried everything he could to get her to contradict herself but she did not. That was interesting to watch.

Most of the time she thinks fast but not in this case. She succumbed to the same temptation everyone in a position of influence eventually succombs to and that is they begin to think they can do or say anything. She was in a safe environment and whether planned or by accident she overstepped her boundaries. She tried to be humorous at another's expense and now defends what she said by trying to change the accepted meaning of the term. What is the meaning of "is?"

I wonder if the paper would have had the same reaction if she had said homosexual, or gay or even queer. And I wonder if everyone's upsettedness comes from the idea the word she used is a term of contempt or that she was alluding to John Edwards being a closet homosexual, which I do not have any reason to believe that he is. If it is at all because she may have been accusing him of not being straight it should tell the world homosexual activity is not accepted no matter what the law claims and to allude to someone being one is a no-no and a major insult. If she had made a similar statement about a homosexual being straight most likely nothing would have been said. Based on the public reaction to a commercial during the Super Bowl the majority of Americans find homosexuality disgusting, revolting, dirty and something to disdain and they can think it but not say it in a public forum such as the one Ms Coulter found herself in.

Now we have one "N" word and 2 "F" words that will cause someone to have a hissy-fit. I wonder what is next.

I await our paper's decision on her replacement. But I suggest they do not hold out hope the next one won't do or say something stupid also,