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...Coulter made the headlines Saturday when she called John Edwards a “faggot...
...first to say that I was as shocked as anyone to find out that people still care about what Ann Coulter has to say—and not just any people, major players. The New York Times had a story on the event, and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) both denounced Coulter. Insulting the intelligence of bullies everywhere, the HRC pictures former NBA star John Amaechi telling us that Coulter’s use of the “f-Word…emboldens bullies in the school yard...
...Coulter, like Fred Phelps and a handful of other extremist, be-cardiganed Evangelical ministers, has the potential to be of real use to the cause of LGBT rights, but the HRC, GLAAD and other pro-lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights organizations have to play their cards better. We did an excellent job internalizing the elementary school lessons about the importance of discourse, but we seem to have been sidetracked before we learned what to do about...
...have one complaint with Coulter's joke: It wasn't that funny. Edwards is many things - a little dull, wrong on Iraq, hopelessly reductive on the economy (there are many more than two Americas). But he doesn't seem the least bit gay to me. Coulter has at least one close gay friend, and when I was reporting my profile of her, she always remembered to ask about my partner at the time. She is always trying to get me to go with her to the Halloween parade in Manhattan's West Village, which is the second-gayest event...
...have interviewed both Coulter and Edwards in the past, and I'm pretty sure the attention her comments have drawn pleases both of them, at least a little. (Well, it pleases Ann a great deal; I wonder if she can now charge an extra $5,000 for her next speaking engagement...) Edwards got some free media, his first since the Obama-Clinton standoff began in earnest; he is also using the incident to raise money, something Coulter has noted with glee on her website...