With all the hubub about the despicable Ann Coulter's use of the word "faggot" last week, let's not pretend this is her worst offense. It's not even close.
In 2004, Coulter attacked then-Sen. Max Cleland, a Democrat from Georgia who had lost three limbs in Vietnam and was awarded the Silver Star for his valor. She said he was really no hero.
Reactions to Coulter's filthy slam against Cleland can be found here and here and here. (By the way, the last of those three links is to a piece noting that Coulter's anti-Cleland column has been expunged from her archives.)
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Of Hate-Speech and Hypocrisy
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200703/COM20070309a.html
Have a nice day.....
Mike: The site for which you offered a URL mentions efforts by liberals to pressure companies that advertise on Ann Coulter's Web site. I'm on record -- as I've noted twice in recent weeks -- against boycotts of advertisers on political grounds. All that achieves is fear among advertisers to have any connection with controversy. I don't like Ann Coulter, but I more stringly dislike the idea of putting pressure on her advertisers. Am I a man of strong principles, or what?
"Stringly"? Make that "strongly."
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