Yep, because gay people never get married and have kids.
Oh, and Glenn, it’s absolutely the kind of thing I would say, but we were talking about Coulter here!
Are you saying that you agree with Ann Coulter’s assessment of John Edwards.
Nope. I’m just saying that she could have been serious. In other words, she could really believe he is gay and just hiding it somehow. I don’t know if that would make what she said better or worse though.
Rimbo: What?
Dude seriouly you have no idea what you’re talking about. Coulter didn’t call Edwards a fag because she’s “got nothing on him” or because there are no legitimate criticisms to make.
She called him a faggot because that’s what Ann Coulter does. She does it because that’s what gets the Republican base excited..
Glenn Greenwald had (another) timely post about this today. The gist is that the modern conservative movement is one of authoritarianism and nothing makes an authoritarian feel better then questioning the manliness of the Enemy.
I know. But that’s why I emphasize that the audience responded well to her comments. That’s the key.
They also respond to comments about Hillary, because Hillary is also perceived as a threat, even though I think she has about as much chance of getting elected president as she does turning up in a brothel in Bangkok. As an employee.
Of course, it’s not possible that you didn’t understand what I was saying. :)
You seem to be saying that the reason Coulter went after Edwards like that is because she percieves him as a serious threat to Republicanism and that they don’t have any substantial material to go after him with, so they called him a faggot.
What’d I miss?
Jeez, I am a transsexual, I wonder the level of my “manliness”? I also wonder how much I am into “authoritarianism”? Agreed that the “Republican” spin sometimes gets a little homophobic, but all in all, I find it a better fit than the socialist agenda.
The blog post in question also included the following image, which sums up the topic better than anyone could hope to with mere words:
Awesome.
Okay, that’s better, your trolling is back on form after a disappointing performance over the last week. And just to the ball rolling, I’ll be the first person to be trolled.
I’m sure you prefer the homophobic “Republican” spin to the socialist agenda, but wouldn’t you prefer the nice sane “Democratic” agenda to both?
I’ve wondered why some people of an abused or victimized minority would ever become Republican… Andrew Sullivan for example.
I’ll see your homoeroticism and raise.
That’s disturbing and I don’t believe in fairy tales…
If h-only there were some happy medium betwixt patent leather boots with bad attitudes and filthy hippies getting their sharing on you.
And sorry, CindySue. tranny you may be, but your political beliefs mean that no matter how hard you try, you will always be manlier than a piss drunk fireman copping a feel from a topless prom queen as he rescues her from a dinosaur fight. The authoritarian nature of the Republican party nowadays is simply a hallmark of the leatherdaddy kink, so you don’t need to worry about that. Perhaps a more laissez faire copafeelitalism is just around the corner.
Flowers hits for +2 Koontz!
That her comment was a hit with her intended audience.
I realize that it’s popular and fashionable among the Left to believe that Republicans are a bunch of homophobic racist authoritarian dickheads, but homophobia is too far out of the mainstream to be acceptable to either major money party, and the party leaders know this damned well. If she’d picked some other random celebrity (one who is presumably straight), someone who didn’t pose a threat to the party’s leadership, I seriously doubt the comment would have been such a hit. I also suspect we’d have some serious shit coming from the Republican party about her comments being out of place and not representing the ideals the GOP stands for.
Les: Yep! That right there sums up exactly how the conservative base sees itself.
That it’s not actually a parody is even better.
Rimbo: We’re going to have to disagree then. You see dynamics at play that I simply don’t think exist. I don’t think the wild applause she got wasn’t a result of them feeling unconsciously threatened by Edwards. It was a matter of Coulter saying what a lot of the folks in the audience would like to say but don’t have the guts - precisely because of how homophobia is frowned on.
I don’t believe Republicans are a bunch of racist authoritarian dickheads or any such thing. I do believe that the Republican movement of the past ten years is based around a philosophy of authoritarianism and as a result it has gathered such folk as a significant part of its base.
FYI this isn’t the first time Coulter has called someone a faggot. Iirc she called Gore a fag in an interview, but at the time it went largely unremarked upon.
Fair 'nuff.
Funny you should say that. When I first caught notice of the image I assumed it was something created specifically for the article, like the drawings that so often accompany Slate’s articles. That not only someone, but multiple someones purchased a poster sized version of it and presumably are displaying it in their home/office/truck/shed only adds to the Awesome factor.
Dammit Glenn, you always have to top me, don’t you? /cry