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Entry: Poor, Poor, Pitiful Ann Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/poor_poor_pitiful_ann#736 Post contents: <strong>Mark Marshall writes:</strong> <em>As Mike Williams points out, if instead of calling John Edwards a faggot, Coulter had called Barack Obama a nigger, “She’d be forced by intervention into the Sharpton wing at Betty Ford.” Right. So, fearing that fate, she chose to say “faggot” instead of “nigger”, anticipating that the consequences for herself would be milder. That is why I am not particularly impressed by the courage she has displayed in defence of “spicy, free speech”.</em> Methinks that if John Edwards really were a homosexual that Miss Coulter would not be entertaining the thought of calling him a "faggot" in public. Has she ever used the word to describe Barney Frank? So, in that sense, calling John Edwards a "faggot" (something he is not) cannot be compared to calling Barack Obama a "nigger." Still, I think you are right that "faggot" is more acceptable -- at least among political commentators -- than "nigger" or even (say) "mulatto." Sent at: 2008 07 24