An open letter to Ann Coulter (Page 2)

And all he had to do was run for Congress.

In my opinion, that's a joke.

Al Franken... That's like using a Todd Akin comment about Soledad O'Brien. 

But seriously, I'm wondering about the Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter point.  It's a good one.  I would almost bet they'll be on the air together tonight on Bill O'Reilly's show talking about this. 

But you cannot say "Oh Obama called the head of the Special Olympics, so it's all good." 

He also had backup from Arnold Schwartzenegger (national coach of the SO at the time) saying "it's ok, he didn't mean it." 

The President should come under a higher level of scruitiny for comments like this than an entertainer who makes a living selling books because she's nasty...

Can you explain to me how Coulter should have apologized in advance of a tweet?  Because, you know, I going to take your word that this is the only difference in these two people running off at the mouth.

Nope, I reacted to his comment in the same way I reacted to Coulter's, with the slight difference being he is the President of the United States speaking on network television. 

First of all she won't apologize.....What i havent seen anyone mention is that this is not a one time slip up, she has used that word repeatdly during this election season and has been called on it more than once...She doesnt care.

About a week ago I went and unfollowed all the "entertainers" that I was following on Twitter because I do not care to hear what they are tweeting about, especially their politics.

I also hate to see politicians on any type of talk show, whether it is the View, Daily Show, Colbert Report or SNL. Although I am glad to see they have that much time on their hands to do the talk show circuit.

Now you're just making stuff up.  You're the one trying to divine a different treatment of the two idiotic statements.  I haven't, and don't, defend Coulter. 

Apparently you have to do this in advance.

Why do you hate the President?

What ever happened to sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me?

This is a tempest in a teapot.

It was an excellent letter though.

It's often words that hurt the most and cut the deepest and you're right, it's an excellent and beautifully written response to the scenario. 

Words are just words, it is the person saying them that gives them impact.  Why is everyone giving people like AC impact.

We're going to have to agree to disagree. 

Hurtful words are hurtful, no matter who says them.  They carry emotional impact that can be felt for years longer than any physical pain from sticks and stones.  It's how the person takes in those hurtful words that makes the impact - not necessarily who says them. 

The problem here is that Ann Coulter actually thinks it's okay to throw about the word and has done it repeatedly!    This is the sort of word that needs to be unlearned and until people who should know better understand the impact of using it, and stop saying it, they need to be reminded.  Would any of you actually defend her if she called Obama the n-word?  THIS IS NOT DIFFERENT.   Simply, retarded as a derogatory term is still sort of "up and coming." 

If a person who is directly impacted by a word tells me I should stop using it, I think I should take them very seriously.

So shall we start a list of all banned words and thoughts and burn all the books that contain them so they no longer contaminate society.  People have been insulting one another since the beginning of language.  They will continue to do so till we are exterminated from the planet.  People in this forum insult others all the time calling them all sorts of things Fat lazy and stupid to name a few and many many laugh and join in the "fun".  You want a world without insults you will have to get rid of human kind.  Why is one insult OK and another is evil?