Joe Solmonese: This Anti-Gay Epithet Should Be Beyond The Pale, But It's Not (HuffPost)

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This Anti-Gay Epithet Should Be Beyond The Pale, But It's Not (8 comments )

Ann Coulter is clueless and callous. She has built a career out of demonizing other people and dividing our country. In fact it's that very behavior that made her rich. There is no reason to expect her to reform her ways. So, it should have come as no surprise to anyone to learn that, last Friday, she called Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, a faggot.

We are never going to change Ann Coulter -- she will always be hateful and ignorant. However her bigotry is big business. It provides a huge revenue stream for Universal Press Syndicate, the largest independent newspaper syndicate in the world. They are betting than Ann's hate will bring more readers to her columns and they will be left out of the fray. Well they bet wrong. Companies cannot be allowed to profit from hate speech and that's exactly what Universal Press Syndicate does.

When Editor and Publisher asked to comment on Ann's remarks Universal Press Syndicate took no responsibility even though they give her a platform to publish her hate in 100 newspapers.

"When contacted by E&P today, Universal Press Syndicate issued a statement saying it "can only address Ms. Coulter's newspaper column," not her speeches. Universal added: "To date, we have not heard from any of her client newspapers about the verbal remark. Yes, her client list is still about 100."

If Coulter submitted a column containing the word "faggot," would Universal allow it? A syndicate spokesperson replied that Universal "is not going to speculate about a column that hasn't been written."......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-solmonese/this-antigay-epithet-sho_b_42805.html

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1. Way to go Joey.

Your the best. Joe is a great person and a true advocate for the G&L community. He is also an advocate for the Democratic Party.

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2. Solmonese is right

That word should be beyond the pale, but it isn't--even here on DU. :-(

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3. Tapeworm isn't clueless - she knows exactly what she is doing.

Every word and stroke of the pen are carefully calculated.

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4. Tapeworm? That's the first time I've heard that one...how fitting!

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5. "Coulter needs attention like a tapeworm needs an intestine."

From Maddow last night as a guest on Countdown - I'm just "borrowing" it. :-)

[marmar]

6. LOL

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