Peter Coyote apologizes for using the term "wing-nuts"

[CreekDog]

well sort of...:rofl:

"Okay. I've been rightly taken to task by SeanParnell for my rudeness in calling people with whom I disagree "wing-nuts." He's right and I'm wrong. But, what would you call people that believe that fully automatic weapons and cop-killer bullets should be freely available; who bomb abortion clinics and advocate the murder of doctors who perform abortions; who believe that anyone who is not a Christian is doomed to Hell, and people who would elevate Creationism to the status of science? Give me a polite name and I'll use it."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/coyote/detail?blogid=66&entry_id=38352

[Jack from Charlotte]

1. I'd call them ........Republicans, Peter. (nfm)

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[baldguy]

2. Who said we should treat these people politely?

[polichick]

3. Mr. and Ms. Wing-nut??

[sarcasmo]

4. Is this a polite name?

Use Dumb ASS instead of Wingnut.

[slay]

5. Peter Coyote is awesome

Saw him interviewed during VH1's The Drug Years - The 60's.. what a cool guy.

"From 1967 to 1975, Peter took off to "do the Sixties" where he became a prominent member of the San Francisco counter-culture community and founding member of the Diggers, an anarchistic group who supplied free food, free housing and free medical aid to the hordes of runaways who appeared during the Summer of Love. The Diggers evolved into a group known as the Free Family which established chains of communes around the Pacific Northwest and Southwest." :loveya:

http://www.petercoyote.com/biography.html

[ananda]

6. Crazed limbaughtomized lunatics sounds good to me.

And that's being polite.

[Danascot]

7. Wing-nuts IS a polite name.

I usually call them assholes.

[Cha]

8. "Wingnuts" is polite..they are

really just drooling idiots.