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http://mediamatters.org/items/ 2007030...The March 5 edition of Fox News' The Big Story with John Gibson featured National Review editor Rich Lowry and Young America's Foundation spokesman Jason Mattera downplaying and defending right-wing pundit Ann Coulter's March 2 attack on former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) as a 'faggot' du more
http://mediamatters.org/items/ 2007030...The March 5 edition of Fox News' The Big Story with John Gibson featured National Review editor Rich Lowry and Young America's Foundation spokesman Jason Mattera downplaying and defending right-wing pundit Ann Coulter's March 2 attack on former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) as a 'faggot' during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Mattera claimed that Coulter 'was making a joke not about homosexuality, or calling John Edwards a fag,' but was instead 'pointing out that political correctness stifles speech.' Mattera later claimed that Coulter was, in fact, making a joke about Edwards, but that 'she was basically calling John Edwards a wuss, that he was a girlie-man, and that if he were elected president he would probably embolden Al Qaeda to attack us,' adding that Coulter 'knows how to communicate a message to an audience, especially to college students, and she got rousing -- rousing applause and rousing standing ovations throughout the event.'Lowry said Coulter's remark was a 'schoolyard slur' and that '[y]ou don't really expect anyone over the age of about 12 to use it, especially in polite company,' but referred to her remarks and the ensuing firestorm as 'a typical kind of manufactured controversy all around.' Lowry also chastised 'the press' for ignoring HBO host Bill Maher's recent comment that if Vice President Dick Cheney 'did die [in a February 27 attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan where Cheney was visiting], more people would live,' saying: 'I mean, it's absurd that you have people on the left in this country advocating, basically, the assassination of the vice president of the United States, and no outrage.' However, Lowry himself has joked about New Yorkers running over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) with their cars. In an August 5, 2005, speech to the National Conservative Student Conference, Lowry said: 'In New York we also have a very famous junior senator, and when people ask me about her I always say I'm the wrong person to ask because the people I hang out with in New York, we put our 'Run, Hillary, Run' bumper stickers on the front of our cars.'Lowry's magazine dropped Coulter's column shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks when she advocated that the United States should 'invade their [terrorists'] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.'
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