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
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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' 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.'

Category News & Politics

Tags ann, coulter, john, edwards, gibson