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I thought first of asking whether you meant to describe the President as someone who was bullied as a child by people like you, but rose above it to find a way to succeed in life as many of my fellow Special Olympians have.
Then I wondered if you meant to describe him as someone who has to struggle to be thoughtful about everything he says, as everyone else races from one snarkey sound bite to the next.
Finally, I wondered if you meant to degrade him as someone who is likely to receive bad health care, live in low grade housing with very little income and still manages to see life as a wonderful gift.
Because, Ms. Coulter, that is who we are and much, much more.
After I saw your tweet, I realized you just wanted to belittle the President by linking him to people like me. You assumed that people would understand and accept that being linked to someone like me is an insult and you assumed you could get away with it and still appear on TV.
http://specialolympicsblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/an-open-letter-to-ann-coulter/
Ann, you unmitigated excuse for a human being, go away. You're not a bitch. I own female dogs and those bitches have far more intelligence and compassion and worthiness than you ever will.
Response to Fawke Em (Original post)
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Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)She considers herself a she.
My point is how she tosses around a word like that with little regard.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)by associating them with this horrible excuse for a human being.
Please consider: It is no better than Ann's use of the word 'retard' as an insult.
jmowreader
(50,566 posts)Female WHAT is the question. I'm thinkin' it's a cross between a hyena and a wolverine.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)They clean up the Earth. She pollutes it.
CurtEastPoint
(18,664 posts)And please do not attempt insult with transsexual innuendo.
GoneOffShore
(17,341 posts)Or did you mean to respond to another post?
CurtEastPoint
(18,664 posts)Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)However, being a dog lover, I'm not quite certain that's a put down.
I would rather be a female dog - a bitch - than an uncaring ignoramus any ole day of the week.
Ms. Toad
(34,102 posts)John Franklin Stephens explained so clearly why using the R word as an insult is hurftul - in almost the exact way which many of us have been using to explain why implying Ann Coulter is transgender is hurtful:
"After I saw your tweet, I realized you just wanted to belittle the President by linking him to people like me. You assumed that people would understand and accept that being linked to someone like me is an insult"
Stephen's letter should be linked to every DU alert on the use of the R word, or XXX-tard (and to every alert on using LGBT individuals as an insult). I have rarely heard such a clear and concise explanation.
GoneOffShore
(17,341 posts)Shared on my FB page.
mick063
(2,424 posts)For that tweet?
I'll use a response that I used as a child.
"I hate your guts!"
Sorry.
She brings out the worst in me. Her objective is complete. She has tossed out reason and focused on emotion.
And she has brought me down to her level.
I don't care.
I still hate her guts.
It probably makes her smile.
I still hate her guts.
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)cilla4progress
(24,777 posts)If Coulter had anything more than a black smoking corpse of a soul inside her, this, if nothing else, would get to her ...
putitinD
(1,551 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)Soulness is not for me to know or judge.