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Ann Coulter: Making a career out of hate speech. Image credit: AllHatNoCattle.net.With no visible signs of remorse after calling Presidential candidate John Edwards a "faggot" in a speech on Friday, and only days after accusing Edwards' campaign manager U.S. Rep David Bonior of "fronting for Arab terrorists," the Coultergeist continued to spew her vile hate speech on Saturday. OK, that's not so surprising since Ann Coulter pretty much makes some moronic bigoted remark every time she opens her mouth. This time however she managed to top even her more widely reported anti-gay slur. At a speech Coulter gave on March 3 at a Center for Reclaiming America conference in Fort Lauderdale, FL, Coulter dismissed the murders of doctors who perform abortions:
“Those few abortionists were shot, or, depending on your point of view, had a procedure with a rifle performed on them. I’m not justifying it, but I do understand how it happened....The number of deaths attributed to Roe v. Wade about 40 million aborted babies and seven abortion clinic workers; 40 million to seven is also a pretty good measure of how the political debate is going.”
And if that weren't enough, Coulter repeated the slur against Edwards.
The Center for Reclaiming America was founded by D. James Kennedy, Pastor of the Coral Gables Presbyterian mega-church. The Center opposes legal abortion, gay rights and routinely bashes public education. The Anti-Defamation League accused Coral Gables Ministries of "trivializing the holocaust" with a neo-creationist documentary produced by Kennedy's church that attempts to link the theory of evolution to Hitler. One can only assume Coulter's remarks played well with her audience.
The Reverend Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State called on The Center's executive director to publicly repudiate Coulter's remarks:
“Ann Coulter’s statements can only be described as loathsome,” said Lynn. “It is astounding to me that this type of vitriol was unleashed before a religious organization that claims to be ‘reclaiming’ America for Christ. This rhetoric must be repudiated immediately.”
While newspapers, blogs and talking heads continue to express shock and outrage over Coulter's remarks about John Edwards and David Bonior, Coulter's tacit condoning of murder goes unreported. When are people in this country going to stand up and say to far right-wing nutcases like Coulter that this kind of hate speech is intolerable? When are the religious faithful going to stand up and spurn Coulter for spewing hate and intolerance from a church pulpit! Seriously, how much more hate and hypocrisy are we going to take?
I don't know about you, but I've had enough.
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There's a conversation that's been going on in the blogosphere I've been meaning to write about but probably won't get a chance about the role we bloggers (and the media in general) play as an enabler of Coulter (and Limbaugh and O'Reilly and...) by posting about their insane rantings. They want the publicity and we too gladly give it to them. I don't normally post about people like Coulter for that reason but when they cross the line, whether tacitly condoning or actively inciting violence, then I will. It's a tough call to make. Do we stand up and say, "This is wrong" yet give them publicity or do we let their hate go unchecked while not affording them the publicity they crave?
