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Special Olympian tackles Ann Coulter over ‘retard’ tweet

WASHINGTON — Combative US conservative pundit Ann Coulter came under fire Wednesday from a Special Olympian with Down syndrome after she branded President Barack Obama a “retard” on Twitter. “Come on Ms Coulter, you aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow,” John Franklin Stephens, a soccer player and “global messenger” for…

Why using hate speech is about you being an a**hole, not being ‘edgy’

Ann Coulter is a performance artist, plain and simple — while she may, in fact, hold at least some of the opinions she gets paid to spot off about, it’s her intention to cause offense at each and every opportunity because that, and not the stating of her opinions, is…

Coulter explains debate: Romney was ‘kind and gentle to the retard’ Obama

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter explained Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s lack of aggression at the third presidential debate on Monday by saying he was trying to be “kind and gentle” to the president, who she called a “retard.” Although President Barack Obama was aggressive throughout the debate, Romney used a…

Coulter calls for ‘Disown Your Son Day’ in response to ‘Coming Out Day’

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is calling for people to wear purple in support of LGBT youth after conservative columnist Ann Coulter joked that “Disown Your Son Day” should follow last week’s “National Coming Out Day.” In a post to Twitter earlier Tuesday morning, Coulter wrote, “Last…

Bill Maher spars with Ann Coulter on ‘real racism’

Bill Maher welcomed right-wing pundit Ann Coulter to his show Real Time Friday to discuss her latest book, which contends that “real racism” ended after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “Who would know better about that than a blonde girl from Connecticut?” Maher asked, rhetorically. In her book, Coulter…

Ann Coulter ‘horrified’ she ever dated liberals

On Tuesday’s edition of Current TV’s “Joy Behar: Say Anything,” guest Ann Coulter said that she is “horrified” that she ever dated liberal men, but that it was “a long time ago.” Coulter was appearing on Behar’s show to promote her new book about U.S. race relations, Mugged: Racial Demagoguery…

Coulter: It was ‘paradise’ after O.J. got off because ‘white guilt’ was over

Ann Coulter on Monday suggested that “we had paradise for a dozen years” after O.J. Simpson was acquitted for murder because African Americans stopped making white people feel guilty for racial unfairness. During an interview on Fox News, Coulter told host Sean Hannity that her new book “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery…

Coulter: I ‘laugh and laugh and laugh’ at unemployed youths

Appearing on a Fox News broadcast just after the final speech of the 2012 Republican National Convention wrapped up, Republican author Ann Coulter said the high unemployment rate for American youths “makes me laugh and laugh and laugh” because so many young people supported President Barack Obama. “It’s the one…

Coulter: Republicans should nuke ‘selfish swine’ Todd Akin

The fallout from Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) comments on “legitimate rape” is so severe that right-wing author Ann Coulter thinks conservatives have no choice but to drop an electoral “nuclear bomb” on him in the form of a write-in campaign. “This is a problem,” Coulter said during an appearance on…

Jon Stewart mocks Ann Coulter’s outrage at Romney spokeswoman

Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Thursday night lampooned Priorities USA’s newest ad, which he summarized simply by saying, “Romney causes wife cancer.” Stewart also poked fun at the conservative outburst caused by a Romney spokeswoman who criticized the ad by saying the man’s wife would have survived under Romneycare.…

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