LOL: Ann Coulter calls Obama a retard

Subject: LOL: Ann Coulter calls Obama a retard Thu Oct 25, 2012 6:21 am

Parents of children with special needs are demanding an apology from conservative political pundit Ann Coulter for tweeting after Tuesday's foreign policy debate that she approved of "Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard."

It appeared to be a response to critiques of Mitt Romney's debate performance, but it wasn't the first time Coulter used the "the r-word" during this election season. And, it's not the first time blogger Ellen Seidman has called her out on it.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/23/living/ann-coulter-obama-tweet/index.html

Subject: Re: LOL: Ann Coulter calls Obama a retard Sat Oct 27, 2012 10:50 pm

Ann Coulter Defends 'Retard' Tweet, Says 'Screw Them' To Critics

Ann Coulter defended calling President Obama a "retard," saying "screw them" to critics of her tweet on Thursday.

Speaking on Alan Colmes' Fox News Radio show, Coulter said that she had no regret over using the word because she wasn't referring to someone with a disability.

"Look, no one would refer to a Down Syndrome child, someone with an actual mental handicap, by saying ‘retard.’ Where do you think the words ‘imbecile,’ ‘idiot,’ ‘moron,’ ‘cretin’ come from? These were all technical terms at one time. ‘Retard’ had been used colloquially to just mean ‘loser’ for 30 years,” Coulter insisted. “But no, no — these aggressive victims have to come out and tell you what words to use.”

After Monday's presidential debate, Coulter tweeted, "I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard." She later doubled down on her use of the slur, prompting even more backlash.

On Thursday, Colmes pressed her to respond to critics like John Franklin Stevens, a 30-year-old Special Olympic athlete, who penned a blog post about Coulter's tweet.

"It would be one thing if I said in my tweet a joke about Special Olympics, a joke about Down Syndrome," she said. "No one would call someone with Down Syndrome ‘retard.’ I call you a ‘retard.'"

When Holmes said that some people believe the word "retard" is as much a slur as the "n-word," Coulter dismissed her critics as the "word police."

“Oh, screw them,” she said. “That’s what they feel I do? I feel they’re being authoritarian bullying victims.”

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LOL: Ann Coulter calls Obama a retard

LOL: Ann Coulter calls Obama a retard

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