{"id":72085,"date":"2020-05-20T17:28:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T17:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/10\/23\/ann-coulter-doubles-down-on-using-retarded-to-insult-obama\/"},"modified":"2020-05-20T17:28:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T17:28:14","slug":"ann-coulter-doubles-down-on-using-retarded-to-insult-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/72085","title":{"rendered":"Ann Coulter doubles down on using ‘retarded’ to insult Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AnnCoulter\/status\/260795637874954240\n

Evidently the bottom of the barrel wasn’t completely scraped clean after Ann Coulter called President Obama a “retard” yesterday<\/a>. And fancy that: She’s still not funny.<\/p>\n\n\n

@anncoulter<\/a> maybe I’m a bit overly sensitive, but my 12 yr old son is mentally handicapped. Kind of an additional slap to compare him.<\/p>\n

— Mark Quattlebaum (@Markandeaston) October 23, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nope, you’re not oversensitive. Coulter’s tweets were classless, unnecessary, and mean-spirited. And it wasn’t just liberals hoping to score points against Coulter who took offense.<\/p>\n\n\n

I think we can all agree that @anncoulter<\/a> is about as mature as a 5th grader.<\/p>\n

— Cessa (@thecessa) October 23, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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@anncoulter<\/a> So u say “no” to cancer references but it’s ok to call the room “retarded”. U r one sick girl.<\/p>\n

— Jim (@jimmytwoshooz) October 23, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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@anncoulter<\/a> What would a retarded room look like?How do offensive references make political points?Please explain, or is a book coming?<\/p>\n

— Kevin Flay (@Kfflay) October 23, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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“@anncoulter<\/a> “because cancer references are HILARIOUS… must be one retarded room.” because mental disability references are hilarious too?<\/p>\n

— Aziz Aleks Aripov (@Zee1949) October 23, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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@anncoulter<\/a> I don’t give a shit what your political views are, using the #Rword<\/a> is just wrong. Your message is being lost in the hate speech<\/p>\n

— Myssie Pillers (@Myssie_Pillers) October 23, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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In @anncoulter<\/a>‘s world cancer is off limits but intellectual disabilities are fair game.<\/p>\n

— Tanis Miller (@redneckmommy) October 23, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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I want to know why @anncoulter<\/a> is deliberately trying to hurt disabled people & their loved ones. I understand political targets, but this?<\/p>\n

— Luna (@Heading_West) October 23, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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@anncoulter<\/a> from one conservative to another, PLEASE stop using the “R” word!!!!<\/p>\n

— joe rollins (@Joe_Rollins_) October 23, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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But hey, trolling the Twitterverse sells books, or something. At least, that’s what Coulter hopes.<\/p>\n

And for what it’s worth, Twitchy disagrees that President Obama was making a cancer reference when he spoke of “stage three Romnesia<\/a>.” He also said, “I want to make sure nobody in the surrounding area catches it,” which implies that the analogy was to a communicable disease or some sort of epidemic.<\/p>\n

Classless and wrong. Reach for the stars, Ann!<\/p>\n

Related:<\/p>\n

Groan: Ann Coulter calls President Obama a ‘retard’<\/a><\/p>\n

Ann Coulter mocks National Coming Out Day; Civility police respond with vitriol, rape wishes<\/a><\/p>\n

Civility police wish death on Ann Coulter for ‘disrespectful’ tweet about Arlen Specter<\/a><\/p>

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http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AnnCoulter\/status\/260795637874954240 Evidently the bottom of the barrel wasn’t completely scraped clean after Ann Coulter called President Obama a “retard” yesterday. And fancy that: She’s still not funny. @anncoulter maybe I’m a bit overly sensitive, but my 12 yr old son is mentally handicapped. Kind of an additional slap to compare him. — Mark Quattlebaum (@Markandeaston) … Continue reading Ann Coulter doubles down on using ‘retarded’ to insult Obama<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1013,"featured_media":72086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/15899463302369-ann-coulter.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}