Okay. I am actually watching Fox News right now. Coulter isn't backing down. It was just a joke. See, to her, this is just the "same people becoming hysterical" and she thinks that the lesson young right wingers "ought to draw is that it's not that scary to attack liberals." Yeah, fag jokes are so funny -- really attack them.
It's all a joke. And, we need to know is that Coulter now speaks for gays and lesbians across America. Verbatim quotes:
The word I used has nothing to do with sexual preference. It is a schoolyard taunt.And:
It isn't offensive to gays. It has nothing to do with gays.Huh? Apparently, Ann Coulter has never been on the receiving end of that schoolyard taunt -- but Ann Coulter, like so many in the GOP, has made it acceptable to use that taunt against kids all over America. Just a schoolyard taunt? Say that to some kid who's had his face bashed in.
Words matter. She thinks it was "an excellent joke."