Failed comedian turned failed human being Bill Maher has been getting a lot of grief for saying about Dick Cheney:
“I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.”
Only if you consider terrorists people.
Idiot.

Seeing all the comments and blog posts, I’ve now decided I don’t like everyone using the word “faggot.” So, I’ve just used my foot to erase the line in the sand, and I’ve drawn a new line in the sand with me on one side and the word “faggot” on the other. Thus, the word “faggot” is now banned from IMAO, and anyone who uses the word, hears someone use the word, or even thinks the word is banned from blogging or commenting here at IMAO. This is non-negotiable. That said, I will allow just one more appearance of the word:
You’re all a bunch of faggots.

People afraid to use or even [gasp] hear the F-word (No not THAT one the other one F 2.0) are obviously afraid of becoming faggots themselves. It’s repulsive. Why are they not comfortable in their faggotualilty? Have they been walking around with artificial sweetener in their shoes, afraid that upon saying or hearing the word faggot (which my spell checker even balks at) they will be pushed headlong off their comfortable fencepost, over the fence and start using the sweet sugar of full blown faggotry?
I am appalled. Coulter did not ever call John Edwards a faggot, she only said she WOULD have used that word if she had talked about him.
She said

“I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot.'”

She could have been planning to say

“That John Edwards may seem like a clean, articulate, good looking faggot but I have it on good authority he’s not.”

She may very well have been going to say

“Despite the overwhelming mountain of evidence to the contrary, there is an infinitesimally small, yet nonzero possibility that John Edwards might, possibly, in reality, not be a faggot.”

She might have been going to say

“What sort of faggot is a prissy nancy boy who tells people he’s out to help the little guy while having no idea what that means as evidenced by his colossal South Carolina Mansion? Not John Edwards, nosiree, not John Edwards, see he lives in NORTH Carolina.”

So you see, it’s grossly unfair to say she called him a faggot when she clearly did not and may not have even been planning to call him one in the first place. But now we’ll never know because of the chilling effect that the vocal, if small, anti-faggot faggot-o-phobic crowd out there is having on the forum of public debate. Chilling.
Update: I guess I’m not crossing Frank’s line in the sand, or am I , since he demanded his bloggers call everyone a faggot, unless they are actually faggots. Did I cross it? I can’t tell.
Update2: if you read this and don’t comment you’re obviously a faggot unless of course reading it made you a faggot or you were one already, then you are excused. Hah see!? I made it conditional!

I guess I have to say something about Frank J. rattling his sword (or whatever it is he rattles when he blogs) about how all IMAO bloggers need to get to work calling everyone faggots.
Well, as an atheist, I don’t believe that faggots actually exist, so I’m not taking an position on this issue.
On the other hand, I can’t help noticing that Frank J.’s whiny, petulant demand is lousy with the fetid reek of hypocrisy, and that just pisses me off.
What am I talking about?
The following is a list of faggots that Frank J. blatantly refused to call “faggot”.
Joel Surnow
Abraham Lincoln
Ann Coulter
John Hawkins
President Bush
Matty O’Blackfive
Prince Charles
Al Gore
Manbearpig
and – in just one single post:
Dean Esmay, Dave Schuler, Ron Coleman, Rosemary the Queen, Kevin D., Robert Spencer, and David Price.
Don’t even get me started on the pass he gave that shirt-lifting pillow-biter Dick Cheney.
I’m calling you out of the closet, Frank. You can no longer just lisp the lisp, you have to start mincing the mince, too.
Faggot.

IMAO supports teh gheys.

Before this gets out of hand, I think I should clarify my previous post. “Faggot” is a mean and hateful term… when targeted at a gay person. Regardless of what you think of homosexuality, such hate directed at a person has no place here. It’s only acceptable to call an allegedly straight person a faggot. And, as I argue, not only is it acceptable, it’s a duty of conservatives to do constantly in public forums.
So keep that in mind and try to keep the discourse here at an intelligent level.

Since Frank’s drawing the line:

I really don’t see how any thinking person can debate the use of that word in every day speech. In fact, I see no room whatsoever for disagreement on this subject. I’ve drawn a line in the sand, and on my side is written the word “faggot.” Either you’re for constantly calling people faggots or you’re no longer welcome to blog or comment here on IMAO.

Frank J. has crossed the line this time. Normally, I agree with all of his policies: nuking the moon, nuking France, nuking nukes. But today, I have to stand up and take a stand against his latest IMAO policy.
In one of his last posts he said:

I really don’t see how any thinking person can debate the use of that word in every day speech. In fact, I see no room whatsoever for disagreement on this subject. I’ve drawn a line in the sand, and on my side is written the word “faggot.” Either you’re for constantly calling people faggots or you’re no longer welcome to blog or comment here on IMAO.

This word has reached the national attention thanks to Ann Coulter who made remarks where she said that she wouldn’t use the word ‘faggot’ or she would have to go to therapy. This is very shocking. It is completely unlike Ann to say something that offends people with different belief systems. I’m sure that 9/11 widows will come out with a statement condemning Ann, as soon as they stop celebrating their husbands’ deaths.
Yet, I can’t be forced to use the word faggot. Maybe Frank J. doesn’t understand how important words are to a sensitive and caring soul such as myself. One of my cousins read Frank’s post and was very offended. Personally, I don’t care what my cousin thinks since he’s a wetback and should not even be in the country to begin with, but his point is valid: some words are just plain offensive and have no place in the English language.
I prefer to use the term “queer” and I don’t care who it bothers. Queer means something like slightly odd. Slight is good.
Homesexuality is seen as a perversion by only 90% of world religions. What does that tell us? That the other 10% must be Anglicans and Scientologists. Besides that — it tells us that after having run countless episodes of Will & Grace, the world now sees homosexuality as ‘merely revolting.’
How bad ly is it seen? It is rumored that at one point during World War II, Hitler stood in one of the concentration camps. He was surrounded by bones, and flesh, and despair. As they were sweeping out the charred carcasses, two guards held hands in an intimate manner. Hitler remarked, “Now, that’s just not right.”
So can we stop calling them Faggots? We shouldn’t hate gay people for their lifestyle choices. We should pray for them and hope that the promising new research on gay sheep one day provides a cure. Sure, it will be a blander society, with fewer, less colorful fashion shows, but that is a small price to pay for progress.
Queers have a right to respect, and I refuse to constantly use the disrespectful word ‘faggot’. Faggot seems such a harsh word and can only serve to turn the faggots off and make them stop reading IMAO (if they ever read it in the first place because IMAO is not very faggot friendly).
So, Frank J. leave the queers alone and don’t force your co-bloggers to adopt the phrase “faggot.” For one thing, it’s very offensive to queers. For another, having to go blogger rehab centers can be very pricey.
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I don’t know how many caught the second pilot episode of the 1/2Hour News Hour last night (as always, Hot Air has clips), but I found that one even blander than the first. Writing comedy is very difficult, so it’s hard for me to be too critical, but it’s just not very edgy. Maybe FOX News demanded comedy your grandmother would appreciate, though, so I don’t know what shackles the writers are operating under. Still, if they want to attract the young demographic like me, they need to take more risks. Also, they shouldn’t be afraid to go after conservatives. Certain right-wing humor blogs have proven that conservatives appreciate self-deprecating humor if delivered from another conservative.
Well, I hope it is given another chance because frankly there are lots of things liberals do that just aren’t getting made fun of enough on national television. Anyway, here’s is the 1/2 Hour News Hour and 24 creator Joel Surnow writing about the his new comedy on National Review Online and showing humor more in the direction of what I’m talking about.

Ann Coulter made news at CPAC with this statement:

“I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot.'”

He’s a bundle of really gay twigs.

Now, many conservatives have criticized Coulter in the past because her over the top rhetoric and anorexic body makes hers quite literally a straw man for the left, and one has to ask, “Has Ann Coulter finally gone too far?” At least, that’s what the faggots are asking.
Isn’t it finally great to be using that word in political discourse? I, for one, congratulate Coulter for breaking that shibboleth that has remained intact for far too long. If conservatives are to gain respect in thus country, then we can’t be afraid to constantly label people faggots. So, why have so many conservatives condemned Coulter’s remarks? One can only assume they wish to silence her since they’re afraid they’ll be the next ones she’ll rightly label a faggot.
With all this controversy, I have to ask what happened to the great rhetorical conservatives of old? Remember the final words of the Lincoln Douglas debates of 1858:

“I have said and I repeat it here, that if there be a man amongst us who does not think that the institution of slavery is wrong in any one of the aspects of which I have spoken, he is misplaced and ought not to be with us. Has anything ever threatened the existence of this Union save and except this very institution of slavery? That is the real issue. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world, and just something I wouldn’t expect that faggot Douglas to understand.”

“A house divided against itself cannot stand, you faggots!”

Can you imagine his closing without the word “faggot”? It would be dull and lifeless. Sure, the controversy from that line most likely cost Abraham Lincoln the Senate seat, but his fame later carried him to the White House where he used his power to kill many Southerners — something I would think the left could get behind.
I really don’t see how any thinking person can debate the use of that word in every day speech. In fact, I see no room whatsoever for disagreement on this subject. I’ve drawn a line in the sand, and on my side is written the word “faggot.” Either you’re for constantly calling people faggots or you’re no longer welcome to blog or comment here on IMAO.
And that’s all there is to say about this.