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!