An Open Letter to Ann Coulter
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I didn't know if I should have posted this in AET or on here. Read this morning and it brought a big smile on my face.
http://specialolympicsblog.wordpress.co ... n-coulter/
An Open Letter to Ann Coulter
Dear Ann Coulter,
Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult?
I’m a 30 year old man with Down syndrome who has struggled with the public’s perception that an intellectual disability means that I am dumb and shallow. I am not either of those things, but I do process information more slowly than the rest of you. In fact it has taken me all day to figure out how to respond to your use of the R-word last night.
I thought first of asking whether you meant to describe the President as someone who was bullied as a child by people like you, but rose above it to find a way to succeed in life as many of my fellow Special Olympians have.
Then I wondered if you meant to describe him as someone who has to struggle to be thoughtful about everything he says, as everyone else races from one snarkey sound bite to the next.
Finally, I wondered if you meant to degrade him as someone who is likely to receive bad health care, live in low grade housing with very little income and still manages to see life as a wonderful gift.
Because, Ms. Coulter, that is who we are – and much, much more.
After I saw your tweet, I realized you just wanted to belittle the President by linking him to people like me. You assumed that people would understand and accept that being linked to someone like me is an insult and you assumed you could get away with it and still appear on TV.
I have to wonder if you considered other hateful words but recoiled from the backlash.
Well, Ms. Coulter, you, and society, need to learn that being compared to people like me should be considered a badge of honor.
No one overcomes more than we do and still loves life so much.
Come join us someday at Special Olympics. See if you can walk away with your heart unchanged.
A friend you haven’t made yet, John Franklin Stephens
Global Messenger
Special Olympics Virginia
http://specialolympicsblog.wordpress.co ... n-coulter/
An Open Letter to Ann Coulter
Dear Ann Coulter,
Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult?
I’m a 30 year old man with Down syndrome who has struggled with the public’s perception that an intellectual disability means that I am dumb and shallow. I am not either of those things, but I do process information more slowly than the rest of you. In fact it has taken me all day to figure out how to respond to your use of the R-word last night.
I thought first of asking whether you meant to describe the President as someone who was bullied as a child by people like you, but rose above it to find a way to succeed in life as many of my fellow Special Olympians have.
Then I wondered if you meant to describe him as someone who has to struggle to be thoughtful about everything he says, as everyone else races from one snarkey sound bite to the next.
Finally, I wondered if you meant to degrade him as someone who is likely to receive bad health care, live in low grade housing with very little income and still manages to see life as a wonderful gift.
Because, Ms. Coulter, that is who we are – and much, much more.
After I saw your tweet, I realized you just wanted to belittle the President by linking him to people like me. You assumed that people would understand and accept that being linked to someone like me is an insult and you assumed you could get away with it and still appear on TV.
I have to wonder if you considered other hateful words but recoiled from the backlash.
Well, Ms. Coulter, you, and society, need to learn that being compared to people like me should be considered a badge of honor.
No one overcomes more than we do and still loves life so much.
Come join us someday at Special Olympics. See if you can walk away with your heart unchanged.
A friend you haven’t made yet, John Franklin Stephens
Global Messenger
Special Olympics Virginia
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Peace
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i love henry rollins' letter to her as well.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
I try to find good in her but it's really hard.. she acts like a terrible person on fox news and this isn't much better. I was offended by this comment and I'm not disabled but work with the disabled population.
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Gotta see that!
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgSBhlw-o9E
Thanks Brian, that felt good.
she is the only woman that I refer to as the "C" word.
Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
Sure, her right leaning tendencies may be true, but her over the top antics are just a means for her to earn a living... a very lucrative living.
Her real job... selling books to morons that actually buy into what she is selling.
She just jumped on the same gravy train that Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh ride towards the 1%. Book Sales=$$$ Ratings=$$$ Sponsors=$$$
...
It really is... that simple.
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100% correct.
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
"I need your strength for me to be strong...I need your love to feel loved"
That was excellent! *You will listen to the Ramones, Black Sabbath and The Brides Of Funkenstein* Great choice in music maybe that will wake her up and snap her back into our reality.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Yes, just like Maddow, Matthews, Sharpton, Schultz.......
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When was the last time any of those you named called Romney a retard or worse?
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
My comment wasn't on that specific comment but the general statement I quoted - here you go:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0 ... raham.html
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so ... someone who apologizes for his comment and basically calls it the lowest he's ever felt about himself is the same as someone who fails to recognize the offensiveness of her comments?
Schultz acted like an ass when he said that. That said, I doubt Coulter will offer anyone anywhere such an apology.
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
He likes to apologize:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/1 ... 29066.html
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sooo ... than answer is yes to you! ...
The Ann Coulters of the world are looking for one thing - publicity. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad, as long as they get attention to make up for the lack of self love and self-esteem they don't have in their lives.
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as one without a television, i miss out on a crap load of ann coulter and the like. but what i have saw of her makes me wanna put myself into a itty bitty blender just to get it over with
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the sun stands I will fight
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