If you are a Liberal like me, well then you probably share the same feelings I do about Ann Coulter: Ms. Coulter is a thorn in my slightly left of center Liberal BACK SIDE! On soooooo many occasions, I have wanted to send Ms. Coulter a letter, blasting her (especially after seeing Ms. Coulter on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher). I never followed through because I knew, by writing such a hateful letter, I was stooping to her narrow-minded level and who would want to do that?
Mr. Stephen’s eloquent post sums up how I feel about Ms. Coulter, as well as anyone who feels the need to bash people by calling them names. What Ms. Coulter says, reveals more about her than the person she is slinging mud at. I have such little respect for mud-slingers who use words like the R-word, or the L-word or H-word or my all time favorite: He/she is “in the closet”. To me, people who sling insults like these are truly small-minded idiots!
Mr. Stephens is my hero!
The following is a guest post in the form of an open letter from Special Olympics athlete and global messenger John Franklin Stephens to Ann Coulter after this tweet during last night’s Presidential debate.
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…
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