Last night, while I was watching the
Chicago Bears beat up the Detroit Lions, the third and final Presidential Debate was going on.
Since I early voted that very afternoon, there really is no reason for me to watch and frankly, the BEARS were on, so there was no choice.
I '
second screen' while watching most sports and had
Hootsuite wide open. It was a weird mix of a stream. 33% with political punditry, 33% Monday Night Football and 33%
NLCS. Not long after the debate ended I saw THIS tweet go by from Ann Coulter.
I was stunned.
Look, I'm not one to get hung up on word-policing. I'm pretty much of the mind that there should never be controls on words and language. You do not have a 'right' to NOT be offended, like I HAVE the right of free speech.
Further, I really like Ann Coulter and although I see her for what she is, a conservative whip who is there to
over-bloviate the right wing agenda, I'm an Independent voter and see merits in both sides of the argument and cast my votes as such when entering the voting booth.
I decided to respond as follows:
But for as much as I've heard how Joe Biden disrespected Paul Ryan in the one and only VP debate and how Barack Obama has been disrespectful to Mitt Romney, from where I sit, there has been a continuous stream,
for four years, of disrespect to the office of the President by the right side of the aisle which pales in comparison to anything that has happened in this election season.
Well Ms. Coulter,
you've just been pwned by a VERY
Special Olympian. You were classless in your comment last night and when "icons" of the Right decide to degrade themselves by using words like you did, you just give permission to all of your followers to do the same. Way to raise the level of discourse. Mr. John Franklin Stephens has taken you to task.
