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Why the press can’t ignore her.
By Jack Shafer
Posted Monday, March 5, 2007, at 6:09 PM ET

Ann Coulter shocked nobody last week by calling presidential candidate John Edwards a “faggot” during her appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference. 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,” so I—so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards.