While discussing a National Enquirer article claiming that former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has an illegitimate child with "his mistress," a "blonde divorcée," frequent guest and right-wing pundit Ann Coulter told Newsradio 850 KOA host and Independence Institute President Jon Caldara during his July 23 broadcast, "I just think John Edwards is an incredibly creepy individual and the very definition of faggy." Coulter's homophobic remark echoed her reference to Edwards as a "faggot" during a 2007 speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).Coulter did not directly respond to Caldara's later question, "Can't [Edwards] also make it very clear that you use the adjective 'faggy,' but he's got a wife and a mistress; how much more does he have to prove to you that he's not faggy?"
As Colorado Media Matters has noted, Coulter and Caldara have joked on KOA about Coulter's homophobic slurs, and Caldara defended Coulter's previous attack on Edwards, made when she stated during her March 2, 2007, CPAC speech that she "can't really talk about" Edwards because "you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot.' " Caldara described the epithet as "a joke that just didn't have a solid point of reference."
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