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Old-Style Coulter

By The Daily Dish
Mar 4 2007, 3:31 AM ET

Here's how you make a fag joke to conservatives without getting into trouble:

"The representative libertarian of this decade is humorless, intolerant, self-righteous, badly schooled, and dull. At least the oldfangled Russian anarchist was bold, lively, and knew which sex he belonged to."

It's from Russell Kirk, in the days when conservatives knew how to imply bigotry rather than revel in it.



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