Despite receiving flack from liberals and some conservatives for referring to President Barack Obama as “the retard” in a tweet, conservative commentator Ann Coulter showed no remorse for using the word. In an appearance on Alan Colmes’ Thursday radio show, first flagged in a rare catch from Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher, Coulter scoffed at her critics, saying “Oh, screw them.”
“No, of course I don’t,” Coulter, the author of Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama, said when asked by host Alan Colmes if she regretted the tweet. “I regret — one regret at this moment is that I’m not promoting my book, Guilty, subtitle: Liberal Victims and Their Attack on America. Liberal victims are the biggest bullies of all. Look, no one would refer to a Down Syndrome child, someone with an actual mental handicap, by saying ‘retard.’ Where do you think the words ‘imbecile,’ ‘idiot,’ ‘moron,’ ‘cretin’ come from? These were all technical terms at one time. ‘Retard’ had been used colloquially to just mean ‘loser’ for 30 years,” she continued. “But no, no — these aggressive victims have to come out and tell you what words to use.”
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