By Drew Grant 10/24/12 12:58pm

Politically Incorrect

Special Olympian John Franklin Stephen

Special Olympian Pens Letter to Ann Coulter

Because Ann Coulter is a crazy person for whom any chance to offend is a valid reason to go on television, when she called Barack Obama “a retard” on Twitter, we hardly batted an eye. That’s just our ‘Ann! But apparently some people didn’t like that term, including, surprisingly, uber-conservative pundit Michelle Malkin who felt like Ms. Coulter crossed even her very malleable line in the sand for political correctness, and said Ms. Coulter’s comments were “‘shallow’ and ‘stupid.’”

Now 30-year-old John Franklin Stephens, a Special Olympics athlete and global messenger has weighed in with an open letter to Ann Coulter, telling her she’s not all those bad things that Ms. Malkin called her. He still doesn’t like how she used the “R-word” though.

Read his probably-too-lenient letter to Ms. Coulter below, which invites her to come to the Special Olympics and is signed, “A friend you haven’t made yet.” Read More

By Em Whitney 3/09/09 5:35pm

Events Roundup: Monday, March 9, 2009

7 p.m. The School of American Ballet will celebrate its 75th anniversary at Winter Ball, David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, Columbus Avenue and 63rd Street. Individual ticket prices are $2,500; $1,500; $1,000; young patron tickets are $300.

7 p.m. Gay Men’s Health Crisis hosts Savor, an annual four-course “New American Read More

By Steve Kornacki 7/21/08 1:57am

How the Conservative Base Learned to Stop Hating McCain

There’s a conventional view that John McCain faces an impossible political balancing act.

He badly needs his party’s conservative base to stand with him in November, but that base doesn’t particularly like or trust him. However, if he reins in his more moderate instincts and caters to these activists with the purity and intensity they Read More

By Jennifer Rubin 3/04/08 2:57am

Conservative Race-Baiters Could Sink McCain

John McCain has a new problem with some of his far-right critics. Having made his life miserable in the primary, they seem now intent on wrecking his general election effort before it even starts.

At a campaign event last week, radio talk-show host Bill Cunningham used Barack Obama’s middle name, Hussein, multiple times in his Read More