After being banned from speaking at a Canadian college for hate
speech, Ann Coulter visited The Joy Behar Show to plead her
case. When Behar asked her, "Why did you call John Edwards a
f*ggot?" Coulter just squirmed and laughed.  Here's a partial
transcript:  Behar: Why do you do that, though? You're so smart,
you're a smart girl, which is why you're on my show. And yet you
use these very, very, you know...  Coulter: Thank you  Behar:
...volatile words, things that really go to the lowest level of
interaction, social intercourse, why do you do that?  Coulter: I
totally disagree and I think you are the last person to make
that point if we went through each one of these in their full,
lush context, um, because you're a funny gal, Joy, you can see
that comedy is harder than having a political opinion.
Obviously, a lot of what I say are what's known as jokes, and,
uh, you mentioned the f*ggot joke about John Edwards—look, I'm
not a comedy specialist the way you are, but there were 7,000
people in the room and the