Why is Mike Huckabee getting away with his "beauty shop" line?

[TeddyKGB]

It's the exact same sentiment as Ann Coulter's fag "joke", just redressed and given by a Baptist minister on national television.

Compare the two here:

http://quietdesperation.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/they-heart-huckabee/

[RedStateShame]

1. Because my cat has a better chance of winning the Republican nomination?

[TeddyKGB]

2. Doesn't matter.

It came from a Presidential contender in a national debate on national television.

[youthere]

3. Because nobody gives a shit about Mike Huckabee...

in fact..that comment was probably his most notable moment. Granted, it was a pretty petty comment to make...but if I had to guess why there isn't a big stink about it, that would be why.

[TeddyKGB]

4. Then how about the reaction of the crowd?

They ate it up.

That isn't representative of how they feel as a group?
That isn't worth bringing to light?

[youthere]

5. So did the crowd when Ann Coulter made her comment...

It's not like those folks are considering voting for Edwards anyway, so their reaction to a petty stupid comment like that isn't exactly a surprise. Were you actually shocked when the republican crowd, at a republican debate laughed at a joke made at the expense of a democrat?

[TeddyKGB]

7. It's not just at the expense of John Edwards

It's at the expense of gay people, too - and that needs to be known.

[youthere]

9. I don't get how Huckabee's remark was a jab at the expense of gay people...

I thought it was a jab at Edwards $400 haircuts.

[Beelzebud]

11. It was about the 400 dollar haircut.

[TeddyKGB]

12. At a "beauty shop"?

Wow, you guys are thick.

[youthere]

14. I'M THICK? As a matter of fact his haircuts were at a salon..also known as a beauty shop...

but thanks for the insult. Enjoy ignore.

[TeddyKGB]

16. Enjoy ignorance.

And thanks for your defense of Mike Huckabee.

[Beelzebud]

20. Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize a beauty shop was only for gay people.

I was under the illusion that women go to beauty shops. I was under the illusion that they've called Edwards a "Breck Girl" for years for having the footage leak of him getting make-up put on before a TV interview.

[TeddyKGB]

25. Wow.

I did not say anything about a beauty shop not being for women.

I'm talking about Mike Huckabee's inference that Edwards is a gay man.

[Beelzebud]

27. Wow indeed... His inference was that Edwards goes to the beauty shop for a $400 haircut.

However you can keep looking for things to offend you, you're free to do that.

[TeddyKGB]

31. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

How are things at Huckabee Headquarters these days? :D

[Beelzebud]

32. Comprehending a lame joke isn't the same as enjoying it.

How are things at the Office of the Obtuse today?

[Freddie Stubbs]

33. What barber shop charges $400?

:shrug:

[blondeatlast]

28. They are so likely to vote for the big D.

Nice way to drive traffic, though. I'll give you that.

[Beelzebud]

6. Coulter called Edwards a "fag". Huckabee didn't.

We do still have free speech in America, by the way. If the old fool wants to tell a lame joke, let him...

[TeddyKGB]

8. Bullshit.

He said the exact same thing Coulter did, he just didn't use the word.

[Beelzebud]

10. Edwards recently got a $400 haircut. That is what he's referring to...

[Norquist Nemesis]

23. As Theresa Heinz Kerry said, they like money just fine when it's

being given to Republicans. Otherwise, it's a target.

Another double standard from the Cons.

[Nye Bevan]

17. "Beauty shop" is the "exact same thing" as "fag"?

I am not sure that this is the right place to be doing this kind of stereotyping. I have gay friends who get $20 haircuts at old-fashioned barber shops.

[TeddyKGB]

21. Exactly.

Then why didn't Huckabee say "barber shop"?

[Beelzebud]

24. Because there isn't a barber shop in the world that charges $400.

There are thousands of beauty shops, that do...

[TeddyKGB]

26. And thus, we're back to the gay slur.

Thanks for proving my point.

[Beelzebud]

29. Where is the gay slur? "beauty shop" isn't code for a gay slur to anyone but you.

The point that I proved is that to say barber shop, woudln't have made much sense because a haircut at a barber shop would never cost $400.

A haircut at a salon or beauty shop would.

[Beelzebud]

22. I guess it is now. You learn something new every day.

Free speech be damned! Someone was offended!

[Nye Bevan]

13. Ann Coulter used a homophobic slur

Mike Huckabee merely joked about John Edwards spending $400 on a haircut. I didn't see any homophobia there.

[Atman]

15. Puh-leeze...it was a funny line.

He delivered it well, didn't dwell on it. It wasn't offensive in the way Coulter's remarks are. Like it or not, Edwards earned his rep as being a pretty-boy. The joke was right on target.

.

[Virginia Dare]

30. I'll take your word for it..

I didn't see it, but it sounded pretty juvenile to me.

[Johonny]

18. It's funny til

you remember this guy doesn't even believe in Evolution.

[Bronyraurus]

19. He doesn't call Edwards a faggot

That should be pretty clear. In fact, the joke is not a slur against gays, it's a poke at Edwards' prettiness, his expensive haircut, and an oblique reference to the video that everyone's seen of him primping and preening in front of a mirror.