The most powerful attack so far on Ann Coulter for calling President Obama a “retard” during Monday night's debate comes from John Franklin Stephens, a Special Olympics athlete with Down syndrome who wrote an open letter to the conservative pundit. While Coulter clearly has a limited vocabulary, Stephens shows that his condition does not keep him from crafting an abundance of intelligent, carefully chosen words: “You aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult?” he asks Coulter. "No one overcomes more than we do and still loves life so much. Come join us someday at Special Olympics. See if you can walk away with your heart unchanged.”
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Date: 2012-10-25 09:34 pm (UTC)The most powerful attack so far on Ann Coulter for calling President Obama a “retard” during Monday night's debate comes from John Franklin Stephens, a Special Olympics athlete with Down syndrome who wrote an open letter to the conservative pundit. While Coulter clearly has a limited vocabulary, Stephens shows that his condition does not keep him from crafting an abundance of intelligent, carefully chosen words: “You aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult?” he asks Coulter. "No one overcomes more than we do and still loves life so much. Come join us someday at Special Olympics. See if you can walk away with your heart unchanged.”